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Good afternoon, I will be your google proxy for today, what would you like me to google for you?

Install privacy badger on all your browsers & most of tracking worries are gone

https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
goes well with an ad-blocker (until chrome blocks 'em)

Use Mercury Reader to get past the "don't use an ad-blocker" nag-overlays. https://x.com/Jdharden/status/1142070660925186049

What percent of big org, mass data losses were due to a user authentication session time out that was too long? (i.e. more than 20 minutes before reprompting for password)

This viral ad for Philips Hue Smart Bulbs is brought to you by... GE?

Btw, I recommend Philips Hue Smart Bulbs. They got the UX right. https://x.com/NumbersMuncher/status/1141527175394410498

1978's "A Taste Of Honey - Boogie Oogie Oogie" is the "waiting for videoconference to start" music.

I think this might be a war crime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3e0cuDoX_0

It is kind of an anti-worker solution because it forces developers to strongly consider spending their personal money on tools, etc, to get work done. (which is a sort of shadow IT) https://twitter.com/danachis/status/1141330664639401984

If this was coding for AS/400, for which I wouldn't imagine a lot of contemporary tooling exists, I'd be looking at language agnostic tools, like maybe Zeus (or other editors that have lots of generic features). I'm having a hard time thinking of more...

https://www.zeusedit.com/languages.html https://twitter.com/Wintermute21/status/1141470479720615937

No more free bulk data downloads from twitter without paying $ or apply for an exception (for some good cause that doesn't involve making money with twitter analytics and the like). https://x.com/API/status/1108050885639168000

If you transition from http://VB.NET to C#, remember your pronoun is this, not me. https://x.com/waldojaquith/status/1141368558867439618

META: can comment with a poll, but can't quote-retweet with a poll. sigh.

How come if you expand an ec2 volume for ubuntu, you just get more dirve space. But if you expand a ec2 volume for RHEL/Centos, you get nothing. Googling leads to 2 or 3 strategies that make no sense. At this point faster to burn this machine than to expand the drive.

MS Flow & some RPA programming languages sort of look like Scratch.

IDEA: get cloud adoption with large organizations, but prohibit the uses of cloud VMs, EC2, etc. I don't see a otherway to avoid the org just using AWS & Azure as expensive, unreliable hosted VMs. Also, it will make security team look funny when they prohibit every non VM service

If an exception happens and no one hears it, did it really happen? Send a lethal surge of electricity to the keyboard & mouse and now there are witnesses either. https://twitter.com/Akido37/status/1141069156579778561

I'm surrounded by bots, Like Cylons they now look like us, but they don't have a plan

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/bot-service-design-navigation?view=azure-bot-service-4.0
- The "stubborn bot"
- The "clueless bot"
- The "mysterious bot"
- The "captain obvious bot"
- The "bot that can't forget"

Assign to "is", an array of the Boolean cast of the factorial of Spell for all records where such a factorial is not like the Chris object.

I shall now return to ignoring this account. https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1139000491919204352

But why not? Holds 125 lbs, so that should hold both my 3 year and 6 year old (25lbs + 45lbs) and a month worth of MREs https://twitter.com/neurobashing/status/1140759990426357760

This is the modern "let me show you my pokemons" https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/let-me-show-you-my-pokemans https://x.com/SarahCAndersen/status/1007994056864030720

lunchd - where you continually eat lunch as a background process.

If the AF would switch to T-shirt cannons, folk would wear the psyops message, 'cause who passes up a perfectly good t-shirt? https://x.com/webjedi/status/1139893716762734592

Bosstown Dynamics Robot doesn't not like how you're treating him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKjCWfuvYxQ

pre-async-await - oh, there are these weird edge cases where single threaded is just broken & you have to write 10 pages of Task code.

post-async-await - 10 pages of Task code is gone! And now asnyc await is everywhere, every method, every time.

Final diagnosis on Chevy Malibu rear speakers- when you set the sound to back seats, by design it should sound like the rear speakers are broken. The rear speakers are designed to only contribute, barely audibly, to the front (tinny door speakers & a rear window bass speaker)

#aspnetcore doesn't make you use web.config .... AT ALL? WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME. Another misnamed product, should be, ASP.NET-Web.Config Free Edition For Humans

dotnet has virtual environments now -

dotnet publish -o c:\pubs --self-contained

Don't have to convince everyone in the enterprise to upgrade their .net runtime version! (as if that ever happened in the past)

MITM is where your employer decrypts the traffic from your browser to your gmail, bank, etc, so they have a copy of your password in a log on some machine somewhere. Of course they will only use this to catch bad guys, not like corporate machines ever get hacked & pwds dumpted. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1139150156639756295

So far I can't think of good mitigations for this (never use corp network unless you have to... use a separate set of gmail accts at work.. start using two factor because your passwords are now stored in a corporate log somewhere, but they can't take your yubi-key) https://x.com/mistersql/status/1139150156639756295

If your corporate network uses MITM* to read all HTTPS traffic, is that network safe to use for connecting to your bank, email, etc?

Do you use #if DEBUG in your code? The maintenance developer that comes after you gives zero foiks about what that's for, write code like this:

#if DEBUG
Log.DangerousExpensiveLogging()
#else
if (Env == "PROD"){
throw AppException("Don't deploy if DEBUG mode")
}
#endif

Poland bough 3 f-35, to celebrate, the president had them fly over head the signing ceremony. Now if the'd bought tanks instead, a catapult would have flung tanks across the sky. https://x.com/jaxgarry/status/1138871592057020416

Wow #VS2019 is pretty impressive now. You don't need Resharper to make it usable, you don't even need the paid Pro edition. This explains why Jetbrains release the Rider IDE.

DC area company doing hardcore engineering/ux/javascript work https://x.com/bbengfort/status/1138828078325673988

Oh, man. Hardest choice of the day. Should Jetbrains Rider (c# IDE) use VS keymap/shortcuts or the shortcuts that are more common to Intelij/Pycharm/etc. Everyone who knows C# learned the shortcuts first on VS.

Flip the interview script! (Attached is my resume, the password is a series of numbers separated by spaces, except all those divisible by 3 have been replaced by fizz, those divisible by 5 buzz and both fizzbuzz. The series goes from 1 to 100) https://x.com/daedtech/status/1138793692846800898

#VisualStudio doesn't trust #Github - Team(FS) envy eh?

"Cloning into 'C:\'...
Error encountered while cloning the remote repository: Git failed with a fatal error.
unable to access 'https://github.com/': SSL certificate problem: self signed certificate in certificate chain"