Producer of useless things. Way too soft. Probably left you unread. "basically shitposting with code"
Fedi:
@wamwoowam
@snug
.moe
Bluesky:
@wamwoowam
.co.uk
@discord
THIS is why your software is slow. it's not "web tech" or "electron" or "JIT compilation" or any fucking sorting algorithm
it's boneheaded _design decisions_ made to avoid doing things properly in packages with 1,600,000 weekly downloads.
@discord
oh my fucking god it's using a library called systeminformation that calls powershell like "Get-WmiObject Win32_logicaldisk | select Access,Caption,FileSystem,FreeSpace,Size ${drive ? '| where -property Caption -eq ' + drive : ''} | fl" instead of doing anything properly.
@discord
holy fucking shit they're executing from DriverStore, assuming System32 AND hardcoding C:\Windows or depending on an environment variable
this person has never programmed on windows in their lives
@rockibfdi
@discord
TL;DR discord is using a library to fetch system information that works in damn near the least efficient way possible on windows, it's very fragile, it's very slow, and it happens basically every time you launch discord
i posted this because i was impressed by how snappy this was on a CPU that can barely emulate genesis games at full speed.
no the machine doesn't have an SSD, it does have a somewhat non-contemporary 40GB 4200RPM drive i pulled from a late model ibook g4
@discord
aight if y'all are gonna keep spreading misinfo about this being a virus or actively misunderstanding that task manager can only ever show an instance in time, better lock this shit down, nice going y'all
aight so some people are getting this shit very wrong
no, this is not a cold launch, the point of this was never "old computers faster", i am very aware that this would've been much slower on this machine's original hard drive, i have it, it sounds very funny
@jlpmme
@endermanch
my brother in Christ you are literally looking at the bugcheck stack trace explicitly calling out btha2dp.sys, a windows built in driver.
@discord
oh my fucking god it's using a library called systeminformation that calls powershell like "Get-WmiObject Win32_logicaldisk | select Access,Caption,FileSystem,FreeSpace,Size ${drive ? '| where -property Caption -eq ' + drive : ''} | fl" instead of doing anything properly.
@secondarysmiIe
and if it helps at all here's a screenshot of a fresh install of windows (through sandbox) which shows that this library discord is using is just calling powershell
@GreenSwede_
@sitnslay
you understand that this comes up, every single time anyone ever talks about windows performance, no matter how unrelated to the point it actually is, right?
the windows phone 7 port of sonic 4 removed an awful lot of visual effects for performance reasons, however all they actually removed was the code that initializes them
anyway totally unrelated i re-added the trail when you roll :3
Seeing a common misconception that some surfaces in Windows 11 are using WebView2. They aren't. This caret browsing dialog is from UWP XAML, and shows in every UWP app.
What's new?
- REAL TOUCH SUPPORT (it works on phones!)
- PERSISTENT INSTALLATION (faster to launch!)
- BETTER MUSIC (boss phase 2 plays correctly!)
- BETTER SFX (1-Up sounds actually work!)
- SAVE STATES (you can now resume from your last checkpoint!)
- & MORE
@DeFlanko
@discord
unsure, i've reverse engineered as much of the minified javascript bullshit as i can be bothered to and there's clearly a number of factors that influence if it gets run or not, but i have found the code and a number of its callsites
This kinda deign annoys me more than fucking anything else.
I already use your garbage ass service. Fucking everyone does. “Log in” should not be THE SMALLEST POSSIBLE OPTION.
DO BETTER.
@iownfivewiis
i've had people come to me with E_CLASSNOTREG when trying to install unicord only then to tell me they removed the entire UWP app model only *then* to complain that they can't install my UWP app 🙃
@secondarysmiIe
and if it helps at all here's a screenshot of a fresh install of windows (through sandbox) which shows that this library discord is using is just calling powershell
@aubymori
@discord
you should *never* be relying on the environment for this information, you can change this value in control panel or a malicious script could do same, there's a Win32 API to fetch these directories that you should always, always use
small PSA no discord "verification" involves you scanning a QR code in the app, doing so will allow attackers complete access to your account
the app says this
read.
@Kittenscorner
@secondarysmiIe
@discord
you're lying about *me* now, as well as spreading actual misinformation and refusing any attempt of mine to actually be civil and educate and ya know, not yell at each other? my ass "couldn't handle the truth" your ass couldn't handle being a decent person
@SheriefFYI
i was scrolling some lists on a 333MHz pentium 2 running windows 2000 yesterday and it was silky smooth and it got me thinking about just how much worse that'd be today
@Kittenscorner
@secondarysmiIe
@discord
let it be known i tried to be cordial, i really thought you were just misinformed but now you're actually just being an asshole, w/e i guess
@DanNerdCubed
Well if we’re going for the full collectors edition experience:
- an art book
- 2-3 pointless bits of plastic
- something “iconic”
- a poster
- some stickers
- the soundtrack on CD
For extra AAA flare, don’t include the actual book.
Ever wanted to use Discord on a J2ME feature phone? Thanks to gtrxAC, that's now possible!
I personally have wanted to see something like this for years - glad the same someone who ported a Game Boy emulator to
#MTK
MRE took on the challenge!
so after almost exactly a month, twitch finally got around to... looking at why i was banned and realising it was in error.
a month
imagine i actually depended on this platform. imagine if this was my one source of revenue. and i just got shafted out of a month of revenue.
@__alula
specifically in discord's case (i know this isn't discord's code but still) they are shipping so many node native modules already that there's really no excuse to depend on a library like this imo
@budgtz
@Kittenscorner
@discord
yeah, because they're wrong, i reached out to try and clarify, they decided to be a jackass about it and start accusing me of lying when i have repeatedly shown evidence, cant win em all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