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Jul. 1st, 2021 12:00 pm
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  • Wed, 13:07: RT @teroalhonen: Microsoft and Google have ended an almost six-year truce to prevent open warfare between the rival Big Tech companies, cle…
  • Wed, 13:14: RT @danieltharris: People should realise it may not be such a bad thing to stay on Windows 10 either with an old PC - At the end of the day…
  • Wed, 13:22: Lyra is standing on the edge of the sink peering out of the loft window #aerialist https://t.co/rjPgUpv1yd
  • Wed, 13:23: RT @briecode: Mint’s invasive gamification features are imo not good for several parts of your brain that have to do with agency or noticin…
  • Wed, 13:23: RT @briecode: Money is energy exchange. For example, hypnotherapy works better when you pay for it. Training people to feel bad about the f…
  • Wed, 13:25: RT @AngelaRayner: Thread: @MichaelGove was too chicken to come to Parliament yesterday to answer questions on the Public First contract (th…
  • Wed, 13:25: RT @BethanCantrell: Yes. I collect books that I want to read and on a separate timeline I read a subset of those books. https://t.co/Jz1g2K…
  • Wed, 13:26: RT @juliendubois: Love my team… They are so dedicated that they go to @TeamBlind to advocate for Java at Microsoft! Blind is anonymous, and…
  • Wed, 13:26: RT @developerjack: Australia spent years neglecting its technical skills funnel by "only hiring seniors" and now companies are claiming the…
  • Wed, 13:26: RT @WritesBright: 🔴 NEW 🔴 The Department of Health failed to declare 27 meetings held by minister Lord Bethell at the outset of the pandem…
  • Wed, 13:27: RT @SDonziger: BREAKING: Ian Austen now reports that up to 30,000 missing Indigenous children might be in makeshift graves at Catholic scho…
  • Wed, 13:29: In tribute to William Goldman, I call this "Which Lie Did I Tell?" https://t.co/1u5b9O02vs
  • Wed, 13:34: .Net is very much not just a Microsoft technology https://t.co/M5FbMVgncj
  • Wed, 13:36: RT @ainissaramirez: When you hear Tuskegee, you might think of that bad chapter in science. What you might not know is that scientists ther…
  • Wed, 13:37: RT @pswidlicki: Maybe it would have been good to have debated this significant piece of legislation for more than 7 hours https://t.co/5gpS…
  • Wed, 13:45: RT @OnyekaAg: Lately I've seen some devs act a little... obsessive about Lighthouse performance scores. When did that start? It has a vague…
  • Wed, 13:46: RT @Scientists4EU: And there it is. They knew the damage they were doing all along. https://t.co/teitotX9lU
  • Wed, 13:46: RT @rupertg: The butcher's bill after Johnson decides that 'the matter is closed' on a peaking pandemic will be substantial. https://t.co/D…
  • Wed, 13:46: RT @garius: You can trace all of this back to his refusal to do the Andrew Neil interview in December 2019. That was the moment he definit…
  • Wed, 13:47: RT @DPJHodges: “It is one rule for them and another for everyone else". Starmer finally has a cut-through message. And the reason it will c…
  • Wed, 14:56: RT @mikegehard: Who would have thought: a) we'd find ourselves in an 18ish month pandemic that would drastically upend our lives b) we'd…
  • Wed, 14:59: RT @eaftandilian: During my grad school days, one of my advisor’s other students was working on program synthesis. I thought it would never…
  • Wed, 14:59: RT @eaftandilian: At Google, I saw the power of the monorepo and code search. Nearly any code you might want had been written by someone el…
  • Wed, 14:59: RT @eaftandilian: It was especially useful to me as a newbie to both TypeScript and Python, which our code is written in. I didn’t have to…
  • Wed, 15:00: RT @eaftandilian: Fun fact #1: We used Copilot to build Copilot. 😄 8/9
  • Wed, 15:01: RT @natfriedman: @larsmb @webmink @nicktindle In general: (1) training ML systems on public data is fair use (2) the output belongs to the…
  • Wed, 15:01: RT @tpeczek: I fail to understand some negative comments around #GitHubCopilot. It's a tool which is supposed to help you, not replace you.…
