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The research firm anticipates the number of Macs sold to business users worldwide will jump by 20% between this year and 2024. It's The Year of Mac!
Or is it just that it's time for Chris to buy a few new ones for himself?
Have they been smoking what Gartner usually smokes?
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Microsoft no longer offers OneDrive for Business (Plan 2), with new users now capped to 1TB by default When we said "unlimited", we didn't really mean unlimited
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"In response to customer demand ..." What user ever said "Give me less of that for the same money"? 
"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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I could think of a few things I'd pay to get less of!
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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The feature request An option to preview images when they are hovered has gotten some attention lately, and we think it sounds like a great idea. Best of all: it works with icons!
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The Foundational C# Certification is completely free, globally available, and includes a full 35-hour C# training course hosted on Microsoft Learn. Are you certifiable?
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The future may hold a faster and more performant Python and it's this community of passionate and committed users who will help to make it happen... Before you ask: no, whitespace is still a thing
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India’s space agency, ISRO, has been posting footage of its rover as it starts its mission to learn more about the Moon’s history. Stanley Kubrick is still working?
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For two decades, Google Search was the invisible force that determined the ebb and flow of online content. Now, for the first time, its cultural relevance is in question. "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded"
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There was a time I did not need bookmarks. I could find the websites I liked simply by searching some few words I was sure the page contained.
Then something changed, maybe the internet got too big, but Google started to decide what I should see. And also I could not search for a specific sentence and operators that were useful since Altavista times no longer worked.
As I said, the internet is too big now and maybe there are technical limitations to provide the same quality than before, but still, google is less useful than it used to be.
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Wonder where they are going as Bing dropped in usage as well, maybe a new global ...demic hitting us.
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Quote: more
The Washington Post
CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines — In a coastal city in the southern Philippines, thousands of young workers log online every day to support the booming business of artificial intelligence.
In dingy internet cafes, jam-packed office spaces or at home, they annotate the masses of data that American companies need to train their artificial intelligence models. The workers differentiate pedestrians from palm trees in videos used to develop the algorithms for automated driving; they label images so AI can generate representations of politicians and celebrities; they edit chunks of text to ensure language models like ChatGPT don’t churn out gibberish.
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«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Security researchers have released NoFilter, a tool that abuses the Windows Filtering Platform to elevate a user's privileges to increases privileges to SYSTEM, the highest permission level on Windows. Pardon me if I seem to be repeating myself
"Reporting them to Microsoft Security Response Center resulted in the company saying that the behavior was as intended." <-- lovely. Granted, it need the machine to already be compromised, but those seem to be increasingly common.
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At what point to "security researchers" cross the line into "malicious actors"?
"Hey, I'm not a burglar! I just picked the lock on your door and left it wide open to alert you to the fact that the lock on your door is susceptible to being picked." 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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2022 State of Rust Survey finds that Rust language usage continues to grow, while language difficulty and complexity are top concerns. Survey of Rust developers find developers using Rust. News at 11.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: News at 11.
a.m. or p.m.? 
Infoworld wrote: while language difficulty and complexity are top concerns.
That's now... wait a couple of new versions... then they will not be "top concerns" but "top reasons for abandoning"
M.D.V. 
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Rumors abound that a new library/IDE for Rust called "Corrosion," that reeks of AI, will blow all other languages/IDE's away.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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New Windows 11 build ships with more Rust-based Kernel features[^]
I see Rust replacing C++ in a lot of usage scenarios going forward.
Quote: Microsoft announced that the latest Windows 11 build shipping to Insiders in the Canary channel comes with additional Windows Kernel components rewritten in the memory safety-focused Rust programming language.
Rust is seen as a safer alternative to C and C++ due to its memory safety improvements which help prevent common issues such as null pointer dereferences, buffer overflows, and dangling pointers that could lead to system crashes and security breaches.
It also enforces rigorous rules for concurrent programming, mitigating data race conditions where multiple threads concurrently access and modify shared data, thus allowing developers to write concurrent code that is secure and free from data races.
This is critical for Kernel processes as memory bugs could allow attackers to execute commands at the highest privilege levels in Windows. Therefore, securing them with a memory-safe programming language would be a priority for Microsoft.
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I only tell... VB6
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"But does it run Linux?" can now be finally and affirmatively answered for the Commodore C64! I suspect 'run' is being generous
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But... does it run "Doom"?
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Quote: So, as is, a real C64 should be able to boot Linux within a week or so.
A snail could boot Linux at that rate. 
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With the news of Bram Moolenaar's death at age 62, fans around the web shared their memories of a life lived, including a personal project known only to a few: his own programming language. Press Esc qq to compile
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One of the biggest business cloud file storage services, Dropbox, won't be giving its business customers unlimited storage space anymore. Someone always has to spoil it for the rest of us
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Due to some users...
And instead of baning those users and deleting their data, they make everyone pay for it (and for more storage, of course).
I suppose that the "Oh, fvck, our server farm is running out of space... what do we do now? Maybe we underestimated our capacities when selling the idea of the marketing department" has nothing to do.
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