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@csharpfritz Might be this: bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft…

Hey internet friends, I need some help: I have a family member who just applied the Windows April 2026 patch to his home business laptop and it forced a reboot and is demanding a bitlocker key. The problem is: he didn't bitlocker his laptop. There's no key on his account online. What can he do?

@neondatabase @traversymedia Company pays for GitHub CoPilot. It integrates with Visual Studio (if you haven't guessed, .NET shop). Works OK and keeps getting better. Constant learning is key but can be a lot.

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So evidently Dunkin’ charges an extra $1.10 for whipped cream on a small cappuccino, and for some reason ring it up as $0.55 twice. Weird and excessive.

No Kings explained for people who think they're fighting fascism. You're standing in a crowd on Saturday. You look around and think yeah. No Kings. This is what democracy looks like. Bro. You're holding a sign made by a communist billionaire who lives in Shanghai. You live in a constitutional republic. Elections. Term limits. A free press that spent four years calling the president a fascist without one journalist being arrested. The modern left's definition of fascism: You love your country? Fascist. You want to enforce the border? Racist. You think parents should raise their kids? Bigot. You want to know who's voting in your elections? Jim Crow. Being patriotic is fascism to the modern left. But every country has borders and enforces them. 176 countries require ID to vote. That's the definition of a country. But the Democratic establishment told you otherwise. And you believed them. Congress has a 15% approval rating. 80% of Americans disapprove. 97% of incumbents got re-elected. Chuck Schumer. 46 years. Longer than Stalin. Steny Hoyer. 45 years. Longer than Mao. Mitch McConnell. 42 years. 5x more than Napoleon. Nancy Pelosi. 39 years. Longer than Henry VIII. Maxine Waters. 35 years. Longer than Mussolini. Bernie Sanders. 35 years. Triple Hitler's entire reign. Trump. 5 years and 3 months. Won the popular vote and the electoral vote. But Trump is the king. Okay buddy. You don't hate kings. You hate kings that aren't yours. And Saturday they had you in the streets carrying their water. The Democratic Party installed a president without letting you vote. Biden quit on a Sunday. By Tuesday your queen was crowned. No primary. No debate. No ballot. First time since 1968. Three days before your march every Senate Democrat voted against photo ID to vote. During COVID you carried a vaccine card everywhere like a hall pass from the government just to eat at a restaurant. But getting a birth certificate or waiting two hours at the DMV to prove you're a citizen before you vote? That's oppression. The Democratic Party is pro illegal immigration. Counts non-citizens in the Census. Census determines congressional seats. More non-citizens means more seats means more power. No voter ID means no way to check. That's how you keep power without wearing a crown. Biden built a censorship machine. Pressured Facebook to suppress true information and admitted it in writing. Censored scientists. Censored doctors. Censored JOKES. The Biden White House told Facebook to remove "humor and satire." They literally went after people for making fun of them. UK does it better tho... Everything they censored turned out to be right. They just outsourced the silencing to Silicon Valley. And it doesn't stop at speech. The extreme left justifies taking children from families. Six thousand schools rewrite children's identities without telling parents. And the State has the right to intervene. The Hitler Youth did this. Mao's Red Guards did this. The Soviets built statues of a child who reported his own father. Same playbook. During Covid, your bakery got shut down. Church closed. You couldn't hold your dying mother's hand at the hospital. But thousands packed together during BLM to burn Minneapolis and THAT was essential civic engagement. Obviously. $2 billion in damage. 25 dead. 2,000 cops injured. 20 states burning. VP Kamala promoted a bail fund for the rioters. No investigation. No hearings. January 6. One building. Few hours. 1,000 prosecuted. Two years of televised hearings. Kings decide which violence counts. The left decided. Charlie Kirk spent his life walking onto campuses asking for honest debate. He was assassinated. CSIS terrorism database. 2025 is the first year in 30 years that left-wing attacks outnumber right-wing. Yet no one brings this up. 75% of liberal students say preventing a speaker from talking is justified. 27% say violence is acceptable. Liberals who went to Trump rallies: "I never felt unsafe." "The experience changed me." Conservatives who show up on liberal campuses get screamed at, blocked, and assassinated. One side talks. The other side screams. The Party for Socialism and Liberation marched with you Saturday. Their stated purpose in their own words: "Revolution." Not reform. Marxism. The system that killed a hundred million people last century. They had you holding their signs while they said it out loud. 500 groups. $3 billion in revenue. Pre-printed signs. The signs were ready before you were angry. The money leads to Neville Roy Singham. Billionaire in Shanghai. Attends CCP workshops. Funnels millions through shell companies at UPS mailboxes. Three Congressional committees have subpoenaed him as a suspected CCP foreign agent. You thought you were fighting for democracy. You were carrying water for Beijing. "Liberals are leaving the First Amendment behind." Spoken by the ACLU lawyer who defended Nazis in court because it was their constitutional right. Bill Clinton put 100,000 cops on the street. Reformed welfare. Said illegal immigration is wrong to a standing ovation. Told America the era of big government is over. Today his own party would call him a fascist. The 1990s Democrat defended free speech for Nazis. Yours censors doctors for telling the truth. The 1990s Democrat held open primaries. Yours installed a nominee without a vote. The 1990s Democrat trusted parents. Yours takes their children. Historians measure fascism across eight traits. Here's who checks the boxes in 2026: Censorship of political opposition. Democrats. Contempt for democratic process. Democrats. Tolerance of political violence. Democrats. State ideology forced on families. Democrats. Corporate-state fusion. Democrats. Scapegoating and manufactured enemies. Both sides. Cult of personality. Both sides. Ultranationalism. Republicans. Five for the left. One for the right. Two shared. You marched against kings on Saturday. You marched FOR kings. You just didn't know which was which. Stop being gaslit. I hope you understand what's at stake.

