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  • esc27@lemmy.worldtoNot The Onion@lemmy.world•Louisiana's new "Ten Commandments" law actually contains eleven commandmentsEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I read that as commandlets and now I’m worried Powershell has given me brain damage…

    1. if ((Get-God).Count -gt 1){Set-God -Identity “YHWH”}
    2. Get-Idol | Remove-Idol
    3. foreach($godsname in ((Get-God).Name){ if (($speech -like “$godsname”) -and ($speech.vain)) {$speech = “”}}
    4. Set-Reminder -Start (Get-Date “06/29/2024”) -Reoccurance 7 -Subject “Holy”
    5. Set-Person -Relation “Mother” -Honor $true; Set-Person -Relation “Father” -Honor $true;
    6. $murder = $false
    7. $adultry = $false
    8. $stealing = $false
    9. if ((Get-Truth $speech) -eq $false){$speech = “”}
    10. $NoCovet=(Get-Property -SearchDepth 2) + (Get-Person -Relation “Neighbor”)
  • esc27@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•This Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected by Windows’ New Recall AIEnglish
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    24 days ago

    Yep. Trying to maintain a consistent startmenu for computer labs with Windows 11 is annoying.

    The layout is stored in an encrypted file that cannot be editted directly. You have to manually setup the start menu on one profile then copy the file to all the others. This works fine for intial deployments, but is a massive pain if you need to add any other apps later.

    The old powershell commandlet for importing layouts does not work in Win11. The old group policy settings don’t work either. The actual DLL calls used by the end user to manually configuring the start menu are deliberatly coded to prevent being called from a script.

    It is freaky how much work Microsoft has done to prevent scripting changes to the start menu.

    The only officially supported method for an IT department to manage the start menu is intune, but microsoft’s device licensing for intune is a mess out folks have yet to figure out.

  • esc27@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Twelve years after the death of Steve Jobs, the cracks are starting to appear at AppleEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Apple managed to capture lightning in a bottle, twice. First by making a better Walkman, and then again by making that device a phone with internet access. They were able to leverage that success to revitalize their computer hardware business and act as a platform for selling accessories, and all of that made them very successful.

    But the stock market doesn’t care about past success, it cares about growth, and without a major new, or buzz worthy product, investors might start to turn against Apple. Problem is, they have ridden the iPod horse about as far as it can go. They tried putting wheels on it, but that failed, and the jury is still out on whether tying one to your face will work out or not.

  • esc27@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Microsoft's Pricey AI Assistant Copilot Leaves Early Adopters Feeling CheatedEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I have not had a chance to test the office integrations (and the $30 price tag may keep it that way,) but I’ve been testing the web chat version, and once toggled to “precise” mode I find it close to chatgpt. Just a little more prone to lapse into acting like a bing chat app and very limited in conversation length…

    I think the trick is to treat it like a junior assistant or maybe an intern who might make mistakes and not as a seasoned, experienced employee who always puts out perfect work.