Posts by yetanotheraoc 1872 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Jan 2021
Ha, your combination of subject line and text brings back memories. I wanted to demonstrate a bug in the formatter of an application, so I posted a description of the issue along with a demonstration file containing enough lorem ipsum to trigger the bug. The admin thought I was spamming the system and deleted my account.
The visionaries will not be deterred by your discussion of maths. There are winners and there are losers, if scientists were winners they would be(*) rich like the visionaries. They are not, ergo don't listen to them.
No sarcasm tag; need an icon for banging my head against the wall.
(*) Some of them are, though. Slightly suspicious when that happens.
Well, the problem for journalists is there is no one true date for the end of classic outlook.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-apps/outlook/get-started/guide-product-availability
Note that Mr. Speed wrote both articles so he probably knows what is referred to where. I think April 2026 is the end of the "opt out" period so Mr. Speed link is correct, and April 2025 is the beginning so Mr. Speed current article is also correct. (But I don't use outlook at all for over two years so I don't really want to investigate further what are the exact dates.)
"Draft One includes a feature that can intentionally insert silly sentences into AI-produced drafts as a test to ensure officers are thoroughly reviewing and revising the drafts. However, Axon's CEO mentioned in a video about Draft One that most agencies are choosing not to enable this feature."
Yeah, because they are _not_ thoroughly reviewing and revising the drafts. So _of course_ the answer is to turn off the test, because silly sentences in evidence is not a good look. Oh wait, somehow silly sentences are still creeping in, what shall we do now?
"I'm just vaguely wondering why a TUI or GUI at all?"
It's the installer equivalent of a shell script. The first time you perform a complex set of steps, you research the commands, finding the options that fit your use case, and documenting them. The second time, you work from your document, fine tuning the commands as you go. The third time, you edit your document, adding # and ${} and $() where needed, with #! /bin/sh at the top. Now you at least won't miss a step.
The TUI or GUI donates the benefits of scripting to people who know _next to nothing_ about installing your distro, or indeed any distro. Of course _you_ don't need the hand-holding, but you are not the audience.
"The only tricky bit is if you want to edit the disklabel ..."
Another tricky bit is lack of a Back or Previous function.
The Reg article's link to security roles "Security roles and privileges", https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/security-roles-privileges , doesn't have any information on the Power Pages roles discussed, "anonymous users" and "authenticated users". That link is for Power Platform, and Power Platform is apparently not the same as Power Pages.
From The Reg article: `The problem is that many companies treat the "authenticated user" role as belonging to someone inside the organization and grant permissions accordingly – even for outsiders who register for their websites.`
I wonder where they got that idea? I found a link for Dynamics 365 "Secure your Power Pages", which does discuss those two roles, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/guidance/implementation-guide/security-strategy-product-portals , wherein we can read the next gem of a first paragraph. It doesn't explicitly state that authenticated users are internal, but mightily implies it.
From Microsoft: `Power Pages let internal and external users access Dataverse data through external-facing websites. You can expose your data to anyone—that is, to anonymous users—or only to authenticated users. For example, you can create a landing page or a home page that anyone can see, or a page that's only for users in your organization. To secure your Power Pages sites, you need to use authentication and authorization.`
Maybe that's not the link most low code users would find? I found a link for Power Pages "Power Pages security",
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-pages/security/power-pages-security ,
From Microsoft: `Authenticated users **can be** (emphasis added) assigned web roles that provide specific access to information on the site. ... Web roles allow users to perform special actions or access protected content and data on the site. Web roles link to users, table permissions, and page permissions. Because users can be assigned multiple web roles, they can get cumulative access to site resources.`
In the unix www, "anonymous users" and "authenticated users" means roughly the same as how Microsoft intends it. "Authenticated users" doesn't mean all records, it means access is controlled by work **already done**, by a different admin, when the account was previously created. That's a missing step in Microsoft's implementation, and expecting low code users and managers to understand the implications of umask 000 is a bit much (pun intended), when their primary goal is simply to "make it work".
Anyhow, I didn't see any mention of Web roles in The Reg article? A quick scan of "Power Pages security" with the "what will my users think of this" cap on and I conclude: They will run away screaming! From bitter experience with SharePoint, business users and access controls don't mix. This is where I set up a meeting with my boss and they "decide" to let me set perms on the default Web role, assign the employees to a new team Web role, and create a process for my boss to switch people between the roles. Or would do, but wiser heads have prevailed and there are specially trained (thus oxymoronic) low code teams who implement all the details on behalf of the business teams.
All the fuss about Rust := fust. :)
Sorry, couldn't resist the joke. But seriously, what makes Rust good is what makes it hard. and this will always limit its growth on popularity surveys. The corollary is Rust developers as a rule are pretty sharp. Not a fan of the language though. (a) I'm no longer sharp enough to put in the effort. (b) Anyway the problems Rust solves are not my problems.
"it's only the gobshitery between tracks that changes"
The gobshitery is freely recycled. I heard the exact same story twice on the car radio, separated by four years listening time and 900 miles of driving distance, supposedly about a spider "yesterday" in some "local" DJ's garden. An LLM trained on all DJ patter could not do worse than that.
"somebody else handling the operational complexity"
That's the dream, isn't it? No complexity anywhere, or as Hans says in _Die Hard_: "We'll be sitting on the beach, earning 20%." And as everybody knows, there are no mosquitos in paradise. Whereas in the real world, managing suppliers is just as much work as managing employees. The complexity moves around, but it doesn't go away. This must be true, because if it were possible to outsource all the complexity, then anybody could be in the same business as you. Er, wait, that's what MBAs think already. Never mind, puts hand down.
"none of the links worked"
Try creating a Download folder on your microSD card and putting your reference documents there.
https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/220400/local-files-revisited-opening-local-html-files-file-path-to-file-in-chrome
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