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Only because I am paranoid, it doesn't mean that I am not being followed
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?
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Nelek wrote: Have I Been Pwned
That sites states that several (exactly 10) of my accounts have been stolen by hackers... 9 of the listed are sites that I do not even recognize... The 10th is Adobe...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Either stolen or sold to some dubious agent...
That's the best thing on having an account for each place. You can know who screwed it up.
M.D.V.
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Nelek wrote: Because of course... yours is not going to be there.
Well, I've never given them by phone number. I wasn't that mad.
But I checked anyway because... well, it's data-slurping FB. Happily they don't have my number.
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If you use Whatsapp theoretically they could have got it.
I checked too, just in case...
From 6 numbers of people I care, only 1 was listed
M.D.V.
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In 2014, no less an authority than NASA proclaimed in peer-reviewed papers that it was getting mysterious thrust from the EmDrive, a strange, brassy trumpet of a thing that its creators claimed could produce thrust with no propellant. Who had 'pixie dust' in the poll?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Who had 'pixie dust' in the poll? Yes; but it I'd rather have been wrong, as this is quite a setback.
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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Yet another test passed for General Relativity!
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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Researchers from UCLA have used a 3D printer to create an artificial neural network able to analyze large volumes of data and identify objects at the speed of light. Looks like a Star Trek prop
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Turns out, the new office could have a lot of empty desks if employers force employees back to work after the great work from home experiment of 2020 winds down. In completely unrelated news: businesses report 33% more job openings
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"WFH" was unknown to me; but an office is a building specialized around your work, and built only to facilitate in that work.
If you think your home is better, you're a home-cook.
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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Microsoft is starting to submerge its servers in liquid to improve their performance and energy efficiency. It works fine until the CPU gets all wrinkled
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Tech companies don’t just want to identify you using facial recognition — they also want to read your emotions with the help of AI. This is my unimpressed face
And yes, unimpressive
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Most camera's are easy to fool, a certain neckalce blurs your face. So why worry about the face recognition?
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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The new ‘Okta Starter Developer Edition,’ as it’s called, allows developers to scale up to 15,000 monthly active users — up from only 1,000 on its existing free plan. In case you really want to know who are you
Who who, who who?
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A threat group called “Golden Chickens” is targeting professionals on LinkedIn with fake job offers with the intent to infect respondents with malware. In other words: LinkedIn
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SA wrote: with the intent to infect respondents with malware Illegal in the Netherlands, and prolly some other parts of Europe.
"BGS9, we are the cure."
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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Apple's Objective-C finally exits the top 20 list of popular programming languages tracked by Tiobe, but a 'dinosaur' language has had an unexpected boost. Not that I'd use this as an example of the quality of these lists or anything
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I looked at FORTRAN again myself just a couple of months ago.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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So you're to blame!
TTFN - Kent
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Microsoft is making its OpenJDK Java release available to customers on Windows, macOS and Linux. "Nothing's gonna stop us now"
Didn't take them long to dust that off
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Microsoft J++? No, wait, we've been there haven't we.
Rebase C# on the JVM?
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Security researchers Mark Ermolov, Dmitry Sklyarov, and Maxim Goryachy discovered two undocumented x86 instructions that can be used to modify the CPU microcode. The instructions can only be executed when the CPU runs in debug mode, which makes them not easily exploitable, though. Because no one will ever find those
My first three reactions kind of rhymed with 'for fox ache'
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For fox sake
FFS, took me five minutes. Do the next CCC, would ya?
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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Must be my accent
TTFN - Kent
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