Timothy Mangan

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@guyrleech It is actually a "Are you human" dialog box click too soon and it thinks you are a robot.

I've got to be in double figures today for the number of times I have had this dialogue, ticked the box and clicked "Yes" 😠 Same browser instance, links coming from Google Chat and logons federated to Microsoft via Google

@nixcraft You might as well propose I give up Bacon for the month.

No NAT November. Can you go the complete month without using NAT (Network Address Translation)?

@guyrleech @davepl1968 Oh, that GA. What's next, Calculator app? "I am thinking of a number between 1 and 10. What is it?" a: 13

@TimothyMangan @davepl1968 They already did

But can it find Notepad?

Third time always works.

@guyrleech @archiexzzz HDMI cable to the large TV in the room solves that @guyrleech

@archiexzzz Lack of monitors

What's stopping you from coding like this

@Rainmaker1973 Common in Slovakia also.

Borgund Stave Church in Norway was built sometime between 1180 and 1250 AD. It's part of of a group of medieval churches almost only present in Scandinavia, built with wood only and without using a single nail [📹 archeojobs]

@guyrleech @davepl1968 Well obviously then @guyrleech they must add copilot to notepad as well. But remember the rule of children: more than 2 and they outnumber you and me.

@davepl1968 Notepad is sadly dead to me owing to all the unnecessary features it had has thrust into it

2nd of 5 weeks in Europe done. Last week Bern Switzerland, this week Utrecht The Netherlands. 2 conferences where I spoke and 2 MSIX classes down, 3 classes more to go before I get home in November.

@it_unprofession There are plenty of free apps that run locally with much better features than paint. Paint.Net, Gimp, ImageGlass, etc...

Found out marketing was using Canva without IT approval. They said it “made design easier.” Explained that third-party cloud tools pose a compliance risk and could expose company assets. They argued it was harmless. So I disabled Canva access across the entire network. Told them Microsoft Paint offered the same functionality without the security concerns. Now every flyer looks like a ransom note. Nobody thanks IT for protecting company data.

Ah, that won't happen when it is MSIX. The new version installs side by side and old removed once closed. #DoneTheRightWay

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@guyrleech Implement a clip book to allow saving several (say 5). Add keyboard paste of certain clips by number. Bonus points if book saved between reboots.

Today I wrote a PowerShell script that implements a clipboard change listener using the official Microsoft API but wondering what I could do with it for the forces of good not evil. Currently it writes the clipboard text to file but that is obviously potentially very dangerous

@guyrleech @davepl1968 @csmcr At a university it was whatever the professor used. I remember learning Assembler, Pascal, Fortran, and something called Mumps (it wasn't catchy) on one.

@davepl1968 There was a PDP-11 in a side room in one of the lecture rooms at @csmcr when I was there 85-88 and I did eventually write some code on it but can't remember in what language

My PDP-11/34, a 256K machine from 1976. It runs 29BSD UNIX, plays Zork, and it's awesome.

Once in a while reminder of my free games on the Microsoft Store. solmansolitaire.com/index.php/home

Mary Jane is only offered jobs by LinkedIn to be a church minister. Not once ever to run a country.

@jhnord I remember that, when I was a kid, the local Edison electric company gave you free a bulb for every one you returned. The filament was valuable and they wanted you using the electricity

Buy LED lightbulbs they said - they’ll last 20,000 hours! I call BS on that. They seem mysteriously, to have the same lifespan as old style bulbs.

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@Dave_DotNet If it completely randomizes the list, it isn't a shuffle. A shuffle should be imperfect for single player games.

LINQ Shuffle() method coming in #dotnet 10 🔥

@guyrleech tea. There's your problem right there.

Noticed code corruption today. I must be a mug to have thought it would remain bug free forever 😄 Wasn't being used as a java container though - green tea FTW