Best of Microsoft — October 2022

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    mikeroyal/Self-Hosting-Guide: Self-Hosting Guide. Learn all about locally hosting(on premises & private web servers) and managing software applications by yourself or your organization.

    Most self-hosted software can be installed using Docker, a packaging system which allows software to bundle their configuration and dependencies. Shipwright is a WebUI to generate templates for Yacht, Portainer, Docker-Compose, and Unraid. Dozzle is a small lightweight application with a web based interface to monitor Docker logs. Diun is a tool that receive notifications when a Docker image is updated.

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    GitHub Copilot may steer Microsoft into a copyright lawsuit

    GitHub Copilot is a programming auto-suggestion tool trained from public source code on the internet. An attorney is investigating the possibility of filing a copyright claim against GitHub. There are two potential lines of attack here: is GitHub improperly training Copilot on open source code and is the tool improperly emitting other people's copyrighted work.

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    Tauri: the next generation of desktop application development framework

    Tauri is a popular (GitHub 50k star) cross-platform desktop application development framework. Electron Electron is an open source framework developed by GitHub and originally used to develop the Atom editor. The development cost is high - there are restrictions on the technology stack used (C# for Windows, ObjC/Swift for macOS) Advantages: Large package size, need to package Chromium and NodeJS runs on JIT.

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    Avatar of theregisterThe Register·4y

    The Metaverse is the internet no one wants

    The Metaverse, as the company formerly known as Facebook defines the term in its financial filings, is "an embodied internet where people have immersive experiences beyond two-dimensional screens" It's more or less another stab at Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML), a standard file format for 3D graphics that dates back to the mid

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    Microsoft Released AI Image Creator Powered by DALL-E 2

    Microsoft released Image Creator – an AI tool powered by DALL-E 2. Image Creator works like Stable Diffusion and Midjourney. It generates "an image that doesn't exist" based on a text prompt.

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    Four years after being acquired by Microsoft, GitHub keeps doing its thing

    Four years ago, Microsoft closed its acquisition of GitHub, which at the time was mostly a code repository. Today's GitHub looks quite a bit different, now that it added CI/CD tools with GitHub Actions and Codespaces as an online editor and compute platform, as well as various security tools and more.

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    C# 11 is to release in November; these are the top features

    The next edition of Microsoft’s object-oriented, type-safe programming language, C# 11, is almost finished and continues to add features.

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    GitHub Copilot investigation · Joseph Saveri Law Firm & Matthew Butterick

    GitHub Copilot is a plugin for Visual Studio and other IDEs that produces what Microsoft calls “suggestions’ based on what you type into the editor. Microsoft and OpenAI have conceded that Copilot & Codex are trained on open-source software in public repos on GitHub. There is no US case squarely resolving the fair-use ramifications of AI training.

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    8 Popular Terraform Alternatives You Should Know

    Hashicorp’s Terraform has been a major IaC tool, and I have covered a lot of content about Terraform on this blog. We will explore a few Terraform alternatives with respect to the above pointers.

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    Avatar of theregisterThe Register·4y

    Windows Subsystem for Android declared ready for prime time

    Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) has been declared ready for prime time First Look. Microsoft appears not to have made an official announcement about the product's availability. The "50,000 apps" he mentions are only available from the Amazon.com app store – not the larger Google Play digital tat bazaar.

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