Miscellaneous Tech News
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
T-Mobile 5G Secrets Revealed: Here's Where It Doesn't Work Well
T-Mobile's new "nationwide" 5G can double your 4G speeds...or not. We explain why and give you maps of where it works well.
For people in many major metro areas, T-Mobile's new low-band 5G and its OnePlus 7T Pro McLaren phone will offer little advantage over 4G—unless the T-Mobile/Sprint merger goes through. T-Mobile's low-band 5G launched last week. I've been testing it with the McLaren phone—first in Maui, where it performed very well, and then in New York City, where it hasn't performed as well. T-Mobile's low-band 5G is most likely to benefit people in smaller cities and rural areas. In those places people could see significant speed increases. In 16 of the nation's top metro areas, T-Mobile's 5G will currently bring no benefit. It will bring relatively little benefit in 22 other major metros.So it's the same or better than 4G... with the ability to get better, if using the low-band.
On t-mo - yes.
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Veeam Offers Native backup for Amazon EC2 instances
https://www.veeam.com/blog/amazon-ec2-native-backup-recovery.html"...fully featured free edition, however the strongest value comes in the capabilities explained below. Read on to discover why this is a must-have for anyone running Amazon EC2 instances.
- AWS-native
- Automates Amazon EBS snapshots for frequent backup and fast restores
- