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great. I see no negative outcomes from this.
My iPhone is 4+ years old. About the only useful thing on it is the camera. But google or Apple is bad enough cyphering what I am doing. Going to update to a flip phone this month.
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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The commission wants to understand the tangled web of investments between cloud providers and AI startups. They'd rather those companies invest in the FTC
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Ingenuity has spent more than two hours flying above Mars since April 2021. "Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince; And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest."
OK, not heart but propellor. Still, it must be dusty in here.
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Upvoted for the Hamlet quote.
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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Errors with spreadsheets are not only frustrating but can have serious consequences. Excel deemed dangerous
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DError is in DLookup!
(DLookup/VLookup - big deal!)
modified 29-Jan-24 2:42am.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Excel deemed dangerous considered harmful
FTFY 
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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How does a legacy test account grant access to read every Office 365 account? Testing, testing. One, two, boom
I apologize to the Microsoft management that I thought were to blame.
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More likely someone who was fired from Microsoft's QA teams simply didn't bother to close that account. This would be a way to legally get back at a company for firing them.
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Learn more on what, where and how enterprise developers work, share your insights and help shape developer landscape. Read it with your best David Attenborough impression
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I want rename ShiftMag to something more colorfully appropriate.
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Marc Clifton wrote: more colorfully appropriate.
like "sh1tty brow"?  
M.D.V. 
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Google continues to struggle with cybercriminals running malicious ads on its search platform to trick people into downloading booby-trapped copies of popular free software applications. Or finding anything else
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That's the next step in the evolution of "if it is for free, you are the product"
M.D.V. 
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More and more vendors respond to “What’s on your roadmap?” questions with, “We’re agile, so we are constantly improving.” That is a non-answer. I thought that was the purpose?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I thought that was the purpose?
And it now is the excuse.
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Are you shopping for a perpetual license for your favorite app? Good luck. Like it or not, the future is all about subscriptions. Here's why it makes sense. Then you were convinced?
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If you can't use something totally offline, you are not the owner of it and can go south anytime you don't expect it and specially when you are not prepared against it.
M.D.V.
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On the flip side, having a subscription ensures that your software is kept up to date from a security standpoint.
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Are you sure about that?
Maybe from the aspect of security, but how many things get broken the last years everytime there is an update round?
And I would not put my hand on fire about the security.
First time a "new function" gets rolled out the chances of getting a security hole with it are not so small to be deprecated.
M.D.V.
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I agree. I have come to the conclusion that "security updates" are just another layer of bullshit rolled out by vendors. I get a security update from MS, and now I have advertising in my task bar? right.
As for the licensing thing, again I call bullshit. All the annual licensing thing is designed to do is perpetuate income, even if you don't need the "new features". I refuse to pay for an annual license to Office 365 when I only use 1% (if that) of the "features." It's utter nonsense.
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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Despite attempts to limit the use of generative AI at work, a new survey shows that hasn’t stopped people from entering private corporate information to generative AI tools. I'm sure you can just ask the AI not to tell anyone else
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Has banning an IP in corporate domains become so difficult lately? 
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On Mastodon I wrote that I was tired of people saying, “you should learn C so you can understand how a computer really works.” BASIC ought to be enough for everyone
GOTO complaints
Although without C, I guess it's just BASI
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