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Facing calls from regulators to open the gates to alternative app stores and sideloaded apps on the iPhone, Apple has launched a substantial public-relations push this week to make the case that sideloading would do harm to the iOS ecosystem and its users. Insert 1984 joke here.
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I'm guessing sideloading would harm the iOS ecosystem 30%.
(Apple may have trade in their Cash Cow to a slightly smaller Cash Cow.)
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GitHub is rolling out new features for the most-used online code repository on the market. Watch out, Azure DevOps?
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Software development is a creative process, understanding this helps everyone involved in project plans is likely to change. You cannot have a fixed plan for changing requirements and a software which needs to be accepted by the users. Where are you on a scale from toddler to Picasso?
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I've worked on software which seemed a cross between Picasso and Pollock.
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John McAfee, the controversial antivirus software magnate who'd had multiple recent run-ins with the US law, has died at 75. You're probably thinking, "some sort of virus got him."
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I'm thinking he used the product bearing his name.
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It sounds like his virus scan detected Covid and quarantined him and later deleted him.
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, the University of Naples Federico II, the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Porter School of the Environment and Earth Sciences has found that making food from air would be far more efficient than growing crops. Take your protein pills and put your helmet on.
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Awesome!
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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You take your protein pills; I want a medium steak with baked potatoes.
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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Quote: that uses solar energy panels to make electricity, which is combined with carbon dioxide from the air to produce food for microbes grown in a bioreactor.
Sounds like Frankenstein's monster but really teeny-weeny in size.
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Quantum computers still require large, dedicated rooms and complex installations, but now, in a new step towards bringing the technology out of the lab, researchers have designed a prototype quantum computer that is compact enough to fit in ordinary data center racks. If this thing works it will put us right up there with the invention of electricity … first man in space.
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Pro-privacy browser Brave, which has been testing its own brand search engine for several months — operating a waitlist where brave (ha!) early adopters could kick the tyres of an upstart alternative in internet search — has now launched the tool, Brave Search, in global beta. At last I can search "how to kill child, fork, python" in peace.
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Many organizations are now relying on voice assistant systems to handle enquiries, but just as with other forms of information it's important to protect the consumer and the proprietary data that flows through voice. Siri, what is "jealousy?"
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The Internet Security Research Group (ISRG)—parent organization of the better-known Let's Encrypt project—has provided prominent developer Miguel Ojeda with a one-year contract to work on Rust in Linux and other security efforts on a full-time basis. The simplest way to avoid C-language coding traps is to avoid coding in C.
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By the end of 2024, passengers on the London Underground will have mobile reception across the entire network of stations and tunnels, London’s mayor Sadiq Khan has announced. At last, my candy can be crushed while on the Tube.
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Frank McCourt, the billionaire real estate mogul and former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, is pouring $100 million into an attempt to rebuild the foundations of social media. We're gonna need a bigger mop.
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Well it sounded like an intriguing idea right up until "blockchain" at which point I facepalmed hard enough I'm probably concussed. Setting aside legal issues with non-deletability (*cough*GDPR*cough*RTBF*cough*) of personal data - and who you associate with is highly personal and thus would qualify in any sane world - having an undeletable or even unobfuscatable record of who you associated with in the past would cause all kinds of problems with how social media is actually used in the real world.
Remember that person you used to be friends with years ago that went crazy/toxic to the point that you cut all contact with them will be burned into an undeletable record in a database that needs to be publicly accessible to work providing easily available ammo to anyone who wants to vilify you in a witch hunt because obviously you'd never have associated yourself with the toxic nutjob if you weren't as horrible as person as they were. Unlike with current services where you can unfriend them, and go back deleting everything you publicly posted about them making it much harder for anyone trying to cause trouble to link you together because they'd be limited to trying to find screenshots of deleted messages; with failchain the record saying you and toxic nutjob were friends will exist from now until the end of time.
Having a single shared DB will also make it much harder if not impossible to keep different circles of contacts separate, or to avoid people you no longer want to have anything to do with. ex one of Google's failed social projects that went through old gmail history and automatically friended people with their exes, abusers, stalkers, etc.
In conclusion, I would need to make a  of 's and then pasted several copies of it one below the next to express how awful this idea would be.
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
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Due in part to travel embargos, limited access to educational loans, and delays in student visa processing, U.S. colleges and universities are observing significant declines in graduate-level enrollments in computer and information science this year. Do you hear that? It sounds like a cash register. CA-CHING!
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Some researchers suspect these bacterial ancestors living within our cells may contribute to a wide range of neurological and psychiatric disorders Move over, Mom. I have something else to blame.
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Google may be working on turning Android phones into a hivemind capable of finding lost devices, similar to Apple’s Find My network They're calling it Pandora's Box.
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If you're working with large amounts of data, you've likely heard about high-cardinality or ran into issues relating to it. This article explains what cardinality is and why it crops up often with databases of all types.
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Although I suspect the performance impact will be minuscule on average6, this surprise still serves as a reminder that raw CPU performance can silently change due to microcode updates and most Linux distributions and modern Windows have these updates enabled by default. Now that you mention it ...
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Practical quantum computers may be decades away – but the race to build them is already tackling thorny global problems, and unlocking the secrets of the universe Forty-two.
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