  • Wed, 15:06: best scam call *ever*! someone phoned up claiming to be from BT and asking how I was and I said '"excellent, I'm really in the mood for a scam call, how much money are you hoping to get out of me" and he replied "how much money do you have?" LOLOLOL
  • Wed, 15:12: RT @DavMicRot: Increasingly likely that the virulence of the Delta-Variant of COVID-19, combined with stagnating vaccination rates in Repub…
  • Wed, 15:12: RT @DavMicRot: While cost of not getting vaccinated rests mainly on unvaccinated, for now, there is still this concern: by keeping the viru…
  • Wed, 15:22: RT @AdamMGrant: If people have to burn the midnight oil to get ahead, you're promoting a culture of burnout. Sacrificing family, friends,…
  • Wed, 15:22: RT @Nadine_Writes: NEW: The UN has urged UK to "uproot" systemic racism in policing in a new report. This comes: 1) After UK govt's race re…
  • Wed, 15:23: RT @UrbanAchievr: This is an enormous fuck-up and heads should roll. But it's also interesting to see how quickly an election result that…
  • Wed, 15:23: RT @PrivacyMatters: 👆But 'ethically sourced' <I'd prefer it was lawful and ethical ... but what is the legal basis relied on? WHY don't nat…
  • Wed, 15:24: RT @PrivacyMatters: "Sensyne Health has been set up to be an exemplar of how a commercial company can partner with the NHS to improve patie…
  • Wed, 15:25: RT @bryanl: I don’t memorize how to flush dns, most of the git sub commands, all these letter industry acronyms, and a rack of other things…
  • Wed, 15:28: RT @neilhimself: For anyone coming in late who would an explanation of what's going on right now, https://t.co/7BuddIA5II should explain it…
  • Wed, 15:29: RT @gvnshtn: I'm going to put my entire organisation at risk because I don't like tapping 'accept' on my phone from time to time to verify…
  • Wed, 15:29: RT @LuiseFreese: Sweet, apparently I won a prize when I contributed to #Azure for #neurodiversity ✌️ Who knows a charity that cares about…
  • Wed, 15:30: my *company* is this old because hen I left AOL and went freelance, I started writing for this magazine that was about to launch, called The Official Windows XP Magazine ;)   https://t.co/VaCQIqOeGa
  • Wed, 15:31: RT @pid_eins: What I find quite irritating about the whole TPM2 + Windows11 discussion, and the supposed advantage of Linux given that Linu…
  • Wed, 15:32: RT @pid_eins: …classic, traditional Linux distributions is sad. Even though we have all the building blocks for SecureBoot, TPM2, disk encr…
  • Wed, 15:32: RT @pid_eins: …Linux installations are SecureBoot integrity checks covering the kernel image itself and then LUKS encryption covering the r…
  • Wed, 15:32: RT @pid_eins: …offline attack: an evil maid with physical access to your hw can make any change they like to your initrd, and your boot loa…
  • Wed, 15:32: RT @pid_eins: … you'll never be able to notice, because there is no protection covering it at all, it's an incredibly weak design. And even…
  • Wed, 15:32: RT @pid_eins: … to deploy both dm-crypt+dm-integrity, i.e. AEAD, which LUKS actually supports since quite a while too, but no distro actual…
  • Wed, 15:32: RT @pid_eins: …my laptop the LUKS FDE will query my passphrase during initrd, and this is the only passphrase that really matters, that pro…
  • Wed, 15:32: RT @pid_eins: …account is much less relevant though: it doesn't really unlock my data, it isn't required for my programs to run (they can a…
  • Wed, 15:32: RT @pid_eins: … story of Linux data security is just sad, and what other OSes offer (including other Linux based that do not use much of th…
  • Wed, 15:33: RT @pid_eins: … security functionality of the hw is used, and we have systems that are a bit harder to hack than they currently are. If we'…
  • Wed, 15:46: RT @ellzajaay: As a woman who was previously stalked, keep these in mind: •Do not tag restaurants/places you’re at on social media until a…
  • Wed, 15:47: RT @_ElizabethMay: It's the only piece that has given Isabel Fall a place to speak for herself, and I think many people owe it to her to re…
