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- Tue, 14:06: Feeling very Flanders and Swann Song of the Weather today (Freezing wet December, then... Bloody January again!)
- Tue, 14:07: Ok, who asked for Skype to look different? Hands up... https://t.co/Q8Xuh5y6gG
- Tue, 14:08: RT @Kevin_Maguire: 63% want Johnson to apologise for the No 10 Xmas party 61% believe rules were broken 72% feel itâs one rule for the Goâ¦
- Tue, 14:09: RT @atrupar: The Vice President choosing to use secure headphones is not a story, not even on a slow news day
- Tue, 14:10: RT @Martina: Words matter, people! Words matterâ¦
- Tue, 14:10: RT @idvck: Youâve got to laugh https://t.co/SX5R2jyYxU
- Tue, 14:11: RT @TheLincoln: Good article on a not much discussed part of Amazon: how completely awful the shopping experience is now. It's all scams, fâ¦
- Tue, 14:11: RT @runasand: The Ransomware Hotel is finally able to issue key cards! No more being escorted upstairs every evening. ð¥³
- Tue, 14:11: RT @jimkillock: Germanyâs coalition is planning a âright to encryptionâ Take note @pritipatel @DCMS @CommonsDCMS https://t.co/pdEIuRQlzZ
- Tue, 14:12: RT @mountain_ghosts: @janl https://t.co/Jc1EEibUfr
- Tue, 14:13: Is Tidal good now? Or should we ask Microsoft to bring back Zune Music? https://t.co/NbDAE388Td
- Tue, 14:13: RT @AlyssaM_InfoSec: Guess they aren't "Better" after all. The highlights: * CEO VIshal Garg laid off 900+ employees via Zoom * Eliminatedâ¦
- Tue, 14:15: I don't think I have to keep saying technology is political and not neutral any more, do I? https://t.co/EMKvAfURyi
- Tue, 14:16: RT @cstross: Translation for foreigners: this is the main traffic artery between Edinburgh and Glasgow right now.
- Tue, 14:16: RT @k8em0: 10x Engineer? 10x Single point of organizational security failure.
- Tue, 14:17: RT @ColinYeo1: When (or if) the Afghan resettlement scheme finally opens, Afghans won't actually be able to apply for it. They'll just haveâ¦
- Tue, 14:18: RT @cherthedev: We really should talk about how the biggest companies in the world systematically replace essential business full time emplâ¦
- Tue, 14:19: RT @abbyfuller: âI donât experience this and therefore it doesnât existâ https://t.co/6GRQW1mnsg
- Tue, 14:19: RT @fattyMPH: The inimitable @DrSamiSchalk sharing a #DiagnosisFat story that illustrates the gap between why it makes sense for doctors toâ¦
- Tue, 14:20: RT @DrSamiSchalk: For months primary care doctor just wanted me to lose the weight I had gained since it started going up during lockdown.â¦
- Tue, 14:20: RT @DrSamiSchalk: I literally once had a doctor ask me, after I said I took a Zumba class 2-3 times a week, if I âactually broke a sweatâ wâ¦
- Tue, 14:20: RT @DrSamiSchalk: Doctors donât listen so fat people get more sick, more disabled, then our fatness, not their inability to care for us, isâ¦
- Tue, 14:25: RT @fattyMPH: Do fat people have worse covid outcomes because of some mysterious property of adipose tissue? Or because we're more likely tâ¦
- Tue, 14:26: @NorsEllie ð https://t.co/uTB6VRCsVw
- Tue, 14:27: RT @John_Cotter: Excellent blog on the problems with the annual Interpretation Bill idea and why it wouldnât simply be the legislature chanâ¦
- Tue, 14:29: RT @DrClaireH: Meanwhile, that awkward moment that your Secret Santa gift turns out to be premeditated law breaking⦠https://t.co/G2YMn62cs5
- Tue, 14:30: RT @BlackeSkye: I went and read this one and I just have to stress how much pearl clutching rubbish this actually is. So TLDR. Woman lateâ¦
- Tue, 14:31: RT @cstross: Has the cabinet christmas party during lockdown scandal intensified far enough that it's time to trigger Operation London Bridâ¦
- Tue, 14:32: RT @rudytheelder: Fan Ton Morar asked if Heinlein's "And He Built a Crooked House" is mathematically valid. I reread it, and it's kosher, mâ¦
- Tue, 14:32: RT @Adam_Creme: Watched some Tory MP Iâve never heard of going on about the Human Rights Act cat on Politics Live. A made up story debunkedâ¦
- Tue, 14:32: RT @mihaela_v: Looking for software dev with a passion for RAI - this is in our team! Our manager @DeanCarignan is a pleasure to work withâ¦
- Tue, 14:33: RT @pndc: It's not paranoia or phobia if the threat is real. Bluetooth is a mess of protocols, some of which are even reasonably secure ifâ¦
- Tue, 14:33: RT @DeanCarignan: Ather's Incubation Team is hiring! This developer role is a great opportunity to work with top researchers across @MSFTReâ¦
- Tue, 14:34: RT @SebastienBubeck: I'm really happy that the law of robustness got recognized as an important new insight with a NeurIPS outstanding papeâ¦
- Tue, 14:35: RT @hpcnotes: Driving optimal impact & productivity from #HPC often exposes hard choices - for example, productivity needs of users vs applâ¦
- Tue, 14:36: RT @hpcnotes: Another common factor is maturity of measuring (total) costs to solution (not just cost-of-ownership) vs maturity of impact/vâ¦
- Tue, 14:36: RT @deviantollam: Many will be watching this case and imagining the possible future if tear gas becomes banned domestically. ð¤ Just thinkâ¦
- Tue, 14:37: RT @IanDunt: Liddle wasn't cancelled. Students walked out because he was shit. This is not a complicated issue.
