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- Tue, 12:31: I spent the bank holiday sticking shells from past beachcombing days onto a mirror (open a window if you look at the photo for a long time, the glue is still off gassing!) https://t.co/tg73JDxGGZ
- Tue, 12:35: RT @sbisson: Over at @techrepublic, I take a deeper look at the capabilities of Teams' Project POakdale low-code data platform, and when yo…
- Tue, 12:35: RT @khconnell: Amazing work! Stardotter Mark Moxon has fully documented the original BBC Micro Elite source code. Everything you ever wante…
- Tue, 12:36: RT @TechieLass: I often get asked about how much Azure Migrate actually costs to run and use within your environment, so I've put together…
- Tue, 12:37: RT @1Br0wn: Breaking news! 🇬🇧 govt “will develop proposals for a legal framework to remove regulatory barriers which prevent the use of sec…
- Tue, 12:39: RT @senykam: Thoughtful piece on my ‘Crypto for the People’ talk. As Rogaway says ‘The field does have these very strong political connecti…
- Tue, 12:40: RT @MonidipaFouzder: When I picture the "world-class justice system" the Ministry of Justice often speaks of, Portakabins with running wate…
- Tue, 12:41: RT @gcaughey: Big caution here! https://t.co/eJ4A0zkI8Z https://t.co/1RVZQvVXWC
- Tue, 12:41: RT @brendandburns: Are you interested in helping shape the future of @Azure Resource Manager templates? Want to just geek out about config…
- Tue, 12:43: RT @ElSandifer: The wonderful thing about tyggers Is tyggers are burning bright Their tops are made out of furnace Their bottoms are made…
- Tue, 12:43: RT @jhcuz1993: Just a reminder that the reason comedy is predominantly left-wing atm is that good comedy punches up, not down. The target f…
- Tue, 12:46: RT @LuiseFreese: Dude in DMs warned me to stop with #selfies or he'd unfollow I post a selfie now each day to encourage EVERY PERSON to #…
- Tue, 12:46: RT @QualityFrog: When I wake up before the alarm goes off and try to quietly tell Alexa to cancel the pending alarm so that it will not dis…
- Tue, 12:47: RT @EmmaKennedy: Casually googling the new DG of the BBC and discover he was he Deputy Chairman of the Hammersmith and Fulham Conservatives…
- Tue, 12:48: RT @rupertg: News: Most people who die from Covid had other health conditions Wingnuts: SEE! THEY LIED! VIRUS DOESN'T KILL! News: Most peop…
- Tue, 12:48: RT @DarthMaulRat: @LauraJaneGrace This hits far too close to home right now. https://t.co/FrR1AqY1YL
- Tue, 12:48: RT @ctrlshifti: My employees have slowed downed productivity in the midst of a deadly pandemic and global political and economic crisis. Do…
- Tue, 12:50: RT @npseaver: I think the interesting thing here is how it’s framed as protecting people who don’t want to see things (so “Content that Use…
- Tue, 12:51: RT @davidallengreen: Pointing out lies and so on will not work when a sufficient number of voters do not mind being lied to And so the dau…
- Tue, 12:51: RT @tinysubversions: Since Dec 2017, Twitter has not allowed you to pick your username during the signup process. Usernames like "jsmith123…
- Tue, 12:51: RT @npseaver: Looks like FB released new “Recommendation Guidelines” yesterday (i.e. their policy for stuff that they will not recommend, w…
- Tue, 12:53: RT @i_Lean: Thinking about the time that I said that I was distantly related to Marie Curie and a guy explained “It’s pronounced Mariah Car…
- Tue, 12:55: RT @FondaJLee: If you contact an author to ask them to write for your anthology or publication, tell them what they will be paid. Don't mak…
- Tue, 12:55: RT @joncstone: Every single person in Westminster has spent a decade talking about wanting to rebalance the economy away from central Londo…
