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Nov. 20th, 2021 12:00 pm
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  • Fri, 14:40: A bank I closed all my accounts with because their interest rates are low just emailed to ask to see my passport. Way to avoid me going back
  • Fri, 14:41: RT @unixterminal: It's almost 2022 so I'm updating my Microsoft open source timeline for 2021. What have I missed? https://t.co/sxDNnUS5Ee
  • Fri, 14:56: RT @_TwiceTheBits_: Hadn't seen this before but it is genuinely useful. When shopping in the Edge browser if historic price information is…
  • Fri, 14:58: RT @VladaKnowlton: The best thing about Kevin McCarthy’s speech was Rep. Jamie Raskin’s commentary. 😂🤣 https://t.co/UXRBSGWrb1
  • Fri, 14:58: RT @suedeyloh: Honestly, the fact that Microsoft can find issues in small segments of our population and pause rollout for those segments u…
  • Fri, 15:01: This is nice to see but could Microsoft generally stop and learn that this is a bad pattern? OneNote did it, OneDrive did it, Edgium did it, Office generally did it several times, Windows just did it *in spades*. Keep features! https://t.co/xL2xZMWLUD
  • Fri, 15:01: RT @IanMikutel: For IT Admins who require the new Whiteboard for Windows app, we'll share ways on how you can still get it soon in a Messag…
  • Fri, 15:02: RT @IanMikutel: @DanBalitewicz Teams continues to have the new Whiteboard and features, as does mobile and Web. This is only for users wh…
  • Fri, 15:03: RT @NCSC: It's now even easier to send us these suspicious emails! We've worked with @Microsoft so you can report a phishing email directl…
  • Fri, 15:03: RT @NCSC: But it's not just emails we care about. Our Suspicious Website Reporting Service is now live too. Report malicious websites to…
  • Fri, 15:13: RT @soapachu: He seizes on a single word of Ellwood's question, and makes a gigantic straw man out of it. Classic obfuscation and misdirect…
  • Fri, 15:13: RT @evacide: This comprehensive article about what a shitshow Amazon's internal security has been for many years is amazing. "User data flo…
  • Fri, 15:14: RT @stand_for_all: If your response to children freezing to death on the EU's border is "It's the migrants fault for fleeing war and persec…
  • Fri, 15:14: RT @AP: BREAKING: Pfizer and Moderna say the FDA has opened up COVID-19 booster shots to all adults, letting them choose another dose of ei…
  • Fri, 15:14: RT @QasimRashid: 2021 is 100 year anniversary of insulin. The patent was sold for $1. Cost of insulin pens today: •Norway: $0 •Scotland: $…
  • Fri, 15:15: RT @GeorgePeretzQC: No. It’s a right. See Article 15(1) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Reduction of…
  • Fri, 15:16: RT @REWearmouth: So, DfT mixed up Andy Street (West Mids mayor) with Tracy Brabin (West Yorks) for a briefing on Northern Powerhouse Rail o…
  • Fri, 15:17: RT @REWearmouth: Source close to Brabin said she was left to "find out about their broken promises in the press". They add: "That the DfT…
  • Fri, 15:18: RT @marrtoffee: Fiona Bruce, cash for questions, "yes but that was under a labour government". "No actually it was under John Major."
  • Fri, 15:18: RT @paullewismoney: MPs want legal aid to defend themselves against sleaze allegations even though Parliament has voted to scrap and cut re…
  • Fri, 15:20: RT @alanbeattie: "I stand by our story, and our story about the story." Epic.
  • Fri, 15:20: RT @GeorgePeretzQC: Remember that the EU offered the current government a mobility chapter that would have allowed short term work eg by yo…
  • Fri, 15:23: RT @NicholsUprising: KEVIN McCARTHY: “I don't know if there are any historians, but there are only two nations in history that have had the…
  • Fri, 15:25: RT @MatthewOToole2: And how they can simultaneously service customers in 'Ireland, the UK and Europe'? The Protocol and dual market access.
