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Hmmm… Try jspaint.ml in the address bar of the Chrome, FireFox and Edge browsers and tell me why I should want anything to do with Progressive Web Apps?

About Paint

JS Paint Public Alpha

JS Paint is a web-based remake of MS Paint by Isaiah Odhner.

Read about the project and extra features on the README.

Request features and report bugs on GitHub or by email.

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To really get your dander up, read the article “An alarming number of sites employ privacy invading session replay scripts by Dan Goodin“. It starts off with “No, you’re not being paranoid. Sites really are watching your every move. Sites log your keystrokes and mouse movements in real time, before you click submit.”

The study‘s “Site list” referred to in that article was updated 30 November 2017 to list 2455 sites.

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Bill C.

The http://www.cremationsocietyofpa.com Obituary additionally gives these dates:

Born: Thu., Dec. 14, 2051
Died: Sun., Nov. 26, 2017

The home address for Robert E Dyer, age 65, phone 610-286-1618 is 267 Warwick Rd. Marsh, PA 19520-8921

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Ah, so the server pages https://www.askwoody.com/2017/11/1/, https://www.askwoody.com/2017/11/2/ and https://www.askwoody.com/2017/11/3/ also aren’t being updated. The plot thickens

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I normally don’t bother to login and never stay logged in. So I was a bit surprised at the lack of activity and put it down some quiet time for veteran’s day. Anyway, I see that when I’m not logged-in using https://www.askwoody.com or https://www.askwoody.com/ gives the DDEAUTO November 8th as last post while https://www.askwoody.com/2017/, https://www.askwoody.com/2017/11/ or https://www.askwoody.com/2017/11/14/ gives this most recent post. When I click on the 8 in calendar of the page stuck with DDEAUTO November 8th as last post, the calendar is updated to show that now 14 can be clicked. So it seems to me that the home page is no longer being updated on the server.

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Long before iPhone AliExpress has had animoji available for use in its messaging system. 

Here are some of the more expressive ones:

I wonder if someday emoji will become a completely separate international language in and of themselves where no words from any other language will be needed.

Note that these are animated GIF images so you have to allow animation in your browser to experience them.

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flackcatcher, woody

According to Mauro Huculak “Windows 10 Fall Creators Update: The 14 best new features” here’s what you get:

1. Microsoft Fluent Design System
2. OneDrive Files On-Demand
3. My People
4. Windows 10 Emoji
5. HDR support for gaming and monitors
6. Cortana now in the Settings app
7. Cortana system voice commands
8. Continuity (phone linking)
9. Windows Update bandwidth control
10. Microsoft Edge PDF reader
11. Windows Defender Controlled Folder Access
12. Power Throttling
13. Right-click share
14. Story Remix
Not mentioned: TruePlay

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Strange that the sizes for ISO versus the ESD file are slightly different. Your gamer buddy might find this of interest:

“A new anti-cheat feature for games, dubbed ‘TruePlay’, was added by Microsoft in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. Developers will be able to use this tool to combat cheating in PC games.” by Hamza Jawad

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BobbyB

“Each of the editions (Windows 10 Pro, Windows 10 Enterprise, Windows 10 Education) will point to the exact same .iso, so you only need to download [it] once,” said Michael Niehaus, director of product marketing for Windows.

Well guess so—almost—no Windows 10 Enterprise though. Here are the particulars:

For the 4,697,362,432 byte Win10_1709_English_x64.iso file:
MD5: 5e8bdef20c4b468f868f1f579197f7cf
SHA-1: 1ad928cfef439f6aa4044ddc3a96b0b6830bdd0f

Click mounted Win10_1709_English_x64.iso as E:\:
DISM.exe /Get-WimInfo /WimFile:E:\sources\install.wim

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 10.0.15063.0

Details for image : E:\sources\install.wim

Index : 1
Name : Windows 10 S
Description : Windows 10 S
Size : 15,748,508,043 bytes

Index : 2
Name : Windows 10 S N
Description : Windows 10 S N
Size : 14,682,635,068 bytes

Index : 3
Name : Windows 10 Home
Description : Windows 10 Home
Size : 15,567,580,753 bytes

Index : 4
Name : Windows 10 Home N
Description : Windows 10 Home N
Size : 14,496,690,559 bytes

Index : 5
Name : Windows 10 Home Single Language
Description : Windows 10 Home Single Language
Size : 15,569,063,438 bytes

Index : 6
Name : Windows 10 Education
Description : Windows 10 Education
Size : 15,746,024,004 bytes

Index : 7
Name : Windows 10 Education N
Description : Windows 10 Education N
Size : 14,680,122,009 bytes

Index : 8
Name : Windows 10 Pro
Description : Windows 10 Pro
Size : 15,746,775,851 bytes

Index : 9
Name : Windows 10 Pro N
Description : Windows 10 Pro N
Size : 14,680,828,085 bytes

The operation completed successfully.

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I already got my copy of Win10_1709_English_x64.iso from the Software Download page yesterday using wget which showed:

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=Win10_1709_English_x64.iso
Last-Modified: Sun, 01 Oct 2017 05:24:48 GMT
Content-Length: 4697362432

I’ll be curious to look and see if what this says is true for the this ISO I got:

“Each of the editions (Windows 10 Pro, Windows 10 Enterprise, Windows 10 Education) will point to the exact same .iso, so you only need to download [it] once,” said Michael Niehaus, director of product marketing for Windows.

I copied Win10_1709_English_x64.iso to my test system, clicked to open it, clicked on setup.exe and told it to “Keep nothing” to see what would happen. The resulting install left behind the other folders I had created on C:\ but everything else is from scratch, i.e. computer and user names, user SID, all other settings. The best outcome was a 30 minute install instead of a 60 minute update. I had disconnected from the internet after the install was underway. That way I had a chance to reconfigure before going online again. Mostly I just uninstalled the all apps I could using settings and deleted all the tiles from start menu since I don’t use those any more. Also I changed every setting in the registry under

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ContentDeliveryManager

to zero. The result was no CandyCrush or any other suggested apps were installed when the system was subsequently reconnected to the internet. As expected activation happened only once the system was online. Yawn. I don’t see what all the fuss is about. The new video playback settings to stream videos in HDR are absolutely meaningless to me since I don’t stream videos nor do I have a 4K display.

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This is bit like “the pot calling the kettle black“. People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.

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From “Diyas & flowers on the eve of Diwali“:

which was today’s “Bing Background” in India.

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See “A tweak to turn off automatically installing suggested apps in Windows 10“. Too bad that isn’t the first thing you’re asked after feature updates!

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Manipulation of weak minds is the currency of political power. Rather than dwelling on this go borrow a copy of Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” from your local library and read it (the translation by Anthony Briggs is excellent) or watch PBS’s recent “The Vietnam War” online if you missed it.

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So there we have it, Microsoft tells the world about six critical security vulnerabilities in Windows then promptly bungles the patch release that is supposed to fix them. Oh how very nice indeed! Another parachute jump with a moth ridden patched parachute. I guess I’ll just stick with the known bug set for now. Perhaps it’ll make more sense to jump to FCU a few weeks after it comes out rather than staying with the leaky CU ship.

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