I remember when a JetBrains dev advocate here told me that they’re just trying to be helpful by enabling their built-in code completion model by default. I disabled it. After installing Rider 2026.1, it reset to enabled. Thank you for knowingly ignoring my preference, I feel so very convenienced.

Sounds like they owe me an apology for discontinuing Google Desktop 14 years ago. Google app for Desktop (yes really, its full legal name) will have poorer privacy compared to Google Desktop though given it’s mainly intended to push Gemini/AI Mode.

i guess those celebrating soras death didnt get the memo that some of us need daily personalized greetings from james bond—for mental health

Happy 25th Birthday OS X!🥳🎉 At exactly midnight on March 24, 2001, Apple released Mac OS X 10.0 (Cheetah) in retail stores What followed became history, and to this day I consider it the greatest OS ever built This special day deserved a real party, and everyone showed up🥹

lmao

archive.org/details/win4... Updates for Updates i guess. New version out. I mainly cleaned up the internal structure and added an auto-login function to speed-up the update process.

🌎⬆️ Legacy Update 1.13 improves handling of some edge cases you might run into while using Legacy Update. It includes 23 fixes and improvements (and plenty more small changes).

Features nobody asked for: You can now subscribe to Legacy Update news as an Internet Explorer Web Slice. Just click the green button in the toolbar (it’s green to show that Internet Explorer is really excited a website is actually using this feature), or the Add Web Slice link in our News section.

The MacBook Neo is such an interesting machine that it coaxed a thousand-word-essay out of me: samhenri.gold/blog/2026031...

Mozilla extended support for Firefox 115 ESR on Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 and macOS 10.12 – 10.14 until August. It was due to end support last month, and they may consider extending it again. Firefox ESRs are old versions that continue getting security updates. support.mozilla.org/kb/firefox-u...

Love that the documentation says “If prompt injection is a concern”, there’s an optional experimental sandbox feature. What do you mean “if” it’s a concern? How can it not be one when you’re giving an agent unchecked control over your system?

Wild how we can be in a RAM and storage shortage and Apple just has enough of it on hand to be like yeah, our monitors that stream up to 5K pixels back and forth will have 8GB RAM and a 128GB SSD. Economies of scale go brrr

archive.org/details/win4... Finally got the 3 updates that i was still missing and integrated them. So now AFAIK this pack is completely complete. Enjoy

Two of the worst companies I’ve had to deal with. Stripe doesn’t care if your use case doesn’t fit the exact shape of their APIs but will gladly sell you more APIs for the bare minimum (tax, fraud protection). Pushes Link, which confuses customers. PayPal, well, everyone knows why they’re the worst.

The archive site, which is facing an investigation in which the FBI is trying to uncover the identity of its founder, is commonly used to bypass news paywalls.

Why isn’t there a Legacy Update for OS X? Well, that’s because it doesn’t need it!

Something really, really makes me think someone was trying to prove a point about the lack of value of image models (other than fraud) by releasing a diagram this broken. Like, this went through a pull request and someone approved it. But it’s really hard to say with this company at the moment…

So after a long ass time i finally reworked my first update pack i ever released, the one for Windows 98. I learned so much since i made that thing and i finally had the time and patience to bring it up to my current standards. As a bonus 98 FE is supported now too. archive.org/details/win4...

What concerns me about the AI bot that decided it was singled out and wrote a blog post slamming the maintainer is, it comes off like a neurodivergent person misreading a social situation. You might forgive a human doing this. Will that forgiveness be lost when it becomes a common pattern for AI?

Introducing our improved website: If it seems like nothing has changed, that’s a good thing! I worked hard to build something that’s easier for me to maintain, while making sure everything is just as it was before. It will help us continue to expand our archive and help page resources.

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

It doesn’t hit me as cute that LLMs can talk to each other on a forum when the overuse of AI has pushed all sorts of tech out of reach, and raised the cost of living for many. I think OpenClaw is kinda neat (even if very dangerous), but I’ll be glad when everyone forgets about this stunt in a week.

StatCounter has had multiple gaffes with their data recently (the spike in fake Windows 7 users, and now miscounting iOS 26 users), and I don’t recommend trusting it, at least for now. They had months to test if iOS 26 was detected properly, and didn’t. The Wikimedia data seems far more trustable.

