Surly Dev

My tweets may be tainted with a touch of surlyness. I love to piont out you're typso's too. ;) recovering VB6 developer. Still regularly coding in VBA and VBS

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@JenMsft … and christmas jumpers

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@JenMsft Sometimes constraints CAN be a good thing. Remember windows development when MS put out guidance for their battleship grey windows forms with the File menu, Edit menu, help menu etc.? And then all of a sudden WPF came along and it was a free for all?

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@JenMsft @Jenbox360 @JezCorden YOU ABSOLUTELY SHOULD!

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@ViralReelAddict As a master driver I wouldn’t be in that situation

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@TheMekon_Venus haha - just like that!

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@JenMsft hi 👋

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@Oldtimers365 Me

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@Curtley01 @Lord_Sugar Choking with laughter. Thank you.

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@Lord_Sugar it isn’t a micro fiche reader. It is a projector that projects clear plastic sheets onto a screen. Micro fiche are documents that have been photographed and shrunk down onto a tape.

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@JenMsft Especially overseas, as you then only need one adapter too

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@grayphil27 @johnredwood @ChrisFraser1 What a dickhead thing to say. Next he will be saying that night times are dark under Labour

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@johnredwood barely any solar at this time of the morning? John you and your interns make some moronic statements sometimes.

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@otokyo yep. Done all 20

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@JenMsft especially that beep from Airtags

[CR1337 @CR1337]

When Andres Freund, Linux kernel contributor & Microsoft engineer was debugging slow SSH logins on his Debian machine in March 2024, he noticed something weird:

liblzma (part of XZ Utils) was using way too much CPU power, so he kept digging, and what he uncovered was a multi-year supply-chain attack!

An attacker using the name “Jia Tan” had spent two years slowly infiltrating the tiny XZ Utils project, a compression library used by virtually every major Linux distribution.

The backdoor wasn’t in the source code. It was hidden deep inside the build scripts. It would have given the attacker remote root access on millions of servers the moment a specially crafted SSH key was used.

Freund caught it days before it would have shipped in Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu and more.

One man, one anomaly, one routine debug session saved the internet from a potential catastrophe.

Respect!

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@sqlstudent144 @JenMsft It looks like you are trying to check your appearance, would you like help with that?

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@JenMsft Would? Would? I’m disappointed in you.

It should have read “I did”

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@FrkenAnnica @BrilliantMaps So can I

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@carlfranklin congratulations

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@LuceCarter1 @davidfowl @MongoDB what platform was that on Luce?

How are you btw?