I recently built a new PC and did a clean Windows 10 install. As a result, I had to reinstall VSCode and everything else. I use PowerShell as my prefered shell in VSCode and encountered an error I sort of remember from when I did my last fresh install.
The error in my case reads File C:\Users\dwayn\AppData\Roaming\npm\yarn.ps1 cannot be loaded because running scripts is disabled on this system. For more information, see about_Execution_Policies at https:/go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=135170.
Well, Nvidia just well and truly dropped the microphone with its announcement of the Nvidia RTX 30xx series cards. One of the biggest announcements of all is the lower tier of the new cards the RTX 3070 will allegedly have double the performance of the current-gen flagship 2080 Ti and is only $499 USD.
In Australia, we pay more for technology in general. After the conversion, GST (government tax on goods and services), people are probably assuming the price won’t work out to be too nice for us Australians.
Passwords are insecure. Even as password awareness has increased and password practices have shifted towards creating stronger passwords and using password managers such as 1Password, a password is only as good as its complexity, uniqueness and security of the application or website.
You can enforce stronger passwords, but you can’t enforce uniqueness. Password rules just make people change their passwords from: password123 to password123! — I’ve educated my dad on passwords, but he was notorious for creating basic passwords as most of our parents are.
One of the most frustrating and annoying features of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 is waiting for the game to load past the splash screen logos (which take forever), only for it to go to a pointless screen that tells you to, “Press Any Key to Start” which then makes you wait for the game to load again.
It turns out that Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 has a fast launch flag you can specify which will skip the publisher and partner splash logos at the start as well as remove the background video. The game takes seconds to load.
Recently announced Nintendo financials reveal that Nintendo has posted an operating profit of 427.7% for the quarter of April to June 2020. In that single quarter, they made 144.7 billion yen ($1.4 billion USD). To put that into perspective, the same quarter in 2019 they made a 10.2% profit.
It makes sense considering for most of 2020 thus far, many of us have been cooped up in our houses and gaming is a great source of entertainment, especially if you have children and looking for family-friendly games. Nintendo has become the soundtrack to the pandemic, especially in our household.
Long story short, I needed to downgrade from Windows 10 Pro to Windows 10 Home and as I discovered, it’s a bit of a tricky situation that requires editing the registry. If you want to downgrade from within Windows using the Media Creation Tool and not have to create a USB key, this is what you will have to do.
In my situation, attempting to run the Media Creation Tool resulted in some error about not being able to upgrade (even though I was trying to do a fresh install). The following steps worked on my machine and should work on yours as well.
The Fetch API might seem new to some, but it’s already five years old with browsers rolling out support in 2015. It was a replacement for the dated XMLHttpRequest which was tedious to work with and a relic of the yesteryear of internet.
Still, all of these years one feature that is available in XMLHttpRequest is the ability to handle file upload progress, missing from the Fetch specification and we are now in the year 2020, almost 2021 and still, there is no across the board way to handle file upload progress. This is the last missing piece before Fetch can truly replace XMLHttpRequest.
But, can they run Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 at its highest settings?
The Nvidia RTX 3080 starts at $699 and the performance is being promised as twice that of the prized gaming graphics card the Nvidia RTX 2080.
If that’s not good enough for the avid hungry gamer, Nvidia also announced a new monster RTX 3090 which is double the price of the RTX 3080. The difference being, the RTX 3090 promises to support 8k gaming, nevermind the fact most people are not gaming at 4k in 2020.
Not that kind of scraping.
If you’re a developer, chances are in your career you’ve written a web scraper before. You either did it for a personal project, learning exercise or you were asked by someone else to build a scraper. My first freelancer job was a scraper on Freelancer.com years and years ago.
There is often confusion around the legality of scraping and it’s not illegal to scrape public data. This was further reinforced by the case of hiQ vs LinkedIn which ruled it is legal to scrape public data.
File this one under, “peak 2020”
Some Sony fans online are upset that the Playstation 5 console will allegedly not be backwards compatible with Playstation titles prior to Playstation 4. This means any games released for the Playstation 3 and older might not be playable.
https://twitter.com/VideoTech_/status/1300492599388786688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1300492599388786688%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.news.com.au%2Ftechnology%2Fhome-entertainment%2Fgaming%2Fplaystation%2Fplaystation-5-lack-of-backwards-compatibility-seemingly-confirmed-by-ubisoft%2Fnews-story%2Fd12d69a849e55421794a049c0199c043
The information comes from the next-gen support page on the Ubisoft website. The triggering line for Sony fans has since been deleted, quite possibly because of the backlash it seems to have generated and it now looks like this.