Nafrondel @Nafrondel@octodon.social

@Vanessa The first series is about a crime fighting team that use an electrical device to reanimate the dead for chats 👍
They also save aliens from humanity. Because that's what happens in Wales.

@Vanessa Ypu ever watch Torchwood?

This can be sumarised very easily:
As it saysbin the article - it took Microsoft 16 years to convince themselves to move their own flagship applications away from the Win32 API.

Windows created the .Net framework bizarrely to userp Java and in a cynical effort to stovepipe developers in to only being able to write for Windows.
They talk of standards... but they're Microsoft standards available only on Microsoft systems.
The plan backfired due it being ridiculous to expect developers to go out of their way to make themselves unemployable outside of Windows, and their products unsellable outside of Windows.

If you've never converted something to use .Net, please be grateful.
People only use the Win32 APIs still because .Net blows for anything short of developing a brand new application from scratch with a fresh workforce expecting to never write for anything other than Windows ever.
If you want something in any way cross platform, to reuse any old code, or keep your existing developers it's a non starter. And always has been.

@_sharpLimefox Tl;Dr: If you don't recognise the link, don't click it.

@_sharpLimefox Forgot the two important bits x3 It's windows only and it encrypts then deletes your files.
So if you're feeling paranoid, keep a resource monitor open and look out for anything blasting your hard drive. And as always - back up anything irreplaceable.

@_sharpLimefox If you're worried, now might be the time to get noscript for your browser of choice along with adblock and ghostery. Spybot S&D has a decent ip blacklist too and has a reasonable anti-malware engine.

@_sharpLimefox It's a standard piece of ransomeware. Just don't click on suspicious links.
Apparently Kaspersky can catch it but idk if that's true. There've only been 45k infections since Feb, so could be worse.

May's response to Brexit:
Brexit means Brexit! Full steam back to the 70s!
May's response to Labour manifesto:
Wtf. Why we going back to the 70s?

@KevinCarson1 I do something like this on my phone - on facebook it randomly deletes words, and on twitter every other character is deleted. So I type the post in the URL bar instead and copy paste it in ✌

@vbarrielle
As Douglas Adams pointed out the absurdity of expecting deep learning to be the Ultimate Solution 3001:
"Deep Thought was so powerful that it had already deduced the existence of rice pudding and income tax before it was even turned on".

@Kestrel What kind of things do you write?

@Kestrel Ahhh I hated those things. They always turned out as some kind of popularity contest.

@Kestrel Welcome to Octodon!

@FadingAway Idk if it came across in the film, but I loved in the book how details were slowly revealed to us at the same time as Melanie began to understand them. So we were having the same sneaking suspicions about what's going on as Melanie. And then experiencing the same horror of realisation.

@FadingAway I just finished re-reading the book a few days ago. Was the film good?

@testing Success

@Vanessa Doesn't help that Hawking keeps saying "Moore's law means if it can happen, it will happen".

@Wintermute21 (Will try to get back to you later! Have to run for a work thing)