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ayi commented on Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux   github.com/er-bharat/Win8... · Posted by u/edent
ayi · a month ago
If you want to read some confessions from the guy who is responsible for Windows 8 (Steven Sinofsky) read this blog post: https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/108-epilog...

Whole blog is about his time at Microsoft but this particular post mentions windows 8

ayi commented on OBS Studio Gets a New Renderer   obsproject.com/blog/obs-s... · Posted by u/aizk
ayi · 2 months ago
I'm no expert on topic. So, I maybe understood only 5% of what I read but I wish we had more posts like that. Announcements without any technical details sounds like marketing pieces.
ayi commented on Implementing UI translation in SumatraPDF, a C++ Windows application   blog.kowalczyk.info/a-vn0... · Posted by u/jandeboevrie
NooneAtAll3 · 5 months ago
Looking at strings in the linked apptranslator.org website, a lot of them have ampersands (&) e.g. "&Back" or "&Book View"

What do those mean?

Translations seem to put them in the middle sometimes

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on the other hand, there are languages even with "0 untranslated strings" that have untranslated "unused strings" - what are those about, and is it okay to not have those be tracked?

ayi · 5 months ago
When you press ALT on windows you will see that some characters on menu items are underlined. When you press alt and these letters you can open that menu. To indicate which character to act as that you put & before that.
ayi commented on An update to our pricing   windsurf.com/blog/pricing... · Posted by u/mefengl
rudedogg · 10 months ago
> To train, develop, and improve the artificial intelligence, machine learning, and models that we use to support our Services. We may use your Log and Usage Information and Prompts and Outputs Information for this purpose.

https://windsurf.com/privacy-policy

Am I the only one bothered by this? Same with Gemini Advanced (paid) training on your prompts. It feels like I’m paying with money, but also handing over my entire codebase to improve your products. Can’t you do synthetic training data generation at this point, along with the massive amount of Q/A online to not require this?

ayi · 10 months ago
Looks like the correct page is this: https://windsurf.com/security

It says:

Zero-data retention mode is the default for any user on a team or enterprise plan and can be enabled by any individual from their profile page.

With zero-data retention mode enabled, code data is not persisted at our servers or by any of our subprocessors. The code data is still visible to our servers in memory for the lifetime of the request, and may exist for a slightly longer period (on the order of minutes to hours) for prompt caching The code data submitted by zero-data retention mode users will never be trained on. Again, zero-data retention mode is on by default for teams and enterprise customers.

ayi commented on Hetzner switches to new billing model   docs.hetzner.com/general/... · Posted by u/throwaway220033
ayi · 2 years ago
If we can get over the fact that they ban accounts out of nowhere, that can be good news. But not for me. Because I couldn't even sign up.
ayi commented on Ditching PaaS: Why I Went Back to Self-Hosting   shubhamjain.co/2023/01/18... · Posted by u/shubhamjain
tiffanyh · 2 years ago
Have you seem them terminate unreasonable situations?

They normally are trying to keep their IPs and Network clean of scammers abusing their resources, which inevitably hurt all customers.

ayi · 2 years ago
My 2024 goal was creating a website for me and hosting a copy of my newsletter there. I heard a lot of good things about Hetzner and choose them. Just right after signing up, even after I put a credit card with 3DS they immediately banned me. I wrote to support, they forwarded me to page. I uploaded my passport with my face. But my account is still banned. And worst thing is I’m 1 month late for my 2024 goal.

u/ayi

KarmaCake day1049June 1, 2012View Original