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Based on your descriptions of the integration between Windows 96 and Office, I did get the feeling you might run into even more issues if more software wasn’t installed alongside Windows as well.

I’m all Mac and Virtual Box doesn’t run on M-series hardware.

I had no idea!

And hopefully my comment didn’t come across as a dig against your article - it just promises to be a potentially fascinating follow-up. Especially when, even today, Windows Explorer feels like it added previews of files as little more than an afterthought (and occasionally as a PowerToy).

BTW I enjoyed 100% of your article, I think it’s a good sign when it leaves the reader wanting more!

This is a very good article, but this part peeved me on a petty level (as well as explaining why there’s precious little in the way of screenshots):

While I can’t find any uploads that are set to run on their website in a virtual computing session, the files are available to download if you felt like spinning up a piece of computing history.

The opportunity to do a little investigative journalism is right there, and the blog author didn’t take it

What is this article? Besides terrible, I mean. This article is terrible.

First of all, this isn’t a new leak. It’s not even a combination of old leaks. It’s just somebody noticing that a bunch of leaks existed and did an Excel Sum operation on the passwords on them.

According to Vilius Petkauskas at Cybernews, whose researchers have been investigating the leakage since the start of the year, “30 exposed datasets containing from tens of millions to over 3.5 billion records each,” have been discovered. In total, Petkauskas has confirmed, the number of compromised records has now hit 16 billion. Let that sink in for a bit.

And to add insult to injury, the article has this gem:

Is This The GOAT When It Comes To Passwords Leaking?

Password compromise is no joke.

Certainly not with writing like this.

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I was paraphrasing and trying to be nice. Fine, you didn’t say humans yearn for the workplace. You said humans existentially require the workplace.

I think if AI replaces humans in the workplace, even with UBI, humans would cease to exist shortly thereafter as our lives will have become meaningless

According to technical experts, internet service providers across the country have begun implementing a rule that limits data transfers from sites using Cloudflare to just the first 16 kilobytes. This technique is relatively subtle but effective: very lightweight, basic websites can still load, creating a façade of normal internet function, while modern, media-rich sites are effectively broken.

16 KB per website? What part of the normal internet is that small? What part of the indie web is that small?

e.g. look at the smallest sites on https://512kb.club/

Or is this just 16kb per request, which would make more sense with the following explanation:

Analysts report that similar throttling is also being applied to other major western hosting providers popular with Russian users, including Germany’s Hetzner and the US-headquartered DigitalOcean… [they] are widely used by Russians to host private VPN servers, which allow them to bypass the Kremlin’s ever-widening blocklists.

AFAIK, VPNs maintain a long-standing connection that would definitely use more than 16kb at a time.

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this would-be Reddit competitor, built for the AI era

Oh no…

The founders think that the internet is being flooded with bots and AI agents, which will create demand for online communities like Digg that foster real human connections.

Okay, Digg has my cautious attention…

Beneath posts, Digg is leveraging AI to summarize the article’s content.

And they lost me.

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OpenAI has gotten virtually unlimited funding for years. It has first dibs and deep discounts on Microsoft data centers.

And somehow, despite every single trade restriction, multiple random startup companies in China (that don’t even know how to secure their own databases) manage to make LLMs that outperform it.

I’m not saying that because Chinese companies are uniquely cool. I’m saying that because this whole AI thing is uniquely stupid.

I figured as much. Even this line…

M1’s capabilities are top-tier among open-source models

… is right above a chart that calls it “open-weight”.

I dislike the conflation of terms that the OSI has helped legitimize. Up until LLMs, nobody called binary blobs “open-source” just because they were compiled using open-source tooling. That would be ridiculous