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- Mon, 12:49: Project 'revive a red 1520' is almost complete; OS & apps loaded, SD card cloned (it was several years old), phone unlocked and SIM working
- Mon, 12:53: RT @DJSnM: Rocket science: https://t.co/CxH7JJg8pS https://t.co/s0UJlPYivZ
- Mon, 12:55: RT @clemensv: TCP throttling on high-latency routes roundtripping traffic half around the planet keeps being surprising to many customers.
- Mon, 12:58: RT @DavidHenigUK: That's the deadline for US Trade Promotion Authority. Irrelevant if Biden wins (trade talks reviewed by new USTR). Also i…
- Mon, 12:59: RT @puntofisso: Jeez. I said out loud "I think Google's approach to recruitment is entirely bu******" My Google Home replied: "I'm sorry…
- Mon, 12:59: RT @Steve_MSFT: Really cool use of PSReadLineKeyHandler, history, and Out-ConsoleGridView! Here's my modified version that uses PSReadLine…
- Mon, 12:59: RT @TechieLass: This was in amongst the #MSIgnite announcements, a cross region load balancer in #Azure. Which will help provide geo-redund…
- Mon, 12:59: RT @monkchips: Check out all these juicy Apple Cloud Services jobs https://t.co/H16Nvh1532
- Mon, 13:00: Will that rat out random women those runs, rides and rambles happened to pass? https://t.co/ItRAXTnwYG
- Mon, 13:01: RT @PippaCrerar: Unsurprisingly quick https://t.co/hzo1kP8F9r
- Mon, 13:01: RT @cstross: Our scriptwriter is clearly the late, great Richard Condon! In book 3 of his “Prizzi” trilogy, “Prizzi’s Glory”, the Partanna…
- Mon, 13:02: RT @ThatOneDogGuy: The fact that Twitters shitty AI cropping is even like this with toys is wild. https://t.co/KlA6m6rLW4
- Mon, 13:02: RT @SwiftOnSecurity: Equifax wasn't the victim, you were.
- Mon, 13:02: RT @APPGLGBT: We are really looking forward to this online event tomorrow hosted by @LizBarkerLords to discuss @stonewalluk’s new report on…
- Mon, 13:03: RT @cstross: This is an example of why I’m temporarily giving up on political satire in my fiction: I just can’t keep ahead of reality. Bac…
- Mon, 13:03: RT @GlennBBC: The Scottish government @Feorlean is formally recommending MSPs refuse consent for the UK internal market bill https://t.co/T…
- Mon, 13:05: RT @MarcoDalPino: Microsoft and Telstra to partner on cloud, IoT, and digital twins https://t.co/kM6Bduzqoo #MSFTAdvocate
- Mon, 13:07: Arguably the same point Microsoft is making with Duo https://t.co/CSZOSpGbc1
- Mon, 13:07: RT @leftoblique: Selling on infomercials makes these products profitable enough to be produced, but they are in fact disability/accessibili…
- Mon, 13:07: RT @alexstamos: Dump every stolen document and email you are sitting on, exact play as during the Access Hollywood tapes. https://t.co/lJw6…
- Mon, 13:08: RT @JenniferMerode: Brexit - "We still do not know where landing zones could be," says one of Angela Merkel's closest allies in Euro parlia…
- Mon, 13:08: RT @DavidHenigUK: Under pressure. But difficult trying to find reassuring phrases for the public while still telling US negotiators that we…
- Mon, 13:08: RT @ThimontJack: Scrolling through the amdts to UKIM bill for report I'm struck by how many are from the govt eg a new schedule on the cons…
- Mon, 13:09: RT @Foone: hi, bots https://t.co/ZgCO7fTGmP
- Mon, 13:10: RT @IanDunt: And here it is. The moment we've known was coming for four years: when the reality of what a US trade deal entails meets the s…
- Mon, 13:10: RT @cstross: I’m married to a vegan. So, just to clarify: Mars bars contain dairy and egg. Croissant: ditto. Dairy products come from cow…
- Mon, 13:11: RT @katebevan: Pretty sure we also wouldn't be up for this, either (source: Bloomberg) https://t.co/K8iP6emQZj
- Mon, 13:11: RT @katebevan: Worth noting however that "robust" means "massively intrusive" and I'm pretty sure we wouldn't tolerate many of those measur…
- Mon, 13:11: RT @dougclow: Breaking isolation is now (as of midnight) a criminal offence, and apparently isolating students were being told to do so by…