- Tue, 14:19: RT @lavietidhar: Enter Mario and Luigi. Mario: We can make it. Luigi: We can't. We have to wait. Mario: Wait for who? Luigi: The player. H…
- Tue, 14:51: RT @noodlefrenzy: Yay! Low mutational variance means a vaccine might work (better than flu) even if it doesn't last long per dose. As they…
- Tue, 14:51: RT @DanaJSimmons: My kid started Jr. High last week. He couldn't stop talking about how much he loved his History teacher. This afternoon w…
- Tue, 14:51: RT @DanaJSimmons: I should add that I told him how to game the @EdgenuityInc algorithm: write long answers, include lots of proper names, r…
- Tue, 14:52: RT @mckinneytweets: A solicitor who got two of her clients pulled off a deportation flight at the last minute explains her devious tactics:…
- Tue, 14:52: RT @josebiro: Remember: The lies are there to wear you down. They are there to confuse you. They are there to make it easier to give up. Ne…
- Tue, 14:55: RT @meilin21: white flight attendant asked black woman to take off her mask & switch it out with another because it was “profane.” It said…
- Tue, 14:58: RT @JeffHandley: We're finishing @dotnet 5.0 with 94% of netcoreapp APIs annotated for nullable reference types. We worked through hundreds…
- Tue, 14:58: RT @garius: BERNARD: But the Prime Minister said... HUMPHREY: I know what he said, Bernard BERNARD: So the statistics exist? HUMPHREY: They…
- Tue, 15:00: RT @ariezrawaldman: So important for us to acknowledge the unequal burdens borne in this pandemic. And frak those men who can’t/won’t under…
- Tue, 15:01: RT @eastdakota: Don't tell anyone I told you, but anyone can now download the WARP client for #MacOS and #Windows for free: https://1.1.1.1…
- Tue, 15:01: RT @BoumanMichel: Firstline Workers are the backbone of most businesses. Here are 5 Microsoft Teams business scenarios to empower first lin…
- Tue, 15:02: RT @FD: There will be a full parliamentary inquiry into the Wirecard collapse - latest from @GuyChazan https://t.co/CSa8plnEqh
- Tue, 15:03: RT @ASlavitt: The CDC said quarantining on interstate travel is no longer necessary. While I realize that drives a lot of tourism dollars,…
- Tue, 15:05: RT @stephanbisser: [UPDATED] The code is now available in the #BotFramework Community repo for my @MicrosoftTeams messaging extensions powe…
- Tue, 15:06: RT @peterjukes: This is alarming. The misinformation over lockdown and COVID-19 death reduction is spreading rapidly through the populatio…
- Tue, 15:08: RT @cstross: Clarke's Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic Stross's amendment: Any sufficiently advan…
- Tue, 15:13: the Scunthorpe problem recurs on every platform eventually� https://t.co/FvTMK5fXcQ
- Tue, 15:16: RT @isaac_fellman: I was watching some 1989 Pride footage, looking for material for a primary source set, but what I FOUND was High Tech Ga…
- Tue, 15:16: RT @isaac_fellman: THEY'VE GOT A HUGE MAC, THIS IS NOT A DRILL https://t.co/dUCSjNgzV5
- Tue, 15:17: RT @SimonWHChan: It's interesting to see how Google and Facebook are reacting to being forced pay for news in Australia. The latest react…
- Tue, 15:18: RT @jfslowik: 🧐 Spot the huge, glaring, "OMG did they really spell that out???" problem here: https://t.co/GsQhJDgA66
- Tue, 15:19: RT @ajohnsocyber: Someone asked me why I keep blogging/talking about diversity. Simple answer: the first question I receive about suggest…
- Tue, 15:21: RT @DmitryOpines: Here's an article about the best financed attempt to-date to create a conservative comedy news program in the style of @T…
- Tue, 15:24: RT @mattocko: This is madness - literally... ...and also what will literally result for a generation of children drinking poisoned water..…
