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👨‍💻Tech journalist: InfoWorld, ZDNet, etc 💻Beats: enterprise, Microsoft, dev, cloud 🏡Vrai Jerri, reads lots, takes photos, writes SFF 📱simon@sandm.co.uk 🕸️ sbisson.com

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So July 4, eh? That gives Labour the option of campaigning on "Independence from the Tories Day".

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Microsoft Recall in Windows 11: in what way can this be POSSIBLY compliant with the requirements of GDPR?

(Same goes for Office365 requiring autosave to stash files in OneDrive, and Outlook slurping all your emails into Microsoft's cloud and using them for AI training.)

sbisson,
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@cstross It’s local. No export. Locally encrypted twice (once as part of the default encrypted file system and then again using the Pluton security processor in the SOC). Plus it’s mainly stored as vector embeddings in a local semantic space…

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Mmm. Top Pot donut holes. It must be a Microsoft event…

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A new domain specific language from Microsoft aims to help you produce and document consistent, well-designed APIs - for both clients and servers. Write code, emit scaffolding, Open API definitions, and even markdown.

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3715481/designing-and-developing-apis-with-typespec.html

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Recent Rereads: Outward Bound. The Jupiter novels were a 1990's attempt to replicate the Heinlein juveniles, by a small group of hard SF writers. This is James Hogan's attempt, a coming-of-age story as a young criminal reaches for the stars. Libertarian space industry propaganda

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There's a really odd-looking plant in the garden this morning.

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Magpie is back on TV

sbisson,
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(This joke may only work if you're both gen X and British.)

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Recent Rereads: Imperial Earth. Arthur C Clarke was a master of the novel as travelogue. The 500th anniversary of US independence brings a selection of Earth's scattered children home. Titan's Duncan Makenzie is one, though he has his own agenda. A tour of a plausible utopia.

sbisson, to random
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Liz Truss' ghost writer didn't like her very much, didn't they?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/16/liz-truss-quiz-did-she-really-say-that-in-her-book

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answers from electrical engineers and FPGA/ASIC designers only: any strong preference towards using "combinatorial logic" or "combinational logic"?

sbisson,
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@whitequark When I did my EE here in the UK back in the mid 80s it was definitely "combinatorial".

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And there it is…the first novel-length installment appearance of the BOMB-PUMPED X-RAY LASER!

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sbisson,
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@nyrath @sudnadja @FredKiesche Doesn't it switch to first Jack Aubrey and then Horatio Nelson before Weber decides not kill her off...

sbisson,
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@SteveBellovin @cstross @KarlSchroeder @hendric @isaackuo @sudnadja @nyrath @FredKiesche Graham Sharp Paul's Hellfort's War series did this. Sharp Paul was a retired-AUS naval logistics officer and experienced in long voyages away from port.

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I missed a significant anniversary two days ago: 20 years since @marypcbuk and I got engaged.

Yes, it was by text. She was in London, I was in a keynote at a Microsoft Management Summit conference in Las Vegas. She had a Blackberry, I had a Palm...

We keep a printout on the wall in our office.

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Space artists might want to look into NASA's JPL modular habitat system. The mix-n-match modules can be shuffled to make a wide variety of spaceships and habitats.

https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/habmod.php#mhs

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sbisson,
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@nyrath I'd wondered where Lego had got the idea for many of its recent space products from!

sbisson, to random
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When your van livery designer forgets to remove the placeholder text.

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I needed to get some paper files to my financial advisor. I had photos of them on my phone.

It turns out that the iOS Photos app print option will save photos as PDFs, and Files will concatenate them into a single document! A useful little tip there...

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Leap Day should be a holiday. Or rather, you should take any one day off in a Leap Year at any time, in addition to any holiday time. Otherwise your bosses are getting a free day of work from you.

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The cyberpunk future is not self-driving cars. It is high speed rail and walkable cities with metros.

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Over at InfoWorld I dig down into the .NET 9 announcement and look at how having an opinionated approach to cloud native is a good thing for the platform. I also coin the term PARKA for the Azure cloud native stack: PostgreSQL, Aspire, Redis, Kubernetes, Azure.

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3713024/cloud-and-ai-apps-take-center-stage-in-net-9.html

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I bought a spiffy 360 camera for outdoor filming. It has turned out to be the most useful DIY gadget I have, getting into places I wouldn’t be comfortable accessing…

sbisson,
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@brunogirin It's an Insta360 X2.

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I wonder how much this affected my asthma…

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I don’t know why the new generation of productivity apps hates folders, but I’m sure enshittification has something to do with it.

sbisson,
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@cstross @KevinMarks @mitchw @draeath Microsoft never learns that Google will do a Lucy with the football, no matter how much they say they won’t…

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For the last year I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening To Today" links in this thread:

https://mastodon.social/@mcc/108199886340178151

The thread is now so long it is increasingly breaking Mastodon, so I am making a new thread, starting here.

To recap, here's the entirety of the year-one thread in the most impractical possible format: A YouTube playlist containing 246 songs and running for just over 47 hours:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLIjft6ja7DP_GwDs3XuTbiFmHYTwJWa7

sbisson,
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@mcc @billseitz Interesting. Have you heard the evolution of London trip-hop collective Archive into post-rock prog?

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