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Ars Technica reports Microsoft will add AI to Windows, to steal your corporate secrets
  • The Windows 10 equivalent, Timeline, got discontinued in 2021. At this point in time it is unknown whether Microsoft will retrofit Recall into Windows 10. Knowing Microsoft it is safe to assume they’ll try anything for profit.

  • Finally back down to 14 tabs, still too embarrassed to show anyone
  • Some web applications force me to open their screens in separate tabs and windows, by making the screens remove any filtering on revisit by back button. And thus I have 20 tabs open that all start with the same meaningless word.

  • "A discovery in the muscles of long COVID patients may explain exercise troubles"

    New symptom identified for Long Covid : post-exertional malaise, a.k.a. crashing and burning for days to weeks after mild exercise. Cause: serious deterioration of work done by mitochondria, leading to tissue damage and brain fog. 
NPR reports.

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    Let's Play AQ-10 • I find it easy to "read between the lines" when someone is talking to me
  • I took that AQ-10 test, and also pondered this particular question. No, I suck at reading between the lines. Give it to me straight, please. No beating around no bush.

    Figures of speech pose an equal problem: I may just lack the cultural awareness that allistic people enjoy, but it's rare for me to understand a common phrase, and more often than not I'll invent a completely new one.

    Reading between lines: do allistic people do that? How? Is it some skill I can learn?

  • Using Records as Projections in JPA
  • All the good things Records bring are stifled by JPA and DAO conventions and requirements. I really hate JPA for that reason, and have avoided Hibernate in favor of my own DAO implementations.

    Records will slash thousands of lines of code from my implementation and will make it infinitely easier to maintain, and trust down-stream.

  • Java Records slash a million lines of code off my programs
    medium.com Avoid Lombok. Use Records to write cleaner code in Java 17.

    “The ratio of time spent reading vs. writing code is well over 10 to 1. Making it easy to read makes it easier to write.” — Robert C…

    Avoid Lombok. Use Records to write cleaner code in Java 17.

    Advances in the java programming language, version 16 and newer, slashed a million lines of code from my codebase. Maintaining my programs became easier overnight, due to this 1 secret trick: Records. 
Unfortunately version 16 was not LTS, so I had to wait until this year's release of version 21, which is LTS. 
 Go read the linked article. It explains Java Records in a very approachable manner.

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    Microsoft to kill off VBScript in Windows to block malware delivery
  • Enterprise will cause a boom in hiring VBA devs to migrate legacy apps to other programming languages, then hear Microsoft will extend support for a few more years, then fire all those VBA devs again. If Microsoft had some wits, they'd create easy tools to migrate VBA to C#.

  • Stop Firefox from suggesting github.blog web address whenever I enter "github" into address bar (solved)

    Solution: delete all bookmarks that point to an article hosted at github.blog.

    Background: For the longest time, Firefox would suggest the github.blog web address whenever I type "github" into the address bar. I found that weird: yes the word "blog" starts with a letter lower in the alphabet than the word "com", but the ".com" TLD is much more popular so should show up first, right?

    Right... unless you, like me, have web search suggestions turned off when entering web address into the address bar. Instead, it takes suggestions from my bookmarks and open tabs, like I instructed it.

    Thus, Firefox is behaving exactly as designed and instructed, and the solution is to remove the bookmarks that point to github.blog.

    I only wish I'd had recognized that sooner...

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    Stop Firefox from suggesting github.blog web address whenever I enter "github" into address bar (solved)

    Solution: delete all bookmarks that point to an article hosted at github.blog.

    Background: For the longest time, Firefox would suggest the github.blog web address whenever I type "github" into the address bar. I found that weird: yes the word "blog" starts with a letter lower in the alphabet than the word "com", but the ".com" TLD is much more popular so should show up first, right?

    Right... unless you, like me, have web search suggestions turned off when entering web address into the address bar. Instead, it takes suggestions from my bookmarks and open tabs, like I instructed it.

    Thus, Firefox is behaving exactly as designed and instructed, and the solution is to remove the bookmarks that point to github.blog.

    I only wish I'd had recognized that sooner...

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    Tucson's Molly Holzschlag, known as 'the fairy godmother of the web,' dead at 60 | Obituary

    Wow. Molly Holzschlag passed away. An invaluable force for adoption of web standards and usability. May Molly's loved ones find solace in sharing those memories that inspire them most.

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    Why doesn’t my Java Stream do anything?
    medium.com Why doesn’t my Java Stream do anything?

    Chances are you forgot to terminate it.

    Chances are you forgot to kick it.

    The linked article is written by me. It explains how Java streams need a terminating operation in order to start any actions. For more explanations and code examples, do follow the link and read the article. It's free.

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    Ænðr @lemmy.sdf.org

    Old grumpy software architect and engineer. I create, perform, and teach music. I´m married, have kids, dogs, dabble in fine arts, and talk psychology, culture, and politics.

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