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Updated MS Office is so proud of supporting Dark Mode in Mojave, talking up how …

Updated MS Office is so proud of supporting Dark Mode in Mojave, talking up how much better it is for your eyes…

But the actual *documents* are still shown on a bright #FFFFFF background.

Ok, I suppose Word & Excel docs have a background color. But plain text emails?

I guess I’m just used to apps that fully implement it & apps that don’t at all.

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Last weekend I went for a hike at a local marsh. The lower areas are …

Last weekend I went for a hike at a local marsh. The lower areas are filling with water again now that we’ve had a few rainstorms.

I made a point of going late in the afternoon to catch some golden hour light, which didn’t work out quite as well as I was hoping, but I think this shot came out reasonably interesting.

Not sure, but I think I walked through this pond last time I was here and it was all dry ground.

#photography #marsh #woods #pond

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@FiXato I should try Flickr just to see. I have so many photos I can …

@FiXato I should try Flickr just to see. I have so many photos I can totally believe it would take days, though!

I did a test export of a bunch of social networks about a year ago, before Tumblr had an exporter, and I remember most of the ones I tried took something in the range of hours or overnight.

And yeah, I ran into issues with Google because different elements are in different Google services…

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I’ve been at home, sick, for the last 2 days, which means when the SSD …

I’ve been at home, sick, for the last 2 days, which means when the SSD for the new computer FINALLY arrived, I spent the afternoon installing the drive, Windows, all the drivers, and key applications, including a game the kiddo has been wanting to play for ages (but couldn’t due to hardware specs on the old PC).

And coughing and sneezing a lot.

This afternoon, after school, he finally got to play it!

For 10 minutes, before the power went out.

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To my amazement and relief, he took it in stride, even as the power kept fluctuating for the next hour.

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@FiXato The weird thing is, he usually isn’t. I think maybe he’d gotten used to waiting for the specific thing, so it didn’t bother him so much. 🤷‍♂️

But yeah, the first time your kid gets sick can be nerve-wracking.

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@sohkamyung Thanks.

The power did eventually stabilize, and he got to spend some time seriously playing.

Then I went to lie down for the rest of the afternoon. @&*$! cold.

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Looks like they were right in this case.

@oct2pus Looks like they were right in this case.

Microsoft Edge: Making the web better through more open source collaboration

For the past few years, Microsoft has meaningfully increased participation in the open source software (OSS) community, becoming one of the world’s largest supporters of OSS projects. Today we’re announcing that we intend to adopt the Chromium open source project…

via Peter O: So the Edge Chromium news is now official…

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“getAdditionalData() – This method will return additional data.”THIS IS NOT DOCUMENTATION. Not in any …

“getAdditionalData() – This method will return additional data.”

THIS IS NOT DOCUMENTATION. Not in any meaningful sense.

I’ve got an entire JavaDoc tree like that for an API I’m trying to connect to, and it’s essentially useless. The only thing I can get out of it is the parameters & return values, which my IDE can find on its own.

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Ducks feeding in a marsh pond. The last time I was here, the entire marsh …

Ducks feeding in a marsh pond. The last time I was here, the entire marsh had dried out for summer. After a couple of fall rainstorms (which, if they’d come sooner, night have at least cut down on the massive wildfires last month), parts of the marsh have flooded again for winter.

I was halfway there before I realized I hadn’t brought the film camera, but I at least had the Canon, which has a more powerful zoom anyway.

#ducks #pond #marsh #photography

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Missed a bunch of work-related IMs yesterday because the app had frozen (not crashed) & …

Missed a bunch of work-related IMs yesterday because the app had frozen (not crashed) & I didn’t need to send any, so I didn’t see it was unresponsive.

Instead, it sat there, “on” but not picking up messages, gobbling up memory until today my computer reported it was out of application RAM & I needed to force quit something. Like, say, the messenger taking up 112 GB of what I can only assume was swap space, since the computer doesn’t have that much.

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Holy crap, the worst practices here…At $dayJob I’ve always insisted that email verification…

@hafnia @InvaderXan Holy crap, the worst practices here…

At $dayJob I’ve always insisted that email verification is critical in order to prevent this sort of thing. Sadly, I’ve been overruled a few times. Sales/marketing folks only seem to think of it as a roadblock in the way of people who are trying to sign up & don’t even consider that their emails might end up going to someone else.

Also, kind of interesting that the social networks are the ones that understood the problem and fixed it.

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