I've seen and felt your explosion, the effects are still reverberating through the landscape. How big a crater is East Morton? 🤣

Well, last week there were two flowerbeds outside my window ...

Body placement facilities by any chance?

I can think of a few candidates. I'm sure they would make good fertiliser.

Two years on and maintenance costing too much, they'll be transformed into parking lots for the disabled.

That's interesting. Merge and close, with no evidence of a successful test.

And no comment to what you said. I was telling you months ago that this whole community thing was already out the window. He's doing what he wants. Ignores everything else. Ignores neatness. Doesn't give a damn about the users who get into trouble. I still don't know what to do about it though, other than see this flaming wreck fall down from the sky into a bottomless lake.

I still don't know what to do about it though

That's the problem. I don't know either, but I'm not going down silently. At least I got a thumbs-up from Vitalii - I do genuinely think he's on the right side, although walking a tightrope between David and everyone else.

I'll leave you to deal with #4076. :-) hic!

And no comment to what you said. I was telling you months ago that this whole community thing was already out the window. He's doing what he wants. Ignores everything else. Ignores neatness. Doesn't give a damn about the users who get into trouble. I still don't know what to do about it though, other than see this flaming wreck fall down from the sky into a bottomless lake.

A fork that wrests control from him? I don't know best how that would be publicised to compete with Berkley.edu however.

I'll leave you to deal with #4076. :-) hic!

Testing it, you mean? I wonder of course why the changes to simple view when I reported the problems in advanced view and never looked at simple view.

Test it, or lob hand grenades into the discussion - your choice!

I was looking for nightly builds but we don't have those, do we?
And wasn't the bug I found due to the compiler used? Because the one I use is still VS 2013. It's also been 67 years since I last updated BOINC source code and when you've not done that for a while you forget how it goes.

See? I can update Master locally, but not a clue how to update branch 7.16, so that's stuck at 11 June.

When I need to test a specific BOINC release version, I:

Go to the main GitHub landing page - the one with a full folder listing
Use the dropdown list from the 'Master' button - either the release branch, or, for finer control, the tag list
Once the correct version is shown, use the dropdown on the green 'Code button' to "Download ZIP". It's surprisingly quick.

No, there aren't nightly builds, but each PR gets its own build, for testing that specific change (the rest of the code comes from master)

For 4076, you can get the win-manager from

https://ci.appveyor.com/project/BOINC/boinc/builds/36041052/job/n3q6kfh8e66vhk2j/artifacts

That's the VS2013 x64 build, but I think it was a component (wxWidgets) change, not a compiler change. I've prodded to get VS2019 to save its artifacts, if we're going to be using that, but no news yet.

11 super high tech computers seen on 1960s television

...Here are 11 cool computers from 1960s TV shows.

Modern kids must believe we were living in the Stone Age in the sixties. No cellphones, Fitbits or DVRs? Heck, even five-digits zip codes were a new idea.

Gentoo Penguins reclassified as four species rather than one

Will Gentoo Linux now need to split into four distros?

Computer Scientists Devise a New Weapon Against Video Game Cheaters

University of Texas at Dallas computer scientists have devised a new weapon against video game players who cheat.

The researchers developed their approach for detecting cheaters using the popular first-person shooter game Counter-Strike. But the mechanism can work for any massively multiplayer online (MMO) game that sends data traffic to a central server

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Arecibo Observatory telescope to be closed down after suffering damage from falling support cables

Smartphone Addiction Not Habitual, Says Study
Phone "addiction" is caused more by boredom, rather than nagging notifications according to a newly-published study. It also found that the "endless scroll" feature on some apps was most likely to detain users.

The study is the work of the London School of Economics and Political Science and published in a journal titled "Computers in Human Behavior." (Source: sciencedirect.com)