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For all the good they did me, I coulda... 
Still, unlimited, so, “yay?”
TTFN - Kent
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Now, there is no point of me staying with Atlassian's Bitbucket.
And sometimes, I want to keep the repository private until the codebase is stable and working: I do not wish other user to see my incomplete work.
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Windows 10 can download and install updates automatically when they are available. Although users are supposed to keep their desktop OS up-to-date, sometimes we might have good reason to delay an update. Alas, not forever
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Alas, not forever
Yup, forever.
The usefulness of my machines will never be disrupted by that travesty of an OS.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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IT staff are not often the fastest to install patches, lest they cause more issues than they solve, but a new vulnerability in all versions of Windows 10 and Windows Server suggests they may need to rethink that policy. I know it's been a while since the last time they had to patch their servers
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Rushing makes us neither faster, nor more productive; it increases stress and distracts focus. We need creativity, effectiveness, and focus. I must be going so fast
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I see that the infoq boys have finally started to catch up on their reading.
I mean, the source of the wisdom in their article (basically: "More haste, less speed") comes from The Wisdom of Sirach, which was only published about 200 years B.C.
Give 'em another thousand years, and they might catch up as far as the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
Can you imagine how excited they'll be, when they find out about early birds catching worms, and the value of birds in the hand?
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Mark_Wallace wrote: early birds catching worms
The early bird catches the worm. He works for the owner of the worm farm, who collects profits while he is still asleep. 
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Bernhard Hiller wrote: The early bird catches the worm. He works for the owner of the worm farm, who collects profits while he is still asleep.
We need some benighted web journalist to write an article about that.
And another to write an article about how an existing, working process or application is worth two *Great* *New* *Ideas* that are untried and untested.
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I've run across several articles recently where some millennial excitedly tells us "something you didn't know" which ends up being common knowledge to anyone who has cracked a history book.
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Exactly!
I can't wait for one to cobble together an article about taking coals to Newcastle.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: taking coals to Newcastle
Harumph!
Millennials never heard of coal, and they probably couldn't find Newcastle on a map to save their lives.
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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The software's name is GHIDRA and in technical terms, is a disassembler, a piece of software that breaks down executable files into assembly code that can then be analyzed by humans. "When the monster Ghidra passes, only flaming ruins are left."
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They must be worried about their budget for next year, so they're making sure that malware producers have access to the best tools.
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Remember there's a catch. The tool will send home some information on the programs disassembled and the guy who did that. It also comes with a backdoor such that NSA can get control of that computer easily.
So, effectively, NSA is expanding its base of professional coworkers at virtually no extra costs.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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And when you turn it on itself it is smart enough to say, "It's All Good!" 🤐
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A system that uses a technique called constructive solid geometry (CSG) is allowing MIT researchers to deconstruct objects and turn them into 3D models, thereby allowing them to reverse-engineer complex things. Can it tell me what that IKEA shelf *should* look like?
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An Ikea shelf should look like a cheap lump of contiboard with a cheap, paper, iron-on lipping.
Putting make-up on pigs is not a good item for a list of business objectives.
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After testing 110 smartphones from multiple vendors, the Dutch Consumentenbond not-for-profit organization concluded that the face unlock feature in 42 of them can be circumvented using a high-quality portrait photo of the owner. That sentence is accurate in 5 out of 11 words
The first five - for the nit-picky among us.
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"Stop being as ugly as everyone else who doesn't work for apple!"
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I'm impressed it worked 60% of the time.
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Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Amherst College have recently introduced a new form of steganography in the domain of machine learning called "training set camouflage." Like those "Magic Eye" posters, but for AI?
I'm not convinced there's that much 'new' here. Maybe just, "machine learning can learn from less obvious data"?
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The trouble is that if this castles-in-the-clouds analyser decides you're a terrorist, you're pretty much buggered.
At least one instance of it will almost certainly be trained to follow the "how to spot a terrorist at US airports" guidance, and you can rest assured that there are people whose bonuses and career advancement depend on the number of terrorists they identify, so will jump at the chance to add decent people to bad-person lists.
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A new project written in Rust aims to make it easier to distribute Python applications as standalone binaries In case your Python isn't rusty enough
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