Miscellaneous Tech News
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
As far as I know, nothing works for computers logins - at least regarding an automated way to enter the information.
I believe automated logins are becoming more popular with the Windows Hello feature. I think Yubikey's can log you into Windows now.
Have Yubikey's ever come up here? I don't recall reading much about them.
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Samsung sticks Nvidia RTX 2080 GPU inside new Odyssey gaming notebook
Yet another competitor for Acer, Alienware, Razer, and others to watch.
Samsung is making news at CES 2019—but not for an obvious reason. The Korean manufacturer announced its first new gaming laptop in quite some time: the Samsung Notebook Odyssey. While Samsung has made gaming devices with the Odyssey name, this new notebook appears to compete with similarly powerful and portable gaming PCs from the likes of Acer, Alienware, and Razer.
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@mlnews wow, that's a nice card!
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TIL: Firefox has a little-known feature to spare your blushes on the new-tab page
Open source browser tries to avoid publicizing your dirtier computing habits.
For many of us, our browsers' new-tab pages are something of a liability. Whichever browser you use, they all follow a fairly similar style: a bunch of boxes linking to the sites that we use and visit regularly. This is great when your regular sites are Ars, Gmail, and Twitter. But all too often, sites of a less salubrious nature find their way onto our new-tab pages, disclosing to the world our dirty habits when nobody's watching. While we can, of course, clean up our new-tab pages by Xing out the buttons for the offending sites, a moment of inattention can all too easily expose our pornographic predilections to the world.
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New year, new GitHub: Announcing unlimited free private repos and unified Enterprise offering
Today we’re announcing two major updates to make GitHub more accessible to developers: unlimited free private repositories, and a simpler, unified Enterprise offering. We’re excited about these updates to our Free and Enterprise offerings:
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GitHub Free now includes unlimited private repositories. For the first time, developers can use GitHub for their private projects with up to three collaborators per repository for free. Many developers want to use private repos to apply for a job, work on a side project, or try something out in private before releasing it publicly. Starting today, those scenarios, and many more, are possible on GitHub at no cost. Public repositories are still free (of course—no changes there) and include unlimited collaborators.
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GitHub Enterprise is the new unified product for Enterprise Cloud (formerly GitHub Business Cloud) and Enterprise Server (formerly GitHub Enterprise). Organizations that want the flexibility to use GitHub in a cloud or self-hosted configuration can now access both at one per-seat price. And with GitHub Connect, these products can be securely linked, providing a hybrid option so developers can work seamlessly across both environments.
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@NerdyDad GitLab pretty much forced that to happen.
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@NerdyDad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
New year, new GitHub: Announcing unlimited free private repos and unified Enterprise offering
Today we’re announcing two major updates to make GitHub more accessible to developers: unlimited free private repositories, and a simpler, unified Enterprise offering. We’re excited about these updates to our Free and Enterprise offerings:
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GitHub Free now includes unlimited private repositories. For the first time, developers can use GitHub for their private projects with up to three collaborators per repository for free. Many developers want to use private repos to apply for a job, work on a side project, or try something out in private before releasing it publicly. Starting today, those scenarios, and many more, are possible on GitHub at no cost. Public repositories are still free (of course—no changes there) and include unlimited collaborators.
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GitHub Enterprise is the new unified product for Enterprise Cloud (formerly GitHub Business Cloud) and Enterprise Server (formerly GitHub Enterprise). Organizations that want the flexibility to use GitHub in a cloud or self-hosted configuration can now access both at one per-seat price. And with GitHub Connect, these products can be securely linked, providing a hybrid option so developers can work seamlessly across both environments.
Yay!
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@NerdyDad GitLab pretty much forced that to happen.
Totally. Also Microsoft's money.
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@NerdyDad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
New year, new GitHub: Announcing unlimited free private repos and unified Enterprise offering
Today we’re announcing two major updates to make GitHub more accessible to developers: unlimited free private repositories, and a simpler, unified Enterprise offering. We’re excited about these updates to our Free and Enterprise offerings:
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GitHub Free now includes unlimited private repositories. For the first time, developers can use GitHub for their private projects with up to three collaborators per repository for free. Many developers want to use private repos to apply for a job, work on a side project, or try something out in private before releasing it publicly. Starting today, those scenarios, and many more, are possible on GitHub at no cost. Public repositories are still free (of course—no changes there) and include unlimited collaborators.
