Demons look like that in Medieval and Renaissance paintings. "Red dude with horns" didn't become the standard depiction of demons until much later.

In modern representations, I think you'd be hard-pressed to find red-dude-with-horns. Seems like we shifted towards hot-dude-with-something-off (Lucifer series, Good Omens), when we do see red-dude-with-horns I feel like it's meant to be somewhat ironic/on-the-nose (south park, preacher).

Hehe, not that that hard pressed. IMDB has a whole horned-demon category keyword: https://m.imdb.com/search/title/?keywords=horned-demon&explo.... And those results don’t even include South Park, nor Hellboy. If I Google image search for “Satan” I get nothing but red horned demons for pages.

There have always been wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing stories about The Devil too, it’s just a separate category.

>over 3,000,000,000 users

Is that a typo or are you really implying half the human population use Signal?

Edit: I misread, you are counting almost every messaging app user.

Just WhatsApp. Moxie's ideas are used in plenty of other messengers. The context was "what Moxie did for the field of instant messaging".

Yeah, whatsapp uses the same protocol.

Well, we do not really have any idea what Whatsapp uses, because it is proprietary.

These guns didn't stop the CLOUD act.

GNOME has exactly the same quirky behavior with rounded windows, where the drop shadow is actually the clickable area to resize the window.

Exactly, I was reading this on CachyOS Gnome. I was like, wait a minute, I've this exact same issue for years on Gnome (maybe on KDE as well, not sure).

Looking at those mesh-like patters in the shoes, makes me wonder how long each one took to be made.

Do you remember when they bought the first and largest webmail platform and did nothing with it?

I seem to remember they spent years trying and failing to migrate it to .net.

Not quite--this predates .net. They acquired Hotmail in 1997, while it was running on Solaris mail servers and Apache on FreeBSD for the web frontend. In a highly publicized move, Microsoft ventured to port it to Exchange and IIS on Windows NT. This went on for years on end, with MS claiming to have finished the transition several times, while getting egg on their face. Eventually, they got it running on Windows 2000 and a combination of their flagship products and Windows Services for Unix (the WSL of those times).

It has since been rebranded as MSN Hotmail, Windows Live Hotmail, Hotmail, and Outlook, likely with some 365 thrown in.

Meanwhile, they have mismanaged their once great mail user agent Outlook Express, as well as their quite useful personal information manager Microsoft Outlook, to the point where their newest offering is absolutely unusable.

> Eventually, they got it running on Windows 2000

The legend was that they tried and finally sticked with Freebsd, because Windows was not able to cope with the level of traffic.

"eh"

https://www.wired.com/1999/08/hotmail-hackers-we-did-it/

The web version is a complete reimplementation with about as many backward compatibility problems as LibreOffice.

Actually LibreOffice has better backward compatibility than MS Office now. If you have a MS Office 2003 file that current MS Office can't open, try LibreOffice.

Maybe Office 2003, but modern .docx files often don't work right in the web version of Office or in LibreOffice.

But that wouldn't be backward-compatibility? Also when the MS-pushed web versions can't get it right, does it matter?

LibreOffice can't properly render ODT files created with OpenOffice-before-Oracle. I highly doubt their DOCX support is any better.

Doubt what you like, but I "rescued" old MS Office documents for my grandfather with that. Also this is a common fear when leaving MS Office, so you can bet they work on that. I never had someone complain over OO-compatibitlity until now, so there is that.

When LibreOffice appeared on the stage, that was actually my first test back then: opening an existing ODT document I had written. It was already displayed incorrectly at the time.

Are there test files downloadable somewhere, so I can check that myself?

"I don't like X, so I'm guessing Y is bad."

Which is now piece by piece becoming the Desktop version by wrapping it in some WebView junk.

The concept of Windows and operating systems is so 90s. The next version will be Copilot Portal, your access point to the Copilot ecosystem.

Tesla is acquired by xAI (2026)

The Ellison trying to buy WB was the younger one.

I didn't actually specify which Ellison. But we could say the Ellison clan to be inclusive.

It’s all based on elder Ellison’s power and money.