  • Fri, 15:26: RT @EveningStandard: ''Make no doubt about it, allowing TfL to wither on the vine would be a political choice by this government'' https:/…
  • Fri, 15:27: RT @RoadsideMum: Junkmail through door just now... Wouldn't hurt the kids to have a better tablet 🤔... £6 a month seems ok, how long for?…
  • Fri, 15:29: Oh god, this is every editorial pitch I've ever had from someone who didn't actually read the title they were pitching. Borisconi is just the worst journalist (as well as the worst politician and other worsts...) https://t.co/Cfc01SN2LN
  • Fri, 15:29: RT @tomphillipsin: Nearly 35,000km2 of Amazon rainforest lost in three years of Brazil’s current government. That’s an area half the size o…
  • Fri, 15:29: RT @sebastienlevert: Microsoft Teams development: All you need to know | https://t.co/T7nX2utD2b via @Microsoft365Dev
  • Fri, 15:30: RT @open_archive: Photos and videos used to document human rights abuses can also be used to harm protesters speaking out against these sam…
  • Fri, 15:31: RT @Hoorge: Download Administrative Templates (.admx) for #Windows10 November 2021 Update [21H2] from Official Microsoft Download Center ht…
  • Fri, 15:32: RT @DavidRoseUK: Atonement, forgiveness and redemption are central values in Judaism. As a Jew, I regard Azeem Rafiq’s apology as wholly si…
  • Fri, 16:44: ECS LIVA Mini Box QC710 Desktop. The description for the Qualcomm Windows Arm dev box is a bit schizophrenic; all about the sleek industrial design & power (👀👀) but small print of 'no refunds, this product is meant for developers, not consumers' https://t.co/DAdzPRI5Sd
  • Fri, 16:58: RT @evacide: I'm pouring one out for the many infosec professionals and lawyers who tried to raise the alarm about Amazon's user data clust…
  • Fri, 16:59: Amazon customer service staff could do WHAT? https://t.co/yO3NvOPMyk
  • Fri, 17:07: RT @StripeDev: In partnership with our friends @cloudflare, we’ve just launched a stripe-node library compatible with Cloudflare Workers. Y…
  • Fri, 17:07: RT @BethanyAllenEbr: I think we have just witnessed the power of celebrity support (Serena Williams, Gerard Piqué) for people in China whos…
  • Fri, 17:08: RT @DavidHenigUK: All of this, but also the international context (bad) and economy (very bad). And mostly standstill / slow going breaks p…
  • Fri, 17:08: yeah, I really trust people who won't respect science to keep a nuclear facility running safely and follow all the protocols� https://t.co/p48zJurANC
  • Fri, 17:09: RT @alexandair: Why do developers dislike #PowerShell? Why is it hard to find a developer to work on PowerShell cmdlets? Do we still miss…
  • Fri, 17:11: RT @donasarkar: So you know how to build #PowerApps….but do you know how to build Power Apps with a screen reader? I didn’t know so I aske…
  • Fri, 17:12: customer service agents being able to impersonate customers and data leaking like crazy would certainly make *me* want to block privacy protections� https://t.co/vBjeKrhLkM
  • Fri, 17:12: RT @LachlanEvenson: Want an awesome job in cloud native? I'm hiring on the Azure Core Upstream team. We are enabling the cloud native ecosy…
  • Fri, 17:12: RT @coaster_katy: I've just released the initial version of my Certificate Expiry Notification tool. Automatically monitors Azure AD App Re…
  • Fri, 17:13: RT @RicksterCDN: Havin' a bit of a flashback Friday. This came up on my rotating desktop wallpaper. Rather fitting as I had a chat with @st
  • Fri, 17:16: you know how we say that misogyny is a canary in the coal mine for other, more overtly dangerous behaviours? a community that accepts eg the routine exclusion of women scientists for not being notable enough means 'more volunteers' isn't going to fix this https://t.co/BN73vR0RgK
