Miscellaneous Tech News
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@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The GUI on Apple devices is just horrid. I had to do some things to one a few days ago or so and I just couldn't. I ended up going to CLI and thankfully a lot of Linux commands work on it.
OMG yeah, their Mac OSX interface is so painful if you haven't memorized how everything works and where it is. It's the ultimate "experts interface".
Yeah exactly. It took me way too long to even find the terminal. None of it makes any logical sense.
I have thought that for years.
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@brianlittlejohn said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Apple Admits to slowing down older iPhones.
http://fox6now.com/2017/12/21/apple-admits-it-slows-down-older-iphones-to-prevent-battery-issues/Paul Thurrott wrote about this behind his paywall today.
“I did some research, and decided to replace my battery,” he explained. Wear level was somewhere around 20% on my old battery. I did a Geekbench score, and found I was getting 1466 Single and 2512 Multi. This did not change wether I had low power mode on or off. After changing my battery, I did another test to check if it was just a placebo. Nope. 2526 Single and 4456 Multi. From what I can tell, Apple slows down phones when their battery gets too low, so you can still have a full days charge. This also means your phone might be very slow for no discernible reason.”
Put simply, as your iPhone ages, the battery becomes less efficient. So Apple is choosing to artificially keep the battery at roughly the same daily duration—calling iPhone battery life “all-day” is ludicrous, but whatever—over time. But in doing this, in harms the performance of the device. In other words, over time, your iPhone gets slower and slower.
So apple is choosing all day battery life over performance - /sigh.
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I like to follow WordPress security and general web security stuff, so I found this particularly interesting:
https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/12/massive-cryptomining-campaign-wordpress/
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Snowden / Freedom of the Press Foundation / The Guardian Project has released Haven, an app that allows you to secure your computer or physical spaces.
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LastPass Authenticator App Update
https://hackernoon.com/lastpass-authenticator-app-is-not-secure-77b9743c3007 -
@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
LastPass Authenticator App Update
https://hackernoon.com/lastpass-authenticator-app-is-not-secure-77b9743c3007huh - that timeline sucks. While I don't consider this an end of the world bad thing, it shouldn't have taken 5+ months to fix, and then really only after being told it was being published.
It sucks that the publish threat is the only thing that seems to make many companies work on problems.
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@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
LastPass Authenticator App Update
https://hackernoon.com/lastpass-authenticator-app-is-not-secure-77b9743c3007huh - that timeline sucks. While I don't consider this an end of the world bad thing, it shouldn't have taken 5+ months to fix, and then really only after being told it was being published.
It sucks that the publish threat is the only thing that seems to make many companies work on problems.
Yes, that was what the person said. It took them a lot to get there.
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Whitehouse.gov moves from Drupal to WordPress
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@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Whitehouse.gov moves from Drupal to WordPress
That article acted like moving to Wordpress was the only way to get a form on the site? It’s a core module in Drupal. I mean maybe they saved some money because they could find a cheaper firm to manage the site but Drupal can do everything Wordpress can do plus a huge amount more.
I’m guessing it was because Drupal 8 was released in 2015. 7 is still updated and available but not all modules have been ported over. They also switched to twig for themes so that would require rework for the theme on 8. If they aren’t leveraging the power of Drupal then I’m sure Wordpress will save them money that way also since they would just need blogging ability and info pages. Drupal is really a CMF that lets you build your own custom CMS.
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I mean out of the box Drupal is still a great CMS if that’s all you want but you also have the building blocks to create anything you could imagine.
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@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Whitehouse.gov moves from Drupal to WordPress
That article acted like moving to Wordpress was the only way to get a form on the site? It’s a core module in Drupal. I mean maybe they saved some money because they could find a cheaper firm to manage the site but Drupal can do everything Wordpress can do plus a huge amount more.
I’m guessing it was because Drupal 8 was released in 2015. 7 is still updated and available but not all modules have been ported over. They also switched to twig for themes so that would require rework for the theme on 8. If they aren’t leveraging the power of Drupal then I’m sure Wordpress will save them money that way also since they would just need blogging ability and info pages. Drupal is really a CMF that lets you build your own custom CMS.
I wondered if they ever looked at Joomla?
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Whitehouse.gov moves from Drupal to WordPress
That article acted like moving to Wordpress was the only way to get a form on the site? It’s a core module in Drupal. I mean maybe they saved some money because they could find a cheaper firm to manage the site but Drupal can do everything Wordpress can do plus a huge amount more.
I’m guessing it was because Drupal 8 was released in 2015. 7 is still updated and available but not all modules have been ported over. They also switched to twig for themes so that would require rework for the theme on 8. If they aren’t leveraging the power of Drupal then I’m sure Wordpress will save them money that way also since they would just need blogging ability and info pages. Drupal is really a CMF that lets you build your own custom CMS.
I wondered if they ever looked at Joomla?
A lot of the Joomla extensions are paid for only so I know it deters a lot of places from using it. Last time I paid attention it was the least popular of the big three also.
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I've used Joomla a lot in the past... it has it's uses where WordPress didn't fit. But now with so many WP plugins, you can make it do anything Joomla can do.
I've since moved completely away from Joomla, as I no longer see any reason to choose it over WP.
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How does WP handle custom content types and displaying records? Drupal has the ability to make content types and completely custom entities and then use Views to display them pretty much however you can dream up.
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@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
How does WP handle custom content types and displaying records? Drupal has the ability to make content types and completely custom entities and then use Views to display them pretty much however you can dream up.
Not sure exactly what you mean... example?
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@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
How does WP handle custom content types and displaying records? Drupal has the ability to make content types and completely custom entities and then use Views to display them pretty much however you can dream up.
Not sure exactly what you mean... example?
A simple example is a mileage tracking system. So you have a custom content type for a mileage entry and then a view to display it. The view can be a table like in this example, or it can be anything you can think up.
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Oh, so kind of like Access but, obviously, way more advanced and useful.
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@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
How does WP handle custom content types and displaying records? Drupal has the ability to make content types and completely custom entities and then use Views to display them pretty much however you can dream up.
Not sure exactly what you mean... example?
A simple example is a mileage tracking system. So you have a custom content type for a mileage entry and then a view to display it. The view can be a table like in this example, or it can be anything you can think up.
Oh I see. No I don't believe anything like that is built-in to WordPress. But I wouldn't use WordPress for that purpose anyways.
If I had to, that would need to be done via a Plugin, which are very abundant.
