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Microsoft is now using a Windows driver to prevent users from changing the configured Windows 10 and Windows 11 default browser through software or by manually modifying the Registry. Who would want to change it, after all?
* changing it not using the "official" GUI. I can't really feel bad for losing the ability to change via the Registry, but I won't turn down an opportunity to poke the bear(s)
I'm also waiting for the news when someone inevitably finds a flaw in the driver that lets them take over Windows
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm also waiting for the news when someone inevitably finds a flaw in the driver that lets them take over Windows
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Kent Sharkey wrote: or by manually modifying the Registry
So is the registry no longer the control center, and there is a new, 'hidden' registry that will control this? If so, I would not be surprised with MS's often brain-dead decisions.
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I think it's another one of their, "driver watches the registry key and undoes any manual changes"
TTFN - Kent
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Windows will soon be a Rube Goldberg OS of interlocking drivers! 
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And a scheduled task to check that the driver hasn't been disabled...
The more they try to block "malware" (such as non-Microsoft browsers) from changing the default browser, they more they start to emulate malware themselves. 
(I'm sure Nietzsche would have something to say about that...)
"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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What an outrage, and a naked attempt to FORCE people to use edge and bing even against their wishes.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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We often do that... no customer records are created unless they are created by this customer.create().
On top of that we're making this one private and you'll actually have to use the builder pattern if you want a customer object that isn't fully loaded directly from a backing store.
It's 100% reasonable to have a "single point of contact" as a matter of systems design whether that system is even software.
I get the consternation, agitation, exasperation, and irritation of some of their anticompetitive stuff.
Regrettably, those cause collateral damage to what should be totally sane practice on the part of MSFT. Like the whole right not knowing what the left is doing stuff sometimes simply because it was once dictated they shouldn't as a matter of fairness. So fairness dictated we get unbelievable shortcomings in systems interfaces because some genius authoritarian dictated those teams couldn't legally collaborate?
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3D game engines can be built from scratch too, not just graphics cards. It's unclear if it can handle Crysis, but maybe DOOM
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Modular has made the core modules of the standard library for a Mojo programming language based on Python available under an Apache 2 license. For programming in your Mojo Dojo Casa House
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Did they find his mojo? 
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The best C-like language that can be implemented in 10kLOC. Because you need a programming language that sounds like the name of a metal band
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I thought it was somewhere in Wales.
"Cwm Cwerg, the former mining community."
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Now you made me look as it seemed too likely.
“Did you mean ‘Cwrt, Wales’?” Someone sell them a few vowels.
TTFN - Kent
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Double-u is a vowel. Even a double one.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Seems we still have an advantage over AI, for fun I asked the meaning of "Cwerg" and the return was - 
Quote: Unfortunately, I don't have any definitive information on the meaning of the word "cwerg." It doesn't seem to be an English word or term that is in common usage. Without more context about where you encountered this word or what language it may be from, I can't provide a clear explanation of its meaning. If you can provide some additional details about the origin or context of "cwerg," I'd be happy to try to research it further.
This means we still have some control before all the rockets are launched!
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Andre Oosthuizen wrote: This means we still have some control before all the rockets are launched!
Ahah! Cwerg is the password to the launch control system.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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You forgot the 1234 part. 
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Organizations need to also acknowledge and support the human element of DevOps teams. Assuming you have humans on your DevOps teams
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Assuming you have humans on your DevOps teams
So much for considering the management. 
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AI is hungry, and there's not enough data to sate its appetite. They'll have to start training it on AI output
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The company is reportedly focusing on robotics after scrapping its EV ambitions. Danger, danger Will Robinson. You're holding it wrong!
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