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Microsoft has announced that RSA keys shorter than 2048 bits will soon be deprecated in Windows Transport Layer Security (TLS) to provide increased security. You must be *this big* to be secure (for now)
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Do not try and make it secure, that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth... there is no real 100% security.
M.D.V. 
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Security is the sound of one hand clapping...
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Java 22 arrives with previews of scoped values, structured concurrency, stream gatherers, and the ability to execute multi-file programs. "A concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind"
Not *really* related to the release (although somewhat related to Java in general), but it's just a good book (and movie - I'm shocked they haven't redone it)
Now I see there's a pretty recent mini-series of it that seemed to have come and gone in 2019 without me hearing about it.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Java 22 arrives with previews of scoped values
Cutting edge! (For 1970/80's)
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For software developers, demo apps and their accompanying tutorials represent a synergistic approach to practical learning. "I'm kinda buzzed and it's all because: this is how we do it"
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Over the next decade, generative artificial intelligence will replace some jobs. But as has always been the case with revolutionary technologies — from the steam engine to digitization — it's destined to create far more jobs than it eliminates. That's how many will have to be sent back to save Sarah Connor
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Soylent Green salesmen is about the only job I can see...
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what exactly is ai helping in expect for deep fakes missinformation and fraud by companies to inflate stock price
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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And (very important) pictures of corgis in dinner jackets, paddling a gondola. 
It’s all tulips, I’m afraid.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It’s all tulips, I’m afraid.
But when that bubble burst, at least you had a pretty flower by which to remember it.
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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Quote: That’s because genAI tools such as ChatGPT and Midjourney can help eliminate mundane tasks, freeing up workers to take on more valuable creative roles and be more productive.
That's the same thing they said in the 1960's and 70's and... about how computers would give us more time, yadayada. So instead we get more class disparity and, just like with computers where we now busy ourselves with reams of data management and other BS nobody could do before computers so it wasn't done, AI will bring something else to prevent us from benefitting from all that supposed free, creative, productive time.
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Marc Clifton wrote: AI will bring something else to prevent us from benefitting from all that supposed free, creative, productive time.
My wife doesn't need AI for that 
M.D.V.
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I assume you guys have a dishwasher.
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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Microsoft has announced that the next subscription-free version of its Office suite will launch later this year. Is it just Office 2016 with new stickers on the DVDs?
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Racing stripes! (...on the ribbon.  )
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I think I will stay with my 2010 Version...
Until now, there is only one thing (better handling of the vocabulary between different languages) I miss but for me it isn't worth the price of the upgrade.
M.D.V.
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Biden administration seems oblivious of the strengths of contemporary C++ and the efforts to provide strong safety guarantees, Bjarne Stroustrup said. If you just rewrite it all from scratch, and are REALLLLLLY careful, we're good too!
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Stroustrup is deluding himself. The problem with modern software is the complexity simply makes it impossible to 100% predict memory management needs from a static analysis.
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Scientists have converted a children's "drinking bird" toy into a tool that generates usable amounts of electricity. The generator could one day be utilized to power a wide variety of small electronic devices, both indoors and outside. Imagine the power I could be generating then
Posted (almost entirely) for the mention of 'triboelectric nanogenerators'
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Not everyone is a job hopper, and some people do get stuck in the same company and same title due to laziness, comfort, or other reasons. Not "by" the senior software engineer. Those are much more common.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: the same company and same title due to laziness, comfort, or other reasons.
If the job gives you enough money to cover your needs and allow you some luxury from time to time, doesn't fill your daytime and leave you enough spare time to enjoy with family, friends, hobbies or whatever you like, you team is OK and there is a respectful clima...
you would be an idiot if you changed your job.
The problem is, that to find that, there usually are less probabilities than getting a winning lottery ticket.
M.D.V.
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GnuCOBOL "has reached an industrial maturity and can compete with proprietary offers in all environments," boasted contributor Fabrice Le Fessant, in a FOSDEM talk. Time to party like it's 1959
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Shouldn't that website be "The Gnu Stack"?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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Up next: The Gnu Stagecoach
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