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Many users of Logitech's Harmony Hub smart home hub and remote were recently met with a nasty surprise. The device's latest firmware update, version 4.15.206, reportedly cuts off local access for Harmony Hubs. And this is why I have no interest in smart home devices. Unreliable, insecure, and short-lived.
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arstechnica wrote: Logitech issued another statement today with instructions on how to enable private local API controls. The company created a new XMPP beta program
That's great! It's wonderful news!
My dear old gran will be so happy!
I'll sign her up for a five-year IT course, to give her a chance of having a **cking clue about the technical hoops she has to jump through to turn her TV on!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It’s not often you can put nuclear weapons, terrorism and climate change on the same list as quantum computing, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things, but the U.S. government believes all pose an “emerging threat” to its national security. I've been sayin' it. I've been sayin' it for ten years. Ain't I been sayin' it, Miguel? Yeah, I've been sayin' it.
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Why doesn't the list include "Access to twitter" and "Lack of common sense"?
They're obviously a clear and present danger to world safety.
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"AI poses an emerging threat to national security."
"How"
"Because state actors can develop AI."
"But, what will they do with it?"
"Develop it."
Sigh
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Grab, Southeast Asia’s top ride-hailing company, has hit a roadblock in its efforts to improve its mapping and routing service after running into trouble with OpenStreetMap, the world’s largest collaborative mapping community, through a series of blundering edits in Thailand. Every company has a story about how things went wrong. Here is Grab's.
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Outsourcing.
I really don't think there's a need for any more words than that.
(Except that I wonder how many Grab drivers have been mentioned in the #MeToo campaign -- talk about advertising your intentions!)
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Personal websites and email can replace most of what people like about Facebook—namely the urge to post about their lives online. OK who wants to make my Mom a personal website so I don't have to?
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Hmmm...and aggregating site using iframes for all your friends homepages...something like that...I wonder. Hmmm...
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I'm increasingly convinced that we should replace the entire internet with books.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Rephrasing Peejay's comment, "I'm increasingly convinced that we should replace Facebook users with, well, nobody."
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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But, I'd have to pay more for 1000 fake friends !
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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WE WANT GEOCITIES!!
WE WANT GEOCITIES!
Those who ignore history...
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An Iranian academic says Slack banned him from the communication platform due to US sanctions. But the academic does not live in Iran; he’s in Canada. Former Slack developer responsible for the system no longer works there, and breathes the deepest sigh of relief.
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Sorry, but I can't take a company that makes me think of this guy[^] seriously.
(And you know how I love to take everything seriously!)
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In April the Guardian switched off the Mongo DB cluster used to store our content after completing a migration to PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS. This post covers why and how A migration to PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS: A Guardian tale.
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The depth of this article, and many other satisfyingly deep articles in subject areas like archaeology, are why the Guardian is a favorite site.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Really interesting article 
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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It just gets me how they refer to their database as the "Source of Truth", when everybody knows that's wikipedia.
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If you were thinking of learning a new programming language in 2019 then I would highly recommend to have a close look at F#. And other things to argue about.
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Given how much time I seem to spend on the front-end of web development, what language I use on the back-end has become almost irrelevant. It could be GW-BASIC for all I care and would notice. To make me a happy camper, all it needs to do is support Linq, Linq2SQL, Newtonsoft JSON, and handle web API calls, and that's about it.
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Marc Clifton wrote: It could be GW-BASIC for all I care
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Learn a language or technology that businesses actually use rather than one that some blog pundit si promoting (often to support their own business.)
If you are not already proficient in databases then I suggest that. If No-SQL then mongodb because it is the most popular. If SQL then Oracle, MS SQL Server or MySQL.
Other than that look to the following for languages that are actually in use.
TIOBE Index | TIOBE - The Software Quality Company[^]
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Microsoft's coming 'Windows Sandbox' feature is a lightweight virtual machine that allow users to run potentially suspicious software in isolation. It could debut in Windows 10 19H1. Time to run unknown .exe
modified 19-Dec-18 16:01pm.
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Sean Ewington wrote: Microsoft's coming 'Windows Sandbox' feature is a lightweight virtual machine that allow users to run potentially suspicious software in isolation.
Could we run the windows 10 updates in there too?
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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