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Mommy: "Dear, are you sure that's little Rorschach you see down there?"
Mircea
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That comment is blacker than I ever expected.
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It ain't the fall that kills you, it's that sudden stop!
I don't think before I open my mouth, I like to be as surprised a everyone else.
PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.3.0 JaxCoder.com
Latest Article: SimpleWizardUpdate
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This page presents a "Create an archive" button to download all (?) the browsing data Microsoft has on whatever account you use to log into that page.
The .zip file produced (in my case) contains 4 files:
BrowsingHistory.csv
ProductAndServiceUsage.csv
SearchRequetsAndQuery.csv
UserVisitLocations.csv
Clearly this is private information (and I'm sure MS pinky-swears is only accessible to yourself), but it is rather interesting information.
I've seen scripts before that will export similar data from your local browser (reading it out of local files), but the benefit of getting this data from that location is that the local browser only knows about, well, what you've browsed locally. If you browse from multiple devices, a script to extract that data will only show the subset that was browsed from that device. Whereas the web site above is device-agnostic - this is everything collected across the board.
(Unless that data all gets included when you allow your browser to sync settings - I don't know whether that's the case).
Regardless - my question is:
Has anyone ever written a utility to slice and dice that data? I honestly don't have a specific usage scenario, but I'm thinking this could be interesting. It's trivial enough to parse (it's all CSV, and all columns are self-explanatory), but I wonder if anyone's already put something together to present this in interesting ways...?
I'm otherwise tempted to automate the data retrieval, dumping this into a database, and building reports around this...but as mentioned, I don't have a specific usage scenario right now, and frankly I kinda suck at creating compelling reports, Power BI-style.
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Not me, I have no Microsoft accounts.
The only use I would have would be "I know I saw something somewhere a while back..."
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So, congrats, you're one of the few who has figured out[*] how to set up Windows 10+ without being forced to create/associate with a Microsoft account...
OTOH, I suppose it's entirely possible to create that account, but still explicitly not use it for browsing...or avoid a MS browser altogether...
[*] No need to point me to any resource for doing that, I have a few tricks up my sleeve.
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dandy72 wrote: you're one of the few
Do you really think we are "a few"?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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There's more than "a few" who don't; there's countless articles claiming there's essentially "no way" nowadays to avoid creating a Microsoft account when setting up Windows 10/11...
Maybe it would've been more accurate for me to say he's in the minority.
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dandy72 wrote: BrowsingHistory.csv
Mine only contents a thousand lines :
1. https:
2. bing, leave me alone
3. god dammit bing, not again...
576. Noooo, please, no bing...
894. Bing, for christ's sake, stop firing up at every misclick
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truth.
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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Erm, some of us use Chrome
Paul Sanders.
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter - Blaise Pascal.
Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.
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Then avert your eyes, as someone here used to say...
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But will it work on my phone? 
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Not built into Windows.
Someone needs to port this. If for no other reason that just its name.
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Perhaps we should reimagine the screen saver as "Decaf"?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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When I saw the command and that it exists in /usr/bin/ I went to my MacMini running MacOS Sonoma 14.0 which I hadn't messed with in a few days and I discovered that the MacMini had fell asleep. 
Did you update to Sonoma and this is a "new" feature -- sleeping?
Just curious if that was why you searched out the caffeinate functionality.
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lol. No - I was trying to work out how to parse datetime values from indeterminate timezones using bash.
Next I'll come up with a cure for the Common Cold.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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fail. The best command is "rm -rf /" 
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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An example are the 2 story tall oil tanker diesel engines that burn crude at like 60RPM, or rotary/Wankel engines and such.
Sometimes I think I should have gone into some field where I was building physical things.
I mean, I picked up software when I was little because I didn't have an income to keep supporting building frankenbikes and circuits, nor would they let me weld, but I had a computer.
I build stuff. It's what I do. I'm a coder of circumstance.
Why do you code?
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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honey the codewitch wrote: Why do you code?
It's the only thing I'm half-way good at. Apart from drinking, that is. When I was younger I was also quite good at smoking.
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"It's indoor work with no heavy lifting."
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I should have maybe asked "assuming you enjoy coding, why?"
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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That was genuinely the reason why I started in software: I was ten; I'd never seen a computer, let alone used one; I had no idea at all what was involved in software. And neither did anyone else around me, there was no-one to even ask! The closest my school or public libraries came to books on computers was this: The Computer (Ladybird How It Works Series 654): Amazon.co.uk: Carey Jr., David, Robinson, B.H.: 9780721402864: Books[^] and that wasn't even published until a year after I decided!
But I hated being cold and wet, I hated physical effort. So "indoor work with no heavy lifting" really sounded good!
It took me another eight years to actually meet a computer - ICL 1900 running George III on punched cards (plus 4 terminals for ~400 students) but I've never looked back.
I do still enjoy it!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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