- Mon, 13:12: RT @Wera_Hobhouse: Months ago, when I spoke to a group of Tory MPs - to remind them about social distancing - I was laughed at and told sar…
- Mon, 13:13: RT @JayHulmePoet: You cannot be transphobic and stand up for women's rights, just as you cannot be transphobic stand up for LGB rights, bec…
- Mon, 13:15: RT @carophillips1: Microsoft Research's Project InnerEye open-source deep learning toolkit is democratizing medical imaging AI. @MSFTResear…
- Mon, 13:15: RT @StevePeers: Because "nice museum you have there, shame if someone defunded it" is not at all political https://t.co/nrnL0QW1Oy
- Mon, 13:15: RT @DavidHenigUK: Worth a read - particularly in terms of a government really not thinking about these things and then being forced to make…
- Mon, 13:16: RT @neilhimself: It's starting to feel real. We begin shooting in 3 weeks, lockdowns permitting. #SandmanonNetflix https://t.co/B4QKU9NooT
- Mon, 13:16: RT @DrJenGunter: Keep your rosaries off our ovaries
- Mon, 13:17: RT @StevePeers: As always, thoughts and prayers for The Narrative 🙏 https://t.co/O70Vx3tY3E
- Mon, 13:20: RT @tribunemagazine: On this day in 1936, Blackshirts led by Oswald Mosley organised a rally in Leeds to intimidate the city's Jewish popul…
- Mon, 13:22: RT @NHSforPV: We did actually warn about this. 🤷🏻♂️ https://t.co/6zFZSbhw4R
- Mon, 13:23: RT @logicappsio: The new @logicappsio containerized and re-hostable runtime allows you to develop and deploy Logic Apps locally, to Azure,…
- Mon, 13:23: RT @ZJemptv: What makes you think you're allowed to know someone else's private medical history? https://t.co/Cn5FmzCm6C
- Mon, 13:25: RT @mikejjennings: Morning all, here's to another week in a Tory-led Rona hellscape https://t.co/kRzE1P060O
- Mon, 13:25: RT @davidschneider: We’re screwed. https://t.co/p9FckRGSyE
- Mon, 13:27: RT @ProfBrianCox: The NHS app now allows all positive test results to be logged. Good work. I really encourage everyone to download this. I…
- Mon, 13:28: RT @ambermyself: did a cat write this https://t.co/FlH1CG5nI0
- Mon, 13:29: RT @sbisson: @division6 So this is more Murdoch-sponsored "See they don't obey the rules, so you don't have to" that's torpedoed by the act…
- Mon, 13:29: LOLOLOL https://t.co/Hg0jN0Yxy6
- Mon, 16:24: pro tip: if you're shopping on the Microsoft Store and you get the incomprehensible error message "nc9cZPtjBESRpFNt.40" when you try to buy something it means 'the product you have in your cart is out of stock and maybe we shouldn't have let you put it in your cart'
- Mon, 16:52: RT @remkorteweg: EU has made it clear it wont freeze FTA talks in response to the IM Bill. ‘Parallelism’ does not apply regarding implement…
- Mon, 16:52: RT @remkorteweg: But BJ may anticipate this, and "want" it. Nothing says “I’m tough on Brussels” than being sued by EU lawyers. /3
- Mon, 16:53: negotiating with the EU one Daily Mail headline at a time - so good for long-term trust between the UK and other nations https://t.co/w7vQGo0gXP
- Mon, 16:53: RT @remkorteweg: This is perhaps why HMG has been briefing last week it is keen to go into “the tunnel”. The tunnel is a place so dark, i…
- Mon, 16:53: RT @remkorteweg: But alas, alas, because trust in the UK has collapsed in recent weeks, the EU27 have indicated they want clearer signals t…
- Mon, 16:54: RT @GeorgeFreemanMP: This👇is happening to 00,000’s of students / their families who these days are paying: ⚠️c£30,000 for their: 🏢accommo…
- Mon, 16:58: RT @vibronet: The more I write tech explanations, the less I use "it" and pronouns in general. Antecedent resolution might not always be ob…
- Mon, 16:59: RT @GeorgeMonbiot: Our national parks are largely composed of sheep ranches, grouse shoots and deer stalking estates. Yet they form the cor…
- Mon, 17:03: RT @angie_rasmussen: My guiding principles for practicing Twitter pest control: -Nobody is entitled to your time and attention. -It's y…
