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Microsoft research says that 80-90 percent of ransomware attacks over the past year originated from unmanaged devices. So BYOD isn't Bring Your Own Drambuie?
How else are you supposed to have Rusty Nails at your desk?
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I thought 50% was because managers clicked in the links or opened the sent annex
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Python Software Foundation survey finds that a significant number of Python developers are still using Python 2 for data analysis, computer graphics, and devops. No one expects a breaking upgrade
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Color me shocked. There are still people who develop in VB6.
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VB6?
Stupid poor boys.
What about COBOL, MUMPS, FORTRAN?
That's where to find the MONEY.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Bernhard Hiller wrote: What about COBOL, MUMPS, FORTRAN? Fortran programmers of today are not using Fortran IV. If that is what you grew up with, you wouldn't recognize today's Fortran at all as Fortran!
During the academic discussions leading up to Fortran 77, one of the gurus (I don't remember who of them) commented on the proposed extensions: 'I don't know what programming languages will look like in year 2000, but they will be named Fortran.' He certainly was right. Fortran 2003 didn't at all look like 'classical' Fortran, and since then, we have had 20 further years of development, where Fortran has changed a lot more than, say, C++ or C#. A new revision is scheduled before the end of the year. (Scheduled release dates for Fortran revisions have a long history of sliding, though!)
You may still dislike Fortran 2018 as well as the 2023 revisions. But do not confuse Fortran 23 with Fortran IV.
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Over-engineering, as I now understand it, is: Building functionality that is not required. YAGNI (maybe, add it anyway to be safe)
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Quote: I don’t want to ignore the fact that writing simple, easy-to-understand, well-tested code is hard. It’s a skill that i still haven’t mastered, 15 years in. At least is realistic and honest
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But if we don’t face this difficult challenge now, we’ll end facing the impossible challenge of changing an over-engineered mess. It could be worse... it could be an overenineered mess coded in vb6
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Zoom’s selling a cheaper AI package than Microsoft 365 Copilot and Google Duet AI, and soon it can plug into a new ‘modular workspace.’ Before editing documents, you must spend 15 minutes trying to get the audio working
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Before editing documents, you must spend 15 minutes trying to get the audio working
To be honest, the few times I have used it, it just worked.
I have had weirder and more annoying days with teams, definitivelly.
But being fair, I use teams everyday since 2 years ago and Zoom 3 or 4 times a year.
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Will attacks be as big as those targeting MOVEit? Maybe not, but they still can be plenty bad. Sharing is caring, and also preparing (to be hacked)
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I'm too old for this crap.
How does a 3rd party compromise an operating system?
Answer - bad operating system. Meanwhile Microsoft is busy with elephanting up menus, giving us round icons, and advertisements. Disgraceful, no worse than that, pathetic.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Not only can ChatGPT write code, it can read code. On the one hand, that's very helpful. On the other hand, that's truly terrifying. Will it also debug the new code (ad infinitum)?
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Well that person never wrote anything more complicated than "Hello World."
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Check the comments section of many social media and digital news platforms, and you're likely to find a cesspool of insults, threats and even harassment. Good thing we have no use for this AI here
However, if the Soapbox were to return...
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Kent Sharkey wrote: However, if the Soapbox were to return... I guess no AI (at least in the next 4 or 5 generations) would be so ocurrent with the insults as some of the old Soapboxers.
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A new Linux vulnerability, known as 'Looney Tunables' and tracked as CVE-2023-4911, enables local attackers to gain root privileges by exploiting a buffer overflow weakness in the GNU C Library's ld.so dynamic loader. "Th-Th-The, Th-Th-The, Th-Th... That's all, folks!"
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Should we send a bunch of eyes to the oculist? I mean... just in case
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ChatGPT was put to the test via a series of humdrum freshman C/C++ programming tasks and it passed – though not with honors. So now AI can replace students?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: So now AI can replace students? At least it could replace some teachers I had, I presume it would not be worse...
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Former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has taken viewers deep into the source code for Windows Task Manager while debunking a distressing Icelandic sobriquet for Microsoft's flagship operating system. They don't make them like that anymore
I had never heard the "Bloated fetal sacs" bit before, but now it's going to stick with me forever.
"Task Manager only weighed in at approximately 85 kilobytes when fully compiled" <-- they really, *really* don't make them like that anymore
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Task Manager only weighed in at approximately 85 kilobytes when fully compiled" <-- they really, *really* don't make them like that anymore Considering that Windows 3.11 came in some floppies...
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The two companies are both about to kick off new and stricter requirements for bulk senders. Here's what's changing. This isn't a bulk email, it's just pleasantly plump
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Quote: Google, Yahoo to battle spam with new rules for bulk emails ...
Here's what's changing. Making them pay a quote? It would not be spam anymore, just sponsored publicity
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if so, see any benefit ?
thanks, bill
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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