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GitHub Enterprise is the new unified product for Enterprise Cloud (formerly GitHub Business Cloud) and Enterprise Server (formerly GitHub Enterprise). Organizations that want the flexibility to use GitHub in a cloud or self-hosted configuration can now access both at one per-seat price. And with GitHub Connect, these products can be securely linked, providing a hybrid option so developers can work seamlessly across both environments.
That's awesome. I'll probably move my GitLab stuff to GitHub soon.
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@NerdyDad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
New year, new GitHub: Announcing unlimited free private repos and unified Enterprise offering
Today we’re announcing two major updates to make GitHub more accessible to developers: unlimited free private repositories, and a simpler, unified Enterprise offering. We’re excited about these updates to our Free and Enterprise offerings:
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GitHub Free now includes unlimited private repositories. For the first time, developers can use GitHub for their private projects with up to three collaborators per repository for free. Many developers want to use private repos to apply for a job, work on a side project, or try something out in private before releasing it publicly. Starting today, those scenarios, and many more, are possible on GitHub at no cost. Public repositories are still free (of course—no changes there) and include unlimited collaborators.
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GitHub Enterprise is the new unified product for Enterprise Cloud (formerly GitHub Business Cloud) and Enterprise Server (formerly GitHub Enterprise). Organizations that want the flexibility to use GitHub in a cloud or self-hosted configuration can now access both at one per-seat price. And with GitHub Connect, these products can be securely linked, providing a hybrid option so developers can work seamlessly across both environments.
That's awesome. I'll probably move my GitLab stuff to GitHub soon.
Why? GitLab is awesome and open source. GitHub is closed source, has finally done something good, but is part of MS? Still doesn't seem nearly as good as GitLab, just "not as big of a gap" as before.
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Private repos is my only reason for using Gitlab.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Private repos is my only reason for using Gitlab.
Same, otherwise I'd be on GitHub more.
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Private repos is my only reason for using Gitlab.
Same, otherwise I'd be on GitHub more.
Why? What are you getting more from GitHub?
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Private repos is my only reason for using Gitlab.
Same, otherwise I'd be on GitHub more.
I'm not really sure why you'd want to be on GitHub?
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Lenovo’s Legion laptops are gaming machines you won’t be embarrassed to use
Turn off the RGB lighting and they won't look out of place at work
A common theme of gamer-oriented hardware is that it is ostentatious and often ugly, with bright lights and logos and LEDs making it all feel rather distasteful. Lenovo's Legion gaming hardware consciously bucks that trend by producing machines that offer gaming specs (and all the colorful lighting that for some reason goes with those specs) while still looking respectable and grown-up once you turn all the colored lights off.
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Amazon attempts less creepy delivery by placing packages in your garage
Amazon's still trying to get customers to open up part of their homes for deliveries.
Amazon isn't giving up on its Key home delivery service. Rather than letting couriers in through your front door, Amazon wants you to open up your garage. The company announced its new Key for Garage expansion at CES, a new variation on its home delivery service that allows couriers to securely deliver packages where you park your cars or keep all your junk.
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Razer announces a gaming monitor, haptic feedback PC gaming peripherals
And did we mention RGB? So, so much RGB.
At this year's CES, it sometimes seems like consumer electronics announcements are dominated by two trends: gaming gear and digital voice assistants. Gaming brand Razer made announcements related to both this week.
Arguably the most notable are HyperSense—a haptic feedback platform that makes PC peripherals like headphones, gaming chairs, and mice provide gaming controller-like feedback along with the audio in games—and the Raptor, Razer's first gaming monitor designed in-house.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Amazon attempts less creepy delivery by placing packages in your garage
Amazon's still trying to get customers to open up part of their homes for deliveries.
Amazon isn't giving up on its Key home delivery service. Rather than letting couriers in through your front door, Amazon wants you to open up your garage. The company announced its new Key for Garage expansion at CES, a new variation on its home delivery service that allows couriers to securely deliver packages where you park your cars or keep all your junk.
Sigh... Why aren't they just going with a lockbox on the porch? be done with it already.
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Sigh... Why aren't they just going with a lockbox on the porch? be done with it already.
According to Forbes, more than half of Americans have Amazon delivery. Figure in bulk, you can put a secure lock box on someone's porch (and what about apartments) for less than $50, which I doubt... with 126 million households in the US, that would be north of a $3 billion investment. Until they lose more than that in 2 years there is no way they'll do it.
