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[–] aev@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] aev@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 5 months ago

I like CryptPad by Framasoft, for big stuff.

 

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.

[–] aev@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] aev@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 11 months ago

Indeed. I'm not totally oblivious. Luckily I have learned a few phrases and figures of speech. But it seems I had a way harder time learning those than my school mates who weren't on the spectrum.

[–] aev@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] aev@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thank you! As I'm learning more about my own autism, I'm quite willing to share experiences.

[–] aev@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 11 months ago

No, they aren't. You can switch to their Universe patches anytime, at your own risk. If you want Canonical to mitigate that risk for you, you pay. Simple, really.

 

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.

[–] aev@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

With some of my smaller clients, the CIO is the same as the CTO and the same as the IT Director. There, IT is developers, too.

[–] aev@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

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#.

[–] aev@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wouldn't it face the exact same security issues as VBA, with drive-by installs of obfuscated malware and executions of arbitrary code?

[–] aev@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Sure! I wrote all about it over on Medium: https://medium.com/@aev_software/java-jakarta-soap-wsdl-client-fails-to-read-soap-message-for-logging-38087a63ea6d

To summarize: custom logging handlers failed after upgrading to version 3, because the underlying implementation that exports a message as a SOAP message is broken.

 

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...

 

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.

 

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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