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Gerry Schmitz wrote: The only way to "fight" it (without deep pockets) is more releases with desirable features. Carrots versus sticks.
And with a bit of protection agains decompiling?
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?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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It's all the fault of the Da Vinci Code 
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Ada Lovelace[^], arguably the first person to practice our profession.
Software Zen: delete this;
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For a minute there I was wondering what the devil you thought we did for a living. Then I realized I was thinking of the wrong Lovelace.
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Same here. 
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To give you an idea of how times have changed, and just how ungodly freaking old I am, back when I was in college the group that managed activities for the student center used to show movies every Saturday night. One weekend the movie was Insatiable, starring the redoubtable Ms. Lovelace. My wife and I went as she was taking a class in human sexuality at the time and going to the movie was worth extra credit. The center was packed and the audience was pretty rowdy, which actually made it more fun. Almost 40 years later, I still remember one of the best ad-lib lines from the audience, when a guy wearing an eye patch walked into the scene:
"![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) 'em in the eye!"
Software Zen: delete this;
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Hi all,
Has anyone found this?
Lately I travel a lot to one of my customers company and when I log into my computer, usually in front of one customer Skype and/or Slack appear full screen showing all my contacts and call history.
I've searched the Internet on a way to avoid this, but I've not found any.
Have any of you found this behavior? and if you have, have you been able to avoid it?
Thank you all!
![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
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I explicitly disable all microphones, cameras, no Google period, no automatic Window Updates, no Norton / McAfee anything, no telemetry, etc.
No unidentified background activity until / unless I request it.
Skype, Outlook, etc. all have to be started manually. Just about everything in "Start up" is disabled.
Windows Defender is the only thing that has mostly free range.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I explicitly disable all microphones, cameras, no Google period, no automatic Window Updates, no Norton / McAfee anything, no telemetry, etc.
Some of us call that "running Linux" 
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Settings/startup apps?
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Skype and Slack are disabled.
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OK, try task scheduler. That is where I stopped One Drive's nagging.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Joan M wrote: have you been able to avoid it?
Linux? 
Skype should have an option to "run when logging in", "run maximized" or soemthing similar hidden in the settings.
Slack... I don't know. I haven't used it.
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?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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When working with a client, I never do a startup at their premises; I setup the windows I want open etc, then suspend (or if it's a long journey to them hibernate) and just resume when I'm there. That way no unexpected stuff, and no time wasted firing up tools I'll need.
Where possible I'll also use their display (be it a large monitor or projector) and startup the machine before plugging in their monitor cable - again, no risk of stuff being visible that "shouldn't" be.
I use a local email client (Thunderbird) that's set not to download messages except on demand.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: The nice way is to check the settings of each program.
The easy way is not to have programs that you don't want.
If you need these products but don't want clients to see them, why not have two PCs - one for 'personal' use and one for client demonstration.
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Or virtual machines
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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So the insider news mentioned something about low-code and within a couple of links I was looking up just what it is.
My best approximation is that it's the heir-apparent to the Agile coders modus operandi.
This will, at least, let managers do all the things they want done and flash deliverables and meet schedules and . . .
"A million monkeys on a million typewriters for a million years"
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modified 11-Dec-20 11:43am.
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Our place is jumping on the lo-code/no-code bandwagon. You should see some of the dross that is being produced. 
"Hey, look at me, I'm programming!"
No sir, you are not. You most certainly are not. 
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Strangely enough, it reminds me of formal methods: a quixotic quest. I'd believe "no code"--outside of a constrained problem domain--if the input was a spec written in natural language and the output was code. Although this would be impressive, it would merely shift the problem from one of writing unambiguous, correct code to one of writing unambiguous, correct specs. But think of the benefit. A lot of literature majors and lawyers could finally find constructive work!
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Lawyers? 
They can't write unambiguous and correct English and they have special classes in it!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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From what I observe, it's more than lawyers - it's the whole "smartphone" tribe.
U know that!
So it seems to be too little too late.
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You should understand that 99% of the lawyers give the rest a bad name.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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