PleasureKevin posted:

because every social platform follows nearly the exact same design as every platform before it. history shows if you add a comment section, racist rants will take over. if you add private messages, people will get sexually harassed and threatened. if you add photo upload, you'll get dick pics, etc.

companies don't look at this and see "oh jeez that's proven to be a toxic formula", they see "that's proven to uh 'drive engagement'". or they're just extremely lazy and love to copy what so-and-so did.

okcupid seems to have finally woken up to this and made changes. now, men's messages don't go to women's inboxes, they only show up if you indicate you like each other, or they view your profile. you must also now share your first name. it's lead to a 67% decrease in messages flagged as offensive.

there are some really awful plans too. Twitter has handed over almost complete moderation power to celebrities, and will block anyone who isn't civil, while keeping around folks who openly want genocide, as long as they don't swear. Facebook seems to be trying to ban non-centrist news because pundits are blaming them for Trump. reddit seems to be turning a blind-eye to an extreme amount of astro-turfing. chris poole from 4chan just bailed lol.

Bulgakov posted:

windows mobile 6.5

infernal machines posted:

it was janky garbage and dollars to donuts some prerequisite library can't be found/installed any more

univbee posted:

anthonypants posted:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...de-7cb03ae3c933

Schadenboner posted:

Do people seriously use Windows 10?

Partycat posted:

I re-installed Windows 10, because it opened a box from itself saying my disk wasn’t compatible with Windows 10.

So I installed from a USB and it has hosed up and put the bootloader on the USB somehow. The computer won’t boot unless I select the USB from the boot menu but then my installed copy of Windows starts instead of the recovery.

I have no idea and have not been able to fix this with any amount of BCD or bootrec or anything.

Shaggar posted:

check out what ur missing on the build live stream:

pram posted:

lol you werent kidding about the nervous laughter

cheese-cube posted:

NIC teaming

qirex posted:

the tablet motorola did actually release came with a custom sim-sized die cut piece of plastic in the sim tray with a warning that cell functionality didn't work yet and you could permanently brick the tablet if you tried

FMguru posted:

upper management was all "were still on track to ship by end of quarter and get our milestone bonuses right? right?!?"

Significant Ant posted:

can we talk about the latest Windows 10 update because lol

qirex posted:

this costs eighty dollars

Potato Salad posted:

Scott Forstall posted:

https://twitter.com/D_Breyer/status/942758866818928640

e: lol

infernal machines posted:

oh, what's this, text from an html source? let me just grab the entire formatting of the source page to go with that

LastInLine posted:

like maybe im an idiot but arent thermometers p. much solved technology at this point? how does this happen?

Potato Salad posted:

It's startling how many xXEnterpriZe_Gr4deXx environment sensors either sold with their own controllers or through big vendors like APC are actually small mom/pop shops that barely even understand ac circuits.

akadajet posted:

cjs: I had to call Microsoft by phone to activate a windows xp VM, and they still support doing that lol

univbee posted:

it fully looks like adobe just decided to release all those apps for free for everybody

infernal machines posted:

at which point you should probably not be using excel for your database


it's amazing how frequently i have this conversation, usually when they're starting to look at xeons with 64gb of ram to run a spreadsheet

hobbesmaster posted:

what do you have in mind that is as easy to use as an excel spreadsheet

infernal machines posted:

we had a manufacturing client looking at using filemaker for their production process system

infernal machines posted:

the only way to get an exchange server running 2012r2 to update reliably is to disable all exchange services, run the updates, reboot, re-enable exchange services, and reboot again.

Lambert posted:

Microsoft's best hardware to date

Skim Milk posted:

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