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We are big fans of PowerToys, the set of utilities which let users extend the features of Windows and make your workflow easier. Now another Microsoft developer, Etienne Baudoux Veler, has released DevToys, which does the same for developers. "Look, we're all very impressed with Andy's new toy."
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The following list defines breaking changes that are proposed for .NET 7. Speak now, or forever rewrite your programs
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Maintainers of the Rust programming language have warned of a critical vulnerability that enables attackers to delete files and directories. And it does it without memory leakage or concurrency errors
Ooops. Welcome to the club, Rust
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Microsoft could take the wraps off its 'Project Monarch'/One Outlook project this spring, after months of internal testing. One Outlook to rule them all, One Outlook to find the emails, One Outlook to read them all, and in the dark mode bind them
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In July of 2021, we released a new Excel Trust Center setting option to restrict the usage of Excel 4.0 (XLM) macros. As planned, we have now made this setting the default when opening Excel 4.0 (XLM) macros. This will help our customers protect themselves against related security threats. Good thing no one uses those
In case you want to know why the accounting department is freaking out more than normal
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McAfee Enterprise (now rebranded as Trellix) has patched a security vulnerability discovered in the company's McAfee Agent software for Windows enabling attackers to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges. Reason not to use McAffee, part NaN (sorry, I think I had an overflow there)
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The attorneys general of three states and the District of Columbia are suing Google for the allegedly deceptive collection of location data on Android. Deceptive isn't evil, is it?
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Some tasks require a large amount of code or a complex system to be comprehended before the correct modification can be discovered and implemented. Surgical programming is a way to systematically approach these tasks. Step 0: Anesthetize yourself
In a world first - I actually correctly spelled anesthetize first try, without looking it up. It's a merry coal!
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When the surgeon is anesthetized, who is going to operate on the patient(code)?
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As long as the surgeon gets paid...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I knew this seemed familiar...
Dilbert Comic Strip on 1993-11-09 | Dilbert by Scott Adams
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Cryptocurrencies tumble in wake of global stock sell-off, proposed Russian crypto ban. What goes up...
As hard as that is to believe for the true believers. But then I just don't understand crypto.
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'crypto' - just a 'y' away from being an anagram for 'o crapt!'
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Microsoft released a list of twenty-five group policies that admins should not use in Windows 10 and Windows 11 as they do not provide optimal behavior or cause unexpected results. Funny how so many of them involve updates
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What if anyone could contribute to security initiatives and help build a cybersecurity culture without requiring privileged access or specialized expertise? All in favour of securing the software say 'ay'
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A trio of separate research teams from three different continents published individual papers indicating similar quantum computing breakthroughs yesterday. "Atomic. Tonight make it magnificent"
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I'll believe it when they find Schrödinger's Turtle^.
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There is a turtle and there is no turtle. There is no maybe!
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First, there is a mountain. Then, there is no mountain. Then there is.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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But if no one is here to see the mountain, is there a mountain?
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Microsoft announced that it is rolling out the Windows 10 November 2021 update, also called Windows 10 21H2, to Windows 10 20H2 devices as an exercise to train its Machine Learning (ML)-assisted Windows Update Rollout model. A secret look at the "model": if win.version < 2111 {force-update();}
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Kent Sharkey wrote: as an exercise to train its Machine Learning (ML)-assisted Windows Update Rollout model. In other words... they are officially and openly saying that we are their beta testers.
and if (not to say "when") something goes wrong... the ML is responsible, or even better, the users, because they didn't train it properly
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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They should version the machine learning model as 2-4-19-13. And then keep it there.
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Microsoft quietly shipped Visual Studio 2022 v17.1 Preview 3 with enhancements to web tools. They were so excited, they forgot to tell us about it
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Well maybe there were no new icons, so nothing worth mentioning.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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