- Tue, 14:37: RT @blindandb0ujee: Designing for accessibility only seems hard because youâve spent so long in an industry where exclusionary design is thâ¦
- Tue, 14:37: RT @thepacketrat: My reply to @AlexThomp intentionally channeled the mansplain with the "Achtually" because his whole thread about VP Harriâ¦
- Tue, 14:38: RT @donasarkar: Yâday, I interviewed THE Annie Leibovitz for #OutsideIn, a @MicrosoftLife series: 1. Her advice on visual storytelling: reâ¦
- Tue, 14:39: RT @hypatiadotca: A friend recently ended an engineering manager interview loop early because the candidate was watching porn during a remoâ¦
- Tue, 14:39: RT @37paday: I wonder what they got as Secret Santa Perhaps a multi million PPE contract?
- Tue, 14:40: RT @lewis_goodall: FCDO whistleblower says govtâs handling of Afghanistan Evan was âdysfunctionalâ and âchaoticâ Says decision making on wâ¦
- Tue, 14:40: RT @lewis_goodall: Mr Marshall on Dominic Raab. https://t.co/83cGAjPAvJ
- Tue, 14:41: RT @lewis_goodall: And serious allegations from Mr Marshall with regards to the govtâs efforts on Pen Farthingâs animals: âThere was a direâ¦
- Tue, 14:41: RT @lewis_goodall: Mr Marshall says that he believes that thousands of people were left behind. This directly contradicts the claim made byâ¦
- Tue, 14:41: RT @lewis_goodall: But this from FCDO source: âRaab was definitely slow to respond- when he actually bothered to. His office was reluctantâ¦
- Tue, 14:41: RT @lewis_goodall: Further claims from Mr Marshall https://t.co/Np6ccdkGo7
- Tue, 14:42: RT @lewis_goodall: Nusrat Ghani: "We kept being told the right people will be extracted- send us the information and they would be helped.â¦
- Tue, 14:42: RT @lewis_goodall: Ghani: "There's been a complete failure in statecraft, a complete failure in leadership here...Right here, right now weâ¦
- Tue, 14:43: RT @Jeremy_Kirk: Remember Missouriâs mad governor who accused a journalist of being a âhacker"? Turns out the FBI told the state there wasâ¦
- Tue, 14:43: RT @romanlutz13: Today pull request #1000 on @fairlearn was opened. GitHub counts PRs and issues together, but it's still an amazing milestâ¦
- Tue, 14:44: RT @aevavoom: âClearviewâs use of an image database built without peopleâs knowledge or consent is a de-facto violation of their right to pâ¦
- Tue, 14:44: RT @romanlutz13: Recommended read for everyone working on AI/ML or adjacent fields. @IncidentsDB is a phenomenal resource even if youâre juâ¦
- Tue, 16:32: one thing I probably didn't appreciate fully about supermarkets before we started using a veg box service that delivers almost directly from growers is how much supermarkets do to get you fruit & veg that's ripe and ready to eat. supply chain is storage and timing, not just stock
- Tue, 16:38: I can absolutely believe that Borisconi would push for rescuing dogs and cats from Afghanistan because it would play well on TV; nice feel good story that won't make the base think he's gone soft on immigration
- Tue, 17:37: really @bing do you often meet people who want to know how much an airport weighs? this is a perfect example of how AI can be utterly correct but also totally wrong https://t.co/tpArbNRvR5
- Tue, 18:34: RT @thurrott: "A secret deal between Tim Cook and China, brokered in 2016, paved the way for Apple's success by promising to help develop tâ¦
- Tue, 18:35: RT @LachlanEvenson: Woohoo! Kubernetes release day! Good luck to everyone working hard to ship the release https://t.co/Fj94H6Vv12
- Tue, 18:35: RT @can: Days Since I Mistook Ritual Roastersâ Logo for the Turkish Flag: 0 https://t.co/B0JycK8DcV
- Tue, 18:38: RT @Daniel_Rubino: So, dbrand sent over these limited-edition genuine leather skins for Surface Pro 8 (and 7, X, 6, 5, 4), and they're ð¥ Tâ¦
- Tue, 18:42: RT @ashleygjovik: I started blowing the whistle on Apple publicly in August. Posting on Twitter gave me agency + reach. I tweeted hundredsâ¦
- Tue, 18:47: RT @pwabuilder: Start building your new PWA today using the same tech stack the PWABuilder team uses! Go here https://t.co/cGABdaPiAr to geâ¦
- Tue, 18:47: RT @dbsmasher: Incidents can be bad. Or incidents can be the time you realize all that âextraâ work was worth it.
