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Wallace and Gromit will be heartbroken.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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Microsoft has released patches to fix zero-day vulnerabilities in two popular open source libraries that affect several Microsoft products, including Skype, Teams and its Edge browser. But Microsoft won’t say if those zero-days were exploited to target its products, or if the company knows either way. {Narrator voice} They probably were
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Probably?
M.D.V. 
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Me, trying to be nice again. 
TTFN - Kent
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Couple of days ago... I FTFH a couple of his comments, he was trying to be nice then and I answered "no problem, we got your back"
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But Microsoft won’t say if those zero-days were exploited to target its products, or if the company knows either way.
Of course not.... their obvious culpability is going to get them on the one radar screen worse than them - the US Congress. MS' security is a joke. Worse, it's a criminal liability.
Want to know when the earthquake will hit? When all s/w makers will be held liable. No more hiding behind the "you agree we have no idea if this will make you vulnerable..." bull$hit.
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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While this has been a hunch for a while among the Windows enthusiast community, a new leak seems to be further providing somewhat solidifying evidence that it could indeed be the case, that Microsoft's next-gen OS, casually referred to as Windows 12, could be a subscription-based OS. How can we get people to stop using Windows, Cloud Edition
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Kent Sharkey wrote: How can we get people to stop using Windows, Cloud Edition
By insisting that this is the year of Linux!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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We are thrilled to announce the general availability of C# Dev Kit, a Visual Studio Code extension that brings an improved editor-first C# development experience to Linux, macOS, and Windows. I hear C# is all the rage in some circles
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Microsoft research says that 80-90 percent of ransomware attacks over the past year originated from unmanaged devices. So BYOD isn't Bring Your Own Drambuie?
How else are you supposed to have Rusty Nails at your desk?
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I thought 50% was because managers clicked in the links or opened the sent annex
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Python Software Foundation survey finds that a significant number of Python developers are still using Python 2 for data analysis, computer graphics, and devops. No one expects a breaking upgrade
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Color me shocked. There are still people who develop in VB6.
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VB6?
Stupid poor boys.
What about COBOL, MUMPS, FORTRAN?
That's where to find the MONEY.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Bernhard Hiller wrote: What about COBOL, MUMPS, FORTRAN?
Fortran programmers of today are not using Fortran IV. If that is what you grew up with, you wouldn't recognize today's Fortran at all as Fortran!
During the academic discussions leading up to Fortran 77, one of the gurus (I don't remember who of them) commented on the proposed extensions: 'I don't know what programming languages will look like in year 2000, but they will be named Fortran.' He certainly was right. Fortran 2003 didn't at all look like 'classical' Fortran, and since then, we have had 20 further years of development, where Fortran has changed a lot more than, say, C++ or C#. A new revision is scheduled before the end of the year. (Scheduled release dates for Fortran revisions have a long history of sliding, though!)
You may still dislike Fortran 2018 as well as the 2023 revisions. But do not confuse Fortran 23 with Fortran IV.
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Over-engineering, as I now understand it, is: Building functionality that is not required. YAGNI (maybe, add it anyway to be safe)
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Quote: I don’t want to ignore the fact that writing simple, easy-to-understand, well-tested code is hard. It’s a skill that i still haven’t mastered, 15 years in.
At least is realistic and honest
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But if we don’t face this difficult challenge now, we’ll end facing the impossible challenge of changing an over-engineered mess.
It could be worse... it could be an overenineered mess coded in vb6 
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Zoom’s selling a cheaper AI package than Microsoft 365 Copilot and Google Duet AI, and soon it can plug into a new ‘modular workspace.’ Before editing documents, you must spend 15 minutes trying to get the audio working
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Before editing documents, you must spend 15 minutes trying to get the audio working
To be honest, the few times I have used it, it just worked.
I have had weirder and more annoying days with teams, definitivelly.
But being fair, I use teams everyday since 2 years ago and Zoom 3 or 4 times a year.
M.D.V.
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Will attacks be as big as those targeting MOVEit? Maybe not, but they still can be plenty bad. Sharing is caring, and also preparing (to be hacked)
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I'm too old for this crap.
How does a 3rd party compromise an operating system?
Answer - bad operating system. Meanwhile Microsoft is busy with elephanting up menus, giving us round icons, and advertisements. Disgraceful, no worse than that, pathetic.
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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Not only can ChatGPT write code, it can read code. On the one hand, that's very helpful. On the other hand, that's truly terrifying. Will it also debug the new code (ad infinitum)?
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Well that person never wrote anything more complicated than "Hello World."
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