Miscellaneous Tech News
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@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
This is a worse flouting of user privacy than Cambridge Analytica: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/tracking-firm-locationsmart-leaked-location-data-for-customers-of-all-major-u-s-mobile-carriers-in-real-time-via-its-web-site/
Sigh... the idea of any real privacy seems to pretty much be over. Companies don't give a shit, regardless of what their PR departments say - the gov't will screw over any company that doesn't help them find a way to the data, let alone the financial incentive of the data.
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Destructive 'VPNFilter' Attack Network Uncovered: More than 500K home/SOHO routers and storage devices worldwide commandeered in potential nation-state attack weapon - with Ukraine in initial bullseye.
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I thought this was interesting. I received a notification from the CentOS team about some infra downtime. I would have thought they would have redundant servers/cluster hosting this stuff. They don't even have hot-swappable HDDs.
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@wrx7m :face_screaming_in_fear: That's nuts.
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@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I thought this was interesting. I received a notification from the CentOS team about some infra downtime. I would have thought they would have redundant servers/cluster hosting this stuff. They don't even have hot-swappable HDDs.
Red Hat themselves don't use servers for their hosting!?!?!
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I thought this was interesting. I received a notification from the CentOS team about some infra downtime. I would have thought they would have redundant servers/cluster hosting this stuff. They don't even have hot-swappable HDDs.
Red Hat themselves don't use servers for their hosting!?!?!
What do you mean? Of course thy are. They said they had to take the hypervisor down to donthebreplacement because it does not have hotswap/blaindswap.
How does that mean the don’t use servers?
You complaining because they don’t have redundancy?
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@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I thought this was interesting. I received a notification from the CentOS team about some infra downtime. I would have thought they would have redundant servers/cluster hosting this stuff. They don't even have hot-swappable HDDs.
Red Hat themselves don't use servers for their hosting!?!?!
What do you mean? Of course thy are. They said they had to take the hypervisor down to donthebreplacement because it does not have hotswap/blaindswap.
How does that mean the don’t use servers?
You complaining because they don’t have redundancy?
Nothing you'd consider a "server" doesn't have hot swap. That's why I said hot swap (and virtualization) are requirements for what is considered a server. Blindswap is not required, most enterprise servers don't do that. But everything does hot swap, even many desktop class devices and consumer devices.
It's a server in that it is serving out services, but it's not even on the high end of desktop class hardware. So from the term server in a "category of hardware", it is not a server, not even a good workstation. It might be rack mount, maybe, but server in the sense it is used in IT, it is not.
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Somewhere I had written out a whole thing about how hot swap and virtualization were minimum requirements for something to be considered a server an hour or two ago, I thought it was in this thread, but I just scrolled back and it isn't there. What the heck.
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GNOME version is using Wayland by default.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/05/dell-precision-3530-ubuntu
These seem pricey for the specs...
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@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/05/dell-precision-3530-ubuntu
These seem pricey for the specs...
That seems average to me. That is Dell's business line of mobile workstations, which are "higher-speced" than most of what you would find in a laptop.
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@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/05/dell-precision-3530-ubuntu
These seem pricey for the specs...
@momurda said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
$1600 decked out with great options is a good price. I just made one on Dell.com
Plus you get support from Dell for ubuntu.Go by the base specs at $950... with Quad Core @2.5gHz, 4GB of ram, integrated graphics, 500 GB Winchester
For $1,000 -- 3 years ago, I got an Acer i7 six core at 2.3 gHz, 16GB RAM, NVIDIA GeFore 750M (4GB version), and 1TB Winchester...
That's why it seems pricey to me.
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@dafyre Yes i think they had the 943 base price just to say that one could buy one under 1k. Needs the extra options for the value i think.
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Facebook to be banned in Papua New Guinea for a month
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44290012They mention about wanting to create their own Social Network for the country, what an excellent idea so they can create a backdoor and have access to everyone's information.
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Governments are wanting to control the internet and trying to put loads of pressure on big internet companies to comply with their wishes...I see eventually they will probably get what they want.
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Just noticed this while applying this month's patches. I know I've seen some on here complaining about the 14 character limit before, so just in case you didn't read the release notes...
