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Clicked the article because my blurry eyes read "on Windows Activation", and I was like "huh, what's interesting about Windows activation?" Read the first para

• andrewmcwatters 1y ago
  I too was hoping for something like a deep dive into key management reverse engineering. lol
  • userbinator 1y ago
    You may like this: https://sabah.forumotion.com/t333-all-you-need-to-know-about-windows-product-keys https://sabah.forumotion.com/t333-all-you-need-to-know-about...
• xp84 1y ago
  Don't feel bad -- the other frontpage story "ultra thin business card runs fluid simulation" I thought it said "...RUINS fluid simulation."
  • wavemode 1y ago
    I'm worse than you - when I came across that article, I spent a while wondering whether "ulathrin" was the name of a company, or some new metal alloy. Your comment is what made me realize I misread it.
    • joombaga 1y ago
      I made BOTH of those mistakes. I thought someone working at the company Ultrahin leaned over and dropped a business card into the particle accelerator and ruined a million dollar experiment.
      • xp84 1y ago
        I have found my people in this thread :D Now I want to make ChatGPT write all these alternative universe articles.
• DonHopkins 1y ago
  They used to have whole conferences on window management! "Methodology of Window Management": http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/books/wm/overview.htm http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/books/wm/... By F R A Hopgood, D A Duce, E V C Fielding, K Robinson, A S Williams. 29 April 1985. This is the Proceedings of the Alvey Workshop at Cosener's House, Abingdon that took place from 29 April 1985 until 1 May 1985. It was input into the planning for the MMI part of the Alvey Programme. The Proceedings were later published by Springer-Verlag in 1986. My favorite chapters: "Ten Years of Window Systems - A Retrospective View" by Warren Teitelman: http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/books/wm/p004.htm http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/books/wm/... "SunDew - A Distributed and Extensible Window System" by Games Gosling: http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/books/wm/p005.htm http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/books/wm/... "User Interface Working Group Discussions": http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/books/wm/p017.htm http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/books/wm/... "User Interface Working Group Final Report": http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/books/wm/p018.htm http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/books/wm/...
• heraldgeezer 1y ago
  Haha exactly why I am here too. I need glasses.
  • 361994752 1y ago
    I have my glasses and still got here :(
• mdavid626 1y ago
  Same.
• eirikbakke 1y ago
  If that's the topic you were looking for, you may like this "Dave's Garage" episode, where a retired Microsoft engineer talks about implementing... Windows Activation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpKNFCFABp0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpKNFCFABp0
• zulu-inuoe 1y ago
  I thought exactly the same thing
• fn-mote 1y ago
  Yes, appending “in Wayland” would have 1000% clarified the topic for me.