mossTechnician (u/mossTechnician)

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mossTechnician commented on Windows 11 January Update Breaks Notepad winbuzzer.com/2026/01/22/... · Posted by u/Aldipower

mossTechnician · 13 days ago

Partway through this article, Winbuzzer asks me to "Install Winbuzzer Prompt Station." I don't think this is a legitimate source.

It looks like most of the article is a rehash of this Windows Central article from a day earlier:

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-...

mossTechnician commented on Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse windowscentral.com/micros... · Posted by u/01-_-

Akronymus · 14 days ago

"maintain" meaning keeping it somewhat workable or actually improving it?

ATM windows still has enough of a moat that they can comfortably do the former.

mossTechnician · 14 days ago

I believe Microsoft can skate for a long time with just bug fixes and security updates. It makes the drop in Windows' quality all the more baffling.

mossTechnician commented on Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse windowscentral.com/micros... · Posted by u/01-_-

Akronymus · 14 days ago

Because they no longer see windows as anything more than a delivery platform for their subscription services, IMO

mossTechnician · 14 days ago

You're entirely right, but they need to maintain Windows in order to promote those services. The OS and their various applications have a symbiotic relationship where they prioritize each other.

If Microsoft discontinued Windows and switched to just providing web apps, the competition would be a lot stiffer.

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mossTechnician commented on After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand atmoio.substack.com/p/aft... · Posted by u/mobitar

timcobb · 14 days ago

I'm impressed that this person has been vibecoding longer than vibecoding has been a thing. A real trailblazer!

mossTechnician · 14 days ago

GitHub copilot was released in 2021, and Cursor was released around October 2023[0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37888477

mossTechnician commented on Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered windowscentral.com/micros... · Posted by u/blacktulip

Zak · 16 days ago

The headline is misleading. It says that Microsoft will provide the key if asked, but the linked statement to Forbes says Microsoft will provide the key if it receives a valid legal order.

These have different meanings. Microsoft is legally entitled to refuse a request from law enforcement, and subject to criminal penalties if it refuses a valid legal order.

It does illustrate a significant vulnerability in that Microsoft has access to user keys by default. The public cannot be sure that Microsoft employees or criminals are unable to access those keys.

mossTechnician · 16 days ago

Crucially, the headline says Microsoft will provide the key if asked by the FBI, which implies a state entity with legal power that extends beyond a typical person's assumptions of "rule of law" and "due process," let alone ethics.

mossTechnician commented on Show HN: BrowserOS – "Claude Cowork" in the browser github.com/browseros-ai/B... · Posted by u/felarof

mossTechnician · 18 days ago

> we're adding browser-level guardrails (think IAM for agents)

This sounds interesting, but where would I go to see these guardrails and their implementation? I tried searching in the repository and couldn't find them.

mossTechnician commented on Satya Nadella: "We need to find something useful for AI" pcgamer.com/software/ai/m... · Posted by u/marcyb5st

Tepix · 18 days ago

After increasing the prices of RAM, GPUs and flash memory for the entire world, energy cost is next. Thanks AI!

mossTechnician · 18 days ago

Energy costs have already risen substantially[0], but the increase has been slower, and it's garnered a bit less media attention than the recent leap in PC hardware prices.

[0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-data-centers-elec...

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