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Oops! I forgot about my jury summons. Did not go waste a day at a courthouse. And those places are so much fun.
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Audio was distorted, but I did get to #videochat with #GS3 for a couple of minutes before bedtime. He asked me “wha you doing?”, then showed me his book and pointed out some of the characters. Then it was time to say good night. First he said “no, don’t go”, but then he was ready and said good night.
Reminds me of his cousin #A1, whose “terrible twos” was that he said “no” to his mom a couple of times. (He’s very much like his dad … we used to arrange “supervised rebellion” for #Daddy_A so that he wouldn’t wait until his thirties to disobediently try something.)
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Looked at the tracking for the diaper pail liners and saw that they are set to arrive “by 10PM tomorrow”. Seriously? That’s too late at night for people who have jobs and kids. Hoping they deliver at a reasonable time or even wait until the next day.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUAYeN3Rp2E
#Chicago #1969 #song "25 or 6 to 4" #1960s
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Until I looked it up, I didn't know the song was released in 1969. My memories of it start a few years later.
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The first pieces arrived. https://nu.federati.net/attachment/282264
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I recommended you again, @guizzy. Iceloops was asking some random group of people for cryptocurrency exchange advice. Sorry, but you and Moon are the two people I know and would trust to give such advice.
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> I’m not sure it is a good idea to ask all these people that question. Pick a small number of people you trust, like Moon and Guizzy.
> After seeing how much hassle you went through just to find somewhere that would let you transact, I’d suggest staying where you are unless Moon or Guizzy has a reason for you to leave.
(My statement to him.)
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Microsoft announces new 'Super Duper Secure Mode' for Edge The Record by Recorded Future
https://therecord.media/microsoft-announces-new-super-duper-secure-mode-for-edge/
>Microsoft said today it plans to run an experiment in its Edge web browser where it will intentionally disable an important performance and optimization feature in order to enable more advanced security upgrades in what the company is calling Edge Super Duper Secure Mode.
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>Announced today by Johnathan Norman, Microsoft Edge Vulnerability Research Lead, the idea behind the new Super Duper Secure Mode is to disable support for JIT (Just-In-Time) inside V8, the Edge browser’s JavaScript engine.
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>JIT, while unknown to most end-users, plays a crucial role in all of today’s web browsers. JIT works by taking JavaScript and compiling it to machine code ahead of time. If the browser needs the code, it gains a significant speed boost. If it doesn’t, the code is discarded.
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>However, JIT support in V8 is complex. Norman said JIT-related security issues amounted to 45% of all V8 vulnerabilities in 2019. Furthermore, more than half of the “in the wild” Chrome exploits rely on JIT-related bugs.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahahahahahahaha
Super Duper Secure Mode
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahahahahahahaha
It's like they aren't even trying with the naming thing...
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I never thought of this before, but you hear of people catching herpes, but never a single herpe. Do herpes only travel in groups?
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#TIL: Wignat https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Wignat
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Three years later, I just received my certificate of completion for some management training course I took. I got the related promotion about a year after the course, so I never cared about the certificate.
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We saw smoke here from a fire near #Los_Angeles, but I'm not sure which fire it was.
I remember when "wildfire" was just a popular song, not a way of life.
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Wildfires in most of southeastern Europe. https://gnusocial.net/attachment/4ec42d3d2264a3a2a5f3cc99532f347db54ac86cb6a085456e347658be001ff5/view
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No, one of the other corporations that makes (or made) a JDK offered it as a FOSS project to the foundations and Oracle made threats. I can’t find it in a search right now, but I remember reading about it.
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#sonTwo was supposed to hear yesterday about the job he applied for. So far, no news. Instead of renting me their house, he thinks they’ll sell it. He said “just come live with us in $OTHER_STATE”.
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Funny thing happened recently. K, a co-worker, texted to ask if my paycheck was a little larger than expected. I said, I'm not on assignment right now, so there isn't a paycheck to be larger.
Then I logged into one of our sites and found out I got a few hundred dollars cash bonus.
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Any #JDBC performance improvements in the last couple of years worth knowing about?
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healthy, not heavy...
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I have OpenJDK installed through my distro ... #Java is necessary for Jedit and Netbeans.
I have no need for things like #McKoi / McKoi DDB / #Derby / #HSQLDB / #H2 or even #Tomcat and #Jetty these days, but I'm very tempted to relearn some Java Servlet and JSP / JSF to create my personal site and using a Java based database as the backend.
Or #Velocity, if that's still around. I barely got to touch that, but it seemed to be a big step upward.
Still I was talking about things like someone wanting to donate a corporate sponsored JDK project to either Apache or Eclipse and Oracle nixing the whole thing. There are organizations now building upon DotNet partly because of that.
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I think you are referring to this: https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/05/end-of-javax-package/
Ultimately, I think this quote sums it up if you want to look at it as a positive:
"Oracle contributed millions of lines of code in the reference implementations for Java EE, including GlassFish, Jersey, Grizzly, etc. Oracle contributed the Java EE TCK. This was a huge step for them, as it was highly confidential and proprietary until then. This was a very large asset, with millions of dollars in Java EE licensing revenue attached to it. Oracle is licensing their copyrights in all of the Java EE specifications. This includes all of the past work that happened at Sun and BEA, so it is a very large percentage of the overall content of the specifications."
I'm not convinced what Oracle did is any different than what Red Hat does. It's just more complicated because it's a language. And maybe that's a salient point. We don't treat pencils and nuclear bombs the same though they can both be weapons. Matters of degree matter.
Oracle gonna Oracle. I guess I'm just not going to waste cycles being upset about that, and I'm just focusing on the positive.
Fundamentally though, the doomsayers have been proven wrong about Java. Ultimately, that's my point.
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Visited someone's Twitch and saw that he streamed for about six hours today. Yikes! How do you have time to stream for six hours in one day?
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#Facebook tried to license #NSO's #Pegasus spyware, so it could spy on #iOS users. https://www.cultofmac.com/698979/facebook-pegasus-nso-spyware-track-iphone-users/ [www cultofmac com]
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More #cluster discussion. Now I've found this: This one's out of stock, but the hardware part of building a cluster is pre-done. https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-mc1-my-cluster-one-with-32-cpu-cores-and-8gb-dram/ [www hardkernel com]
Also found this: https://www.parallella.org/ a computer board designed from the start for clustering.
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When did it become standard to refer to strains of the #SARS-CoV-2 #coronavirus by Greek letter names? Suddenly, I started seeing Delta strain and not seeing names like B.1.1.7. What do they do when they run out of Greek letters?
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