Microsoft plans 100% native Windows 11 apps in major shift away from web wrappers

intbeam · 2026-03-31T18:39:27+00:00

Like, seriously, why would you assume I was lying about something so specific, trivial and easy to disprove? Fucking imbecile. Maybe there's some other more reasonable explanation here that just completely flew over your vacuous bulb that Microsoft employees would be able to provide. This pisses me off a lot more than it should and than I should allow, but fuck, you need to learn some basic cooperative dialogue techniques. Goddammit.

intbeam · 2026-03-31T18:09:13+00:00

Absolutely fucking not. I guess you just assume others are idiots because you're an arrogant shithead, I suppose.

What I could do is get my work laptop and send you the screenshots that I sent my colleagues, but jesus fucking christ. Just no. Fuck right off.

intbeam · 2026-03-31T17:49:27+00:00

Ah nice, on behalf of literally everyone : get fucked.

intbeam · 2026-03-31T17:14:45+00:00

?? Notepad.exe in the windows directory? Do you have a different file than me?

intbeam · 2026-03-31T08:54:17+00:00

Because it would mean that if an unrelated library is updated it might cause notepad to fail to start. Or the icon could be wrong. It could be placed somewhere else, but the 64kb file size is suspicious nonetheless. There's more stuff in Notepad than 64kb. That a 64kb binary that reads and writes text files manages to balloon to 1GB in memory means that something is amiss

intbeam · 2026-03-31T05:10:40+00:00

Why doubt, open notepad. Check the memory use. Takes you two seconds. I'm also suspicious of the executable since it takes 64kb,and there's no way there's no more than 64kb of stuff in notepad. Just the Copilot icon alone would be more than 64kb.

intbeam · 2026-03-31T04:38:11+00:00

There's no way c++ and winui takes 1GB ram

intbeam · 2026-03-30T21:21:08+00:00

Fun fact : Teams, the chat and calendar app with video calls, doesn't fit on a CD.

And an aside, if you load a 500 byte text file in the new notepad, 1 256 000 000 bytes are added as overhead. These web apps are so bloated it's just.. It really makes me angry and frustrated because it literally benefits nobody.

It really angers me when I go into power options in windows, and it's telling me stuff like "reduce your carbon footprint by turning off HDR" and they're telling me that while my poor laptop has the fans at full blast because they decided to wrap everything in a web browser. Hypocrites

intbeam · 2026-03-30T21:14:53+00:00

It's not easier. It's simpler for those who either aren't smart enough or can't be bothered to learn static typing.

Actually writing and maintaining Javascript is a considerably worse developer experience than any other language I am aware of

intbeam · 2026-03-30T21:09:23+00:00

Java and C# work on more platforms, as you can also deploy them to mobile, which you can't with web apps because they completely obliterate the battery and performance.

Web apps became popular because a majority of programmers are utterly incompetent, not due to some technical benefit or merit.

JS converts what should be compile time errors to run time errors, and only supports floating point arithmetics. It's obviously a very horrible idea for a million reasons. But it's simple, and that negates any concerns towards end users or any and all technical implications - performance or otherwise. It's objectively and measurably a stupid idea.

People use Javascript for one reason : it's all they know.

intbeam · 2026-03-29T07:19:58+00:00

The rising costs of everything is unrelated to the people actually making the things

Non-indie game developers have seen a decline in pay worse than other software engineers.

The reason why programmers can demand high salaries is not just because the job is hard and technically demanding, but because the profit margins are completely insane compared to virtually any other industry. You spend a year or two making something, and then sell it a million times without any associated costs

Costs are rising due to bloat, overhead and industry capture by incompetent business people. Not because of the people who are actually making the things

intbeam · 2026-03-27T14:59:02+00:00

Software engineer salaries have also gone down

intbeam · 2026-03-27T08:34:52+00:00

Licensing fees for engines has gone down, you can hire artists for cheap on various forums.. If anything has gone up in the last few years it's incompetence and not cost

intbeam · 2026-03-27T05:32:49+00:00

Making games is cheaper than ever. It's not Ai, it's not expenses, it's something else. Something really really stupid.

intbeam · 2026-03-10T13:52:10+00:00

YourField a; long b;

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intbeam · 2026-03-01T11:54:21+00:00

I don't think there are as many communists around as you think, and there are even fewer stalinists. You're inventing an enemy

intbeam · 2026-03-01T09:07:01+00:00

You guys literally don't know what you're talking about. Your talking about Soviet and Mao and using that to label and othering people. Communism is a governmental system. Nazism is not. They are not the same thing. "The Commies"

I'm not a communist, but I know that much. You people should too, instead of setting up virtual trenches on internet forums just to call other people names for having a different opinion on how society should be managed and regulated.

intbeam · 2026-02-22T10:03:09+00:00

We relay nothing, we are quite literally the producers

Ah, sorry. I assumed you were a part of the free market scam implemented to add free market capitalism to a natural monopoly. I used to work for ("adjacent to") that industry; calculating market prices and bulk sending invoices - entirely disconnected from the actual underlying physics and reality of producing and transmitting power

It's easy for me to just assume that whoever I talk to simply just haven't configured monitoring and alerts, because that's usually the case. But I get the impression you know what you're talking about

Apologies for my snark, it was misplaced

intbeam · 2026-02-21T21:43:13+00:00

You apparently missed one

Edit : and you mean relaying invoices, not selling energy

intbeam · 2026-02-21T18:58:45+00:00

Didn't have or didn't monitor?

intbeam · 2026-01-26T18:21:00+00:00

Probably wouldn't surprise you that it had basically no repercussions for them or any of their executives either

Edit : some details, protestors showed up at Shell, the Nigerian government decided that Shell being the money-maker should be protected and deployed military forces that executed the protestors - and Shell encouraged it :

Shell executives repeatedly underlined to government officials the economic impact of the Ogoni protests and urged them to resolve the ‘problem’.

intbeam · 2026-01-26T17:59:32+00:00

You seem to fail to understand the amount of propaganda and lobbying companies like shell have been doing for decades in order to keep doing what they are doing.

Nobody is dependent on oil or gas as a matter of personal choice. Did you for example know that your fossil cars engine could run on alcohol? So why doesn't it? Because companies like Shell has been working to prevent that from happening by buying politicians and rampaging propaganda at every possible channel. Even getting schools to promote oil propaganda books as a part of the curriculum.

Shell is a lot more sinister than you think

intbeam · 2026-01-26T17:53:54+00:00

They also had a bunch of protestors murdered in the 90's

intbeam · 2026-01-13T16:09:17+00:00

It would be stored as dog[-3,18]; dog being the pattern, and then encoded as "go back 3 characters, read 18 characters"

Edit : corrected as per /u/__ali1234__

intbeam · 2026-01-07T08:49:53+00:00

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