- Tue, 18:47: RT @gtconway3d: this has to be the fever dream of a torts professor https://t.co/rINMA3oOcB
- Tue, 18:48: RT @MSFTIssues: The fishing industry is a way of life for many coastal communities, but beneath the waves lies a dark undercurrent of illegâ¦
- Tue, 18:50: RT @JMarkOckerbloom: A San Antonio school district preemptively pulled over 400 books from its shelves after a state legislator complained,â¦
- Tue, 18:50: RT @Vulturemedia: Rolls eyes. Bit clickbaity this one. Actually experts say they should get fitness to drive assessments instead, which theâ¦
- Tue, 18:51: RT @dgrochocki: Redesigned Notepad for #Windows11 with dark mode rolling out to #WindowsInsiders!ðï¸ð https://t.co/v3A296pjI7
- Tue, 18:51: RT @SwiftOnSecurity: Craig Wright fabrications: -Owning a supercomputer -Top500 ranking -Letter from SGI -10+ degrees -Backdated PGP key -Bâ¦
- Tue, 18:51: RT @ITVNewsPolitics: Exclusive: Senior Downing Street staff joked about holding a Christmas party in Number 10 just four days after event iâ¦
- Tue, 18:52: RT @mykola: word. Getting it hugely wrong and being called in for it is table stakes. You have to learn, if you want to be an ally, that câ¦
- Tue, 18:53: RT @JenMsft: Can I get 666 likes for dark theme notepad? ð https://t.co/db5xLFenzx
- Tue, 18:53: RT @gcaughey: I've seen some misguided developers suggest that Microsoft should only promote one way of building apps for Windows. Choice iâ¦
- Tue, 18:54: RT @thepacketrat: Diplomacy through s**tposting https://t.co/J6llYfiT0D
- Tue, 18:54: RT @katebevan: I know this, I know this!! Is it because misogyny and ageism are absolutely toxic and women are written off and dismissed whâ¦
- Tue, 18:54: RT @erichorvitz: Responsible AI dashboard released! Excited to see the suite of tools come together. Stems from a great deal of thinking, bâ¦
- Tue, 18:55: RT @tante: A technology has no ideology only if you uncritically subscribe to its ideology.
