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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?
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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?
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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
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I should have maybe asked "assuming you enjoy coding, why?"
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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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OriginalGriff wrote: I was ten;
I was eight! *fellow kiddie coder fist bump*
OriginalGriff wrote: '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!
Right? Heck, sometimes I still feel like there's nobody to ask!
OriginalGriff wrote: The closest my school or public libraries came to books on computers was this
I had the benefit of a small amount of material at public libraries, plus periodicals a little later on like CUJ.
OriginalGriff wrote: But I hated being cold and wet, I hated physical effort. So "indoor work with no heavy lifting" really sounded good!
SAME!
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Wow, had to think back.
It was summer break and I was in fifth grade. The school was offering special summer programs. My family was struggling to make end's meet and so dad was working extra hours and weekends. Summer vacations were not even thought of (maybe a day trip to a fair or the Jersey shore). There was a computer course offered by one of the large computer companies of the day (I think it was DEC). The cost was low enough that we could afford it. It turned out to be a course in Machine Level Language programming. We covered the logical parts of the computer (arithmetic, logic, control, input, output). We learned the binary language of the opcode instructions. How to structure a solution to a problem as a series of input, process, output blocks. How to code branches by calculating the number of bytes to jump to reach another part of the code. This was real head scratching ones and zeros stuff, but hell, what did we know. We were just kids making a machine do things. If was fun! The person teaching the course was the head of a research division located in a business park about an hour from our school. So as a treat (for the last class), he arranged to have a van pick us up and take us to the research facility to get a tour of the latest machines they were working on and to bring a small program we wrote (limited to no more than 100 steps of machine code) to be run at the facility. While he took us on a tour of the latest machines (big bulky desk like machines that had attached drum storage that looked like a refrigerator turned on it's side). These machines could do word processing, spreadsheets, accounting journal entries, and other business functions without the need for a bulky mainframe. They were on the bleeding edge of technology. He then took us to a special part of the building where they had an old vacuum tube computer in a display museum. He crossed his fingers and had the old computer powered up.(tubes had a tendency to fail regularly). The machine had 4K of memory and a punched tape reader and teletype output. The operator used switches on the front to load the paper tape reading program (about a dozen commands). While we were touring an assistant had keyed our programs into the paper tapes. I was nervous as they took my program on tape and fed it into the reader. It read half of it and then stopped. The operator took the tape out, reentered the reader program through the switches and tried again. This time it read the entire tape. The tubes in the machine seemed to flicker a bit and the teletype began to print out the result. I checked the number and it matched my hand calculation of the expected result. The gusting cold air, the heat of the glowing tubes, the smell of hot wiring, the electrical hum. It was sheer magic. I was hooked.
I would not get to work with another computer until my freshman year of college.
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Pretty much same as Richard: every time I do something else than coding I thank gods I didn't have to earn a living doing that. Would have been painful for me and those around me
Mircea
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