Announcing consumer software that doesn’t require a subscription shouldn’t be treated as an innovation.
This is how it’s supposed to work.
Source: Office LTSC 2024 is now available – Microsoft Community Hub
Category: Links
The Emperor Has No Clothes But It Apparently Doesn’t Matter
“90% of the Bitcoin network’s mining power is well-coordinated enough to show up together at the same conference…
Bitcoin’s blockchain is actually contolled by a single huge mining pool operating through a set of subsiduaries – this pool is controlled by Bitmain.”
An unfortunate perspective on the future of foundation models
“Open-source models empower our adversaries, and will reach increasingly negative ROI for model builders and developers.”
Source: The future of foundation models is closed-source.
gRPC for Windows
I recently posted a comparison of gRPC and REST.
Today Microsoft announced gRPC support for Azure App Service for Windows:
Application Insights for Azure Logic Apps – Correlation Tracking
I remember hacking up a very early prototype of something like this. It’s nice to see this capability finally added to the platform.
The return of UDDI and RegRep
This is nothing new to us old school ebXML geeks
Source: Azure API Center: Your Comprehensive API Inventory and Governance Solution – Microsoft Community Hub
Jared Bernstein, Chair of US Council of Economic Advisers, can’t explain why Gov borrows its own money
This video left me speechless. Everyone needs to see it.
Probably the most frightening clip you’ll ever watch on the people in charge of the US economy.
Source: Jared Bernstein, Chair of Council of Economic Advisers, can’t explain why Gov borrows its own Money!
Nice refresher on Git
Learn how to use git with commands for commiting, branching, rebasing and squashing
How we end up with big, ugly commit histories and how to prevent having one
Lots of common sense stuff but also some useful tips…
- Do your dirty stuff inside your own fork.
- When you are on a feature branch, always rebase or pull –rebase.
- To make the history look more meaningful and modular, make use of git add -p and git rebase –i
- Never rebase any shared branch onto your feature branch and force push to any shared branch.
How To Program A Ford Focus Remote Key Fob 2008 – 2011
Bookmarking this for my wife’s old car…
- Unlock all doors using the power door lock switch on door panel.
- Turn ignition from OFF to ON 8 times within 10 seconds, with the 8th time ending in ON. Door locks will cycle to confirm programming mode. (*ON is as far forward as you can turn without starting the vehicle*)
- Within 20 seconds press any button on first keyless remote. Door locks will cycle to confirm programming.
- Within 20 seconds, press any button on a second keyless remote. Door locks will cycle again to confirm programming. (*If you only have one remote to program skip step 4*)
- Turn ignition to OFF. Locks will again cycle to indicate end of programming mode.
Source: How To Program A Ford Focus Remote Key Fob 2008 – 2011 – YouTube