- Tue, 16:41: RT @clemensv: @zehicle @mthiele10 @marypcbuk @jamesurquhart @joannefriedman @sarbjeetjohal @rwang0 @tcrawford @matteastwood @awscloud @Mars…
- Tue, 16:58: I was trying to be rude about blockchain and Twitter restricted my access; c'mon Twitter, being rude about blockchain is practically a proof that it's really me typing! https://t.co/p0j7a5uWyZ
- Tue, 16:59: Scunthorpe problems as far as the eye can see https://t.co/NA0i3tQLtD
- Tue, 17:07: RT @levi_mccormick: @killedbygoogle It's sad when I hear about products from Google that I might use from the press release saying it is be…
- Tue, 17:10: RT @Scott_Helme: Happy "1 Year Certificates" Day! 🎉🎉🎉 From today, all new certificates issued by CAs can only be valid for a maximum of 39…
- Tue, 17:11: RT @arungupta: Looking for an Engineering Leader in Apple Cloud Platform team. Remote to begin with but eventually based out of San Franci…
- Tue, 17:11: RT @rjmedwed: ATTENTION NON-JEWS OF TWITTER: Here is a thread of super important Jewish days coming up that, if you are in charge of sched…
- Tue, 17:13: I *aspire* to that many spatulas. Instead of socks, can spatulas please be the new swag?� https://t.co/MRTjSimuDr
- Tue, 17:16: RT @inafried: The latest on the Apple/Google Covid-tracing technology: An "express" option that doesn't require each state or country to cr…
- Tue, 17:18: RT @SamuelMarcLowe: As I may have suggested would happen (multiple times) UK is going to unilaterally recognise CE marking for a period of…
- Tue, 17:20: Excel with a mailing list of developers and reviewers outside the US, and a browser open to a page that orders shipping slots� https://t.co/DKIGmvZFjr
- Tue, 17:20: RT @seldo: How many times will corporations need to re-discover that preventing employees from unionizing is illegal? https://t.co/poMz71O7…
- Tue, 17:22: RT @davidwalshblog: Yikes...tracking on the web is out of control... https://t.co/xHlgcdrOKC
- Tue, 17:23: RT @markwilsonit: The role of the IT Department has changed: no longer about doing everything but about enabling and then getting out of th…
- Tue, 17:23: RT @markwilsonit: The cost of IT as a percentage of salary has fallen, so make the IT Department proactive: contact users to prevent recurr…
- Tue, 17:25: RT @zaranosaur: anyone teaching politics or ethics this term who isn’t also teaching eugenics with arguments from disability studies and di…
- Tue, 17:25: RT @BethanCantrell: Come work at Microsoft! I just looked at the JD and it’ll be an interesting & challenging opportunity to influence,…
- Tue, 17:25: RT @DavidHenigUK: Choices... no trade deal means greater barriers to GB-Northern Ireland trade, more chance of Scottish independence, signi…
- Tue, 17:27: RT @Twitter: Oh look another month
- Tue, 17:28: RT @BrianGoetz: @pchiusano Every "declarative" language eventually becomes a (terrible) programming language, just without the aid of actua…
- Tue, 17:29: RT @robotodd: The two folding phones launching in September. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 and Microsoft Duo. https://t.co/iDXqzo3aBi
- Tue, 17:30: RT @mekkaokereke: Hiring managers and job seekers, almost every piece of follow up info on that "short stints considered harmful," thread i…
- Tue, 17:30: RT @mekkaokereke: Her boss also was flying out of SFO, so she suggested that they carpool. As they were driving to the airport, her boss s…
- Tue, 17:31: RT @mekkaokereke: She didn't freeze. 👍🏿 She sighed, and said, "Wow. This is so disappointing. I figured that as a supposedly senior exec,…
- Tue, 17:31: RT @mekkaokereke: This was 7 months in. It became clear to her that this culture was toxic, she couldn't change it, and she would not find…