- Tue, 18:55: RT @benzorn: With @AndrewDGordon and colleagues at @MSFTResearch Cambridge, I'm happy to announce we are looking to hire an intern to workâ¦
- Tue, 18:58: RT @midnight_pals: Poe: itâs just that sci fi might be a little tough for dean King: how so? Poe: well you know how it seems like theyâre tâ¦
- Tue, 19:00: RT @lawnsea: this should honestly be in all ur runbooks https://t.co/dQ9ymWLA5v
- Tue, 19:01: RT @senatorshoshana: @VP Like enough officials have their passwords on a sticky note on their laptops. Excessive security concern when you'â¦
- Tue, 19:02: the thing we should have learned from the complexity of accidental distributed service was not that they needed more latency https://t.co/HGuiMGzlNO
- Tue, 19:03: RT @kclemson: Is this the real wifi? Or is this just 802.11b Caught in a LANslide No escape from this latency
- Tue, 19:04: RT @gun_toucher: hold on i have to put on my novelty workplace tshirt that says "a lack of planning on your part does not necessitate an emâ¦
- Tue, 19:04: RT @william: Finance bros are fundamentalists for the Church of Econ 101. https://t.co/HpzYRyj9bx
- Tue, 19:05: maybe it was a set for faking a Mars landing https://t.co/HGWPWKQEUe
- Tue, 19:06: RT @di_codes: Great news for @npmjs (this time with no buried lede): NPM will be requiring "enhanced login verification" (one-time confirmâ¦
- Tue, 19:06: RT @mjg59: My vacuum cleaner's API has an endpoint that tells you which AWS region to use, but the endpoint in question is hosted in us-easâ¦
- Tue, 19:11: RT @jsnover: "People give me too much credit for PowerShell. PowerShell is great because we had a series of rockstar engineers add their awâ¦
- Tue, 19:13: RT @joncstone: Tory MP David Davis is blasting the government's plan for offshore immigration processing centres. Citing Australian exampleâ¦
- Tue, 19:15: RT @QuinnyPig: That rustling sound is SREs across the world changing into their @LastWeekinAWS charity t-shirts. #hugops https://t.co/tz6HDâ¦
- Tue, 19:16: hey maybe the Windows team could use this to make the BSOD a bit easier to grok https://t.co/LZ8UmadeQX
- Tue, 19:16: RT @TommyLee: PERSONAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Today I celebrate 23 years at Microsoft. I remember telling the Tenderoni that I would "stick this câ¦
- Tue, 19:17: RT @magscanner: This is the win for everyone concerned. ILL legitimizes the concepts behind the Open Library. If a library can make its ownâ¦
- Tue, 19:17: RT @JP_Courtois: Up to 10 places on our Global Social Entrepreneurship Program are open to Brazilian startups dedicated to making a differeâ¦
- Tue, 19:19: RT @JustSayXtian: Super weird how I only ever see white Christian men saying "being a slave is good, actually." https://t.co/tNUWxTMZNU
- Tue, 19:20: RT @mbanzi: If you type into google "how to fill a W9 form" the 2nd suggestions is "for onlyfans" ... Definitely a form of enterprise that'â¦
- Tue, 19:20: RT @QuinnyPig: A giant glaring problem with a lot of companies' DR plans right now: knowing whether they should activate them or not.
- Tue, 19:20: RT @jeremylikness: This is a great way to make a difference. Even if you don't have or suspect Parkinson's Disease, you can be part of theâ¦
- Tue, 19:20: RT @TeaAndDates: were not as important as skills like problem solving, strategic vision, and systems thinking. While she excels at both typâ¦
- Tue, 19:20: RT @TeaAndDates: But the reality is that the impact of delivering on those superpowers far exceeds that of simply solving problems. The amoâ¦
- Tue, 19:21: RT @Grayhaem: Mankind wasnât meant to work in December. We were meant to hide from wolves, drink, and pray our autumn harvest will last usâ¦
- Tue, 19:21: RT @vmanancourt: Scoop: Norwayâs privacy watchdog has lashed out against an Irish ruling in a major Facebook case, saying it would render Eâ¦
- Tue, 19:21: RT @dgurdasani1: Ahem.... @educationgovuk @nadhimzahawi? Any chance the DfE bring school policy in line with recommendations from WHO, CDC,â¦
- Tue, 19:22: RT @kira_weiss20: Hi! @VisualStudio developers, do you ever switch branches without needing to edit code or build? What are some examples oâ¦
- Tue, 19:23: RT @doc_fathom: Poe: Once upon a midnight Beastie Boys: DREARY Poe: While I pondered, Beastie Boys: WEAK Poe: andâ¦
- Tue, 19:24: RT @khenidak: lol.. https://t.co/WH2q7Ek6Cg
- Tue, 19:24: RT @Carnage4Life: The best stock investment strategy of the past 5 years would have been just to park your money in $MSFT. Doing so you wouâ¦
- Tue, 19:26: since I too see people asking 'when will the post mortem appear' without having noticed it come out in August https://t.co/WViah3dMrf
- Tue, 19:26: RT @IanDunt: Anyone who arrived in Britain as an immigrant and then became a citizen comes under these provisions. They can have their statâ¦