I’m beginning to think maybe Castellanos wasn’t the problem #Phillies

Steve Jobs on the importance of imposing your own paradigms on the world:

The logo for Google's new @antigravity IDE looks like a mustache from a futuristic muppet. I look forward to a future development career where I supervise autonomous mustache-agents to solve my problems.

Verizon won't even talk to you unless you give them a PIN number established at your account setup. I setup my account more than 20 years ago through I think some company they acquired. They will not help you without this PIN - if you lost it, tough, go to a store. Idiots.

@stfinch68 Did you ever get an answer?

#abpconf24 i paid for the conference - how do i join

You want 300-400 level content? Just two engineers and some code? Announcing a new series with me and @stephentoub (and more guests to come!) This episode: "Writing async/await from scratch in C# with Stephen Toub" youtube.com/watch?v=R-z2Hv…

@techspence LAN of the Lost

Best Wi-Fi names, I’ll go first… WuTangLan 😆😆😆

Home from TechBash 2023 (held at the beautiful Kalahari Poconos)... thanks to all the organizers -- I'm sure it takes a lot of work to put this thing together each year and we attendees greatly appreciate all the effort!

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NHK conducted an experiment to see how germs spread at a cruise buffet. They applied fluorescent paint to the hands of 1 person and then had a group of 10 people dine. In 30 min the paint had transferred to every individual and was on the faces of 3.

Brent Ozar announced free SQL training classes (his trainings are top-notch, SQL fans!) brentozar.com/archive/2020/0…

I hate how SQL Server Management Studio lets you create a sproc but if you then go to alter it, it gives you the red squiggly line like "I don't know what sproc you're talking about, never heard of it" #SQLServer

Adobe: to read the Terms of Use, you must agree to the Terms of Use boingboing.net/2020/05/05/ado…

Interesting list: Top 10 books every .NET/C# developer should read blog.elmah.io/top-10-books-e…

Too much of so-called internet discussion today is "look at this dumb thing one person said", like "she-ra isn't sexy enough now" or "it isn't ghostbusters if it's all women" or "captain marvel is bad because lady" or "don't hire anyone who doesn't send a thank you note"

Hey @VisualStudio , how can I get one of those cool Visual Studio 2019 Launch Event t-shirts?