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Microsoft released KB5036980 (OS Builds 22621.3527 and 22631.3527 today for Windows 11 23H3 and Windows 11 22H2. IMPORTANT: The date for optional, non-security preview releases for Home and Pro versions of Windows 11, version 22H2 has been extended from February 27, 2024 to June 26, 2024. Highlights included in the update: New! The Recommended section of the Start menu will show some Microsoft Store apps. These apps come from a small set of curated developers. This will help you to discover some of the great apps that are available. If you want to turn this off, go to Settings > Personalization > Start. Turn off the toggle for Show recommendations for tips, app promotions, and more.New! In the coming weeks, your most frequently used apps might appear in the Recommended section of the Start menu. This applies to apps that you have not already pinned to the Start menu or the taskbar.New! This update improves the Widgets icons on the taskbar. They are no longer pixelated or fuzzy. This update also starts the rollout of a larger set of animated icons.New! This update affects Widgets on the lock screen. They are more reliable and have improved quality. This update also supports more visuals and a more customized experience for you.This update affects the touch keyboard. It makes the Japanese 106 keyboard layout appear as expected when you sign in.This update addresses an issue that affects Settings. It stops responding when you dismiss a flyout menu. See the KB article for a separate list of quality improvements included in the update for Windows 11 23H3 and Windows 11 22H2. Update: To get the update, go to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update. The link to download and install the update can be found in the Optional updates available area. To get the standalone package for this update, go to the Microsoft Update Catalog website. References: Windows 11 update history

Microsoft released KB5036979 for Windows 10 version 22H2 optional non-security release preview (Windows monthly updates explained). Highlights included in the update: New! This update starts the rolls out of account-related notifications for Microsoft accounts in Settings > Home. A Microsoft account connects Windows to your Microsoft apps. The account also backs up all your data and helps you to manage your subscriptions. You can also add extra security steps to keep you from being locked out of your account. This feature displays notifications across the Start menu and Settings. You can manage your Settings notifications in Settings > Privacy & security > General.New! This update affects Widgets on the lock screen. They are more reliable and have improved quality. This update also supports more visuals and a more customized experience for you.This update addresses an issue that affects some wireless earbuds. Bluetooth connections are not stable. This occurs on devices that have firmware from April 2023 and later.This update makes some changes to Windows Search. It is now more reliable, and it is easier to find an app after you install it. This update also gives you a personalized app search experience. See the KB article for the list of quality improvements included in the update. This update makes quality improvements to the servicing stack, which is the component that installs Windows updates. Servicing stack updates (SSU) ensure that you have a robust and reliable servicing stack so that your devices can receive and install Microsoft updates. For general information about SSUs, see Servicing stack updates and Servicing Stack Updates (SSU): Frequently Asked Questions. Update: To get the update, go to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update. The link to download and install the update can be found in the Optional updates available area. To get the standalone package for this update, go to the Microsoft Update Catalog website. Windows 10 update history

Pale Moon has been updated to version 33.1.0. This update is a development, stability, and security release. New features: Implemented support for single-use <link rel=preload> meta tag. This implementation allows use of it without specifying a second <link rel={type}> meta tag to actually load the linked document which was originally intended for this tag (to hint to a browser it should pre-load the document for fast painting).Implemented CSP v3 keywords script-src-elem, script-src-attr, style-src-elem and style-src-attr.Enabled the use of html5's <dialog> by default. While this is not yet a complete implementation, use of it in the wild dictated we enable this early. The implementation should functionally suffice for usage seen so far.Added support for Emoji 15.1.Implemented webkitURL legacy window alias for URL for web compatibility.Implemented CSS shorthands margin-block, margin-inline, padding-block and padding-inline.Added support for querying CPU capabilities (SSE2/AVX/AVX2) to the Navigator interface. For privacy reasons this is not exposed to the web, but can be used by extensions. Changes/fixes: Fixed broken mousewheel scrolling if building with --disable-npapi.Fixed a minor issue with XUL tree display in some circumstances.Dev: Aligned canvas Path2D.addPath with the updated spec. It now supports DOMMatrix as opposed to SVGMatrix.Removed Stylo (Gecko Rust style system) leftovers from the source tree.Fixed a few potential emoji display issues.Fixed some issues with workers.Fixed an issue with ctrl+c copying in devtools.Fixed crashes when run under WINE because of its lack of support for IDXGIKeyedMutex.Fixed a crash when dealing with a specific (unmaintained) extension.Added .xrm-ms files to the executable warning list on Windows.Added sanity checks on http/2 header sizes.Fixed a potential issue in the JavaScript JIT compiler.Pulled a few fixes from upstream for the OpenType Sanitizer.Added a fix to avoid a potential issue when assigning a media data buffer.Security issues addressed: CVE-2024-3863, CVE-2024-3302, CVE-2024-3857 DiD, CVE-2024-3859 and CVE-2024-3861 DiD. Pale Moon includes both 32- and 64-bit versions for Windows: Pale Moon for Windows downloads. Update: To get the update now, select "Help" from the Pale Moon menu at the upper left of the browser window. Select About Pale Moon > Check for Updates. Release Notes Release Cycle

That's nothing. Here in New Orleans, we have quite a few races where you drink alcohol as you go. Example: https://www.noh3.com/

The latest series was great and had a lot of things from the game series in it. I would suggest a watch

https://www.reddit.com/r/SipsTea/comments/1cauysn/this_guy_has_life_figured_out/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button This guy has life figured out.

