I am actually sending some optional telemetry data as well, consciously. Telemetry I don't care about or smells it's disabled. I was referring more to some other type of creeping. I don't mind telemetry for a good cause.
I switched to Windows 10 as my main development machine few years ago after 25 years of continuously crashing Linux with an enormous pleasure. FreeBSD, well, there's nothing to crash there, that's the problem with it. Nothing.
I didn't know almost anything about this Windows OS so I just started playing some sort of whac-a-mole game with it.
I don't know what I did but right now I'm a happy (windows 11) user. I use Hyper-V with great success for driving my Linux and FreeBSD development. I like powershell and the dotnet platform and storage spaces and ntfs and many other. Good technologies, it feels good using. Windows terminal is almost OK. I stay away from crap like WSL and Code. I still use mutt for mail, not Office. And I can just play a game without any problems.
There's no Microsoft creep anywhere inside my daily flow. Actually, as of late, I feel more creep in Linux and FreeBSD than in Windows.
Everything just works. Sometimes it tells me it has some updates for me. I let it install them and that's it. I'm back to my game, no weird stuff.
No account problem, no copilots, just my shit and myself and no Irene.
When I read about other users having trouble with it I get pretty sad. I wish I could say "do this and that" but I have no idea how my whac-a-mole game drove me to this happy situation. I must have (de)activated some (attack) vectors by mistake. But I whacamoled it head to end, from bios to wallpaper. I kept hitting and hitting, backuping, restoring, backuping,restoring, until i won. I'm on Windows 11 Pro in testing mode right now. Getting back to a linux desktop as my main? Nah, not right now. I have my i3wm running on a gpu partition inside hyper-v and sometimes I drop to it...
I can't do all my arcane linux stuff in windows yet but i'm getting there. For now, I'm enjoying it. Been a while now. I just hope they don't notice me...
I agree and I have the evidence needed to back up your claims.
Stable home life? checked.
Parent-enforced discipline? checked.
High parental expectations? checked. Through some involvement though, to some degree: we as parents always show real and positive interest on what our children are doing and learning without really interfering unless they explicitly ask for it, and I believe this helps dearly. I learned by doing, trying at first to get involved too much - proved to be a mistake which he corrected it by himself, jumping from an IT career to chemistry in notime and shortly hitting silver at international chemistry olympics.
I never try to interfere anymore but just be there, always ready to talk about it and offer the emotional grounding they so much need. Kids will flourish. My elder is on his way to what seems to be a strong, well built medical career and my 6yr old oh boy, she's ready set.
I just finished tapping 381 times, disabling (hopefully most of?) Apple Intelligence incursions in my life on a machine I don't really use. Was wondering what will I do next. Oh, look. More crap. That will keep me busy for a while.
So happy to see Andrei Alexandrescu was included in this documentary. His book on modern C++ design was a mind opener at the time I read it. Maybe still is today. Anybody else read it?
google defined websocket protocol not long ago. We didn't actually need it. They did. With such a huge browser market share, all they crave for is information. All of it. And most of us (developers) embrace this flow because each and every "fault" they "discover" and use to create a new idiotic standard is an opportunity for us to profit. And we feed it.
I don't need jmap, none of us do. They need it, so they wrote 200 pages of stupid, extremely complicated specs with the hope that it will gain traction and we'll start developing.
They can't do it alone. They need us to embrace it. I won't and I hope none of you will. I hope this standard will die with a whimper.
I am doing my best to keep my e-mails where they belong. Far away from browser.
I use SMTP. There's nothing wrong with it. It works.
I use MIME. There's nothing wrong with it. It works.
I personally don't use IMAP. ODMR is all I actually need. But I configure and maintain IMAP servers. I see nothing wrong with it either. It works.
What baffles me is cyrus project accepting this idiocy. I just hope it won't become the new deal and the others (dovecot et all) will stay away from it. Panic and fear can and will escalate the process.
So how long until "everything is JSON"-shit will take over? I'm 40 years old and my bet is I will live to see it happening.
This is actually scary. And not because json or hydras.