- Mon, 17:04: RT @JolyonMaugham: In the UK - an international outlier because we've given over health policy in the sphere to the equivalent of anti-vaxe…
- Mon, 17:06: RT @BorisJohnson_MP: At what point would you report your neighbour for not following the rules? Helen Whately: "If they had a marquee in t…
- Mon, 17:06: RT @tconnellyRTE: 2/ Two senior sources have said that during last week's informal talks between David Frost and Michel Barnier in London F…
- Mon, 17:06: RT @tconnellyRTE: 3/ However, this was resisted by Michel Barnier. The view in EU capitals is that Barnier refused to start the "tunnel" un…
- Mon, 17:07: RT @tconnellyRTE: 7/ A second EU source says movement might yet come from the British side, but it hasn't yet. Also, the view in Brussels i…
- Mon, 17:11: no idea of the validity of the source but it feels like we're all stuck in The Boris Show https://t.co/tcn76uZRjX
- Mon, 17:11: RT @DavidHenigUK: The long term UK policy on EU-US trade differences was to try to bridge them. But prominent Brexit supporters receiving f…
- Mon, 17:37: RT @DavidHenigUK: For reasons unknown the UK has not joined negotiations for an Agreement on Climate Change, Trade and Sustainability (ACCT…
- Mon, 17:38: RT @ed_doran: On school rooftops across Ireland, internet-connected solar panels are helping us prototype solutions to help fight climate c…
- Mon, 17:41: RT @matvelloso: Facebook is a threat to democracies https://t.co/QD5m4l4ONF
- Mon, 17:44: RT @awbjs: @davewiner A short history/rationale of the ES6 module design from JavaScript: The First 20 Years https://t.co/8Jc2wcH0x5
- Mon, 17:46: Azure Edge Zones expanding to an entire strategy: putting cloud hardware in carrier locations means there's always an Azure region close to you (also this is why Microsoft has been buying telco networking software companies) � https://t.co/c6vc4nBldr
- Mon, 17:47: RT @LadieAuPair: Well, this sucks for Twitch ... and all of us who wanted Twitch to be more accessible https://t.co/0Qaw4RZroK
- Mon, 17:48: RT @RepKeriIngle: I paid more than $750 in income taxes working 39 hours a week at Starbucks during college.
- Mon, 17:49: RT @cstross: Shahab-3 is based on the Nodong-1 design which is an extended Soviet SS-1 Scud, first flown in 1953; this in turn was a modern…
- Mon, 17:50: RT @IanColdwater: Normalize not having meetings on Jewish holidays, because the majority population would be rightfully salty if they had t…
- Mon, 17:50: RT @MSFTIssues: For #AI innovation to benefit us all, it’s important that everyone can help shape the discussion around how it's used. We…
- Mon, 17:52: RT @dansereduick: @tomwarren Microsoft doesn't even need to make them exclusives, though. They can sell full freight on PS5 and bundle the…
- Mon, 17:55: RT @davidmacd: Hi Devs If it GOES someWHERE use a link If it DOES someTHING use a button Thanks #a11y
- Mon, 17:55: RT @Anderson: at #Ignite2020 i announced a handful of amazing new things -- like Msft Tunnel and mgmt tools for Edge. to help you get up to…
- Mon, 17:58: RT @alexstamos: Simultaneous congratulations and condolences to @rinkisethi! It sounds like she has a lot of work to do at Twitter, but hop…
- Mon, 17:59: RT @ConUnit_UCL: BLOG: The govt last night once again enacted complex COVID legislation without a chance for parliamentary scrutiny. Meg Ru…
- Mon, 18:04: RT @migueldeicaza: The Lebanese Civil war in the late 70s started with one of these militia checkpoints gone wrong. You can read the de…
- Mon, 18:04: RT @niubi: Jeff Bezos wants to start a school for kids whose families are underpaid by people like Jeff Bezos by @AnandWrites https://t.co/…
- Mon, 18:05: RT @Karuana: @susanhanley This is so good I just used it in an internal MSFT meeting to show how we "should" do it post Ignite! Thank you…
- Mon, 18:05: RT @theBugsCoder: Stop making people feel bad for monetizing their work. No one is obligated to give away their work for free. If they do i…