- Tue, 17:32: RT @mekkaokereke: As a hiring manager at her new company, if you ask the question, "Why did you leave your last company?" what is she suppo…
- Tue, 17:35: dual-screen 'phones' are the new laptops� https://t.co/QrcLa8jquX
- Tue, 17:41: RT @lynngr: @fearthecowboy Canadian price is $2800. They will need to provide smelling salts with each purchase to revive fainting customers
- Tue, 17:42: RT @daprdev: Join us tomorrow 9/1 @ 10am PST for the Dapr community call. We'll cover Dapr and Windows containers, Dapr performance (laten…
- Tue, 17:43: RT @QuinnyPig: “Halt, traveler— I confront you with a DevOps riddle! My compatriot here and I are paired. One of us always lies, while the…
- Tue, 17:50: Chrome will unload the 0.3% of ad iframes that use an egregious amount of CPU (>60 seconds/50% utilization over 30 seconds)� or network bandwidth (>4MB), must be fuzzed to avoid fingerprinting https://t.co/WUkkYgdoR8 � https://t.co/codd852szQ
- Tue, 17:51: RT @ralph_squillace: As always, it's a distribution problem, because capitalism doesn't do that crap https://t.co/zXfx8hWNcl
- Tue, 17:52: RT @MalwareTechBlog: Pre-robinhood you had to assume other traders have more information than you, now you can safely trade tech stocks und…
- Tue, 17:52: RT @spencersoper: #Amazon #delivery drivers are hanging smartphones in trees near Whole Foods to get an edge on other drivers in snagging r…
- Tue, 17:53: RT @mzikmunddev: Blogged: Accessing clipboard history in #UWP https://t.co/7CNaxsIacY #dev @windowsdev @WindowsDocs @WinDevelopers
- Tue, 17:54: RT @sarahoconnor_: So, Farewell then Pret I will miss your Posh cheddar and pickle Baguettes But I won't miss the Unsustainable economic mo…
- Tue, 18:10: RT @AnalyMsft: #WindowsInsiders a new notifications feature is rolling out! Control how much detail you want visible on banner notification…
- Tue, 18:11: RT @windowsinsider: It's time to talk about Microsoft Planner, #WindowsInsiders! Tell us about your experience, what you'd like to see impr…
- Tue, 18:11: RT @thrasherxy: This is going to happen with every college in the country. Every. Single. One. Why universities, literally stocked up o…
- Tue, 18:11: RT @stshank: More and more and more effort to improve batteries. Here's Group14 with a new $4M from the Department of Energy to try to adva…
- Tue, 19:11: Too many AI researchers think real-world problems are not relevant | this is such a good piece on the disconnect in AI research where 'making a system that works in the real world' is dismissed as just an implementation exercise/not important to research https://t.co/cWUyKPJM7A
- Tue, 19:43: RT @steeve: HO-LY SHIT! It booted! So here it is: macOS Catalina running on an AMD Ryzen 3950x over QEMU/KVM with full CPU passthrough over…
- Tue, 20:18: typing indicators are the automatic 'Hi and no followup' DM https://t.co/DJAo0Cf0iM
- Tue, 20:20: @candicepoon hey, I have a weirdness with collections/OneNote; sent a feedback, but should I expect to see all my OneNote notebooks in the list *twice*? https://t.co/HmIngW8KHk
- Tue, 20:45: and I just realised I forgot to tag @jasmo on my piece about the new OneDrive features that allow business users to stay on top of sharing and sync status https://t.co/5TrzP5hvV7
- Tue, 20:45: RT @cstross: Samsung, as usual, take a medium-bad idea (Boston Dynamics robot dogs) and add the special sauce to tip it over the cliff-edge…
- Tue, 20:49: I wonder how long 'more spatulas than the CEO of NVIDIA' will last as a metaphor
- Tue, 20:49: RT @jasongorman: One of the more entertaining aspects of the drive to get kids coding has been watching right wing politicians realise they…
