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# ![@davepl1968 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::158808511.png) @davepl1968 Dave W Plummer

Dave W Plummer posts on X about microsoft, over the, searches, a list the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and 1769 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::158808511/influence)
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**Social category influence**
[technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  [stocks](/list/stocks)  [social networks](/list/social-networks)  [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies)  [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  [currencies](/list/currencies) 

**Social topic influence**
[microsoft](/topic/microsoft) #684, [over the](/topic/over-the), [searches](/topic/searches), [a list](/topic/a-list), [scratch](/topic/scratch), [topics](/topic/topics), [superior](/topic/superior), [$spot](/topic/$spot), [facebook](/topic/facebook), [lit](/topic/lit)

**Top assets mentioned**
[Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)](/topic/microsoft) [Spotify Technology (SPOT)](/topic/$spot) [Dell Technologies, Inc. (DELL)](/topic/dell) [Chainge (XCHNG)](/topic/chainge)
### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::158808511/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"Everyone thinks they could write an operating system. Here's a list of security vulnerabilities in the screenshot CWE-426 (Untrusted search path): execvp(cmd-name cmd-args) searches PATH. If this program ever runs with elevated privileges (setuid started by a privileged service etc.) an attacker can hijack PATH to run their own binary. Use absolute paths (e.g. execv("/bin/ls" .)) or set a safe PATH and prefer execve with a scrubbed environment. Environment injection: Youre inheriting the full environment to the child. Things like LD_PRELOAD LD_LIBRARY_PATH PYTHONPATH etc. can change behavior"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1976797832871805038) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-10-10T23:51Z 90.8K followers, 85.3K engagements


"1 million pixels per millisecond is 120fps at 4K. Now you know"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1978853397299118124) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-10-16T15:59Z 90.8K followers, 117.9K engagements


"Years ago we were discussing doctors over lunch at Microsoft. Finding a good doctor is hard and you want them to be at least as smart as you are. Someone suggested they wanted the "Raymond Chen" of doctors. Someone else then pointed out you might just be better off with Raymond Chen himself. Smart is as smart does. Degrees help but guarantee very little"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1978154195959398437) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-10-14T17:41Z 90.8K followers, 36.4K engagements


"This is how we did secure file delete in the old days"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1978308862567497849) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-10-15T03:56Z 90.8K followers, 17.4K engagements


"For every mom that has a junk drawer in the kitchen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1979007892058443932) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-10-17T02:13Z 90.8K followers, 16.2K engagements


"Thanks for the kind words Spotify"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1979215964630847609) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-10-17T16:00Z 90.8K followers, 4736 engagements


"Did you know you can use "Disposable Windows" thanks to Windows Sandbox except its NOT turned on by default Here's how to enable and use Disposable Windows"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1952892570461454587) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-08-06T00:40Z 90.7K followers, 26.7K engagements


"When you're having AI assist you with coding you're faced with the challenge of "Do you review every line" For some stuff the answer is "of course". But if you're really thashing a codebase and testing new things in a new branch let's say it might cough out more code than you can personally review. In that case have it write comprehensive unit tests for its code. Make sure it exercises all of the contracts. That's what I do at least and it catches a TON of its own bugs and hallucinations that way. If you're using Copilot for example it'll run the unit tests right in your VSCode terminal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1977245325326008559) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-10-12T05:29Z 90.7K followers, 21.3K engagements


"Once again left to sugar my own churo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1977766195144302712) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-10-13T15:59Z 90.7K followers, 12K engagements


"First this and now Windows XX tomorrow What a week"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1977768126436769989) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-10-13T16:07Z 90.7K followers, 13.1K engagements


"Man I knew Facebook was a dark and scary place but its extra nihilist today This is my feed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1977951827061608452) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-10-14T04:17Z 90.7K followers, 8714 engagements


"No because I learned two important things in college that I would not have known otherwise: 1) SQL Joins and Triggers 2) How to actually finish something hard that sucks and takes X years to do. I only used the second one at Microsoft. But at least they knew I'd done it once before. If you're old and proven great. If you're young and ambitious get a degree"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1949911262370103692) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-07-28T19:14Z 90.8K followers, 55.7K engagements


"The PC that you actually want costs $3500 and always has"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1958185339090039020) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-08-20T15:12Z 90.8K followers, 35.3K engagements


"Bonus points if you can name the top one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1969894778042196367) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-09-21T22:41Z 90.8K followers, 60.3K engagements


"I'll never forget the last time I was in Portland. I saw a mother and her child watching TV in a dimly lit room but then as I came around I could see they were actually using the TV's shell as a small fireplace with a small fire flickering inside. There had been no electricity for decades. Oh wait that was a cool scene from the Terminator"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1976687461603361187) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-10-10T16:33Z 90.8K followers, 22.4K engagements


"Things I learned at Microsoft: If you don't want it read aloud in court before you don't type it on the keyboard in front of you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1976796397480689746) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-10-10T23:46Z 90.8K followers, 25.2K engagements


"FileZilla is one of about X shareware apps that I still run religiously"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1977117221295104391) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-10-11T21:00Z 90.8K followers, 64.8K engagements


"The 1986 Oldsmobile Incas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1977542641878466839) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-10-13T01:11Z 90.8K followers, 11.3K engagements


"USB+Bluetooth. Just in case"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1977756277431243076) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-10-13T15:20Z 90.8K followers, 7894 engagements


"You can't buy the Dell Pro Max with the NVIDIA GB10 yet but here's what you need to know"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1977784019791339524) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-10-13T17:10Z 90.8K followers, 16.2K engagements


