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We are excited to announce the open-sourcing of Microsoft GW-BASIC on GitHub!
Yes, seriously 😀 Biggest news all week
Clock started to see how fast it gets ported to .NET Core...
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now we know what the developers at msft are doing with their paid time at home or office...
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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Giving us yet another reason to scrub our hands for at least 20 seconds minutes.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Sadly, this becomes less and less of a News for each subsequent update. The news would be an update which does not mess everything up. I disabled automatic updates, and only install them several weeks after they have been released.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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What did you use to disable them?
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Several things: first disabling the wuauserv service, of course; but this needs to be checked regularly as it tends to re-enable itself. You can setup an automatic task on logon, for example, launching the following command: net stop wuauserv
Second, I created a new value in the registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU: a DWORD value "AUOptions" set to 2. This code for notifications for downloading as well installing. But this does not seem sufficient, as a few friends told me that it had not worked for them (meaning: they observed a spurious reboot of their computers after an update of which they did not have been notified).
On my former laptop, I also deleted anything from a folder in Program Files, whose name I can't remember unfortunately. It contained a program that was automatically launched and reverted any modified settings regarding the update policy. Then I did set authorizations on this folder to prevent anything from accessing it. But this is an old trick, it was in 2018 iirc, and on my new system it does not seem to have been reinstalled. (I think I talked about that on the Lounge back then, but I'm not 100% sure I did).
If you have a professional version (or entreprise), you can also play with the group policy: gpedit.msc, go to Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Update, and select "Configure Automatic Updates". But this isn't possible with home editions, unfortunately.
Last, on each update that I install, I take the time to inspect every new service/automatic program launch on next boot, and disable anything that could prevent me from having a precise control on update policy. But this needs to know your computer quite well, to be able to spot what has been added. For that I thoroughly inspect the registry and the tasks planifier.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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You need to understand that this is MS's core development team.[^]
And for anyone who's seen them, they are without a doubt "Agile".
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Sonatype measured coding activity by country based on downloads from an open source library. A little hacking cough limits hacking?
Or maybe it's just open source developers aren't used to working from home? /s
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For the past two years though there has been MAUI as a KDE hosted project serving as a free and open-source UI framework. They use the name MAUI as an acronym for Multi-Adaptable User Interfaces. Because there can only be one MAUI?
Although both being UI frameworks is a little confusing, but it's just a codename for Microsoft. Odds are they'll ship it as 'Windows Active User Interface Foundation Platform Framework, Developer Edition' or something
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A team of researchers at UCLA has set a new record for preparing and measuring the quantum bits, or qubits, inside of a quantum computer without error. Best bits. Beautiful bits. Everyone is saying so.
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The majority of staff planning their exit also take sensitive information with them, research suggests. More proof companies would be better off without employees.
Or something like that. Maybe just keep them chained to the desk?
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The vulnerability, called Bluetooth Impersonation AttackS (BIAS), allows an intrusion by an attacker posing as a previously trusted Bluetooth device. Every time you trust a Bluetooth device, you're trusting all the Blueteeth?
If I understand it - the hackers need to get the encrypted value off of the trusted item, then have a device broadcasting that value. All to listen to your laptop's music? (Yeah, there are other Bluetooth devices than headphones. But Yeesh, this news alert)
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The source code includes parts of the original Xbox operating system Now you can make your own?
After all, how else are you going to play Munch's Oddysee?
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What will happen now that two massive tech companies have let their powers combine to fight the coronavirus? "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"
Or more like, "Who will watch the watchmen if no one lets the watchmen watch?"
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Person A: "Hey, nice jacket"
Person B: "Thanks"
Person A: *sees adverts for the jacket next time they're on-line*
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In an interview, the Google CEO says he takes a long-term view of hardware efforts. I had to post this due to the brilliance of that quote
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Hardware is hard in that its quality has to be top-notch when released.
Software is hard because it changes with every release and has to adapt to specifications that are a moving target.
Apples, oranges.
modified 21-May-20 6:56am.
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A baby planet caught in the act of formation may have been spotted around a nearby star in an observation that's a first of its kind. At the very least, it makes for a nice desktop wallpaper
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C# 9.0 is taking shape, and I’d like to share our thinking on some of the major features we’re adding to this next version of the language. Now your programs can set a record!
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My assessment of the changes:
- init, data, with, etc - I don't make heavy use of the immutable types these are intended to support; but they all seem harmless and fit into the category of syntactic sugar that have over the last 15 years made C# so much less verbose than Java.
 - Top level programs - I'd like to see a non-trivial example here, assuming this is capable of being used for non-trivial coding anyway (not clear how large its scope is). My immediate thought is skepticism that this should've been brought from REPLs to more general use.
 - Improved pattern matching - again not a feature I use, but seems harmless to the broader language and should be nice where it is used.
- Improved target typing - having to cast the
null in code like this int? result = b ? 0 : null; in the current language version is something that's always annoyed me.
All in all, it looks like a good update. My only complaint is that it's unlikely my current project will migrate from .net framework to net core in the short to medium term future to take advantage of any of the new features.  
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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Dan Neely wrote: Top level programs - I'd like to see a non-trivial example here, assuming this is capable of being used for non-trivial coding anyway (not clear how large its scope is). My immediate thought is skepticism that this should've been brought from REPLs to more general use.
Even though this is 'only' syntactic sugar, it still strikes me as something quite revolutionary for C#. I am quite surprised. I don't think it would be an overstatement to call it a cultural shift of sorts.
Yes, a more complete example would be interesting.
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This statement actually works...
object what = "", the = 0;
int f=5,ck=3;
var addMoreTargetTyping =what??the??f*ck!;
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