I wonder if they’ll make it work like Outlook.com’s support for multiple email addresses on the same account which they made a fully first class feature.
Although I primarily use a Gmail for my personal email, I still have a Hotmail address from the 90s.
For at least 10 years now Outlook.com and Microsoft accounts have supported multiple aliases.
This has allowed me to keep my old cringey box name at Hotmail address, but also have a name.surname@outlook.com on the same account, which looks nicer for Microsoft services I use, like Windows login with OneDrive.
I’m so pissed off with Klarna obsoleting Stocard as the Klarna app is missing one of the best features of Stocard, that you could add loyalty cards to Apple Wallet.
To be honest though, a micro loans company engaging in this behaviour doesn’t surprise me at all.
“Workflow” is probably a bit generous to describe how they probably use Excel.
Having worked at a mom and pop ISP a couple of decades ago where we used Excel to track a lot of things, I can see how this might have happened.
To actually know who is allocated what is ultimately just a list.
And when there are only a few people who edit the list (and probably no more than 1 person at a time) you can get by with even a plain text file, but Excel is quite a bit nicer as you can do things like filtering and sorting easily, maybe even some formulas to help with things.
Building a program backed by a database might be nice, but hard to justify when the manual system has never been a problem before.
They’ve probably been thinking for a while they should, but it’s just never been enough of a pain point for them to invest the effort.
Looks like they see this incident as justification that they need a system with hard coded rules and constraints, no more manual checking.
The author talks about the how the certainty of death ultimately coming to all of us (sooner or later), gives us drive.
In terms socio economic issues of immortality, the Altered Carbon books (or the first season on Netflix), paint a somewhat bleak picture how immortality makes the rich and powerful even more privileged. Not to say it’s all bleak, but I would certainly say it’s dystopian overall.
It’s a friction point for potential customers, so we do it with our Electron based app,
The USD 99 annual fee is almost inconsequential, the painful part was getting a DUNS number (we’re a South African entity) and then getting it to work in a completely automated manner on our build server.
Fortunately, once set up it’s been almost no work since.
Can confirm this, we use Azure KeyVault and are able to have Azure Pipelines use it to sign our release builds.
We’re (for the moment) a South African entity, so can’t use Azure Trusted Signing, but DigiCert has no issue with us using Azure KeyVault for our EV code signing certificate.
I had ours renewed just this week as it happens. Cost something like USD 840 before tax, don’t have a choice though and in the grand scheme of things it’s not a huge expense for a company.
No, this information is wrong (unless it’s changed in the last 7 years). EV code signing certs are instantly trusted by Windows Defender.
Source: We tried a non-EV code signing certificate for our product used by only dozens of users at the time, never stopped showing scary warnings. When we got an EV, no more issues.
Not true for us. We EV cert sign (the more expensive one) and my CEO ( the only one left that uses Windows) had this very problem. Apparently the first time a newly signed binary is run it can take up to 15 minutes for defender to allow it. First time I saw this, it was really annoying and confusing.
They did change it, I think after some debacle with Nvidia pushing an update. They seem to want devs to submit their files via their portal now to get rid of the screen: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/filesubmission
I've never submitted our installers to there (or anywhere). I'm often the very first to install new builds (particularly our nightlies) and never had a delay or anything.
Maybe it depends where you are in life, but for me the last episode of Adolescence was the most impactful, perhaps due to being a parent myself (although my children are only 3 and 5).
My big takeaway of Adolescence is that it was an extraordinarily senseless thing that was done, yet had such a profoundly negative impact on so many people. It's scary that younger people who simply haven't yet matured enough to understand the impact of their decisions can do things like this which can never be undone (and I'm not just talking about the life they took).
Although I primarily use a Gmail for my personal email, I still have a Hotmail address from the 90s.
For at least 10 years now Outlook.com and Microsoft accounts have supported multiple aliases.
This has allowed me to keep my old cringey box name at Hotmail address, but also have a name.surname@outlook.com on the same account, which looks nicer for Microsoft services I use, like Windows login with OneDrive.
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