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Kent Sharkey wrote: Agreed. It was fun (and funny) the first few (dozen) times, but now I just feel like I'm hitting myself.
No you aren't.
Besides the ones that should be hitting the head against the desk (and pretty hard by the way) are they at Microsoft.
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Fed up with the DRM in a General Electric refrigerator that pushed the owner to buy expensive manufacturer-approved replacement water filters, an anonymous hacker went to the trouble of buying a domain name and setting up a website at gefiltergate.com to pen a screed about appliance digital rights restriction management (DRM) and how to bypass it. Please insert disk one to continue using "your" fridge
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Have they already been sued? It would surprise me if not...
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Thanks to "internet of things" companies that prioritized profits over consumer privacy and the safety of the internet, we're now facing a security and privacy dumpster fire that many experts believe will, sooner or later, result in even bigger security and privacy headaches than we're seeing today. Contains 23% of the daily requirement of WTF?! and 50% of 'you're kidding'?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Thanks to "internet of things" companies that prioritized profits over consumer privacy and the safety of the internet,
Thanks to the internet of things?
As if the big ones were not already doing a good job against privacy and security without IoT.
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Another label to ignore.
(One day I'm going to buy something and discover it's nothing but labels.)
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Microsoft’s explanation of Project Reunion was not clear to many developers. Developers had doubts about whether Project Reunion is an application model like UWP or is it a new packaging or isolation model. "Come together right now"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Microsoft’s explanation of Project Reunion was not clear to many developers. Developers had doubts about whether Project Reunion is an application model like UWP or is it a new packaging or isolation model.
The big question is... which developers needed the explanation?
Seeing how things go lately in M$ I think it could be the internal ones 
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modified 15-Jun-20 14:15pm.
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It's really a painful reunion... I would not want to attend...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Feedback from 19,696 developers whom we surveyed in the beginning of 2020 helped us identify the latest trends around tools, technologies, programming languages, and many other exciting facets of the development world. You are here
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That, to me, looks like a survey of JetBrains users, with statistics one may expect from such a survey.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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That 93.4% of the statistics are made up and the other 60% are not to be trusted?
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Open source is a great way for a developer to build her personal brand--it turns out it's good for employers, too. So make sure you have your best Salvador Dali moustache on when you submit a pull request
meh. I've done better. I obviously need to do more work on open source to get more creative.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I obviously need to do more work on open source to get more creative.
Really? I don't think so. Anyone can have a bad day, but your usual level is magnificent 
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Thank you, you are too kind.
TTFN - Kent
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Since the release of the Windows 10 1903/1909 KB4535996 and Windows 10 2004 KB4557957 cumulative updates, Windows users have been reporting that they receive errors that programs are missing when they attempt to launch them. Sadly, Windows Update not one of the affected programs
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Sadly, Windows Update not one of the affected programs
See? (coming from answer above)
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You'r not launching them the right way....
Caveat Emptor.
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Over the past few months, a new wave of bitcoin ransom scam has been reported which targets website owners by claiming their sites to be hacked and asking 1500 – 3000 USD worth of bitcoins. Hackers too lazy to even bother hacking the site before asking for money? Where is the world going to?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Hackers too lazy to even bother hacking the site before asking for money? Where is the world going to?
They are not hackers, they are scammers... Hackers do the job and say noone, since they got more profit about secretism and screwing you up or using you to bring them to another better place than blackmailing you.
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GitHub getting on board legitimizes movement aimed at removing racially-charged language from software. However, their second choice of 'slaveowner' may not be much better.
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If the word "master" makes you think of slavery that happened over 100 years ago (i.e. no one alive now was alive then) the problem may be you...
Is this something that seriously offends black people or is this just some white people trying to overcompensate?
Personally, I think the word "black" (as in a person) is way more racist because these people aren't even black!
They're various shades of brown, but maybe I'm not allowed to say that because it's racist, I don't know.
At this point, "inclusivity" doesn't even make sense anymore.
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What if my connotation of "master" in the sense of code branches was that of Sensei?
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Oh good grief. Soon language will be like this:
In the biased view of the individual who has commonality to all of the human species but not implying superiority to other life forms such as animals and trees, because all individual views are biased as not being shared necessarily by the common (not to imply ordinary) group, the replacement of words (which are recognized by many [not to imply superiority]) as being biased in their multiple meanings (which are not known to everyone, again not to imply inferiority or superiority) is, (warning, emotive statement follows, reader discretion is advised) absurd.
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Technique allows for real-time listening in on a room hundreds of feet away. You know what I have to say about that? Flickery-flicky flash flash flicky-flicker
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