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This reminds me of BlueJ. Does anyone remember BlueJ with its auto generated class diagrams?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26062977 I posted the linked comment almost a year ago, but the incident happened much closer at the start of Covid. I didn't say it at the tim…

Parameterized queries and statements are great. They solve problems where the paramaterized queries are used. However care must be taken, a script running on the database after inf…

It was one time for me. Although I do think what they advertised there and the way they advertised it was nonsensical and disrespectful to the user.

I do not have this issue, but I have a very customized about settings. Here is the relevant about:config settings I have these changed for the URL bar: browser.urlbar.suggest.searc…

My bank used to have a virtual keypad, they now have a normal password field. So they actually saw reason. I think there is reason to be optimistic about bank password security get…

Steam also allows a user to view the raw information if they want. At least the last time I looked. The option could definitely be more obvious though. Giving the user the ability …

Microsoft could just not give discounts to computer suppliers that don't have UEFI secure boot on forced on. I definitely recall Microsoft killing hardware manufacturers putting Li…

Interestingly just removing the US location restriction it looks quite different, with KDE being far more frequently searched for than the others at the moment. Searches for Linux …

Yeah the lack of consequences for those that administer justice is (I believe) the strongest reason an innocent person is convicted or punished far too harshly for the given crime.…

Here you go: DavidXanatos on 16 Aug Interesting driver, is the process termination feature of PH the only thing MSFT has a problem with? I mean if its the only thing they don't lik…

I guess this will have to do for now. https://web.archive.org/web/20210301034848/http://oss4gov.or...

Sounds like a micropayment system where there is much more significant first buy in amount to be on the micropayment system than the actual (tiny) cost of a micropayment to use a s…

That was a previous attacker, not the one now. The article does not give any identifying information about the new attacker except they know who he is, but don't have the data to p…

I completely agree with this list. Although Windows 8 had a bad desktop UI, it was easily mostly fixed with Classic Shell at the time (these days it is Open Shell as Classic Shell …

Live Editable Environment? Live Editable Program(ming)? Live Editable Programming Environment? Just what instantly comes to mind. No recommendations.

Well as someone who does that on occasion, not very often, far more on this site than real life, the answer is fear. If I was to do argue for free speech, I'd think twice because f…

They certainly have. Here is one from 2010 when they held over 600,000 euros from Markus Persson, the creator of Minecraft for 'suspicious activity' that they wouldn't disclose. It…

Take this as you may, but I would just like point out that this is even more strongly implemented in courts via an offence called 'contempt of court'. Here is what is advised to do…

I recently installed the latest version of Linux Mint because I was sick of Windows with Microsoft thinking that because I had installed Windows it owns my PC, automatically 'fixin…

Not even Microsoft's core windows applications seem to generate a event log when it has a critical error. If you've disabled a service which part of its 'Settings' application uses…

Do note that Windows Update may just not offer a major update because such as Windows 10 2004 because of concerns about driver compatibility. It happened to me because Microsoft an…

Q anon believers are at most are a tiny proportion of who is described by that. Judging an entire population by the worst few of them that you can think of, is questionable. Also, …

Chin up. The world may be a far more horrible place than is commonly known but you can help your friends and loved ones. You can support the people you like and you can do nice thi…

Yes, another way to discredit someone with a valid concern is use name calling as the basis of their argument, just like what the parent post does here. School yard bullies used na…