Axel Rietschin

ex-kernel@msft

[Axel Rietschin @axelriet]

@XenoPanther Why would it not?

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@recidivism0 @neogoose_btw Linux zealots 🙄

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@mwwhite_ @neogoose_btw @CWood_sdf The kernel. It still wipes the floor with Linux any day, all day.

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@neogoose_btw Yeah you are tight, Unix 1-second timestamp that will roll over in 2038 are so much better 🙃

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@WindowsLatest 30% faster than atrociously slow is still atrociously slow. The filesystem can delete files thousands of times faster than Windows Explorer does.

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@XenoPanther Generally, no. You can reach out to a PM from the relevant team, and they may take your feedback.

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@ItalianGaty @DineshDSouza @PeteHegseth Gates has exactly zero to do with this. He stepped down from Microsoft CEO role some 26 years ago.

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@Artintel8675309 @DineshDSouza @PeteHegseth @SecWar The change of name happened on Sept 5, 2025.

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@birch_js @JamesWorron Of course you have data to back that up? Windows has 62% of the desktop OS market share while Edge has 10% of the desktop browser market share. So stop hoping.

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@WindowsLatest Last time I checked WinUI was just store apps without the store. They install “somewhere” no exe you can copy or ship standalone. Just recycling of the failed Store/WindowsRuntime story. NO THANKS.

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@CENTCOM Oerlikon Skynex, you need ☺️ 🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭

[Axel Rietschin @axelriet]

@exQUIZitely Bs. CD-ROM predates Windows 95 by ten years.

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@WalterBright Int vs size_t, int vs long 2x, off by one, almost always returns something that evaluates to true.

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This is not wrong assuming counter is an int and somehow never overflows, save for get() which won’t compile as it’s void. The increment is a rmw operation and multiple threads must be synchronized, or counts will be missing. Using a mutex is a bit overkill as a std::atomic<int> or InterlockedIncrement() of a volatile int will take care of serializing multiple concurrent incrementers.

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@zeifan I wonder if Rust would have prevented that? (jk, the parameter validation wasn’t there—fix the humans)

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@x86byte ADVobfuscator?

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@sesigl @Yoann_Buzenet There is nothing wrong with anything you said but who expects coherency without invalidation? You don’t have to look much further than your CPU to see how those issues were handled. So the answer is “skill issue.”

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Is that a fact? That would be surprising as the process heap isn’t that low-level. malloc() allocation granulatity is a single byte, that should say something, compared to an allocation granularity of 64KB or more from the memory manager. If malloc() behaves this way it should be very hard to write anything that works on your platform.

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https://t.co/HzXv1OBTSF

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@dystopiabreaker Not “critical” — just an inadvertent information leak which may very well be garbage, and good luck doing anything useful with it. Since it’s a header written to a file it should align naturally or be packed.