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Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker

Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker

✨ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Welcome to Internal Tech Emails: internal tech industry emails that surface in public records. 🔍 If you haven’t signed up, join 50,000+ others and get the newsletter:From: Bill GatesSent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:05 AMTo: Jim AllchinCc: Chris Jones; Bharat Shah; Joe Peterson; Will Poole; Brian Valentine; Anoop GuptaSubject: Windows Usability Systematic degradation flameI am quite disappointed at how Windows Usability has been going backwards and the program management groups don't drive usability issues.Let me give you my experience from yesterday.I decided to download Moviemake…
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VMware migration reduces Tottenham Hotspur’s licensing fees by 85 percent

VMware migration reduces Tottenham Hotspur’s licensing fees by 85 percent

🚀 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Tottenham Hotspur, a professional soccer team that’s part of the Premier League, has saved over 85 percent in licensing fees by replacing its stadium’s VMware instance with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise’s (HPE’s) Morpheus VM Essentials (VME) virtualization software. Tottenham hasn’t disclosed which VMware products it used or how much it previously paid the Broadcom firm. The soccer organization confirmed this week to The Register that it has moved its stadium’s server, storage, and networking infrastructure to HPE solutions delivered through HPE’s hybrid cloud management platform, GreenLake. That…
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iczelia/bzip3: A better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2. · GitHub

iczelia/bzip3: A better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2. · GitHub

💥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A better, faster and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2. Features higher compression ratios and better performance thanks to a order-0 context mixing entropy coder, a fast Burrows-Wheeler transform code making use of suffix arrays and a RLE with Lempel Ziv+Prediction pass based on LZ77-style string matching and PPM-style context modeling. Like its ancestor, BZip3 excels at compressing text or code. # If using a git clone (not needed for source packages), first... $ ./bootstrap.sh # All... $ ./configure $ make $ sudo make install Alternatively,…
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De-Brainrot Vacations

🚀 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: – Some cows in the fields.My brain is not the same as it was a few years ago. When I started working as a Software Engineer, everything was novel and mentally demanding. I notably remember how during my first professional months I’d come back home and just go straight to bed due to the mental exhaustion of learning so much stuff and trying to solve software engineering problems that were mostly alien to me at that point in my career.But now, I’m on the opposite…
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Smartphone makers don’t bother to comply with EU repairability requirements

Smartphone makers don’t bother to comply with EU repairability requirements

🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: PERSONAL TECH Vast majority of new devices on market still don't give repair information to owners, but give themselves top marks for repairability  One year into the EU's repairability rules for smartphones and tablets, more than 80 percent of devices still lack the necessary repair information, Right to Repair Europe reports.The campaign group says that mobile devices available in the trading bloc must include a mandatory self-reported repairability score, and the device maker has an obligation to publish information to help users repair their kit.…
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Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type

Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type

🚀 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type5 points by maxim-fin 13 minutes ago | hide | past | favorite | discussThey send all typed into editor input to codepen.dev almost immediately (you would see in 1-2 sec after you typed your secret that it appears in respective Network/Response tab) even before one saved it. I tested this with a unique marker: after typing it into index.html, CodePen ran a build with "save:false", and the marker then appeared verbatim in the HTML…
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Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes Doc

Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes Doc

🚀 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: In a world where Lindsay Clancy can inspire an onslaught of sympathetic voyeuristic fascination, why not Elizabeth Holmes? Earlier tonight, the screening of an unannounced mystery movie at the Telluride Film Festival generated every bit as much pre-screening buzz as any of the major titles programmed here. And when the movie was revealed to be “You Can See Everything,” a 174-minute documentary, co-directed by the cult comedian Nathan Fielder, about Elizabeth Holmes, the former CEO of Theranos who is now serving an 11-year prison sentence…
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Programming is art

Programming is art

✨ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: When I started programming, my whole day revolved around development. I’d wake up, write code, and go to sleep. And that’s how it was day in and day out. My entire social circle consisted of people who also wrote code. I studied frameworks, libraries, and various programming languages.I got into development because I was fascinated by the idea that by writing code, I could create new programs. All I needed to do was learn how to program, and I’d be able to create anything.…
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It’s time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign from Meta | Joan Donovan

It’s time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign from Meta | Joan Donovan

🔥 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Last week, Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, agreed to a settlement of up to $18bn after dozens of US states accused it of harming children with addictive products. The settlement’s regulatory implications for social media will affect every user, far beyond teens.But if Meta is truly interested in prioritizing the safety of users, the board should request the resignation of Mark Zuckerberg and restructure to put safety above profit.The settlement does little to resolve the scientific question about the degree to which…
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Switzerland’s Federal Government is Replacing Microsoft on 3,000 Computers

Switzerland’s Federal Government is Replacing Microsoft on 3,000 Computers

🚀 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Switzerland's federal government has launched a pilot program to replace Microsoft 365 with open source alternatives across 3,000 workstations. That's about 7% of the federal workforce. The target is to complete the migration by end of 2027. This move follows a successful proof-of-concept and a new digital sovereignty law. A separate fast-track military migration is also already underway.The great migration goes into the pilot phaseThe Federal Chancellery is investing CHF 9 million in an open-source workplace rollout for 3,000 federal employees.On September 3, 2026, the…
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