4 was brilliant, never played 3. 76 can be played single player and is pretty decent but not brilliant. I sort of agree about the movie but then a lot of complicated tv series can be like that, full of seemingly unrelated bits that only come together after a while.Looking forward to the next series though.

Mozilla sent Firefox Version 125.0.2 to the Release Channel. Fixed Reverted the changes recently shipped in Firefox 125 that more proactively blocked downloads from potentially untrustworthy URLs. The changes caused unexpected problems with downloading files in some situations. We plan to fix and re-enable these protections in a future release. (Bug 1892069) Update: To get the update now, select "Help" from the Firefox menu, then pick "About Firefox". Mac users need to select "About Firefox" from the Firefox menu. For non-English versions, Fully Localized Versions are available for download. Release Notes

If not serious, I do believe there are some thoughtful scifi writers. Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury come to mind. One of my all time favorite novels is Anne McCaffrey's "The Ship Who Sang." I would prefer to read a scifi novel than watch creepy monster movies like "Predator." For good fun, I recommend Robert Silverbergs's time travel romp "Up the Line."

I wasn't a fan of Fallout76 as it is mostly just a multiplayer spinoff of the original games. Fallout 4 is probably my favorite after 3 and New Vegas.

Yes, I love it but you have to had played the games to appreciate the show. The show has too many references to the various games to make an impact without playing them first.

I think this gratuitous insult deserves an apology.

I started reading scifi at an early age, maybe 8 to 9 years old. This continued for a good 20 years or so. Gradually my interest waned, as I found applied science increasingly more engaging. In defense of the scifi genre, I racked up enough 'miles' poring over its many variations. I got a pretty good grasp of what the genre was projecting for our collective future. In the fullness of time (some~65 years later), I find that scifi has been startlingly accurate in many of its predictions. I can think of quite a few concrete examples of things which did come to pass. Of course much of it was just pure fantasy- but definitely not all of it. Personally, I do think there is such a thing as 'serious' scifi as opposed to run of the mill scifi. Some works, and their authors, really do stand out- and there is definitely consensus on that within that very large community. Elitism and perhaps outright snobbery can probably be found in any sphere. I don't think it is all that prevalent, though. It's been my experience that most scifi readers are pretty ordinary folk. They tend to be highly interested in science, and we see them as a group being early adopters of computer tech. Some of them are of course more visible as they tend to show up for Star Trek conventions. In full costume, often. (grin) Also to be found at UFO symposiums, etc. Sweet bozos, all, and they are 'my people' at least in spirit. It's my opinion that the scifi genre serves a very useful social purpose. I'm grateful that it was there to give me some hints of what was coming. Clutter We inhabit that future right now, and not all of it is pretty.

Ha ha. Before I realized. A fortnight later after I realized. My excuse , old age.

Hmmmm it seems the screenshots have disappeared in the Fallout post above. Par for the course it seems. After logging in and out of the game several times I thought that the game had installed ok. Well it had but when I went to start it he next day it would not do so and gave a message that there was no paid for copy. So it looks like the Lutris script worked but with some steam settings. Guess it would as it was a steam specific script that it used. Tried a couple of ways to load the game but none worked, could not find a way to download the game from Microsoft. So I gave up and paid for the game on Steam as it was heavily discounted and I quite like the Fallout universe. The game was made by morons. Who on earth makes a game today where you can not press ESC to get to the main menue ? Your right the moranic Fallout 76 developers. You have to open the map then press Z to make it to the main menue. Clicking on exit to desktop freezes the game and you have to fiddle about to close the game which is a real pain.

It is set in the future so definitely sci fi. As to " as serious scifi " the only folk who say there is "serious scifi" are inconsequential idiots who think they are better than anyone else and that their opinion is the only one folks should listen to. You get the same pompous asses in all forms of art. Their only worth in this world is to make money for artists. I have read most of the books. We did Lord of the Flies as the book for the exam for O level GCE's. Seen all of the movies some several times. Personally I think sci fi is most interesting and enjoyable as anything is possible and as a reader you can feel as though you are the first man on the moon with every new story. Has anyone watched the Fallout series on Prime ? Or Three Body on Netflix ? This was definitely not as good as the first book in the trilogy. I read the trilogy some time ago, Remembrance of Earth's Past: The Three-Body Trilogy by Liu Cixin It took a while to get into but the story was full of twists and turns and most enjoyable. Probably not quite as polished as western sci fi, possibly due to the translation but considering it was by a native Chinese writer who still lives in China.

This is a good embellishment of the original topic. I don't keep up, and was unaware of a trilogy. I will definitely have to see the next two in that trio. Link is to a pretty good article, brief and yet covers it all well. Enough to pique my interest. Clutter

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Yes, he did three movies in the same universe.

I've read Animal Farm , 1984, Farenheit 451, Lord of the Flies. Saw The Matrix and the Doctor Who episodes arch that was a version of Soylent Green.

the Terry Gilliam movie?