"@factpostnews @AOC She's probably right. But does she have the leadership to achieve anything meaningful or just to complain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1978859690906820671) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-10-16T16:24Z 90.8K followers, XXX engagements


"@NTFabiano Not really. Neuroplasticity is the brain adapting to chainge over time whereas the ability to change your brain is an instantaneous thing. When it sticks that's neuroplasticity. But in the short term it's an ability"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1951103824552505632) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-08-01T02:12Z 90.8K followers, XXX engagements


"I was XX before I owned a car that cost this much"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1964054339812806848) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-09-05T19:53Z 90.8K followers, 5.5M engagements


"I bought a $100K VAX on eBay and installed UNIX on it Now it runs my smart lights"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1978979940130328736) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-10-17T00:22Z 90.8K followers, 27.1K engagements


"But can it find Notepad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1979215118094471636) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-10-17T15:57Z 90.8K followers, 15.5K engagements


"I'm so old I wrote that That's assuming it's the Windows version which is the one I worked on. The Win9x game art and original code were done by Maxis/Cinematronics. I ported it to Windows NT converted the x86 asm to C made it work on RISC and so on. Success has many fathers and all credit should really go to the original designers. I'm just the fun uncle that brought it to the masses"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1947796576321384603) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-07-22T23:11Z 90.8K followers, 5M engagements


"@LowLevelTweets Because it works well on Windows but is sketchy on Linux therefore Windows must be doing it wrong :-)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1957091338241097909) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-08-17T14:45Z 90.8K followers, 16.8K engagements


"I don't know who needs to hear this but you don't need a Microsoft account to run Windows. You do need a Microsoft burner account to set up the FIRST account during setup same as MacOS. After that set up all the local accounts you like. It's what I do. Total time delta: X minutes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1975575211140653060) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-10-07T14:53Z 90.8K followers, 811.2K engagements


"The story of FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8. If you're not the type to pay for your software you probably know this key. What you might not know is that I worked on the first version of Windows Product Activation and this was our first major "hack". And yet it wasn't a 'hack' at all - it was a disastrous leak. The FCKGW key was a valid volume licensing key so all you needed was special volume media to go with it. Eventually they were bundled and put online by pirates. WPA worked by generating a hardware ID from your CPU RAM and other components then sending it to Microsoft alongside your"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1975953400312606730) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-10-08T15:56Z 90.8K followers, 1.1M engagements


"@adam_s_brookes How'd you get the computer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1975986609192595529) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-10-08T18:08Z 90.8K followers, 75.9K engagements


"Hot take: open source is not more secure. Open source can give you a million eyeballs but what matters most are (a) the diligence with which the code is originally written and (b) the expertise of those who later review it. Having 50000 people fork the kernel doesn't mean they're all able to scrutinize the code for obscure exploits. I'd rather have one code review from @marklucovsky than XXX comp sci students looking at it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1976824759208845373) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-10-11T01:38Z 90.8K followers, 95.7K engagements


"Cool demo check it out 100Base-TX (the standard XXX Mb/s Fast Ethernet) only ever used X of the X conductors but older or cheaper NICs and cables were wired for X simply because the RJ-45 jack has X pins and the earlier 100Base-T4 variant did use all 8"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1976831506514612340) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-10-11T02:05Z 90.8K followers, 22K engagements


"My old zip support that is built into Windows is thirty years old slow and single-threaded but at least you're "safe""  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1977173340248064079) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-10-12T00:43Z 90.8K followers, 185.2K engagements


"When I worked at Microsoft in the mid-to-late-90s it seemed like about half a dozen people I knew left right after reading this book. And they didn't leave to start virtual worlds. For some reason they left for things like Alpaca farming. I never got it but was too scared to read the book. Never have"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1977409827682066879) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-10-12T16:23Z 90.8K followers, 373.4K engagements


"Misc PDP-11 boards. That's an Emulex SCSI on top. This is everything but RAM boards terminators etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1978581018555621769) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-10-15T21:57Z 90.8K followers, 8908 engagements


"@elonmusk True on its face. If I'm being generous syntactically perhaps what she meant is that black people cannot be SYSTEMICALLY racist against white people because they lack the numbers to do so"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1978581540788666817) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-10-15T21:59Z 90.8K followers, 14.5K engagements


"My grandma spent an entire month crocheting little PDP-11 computers and she wanted to know if you liked them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1978981092158828906) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-10-17T00:27Z 90.8K followers, 40.7K engagements


"60W for XXX passengers would be 11kW. I asked an Alaska XXX pilot and there is circuit breaker protection on the Bus (Ground Service Bus through the IFE BUS). There is also switched-on/off protection as well as load-shedding protection in the case of single-generator operation (one engine or APU only). Each engine-driven IDG is XX KVA and APU is a PMG at XX KVA. Some are rated at 40KVA but even that is plenty - it's the bus that's the limit. Or perhaps 12V conversion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1979218480781197432) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-10-17T16:10Z 90.8K followers, 172.4K engagements


"I don't know what Fleet is. Or MDM. Or Kandji. My bad. In fact just give me an instance of VSCode and a star to steer her by"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1979586620497256739) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-10-18T16:33Z 90.8K followers, 26.9K engagements


"@christianhujer We were on UNIX on a PDP-11/44 though what version I don't recall. maybe V6 or BSD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/davepl1968/status/1979971568722903361) [@davepl1968](/creator/x/davepl1968) 2025-10-19T18:03Z 90.8K followers, X engagements