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Kent Sharkey wrote: Just as long as you remember the safe word
Bollocks?
M.D.V. 
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Microsoft has suspended free trials of their newly launched Windows 365 Cloud PC service after running out of available servers. They should move that to the cloud for more scalability!
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The update is mostly visual and adds a new header, simplified toolbar, and rounded corners As requested by basically no one
Apologies if you're in that very select group. I'm fine with Paint.net personally
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Everything is *constantly* being simplified and "streamlined." How simple can something get, after all?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I second that Paint.net recommendation, been using it for years and it covers everything I need.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm fine with Paint.net personally
I still use mspaint and the few times where I can't do what I want with it, then I use GIMP.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: As requested by basically no one
Meh. All they did was remove the "home" label from the one ribbon tab that had 90% of the useful functions on and give it new Icons 🙄. If View like File is back to a conventional menu, meh. I'm 99% sure it only ended up like it did because some pointy haired PM insisted on a second ribbon tab to begin with: There's no reason they couldn't have put it's options on the home tab too.
Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm fine with Paint.net personally
I use it for occasional more complicated edits; but 99% of what I do is cropping, N:1 resizing, and drawing on screenshots. MS paint's simpler UI works better for that because it doesn't have so much crap getting in the way.
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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Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 will automatically block potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) by default starting this month. I'll let you do the blurb for this one - mine would be too obvious
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I am going to secure my [other] browser in an USB just in case... 
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Chrome already does this. I tried to download a software development kit for a Windows Filtering Platform driver, and Chrome told me that it was dangerous, and it blocked the download. The only thing I could do was use Edge to download it.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Top Linux developer Kees Cook calls for everyone to push more for securing Linux. I give them a year
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To find the next bunch of errors / security holes? or to secure linux? 
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Instead of running the algorithm on advanced quantum processors, the new approach uses a classical machine-learning algorithm that closely mimics the behavior of near-term quantum computers. Then what are we going to do with all those unemployed quantum computer folk?
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If it mimics it, it is weird science.
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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Facebook is reportedly looking into analyzing the content of encrypted data without having to decrypt it. Oday otnay etlay Uckzay eadray isthay
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Surprise, surprise...  
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A mysterious, one-letter npm package named "-" sitting on the registry since 2020 has received over 700,000 downloads. Because sometimes you have nothing to share?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: has received over 700,000 downloads.
And probably 699,999 were due to syntax errors while trying to install something else...
If that package were malware...
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And sadly, there seems to be little stopping them from converting it to malware and getting the 700k free "clients". 
TTFN - Kent
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That's why I try to disconnect all automatic updates everywhere and trigger it manually a bit later, enough to see if something pop in the news or not.
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These are the coding languages that devs like to work with, and the ones they want to avoid. "This one goes out to the one I love"
"This one goes out to the one I've left behind"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "This one goes out to the one I've left behind"
Her name is VB6 and she's a stalker.
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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A tour of Intel’s Israeli research laboratory has accidentally leaked the next generation of Thunderbolt. "Very, very frightening me"
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Quote: Thunderbolts and lightning, very, very frightening me
the same old song 
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Some days my brain is just stuck on "the classics"
TTFN - Kent
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