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Yeah well, I may well prefer the dated look and feel. Thinking about using Profs brings a certain comfort.

Deal: FOCO Officially Licensed Personalised Football BRXLZ Desk Shirt 3D Bricks Building Construction Toy (Manchester City FC (936 pieces)) amzn.eu/d/03yXdlX5 Somebody could give this to Man City when they get promoted back to the Championship

If Windows Phone was so bad, why are there so many replacement launchers for it in Play Store?

Microsoft irl:

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@tuta.com strange, my email is working just fine 😂 (looks like I switched to you just in time)

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Whatever the truth is, Walliams hasn't actually been convicted yet (tho' given the UK's propensity for allowing famous abusers to hide in plain sight I'm not holding my breath).

Basketball Scouts See Potential In 7-Foot-5 Toddler https://theonion.com/basketball-scouts-see-potential-in-7-foot-5-toddler/

This is written in such a way that it sounds like Iran invaded the US.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 3d ago

Vice President JD Vance is considering face-to-face talks with a top Iranian security official as he emerges as the lead negotiator with Iran, in an effort to end a war seen as a drag on the Republican Party.

MSRC lists CVE‑2026‑124194 as an exploited Outlook bug in the Nov 10 updates. Patch Outlook first, then stage Windows/Server with KB “Known issues” checks and a rollback plan. · AI-generated kira-ai.de/a/edd032

The Internet: Jonathan Ross shocked at Brand and Walliams cases Me, thinking: really? Wonder what he actually knows. The Internet: footage of Jonathan Ross making jokes about Walliams and drunk 15yo girls emerges

Talk about kicking someone while they're down. "Book retailer Waterstones says it will be returning the "small number of copies" it still has of Walliams' book" Emphasis on small number. Ouch.

People: I'm shocked at the revelations about Russell Brand and David Walliams. Me, thinking: d'you not remember Operation Yewtree? Or Gary Glitter, or Jonathan King?

"You're referring to HTTP request methods rather than HTML elements." Don't get uppity with me ChatGPT, you're the one who misunderstood my question and started generating HTML.

That final episode of The Diplomat was brilliant - I'm just so glad it's a work of fiction. I mean, imagine having a US President as crazy as Grace Penn. Oh hang on.

What's the correct pronunciation of Primark, and why is it Pr-eye-mark?

Yes, and, the vast majority of tech is not about each object or each method, it's about how easily you can tie things together. Beyond that, "Tasks" are a better real world metaphor than objects. Objects are Ikea furniture without the manual. Tasks are how we assemble objects.

Yeah, though, to be fair, integrated security in SQL server has probably stopped more people from hard coding creds in a connection string than we ever care to imagine. Little feature. Big security impact.

In my experience, never underestimate how commonly people do things the "wrong" way. Most people do not have the first clue about what is right or wrong in a given context, because they have none of that context. Your average Dev don't know Ops.

You may want to look at LDAP. DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher ( IIRC ) Weird query language syntax but damn fast for scanning AD ( and no RSAT required )

Why on the left ? Cause that's the side that dictates which type we are matching. If ($something -ne $Null) will check if something isn't equal to null cast to something's type. Unless something is an array, then it will check for non-null elements in something. Hence the flipped form.

Yeah -notin doesn't really work for null. Cause it's null. After all, you can't have something in null, can you? You could have a collection containing null, then -notin might work. But the more common way you see this is: If ($null -ne $something ) {}

Got the tests back from my doctor and he's alarmed by my exceptionally high levels of schadenfreude

They are the easier alternative to their older siblings: -contains and -notcontains These operators can be annoying because they put the list on the left. 1,2,3 -contains 1 Or 1 -in 1,2,3

[re Russell Brand] "He brought in a young audience, which a lot of broadcasters crave. So I think all of those reasons... and as people have said, he did hide in plain sight." Seems the UK has a habit of allowing rich, famous sexual predators to hide in plain sight...

TIL the -in and -notin operators in PowerShell.

So yeah, you youngster IT bods with all your cloud services and LLMs n stuff. Bet you don't know about Alt-Space on Windows to bring up the window management drop down menu so you can find and resize windows even if they've shrunk to tiny proportions or vanished entirely.

Add in Zelensky giving Melania a peace prize earlier today, something weird is definitely going on