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Ask HN: Is MSFT Backsliding?

3 points by retrocryptid ↗ HN
Mi amiga (amigo?) Meadhbh posted this on their page. I checked it on my LinkedIn account via Firefox and Chrome on Ubuntu 22 and sure enough, I can't post images. So maybe the question is... Is MSFT going back to the Walled Garden of the past or is this just LinkedIn not testing their page on MacOS-X or Leenucks?

I've found DotNet on leenucks "less compelling" than DotNet on Windows, but I always chalked that up to MSFT having more resources that understand Windows than *nix. But... I dunno. Anyone else seeing MSFT backsliding?

https://meadhbh.hamrick.rocks/v2/non_fiction/linkedin.html

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jlpcsl
Yes. It is their old monopolist vendor lock-in tactics to intentionally make their software and product bad on other platforms and then blaming other platforms for this making a false appearance of their own platforms being better. There is a similar way in them badly supporting open formats (e.g. Open Document Format for office documents). They support them just enough to say that they support them but the support is so buggy and bad that again if you use their software product then you also have to use their own closed formats. So yes, they are backsliding into flowered prison. In fact they always were and nothing has changed. They are just better at propaganda and fooling people that they are not as evil as they truly are.
not_your_vase
I will be one of the last to defend MS, but what are you talking about? I'm on Linux Neon, based on Ubuntu 22.04, with Firefox v110 - can use LinkedIn as usual, including picture posting.
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dingosity
Did you install Firefox as a snap or with apt? I heard someone mention something about Canonical emphasizing software delivered as snaps, thus leading to less testing for apt packaged packages. Don't know if it's true, but if you installed with a snap and it works, maybe there's something to that.

The weird thing is I can't upload photos with google-chrome either. But chrome on windows seems to work fine.

not_your_vase
I installed it with apt. Does it error out for you? Or the option is just straight disabled?

Edit: just tried in incognito mode also, suspecting some cache issue. But it works in that mode also.

retrocryptid
The browser hangs when I select an image or drag it in from the file browser.
dingosity
Same here. I cleared cookies. Logged out. Logged back in. Still hangs. Didn't try incognito mode.

Maybe this is just MSFT not testing on non-Windows platforms and not a conspiracy? Or is not testing on Mac and Linux a conspiracy? I wonder if there's some image management library used by Mac & Linux versions of Firefox and Chrome, but not used with windows? I should test with a wider variety of images: png, jpg, gif. Or maybe I should let MSFT do that.

yuppie_scum
Constructive criticism - Your post would be a little easier to understand/parse if you would refrain from using “cutesy” talk - leenucks, Amigas etc. that totally hijacked my attention and distracted from the actual question.
retrocryptid
Whoa. I get it. You're not Chicano. But sometimes people from different communities use English differently than you do.
satvikpendem
Do people actually say leenucks instead of Linux in your community?
is_true
I didn't get the Linux part til I saw your comment. Not ideal to use slangs in a international community