Re:Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar?
by markus_zhang on Friday September 03, 2021 @11:13AM
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That's the reality of modern software development: creating new shits on top of old shits. They don't have the time to clean up the old shits. I guess we have to accept that.
Re:Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar?
by nitrogen on Friday September 03, 2021 @11:18AM
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If copyright terms didn't last so long, then other people could take the old layers and "compost" them into fertilizer for new code.
Re:Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar?
by selfhoster11 on Friday September 03, 2021 @12:25PM
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I think you have an excellent point.
Re:Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar?
by marcodiego on Friday September 03, 2021 @12:57PM
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only if the code was available.
Re:Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar?
by hughrr on Friday September 03, 2021 @11:17AM
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The problem is if it was a zoo this deep in shit it’d be shut down from an animal welfare point of view.
Perhaps we should consider software welfare as well.
“Clean up your shit or we’ll fine you”
Re:Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar?
by DaiPlusPlus on Friday September 03, 2021 @09:46PM
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Aka “technical debt”
Everything I go near from them is a monumental crapfest these days. They could be a good platform if they stopped this schizophrenic direction changing and actually fixed shit rather than hiding it behind layers of new shit.