  • Fri, 17:32: stories that teach men it's not only OK but *good* to have emotions and to care are a great thing h/t @fxshawhttps://t.co/y9FaZ9QRY1
  • Fri, 17:32: RT @CREMicrosoft: Here are some quick facts and updates on Microsoft Tokyo-Shinagawa (@mskkpr): #MicrosoftTokyo #MicrosoftREF #Tokyo #Wor
  • Fri, 17:35: reminding all the dudes who don't know the date of their own day when they ask every March 8th why there isn't a day for them � https://t.co/2LgrRywGWP
  • Fri, 17:37: this is the most innocuous thing I can think of doing when you're an Amazon employee impersonating a user https://t.co/ypxTqlgbGK
  • Fri, 17:46: RT @katebevan: Repeat after me: the plural of "self-reported case study of one bloke" is not "data" https://t.co/82ouXz7XnU
  • Fri, 17:47: RT @WSV_GUY: Please RT Q: Does Windows Server 2022 require a TPM like Windows 11? A: No, Windows Server 2022 does not require a TPM. The…
  • Fri, 17:47: RT @WSV_GUY: …with the security functions of the TPM. Windows and Windows Server use the TPM in several technologies to secure the platform…
  • Fri, 17:47: RT @WSV_GUY: The good news is that we’re working closely with our partners to ensure that you get the best, most secure solutions as they u…
  • Fri, 17:48: RT @juliendubois: We have an awesome position at Microsoft as a content writer for Java and Spring ! You’ll work closely with my team and h…
  • Fri, 17:49: RT @jongallant: 🔥🔥🔥Connect to #Azure from a #GitHub Action with OpenID Connect (OIDC)⚡️⚡️⚡️ Includes a super-duper-handy-dandy script to g…
  • Fri, 17:49: RT @justinschuh: Simply put: You should be deeply suspicious of anyone claiming that they can magically make a third-party website safe/sec…
  • Fri, 17:49: RT @ericlaw: @justinschuh There's an important caveat though-- these failures all try to "fix" the content while keeping it ~mostly~ unchan…
  • Fri, 17:50: RT @littlecalculist: 💯 People love to hate on business speak but it’s actually often remarkably precise. https://t.co/zI6XhdUBKU
  • Fri, 17:51: RT @rnewman: True facts. A friend called me yesterday for my advice on their offer: same employer as me, same level, 25% higher than my num…
  • Fri, 17:51: RT @mehdirhasan: Every single Republican voted against the American Rescue Plan and direct checks to Americans. Every single Republican jus…
  • Fri, 17:52: RT @WolfieChristl: "Our customers ... use our data services ... to conduct law enforcement activities and enhance national security" Anoth…
  • Fri, 17:52: RT @JustinWolfers: I guess we can now call it a *sixth* wave. https://t.co/dS3xmrj32M
  • Fri, 17:55: RT @ashwinpatil: 🔍This activity should be very easy to spot in the logs. 🧐I have just added starter correlation query looking for Unusual…
  • Fri, 17:55: RT @Pinboard: Use pinboard. https://t.co/NiWLQl28tm
  • Fri, 17:55: RT @mrjamesob: The other obvious takeaway from such a seedy saga is that the U.K. media is full of people on whom these despicable bully bo…
  • Fri, 17:55: RT @RevLeftRadio: This is what both political parties and their corporate media mouthpieces don’t want Americans to know: a worker can get…
  • Fri, 17:56: RT @Carnage4Life: This diagram from @lennysan is my favorite visual description of what PMs do. At Microsoft this is also summarized in the…
  • Fri, 17:58: RT @bcrypt: buried in this announcement is the absolutely crazy revelation that until 2 weeks ago, anyone could have published an update to…
  • Fri, 18:00: today in accidentally designing distributed systems by implementing microservices (distributed systems are harder to manage and harder to secure and lots of people back in to building them without realising it when they use microservices)� https://t.co/enlSt9O5Bx
