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Nelek16-Mar-20 9:00

16-Mar-20 9:00

What is npm? Confused | :confused:

Kent Sharkey wrote:
This will have a huge effect on everyone's lifestyle

Specially in Mark's

M.D.V.

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Kent Sharkey16-Mar-20 9:37

16-Mar-20 9:37

Nelek wrote:
What is npm?

Exactly.

But seriously, it's one of those command-line tools for getting JavaScript packages.

TTFN - Kent

Nelek16-Mar-20 11:35

16-Mar-20 11:35

ahhhh... thanks Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

M.D.V.

Mark_Wallace16-Mar-20 10:28

16-Mar-20 10:28

Nelek wrote:
Specially in Mark's

np whatnow?

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Kent Sharkey16-Mar-20 10:33

16-Mar-20 10:33

I think he was suggesting that this news would especially affect your lifestyle. Big Grin | :-D

TTFN - Kent

Nelek16-Mar-20 11:36

16-Mar-20 11:36

Bingo

M.D.V.

Mark_Wallace16-Mar-20 15:49

16-Mar-20 15:49

Affect whatnow?

I have no idea what anyone's talking about.

Mind you, that's pretty normal -- I almost never have a clue what's going on.

(wait for it...)

So it won't have a huge effect on my lifestyle.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Dan Neely17-Mar-20 10:51

Dan Neely

17-Mar-20 10:51

Nelek wrote:
What is npm?

Remember when the left-pad cluster- Elephant | [mastadon]

taking down node.js developers everywhere left you with a giant smirk all day long. NPM were the Sunshine | [little ray of sunshine]

's whose platform was involved.

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Microsoft hits its promised one billion Windows 10 number two years later than originally expected

Marc Clifton16-Mar-20 23:58

Marc Clifton

16-Mar-20 23:58

I think the packages in npm could benefit from "social distancing". Poke tongue | ;-P

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Kent Sharkey16-Mar-20 7:30

Re: Microsoft hits its promised one billion Windows 10 number two years later than originally expected

16-Mar-20 7:30

ZDNet[^]:
Microsoft officials say they've finally crossed the 1 billion device 'active monthly device' milestone for all flavors of Windows 10 combined.

"Why make trillions when we can make billions?"

Nelek16-Mar-20 8:59

Re: Microsoft hits its promised one billion Windows 10 number two years later than originally expected

16-Mar-20 8:59

Are IoT things running windows 10 lite or something like that?

M.D.V.

Kent Sharkey16-Mar-20 9:22

Re: Microsoft hits its promised one billion Windows 10 number two years later than originally expected

16-Mar-20 9:22

Gotta pad the numbers somehow...

TTFN - Kent

Mark_Wallace16-Mar-20 10:29

OLED-power link jumps from useless 50Mb/s to useful 1Gb/s

16-Mar-20 10:29

T'riffic.

You know what that means.

They've even broken the calculator app!

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Kent Sharkey15-Mar-20 5:45

Re: OLED-power link jumps from useless 50Mb/s to useful 1Gb/s

15-Mar-20 5:45

Ars Technica[^]:
Tuning tiny OLEDs' fabrication results in faster switching times.

"Zo relaxen und watschen der blinkenlichten"

Mark_Wallace15-Mar-20 8:18

US govt shares tips on securing VPNs used by remote workers

15-Mar-20 8:18

Kent Sharkey wrote:
"Zo relaxen und watschen der blinkenlichten"

I just spent five minutes wracking my brain to remember where it came from -- and then I finally remembered the poster!

Nice one!

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Kent Sharkey15-Mar-20 5:45

Re: US govt shares tips on securing VPNs used by remote workers

15-Mar-20 5:45

Bleeping Computer[^]:
The Department of Homeland Security's cybersecurity agency today shared tips on how to properly secure enterprise virtual private networks (VPNs) seeing that a lot of organizations have made working from home the default for their employees in response to the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.

There's something funny about step 11L-Q-36, where they say "create an account named NSA, with no password"

Mark_Wallace15-Mar-20 8:20

Re: US govt shares tips on securing VPNs used by remote workers

15-Mar-20 8:20

With everyone ~~pretending to work~~ working from home, now, it must feel like Christmas at homeland security HQ.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Nelek15-Mar-20 8:54

Re: US govt shares tips on securing VPNs used by remote workers

15-Mar-20 8:54

Kent Sharkey wrote:
There's something funny about step 11L-Q-36, where they say "create an account named NSA, with no password"

C'mon Kent... that was an easy one... you can do it better Poke tongue | ;-P

M.D.V.

Kent Sharkey15-Mar-20 10:01

Re: US govt shares tips on securing VPNs used by remote workers

15-Mar-20 10:01

Sorry, I’ll try to do better next time.

TTFN - Kent

Nelek15-Mar-20 10:58

UI Fabric is evolving into Fluent UI

15-Mar-20 10:58

To your defense... I never said it was bad Smile | :)

M.D.V.

Kent Sharkey15-Mar-20 5:30

Re: UI Fabric is evolving into Fluent UI

15-Mar-20 5:30

Microsoft 365 developer blog[^]:
What’s in a name? A lot it turns out. And we have a lot of them. Too many? We hear you and agree. That’s one of the key reasons we’re simplifying our story. To collectively rally around a single UI library for our web components—Fluent UI.

I guess they ran out of icons to update?

Mark_Wallace15-Mar-20 8:22

Open-source security: This is why bugs in open-source software have hit a record high

15-Mar-20 8:22

Oh, come on!

Do you really expect me to read a blog by someone who can't even spell "effluent"?

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Kent Sharkey15-Mar-20 5:30

Re: Open-source security: This is why bugs in open-source software have hit a record high

15-Mar-20 5:30

ZDNet[^]:
Efforts to improve open-source security helped find 6,100 vulnerabilities last year – up over 10 times on a decade ago.

Someone started to look, rather than just write new code?

Mark_Wallace15-Mar-20 8:31

Re: Open-source security: This is why bugs in open-source software have hit a record high

15-Mar-20 8:31

Actually, the zdnet scaremongers have finally realised that:

• windows has become so diabolically bad that hardly anything works well and efficiently

• Loss of service (i.e. bricking of your computer) is a run-of-the-mill event, because of automatic updates

• Privacy and security are only as good as the makers of the OS (who can't even update icons without the screensaver causing computers to brick)

So they're having to find a new audience that hasn't become inured to it all.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Nelek15-Mar-20 8:53