because being confidently incorrect is a thing?

i mean, then you say it like that…

Microsoft is the inverse hand of Midas, turns everything into shit.

Mierdas, as they say.

With $101 billion in profit last year I wish I could turn things into $hit as well as they do.

You could, with a large enough captive audience.

or a large enough hand

Everything Microsoft makes sucks. If they decided to make vacuum cleaners though, they wouldn’t suck, they would blow.

Just five years ago this opinion was heresy on HN. Those of us who still remembered their behavior in the 80s/90s were belittled.

"They have changed, gramps. This really smart Satya Nadella is CEO. They are the good guys now. Don't be so bitter over old stuff like systematic use of illegal tactics to attempt to kill all of its competitors including Linux."

Also: Note that the headline undersells the news dramatically. The article begins with:

"GitHub has confirmed that roughly 3,800 internal repositories were breached after one of its employees installed a malicious VS Code extension."

Well the vacuum cleaner joke is very old, was true then, is true now, has continued to be true despite some people having the wool pulled over their eyes and thinking that Microsoft was no longer the enemy at some point. They have always been the enemy. Stay on your toes, don’t let them in.

Pretty sure that was astroturfing.

I always wondered what the division of pro-MS astroturfing was betweeen:

a) Waggener Edstrom (now: WE Communications) or similar

b) Microsoft employees

c) Third-party Microsoft-only developers/IT people (with an obvious vested financial interest)

these days it's just Microslop

haha, this is so much better

glad i’m not the only one. i’m more or less baffled reading that.

the fact that this could easily pass as real says a lot about the state of things.

I was convinced it was real for a long time.

I hardly blinked at “left-justify”, just rolled my eyes and mentally griped “what, again‽”

i hope i’m wrong, but probably as long as gabe does.

i think discovery is the real thing all these “back in my day…” blog posts are about. they want the quirk delivered to them, but they’re fallen out of the zeitgeist and conclude that the old days are completely gone.

i don’t think it has to be like this. make dumb or silly stuff, share it.

it feels like the folks who lament about the good ole days grew up, got a corporate job, and forgot how to have fun.

prs not being visible because search is down, various ui elements not loading, pushes failing, merges failing, gha runs that fail with random errors or take forever to schedule

i literally do not recall the last day that passed without someone on my team noticing that some portion of gh was degraded.

i think mise does too much. the deeper you go into its features the more rough edges you’ll find. i predominantly use nix on macos for managing app-level tool and package deps, but mise does a better job for this when you’re a part of a team (and can’t be overly prescriptive).

mise tasks gets gross pretty fast in my experience.