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As work and work life continue to evolve, companies are exploring whether a shorter week can solve some of the workforce's biggest challenges. Long weekends will have no meaning
Happy Victoria Day, Canadians!
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25% more unpaid overtime?
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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We are shipping an update for Windows Subsystem for Android™ on Windows 11 starting with Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. This update (version 2204.40000.15.0) includes several exciting new features and improvements such as updating to Android 12.1, major Windows integration improvements, and a new Settings app experience! These are the droids we've been looking for
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The European Union is pressing ahead with legislation to heavily regulate companies like Apple, setting plans to force "gatekeepers" to open up access to hardware and software, and even set up an internal department to meet new rules, according to an endorsed agreement from the European Parliament's Internal Market Committee. Apple will be forced to give me access to all their hardware? Sign me up!
Oh, hardware features. drat
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While not every user is actively monitoring hardware resource usage when gaming, enthusiasts and reviewers often turn the stats on to see how certain games and other applications are being handled by the hardware. Buggy reporting? How could this be?
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This was reported in a Dev version. I wonder what it reports in the release version.
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Meanwhile, MS is working hard at icons...
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: Meanwhile, MS is working hard at icons..
Yes, and maybe a new UI framework, or two.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Several bugs in Microsoft, Ubuntu and Tesla products were found and exploited during the three-day Pwn2Own hacking conference in Vancouver this week. It's almost like nothing is safe any more
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Matt Hobbs v2.0 💉💉💉💉 on Twitter: "🧵As I mentioned last week https://t.co/CcU3PLPTpj removed jQuery as a dependency for all frontend apps, meaning 32 KB of minified & compressed JS was removed. So let's see what difference this has made for users[^]
The discussion at Slashdot:
Why Gov.UK Stopped Using jQuery - Slashdot[^]
Is this reasonable when you're using 3rd party libraries, or at all? Folks on slashdot make the argument that jQuery isn't needed because modern browsers behave better, and that standard javascript does all the same stuff nowadays. (I don't know enough about the nuances to have an opinion either way.)
The twitter poster shows some graphs that highlight the benefits of getting rid of jquery, but never once mentions other frameworks, like Angular, NodeJS, or TypeScript (none of which I know anything about).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 22-May-22 9:30am.
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From my point of view, the main point is, that meanwhile it is really easy to replace the functionality of jQuery by vanilla js. And from that standpoint it is pretty ok not to use jq anymore.
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Well, I'm using telerik ui and can't get rid of jquery, as it appears to be a dependency.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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It seems that they're doing it in the interest of reducing bandwidth for mobile users in general, and mobile users with old devices in particular.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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They already have fairly lean pages. Maybe they could adopt the strategy of simply using clearer, more direct language. Hire a good editor who will pare down the wording to bite-sized offerings that can be more easily swallowed.
Or invest in improving bandwidth, subsidising bandwidth costs for low income earners? I'm just wondering if they are trying to save people money (pay-per-byte) or make cheaper phones feel faster. If the latter then they have a ways to go with their Lighthouse score.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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They've achieved a 5%+ improvement in speed in regards to startup, long methods and stuff. So something that took 100ms now takes 95ms. They've also removed 32K JS, and presumably added a little to rewrite some of the missing functionality.
When I pick a random page on the Gov.uk site (travel warnings) I see 864Kb downloaded, so that 32K saved is 4% give or take.
Every little bit counts. Absolutely. But these are not "amazing" numbers. They are progressive numbers.
Now: how much did that work cost, and if they surveyed their users, what improvement in the service did the users experience?
ie. What's their return on their investment?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I guess a 5% reduction in bandwidth is good for mobile users (who may not all have unlimited data plans), but you gotta wonder - how many of them visit a uk.gov web site for any reason. I'm betting not that many...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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The US Department of Justice says it won’t subject “good-faith security research” to charges under anti-hacking laws, acknowledging long-standing concerns around the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). I think I know what my next defense will be
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The DoJ needs to push Congress to make this decision into Law. Otherwise the next President could reverse it.
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It'll be a bit harder than that. The juicy quotes in the article are not something written by the current administration's justice department; they're from last year's 6-3 Supreme Court decision in Van Buren v. United States.
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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This paragraph from the article makes my point very, very clear:
Quote: The new DOJ policy attempts to allay fears about the CFAA’s broad and ambiguous scope following a 2021 Supreme Court ruling that encouraged reading the law more narrowly. The ruling warned that government prosecutors’ earlier interpretation risked criminalizing a “breathtaking amount of commonplace computer activity,” laying out several hypothetical examples that the DOJ now promises it won’t prosecute. That change is paired with a safe harbor for researchers carrying out “good-faith testing, investigation, and/or correction of a security flaw or vulnerability.” The new rules take effect immediately, replacing old guidelines issued in 2014.
First, SCOTUS blew it by not simply ruling the entire Law unconstitutional as being so vague on what a cybercrime is so it violates the 4th Amendment's "no unreasonable" modifier for searches and seizures. Second, the fact that the DOJ has changed the interpretation twice on how this Law is to be enforced points to the fact that the next administration could change it again, making it impossible for anyone to actually comply with this Law.
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no, saying you 5.10 when your 5.9 1/2 on your dating profile is a crime
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The Google search engine collects data on users who think they can be anonymous if they use a “private browsing” mode They must be new here
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Private? Like the Texas power grid? Is that what they really want? <\tongue-in-cheek  >
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The process of writing a television show typically involves a writers room and a lot of time, as humans figure out the plot and the dialogue that makes a show work. Then they came for the screenwriters and I did nothing as I was waiting for the next season of Stargate
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Quote: Bringing scriptwriting AI to the Google enterprise
Wrong show! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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