  • Fri, 18:01: RT @darrel_miller: @davidfowl @smsohan Nobody wants to write a JSON or YAML spec. You do it because experience has shown you that if you d…
  • Fri, 18:20: RT @edzitron: Cannot wait for them to find out that there are both fixed and extremely variable costs associated with owning a jet https://…
  • Fri, 18:21: RT @krmarko: The NFT lunacy, i.e. creating a putative asset out of nothing, is coming to the #Metaverse with “digital sovereign land” and “…
  • Fri, 18:21: RT @jayrosen_nyu: It's a common glitch in political journalism: the reporter will often state, authoritatively, what a politician believes,…
  • Fri, 18:22: RT @MattRosoff: 11-year old announced this morning: "My theory is that Major Tom experienced time dilation in outer space and became the St…
  • Fri, 18:23: RT @MSWindowsITPro: Now available: ADMX and Group Policy Settings Reference for Windows 10, version 21H2! ADMX: https://t.co/ySnOomjGGB GP…
  • Fri, 18:24: RT @sbisson: Acrobatic https://t.co/t3QLWOAiRr
  • Fri, 18:25: RT @sbisson: Over at @techrepublic I delve into managing Windows 11 SE, discovering that it's both more and less locked down than Windows 1…
  • Fri, 19:32: RT @iainthomson: @marypcbuk Went on a wee bit of a rant about that a few years back after readers made the same point. See bootnote. https:…
  • Fri, 19:37: realized that the reason I was finding it so hard to do a first draft of the preface to our upcoming Azure AI Services book was that I'd already written most of it as the opening to chapter one, because I knew we needed to say some things at the beginning! https://t.co/QRAnZn592n
  • Fri, 22:59: UK government plans to never hand in its homework, wait until the end of term and yah boo sucks to teacher. except international politics has more consequences than your homework ever did https://t.co/NR7BvXx5oQ
  • Fri, 23:02: RT @TylerLeonhardt: For my Microsoft friends - I made a GitHub template repo specifically for keeping track of Connects over the years. ht…
  • Fri, 23:02: RT @gabsmashh: still working on learning the difference between my intuition guiding me & my trauma misleading me
  • Fri, 23:03: RT @QuinnyPig: Here's an aspect of pricing that isn't discussed super often: some prices are just wrong–as in "unholy." If I offer to fix…
  • Fri, 23:03: RT @neonepiphany: @Esteban_daBlack I think that there are pervasive structures of oppression built into every facet of American life. Struc…
  • Fri, 23:04: RT @BootstrapCook: How it started, how it’s going, Charlie Elphicke special. https://t.co/M9Jbw15UpC
  • Fri, 23:04: RT @QuinnyPig: Sometimes an engineer will get their company to open source a project. Then there will be a couple of commits and it's never…
  • Fri, 23:05: RT @edbott: Oops. https://t.co/NPjMp4u6YL
  • Fri, 23:06: RT @obscuricom: Tim used to advise Boris Johnson on social justice issues in case you were wondering why our country is in shambles. https:…
  • Fri, 23:07: RT @levie: If I had an arch nemesis it would be “that’s out of scope”
  • Fri, 23:07: RT @ChrisBloomstran: Lordy. The combined caps of Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook/Meta closed at $10 Trillion today. At the 20…
  • Fri, 23:08: I don't usually go for Joker memes but this one - especially as it looks very like the Marillion jester - is winning me over� https://t.co/qhhkC6ocSu
  • Fri, 23:09: RT @ZacSweers: Copilot throwing shade https://t.co/a28wQB3o1S
  • Fri, 23:11: RT @izs: The biggest of props to @github and everyone who made the almost decade-long cultural and institutional changes necessary to get t…
  • Fri, 23:11: RT @izs: It takes leaders setting priorities, making trade-offs, driving the culture and incentives throughout an entire organization, find…
