Miscellaneous Tech News

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TrueOS 18.03 Released, includes Spectre and Meltdown Fixes

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Changes to look forward to in LibreOffice 6.1.

LibreOffice Calc now better deals with image handling, including sorting of image cells and when resizing images in Calc the aspect ratios are honored.
Calc now supports customizing the highlight colors.
Big improvements to the importing filter for Microsoft Excel 2003 XML.
Dialog improvements for LibreOffice Online as well as other functionality improvements for this web-browser based LibreOffice.
GTK3 native message dialogs are now in place.
Improved "KDE 5" integration.

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Wine 3.5 released.

black3dynamite

https://fedoramagazine.org/mozilla-releases-facebook-container-extension-firefox/

scottalanmiller

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://fedoramagazine.org/mozilla-releases-facebook-container-extension-firefox/

Yup, they released that a few days ago. Pretty cool that they took an official stance on it.

DustinB3403

XCP-ng has released the first iteration just this morning!

dbeato

https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/03/transitioning-google-url-shortener.html

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Today is the 25th anniversary of the Thinkpad. Once a great laptop.

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20 Years Ago, Apple Killed the 20th Anniversary Mac

Feel old yet?

scottalanmiller

https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2018/03/28/remote-desktop-web-client-public-preview/

dafyre

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2018/03/28/remote-desktop-web-client-public-preview/

Dang, you beat me to it, I think. I'm going to spin this up and tinker with it.

scottalanmiller

@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2018/03/28/remote-desktop-web-client-public-preview/

Dang, you beat me to it, I think. I'm going to spin this up and tinker with it.

Yes, yes I did

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https://stratechery.com/2018/the-end-of-windows/

Kelly

Looks like we have the start of another tech CEO feud: https://www.vox.com/technology/2018/4/2/17183708/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-tim-cook-apple. I wonder if this will stay relevant longer than Larry Ellison and Marc Benioff.

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Intel adding two more cores to mobile processors in the 8th gen family.

momurda

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Intel adding two more cores to mobile processors in the 8th gen family.

Probably buying more clean underwear at the store as well due to Threadripper and Ryzen2.

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Another US politician loses in court for using social media to silence critics.

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OpenBSD 6.3 released. ARM64 with SMP, Spectre and Meltdown issues addressed.

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GnuCash 3.0 Released. Now GC supports GTK+ 3.0.

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Ubuntu 18.04 removing auto-suspend unless on battery. An annoying default that many distros have and makes essentially no sense.