Miscellaneous Tech News
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
fryer, dehydrator, slow cooker, broiler, and warming drawer. (Although you'll need to buy June's Air Baskets separately to
it's super expensive - but if I can get two/three devices in one on my counter - that's a win!
We recently purchased an air fryer - these things rock! tater tots without the oil.. and they taste good too. But now we have two large appliances on the counter.
We bought one and took it back. No one liked the food from it.
Interesting - I've heard about 5 reviews now - yours being the only non 'reviewer' type, and you are the only one who doesn't like it. Of course reviewers are likely biased.
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Pilot project demos credit cards with shifting CVV codes to stop fraud
Trial will last 90 days to test effectiveness and timing of CVV change.
Services like Apple Pay and Google Pay try to combat online card theft by using tokenization to obscure a person's card numbers from theft while online. But if your credit card number has already been stolen (if a cashier's chip reader is broken and they direct you to swipe your card on a compromised point-of-sale terminal, for example) then even having a chip-based card can't stop bad actors from buying things on your dime.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Pilot project demos credit cards with shifting CVV codes to stop fraud
Trial will last 90 days to test effectiveness and timing of CVV change.
Services like Apple Pay and Google Pay try to combat online card theft by using tokenization to obscure a person's card numbers from theft while online. But if your credit card number has already been stolen (if a cashier's chip reader is broken and they direct you to swipe your card on a compromised point-of-sale terminal, for example) then even having a chip-based card can't stop bad actors from buying things on your dime.
Since chip is almost never required - there is no security.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
fryer, dehydrator, slow cooker, broiler, and warming drawer. (Although you'll need to buy June's Air Baskets separately to
it's super expensive - but if I can get two/three devices in one on my counter - that's a win!
We recently purchased an air fryer - these things rock! tater tots without the oil.. and they taste good too. But now we have two large appliances on the counter.
We bought one and took it back. No one liked the food from it.
Interesting - I've heard about 5 reviews now - yours being the only non 'reviewer' type, and you are the only one who doesn't like it. Of course reviewers are likely biased.
I’ve talked to a number of people in person that have bought one and love it. No reviewers involved. I have not talked to anyone that did not like it.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
fryer, dehydrator, slow cooker, broiler, and warming drawer. (Although you'll need to buy June's Air Baskets separately to
it's super expensive - but if I can get two/three devices in one on my counter - that's a win!
We recently purchased an air fryer - these things rock! tater tots without the oil.. and they taste good too. But now we have two large appliances on the counter.
Devices on counter is a big issue here. The only one Motoko allows to stay is the coffe maker. Everything else has to go back in storage after use.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
fryer, dehydrator, slow cooker, broiler, and warming drawer. (Although you'll need to buy June's Air Baskets separately to
it's super expensive - but if I can get two/three devices in one on my counter - that's a win!
We recently purchased an air fryer - these things rock! tater tots without the oil.. and they taste good too. But now we have two large appliances on the counter.
Devices on counter is a big issue here. The only one Motoko allows to stay is the coffe maker. Everything else has to go back in storage after use.
I have no storage for most things.
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Roku Channel now lets users sign up for new streaming services with one click
One monthly bill from Roku will organize all of these subscription payments.
Premium Subscriptions will have 25 partners when it debuts, including Starz, Showtime, Epix, and others. If you subscribe to many of them through The Roku Channel, you'll get one bill from Roku each month for the total amount you owe for all services to which you subscribe. Roku will offer at least a seven-day free trial for all partner programs, so you can try out these streaming services before you actually pay for them.
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Nokia 9 leak shows off all five rear cameras
Crazy quintuple-camera design promises better low-light photos.
The Nokia 9 first leaked in September, when the trypophobia-inducing camera array immediately turned heads. The rear camera setup features seven holes housing five cameras, with the extra two holes used for an LED flash and what looks to be a sensor cluster. For the first time, a video from MySmartPrice gives us an idea of what all of these cameras are actually supposed to do: it promises the phone will take "5 simultaneous shots," which will result in "10x more light captured" compared to a regular camera sensor. This sounds a lot like the computational photography work Google does with a single-lens Pixel camera, where it takes multiple shots in rapid succession and merges them all for better low-light shots. The multi-image idea is proven to work, but we'll have to see if extra physical lenses improve on it
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Nokia 9 leak shows off all five rear cameras
Crazy quintuple-camera design promises better low-light photos.
