Miscellaneous Tech News
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Why the US still won’t require SS7 fixes that could secure your phone
The regulatory back door big telecom uses to weaken security regulation.
The outages hit in the summer of 1991. Over several days, phone lines in major metropolises went dead without warning, disrupting emergency services and even air traffic control, often for hours. Phones went down one day in Los Angeles, then on another day in Washington, DC and Baltimore, and then in Pittsburgh.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Developers love Python and TypeScript, get paid for Clojure, and aren’t using blockchain
Visual Basic remains as unpopular as ever.
Stack Overflow's annual developer survey was published this week, giving an insight into the skills, experience, and opinions of a wide slice of the developer community. Since its launch in 2008, Stack Overflow has become an essential developer tool, offering copy/paste solutions to an ever-growing number of programming problems.Clojure is definitely the cool language nearly anyway you look at it.
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Julian Assange arrested, charged with conspiracy to hack US computers
Assange had been holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since 2012.
British police arrested Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday. He had been hiding in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since 2012 and was arrested after the Ecuadorian government invited the Metropolitan Police Service into the embassy to remove him. Assange was initially arrested for jumping bail in 2012, but the Metropolitan Police Service subsequently announced that he had been "further arrested on behalf of the United States authorities." -
House votes to restore net neutrality rules
The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill to restore net neutrality protections
The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill to restore net neutrality protections that were repealed by President Donald Trump's Federal Communications Commission in a controversial move more than a year ago.
The bill, called the Save the Internet Act, would reinstate protections that require internet service providers to treat all online content the same. Providers would once again be explicitly prohibited from blocking, speeding up, or slowing down access to specific online services. -
Proxmox VE 5.4.1
https://www.proxmox.com/en/news/press-releases/proxmox-ve-5-4Yeah I know, but its still tech news.
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Joe Doss: How Do You Fedora?
We recently interviewed Joe Doss on how he uses Fedora. This is part of a series on the Fedora Magazine. The series profiles Fedora users and how they use Fedora to get things done. Contact us on the feedback form to express your interest in becoming a interviewee.
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Ellen Pao on how to make tech more diverse
When we talk about increasing diversity in the technology industry, the biggest obstacle is the fixed mindset of today’s tech leaders.
A homogeneous group – comprised, mostly, of white men – founded and funded the tech industry. From this starting point, they created an environment where people who looked like them were much more likely to be successful.
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Support Ending in July for SCCM 2007 and Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010
Microsoft published a notice on Wednesday that System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (SCCM) and Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 (FEP) both will fall out of support on July 9, 2019.
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Google Enhances Its Windows and Active Directory Hosting Offerings
Google announced on Wednesday that it's making it easier for organizations with Windows operating systems and Microsoft applications to move them onto its Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
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Backblaze AMA summary
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/you-asked-us-anything-on-reddit/Someone has 430TB on the basic unlimited plan.......
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Backblaze AMA summary
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/you-asked-us-anything-on-reddit/I love the story about when they were drive farming at Costco and the dude made a thousand trips to his car to bypass the "limit 2 per customer" limit lol
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@bnrstnr said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Backblaze AMA summary
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/you-asked-us-anything-on-reddit/I love the story about when they were drive farming at Costco and the dude made a thousand trips to his car to bypass the "limit 2 per customer" limit lol
Amazing that the drives were so much cheaper at Costco that they could afford the human labor to make that make sense.
Even assuming that their employee is only $20/hr (not realistic since they are based in San Jose) it has to take a minimum of twenty minutes per trip to get the drives, even just walking in and out. That's six drives per hour, or an additional $3.33 per drive. And that's pushing it. It's likely that that person costs closer to $30/hr and the turn around time is probably higher than twenty minutes from car door to car door. So easily closer to $5 per drive mark up.
Given their volume, BB must be able to negotiate some killer drive deals directly from the manufacturers.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@bnrstnr said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Backblaze AMA summary
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/you-asked-us-anything-on-reddit/I love the story about when they were drive farming at Costco and the dude made a thousand trips to his car to bypass the "limit 2 per customer" limit lol
Amazing that the drives were so much cheaper at Costco that they could afford the human labor to make that make sense.
Even assuming that their employee is only $20/hr (not realistic since they are based in San Jose) it has to take a minimum of twenty minutes per trip to get the drives, even just walking in and out. That's six drives per hour, or an additional $3.33 per drive. And that's pushing it. It's likely that that person costs closer to $30/hr and the turn around time is probably higher than twenty minutes from car door to car door. So easily closer to $5 per drive mark up.
Given their volume, BB must be able to negotiate some killer drive deals directly from the manufacturers.
That only made sense for them to do for a relatively short period of time after the flooding in Malaysia took down so much of the supply chain.
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@bnrstnr said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Backblaze AMA summary
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/you-asked-us-anything-on-reddit/I love the story about when they were drive farming at Costco and the dude made a thousand trips to his car to bypass the "limit 2 per customer" limit lol
Amazing that the drives were so much cheaper at Costco that they could afford the human labor to make that make sense.
Even assuming that their employee is only $20/hr (not realistic since they are based in San Jose) it has to take a minimum of twenty minutes per trip to get the drives, even just walking in and out. That's six drives per hour, or an additional $3.33 per drive. And that's pushing it. It's likely that that person costs closer to $30/hr and the turn around time is probably higher than twenty minutes from car door to car door. So easily closer to $5 per drive mark up.
Given their volume, BB must be able to negotiate some killer drive deals directly from the manufacturers.
That only made sense for them to do for a relatively short period of time after the flooding in Malaysia took down so much of the supply chain.
Oh right, that makes more sense.
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Stressed-out laser diode may deliver 200Gb/s data rates
Stressing a laser diode, and spin polarized electrons yields 200GHz modulation.
The data usage of the modern world is absolutely mind-boggling. We have giant, air-conditioned buildings dedicated to shuffling bits around at high speed. And for what? To ensure that Instagram can tell Facebook to tell its advertisers that you really love rubber duckies. -
Acer’s new ConceptD line is for creatives who want powerful yet quiet PCs
Acer also debuted new Chromebooks and updated its most popular gaming laptops.
Acer added to its already extensive family of PCs with an entirely new line today. Dubbed ConceptD, the new family of laptops, towers, and displays are designed for creatives who often gravitate to gaming PCs for their power but may also be turned off by those devices’ unique designs and loud cooling noise. -
@mlnews Loved the comment about C.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Stressed-out laser diode may deliver 200Gb/s data rates
Stressing a laser diode, and spin polarized electrons yields 200GHz modulation.
The data usage of the modern world is absolutely mind-boggling. We have giant, air-conditioned buildings dedicated to shuffling bits around at high speed. And for what? To ensure that Instagram can tell Facebook to tell its advertisers that you really love rubber duckies.I'm faster when stressed out, too.
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DVD and Blu-ray sales nearly halved over five years, MPAA report says
The MPAA report is chock-full of interesting figures about a changing industry.
In its annual Theatrical Home Entertainment Market Environment report, the Motion Picture Association of America described an immensely sharp drop-off of physical media sales over the past five years.