  • Fri, 23:11: RT @izs: This is a great lesson for CEOs and product leaders at every level. When you have a user who's saying "I'm going to keep using you…
  • Fri, 23:11: RT @izs: A lot of people at GitHub knew me from Node.js and npm, but so many people when I introduced myself, were like "omg, you're THE is…
  • Fri, 23:11: RT @izs: When @natfriedman started as CEO, I'm told, on his first day, he asked about the isaacs/github/issues, and got some eyerolls from…
  • Fri, 23:12: RT @JanisIrwin: I don’t know who needs to hear this, but we’re still in a pandemic. It’s ok if you’re not yet comfortable in crowds. It’s…
  • Fri, 23:12: RT @TheNewEuropean: Ken Clarke on Brexit: “No one voted for these things. A lot of Brexiters thought we should never leave the single marke…
  • Sat, 01:43: that's so very @natfriedman I kind of wish he was still doing product things rather than investment things. anyone can hand out money, only a few people can make good product decisions https://t.co/cgmfDotjD0
  • Sat, 01:59: RT @trengriffin: 1/ How many of the Theranos directors been put on the stand so far in the Elizabeth Holmes trial? As everyone knows, the…
  • Sat, 01:59: RT @Nick_Craver: I joined Microsoft hoping to further myself and learn from people a hell of a lot smarter and more experienced than me. I'…
  • Sat, 02:00: RT @timnitGebru: By @faizsays "...his workplace culture is bred at the top of the company, citing a joking tweet by CEO Elon Musk referen…
  • Sat, 02:02: RT @faizsays: New from me: A Tesla factory worker alleges sexual harassment is rampant in a rare lawsuit. Now other women are stepping forw…
  • Sat, 02:03: RT @cherthedev: For folks asking how I said no, here's an example! https://t.co/imhEaT5A8k
  • Sat, 02:04: RT @mkashman: Feedback on @OneDrive and @SharePoint is gold 🪙 and @CatPaint1 kicked off the prospecting. The new @Microsoft *Feedback* po…
  • Sat, 02:04: RT @tom_geraghty: Psychological safety doesn’t mean you always need to be positive and upbeat. It means you’re allowed to have off-days, wh…
  • Sat, 02:05: RT @slightlylate: I work at Microsoft now, so low-end laptops are the new low-end-phone. Welcome to the HP Stream 14! 2021's finest 2-core…
  • Sat, 02:06: RT @FrankPasquale: “We don’t really know what aspects of our behavior are extracted and how the resulting data and inferences can be used b…
  • Sat, 02:26: RT @PenLlawen: @BlueSpaceCanary Check this out: you use ‘uh’ for a short pause and ‘umm’ for a longer pause. Which means, before the pause…
  • Sat, 02:27: RT @lorakolodny: Here's an Elon Musk "everybody" email that didn't get covered before. From October 4th... https://t.co/0xjf4yY0vm
  • Sat, 02:27: RT @johnpavlovitz: If you’re grieving today it means you’re not a sociopath. Be encouraged. We need people like you.
  • Sat, 02:28: RT @SiobhanBenita: "You could hear the almond milk latte cups hitting the floor at the BBC when my appointment was announced" sneers Nadin…
  • Sat, 02:29: RT @cgillum: Just released v0.11.0-beta of the MSSQL backend for Durable Functions. It includes multiple bug fixes and a new feature to cre…
  • Sat, 02:29: RT @stu_fraser: Confirmed. Unvaccinated players cannot participate in the 2022 Australian Open.
  • Sat, 02:30: RT @slightlylate: I think I'm gonna call this device "glitchy", because that's how all your websites feel on it.
  • Sat, 02:31: RT @slightlylate: @matvelloso Yep! We need to experience our products the way our users do.
  • Sat, 02:31: RT @Ramin_DK: OH: "load bearing snowflake"
  • Sat, 02:31: RT @OnidTheTrex: The method is more important than the answer. Also this is why we double check everything before it goes to customers! 🦖…
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