  • Wed, 15:47: RT @_ElizabethMay: I read this a few days ago when it was an exclusive and honestly haven't been able to stop thinking about it. Though som…
  • Wed, 15:47: RT @KimCrayton1: Fun Fact: LEARNING CANNOT BE FULLY AUTOMATED Also: AI !== learning; knowledge acquisition; skill development AI is a too…
  • Wed, 16:15: there isn't a lot in Windows 11 that appeals to me personally yet but I cannot WAIT until Adobe software is in the Windows Store and I don't get spammy offers like this when I go to install Acrobat #foistware https://t.co/dCwmCUN5CG
  • Wed, 17:22: I was looking at the monthly 'what's new in Excel' announcements and I started to wonder just how many desktop features Excel is going to get on the web: @jones206 tells me it's 'all of them that enough people ask for'. also Excel already switched from DOM to Canvas! https://t.co/gstr4t2YNC
  • Wed, 17:22: RT @jones206: Great article from @marypcbuk covering all the work we've done in #Excel for the web. As always, it was a lot of fun talking…
  • Wed, 17:30: I tried this; it removed the search button, which I actually need and whether it was the extension or the network outage we suffered this morning, I couldn't get mobile twitter working properly with it, so test before deploying. I've turned it off myself https://t.co/w7HNXRQiuZ
  • Wed, 17:49: dear all UK politicians: "stuff going on within the Westminster bubble" is actually our government breaking the rules, ignoring the conventions and letting down the entire country. leave the vaccine to the NHS and try a bit of actual governing and responsibility aka *your jobs*
  • Wed, 17:57: OK, that's quite big: AT&T Moves 5G Mobile Network to Microsoft Azure (especially as they'd been looking at complicated things like their own custom Kubernetes for 5G cell sites) https://t.co/PykfCai59H
  • Wed, 18:55: I talked to @dwizzzleMSFT about the Windows 11 requirements; how they're about both enabling security by default and making the experience of using a PC with security on by default be good performance, compatibility and battery life (plus I get a bit technical about CPUs) https://t.co/z0Y92MQlW9
  • Wed, 19:25: the worst thing about Google delaying FLOC might be that it means people pitching me something about blockchain (and no, I don't myself get the connection NOR DO I WANT TO KNOW*) *this is a test
  • Wed, 19:44: Microsoft got 2,400 - 3,500 secrecy orders a year from the US government in the last five years and they're regularly boilerplate "unsupported by any meaningful legal or factual analysis".
  • Wed, 20:25: from the Exchange team in 2012: The vast majority of users have very sparsely populated calendars with one or two events per day 2021: hold this entire crate of beer
  • Wed, 21:43: RT @JoshABlock: Testimony from Waggoner that she had to compete against a transgender girl was based on assumption that a cis girl with sho…
  • Wed, 21:44: RT @CarmenCrincoli: Leaders of sales organization and teams leaving/changing roles at the end of a Fiscal Year raises my eyebrows about as…
  • Wed, 21:45: RT @matalla: @marypcbuk @gregtaylor_msft Believe me, nobody was more surprised than the Exchange team to find out that most people didn’t h…
  • Wed, 21:46: RT @StevePeers: Heartbreaking read. This is one of the many human stories behind the broken promise to allow EU citizens to stay in the UK…
  • Wed, 21:46: RT @LZGranderson: They really freed Bill Cosby before Britney huh…
  • Wed, 21:49: RT @brianleroux: Completely anecdotal but two friends in the past week tested positive w Covid even after being vaccinated in the UK. The d…
  • Wed, 21:51: RT @mzbat: my therapist told me she believes “assume positive intent” can be a toxic mentality & that it’s ok to unapologetically trust my…
  • Wed, 21:52: RT @Arlodottxt: @dotMorten This is how you get clickbait. Context: "We don't have any plans to move that from experimental to GA". "We'll…
  • Wed, 21:53: RT @Stonekettle: Same people think having to wear a mask to protect others is the same as their ancestors being kidnapped from their homes,…
