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Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by novax81 »

nottheengineer wrote: post #30
jotato wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ha! I didn't know he had adhd. I watched one video of his last week and ever since my feed is all adhd stuff. I was so confused, but now it makes sense.

He doesn't have ADHD, he's autistic. But for some reason the youtube algorithm assumes they are the exact same thing.

In fairness to the algorithm, Autism, ADHD, and OCD have significant core presentation overlap, and often get talked about in the same spaces online. There's probably a high relation in their searches for the topics.

Doesn't stop the Youtube algorithm from easily being the worst of the major social media sites though.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by distract8901 »

justin66 wrote: post #9
mrweasel wrote: post #7

The interviewer, Dave Plummer, is also is also an amazingly interesting person in his own right. I particularly enjoyed his retro-coding videos, such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlZe2JwrJqM and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0zxIfJJLAY The videos are really interesting and his background muzak and RGB lighting puts me in a Christmas mood. He generally put Microsoft in a completely different light than I'm us…

YouTube recommendations have always been pretty awful, incentivizing people to avoid exploring videos on controversial topics once they learn that if they do so, they’ll be inundated with garbage on that topic. The recent forcing of people (including me) to turn off their ad blockers was an eye opener. Holy crap, YouTube ads are hot garbage, and it’s embarrassing to think that any humans respond to them. YouTube has…

I've been using PeerTube recently. After spending a ridiculous amount of effort, I have a server that pulls down indexes from other servers and mirrors content both for me locally and to share bandwidth with other users.

As absolutely awful as this experience has been, it's still less painful than dealing with google ads. The amount and variety of videos on there is much lower, but I've managed to federate with enough servers to curare a fairly interesting list.

I just can't/won't tolerate ads anymore. It doesn't have to be this way, and I choose to simply not use these ad platforms wherever I can. It's much more pleasant online when you go to spaces that aren't constantly trying to sell you something or spy on you so they can sell you more stuff.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by Veserv »

glhaynes wrote: post #63
mikewarot wrote: post #32

Looking back on all both Daves said, there is an extraordinary amount of attention paid to getting things done and out the door, and almost no mention of planning ahead, and actual security strategy. Its all commercial pressure to get the sausage out of the meat grinder, and keep the failures down to an acceptable level. No wonder things never get better, and never take a turn in the right direction, industry wide. I…

At the time, Windows NT was lauded for having better security than its competitors. I remember “Department of Defense C2 level security” being invoked often. It was a major selling point, though one that didn’t feel relevant for most users (in fact, lots of people felt like “why would I need this?”; it made it seem like an OS that wasn’t for “normal users”). Early ’90s conceptions of security—both what makes it and h…

Yeah, that was all marketing nonsense meant to confuse laypeople.

TCSEC Level C2 was intentionally designed to be a “baby’s first security certification” level meant to allow existing known insecure products to get a (low) rating so that commercial vendors could get familiar with the concept [1]. It, at no point, was ever meant to indicate any meaningful level of security was achieved, just that you filed the paperwork. In fact, Level B1, the level above C2, was meant to be the “training wheels” level. Microsoft has still never achieved a security certification in the successor standard, the Common Criteria, that has reached the “training wheels” level.

Microsoft security is a joke now and was a joke then, nothing has changed.

[1] https://www.stevelipner.org/links/resources/The%20Birth%20an...

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by rollcat »

colejohnson66 wrote: post #66
hcarvalhoalves wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The ads are awful on purpose, so people buy Premium. Then, once users pay for Premium, they can do the same as cable TV and _still_ sell ads. Easy 2x revenue.

Premium does not have ads. I know because I don’t see them. Sponsorships do not count because they’re placed by the creators themselves.

> Premium does not have ads.

Yet. The keyword of the times seems to be enshittification, and the only companies that take a step back from it seem to be doing so just to double down on it the moment the outrage calms down.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by colejohnson66 »

rollcat wrote: post #74
colejohnson66 wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Premium does not have ads. I know because I don’t see them. Sponsorships do not count because they’re placed by the creators themselves.

> Premium does not have ads. Yet. The keyword of the times seems to be enshittification, and the only companies that take a step back from it seem to be doing so just to double down on it the moment the outrage calms down.

Well, when/if they add ads, I’ll reconsider my subscription. As of now, I pay to sustain YouTube’s business model and creators I like, and I’m rewarded with no ads.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by lkramer »

runjake wrote: post #21
mrweasel wrote: post #7

The interviewer, Dave Plummer, is also is also an amazingly interesting person in his own right. I particularly enjoyed his retro-coding videos, such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlZe2JwrJqM and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0zxIfJJLAY The videos are really interesting and his background muzak and RGB lighting puts me in a Christmas mood. He generally put Microsoft in a completely different light than I'm us…

About 3 days ago, I watched a single 10 second Short on a Soufflé from my recommendations page and since then half my recommendations are soufflé videos. This is not a joke, and “half” is pretty accurate. I’m pretty sure something is broken or YouTube added an LLM to the recommendations engine.

Last week my recommendation and upcoming videos started becoming flooded with videos for children, toys, children's songs, etc, toddler age.

I don't have any kids that age, and I only use youtube to watch music videos. Their algorithm is baffling.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by eismcc »

I worked in the windows kernel team and my favorite story about DC is when he basically made x64 happen because he hated Itanium architecture so much. He worked with AMD and basically made it happen while cranking in his corner office.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by superq »

colejohnson66 wrote: post #76
rollcat wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Premium does not have ads. Yet. The keyword of the times seems to be enshittification, and the only companies that take a step back from it seem to be doing so just to double down on it the moment the outrage calms down.

Well, when/if they add ads, I’ll reconsider my subscription. As of now, I pay to sustain YouTube’s business model and creators I like, and I’m rewarded with no ads.

> pay to sustain YouTube’s business model and creators I like

How much of your subscription goes to "creators you like"?

10 cents? 20 cents? How would you know?

> I’m rewarded with no ads

How is paying being rewarded?

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by walterbell »

distract8901 wrote: post #72
justin66 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

YouTube recommendations have always been pretty awful, incentivizing people to avoid exploring videos on controversial topics once they learn that if they do so, they’ll be inundated with garbage on that topic. The recent forcing of people (including me) to turn off their ad blockers was an eye opener. Holy crap, YouTube ads are hot garbage, and it’s embarrassing to think that any humans respond to them. YouTube has…

I've been using PeerTube recently. After spending a ridiculous amount of effort, I have a server that pulls down indexes from other servers and mirrors content both for me locally and to share bandwidth with other users. As absolutely awful as this experience has been, it's still less painful than dealing with google ads. The amount and variety of videos on there is much lower, but I've managed to federate with enoug…

Do you whitelist videos or channels for mirroring? What's a good starting point for others to replicate this setup?
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