- Mon, 18:07: RT @gabsmashh: haven't seen any news articles on it yet, but i've seen a few reports that UHS hospitals in the US currently have no access…
- Mon, 18:08: RT @briankardell: For the next 7 days, Igalia will match up to $250 in new pledges... In one week, we will be eliminating projects that f…
- Mon, 18:11: RT @GossiTheDog: UHS have a statement out, they call it an "IT Security" issue and imply it's all hospitals. https://t.co/FxBlSXRPp9
- Mon, 18:12: RT @pam_boy: “Beyoncé can find 24 black trombone players, but your company cannot find a single black intern, associate, or board member?”
- Mon, 18:17: RT @stshank: Adobe's @Lightroom photo editing software is getting advanced color grading abilities courtesy of the company='s Lumetri techn…
- Mon, 18:19: RT @InnaBoxDesign: Fibromeowgia pins are now in the shop along with multiple other Invisible illness pals! 😍 https://t.co/GhbpavVILi
- Mon, 18:19: RT @monkchips: On a @Microsoft briefing about Building A Sustainable Cloud. One of the best things we can do as technologists today is to e…
- Mon, 18:19: RT @monkchips: "As we expand around the world we're finding smaller data centers are better". An interesting, somewhat contrarian positio…
- Mon, 18:19: RT @monkchips: internal "carbon tax" at Microsoft. interesting corporate approach. https://t.co/FoNa5aB421
- Mon, 18:21: RT @MSCloud: Learn how BBC used #Azure Cognitive Services, Azure Bot Service, and Azure AI to create an end-to-end, customized digital voic…
- Mon, 18:21: RT @qmatteoq: Back to blogging, after a long break! Passing installation parameters to a Windows application with MSIX and App Installer ht…
- Mon, 18:21: RT @edbott: Excellent thread from Alex. This is in the middle, but worth scrolling up to catch it all. https://t.co/f1355Q48lb
- Mon, 18:21: RT @ktosopl: That’s some awesome work by @Cloudflare here: https://t.co/OocKye16sL Basically an edge “virtual” actor runtime as proven in…
- Mon, 18:22: RT @alexhern: Hyperloop is one of those things that really exposes the failure of "tech" thinking. Like, have you seen a high-speed train?…
- Mon, 18:22: RT @alexhern: Hyperloop will never be a useful mass transit system, but it's doing its job without a centimetre of track being built, becau…
- Mon, 18:24: RT @aydinanwar_: Reminds me when the Chinese Ambassador Zhang Jun at the UN said to my face that my comments were full of bias after tellin…
- Mon, 18:25: RT @garius: I called this happening months ago. They'll NEVER announce another lockdown. We'll hit a point where LITERALLY the only people…
- Mon, 18:27: RT @Hal_Duncan: Don't know how folk are glossing over the ban on working with external agencies "promoting divisive or victim narratives th…
- Mon, 18:27: RT @Hal_Duncan: Interpreted cautiously, as I can tell you from personal experience of my school debate club being banned from debating Clau…
- Mon, 19:40: Obviously Ignite should have been bigger and should have gone on for the full 5 days, because this isn't the first post-Ignite extra sessions I've seen - sign up for Microsoft Endpoint Manager post-Ignite activities this week Community https://t.co/pqY9ehp5Oj
- Mon, 20:27: getting things that you buy delivered is very lovely when we aren't leaving the house but I have to say, online shopping is every bit as frustrating and exhausting as trudging round Ikea or John Lewis in person except without the bit where I see other things I'd want to buy
- Mon, 20:54: RT @RachelReevesMP: Clear from #Panorama 1. Govt was too slow at linking local authorities to Test & Trace, but swift to hand contracts to…
- Mon, 21:01: I think vertical tabs is still in partial rollout; most new Edge features go to only a subset of users, not everyone in canary (can't check as I have a canary that can't open itself to update!)� https://t.co/PqMTBTcEXS
- Mon, 21:03: RT @mlagos: That is a first. @GavinNewsom just got a flu shot DURING his new briefing.
