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This is the untold true story of a corporate April Fools' prank gone wrong. It's all fun and games until BillG gets annoyed
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No developer would have bought it anyway: imagine pressing the "Brew" button first thing in the morning and having to wait four hours while it updated ... 
"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
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Hilarious.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Rust developers have repeatedly raised concerned about an unaddressed privacy issue over the last few years. So, their coding standards are a little rusty?
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Bleeping Clueless: Interestingly, despite being a privacy risk, the inadvertent inclusion of metadata such as absolute paths may aid computer forensics experts and the law enforcement as the path could reveal system usernames.
This isn't happening despite it being a privacy risk, it's happening because it's a privacy risk. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The particular attack adds malicious GitHub Actions code to repositories forked from legitimate ones, and further creates a Pull Request for the original repository maintainers to merge the code back, to alter the original code. How many bitcoin do you get when you rebase?
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Hackers were reportedly sharing a massive amount of personal Facebook data in January, and now that data appears to have escaped into the wild. Or in other words: Facebook
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Suit alleges stolen intellectual property in IBM AIX, and collusion with RHEL. Some lawsuits never die, they just change owners and try, try again
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
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IA! IA! IA! CODETULU FHTAGN!! IA! IA! IA! CODETULU FHTAGN!! IA! IA! IA!
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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An April Fool joke, surely...?
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markrlondon wrote: An April Fool joke, surely...?
Well, apparently it's not -- at least not as far as I can tell. But this passage from the complaint genuinely reads like a joke:
Quote: As a result of these activities, Xinuos has been excluded from key opportunities in the market. For example, despite Xinuos offering a FreeBSD-based operating system with substantial commercial value for enterprise users, Xinuos was unable to garner as much financial support or customer interest in OpenServer 10 as it could and should have due to the market conditions. Indeed, the market is so distorted that Xinuos has determined that over 70% fewer of its customers are in a position to license its new operating system than would be available in a functioning market. The foreclosing effect on Xinuos is felt by all competitors as well.
Er... surely the key problem is that they were charging money for a general purpose operating system based on FreeBSD when general purpose FreeBSD itself is free.
It is crystal clear that Xinuos's only viable market is (and always has been since they purchased the rights to develop, support and market UnixWare and OpenServer) maintenance and support of existing customer installations of their historical operating system products which have not (yet!) upgraded to Linux or BSD.
As for OpenServer 10 (their FreeBSD-based operating system), they'd have to add something really, really useful to FreeBSD to make it worth paying money for it and it's not clear to me that they ever really did so. No new user would want to pay for FreeBSD if they can get it for free. And existing users of earlier versions of Xinuos's OpenServer would surely want to upgrade to Linux or actual FreeBSD if and when they decided to upgrade.
Indeed, Xinuos is in a difficult position with its small stable of proprietary Unix operating systems. In fact it's the very same situation that IBM is in with AIX. That is to say, closed code development of proprietary Unix is no longer a profitable business compared to open source development of Linux or BSD. Suing IBM and Red Hat won't change that.
modified 2-Apr-21 4:32am.
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UK-based startup Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) has now demonstrated that quantum computers "can learn to reason". So they can give us a reason not to shut them off?
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I've just realised that quantum computers could be the missing link that makes AI properly I (eventually).
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Microsoft has shut down its Cortana app for iOS and Android. It’s the latest in a series of moves to end support for Cortana across multiple devices, including Microsoft’s own Surface Headphones Alexa and Siri say they have alibis. Master Chief had no comment.
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Almost half of IT pros have experienced three to four database-related bottlenecks in the past year. Maybe not use "SELECT *" by default?
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Confirming many other studies, trackers and surveys, a new open source project tracker lists Microsoft's Visual Studio Code as the top code editor, clocking in at No. 11 on the list of most popular and fastest-growing GitHub projects. vim users would ask for a recount, but they're still trying to exit the program
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Canonical has released a Community Preview of Ubuntu on Windows as "a sandbox for experimenting with new features and functionality" on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2. And then you can run Windows inside of Virtual Box inside of WSL for full OSception
Maybe get some OSX in there too...
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Microsoft's Don Box has had a long and winding career during his past 19 years at the company. He's moving on to a new (and for now, unspecified) new gig. But COM is still love
Probably not of interest to most, but maybe to a few old-timers (Hi, Chris!). Also, if you need someone to blame for most of the complexity of SOAP, WCF and other stuff. That would go in this Box.
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he got tired of icons ?
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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For a moment I thought he'd died and had a small heart attack.
I'm just glad he's moved on from XML.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Researchers have demonstrated just how easy it is to trick the mind into remembering something that didn’t happen. I remember participating in this study
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Coming next: Total recall, to have your holidays in Mars being a spy without getting out of your living room... oh, wait 
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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Now that's really scary. As I said to Queen Victoria this afternoon. Err.... that's right, isn't it?
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I suffer from false implanted memories all the time...
...if my wife is to be believed.
".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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So victim's statements, eyewitness reports, and court testimony are now just as reliable as deep-fake videos and doctored photos. While undoubtedly a technical triumph, this strikes me as the kind of thing that should have been left in the realm of science fiction.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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