- Tue, 19:27: the nice thing about #jamvent is that we're eating a lot more jam and it's all nice; any kind of peach jam is nice. we should turn this into eating more nice jam all year round... https://t.co/hBODxuscHr
- Tue, 19:28: RT @daveon: I endorse this message. https://t.co/3V99fazX6Y
- Tue, 19:30: RT @teroterotero: Retail is vibrantly alive https://t.co/iPEpMYGE1A
- Tue, 19:30: RT @jordanupdike: I'm telling you, @TheOnion never misses. https://t.co/lBL0URypGJ
- Tue, 19:30: RT @ElleArmageddon: Jokeâs on AWS: I wasnât gonna work today anyway. ð
- Tue, 19:31: RT @krmarko: Nice overview of the #AWS #outage from @thousandeyes. https://t.co/V8fuUuiDLV https://t.co/PX5NOUxGV2
- Tue, 19:31: RT @MSEdgeDev: The Cloud Site List Management experience is now generally available for all customers! With the Internet Explorer 11 deskâ¦
- Tue, 19:33: I really want Windows to be good at handling links that launch the right app and send it some data but it's hard and the Office launcher app wotsit isn't good at it https://t.co/5BQcXoXEJN
- Tue, 19:33: RT @QuinnyPig: See, the trouble with being @awscloud is let's pretend you use a third party for all of this stuff. Do *THEY* or *their vendâ¦
- Tue, 19:35: RT @jfversluis: If youâre like me you donât want any notification through any website, ever. There is a setting for that in Edge! 𤯠No moâ¦
- Tue, 19:35: RT @noUpside: I've been busy and so I thought this Vice headline about "unvaxxed sperm is the anti-vax bitcoin" was a metaphor - like justâ¦
- Tue, 19:36: RT @matvelloso: Friendly reminder that Life360 is also the owner of @TheTileApp https://t.co/048CMPUX2j
- Tue, 19:38: RT @JohnMarlin_MSFT: Secured-Core Servers are now a thing!! -Protect server infra with hardware-based root of trust. -Defend sensitive worâ¦
- Tue, 19:38: RT @marcan42: Reminder that Wikipedia is swimming in money - more than 10 times what they'd need to run the website. They're employing overâ¦
- Tue, 19:41: the only benefit of the aggressively Christian folks who keep doing an antisemitism over and over again is that I'm learning some pretty cool history https://t.co/iZRU4TJiNH
- Tue, 19:45: RT @canmore2018: @gtconway3d How about a driving game that shows you what's in front of your car so you can avoid pedestrians and other vehâ¦
- Tue, 20:04: RT @neonepiphany: @JenMsft On Xbox, we had to go and force this for you. Sorry, legitimate use cases, this is why we canât have nice things.
- Tue, 21:52: The end of this interview with @jsnover is hands down the best (and most woo-woo new-age jargon free) description of the 'growth mindset' approach, and how it applies to people junior or senior; nicely put, Jeffrey! https://t.co/kpNQnmMmn9 https://t.co/xSUVpBpqdF
- Tue, 22:08: one thing about the old thumbnail tab preview in classic Edge; it shows you that little bit of extra information like when a Microsoft web site is actually WordPress https://t.co/M9tRLie0PN
- Tue, 23:02: OK, I don't want to jinx it but I think this time we have actually finished the first draft of the manuscript (apart from the list of little updates I already know we want to add); good timing as we will be able to say soon what our O'Reilly animal cover will be!
- Wed, 01:02: having taken a little break to read some Ursula Le Guin and the delightfully silly but perfectly paced first two Honey Badger Chronicles from Shelley Laurenston, I'm back to K J Parker and the third Fencer book, The Proof House cc @runalongwomble
- Wed, 01:06: so far, the raspberry and this mango, ginger, lime have been my favourite #ginvent gins, but the Old Tom is a Classic G&T gin and very nice https://t.co/Kr2KjsOdom
- Wed, 01:26: RT @ManEatsCar: I once fought a $70 bill for THREE years, fueled only by deep spite, an obnoxious dedication to principle, and the free timâ¦
- Wed, 01:27: RT @ICooperAuthor: Per last conversation, your seasonal reminder that Scrooge didn't change because Cratchit was nice and gave 110% every dâ¦
- Wed, 02:34: RT @eliotpeper: Pair with VEIL for three imagined futures shaped by geoengineering. https://t.co/IA4by1PhgQ
- Wed, 02:35: RT @JordanSchachtel: Newsmax is having its holiday party this year for mRNA compliant guests only. They could have decided on another venueâ¦
- Wed, 02:35: RT @HKesvani: so the government's entire covid strategy is about to fully collapse, largely because its entire governing methodology - forcâ¦
- Wed, 02:36: RT @M_B_Petersen: There is now officially community transmission with omicron in Denmark. ~50 % increase per day for the past few days. Reâ¦
- Wed, 02:37: RT @vampthebs: i'm sorry but this recording turning out to be the only thing that came out of the government building that £2.6m white housâ¦
- Wed, 03:02: RT @fabianwilliams: Catch up on the latest from @microsoft #DevBlogs fam! New tools for analyzing Android, Linux, and Chromium browser perfâ¦
- Wed, 03:02: RT @benwerd: I have a theory that remote teams are better at intersectional inclusivity - they obviously support a wider range of geographiâ¦