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Infosec researchers have idenitied a zero-day code execution vulnerability in Microsoft's ubiquitous Office software. To be safe - don't open any Office documents
I'm certain your boss will understand
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If you’re marketing software products to developers or technical audiences and are itching to build developer awareness and adoption for your product, let’s explore how developer education will get you there. Teach. Your developers well.
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Anyone that uses the internet without being naïve would know that they are likely going to be tracked because of the fact that this is the sort of thing that could potentially end up making the free service they are using profitable for the company that created it. tl;dr version: Duh
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The real question is how much data do these companies collect from people not using their services. It Twitter is collecting my data that's actually illegal in some places as I don't have a Twitter account.
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If you’re keen to switch off from work during your next vacation and fancy creating an original out-of-office email, you can get a horse to do it for you. I say "Neigh" to this development!
I do like "out-horse your email" though. Good to see Clever Hans still getting work.
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Must you trot out this pun?
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Combining this with poop AI (above), do we get artificially intelligent horse poop?
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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Hackers are showing an increased interest in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) as an attack surface as they build new malware, the more advanced samples being suitable for espionage and downloading additional malicious modules. So Windows is now the Vulnerability Subsystem for Linux?
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"We’ve worked as software engineers at companies in all stages ranging from startups to big tech and found that they all suffer from bad documentation, if it even existed at all" // assign 1 to i
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The code is the documentation. At least, that's what I've been told. I actually worked for people that don't believe in commenting for that very reason.
At my last job, I worked on a set of 12 applications that had no design specs (not even glossy overviews of specs), very few meaningful comments in the code, no data dictionary in the database, and no documentation related to the business rules.
It was a very high stress job.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Look at every bit of development tooling you use. What is a joy to use, and what is a pain? "Does this spark joy?"
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He makes a good point. And I like that his post is short and readable and leaves me with a "huh, something to think about." Same with his "Software that has a soul" post.
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Quote: As an example, I’ve gone back to powershell, and was trying to get information about a command, and so I tried:
<command-name> help
<command-name> /?
<command-name> --help
And none worked.
Why not? /? and –help have both been methods for getting help for decades — why wouldn’t powershell adopt them? Instead, I have to do:
Get-Help <command-name> Oh my friggin lord! Powershell is the linux of Windows. Thank God I've never delved into it!!!
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It's worse - it's documented like .NET is.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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This makes a lot of sense and I already developed my thoughts on this matter when I was learning GIT and the gurus were fixated with the command line and berating me for using a graphical tool.
The reality is that as developers we already deal with complexity, it's the core of our job to make sense of the complexity of the real world and model it in a logical and as simple as possible way. This means that every bot of added complexity makes our job more difficult.
Adding unnecessary complexity through hard to use tools is just a detriment and brings nothing to the table. And I'm not berating git command line: it is powerful and when I became a little more expert in the concepts and the usage of the tool I managed to integrate it in shell scripts to automate operations on repositories. It's just not the right tool for the everyday use of git for a developer (integrators have different needs of course).
A graphical tool with an ergonomic interface that shows the relevant informations in a single screenful simply makes the task of managing branches and revision that much simple, preserving brain power to manage the complexity that cannot be managed otherwise. And the same goes for compilers: gcc is powerful, VisualStudio is simple. I choose simple.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Four US engineering students were brainstorming the perfect invention for their product design course, when lunch inspiration -- literally -- fell into their laps. So I can stop using my staplegun?
Well... it is "technology", right?
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Earlier this month, a rumor suggested that Microsoft might be nearly ready to launch a Chromecast-like game streaming stick for its Xbox Cloud Gaming service. Can they save the icons?
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Only 104 critical vulnerabilities were reported in 2021, an all-time low for the world’s largest software company. Just imagine what things would have been like if hackers had easy access to all the Windows ME machines
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A team of scientists in the US have accidentally created overly-aggressive mutant hamsters following a gene-editing experiment. And this is how the world ends: not with a bang, but with millions of adorable squeaks
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Notice the article didn't say anything about giving them water...
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I wonder what that really means?
Quote: The scientists chose to experiment with Syrian hamsters because, unlike mice, they have a social organisation that’s similar to humans
Also, I see no mention of mutant super powers... Is that a voluntary omission?!
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When are we (as we in human beings) going to learn that only because can do something, it doesn't mean we should do it...
Starting experiments with gene-editing... what could go wrong?
Note: I do see the potential good of it, but I can really imagine the probable evil of it (and then there are accidents too).
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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"What if it changes?" isn't just a question. It's a powerful heuristic for software design that can be used to justify almost anything. "Still don't know what I was waiting for"
Of course I had to use that song.
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Quote: It's a powerful heuristic for software design that can be used to justify almost anything. Yup, and the art of software is to find the balance between "oh, we didn't design the software for any new features" and "you want to add a time machine? No problem!"
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Hybrid working is a boon for wellbeing - but we might have some trust issues to work on. "You see, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't even care."
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