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Well said, that's one of the points I have been trying to get across.

I am not a troll. I am talking from my own personal experience. It is good though when the trash takes itself out.

You're talking about things that happened in the 90s. If you are still struggling now 3 decades later because of that then I have to question if you are the problem. I know people about my age (I was born in 2001) getting mortgages working in tech without even a proper computer science degree, just doing desktop servicing and repair. There have been some rough times recently with people getting fired after the pandemic ended and with the AI boom. However there have also been new opportunities thanks to AI. I am getting funded to do a 3 year PhD with a 19K a year bursary thanks to AI hype. If there is an AI bust that just means more jobs for regular programmers as companies realize that replacing them with LLMs wasn't a good idea. If not then anyone who can make or work with AI models is quids in.

I have never worked in or been to America so I have no idea what has or hasn't happened in Florida before I was born, nor do I care. Given that was three decades ago you shouldn't really care either. If it's that big of problem can't you "move state" since America is supposed to be so big and diverse? For me to leave the UK which is much smaller I would need to go through immigration. There are booms and busts in all markets and always will be until we can overthrow capitalism.

Tech pays just fine. Maybe not as much as being a lawyer, but there are people who make £50-100k per year working in tech as programmers, engineers, or professors. That's a reasonable salary for most of the country. I know there are people in America making way more, though that does have to cover health care.

Also fyi Red Hat and IBM are still around and aren't really a force for good anyway. Stop SIMPing for large companies.

Except they haven't done anything shitty this time. What you are doing would be a bit like claiming the Nazis are responsible for micro plastics. Like yeah Nazis are shit but making false allegations is just giving their defenders something to throw in your face. It makes you, and everyone who is critical of Microsoft look dumb. How about you criticize the company that actually screwed up? They are also a multi-billion dollar company, yet you aren't blaming them for something that is clearly their fault.

None of this has to do with the current outage though.

I hope people in the pharmacy could get their prescriptions or we might have to add peoples names to the list.

Which isn't Microsoft's fault. Linux systems have also been taken down by Crowdstrike's fuck ups in the recent past.

Crowdstrike already killed some Linux machines. Let's not pretend Windows is at fault here or Linux is magically better in this area. No one is immune from software that can run as a kernel module going bad.

You're thinking of passive matrix displays. Those were the cheaper option but active matrix screens did exist.

Lots of security systems are kernel level (at least partially) this includes SELinux and AppArmor by the way. It's a necessity for these things to actually be effective.

The solution here isn't to upgrade your PC for Microsoft's sake. The solution is to use an OS that actually respects you and your time. Use Linux, or FreeBSD, or even macOS. Alternatively install Gentoo and spend even more time updating, but with spectacular performance and customizability when you're not updating.

You're still trying to weasel out of being wrong. It's not an archive nor is it compressed. Go read what a Portable Executable is. It's not about being diplomatic or whatever. Just admit you're wrong and go and read about how it actually works. You might learn something.

Bruh an exe is not an archive. Some just happen to contain an archive, not all. As me and the other guy discovered some archive utilities can read them, but what they are doing is closer to a binary analysis tool than unpacking an actual archive. It's not about being nerdy, it's about getting your facts right.

Okay that's actually slightly different from what I was expecting. Does the .text file contain machine code or assembly language by any chance? It seems the archive program can pull out the executable code as well, similar to the binary analysis tools I have worked with.

.reloc is probably the relocation table used by the OS to load the program into an address space.

Mate I saw the blind leading the blind and had to step in. You could have actually opened some exes on Linux as the other guy suggests. In fact I am surprised you never noticed your system presenting that option. It just isn't actual proof of what they said, even if it appears like it. In fact I am a bit lost how neither of you realized something weird was going on. On what planet would an executable format being a zip file make any sense? Exes actually can include several executable formats.

There are things like self extracting archives that make this all more confusing. They are basically an archive with an extraction program in the same file. Installer exes work in a similar way too. Not all exes can be extracted since not all of them contain secret hidden archives or extra resources.

There actually are tools to show you the contents of an executable file, and you could probably learn a lot by using one. They contain more than just a blob of machine code like one might assume. Often they contain data as well, and instructions and information on how to load the executable like what memory layout to use.

I am annoyed that people upvoted the other guy without double checking as well. Now we have more people walking around spreading misinformation just because of some guy on Lemmy. This is why things like climate change become contentious issues. People come to their own conclusions based on partial information, and since it appears to make sense without proper investigation it gets spread around like wildfire. It's only when you actually know what's going on at a deeper level that it becomes possible to spot the flaws in the reasoning.

You are actually correct. They can contain archived files or resources that can be unpacked with an archive program (including on Linux btw), but they aren't just a zip file. That's why my Linux archive manager (ark I think) offer to open one, but won't execute it. They can see the extra content even if they can't execute the file as intended.

Just because they open in 7-Zip or whatever doesn't mean they are just a zip file. There are several kinds of archives. EXEs are a special case as well. They aren't archives at all. Rather they can contain archives or extra content along with being an executable. One reason is self extracting archives. Here an archive is packaged with an extraction program as an exe all in one. The other case is exes that have extra resources like images, videos, graphics textures, etc. Either way it's an executable plus some extra stuff, not a zip archive. DLLs I am not sure about, but I suspect something similar is happening here.

Next time you should research stuff before posting it on Lemmy. Things are sometimes more complicated than they appear.

docx you are correct about though. Specifically it's a zip file that contains XML files and resources.

Edit: I actually found an article on self extracting archives, it's quite an interesting technology to be fair even if it causes confusion: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_compression

I think you are replying to the wrong guy here, but thanks for the advice anyway. Maybe I will replace my Spotify with it.

Okay I am not going to lie I am pretty lost as to what you are saying here. I read this twice and I am still confused.

What does working on open source projects have to do with the culture war? Also what do you mean by culture war? Do you believe like some leftists do that it's all a distraction? Or do you think like the right wing do that it's a leftist conspiracy to changes some countries values? Or another third thing I don't know about?

Who is an American uniparty?

By new Microsoft do you mean how they have changed with regards to Open Source? I mean they actually release open source software now, and don't fight as much against Linux and other communities. Presumably because they realised they can't fight Linux. Do you think this is a bad thing? They obviously aren't a benevolent force for good, but I personally prefer the new attitude to the old one at least.

I am probably not the right person to reply to. I am quite happy with Spotify, but for people like this guy this is the way.