* Posts by Zonker Zoggs

15 publicly visible posts • joined 10 May 2017

Fake reviewers face the wrath of Khan

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Good stuff - start with Glassdoor.

Uncle Sam puts $10M bounty on Russian troll farm Rybar

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Re: A barrel of laughs

An interesting point you raise, comrade

Google age discrimination case: Supervisor called me 'grandpa', engineer claims

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Re: Ageism

Yikes. Its like all the stereotypes are true.

In my experience, likewise. Very cavalier about time keeping, communication and other professional courtesies.

Walking around like they rent the place.

Microsoft slathers Visual Studio 2019 with extra Docker love, triggers Hot Reload in Preview 2

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You say Hot Reload

I say hot load

Spyware sneaks into 'million-ish' Asus PCs via poisoned software updates, says Kaspersky

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All your Asus are belong to us

Official science: Massive asteroids are so difficult to destroy, Bruce Willis wouldn't stand a chance

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Think the simulations show the impact of a deterrent on the asteroid, not the asteroid on the earth, no?

Prodigy dancer and vocalist Keith Flint found dead aged 49

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Strangely the thing that sticks in my mind is reading that he ran a 5km the day before in 21 minutes 22 seconds. That is fast for a young man. Why that bothers me so much I can't really say

Customer: We fancy changing a 25-year-old installation. C'mon, it's just one extra valve... Only wafer thin...

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Pint

Re: The dirtiest four-letter word...

Amen to that friend. Preach!

https://www.intercom.com/blog/there-are-no-small-changes/

Can't unlock an Android phone? No problem, just take a Skype call: App allows passcode bypass

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Zoom is great, but https://appear.in/ is my current goto meeting app.

It's the end of 2018, and this is your year in security

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Re: Equifax -- Penalties

Their cock-up, our arse?

It's official. Microsoft pushes Google over the Edge, shifts browser to Chromium engine

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Are those Chrome's cataract lenses?

'Cuddly' German chat app slacking on hashing given a good whacking under GDPR: €20k fine

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Stop

Re: You brought up an interesting point

Base64 would certainly not suffice, as its an encoding, not encryption:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4070693/what-is-the-purpose-of-base-64-encoding-and-why-it-used-in-http-basic-authentica

Microsoft's .NET-mare for developers: ASP.NET Core 2.0 won't work on Windows-only .NET

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According to Netcraft in April Microsoft / IIS has 45% of global web server market share:

https://news.netcraft.com/archives/category/web-server-survey/

What tech stack do you think those servers are running? Do you think they are all legacy apps?