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For 16 years, CCleaner has been a popular computer system cleaning and optimization tool, known for efficiently removing unwanted files, programs and accumulated digital fragments from users' hard drives. How else can they shovel more stuff into the product if you keep cleaning it
It is called "Microsoft Defender", after all (Part 2 for today)
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I use the free version of CCleaner. But when updating it, I sometimes forget to uncheck the "install Chrome" option and then have to explicitly uninstall it afterwards. Very annoying, and this is what Windows is now taking issue with.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It is called "Microsoft Defender", after all (Part 2 for today)
One of the best marketing strategy...
Improve the product, make the users trust him and then change the policies when the market share is big (how many people have said, defender is so good lately that I have no other product?)
Microsoft Defender...
Old meaning: Defender done by Microsoft
New meaning: Defender of Microsoft's practices
Good Job, Satya.
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The article is outdated by months if not longer and Avast could fix it overnight, but choose not to. (Avast is an unethical company, which has been shown to collect user data. Many years ago, I discovered that it did a lousy job with my kids' computer.)
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Behnken and Hurley had a bit of time to kill as they waited for recovery crews to fish out and inspect their Crew Dragon capsule, so they decided to make a few calls. Boredom and a satellite phone make a dangerous combination
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Start using cloud-native applications on Azure with design patterns and best practices One of those words is not like the others
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on Azure with design patterns and best practices
 Words fail me.
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FAST allows developers to create their own design system and web component libraries by customizing styles and properties. What? No icons?
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No Icons... but at least changing colors  
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So it's sort of like those CSS editors for Vue and Bootstrap and just about every other web-UI framework, but because Microsoft did it, it's news. Riiiight.
(Not complaining to you, Kent - that fact that this got press time anywhere, even InfoQ, sort of illustrates how we need new colors on our "new normal" life.)
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Starting at the end of July, Microsoft has begun detecting HOSTS files that block Windows 10 telemetry servers as a 'Severe' security risk. You're not getting rid of us that easily!
And now I have to listen to the Hosts of Seraphim[^] again.
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You know... The windows defender is getting to the dark side and defends Microsoft instead of defending the users.  
Pi-Hole will be...
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Problem solved with a couple of rules in the box's firewall 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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The main message from today's blog post is "back up your music now," as Google says it will wipe out all Google Music collections in December 2020. Fortunately I have mine all backed up on vinyl and polycarbonate discs
I know: Google cancelling a service isn't newsworthy 
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The open source language has seen skyrocketing interest in 2020, bringing it from relative obscurity to the top ten languages in Tiobe's monthly index. It's also voted the best language when you have a bottle of rum and 14 friends
And you feel like you're on a dead man's chest.
Also, really popular in Yoho National Park
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The company received government approval to put more than 3,200 satellites into orbit with the goal of beaming internet service to earth. Packages will rain down from the sky
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Great! More space junk to ruin amateur astronomy photos.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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The days of the siloed project manager and “skilled” development team are becoming a thing of the past, thanks to the increasing complexity of dev projects. The ability to say, "it's almost done" with a straight face?
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And when are project managers going to learn these apparently "project manager" skills?
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In addition to Sander...
where are the developer skills that every project manager should have?
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Those skills require three digit IQ's, which is very rare for any manager 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Those skills require three digit IQ's
You've obviously never worked in a large organization. Every deliverable has three responsible managers - the Project, Product, and Marketing managers, each with a single-digit IQ.
Doesn't that count?
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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Only 3?
I've been in a team with a project manager, a product manager, an IT manager, a test manager, a data manager, a delivery manager, somehow another manager who was responsible for discussing the delivery with the business, a third-party manager, and probably a couple more managers (like the product owner who was in constant management meetings, but did not own the product, and two scrum masters who were in those same meetings).
All were external and some of them only worked their because their friend (or business partner!) was a manager there.
The total project team was around forty people and that's including all those managers, ALL external.
Every manager ultimately would've had about two people to manage, except none of them did.
All they did was manage each other I guess.
Most managers didn't even know the people working for them even though there were less than thirty in total.
They just never took the effort to get to know their team.
Meanwhile, the product went WAAAAAAY over budget (well, if there even was a budget), specs and priorities changed daily and sometimes multiple times a day, and basically all went to hell.
The average hourly wage was probably around €100, with even €200+ for some managers, so it may have been higher.
So let's say 8 hours a day * 40 people * €100 = €32,000 a day for this project on people alone, which was really just a web site for requesting a mortgage
It cost them €2,000,000 just to get a basic web form up and running with just an API connection to a third-party service in the back-end.
And that was just the beginning, before I (and most of the managers) arrived 
Ultimately, they started laying people off... Like developers and testers, but when it was my time to leave, not even a single manager was yet laid off
A lot of stupid managers made A LOT of money there... On the other hand, who's really the stupid one?
I wish I was exaggerating, but I'm really not
That said, it was a fun project (in the beginning) and I learned a lot at that place
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Sander Rossel wrote: That said, it was a fun project (in the beginning) and I learned a lot at that place
Learning how to NOT do things is sometimes very very valuable.
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Problem solving is a management skill and not a developer skill? Really? Was this article written by a journalist student just imagining what it is like to work in the industry?
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