- Tue, 20:52: RT @gmerin: Let us know which two apps work side by side for you, and what interactions would you want between them. We will provide code…
- Tue, 20:52: RT @xkcd: I’ve thought back to this chapter from What If a lot this year https://t.co/8mLoWhsluH
- Tue, 20:53: RT @rpjohnst: IT'S TRUE https://t.co/6ldnWHcIV0 https://t.co/4EcLUxmcGa
- Tue, 20:55: RT @JolyonMaugham: Lots of interest in the placing of PPE contracts with dormant companies (ie the below, today, for £43.8m). I see this as…
- Tue, 20:55: RT @JolyonMaugham: Lots of examples, including putting contracts in the weakest entity in the group, in a Newco, establishing a new Holdco…
- Tue, 20:55: RT @JolyonMaugham: Makes a lot of sense looked at through the eyes of the Group: if (like many of those Government has contracted with) you…
- Tue, 20:56: RT @JolyonMaugham: It's pretty clear Government had no idea what it was spending £32m of our money on. And if what it got was unusable, wh…
- Tue, 20:56: RT @Public_Citizen: Facebook, which refuses to restrict dishonest political ads, is expected to make $787,000,000 on political ads this ele…
- Tue, 20:57: RT @DSASWLA: Florida Water is a super old-school “Eau de Toilette” cologne that has been made with the same recipe since the early 1800s an…
- Tue, 20:58: RT @KlTTWEN: retweet strawberry kitty for good luck !! https://t.co/KsKdYWHztG
- Tue, 20:58: RT @chetanp: Zoom's market cap today ($133B) is higher than Cisco's market cap in 2011 when Eric Yuan left Cisco to start Zoom. This is aft…
- Tue, 20:59: RT @marylgray: and it doesn't have to be this way. Our economy is better served when all workers, no matter their employment classification…
- Tue, 21:01: RT @b1g_damage: so fucked that the best explanation of commodity fetishism i've ever seen was written by the guy who voiced the t rex in to…
- Tue, 21:06: RT @Juliedewidt: FINALLY!! Dutch sign language is an official language in The Netherlands. Long due but very excited https://t.co/HrvdKrmxiU
- Tue, 21:06: RT @lizthegrey: Same thing with work gaps. Please don't question when a marginalized person has a large work gap on their resume. https://t…
- Tue, 21:06: RT @MSFTIssues: #Deepfakes no more. Behold, the Microsoft Video Authenticator, a tool that can analyze a still photo or video and provide a…
- Tue, 21:07: RT @MSFTIssues: How does the Video Authenticator tool work? It detects the blending boundary of a #deepfake and subtle fading or greyscal…
- Tue, 21:08: Tories want this kind of saying the quiet part out loud in our negotiations with the EU?� https://t.co/YzxexlynxP
- Tue, 21:09: RT @BradSmi: We support the new Climate Finance Foundation's initiative to use #OpenSource analytics and #OpenData to combat climate change…
- Tue, 21:11: RT @ClintRutkas: WSL MVP in the HOUSE!!! Awesome job Nuno, an award well deserved. https://t.co/DQSRKDPYAm
- Tue, 21:12: RT @sbisson: For the US afternoon shift; some interesting work from the folk in @EdgeDevTools https://t.co/1AQfPvEdS2
- Tue, 21:13: RT @erichorvitz: Announcing technologies, initiatives, and partnerships aimed at fighting disinformation @MSFTIssues @compcomcon @Partnersh…
- Tue, 21:14: RT @maoni0: the "Improvements in native code interop in .NET 5.0" blog article is on our blog site now. and it's public 😂 https://t.co/NDwG…
- Tue, 21:14: RT @_jayphelps: Hadn't thought about this but it makes sense. The primary reason I've done confs in the past was to meet people IRL, see fr…
- Tue, 21:14: RT @mjg59: This despite doors that have such an awareness of context they can work out that someone's about to call you back and decide not…
