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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
The new functionality also comes just more than two weeks after updates to Defender for Endpoint threw a scare into security pros – on Friday the 13th – by inadvertently removing icons and application shortcuts from the desktop, Taskbar, and Start Menu in Windows 10 and 11 systems. Microsoft fixed the issue, but still left users with some files being permanently deleted.
That is such a catastrophic fuck up. I would be fired if I was that negligent.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
The new functionality also comes just more than two weeks after updates to Defender for Endpoint threw a scare into security pros – on Friday the 13th – by inadvertently removing icons and application shortcuts from the desktop, Taskbar, and Start Menu in Windows 10 and 11 systems. Microsoft fixed the issue, but still left users with some files being permanently deleted.
That is such a catastrophic fuck up. I would be fired if I was that negligent.
Hey, you know the rule: deleted file is the secure file.
Next step: powered off computer is the secured computer.
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
The new functionality also comes just more than two weeks after updates to Defender for Endpoint threw a scare into security pros – on Friday the 13th – by inadvertently removing icons and application shortcuts from the desktop, Taskbar, and Start Menu in Windows 10 and 11 systems. Microsoft fixed the issue, but still left users with some files being permanently deleted.
That is such a catastrophic fuck up. I would be fired if I was that negligent.
Hey, you know the rule: deleted file is the secure file.
Next step: powered off computer is the secured computer.Computer security tool:
Guaranteed to shut down any computer.
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Trusted since antiquity!
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Guaranteed to shut down any computer.
I tried to find a bulletproof computer to refute this. Sadly, all the hits I got were using "bulletproof" only as a figure of speech.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
The new functionality also comes just more than two weeks after updates to Defender for Endpoint threw a scare into security pros – on Friday the 13th – by inadvertently removing icons and application shortcuts from the desktop, Taskbar, and Start Menu in Windows 10 and 11 systems. Microsoft fixed the issue, but still left users with some files being permanently deleted.
That is such a catastrophic fuck up. I would be fired if I was that negligent.
Hey, you know the rule: deleted file is the secure file.
Next step: powered off computer is the secured computer.Computer security tool:
Guaranteed to shut down any computer.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
The new functionality also comes just more than two weeks after updates to Defender for Endpoint threw a scare into security pros – on Friday the 13th – by inadvertently removing icons and application shortcuts from the desktop, Taskbar, and Start Menu in Windows 10 and 11 systems. Microsoft fixed the issue, but still left users with some files being permanently deleted.
That is such a catastrophic fuck up. I would be fired if I was that negligent.
Hey, you know the rule: deleted file is the secure file.
Next step: powered off computer is the secured computer.Computer security tool:
Guaranteed to shut down any computer.
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@kazitor IT, trying to shut down the cloud:
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
The new functionality also comes just more than two weeks after updates to Defender for Endpoint threw a scare into security pros – on Friday the 13th – by inadvertently removing icons and application shortcuts from the desktop, Taskbar, and Start Menu in Windows 10 and 11 systems. Microsoft fixed the issue, but still left users with some files being permanently deleted.
That is such a catastrophic fuck up. I would be fired if I was that negligent.
Hey, you know the rule: deleted file is the secure file.
Next step: powered off computer is the secured computer.Computer security tool:
Guaranteed to shut down any computer.
That'll reduce the per-round damage (cleaner penetration). Tandems start at TMR and go up.
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@JBert Speaking of War Thunder...
Somebody attaching internal documents to a bug report for the J-8B:
(See Twitter for non-
version )
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@coderpatsy said in In other news today...:
From the article:
The Fire and Emergency Services Commissioner, Darren Klemm, said the capsule was found two metres from the side of the road.
He said a search vehicle was driving past at 70 kilometres per hour on the Great Northern Highway when a detection device revealed radiation.
This highlights an important difference between a radioactive capsule and a needle hidden in a pile of hay. From the original article, I always figured it would be relatively simple to find if they just sent out enough people with Geiger counters. Turns out... yup, that's exactly what happened.
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@coderpatsy The article doesn't say how it was found. Given that it was such a long stretch of highway, they must have had some trick for narrowing it down.
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@jinpa The article did say how it was found: someone drove past it in a vehicle equipped with a detection device and the capsule registered on it.
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@Mason_Wheeler It wasn't guaranteed that the capsule hadn't moved significantly since it was lost. If it fell of the truck away from the highway for whatever dumbass reason (above and beyond the dumbass reason it was lost in the first place), or if the weather or an animal had moved it it could end up anywhere.
Sending enough people equipped to search a significant portion of the outback at once is a very, very large project.
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@coderpatsy Yes... but you try the relatively easy approach to searching first, especially if you're talking about something throwing out a lot of radiation (which can be spotted from quite a distance away with the right equipment). If it had moved further from the road, it would probably at least have been less of a hazard to human health.
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@coderpatsy said in In other news today...:
search a significant portion of the outback
See if you can find a nice T-bone for me.
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@remi said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
Sealed means the game is still in its original, unopened package. Graded means some auctioneer assessed how good the package looks: are there dents or blemishes, cracks or damage from sun exposure, etc.
