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Yeah, good luck with that one. I’m pretty sure the number of folk at the company that know what NNTP is are few & far between.
TTFN - Kent
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Messagetap monitored telco's network for messages sent between high-value targets. Time for third thoughts about SMS authentication
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A little over 21 million login credentials stolen from Fortune 500 companies have been found in various places on the dark web, many of them already cracked and available in plaintext form. Hopefully: you are not here
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I suppose is time to revisit "haveibeenpwnd"
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Artificial intelligence is likely to change how every job is performed, eliminating work related to repetitive tasks but increasing the need for creative thinkers, according to a new study. Because that's the one thing IBM knows a lot about: creativity
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Because that's the one thing IBM knows a lot about: creativity
According to another previous post by you about them... they are pretty good at it.
They are still finding new, very creative ways to screw it up  
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Confidence in our power over machines also makes us guilty of hoping to bend reality to our code "I'll just put this code in here as a temporary fix."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "I'll just put this code in here as a temporary fix."
which is the source of my most hated explanation when asking for something about legacy things:
"historically grown"   (probably a bad translation of the german expression "historisch gewachsen")
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Just leave alone for now and we will take care of that later
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RIPE, which manages IP address distribution for a large part of the world, has updated its address space chart showing how many addresses are left. It is clear that unless something unexpected happens RIPE will run out of addresses in November. again/still
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Kent Sharkey wrote: There really are no more IPv4 addresses
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RIPE, which manages IP address distribution
I had firstly read R.I.P.4 and thought... how appropriate  
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What lessons can we learn from old code that becomes unkillable? Fortunately, it's not capable of eating brains
Apologies a'plenty for posting an item from Medium. I really don't like their policies on that sign-up popup. But I figured this was appropriate for the season.
Also, so I could mea culpa - parts of an Access e-commerce app I worked on may still be in use by two governments around the world. Sorry to any Canadians or Bermudans that bought a government document a few decades ago.
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MS Access is the program that re-aimed my career from Systems Engineer to Application Development 20 years ago.
Where I was at the time was a company that used Access (97) for a lot of the department tasks; and building off of these small apps taught me a lot of VBA. VBA led me to Classic ASP. Classic ASP led me to C#. And yes I migrated from Access to SQL.
Another side effect of using VBA within Access was that I became well versed in using ADO and Stored Procedures. I have very little use for Entity Framework because of it
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The Google-owned AI lab’s more sophisticated software, still called AlphaStar, is now grandmaster level in the real-time strategy game, capable of besting 99.8 percent of all human players in competition. The one thing we want AI to know: how to do a Zerg rush
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The one thing we want AI to know: how to do a Zerg rush
Einstein already told it...
Quote: Two things are infinite: The universe and human stupidity, but I am not sure about the first one.
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...and that's why I still prefer original StarCraft. StarCraft II spent too much effort on fancy graphics.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: I still prefer original StarCraft
Still active here too. Broodwar Ed FTW
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Many new and sought-after Windows APIs and features such as BackgroundTasks, Notifications, LiveTiles, Share and more, are either not available or not easily callable from non-packaged Win32 applications. What an idea: let the Win32 devs access the Windows API.
Horrible title for the post though...
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Factory resets aren't helping. Neither are mobile antivirus solutions. Malware keeps reinstalling itself. I guess it's a good thing carriers have all those 'free' phones?
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So you’re trying to sign off or shut down, but you get a message saying that some program named “G” is preventing you. What’s going on? Who is this mysterious “G” program? The 'G' program is responsible for many 'F' words being uttered
Because text-encoding will always come back to haunt us (moreso than datetime and timezones)
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Microsoft's plan to try to undo some of its past missteps around its Windows app development strategy is moving ahead. This time, they're absolutely, positively, getting it 100% rihgt.
After all, "the third version is always the one you want."
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0) Everyone avoided UWP the first time MS announced it, because nobody wanted a phone interface on their freakin desktops, so...
1) Why not get it implemented for Win32 FIRST, so that we can start porting all of our legacy code to it?
2) How long before they decide WinUI isn't good/hip/modern enough, and change everything again?
3) It seems like every 10 years, they change major stuff that forces everyone to learn something new. And employers wonder why programmers cost so much. It's because not only do we have to learn the new stuff, but we also have to know the old stuff so we can port old stuff to "the new way" when someone in management wants to pretend he/she is relevant.
4) I really despise this industry sometimes...
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We’ve just released our 0.12 release of PowerToys on GitHub. We’ve gotten tons of great feedback and suggestions from the community and want to directly say thank you to everyone. Now with even more toys (well, one more)
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PowerRename looks easy what will probably make it popular, but for advanced users nothing to do against BulkRename, one of the (if not the) best tool(s) I have ever seen for this task
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The January end-of-support deadline for Windows 7 is fast approaching. Here's a rundown of some of the issues companies should keep in mind as that date draws near. "It's the end of the world as we know it"
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