- Tue, 21:16: RT @sarahshulist: This is *gutting*. He mentions downthread it should get the same attention as the protests tearing statues down. I think…
- Tue, 21:17: RT @WellsLucasSanto: It suddenly got a lot cooler in the Bay Area, and you might be thinking we've finally made it into fall... but we're a…
- Tue, 21:18: RT @pldrnt: Microsoft just disclosed at #fpl2020 a new hardware description language they use internally, called Sandpiper. What is it with…
- Tue, 21:22: OOOOOOOOOOH; this will be the way Microsoft does the abstractions for using FPGA in Bing and Catapult and Project Brainwave in Azure; higher-level hardware programming than the usual Verilog. Doug Burger talking about it? OOOOOH� https://t.co/MzGQeEdzPD
- Tue, 21:23: RT @AzUpdateShow: .@TechieLass shares how Azure Migrate: Server Assessment is free for the first 180 days and to leave the tool gathering t…
- Tue, 21:23: RT @richturn_ms: @zacbowden Note - Microsoft also offers up to $700 off a Duo via it's trade-in program https://t.co/StOzJP58Zl
- Tue, 21:24: RT @richturn_ms: @tanawts @BillieGoatin @SwiftOnSecurity Alternatively, PowerShell's built-in `Select-String` cmdlet is v. similar to grep…
- Tue, 21:25: RT @github: GitHub Container Registry introduces easy sharing across organizations, fine-grained permissions, and free, anonymous downloads…
- Tue, 21:25: RT @LadieAuPair: THEY JUST RAISED A MILLION FUCKING DOLLARS FOR GAME ACCESSIBILITY Y'ALL https://t.co/V0Avnl9V6V
- Tue, 21:25: RT @MaxJerneck: I can’t believe these methods are real https://t.co/fMpvLmBU3R https://t.co/GOiNirZyLI
- Tue, 21:26: RT @GrahamBrookie: Today @Facebook & @Twitter disclosed taking action based on a tip from the FBI against a small, low impact network run b…
- Wed, 02:33: One of the things I really like about Michelle Sagara's Elantra series is the way you gradually understand more about the psychology of the Dragon and Barrani (kinda sorta Elven) races and it just made me think about privilege as 'the effortless consciousness of being enough'
- Wed, 02:34: RT @zarchasmpgmr: This is the same issue as #SHARE. HallwayCon is the best part. https://t.co/WTP33qXC9s
- Wed, 02:37: RT @DavMicRot: What an amazing idea: Thank you @OldNavy!!! https://t.co/WZ6jroR08Q
- Wed, 02:39: RT @gregwhitworth: Awe yeah!! The @wicg_ now has a proposal section for *well formed* proposals!! Love this idea rather than starting in di…
- Wed, 02:40: RT @lauriepottmeyer: We'd love to include some new community contributors in the @MSTCommunity #MicrosoftTeams community blog. Submit her…
- Wed, 02:41: RT @femkesvs: Living in Amsterdam for 5 years drilled the value of 'Directness' so hard in to me, that now that i'm living in Canada and wo…
- Wed, 02:41: RT @josephfcox: New: Amazon is monitoring Facebook groups for drivers and compiling regular reports on discussions within them, including i…
- Wed, 02:41: RT @appcompatguy: We released Microsoft Edge 85 last week, and of course there is a new Security Baseline to go with it! We're enforcing on…
- Wed, 02:42: RT @MikeIsaac: Rep. @SteveScalise + his office using video of a disabled activist with ALS who can’t speak, altering it and literally putti…
- Wed, 02:44: RT @alicegoldfuss: if the workday ends and I have unresolved questions/tasks, I write them down on my whiteboard this "flush to disk" free…
- Wed, 02:44: RT @SwiftOnSecurity: Thread from Microsoft Director of OS Security on firmware threats: https://t.co/ZVCPnb76Q5
- Wed, 02:44: RT @ottocrat: “The argument is that when Brexit leads to the consequences of Brexit, that would give Boris’s achievement in inflicting Brex…
- Wed, 02:47: RT @DOtykier: Michael Kovalsky from the #PowerBI CAT team shows an elegant way to extract model metadata using #TabularEditor across all in…