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"I'll take the blue pill for $800, Alex!"
Software Zen: delete this;
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Microsoft Word for Windows is picking up a major improvement to its dark mode implementation: Soon, the writing canvas will be dark as well. Once you go dark, you'll never format as Heading 4? (I really need to work on that one)
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To hell those godamn dark modes! 
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We're shouting at the clouds, I'm afraid... 
TTFN - Kent
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Creating truly convincing digital humans is hard. Unreal, indeed
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The most effective managers have used the past 12 months to support new remote-working practices with Agile leadership styles. This is what two digital leaders have learnt from the experience - and here's how you can benefit. Isn't that what they used to call, "by the seat of your pants"?
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By the seat of your customer's pants?
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Even though I'm a nobody where I work I've read several books on leadership. This is by far the best, Turn the Ship Around![^]. It tells the true story of how David Marquet took the USS Santa Fe from the lowest rated submarine in the U.S. fleet to the highest rated vessel in U.S. Naval history.
And he did it by doing the opposite of what the U.S. Navy teaches their officers, and what most managers would never do, by giving up control. It talks about his frustrations, his disappointments, his failures, and successes.
As one person put it, if the leader-leader model can work in the most stringent of organizations (U.S. Navy nuclear submarine fleet), if it can work at the GE Equipment Repair that was failing, it can work in any organization at any level.
"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos
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This blog post will demonstrate how to build a system file watcher as a Windows service that runs in the background, and classifies images using WinML "Be our guest! Be our guest! Put our service to the test"
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Hmm. The boilerplate code to make a service seems a whole lot more complex and verbose than what I used in .NET 3.5.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Not to mention that every service written in .Net core comes with at least an extra 5mb footprint.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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New "dependency confusion" technique, also known as a "substitution attack," allows threat actors to sneak malicious code inside private code repositories by registering internal library names on public package indexes. You mean downloading random blobs of code from random developers might be a bad idea?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: You mean downloading random blobs of code from random developers might be a bad idea?
Joking aside, yes, this is a bad idea.
Yes, I know it's how more and more languages and ecosystems work. It's still a really bad idea.
I'm learning about TypeScript at the moment via the book 'Learn TypeScript 3 by Building Web Applications'. It seems to me like a good introduction to TypeScript. It begins by describing how to set up a dev environment to match the author's one. Installing one or two packages in Node (I forget which ones now) pulls in some unbelievable number of other packages. (If you really want to know I'll get the names and numbers).
This is absurd. I don't care that it's normal now. It's still absurd. It's dangerous, it's not properly maintainable (by which I mean that the coder doesn't really know what his codebase is), it's a mess.
Back in the 90s, componentised code was seen as a future way forward, although the components were expected to be runtime consumer components that users could purchase and plug together. This didn't quite work out but now we've got dev components on a level that no one expected. It just evolved. And it's dangerous.
There has to be a way forward from this. There's a lot of money to be made by someone who finds a way to catalogue and audit it all, moving it from what amounts to random code generation to actual, traceable, properly maintainable code.
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Thank you.
I was 3/4 convinced that people would be telling me I was an idiot for complaining about npm/winget/gem/the-rest. I'm glad to know I'm not the only one that this gives indigestion to.
Especially after the "leftpad debacle[^]", I'd have hoped that people would step back from this process, not lean into it further. 
TTFN - Kent
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Yes, I was thinking of the leftpad thing. It's amazing that the issue is not more common. Perhaps it is more common but pure deletions are way less common than insertion of (silent) malicious code. Problem is, we just don't know for sure.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I was 3/4 convinced that people would be telling me I was an idiot for complaining about npm/winget/gem/the-rest. I'm glad to know I'm not the only one that this gives indigestion to.
No you are not alone in this.
Quartz article end: Mike Roberts, from Kik, said in an interview that he regretted not reaching out to Koçulu himself in the first place. ”From my perspective,” he said, “open-source, the community, is about helping each other out.”
First step: a lawyer asking
Second step: a lawyer threatening
Third step: a lawyer trying to buy
Fourth Step: a lawyer threatening even harder but to someone else
Fifth Step: Screwing the little private person
everything blows up
A manager of the triggering company says "he regrets not reaching out in the first time" ???
really?   C'mon... we are already old enough to now that this is utterly bullsh1t and dictated by the PR to try to give a "not do evil" impression
NPM: “Un-un-publishing is an unprecedented action that we’re taking given the severity and widespread nature of breakage, and isn’t done lightly,”
This action puts the wider interests of the community of npm users at odds with the wishes of one author; we picked the needs of the many.”
After putting the interests of a company over the copyright of one author that was there first, that surprisingly doesn't have the resources or the desire to have to fight for it.
They should both get sued for being assh... and npm should be forced to recompile everything repairing the mess without overrunning the author's right to do what he wants with his code / package.
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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Of course, the real problem here is that you can be bitten by this even if you have no intention of downloading random blobs of code from random developers. You could just be trying to consume packages from your responsibly-curated private Azure Artifacts repo (for example), and this attack can surreptitiously insert random code because the package manager (for some stupid reason) prioritizes random public packages from an upstream source over your internal ones unless you take ridiculous measures to prevent it.
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LaserFactory cuts out a shape, then adds circuitry and components. Now just hook it up to SkyNet and we can relax...
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Don't be so paranoiac... they are not armed...
yet.   
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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The C#/WinRT team is excited to announce our latest release, which includes a preview of C#/WinRT authoring with the latest C#/WinRT NuGet package, as well as updates to the .NET 5.0 SDK with the .NET February update. For those few C# developers targeting Windows
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Favicons can break through incognito mode, VPNs, and Pi-holes to track your movement online Is it a tart? A flan? No, it's SUPERcookie!
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Quote: The tracking method is called a Supercookie, and it’s the work of German software designer XXX YYY.
Really? I suppose this guy is trying to get recruited by G00gle or Farcebo0k...
or maybe he is tired of living...
Because I suppose that some people would even like to have him face to face, specially those depending on some of those technologies to remain as much private as one could be (until now )
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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This post will discuss the unique combination of features that Scala provides and how it compares to other languages on the market, diving beneath the superficial experience to explore the fundamentals of the language. Because one leg is both the same?
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A recent survey commissioned by IBM and conducted by O’Reilly highlights the need for open source skills in the competitive field of hybrid cloud development. Yup - that's source code. A+ for me!
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field of hybrid cloud development.
What's that? A mix of stratus, cirrus, cumulus, altostratus, stratocumulus, altocumulus, cirrocumulus, nimbostratus, ...and the list goes on... cloud types?
Seriously, I have no idea what "hybrid cloud development" means. 
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