the CEO of Kurzgesagt word that they would not have made the videos if they hadn’t been paid to

This on its own proves nothing bad. Some videos just require a bigger budget to make and can’t be made on their otherwise limited budget. Or the topic is just lower priority due to writer interests. If they were forced into covering specific topics then that’s a different story, but I haven’t seen any evidence that was the case.

Sounds like a good way to AI-wash any accounting fraud. Now you can just blame it on Microsoft.

Maybe it’s only possible in certain cases, but I can tell you for certain it’s possible with running exe’s and loaded dll’s. I have a CMake step on Windows that does this rename hack so my builds don’t fail if I still have the app running.

Windows doesn’t even tell you if Explorer itself has a folder open… how the hell does 7-Zip do it?

This is honestly one of my favorite features of the linux filesystem. As a dev it makes things like replacing and hot-reloading plugins way easier.

It turns out you can kind of get the same functionality on Windows if you rename the open file and place the new one with the original name, but it’s a bit of a hack.

A famously useful tool for saving miners from suffocation?

I once accidentally created a file with a newline character in it… it was pretty tricky to fix from command line.