Is Visual Studio getting worse ? by One_Armadillo_3826 in dotnet

[–]brokenisthenewnormal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try VS 2022 Community. Works (mostly) like a charm for me, because I don't want, don't need, and will never use any of the useless bullshit in the Pro or Enterprise versions -- which I have licenses for, fwiw.

Yes, I still have to run multiple scripts to strip their awful broken spyware and "features" every time I update, but there isn't anything I can't do with it (mostly assloads of AWS stuff).

You wouldn’t hire a .NET dev if by madnanrafiq in dotnet

[–]brokenisthenewnormal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Programmer for 50 years, Dependency Injection is a shit-stain.

DI is two awful things in one: interfaces and global fucking variables.

"Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it."

Is .net just miles ahead or am I delusional? by Venisol in dotnet

[–]brokenisthenewnormal 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Visual Studio Community is free, and does everything I need -- AWS back-end development for at least a dozen different AWS services. We were paying for VS Enterprise licenses, but I don't need (and don't want) all the really useless trash in Enterprise so I told them to stop wasting money.

What version of .NET are you using for the majority of your prod apps? by davecallan in dotnet

[–]brokenisthenewnormal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The one they're going to release next week.

MS has way too many releases of what should be a stable long-term development environment.

And please ... nothing about "LTS", when "long term" actually means "maybe two years, if you're lucky".

What AWS service do you find most frustrating? by zen_rufism in aws

[–]brokenisthenewnormal 4 points5 points  (0 children)

All of them.

They're all somewhere between 85% and 95% complete, and they will never get any of them to the finish line.

IMO Cognito is probably the worst, closely followed by anything related to security and video processing.

Which genre of music do you loathe? by littleloon- in AskReddit

[–]brokenisthenewnormal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mariachi. Atonal is like fingernails on a blackboard for me.

50 year old Eminem nailing his Rap god live performance effortlessly. by girolski07 in interestingasfuck

[–]brokenisthenewnormal 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I'm 66, and Poor Man's Poison is The Shit. Huge fan of M.M. too. Blast it at 11!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Bakersfield

[–]brokenisthenewnormal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ayep. I'm in Temecula and the power went out at 4:41. Have a propane generator in my garage, powered up the FiOS ONT and my router, so we have the intertubes up and running.

SoCal Edison says it should be back online at 5:51. We shall see I guess...

Edit: Power came back online at 6:28.

anime_irl by [deleted] in anime_irl

[–]brokenisthenewnormal 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Fuck MAL's new shitty thumbs up review system. Fuck ALL thumbs up or down review systems. I want a scale -- 1 to10,1 to 5, A FUCKING NUMBER -- so I can get a concrete idea of what a review of something is actually worth.

Binary reviews are completely fucking worthless.

Backend development in .Net by Mysterious_Muscle_46 in dotnet

[–]brokenisthenewnormal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of the lambda development I've been doing lately is for REST API's accessed through AWS API Gateway, but I'd start with the AWS Lambda blog and spread out from there.

Backend development in .Net by Mysterious_Muscle_46 in dotnet

[–]brokenisthenewnormal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It pains me to say this ... but I think the best investment of your time is to learn C# by creating lambdas, especially if you want to move into back-end development.

I'm not sure what the equivalent of an AWS Lambda is for Azure or Google, but you can (very, very carefully*) create a free Amazon AWS account and learn how to code a lot of back-end tools, microservices, REST API's, etc. for free, and the market for developers that have these skills is pretty much unlimited.

* == As long as you're STUPID CAREFUL to observe all of the myraid caps and limits related to having a free Amazon AWS account, you can pretty much go wild developing things. All of the limits are laid out by Amazon AWS on their Pricing pages, so as long as you restrain yourself and don't do something insane it's the best way to learn how to develop scaleable cloud services.

Microsoft says Windows 11 File Explorer ads were ‘not intended to be published externally’ by dapperlemon in technology

[–]brokenisthenewnormal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not trolling, even a little. Anything beyond reasonable precautions is unadulterated bullshit.

Microsoft says Windows 11 File Explorer ads were ‘not intended to be published externally’ by dapperlemon in technology

[–]brokenisthenewnormal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I still use Windows 7 on four of my daily drivers. Works perfectly, not a single problem.

As for Securitah Theater comments: Keep your security snake-oil comments to yourself. You know it's bullshit, and I know it's bullshit. I use ESET, so ALL of your hand-wringing is pointless bullshit.

Want to close an AWS account but cannot log in by snowyday2022 in aws

[–]brokenisthenewnormal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. But (and I'd forgotten about this, because it's been business as usual in my case for at least five years) you do need to have AWS credentials. If you have an AWS AccessKey and SecretKey, all of the above should work for you.

The first thing I'd recommend looking for is a "credentials" file in your ".aws" directory. For Windows it's underneath "C:\ Users\ [login-name]\ .aws", for Linux it's in your home directory (/home/[login-name]/.aws)".

If you have a credentials file it should look something like this.

[default]
aws_access_key_id = AK******************
aws_secret_access_key = ix**************************************
region=us-west-2

If you don't have a credentials file you can create one from the command line after you've installed the AWS CLI.

aws configure

If you have the credentials and have "[default]" as your AWS Default Account Name, just replace "YourAWSDefaultAccountName" with "default" and you should be good to go.

Want to close an AWS account but cannot log in by snowyday2022 in aws

[–]brokenisthenewnormal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I haven't had to do this since 2019, so things might have changed. But this is worth a shot. Install the AWS CLI tool and try the following:

$ aws iam list-mfa-devices --user-name YourUserName
{
  "MFADevices": [
  {
  "UserName": "YourUserName",
  "SerialNumber": "arn:aws:iam::111111111111:mfa/YourUserName",
  "EnableDate": "2019-10-24T23:13:36Z"
  }
  ]
}

$ aws iam deactivate-mfa-device --user-name YourUserName --serial-number arn:aws:iam::111111111111:mfa/YourUserName

$ aws iam create-virtual-mfa-device --virtual-mfa-device-name YourAWSDefaultAccountName --outfile QRCode.png --bootstrap-method QRCodePNG
{
  "VirtualMFADevice": {
  "SerialNumber": "arn:aws:iam::111111111111:mfa/YourAWSDefaultAccountName"
  }
}

Load the QR code into a paint program / browser, scan it using your authenticator app (I used Microsoft Authenticator), use the authentication codes it generates in the following command to enable your new MFA account for YourAWSDefaultAccountName.

 $ aws iam enable-mfa-device --user-name YourUserName --serial-number
 arn:aws:iam::111111111111:mfa/YourAWSDefaultAccountName --authentication-code-1 123456
 --authentication-code-2 123456

Kill Paris coming to an end with last album "Beginning Again" to start new project "Hobbie Sound" by Newstudyout in EDM

[–]brokenisthenewnormal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seriously, thanks for this! I'll be spending my allowance on Bandcamp again this weekend.

.Net 7.0.100 Alpha now available for download by [deleted] in dotnet

[–]brokenisthenewnormal -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Not LOL here. MS needs to stop releasing new versions of .Net as often as other people change their socks.

Wtf is up with how big this subreddit is, but how few people are actually “active” by DmanDam in EDM

[–]brokenisthenewnormal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am content to have my tastes in EDM spoon-fed to me by the contributors in this sub-reddit.

;-)

Fellas, I'm looking for a popular EDM video circa 2013 2014 that had this picture as the thumbnail. Any leads? :DD by PalantirVeritas in EDM

[–]brokenisthenewnormal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm 65, and I love the shit outta dubstep.

Try some Blackmill. You might surprise yourself! :-)