- Mon, 21:05: RT @justkelly_ok: Among other issues with this article, I have a real problem with the (unfortunately popular) rule of "assume positive int…
- Mon, 21:05: RT @Arabella_Law: “It is - again - not possible for national law to authorise a breach of an international treaty at international level” h…
- Mon, 21:06: RT @JeremyCliffe: The disintegration of the AfD (latest news: rogue press spokesman spoke of "shooting" and "gassing" migrants, party colla…
- Mon, 21:08: RT @get_porter: Porter has been accepted into the @CloudNativeFdn as a Sandbox Project! ❤️ Make a friendly @cnab_spec cli 🏖 Play in the CN…
- Mon, 21:08: RT @mkashman: Have you heard? There's a new SharePoint-powered *home site app* coming to Microsoft Teams. New blog + on-demand video: ht…
- Mon, 21:09: RT @jessenoller: You can replace kubernetes with a bunch of servers running Just Linux, a dedicated mgmt network and load balancers https:/…
- Mon, 21:09: RT @rupertg: The Tories have classified Channel 4 News as left-wing. Which is how you spell 'truthful' in 2020. https://t.co/BxuFJ463xz
- Mon, 21:10: RT @IanColdwater: general speaker bio template, because writing these is hard: [name] is a [title] at [company], where [pronoun] [does thi…
- Mon, 21:12: RT @mtholfsen: NEW! Individual Page Lock/Unlock 🔐 comes to #OneNote Class Notebooks for Windows 10, Online, Mac and iPad 💜 Also improved la…
- Mon, 21:13: RT @kid_jenius: Windows 10 has an AirDrop-like feature called Nearby Share. It lets you instantly share to nearby Windows devices. I've bee…
- Mon, 21:14: RT @dinoman_j: https://t.co/mQl5cBtmjV
- Mon, 21:17: RT @MicrosoftTeams: Breakout rooms—coming in October—will allow meeting organizers in #MicrosoftTeams to split up participants into smaller…
- Mon, 21:18: RT @Benefield: The extensive, underground drainage system at Ledson Winery is burning. 4 guys here pumping water in to try to prevent it fr…
- Mon, 21:19: RT @emilyriesbeck: We could have paid people to stay home, forgiven debt, cancelled rent and evictions, provided healthcare to those who ne…
- Mon, 21:19: RT @econinbricks: Philantropy is nice. Paying taxes is better. https://t.co/V0wr9mmIr4
- Mon, 21:19: RT @JeffGilb: Deploying PowerShell scripts to edit the Windows Registry with #Intune and getting weird results-like the key you're looking…
- Mon, 21:20: RT @WinObs: I already received payment for two images I submitted of handwritten notes. .93 cents each... https://t.co/phFKsPf0nF
- Mon, 21:25: RT @chr1sa: If you had any doubt that Tesla's "we can do everything with cameras, no Lidar needed" position is not just wrong, but dangerou…
- Mon, 21:26: RT @terrajobst: What was the most terrible audio software you have ever used and why do you think it is Real Player?