  • Wed, 21:55: plea deals and immunity arrangements can be weird  https://t.co/1dim9tOkza
  • Wed, 21:55: RT @CREWcrew: Find something you love like Toyota loves to give money to politicians who vote to reject the election results
  • Wed, 21:55: RT @killedbygoogle: "But it's technology. You can't expect them to support anything _that_ ancient. And Apple calls devices they stop selli…
  • Wed, 21:55: RT @killedbygoogle: IMO, this is Google saying, "We feel you should be forced to purchase another device five years from now if you want yo…
  • Wed, 21:56: RT @kclemson: They're talking about employee resource groups now and I just remembered I actually created the "microsoft moms" group almost…
  • Wed, 21:57: RT @GeekTrainer: My recent breakthrough was teasing out those moments when I absolutely *need* to get something done because doing so will…
  • Wed, 21:57: RT @GeekTrainer: I'd add those 8 hours are far more productive than normal hours if I'm taking proper care of myself, and can often spark a…
  • Wed, 21:58: RT @MrErnestOwens: NOTE: Bill Cosby's sentencing isn't being overturned because he's innocent -- but because of a previous deal he struck w…
  • Wed, 21:58: RT @MsftSecIntel: While researching device fingerprinting in the new device discovery capabilities in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, we d…
  • Wed, 21:59: RT @Lija27: Great essay by @Davidlaz about the new Walmart insulin: "Thank you, Walmart, for showing how badly some people are being ripped…
  • Wed, 22:00: RT @CarmenCrincoli: Normal PNW weather service has resumed. 8am, it's 63°F/17°C, and after a whole night of windows open and fans blowing i…
  • Wed, 22:00: RT @mkristensen: Important updates about the Community Toolkit project for Visual Studio extension developers. #vsix https://t.co/hYF9Fcw…
  • Wed, 22:01: RT @krmarko: AWS metrics for Prime Day are typically vague, but interesting nuggets about Graviton2 usage: * Used for “12 core retail servi…
  • Wed, 22:03: RT @kclemson: me while the NEO speaker's talking about Microsoft culture https://t.co/X0LNPrxV12
  • Wed, 22:04: RT @codepo8: It is really odd just how few really good #pwa are out there and that the keynotes of all browser/OS makers always show the sa…
  • Wed, 22:05: RT @bearloga: GitHub’s/Microsoft’s assertion is essentially: licenses don’t apply when code is used as data instead of software. This migh…
  • Wed, 22:05: RT @eastdakota: The Cloudflare network doubled its CPU capacity and added 10 new cities in 4 new countries! Learn about how we are working…
  • Wed, 22:07: RT @DavidHenigUK: IIRC it was @hayward_katy who made the analogy of Northern Ireland in Brexit as the child of divorcing parents. Well the…
  • Wed, 22:07: RT @DavidHenigUK: The UK government believes that even without alignment there should be no checks on goods movements between UK and EU via…
  • Wed, 22:07: RT @DavidHenigUK: There's no real pressure on the UK to move away from a failed position as the media and influential Brexit supporters are…
  • Wed, 22:07: RT @DavidHenigUK: Meanwhile the EU (but mainly France) don't really want to have to give all these small concessions to the UK over the Nor…
  • Wed, 22:08: RT @DavidHenigUK: For how long will the EU and UK be stuck over the Northern Ireland protocol? Given two years and counting since Johnson b…
  • Wed, 22:09: RT @FrankMcG: Then, take this further and disable the spooler on all servers that are not print servers or have print spooler needs (like C…
  • Wed, 22:09: RT @NCSC: Microsoft update on brute force and password spraying activity https://t.co/yl3qeQu7II https://t.co/5XdtXb4D9O
  • Wed, 22:10: RT @MSPowerAutomate: From server provisioning to lead generation, we’ll talk about the broad spectrum of back-end business processes you ca…
  • Wed, 22:10: RT @teroterotero: Plague ball - Finnish sports fans traveling to Euro soccer match in St Petersburg have now triggered a national Delta wav…
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