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purplemonkeymad

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  • Microsoft's Attempts to Sell AI Agents Are Turning Into a Disaster

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  • I noticed that power automate was lumped into the agents section. So mainly went with the disable 3rd party settings. Since you know, that's enabled by default like a bunch of other settings.

  • It's the Lord's problem now.

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  • I'm just hoping the front doesn't fall off.

  • Busted box inside of a pristine Amazon box

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  • I find a cafetiere even less work for basically the same. Just don't use boiling water, either cool it off or use one set to 80c.

  • People in the UK watching the world use the internet

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  • I'm not convinced this is the reason for the Imgur block. They were asked by the UK about how they processed the data for minors at the start of the year. They refused to provide it, and were then fined. When the age check was implemented I think they used that as an excuse to block the UK, so they "weren't operating in it" and didn't need to answer the questions.

    The UK gov disagrees with that and is planning more legal action iirc.

    If they had done the block without that law, people would be asking why they were not revealing how they process data of minors.

  • Fuck Microsoft

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  • I used ublockorigin to block the container for shorts and news. Much better, also set up a redirector that changes shorts URLs into the normal yt format, so that you don't pulled into that feed.

  • Epic CEO wants Valve and Steam to stop requiring devs to disclose generative AI usage

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  • I think this tells me that EGS is going to be pushing lots of ai developed games without any disclosure.

  • "The Steam client is now 64-bit. [...] Systems running 32-bit versions of Windows will continue receiving updates to the 32-bit Steam client until January 1, 2026."

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  • Technically it was just only recently that ms no longer has mainstream support for 32bit oses, as they only dropped that with windows 11.

    Makes me think that might be the reason for valve choosing now to do this.

  • What are some of the worst code you have seen in a production environment?

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  • Ok so this one is someone trying to move to "the cloud."

    They had a database they used. It was on a server in the office. We were tasked to clone the db server to a hosted VM. Due to order of creation this got put on a new host without anything yet on it.

    They needed a site to site VPN to keep privacy, that was all fine. However after the clone and during testing, their guy there said that this one part was really slow. We take a look and everything is good with performance of the server and of the VPN. I have to pop on to take a look.

    It was in an office app and written in VB. (I forgot which one.) It was indeed slower on the hosted server. So I took a look at the function (he got it up for me) and I could instantly tell the issue.

    This part was a lookup page that searched for you input. The function retrieved the entire table, then filtered the results in the client. I explained that transferring the whole table over the internet would be slower than on the local lan.

    This guy said he originally wrote this, but "forgot VB."

    In the end they decided not to update the app or keep the server in the office, but instead they rented some VDIs in the same data centre as the db.

  • But I thought bananas were eggs :(

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  • I feel like you should at least have the ingredients that are in the name of the dish.

  • I just paid $10 to print 2 black and white pages. What printer should I get to never do that again?

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  • Parts also tend to be to easy to get. So even if the drum is almost done, you can easily find a replacement. I find business stuff tends to have actually useful manuals and maintenance guides.

  • Why That $300 Black Friday Laptop Deal Probably Isn’t Worth It

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  • What I find strange is in cases where I can say: "sorry that is not that good of a deal, you should spend twice that and get this instead as it is a good deal." They always just ignore your advice.

    I sometimes find people already bought it. They only wanted my opinion if it agreed with them.

  • Top 200 Most Common Passwords | NordPass

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  • I know a couple of people who think they are clever for these kinds of substitutions, I can probably use this fact on them. Not sure they will change their ways after, they kinda oppose any change.

  • We don't have to make it complicated

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  • Glad I have GTA:sa on dvd still.

  • Windows used to secretly use green screens to render videos, which is how you could trick MS Paint into becoming a video player

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  • I always assumed this was due to the bandwidth of interfaces at the time. It would be to much for the hardware decoder to copy the output back for compositing. Thus the card rendered directly onto a mask.

  • Neutrulens

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  • You have to admit, there was a lot of baryonic matter onboard.

  • Neutrulens

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  • Randall Munro has a recent quote about being hit by a sun laser. "You don't really die from it, you become physics." I think this would apply in this situation.

  • Right

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  • Yea what is with the tv manufactures not making hdmi 1 the "feature" input. It makes no sense to me! Make 1 the best and sort the others to worst.

  • Thunderbird Adds Native Microsoft Exchange Email Support - The Thunderbird Blog

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  • Great! We can get (almost) a whole year of using it with Exchange Online before EWS is turned off!

  • As moderator I demand you answer

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  • Bright is probably would be the closest for me, but it also depends on usage. I'm not using it as a wall colour.