- Mon, 21:26: RT @PatrickMcGee_: Apple-Epic hearing started a few minutes early. “We are going to be hear for hours, I suspect,” says Judge Gonzales, who…
- Mon, 21:26: RT @PatrickMcGee_: Gonzales begins by grilling Katherine Forrest - Epic’s lawyer - and says it’s not acceptable Epic hasn’t produced docume…
- Mon, 21:26: RT @PatrickMcGee_: Is iOS platform an aftermarket? Epic lawyer Bornstein says you can’t distribute on iOS separately. It constitutes an af…
- Mon, 21:27: RT @PatrickMcGee_: YGR: “The 30% of what you complain seems to be the industry rate, right? Steam charges 30%. Microsoft: 30% ... If you g…
- Mon, 21:27: judges who know technology� https://t.co/eb6U73xDnB
- Mon, 21:28: RT @PatrickMcGee_: Doren says Epic CEO Sweeney says 10% of average daily players using iOS, which means: “90%, on any average day, of peop…
- Mon, 21:28: RT @PatrickMcGee_: Doren says 63% figure from Epic is misleading. “That just tells us that if we look at everyone who has ever opened fort…
- Mon, 21:29: RT @PatrickMcGee_: Bornstein clarifies: The 63% represents 71m users. ... Says 10% of Daily Active Users on Fortnite recently used iOS. But…
- Mon, 21:29: RT @PatrickMcGee_: Judge YGR: “Well plaintiffs always want me to define relevant markets as narrowly as possible. It helps their cace. And…
- Mon, 21:29: RT @Slasher: this wasn't a good hearing for Epic. the judge isn't persuaded that Epic came into this with clean hands and the right intenti…
- Mon, 21:31: RT @PatrickMcGee_: Judge YGR making everyone laugh, saying in previous case alleging Apple had a monopoly because of iPods. “By the time I…
- Mon, 21:32: RT @PatrickMcGee_: Apple lawyer Boutrous *agrees* it would “address a lot of the issues” — but he’ll have to ask Apple — for Fortnite to re…
- Mon, 21:32: RT @PatrickMcGee_: Harsh words from YGR, re Epic’s “hot fix” in-app purchase circumvention: “You were not forthright. You weren't. You wer…
- Mon, 21:34: RT @PatrickMcGee_: Apple’s Doren responds: No, that just demonstrates people would rather pay $7 than $10. “What's probably most enlighte…
- Mon, 21:34: RT @PatrickMcGee_: “Apple disclosed in its papers for the 1st time that there have been thousands of instances in which developers have att…
- Mon, 21:35: RT @PatrickMcGee_: We’re on the “tying” argument, which regards whether the App Store and in-app purchases (IAP) are separate products. Ap…
- Mon, 21:36: RT @itaysk: I like that good old Actor Model is regaining attention in light of #serverless maturing into more complex use cases. (h/t to #…
- Mon, 21:38: RT @jeffhollan: I've been saying the next big shift in serverless workloads will be improvements around stateful serverless. This is why I'…
- Mon, 21:38: RT @sturdyAlex: It took 14 minutes. https://t.co/ir6zFz3hYd https://t.co/B2lFS7Bwmz
- Mon, 21:40: RT @Delafina777: "praised be... the names of Your mechanics" is such a sly, angry, defiant, and accepting reference to the idea of tikkun…
- Mon, 21:41: RT @shehackspurple: Subtweet: I recorded a podcast and the host pressured me to sponsor the episode so it would air sooner. They have follo…
- Mon, 21:43: RT @ShuhBillSkee: Sometimes when over-hyped tech addiction & social media work is uncritically accepted I make myself remember how comicall…
- Tue, 02:17: Microsoft doing cross platform browsers is hardly new and web developers sometimes use Linux... https://t.co/PBk6PTXmL0
- Tue, 02:18: RT @kylealden: (Before you @ me with examples of non-xplat browsers, consider whether competition played any role in their success.)
- Tue, 02:24: How would I describe my inbox... https://t.co/7vVgzYjTpR
- Tue, 11:53: Pipe too young to direct coffee through its nose in the morning? https://t.co/Z7sUHVhHQz
- Tue, 11:58: RT @RobDotHutton: Hard not to admire whoever it was in No10 who wrote a speech for Boris Johnson about his enthusiasm for technology lesson…
- Tue, 11:59: RT @DavidHenigUK: "The German car makers are really not coming to the rescue" would have been shorter. I return to a core thesis, which is…
- Tue, 11:59: RT @JoeBiden: I'm not looking to punish anyone, but it's about time the super-wealthy and corporate America start paying their fair share.