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As far as I know, no browser for Windows allows sites to read the computer's telemetry global ID at all.

In a sense it doesn't matter how the global ID is used now . The fact that it exists allows it to be used in ways like what you describe, either by a malicious (?) Microsoft itself…

How a Windows device's global ID is generated may be new info in the public sphere, but the fact that the global ID exists is not a secret. This format of device ID has been in Win…

> This is almost entirely an artifact of the financial instruments used to pay for these buildings, regardless of any Seattle policy changes. Why would this be different in Seattle…

One way I find traditional Lisp style more painful for functional code than Ruby is that fully functional-style Lisp pushes me to read and write code the opposite way from how I th…

My use of `git add` - and the explicit staging area more generally - is mostly a workaround for the fact that the repos I work with have checked-in dev setup scripts, IntelliJ/Visu…

Doesn't seem like all climate scientists are fans of it either. From a 2022 critique of a news story also based on this map: https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2022/04/is-large-portion…

The drought map used here is partly subjective opinion. https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/About/WhatistheUSDM.aspx > Who draws the map? > Meteorologists and climatologists from the ND…

Indeed, even ones from companies as big as Microsoft! There is a story in Writing Solid Code by Steve Maguire [1] where Apple asked Microsoft to fix hacks in its Mac apps that didn…

> What actually happened [re Windows RT, but I think the point applies to UWP in general] was that the users went WTF because none of their native apps - which, contrary to his tak…

> And then there was Windows RT (not to be confused with WinRT, because Microsoft product naming!). Aka the Windows-on-ARM that ditched decades of backwards compatibility because S…

> It was also when Windows was aggressively pushing their Metro styling on everything in the company, sometimes to ridiculous lengths - e.g. Visual Studio at the time "aligned" wit…

> I was in DevDiv during his great WinRT push and the overall feeling I remember was that the guys in Windows had zero clue as to what the devs actually wanted, but were hell bent …

> It's very amusing to see Sinofsky of all people all but dumping on .NET and (still?!) not understanding why developers so proactively jumped ship from Win32 & MFC hell to WinForm…

(disclaimer: I was an individual engineer in the Windows division during the Windows 8 project, i.e. reporting through Steven Sinofksy) I think you're being a bit unfair to the Win…

There are still some things that are still locked in the UWP world that I wish were not. For example, Windows classic desktop apps still have no equivalent to the UWP app lifecycle…

Microsoft has always had a broad vision of itself as a technology company; I feel it's perfectly fine to not be able to describe Microsoft in one sentence without using platitudes …

Both this blog post and the Steven Sinofsky response really set my blood boiling, because they both reek of retired-executive score settling, a kind of blame game that gets played …

Unfortunately the only valid response is "Don't be so sure." There have been too many exposés about the poor data privacy practices of virtually every automaker including Honda. [1…

I too thought VSCode's being web based would make it much slower than Sublime. So I was surprised when I found on my 2019 and 2024 ~$2,500-3,000 MacBook Pros that Sublime would con…

Even then, that happened at most twice as you say, not three times as the other poster said. And I disagree with your implicit claim that the WP7 & WP8 Silverlight -> Win10 UWP tra…

Wrong. There was full app compat of WP7 apps in WP8 and Win10 Mobile, and for WP8 apps in W10M. The only full backward app compat break was from WM6.5/WP6.5 to WP7. I'll give you t…

I might be misremembering, but if I remember correctly, back in 2019 Windows' pre-installed calculator had an interesting issue with the Japanese era change in 2019 from Heisei to …

Eric Lippert's "Complete Guide to BSTR Semantics" explains this well: https://ericlippert.com/2003/09/12/erics-complete-guide-to-b...