Unfortunately this was to be expected. It’s by design. The market is limited to certain regions, with no ability for even power users to opt into it. Developers can’t test their own app if they aren’t in the region. Fees still eat into already tight margins. You can’t build a business on this.

I would call this heavily inspired, but even Microsoft eventually figured out stringing a bunch of qualifiers in a row is just awful product naming

With “Wikimedia Enterprise”, AI companies have to use (and pay for) dedicated APIs to scrape data, which helps to limit the strain on Wikimedia servers. (See eg arstechnica.com/information-...) This is a good thing for Wikimedia and for its readers.

Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.

Look at this fucking cat dude More people need to look at and be thinking about Scribble the Microsoft Office Assistant immediately

There is some real irony to Microsoft giving the longest servicing life to Vista/Server 2008, the operating system that has the most issues with servicing. We’ve spent the most time working around issues that only exist in Vista/2008’s rewritten update system. Basically all issues were solved in 7.

Today, Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 (based on Windows Vista and 7) finally, truly reach end of support. Windows Vista and Server 2008 is the longest supported version of Windows, at 19 years. Behind it is Windows XP at 17 years, and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 at 16 years.

You’ve been asking me for years, and I finally did it. Windows Live Essentials was a suite of free add-on software from Microsoft. It’s a perfect fit into the Windows 7 experience, but it’s been hard to find official download links. Now, we have them easily accessible on a dedicated page:

Realised I forgot to mention this a few weeks ago, but sorry if you messaged me here and I didn’t respond. Because of *gestures at Australia’s social media thing*, Bluesky wants my ID to gain access to my DMs tab again, and I’m not normalising handing out ID to social media as a thing we’re doing.

What is the Silverlight logo supposed to be, anyway?

Someone took my spot as the top NSIS developer on WakaTime in 2025. Whoever you are, I’m sorry, this wasn’t a challenge. Nobody should be subjected to this much NSIS.

Aw man 😞 Rest in peace Mr Cheifet, host of Computer Chronicles: obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/stewart-chei... What a legend. His work in both presenting and preserving the early days of computer history has been (and will continue to be) deeply appreciated! My condolences to his family and friends.

I don’t think anyone here needs more proof Grokipedia is a terrible idea, but here you go: • SSE2 works on any OS that supports SSE1, so, Windows 2000 • SSE2 is a mandatory feature of AMD64, so it didn’t “emerge” with Vista • The Legacy Update page it references makes none of the claims made here

We’ve reached a point in dead internet where AI is replying to support threads from 14 years ago with `sfc /scannow`. Even if this is intended to summarise the thread, it’s hallucinated things that weren’t discussed. Nobody mentioned reinstalling DirectX, and Legacy Update didn’t exist 14 years ago!

Today marks 10 years since Chariz launched. procursus.social/@chariz/1157...

Spiderman pointing meme but it’s Apple warning me that Apple is trying to paste from Apple

I keep getting a podcast ad for MongoDB that says it’s “built by developers, for developers”. This appears to imply that Postgres is built by garden landscapers, for car mechanics. Interesting

Haven’t seen such a trainwreck of a thread on this website as the Firefox Web Devs thread about the AI features. This place is so rabidly against AI in such an irrational way. It’s ok to not like/be frustrated by AI, but the tone is off the rails as compared to the matching Mastodon thread.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Just a little update after getting a lot of attention from the Download Center archive v2 launch. Thanks to everyone who helped to spread the word about it!

Legacy Update expands archive of vanished Microsoft downloads

AV1 won an Emmy! We're proud to be part of the Alliance for Open Media, where the codec was developed. But the story's not over… AV2 is just around the corner. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/av1-video-codec-wins-emmy/

What's the deal with specifically PCIe Wi-Fi cards having ginormous heatsinks? These chips barely get warm. Is it entirely to justify selling it for $45? If this were necessary, we would see them heatsinked in laptops, but nobody does that.

Legacy Update has significantly expanded its archive of the Microsoft Download Center all the way back to 2012. It now indexes 41,000 downloads, of which over half have been deleted by Microsoft. More about what went into this, and what we’re still planning to do:

If by some miracle the whole AI industry falls apart because some tech bros decided to spend trillions on compute without spending maybe tens of millions a year on licensing art, I will laugh so hard I'll be in danger of a ruptured spleen.

Happy Amazing News Day opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11...