Right click Windows Security in the Notification Area (System tray, whatever the right term is).

What about this thing?

Adam is really receptive to feedback so if you want to see anything now’s the time to suggest it!

New Process APIs · Issue #125838 · dotnet/runtime Background and motivation System.Diagnostics.Process has plenty of design, usability, performance and reliablity issues. If you are curious, please check this gist with an example of how easy it is...

There’s an effort under way to overhaul it in .NET 11. github.com/dotnet/runti...

Yessssss

1. Injure eye slightly on Monday
2. See ophthalmologist on Wednesday. Get prescription eye drops
3. Poke eye with eye dropper

Eh okay it was a B. Definitely seems like a “made for the big screen” book.

ASP.NET Core 2.1 becomes ASP.NET Core 2.3 · Issue #331 · dotnet/announcements This issue is a locked mirror of dotnet/aspnetcore#58598. See that issue for discussion. We'll be reshipping ASP.NET Core 2.1 as ASP.NET Core 2.3 and encourage ASP.NET Core 2.2 users to update to i...

2.3 was a weird release github.com/dotnet/annou...

The science in “Project Hail Mary” the book is interesting because it is very obviously not anywhere near plausible but it is _good enough_ that the story and world building works.

Welp.

Someone once described “fat and salt” as the difference between “cuisine” and “hot groceries”. That stuck with me.

“%*#>% woodpeckers” is a little-known closing tag in ASP.NET WebForms.

“We have a population that has learned — correctly — that pharmaceutical companies have lied, that institutions have failed them…But the response has not been better skepticism. It has been the migration of trust from one set of financially motivated actors to another.” Great point here

This is pretty close to the premise of this @smbccomics.bsky.social comic.

Neat find.

I am going to outdo all of our competitors with 129-bit.

(I can reproduce the issue with any SMB client that use’s Apple’s heimdal so not Arq’s fault)

Okay, seems like macOS 26.4 did something weird (again) with Heimdal and Kerberos is not happy.

It's always ̶D̶N̶S̶ Kerberos.

🏃

WMATA had a pretty good April Fool’s. xcancel.com/wmata/status...

when replying on bluesky, remember that any word in the original post can be used as a springboard for incoherent free association

Hm. Seems like macOS 26.4 totally broke Arq backing up to SMB on all four family computers. Hopefully an update will fix it. Guess I need to figure out another protocol for now.

This is nice. Works really well on the Neo and seems to be sitting at ~65 MB of memory.

It is ironic that the folks claiming AI cannot create new things and only “regurgitate” existing things continue to regurgitate the same claim over and over again.

applerankings.com

We got a really cheap and crappy little robot vacuum. No Internet, app, nada. It just drives around like it’s getting a DUI every 7 seconds. It’s great.

wut

It reads the RFCs else it gets the hose again.