I heard about this on the radio driving to work this morning.

Don't worry, the cyber-security team implemented a company wide policy stating that we're not allowed to plug personal hardware devices into the office PC USB ports - so we're protected from this kind of attack vector.

Given the amount of private keys people have uploaded to GitHub without understanding what they are I wonder how easy it would be to write a scripted that crawled GitHub and used each of those keys to try log in with the account that uploaded it. I bet some of them will work.

Probably take some of the other posts warnings about this seriously though. It would probably make a lot of sense to only grant read only access to other developers machines - which would let you fetch their local branches to view, but not accidentally push changes.

Actually I think you could, since Git is designed to work decentralized without a central server you can treat each developers machine as another remote server. I believe all you need to do is set up an SSH server running on each machine, give yourself at least read access to it, and then set up a new remote. The command would be something like:

git remote add other_dev_workstation username@host:path/to/repository/.git

You just have to be mindful of the fact that you'll get some confusing errors popping up if you're using rebase as part of your workflow.

For some reason this comment reminded me of The Poison Garden of Alnwick - where they have plants so toxic that touching them will kill you, but there's only one plant deadly enough to be locked in a cage...

They have another IDE called CLion that's basically just a customised/simplified IntelliJ - It's much better than Visual Studio, but I don't really know how it stacks up compared to other C++ Editors.

I recently learned you could do UI development in PowerShell. Seems like just as good of an idea.

To play the devils advocate - maybe they're not kitted out to handle the more potentially lethal side effects. If they have one of the severe but treatable reactions and someone dies who could have been saved with appropriate medical treatment, well I could understand someone wanting to avoid putting themselves in that situation. Actually last time I cut myself while gardening I went to a GP to get a Tetanus shot, and the first GP I stopped in at didn't even do Tetanus vaccines because they weren't properly equipped to handle severe allergic reactions.

To be fair it's not that much of an exaggeration to say that half of Microsoft's developer products have start with the word 'Visual'. If they'd developed Skype internally they'd probably have called it Visual Phone Calls.

It's possible to do portable executables (assuming I've picked the context right) with GCC , but clunky (haven't tried to do it with clang). You have to use windres to build a .res file, then you can link that as a source file like any other .c or .cpp file. Looking at an old makefile I think the "-mconsole" and "-mwindows" flags on the GCC command are important, but it's been long enough since I touched this that I can't really remember exactly how it works.

Daniel Pfeffer wrote:

would you tolerate electronics that burst into flame approximately 1 in a billion times you switch them on

Might not be the best example because it seems like we do: ‘The irony’s not lost on me’: Solar panel safety device led to 500 per cent rise in rooftop fires[^]

I'd add Microsoft's Remote Desktop App (available for Android and iPhone). Not as good as logging in with a PC, but they did cleverly set it up so the phone screen functions like a laptop touchpad rather than trying to make touches pass through as clicks. It's much more usable than I expected.

I think that calling an exclaimation mark a wow is actually a great idea. For starters it's easier to spell, and it's only one syllable.

But if your bank balance exceeds the cube of the result of your IQ multiplied by your shoe size then government laws start to apply less and less.

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The software is used mostly by police forces, and allows investigators to extract files from a seized hard drive and view them in a virtual machine, thereby avoiding altering any evidence on the drive.

This is one of those scenarios where I really have to question the ethics of what we do in the software/IT industry. Shouldn't someone tell the police they can just mount the hard drive as read only? Actually shouldn't they have IT specialized forensics investigators who know that?

First I find out that it can be fatal to inhale water, and now this??? I can't believe the government lets there just be all this water everywhere!

Sander Rossel wrote:

I don't really hear the 128 vs. 320 difference though. Maybe with headphones, but not from my laptop speaker or earplugs on my bike. Besides, the brain is great at filling in missing parts. The soundtracks back in the (S)NES days sounded like actual orchestras to me ;)

For some reason that just reminds me of this scene: Everybody Loves Raymond - Vinyl vs CDs - YouTube[^]

Sounds like an act of war to me... The Great Emu War of 1932 - YouTube[^]

Nothing so crude necessary! Just have some kind of powerup you collect in game - maybe a blue pill.