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• (2014-01-29) Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too
• (2023-11-09) Windows 11 Update 23H2 is stealing users' IMAP credentials
• (2023-04-17) The Windows 11 Trash Party
• (2023-03-26) Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid News
• (2023-02-21) Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website to make you stay on Edge
• (2023-02-08) Windows 11: a spyware machine out of users' control?
• (2022-12-11) [Here are 5 not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11](https://ww

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TODO

• Install ADE 2.0.1 via winetricks if it's ever added (Winetricks/winetricks#991)

Prerequisites

• Wine
• Winetricks

Install Adobe Digital Editions 2.0.1

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For more information: Support for your My Cloud and WD Cloud device is changing

1. Check which My Cloud device you have: http://web.archive.org/web/20210923084141/http://anionix.ddns.net/WDMyCloud/WDMyCloud_Specs.html

2. See if your device is eligible to update to OS 5: https://www.westerndigital.com/en-ca/support/product-security/wdc-21004-recommended-upgrade-to-mycloud-os-5

   • If yes, update to OS 5 and skip the rest of this document

   • If not, keep reading

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O'Reilly bought and shut down katacoda.com 😕

Alternatives:

Site	Notes
killercoda.com	Seems to be the closest replacement for Katacoda
Play with Docker	Just for Docker, requires a free Docker account
Instruqt	This looks like more of a solution for vendors than a generally available platform This is what Red Hat has chosen to replace Katacoda for their interactive tutorials: https://developers.redhat.com/learn#assembly-id-70181 Source code here: https://github.com/openshift-instruqt/instruqt

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Files and file systems

• In Windows, files that are in use cannot be modified
  • As a result, Windows updates have to happen when the computer is not in use, such as during shutdown or boot (often both)
    • Compare to Linux/macOS, which can install updates while the computer is being used 😎
• Windows uses backslashes (\) as file system path separators
  • All other modern operating systems (macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, etc) use a normal (i.e. forward) slash (/) and use backslashes for escaping
• Windows' NTFS filesystem performs poorly compared to Linux's ext4 filesystem

> Unfortunately, WSL1 was hampered by the performance characteristics of NTFS, which do not match the expectations of Linux software. Microsoft has since replaced WSL1 with WSL2, which provides similar functionality by running the Linux kernel in a virtual machine. In WSL2, Linux software runs against an ext4 file system, rather than an NTFS file system.

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Parser	Size	Maintained	Node.js	Browser	Streaming	Types	Modifying XML	Notes
jsdom	3.11 MB	yes	yes	N/A		DefinitelyTyped	yes	Probably the best choice since its API is closest to the browser API for manipulating XML
cheerio	558 kB	yes	yes	yes		included	yes	jQuery-like API for parsing and manipulating HTML and XML
xmldoc	41.4 kB	yes	yes	yes		DefinitelyTyped	Partial, not recommended (nfarina/xmldoc#51)
@xmldom/xmldom	182 kB	yes	yes	yes		included	yes	⚠️ Based on DOM but no querySelector/querySelectorAll
sax	55 kB	yes	yes	yes?	yes	DefinitelyTyped	Not recommended	⚠️ API is callback-based and very cludgy, but it has streamin

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ⓘ This list is more-or-less limited to languages I have personal experience with

C#

• Recommended?: 👎
• Pros
  • Like a more modern Java without a lot of Java's problems
• Cons
  • Although it is now open-source with .NET Core, a lot of existing code and libraries aren't compatible
  • A fully open-source .NET/C# seems to conflict with Microsoft's priorities: Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source?
• See also: Is .NET an open platform yet?

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Name	Recommended	React support	Accessible	Mobile-friendly	Backed by large organization	Notes
React Spectrum	👍	👍	👍	👍	Adobe
Carbon	🤷‍♂️	yes	???	???	IBM	The square corners design already feels dated 😕
Semantic UI	👎👎	yes	⚠ not good		👎	⚠ Inconsistent opacity behaviour
Blueprint	👎👎👎	yes	⚠ not good	⚠ no	⚠ Palantir	⚠ Palantir Uses Open Source to Profit from Human Rights Abuses.

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TL;DR

• The general consensus seems to be use UTC everywhere and convert to the local time zone when displaying dates/times to the user
  • UTC isn't perfect; aside from leap seconds, the biggest issue seems to be when local time zone rules change, making dates stored in UTC inaccurate
• When passing timestamps over the wire (e.g. to/from an API), convert them to strings using an unambiguous standard format that includes the time zone such as ISO 8601
  • In TypeScript/JavaScript this can be accomplished using Date.toISOString(). Use new Date(dateString) to convert back into a Date object
• In the cases where the time zone is set to UTC but a local timestamp is needed (e.g. to represent "today midnight"), a library may be needed: https://momentjs.com/docs/#/-project-status/recommendations/

[new Date(year, monthIndex, day)](https://developer.mozilla.org/docs