The Nokia 9 first leaked in September, when the trypophobia-inducing camera array immediately turned heads. The rear camera setup features seven holes housing five cameras, with the extra two holes used for an LED flash and what looks to be a sensor cluster. For the first time, a video from MySmartPrice gives us an idea of what all of these cameras are actually supposed to do: it promises the phone will take "5 simultaneous shots," which will result in "10x more light captured" compared to a regular camera sensor. This sounds a lot like the computational photography work Google does with a single-lens Pixel camera, where it takes multiple shots in rapid succession and merges them all for better low-light shots. The multi-image idea is proven to work, but we'll have to see if extra physical lenses improve on it
Pretty stupid looking design, but if it works then I guess it's not stupid.
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@DustinB3403 it's a standard design in high end cameras. It's been done for quite a while now. More lenses, more light.
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ACLU to feds: Your “hacking presents a unique threat to individual privacy”
The American Civil Liberties Union, along with Privacy International, a similar organization based in the United Kingdom, have now sued 11 federal agencies, demanding records about how those agencies engage in what is often called "lawful hacking."
IIRC all hacking is unlawful without judicial consent. . . isn't it?
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
ACLU to feds: Your “hacking presents a unique threat to individual privacy”
The American Civil Liberties Union, along with Privacy International, a similar organization based in the United Kingdom, have now sued 11 federal agencies, demanding records about how those agencies engage in what is often called "lawful hacking."
IIRC all hacking is unlawful without judicial consent. . . isn't it?
In many countries, the government is beyond the law. In the US, for example, many positions cannot be held to the law, and therefore anything that they do is considered lawful. So there are easily cases of lawful anything, depending on who does it.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 it's a standard design in high end cameras. It's been done for quite a while now. More lenses, more light.
Something like that combined with the software Google has on their new Pixel phones would be amazing.
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 it's a standard design in high end cameras. It's been done for quite a while now. More lenses, more light.
Something like that combined with the software Google has on their new Pixel phones would be amazing.
I think everyone already has that software
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 it's a standard design in high end cameras. It's been done for quite a while now. More lenses, more light.
Something like that combined with the software Google has on their new Pixel phones would be amazing.
I think everyone already has that software
Yes, they all have access to it, but none of them actually use it! Gr!
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 it's a standard design in high end cameras. It's been done for quite a while now. More lenses, more light.
Something like that combined with the software Google has on their new Pixel phones would be amazing.
I think everyone already has that software
Yes, they all have access to it, but none of them actually use it! Gr!
Well, you need special cameras to use it.
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Fedora 31 Will Likely Be Cancelled Or Significantly Delayed To Focus On Retooling
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-31-Changes-AheadObjectives/Lifecycle/Problem statements
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Windows 10 creeps past Windows 7 usage, latest update barely used
Windows 7 has just one more year of standard support to go.
Web-based stat-tracking services vary in their estimates of who's using what operating system. That's due to different sites being monitored and different methodologies in handling the data. Net Market Share is the one we've seen most often quoted by third parties (including Microsoft and Mozilla), so it is notable as the companies' own preferred measure. Another widely referenced service, StatCounter, reckons that Windows 10 passed Windows 7 a year ago, putting the new operating system at 52.42 percent to its predecessor's 35.65 percent.
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@mlnews Doesn't surprise me at all. It still hasn't deployed to my PC at home yet.
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Google’s “Project Soli” radar gesture chip isn’t dead, gets FCC approval
Soli could enable smartwatches to detect hand gestures, if it ever launches.
Project Soli's goal is to build a tiny radar system on a chip that can be used to detect hand gestures made above a device. Soli is only at the experimental stage right now, but Google usually pitches Soli as a concept control scheme for smartwatches, speakers, media players, and smartphones. Usually the gestures shown are things like tapping your thumb and index finger together for a virtual button press or rubbing the two fingers together to scroll or turn a dial. The idea makes the most sense for tiny devices like a smartwatch, which don't necessarily have the space for a sizable touch screen and lots of buttons. It could also have benefits for users with limited mobility.