TIL (about the graded part, mostly), thanks.
That people put so much value/interest in these things that there are official grades by auctioneers is beyond me, but then again at least there is some physical object here, it's not just a picture of, I don't know, an annoyed monkey?
The best part about grading: it's subjective! (Does a tiny scratch degrade an item from A+ to A, or down to B+?) It's particularly a problem in the comic book world, where some rube selling a comic would get it rated mediocre, and then when the shop resells the comic later, it's somehow been rated higher. There are Official People who can assign ranks, but I'm not convinced that they're vetted particularly well.
In short, if you're going to con people, assessments are a ripe field.
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Browsers are catching up with ui features from... 2005. Much wow.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Browsers are catching up with ui features from... 2005. Much wow.
You can already use your window manager to split the screen between two windows. There's no need for this fucked up interface.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
You can already use your window manager to split the screen between
twowindows.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
There's no need for this fucked up interface.
QFT.
Who wanted this? Why not just have two or more windows? You can arrange them in whatever way you want. And you can put that website next to ${other application} too.
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@cvi Instead of finally implementing support for docking and tiling windows at the window manager level, ever application gets to implement its own tiling or docking or whatever seems suitable to its authors.
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@Bulb Win+Left / Win+Right?
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@topspin That helps a bit, but it is one-shot. Proper tiling means you could grab the border between the windows and they'd both resize and they remain snapped to each other.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@topspin That helps a bit, but it is one-shot. Proper tiling means you could grab the border between the windows and they'd both resize and they remain snapped to each other.
MacOS does that. I guess the idiotic Windows 8 interface could do that, too.
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@topspin That's good for MacOS, but there is a lot of other things I don't like on that system besides the hardware being three times as expensive.
For Windows 8, I never used it either, but my understanding is that while it was true tiling, it was limited to something like two windows at 80/20 split or maybe a handful of predefined splits, not enough to be practical.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
For Windows 8, I never used it either, but my understanding is that while it was true tiling, it was limited to something like two windows at 80/20 split or maybe a handful of predefined splits, not enough to be practical.
In the tablet/metro mode, yes, it was very limited. I think this feature is meant for tablets and phones. There may be Windows Phone 2.0 in the making.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@topspin That helps a bit, but it is one-shot. Proper tiling means you could grab the border between the windows and they'd both resize and they remain snapped to each other.
Windows used to do this. I can't get it to do it anymore.
Edit: Wait, it does, but only if the bordered pieces are part of a snapped set. If you un-snap it in any way, they untangle themselves.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Browsers are catching up with ui features from... 2005. Much wow.
There was even an HTML tag for this,
<frame>
.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
There may be Windows Phone 2.0 in the making.
How does 2.0 come after 8? … oh, right, Microsoft numbering.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Browsers are catching up with ui features from... 2005. Much wow.
There was even an HTML tag for this,
<frame>
.No, don't say it, I remember this one. Something about secure multi-mediation?
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@cvi Instead of finally implementing support for docking and tiling windows at the window manager level, ever application gets to implement its own tiling or docking or whatever seems suitable to its authors.
It's worked so well for software updates! Why not?
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Dang I thought it was a funny song in the '90s but shit, that dude has his whole life to live.
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It's offensive to everyone who's read a book in the last two centuries.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@cvi Instead of finally implementing support for docking and tiling windows at the window manager level, ever application gets to implement its own tiling or docking or whatever seems suitable to its authors.
Aside from half-screen window snapping as mentioned by @topspin they also have the FancyZones power toy. However, that takes some extra setup (I haven't got around to trying it yet) and PowerToys itself isn't well-known outside of nerd circles, so it may as well not even exist as far as the public at large knows
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the products "either do not or may not comply with the textile flammability regulations."
There have been no reports of injuries or incidents relating to the affect products.
Despite these defective garments' inability to protect the wearer from being set on fire, I guess people's survival instincts were good enough to avoid it naturally
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Helly Hansen. Clue's in the name.
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:soon meme:
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
:soon meme:
Finally, I can get closure on that interrupted omelet.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Helly Hansen. Clue's in the name.
MMM BOP?
Leprosy.
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@JBert Fortunately(?) it turned out that bringing back dinosaurs is out of question, because DNA does not actually last that long, encased in amber nor anything else. But the about five hundred years the dodo has only been extinct for about five hundred years, so it might be possible with that one.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
it turned out that bringing back dinosaurs is out of question, because DNA does not actually last that long
Lame.
Guess we'll have to wait for advances in gene editing so that we can create our own dinosaurs.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
we can create our own dinosaurs
Why not just stick with the ones we've got, aka birds?
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
Why not just stick with the ones we've got, aka birds?
There aren't that many birds that can hunt and eat people.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
Why not just stick with the ones we've got, aka birds?
There aren't that many birds that can hunt and eat people.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
Why not just stick with the ones we've got, aka birds?
There aren't that many birds that can hunt and eat people.
Also the monkey eagle. And the common crow.