Miscellaneous Tech News
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 @black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News: @kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News: Hopefully I am not reposting this news, but an interesting article about the future of Windows Powershell vs Powershell Core: https://blog.ipswitch.com/end-of-the-road-for-windows-powershell. I've been using Powershell Core for a while now on my Mac and Fedora. I haven't tried it on Windows yet. It's not great on Windows. I wish it would integrate better like PSv5 does. 
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 Another interesting read: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/03/microsoft-will-soon-start-shipping-the-intel-spectre-microcode-fixes/. Interesting line that may cause a ton of headaches for the less informed: "Microsoft is also warning, again, that all Windows updates now require the use of a compatible, up-to-date anti-virus program. ...Systems without a compatible anti-virus application won't have the registry key, and, hence, those won't receive any further Windows Updates." 
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 @kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News: Another interesting read: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/03/microsoft-will-soon-start-shipping-the-intel-spectre-microcode-fixes/. Interesting line that may cause a ton of headaches for the less informed: "Microsoft is also warning, again, that all Windows updates now require the use of a compatible, up-to-date anti-virus program. ...Systems without a compatible anti-virus application won't have the registry key, and, hence, those won't receive any further Windows Updates." Very interesting. 
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 https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/03/virtualbox-5-2-8-released For Linux users, what’s the point in using it instead of KVM? 
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 @black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/03/virtualbox-5-2-8-released For Linux users, what’s the point in using it instead of KVM? There are cases, but they are rare. For one there is different compatibility - there are things that run on VirtualBox that won't on KVM (and vice versa.) Or in cases where you can't run KVM libraries. 
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 @black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/03/virtualbox-5-2-8-released For Linux users, what’s the point in using it instead of KVM? If you're building a VM that is going to run on another OS. At a prior job we leaned heavily on VirtualBox because we had Windows, Linux, and macOS hosts. 
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 @black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/03/virtualbox-5-2-8-released For Linux users, what’s the point in using it instead of KVM? Vagrant. Not sure how that works with KVM, but it is well integrated with VBox. 
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 Humans are now attacking self driving cars. . . man I want a video to see what this looks like. . . No major injuries, no police officers were called, minor damage to the vehicle. . . 
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 Chrome 65 with lots of new features. Like CSS Paint API. 
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 Lots of new stuff coming in Kodi 18 "Leia" which has just entered alpha. 
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 LibreOffice 6.1 will be getting GTK3 native message dialogues. 
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 @mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News: FBI trying again to get encryption circumvented for American citizens. With this stance, I think any system the FBI purchases or builds themselves needs to have a key escrow system that the american people can use at will whenever they feel the FBI is up to know good. 
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 FBI has a nickname of Feebs, a play on the word feeble. I wonder why. 
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 Google Chrome used to be the only thing that would eat your RAM as if it was a competition eater, Microsoft is now adding Tabs to everything. . . So long ram. . . 
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