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We're making the GitHub experience better beyond the browser with two releases—a new release of Atom with Git and GitHub Integration and the new GitHub Desktop Beta, completely redesigned on Electron. These releases will help you work more productively, wherever you work best with a streamlined experience across platforms. For those that don't like that icky CLI
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The hacking tool, developed by the US National Security Agency and called EsteemAudit, has been adapted and is now available for criminal use, according to security analysts. Gee, thanks for keeping us secure.
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Hackers prime second classified US cyber weapon | afr.com[^]
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
modified 16-May-17 12:05pm.
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Here's a link[^] that's not to a subscription page.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Hopefully the folks that believed that Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc... should simply crack their own security measures for law enforcement now see the error of their ways.
Once a crack exists - it will be exploited by crooks. PERIOD.
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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God Bless America!
I can't help but wonder if Fatty Kim III is the better option.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You know what really surprised me about this whole WannaCry ransomware problem? No, not how quickly it spread. Not the breadth of organisations it took offline either and no, not even that so many of them hadn't applied a critical patch that landed a couple of months earlier. Discuss
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Agreed, unfortunately MS has a image problem with Windows Update, and they've not solved it.
What is worst is that technically minded people are still perpetuating a lot of BS about Windows Update.
Windows 10 update has very few issues, it doesn't interrupt, it doesn't bug. Maybe if you never restart your PC you might have a few more issues, but for the vast majority you will hardly notice it doing its job.
Even the latest creators update was clear and straightforward, you couldn't really tell it basically done an whole OS update.
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Even if it does occasionally cause issues with a handful of machines..
a) Most are fine.
b) Those that aren't are eventually fixed.
c) It's still better than taking out whole sections of the internet and it's repercussions on society (e.g. hospitals shut down).
I do wonder about the wisdom of connecting absolutely everything to the internet though (IoT, we all know what's coming). The loss of the F35 designs to Chinese hackers was obvious stupidity. Seems to be the trend these days.
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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cjb110 wrote: Windows 10 update has very few issues
and one of its issues is that the update service is prone to jumping on its hamster wheel and burning 100% of CPU forever.
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One (Microsoft) must be blind, deft and totally ignorant not to understand the reasons of closing the door for updates... However to blame it on those ignorant IT and other end users is fits the picture...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: One (Microsoft) must be blind, deft and totally ignorant not to understand the reasons of closing the door for updates..
I'm with you on this.
Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: However to blame it on those ignorant IT and other end users is fits the picture...
One has a choice: Install updates, or don't. Anyways, whoever makes a decision must take the blame if it turns out to be wrong, or even worse: malicious. We're frequently ranting about higherups who decide, and then still blame us if their decision was wrong. MS is in the same boat: Others decide, and if their decision was wrong MS gets the blame.
I only have a signature in order to let @DalekDave follow my posts.
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Marco Bertschi (SFC) wrote: One has a choice: Install updates, or don't
Exactly!
It should be (as it always was) Choose which updates, after consultation and testing.
The last "security" update to ms office included GUI changes, and changes to language libraries.
Like %$@# those are security requirements!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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New report describes what an average IT pro looks like, and uncovers some troubling issues. Because they're doing the work for the other three?
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The other 75% were opioid abusers.
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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Today it was 4, but that is a U.S. government job.
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Researchers at the University of Bristol built a wearable that translates facial expression into ultrasonic words that can be heard up to 30 meters away. "Read my lips."
modified 15-May-17 17:43pm.
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New technology may do for audio recordings of the human voice what word processing software did for the written word. The software, named VoCo, provides an easy means to add or replace a word in an audio recording of a human voice by editing a transcript of the recording. New words are automatically synthesized in the speaker's voice even if they don't appear anywhere else in the recording. They can finally fix that Neil Armstrong recording
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Those who worry about automation and robots taking over their jobs can find a different assessment in a May report from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. It's too late for me, but you should be safe
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CodeCorrect was presented as a way to fix errors developers run into while they’re writing code. If only there were another way to fix common errors in your code!
The hack works by inserting a piece of JavaScript in your web code that reroutes uncaught exceptions to a local node.js web server. From there, the code sends a request to StackOverflow’s API to search for error messages and return the highest-ranked solutions to user-submitted questions. Answers are extracted from the StackOverflow, and if they can automatically be converted into instructions, changes will be made to the original code.
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I'm still waiting for Visual Studio to auto-correct that one missing semicolon. When it already knows exactly at what position it is.
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Smart K8 wrote: I'm still waiting for Visual Studio to auto-correct that one missing semicolon. When it already knows exactly at what position it is.
Sometimes is it not better to show people their mistakes so they can learn from them?
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I've learned and laughed in the first hundred cases. I just want it auto-repaired now. I've wanted it since Turbo Pascal. I'm not talking about all the errors, just this one. Nothing like hitting run, watching it build and then VS shows me exactly what's the problem, where is it and that I should remove that blasted semicolon. "Thanks VS, I know, I just missed it, alright?" 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: and if they can automatically be converted into instructions, changes will be made to the original code.
That's exactly what I want!! When I make a boo boo in my code I want it to go download code from the internet and replace it in my code without telling me. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Bruce Sterling's been playing with a stack of hand-punched cardboard cards created in 1840 by Charles Babbage as a kind of vaporware app for his never-built Analytical Engine; they were intended to placed in a revolving "six-sided prism." He delayed the release to port it to the Unreal engine
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