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[-] aev@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 4 months ago

Sure! It won’t comply, though.

[-] aev@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 months ago

Microsoft has a history of doing so, both with Minecraft customers and others. They just don't care.

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submitted 8 months ago by aev@lemmy.sdf.org to c/science@beehaw.org

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 9 months ago
[-] aev@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 10 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.

[-] aev@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 11 months 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 6 points 11 months 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 11 months ago

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 3 points 11 months ago

Except that b comes before c, so it'll always recommend the .blog bookmark before the .com bookmark. This post is more about clarifying a stupefying situation. Solutions are a bonus.

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submitted 1 year ago by aev@lemmy.sdf.org to c/firefox@lemmy.world

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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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.

aev

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