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Back in 2015, Microsoft said it would build OpenSSH, a set of utilities that allow clients and servers to connect securely, into Windows, while also making contributions to its development. I guess it's just the OpenSSH in you that brings out the man in me.
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Tumblr is back in the App Store. Apple pulled the app from iTunes in November, and it was reportedly due to the presence child exploitation photos on the platform. As if millions of apps cried out to be downloaded and were met with silence.
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Today, Google shared information about some of the AI work it's doing in Asia, but in a blog post about the work, it also made a pretty clear statement about how its facial recognition technology will and won't be used for the time being. Somewhere, someone already has my facial profile. I hope they think I'm pretty.
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Journalists working as factcheckers for Facebook have pushed to end a controversial media partnership with the social network, saying the company has ignored their concerns and failed to use their expertise to combat misinformation. Facebook: "Long live Fake News!"
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A perpetrator was able to fool the charitable organization Save the Children into misdirecting close to $1million. You wouldn't steal a car, you wouldn't steal a handbag, you run business email compromise (BEC) scam that would take nearly $1 million from starving children.
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Executives hardest hit.
(Seriously, the CEO makes almost half that, so who is robbing who?)
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Robinhood is undercutting the big banks by forgoing brick-and-mortar branches with its new zero-fee checking and savings account features. I'm going to try to get my money from the bank and they're going to tell me it's in Joe's house, and in the Kennedy house.
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Apparently, after regulators pointed out serious problems with their plan, Robinhood changed their minds.
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Our goal with this new experience is to provide rapid access to the most common ways that developers get to their code: whether it’s cloning from an online repository or opening an existing project. It's not just a bunch of new icons!
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Now, they need to add a huge icon reading "Turn Off This Sh*t"
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Since most of these people at Microsoft have nothing to do than collect the paycheck ... ya way to go with touching and retouching stuff that other people build and was working... it must be a rosey job being a Program Manager at MSFT...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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An anthropomorphic invocation of Visual Studio wrote: rapid access to the most common ways that developers get to their code: whether it’s cloning from an online repository or opening an existing project So two buttons, then.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Double clicking on MyCurrentProject.sln has always done the job for me.
Can't they spend their time sorting out the crappy text search in SSMS instead?
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Well, yeah, obviously Redgate devs can find time for useful things ...
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Exactly.
The Way of the Future is to use nothing but third-party products in windows.
It used to be that you'd use third-party programs because of personal preferences, but now it's out of necessity.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Colors in the Console, new features in NotePad, upgraded Sticky Notes: now this !
Oooh ... shiny. If there is an adult left on the Redmond campus, please report to the Skype team with a defibrillator and major anti-psychotic meds.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Spammers have sent a wave of threats to businesses, schools, and other locations, demanding bitcoin in exchange for not detonating a supposed bomb. And I thought the 'Microsoft Tech Support' scammers were awful people
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Wolf! Wolf! Wolf! Wolf! Wolf!
These @rseholes need to be locked up pretty damned quickly.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The punishment should fit the crime. They should be made to spend spend every day peddling exercise bikes that power computers to mine bitcoins for their local schools.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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There’s lots of research going into tiny drones, but one of the many hard parts is keeping them in the air for any real amount of time. Why not hitch a ride on something that already flies all day? Next step is to mount a little explosive on them...
I know! I saw it on a documentary once called Black Mirror.
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So the bees have been dying out as a result of experimentation into what they can carry?
Sounds about right.
Kent Sharkey wrote: I saw it on a documentary once called Black Mirror. Yes, we too have seen historical documents.
Those poor people...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The popularity and success of DevOps means it’s now an increasingly common feature in IT job descriptions. Step 0: Get business cards printed
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Step 1: Claim to know more than you actually do
Step 2: Figure out how to do it before management clues in (not a big leap)
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