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To me, this is only half so funny.
I have house automation @ home, so have been following the devices and technologies for over 3 years now. Most of the (wireless) devices are directly coming from China, like smart lightbulbs, smart plugs, IP cameras, etc... What network-literate people observed and documented in tutorials and forums is that about ALL of these devices send data on the Internet when they can. For some of them, it is because a part of their "being smart" actually means interacting with the Cloud, but for others, like the plugs, this was rather unexpected, and is no justified. Since these devices are almost plug&play and meant to be used by everybody, I do not think that IT-illiterate people will bother to close ports on their home router (?) and check that the devices are not sending data on some servers across the planet. This data trafic is probably going to explode with all Alexas and other Google home devices.
In my installation, I have smart cameras from China, but they are wired so that I do not rely on WiFi and they have no way to communicate directly with Internet. I retrieve the pictures and the streams via a local ftp server, from where I can check them from a secured connection that I set up, but that was no plug&play out of the box...
The main leak is that I still have a Wifi access @ home, so anybody hacking the WiFi password and the home automation password, or hacking one of the family's phones, is able to enter the house, provided that he knows where to look. 
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being a bit paranoiac and not believing in good intentions in the human race one could say...
China is going to have a huge power with all that sh1t. Once it is enough spread they will be able to say... "Give me this, or do that for me. If not... I will switch your whole country off"
M.D.V. 
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Is there a different term for mutual destruction which involves that your own weapon also hurts you?
Being that if China has some kinda of remote control of billions of devices, that some of their own internal devices might be affected as well.
China: "You angered us. We are switching off all the lights for 10 minutes to demonstrate our power."
China: "Hey, who switch off our light?" 
WAIT - is this why they have their great fire-wall?!?!?
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maze3 wrote: WAIT - is this why they have their great fire-wall?!?!?
That would imply common sense on the other side... and experience says... common sense is not that common 
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Rage wrote: a part of their "being smart" actually means interacting with the Cloud, but for others, like the plugs, this was rather unexpected, and is no justified
As far as I'm concerned, the problem with all of these co-called IoT devices phoning home for their smarts is the phoning home part.
There's no way any such device should not be able to talk to some service running on one of your own computers rather than phoning back home. If data traffic was all limited to within your own LAN...I'd be all in. But the instant a device needs to talk to the outside world however...then it's a non-starter. Obviously this is not a solution for everybody, but if the option is not available (the end user manages the service vs the manufacturer across the internet), then I'm simply not interested.
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1) Just realized that I don't get notifications about new/updated messages anymore  Does anyone know where I can turn this off again?
2) Here is a message I've been missing until now:
AvalonDock [2.0] Tutorial Part 1 - Adding a Tool Window
I am sure the download was there at some stage - is it possible to recover the last version from the history?
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I'd raise this here: Bugs and Suggestions[^] - you'd need the admins to search the DB and recover the DL if they still have it.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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I've done that - thanks for the hint - oddly enough, I got a notification from your response so it seems like only article forums are affected(?)...
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Dirk Bahle wrote: I can turn this on off again
FTFY.
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Took a crack at the "Windows App Certification" test for UWP and PASSED first time (except for the logo which I let default).
Some 29 automated tests.
Developed the app in WPF and created a .Net standard library.
Converted the WPF to UWP and reused the .Net standard library.
If you use WPF and not UWP, reconsider.
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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Congrats Universal Soldier 
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Thank you!
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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Why?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Because I want to sell it. And I think it actually is a new experience (for me and the user).
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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Fair enough, especially that it's a method of gaining experience in doing things a little differently.
I'm only curious because there doesn't seem to be a very active market for UWP apps -- hardly anyone's got a windows phone, and most people go for desktop apps on laptops and desktops.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm thinking "tablets" (first) and then desktops. This app will probably run on XBox and Hololense. I can scale it from some 3 x 4 to 54 inches (well Windows 10 does that). It maintains state.
I would have bought the Surface Go instead of the IPad back when; even now, I haven't touched anything Android or IOS (except my 8 year old IPad [as a pdf reader] ... which obsoleted after the 2nd year).
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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Well, as someone who has an itoy 3, two android tablets (because I broke one), and two windows tablets, I use:
itoy:
- Not at all, I dumped it on the missus, who uses it exclusively for looking at websites about men's bums.
Android:
- Way better. Good for comms stuff and reading.
- With a decent file manager, it almost becomes usable as a computer, but the user interface makes it difficult to do serious stuff with it.
windows:
- The real thing. I use them for anything I'd do with a desktop or laptop -- In Desktop Mode. UWP mode reduces their usefulness closer to that of Android (if you don't count using the UWP start page or godawful "apps" list abomination to open desktop apps).
But that's me.
If your app is aimed at less techy, more casual users, UWP is probably OK.
Find a discussion group, or whatever, that has your target consumers, and ask them what they like -- a fair number of people on CP will say the same as me.
If it were me asking users, I'd also ask things like "What do you like buttons to look like?" (Although I'd be tempted to phrase it "Do you enjoy hunting for buttons, and tapping everywhere to see if there are buttons, or do you stupidly prefer to be able to see what you're looking at, you old fogey who doesn't understand the way of the future?"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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No idea what "UWP for casual users" means.
At the bottom, is just a different "install package".
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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Non-techy people, who only use computers for entertainment and writing letters to Granny.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Your granny uses a Surface Pro? S Mode? Or?
(Granny won't need a keyboard with my app ... and it can talk).
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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My granny was an engineer, and probably smarter and more into new tech than many people around here.
I find stupid assumptions annoying.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Kind of mandatory: Vast Power Of Certification | Dilbert by Scott Adams[^]
I'll go get cover (and the coat on my way out)
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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"What do you mean there are no Help files?" It's been Certified!
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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My sympathies. Where are you committed?
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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You have to give a contact for the app ... so time will tell.
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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