Dutch government recommends against using Microsoft products that do not comply with GDPR

A report by Privacy Company, commissioned by the Dutch government, has found privacy risks in Office 365, Windows 10 Enterprise and mobile apps, that are possible violations of GDPR.
The Dutch government discourages the use of this software.
In a reaction on previous remarks, Microsoft made modifications to Office 365 Pro Plus, which is now in line with GDPR.

more...

I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git.

Linus Torvalds

Any organization that designs a system will inevitably produce a design
whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.

 Melvin Conway

UMLet: tips & tricks

 My modified palettes

• I made some diagrams more consistent with UML 2 and modified some elements to make them resize automatically
• unpack into the palettes folder of Umlet (you may want to make a backup first)

 Dragging elements without sticky relations

When you drag one or more selected elements,  any relation that is close to their borders will stick and move along. Sometimes you do not want that. Just hod down the SHIFT key while dragging to avoid this

 More tips in the FAQ...

fontawesome.com hamburger icon

OneNote: Looks like this section is corrupted... (fixed)

...OneNote might be able to fix it, but you should avoid working here in the meantime. 

This was the scary error message I received from MS OneNote on my windows 10 system.
This section  lives on Google Drive File Stream, not sure if this has any impact.
These are the steps I tried to solve the problem:

• OneNote proposes to resync the section. 
• This does not solve the issue 
• Online resources suggest copying the pages to another section, the deleting the corrupted section.
• I did that, leaving some old pages in there.
• I deleted the corrupted section
• The section disappeared, but quickly reappeared, still corrupted
• I removed all pages, I emptied the notebook recycle bin
• I deleted the corrupted section again
•  The section disappeared, but quickly reappeared, still corrupted, so I do not think sep 4 had any effect
• I moved the now empty section to another notebook
• I deleted the copied section in the other notebook
• All my notebooks are fine now

Java 12 is out

Another semesterial java release, feeling more like a Java 9 maintenance update.
Most changes relate to JVM internals, not to the language itself. This reflects how the JVM importance has grown with respect to the language.

Oracle is still mostly tuning its release process. The most notable novelty is indeed in this area: in Java 12 we have the first preview feature: switch expressions. You have to activate it explicitly and then you can work with the feature. Seems like a good way to get real world feedback before casting a feature in stone.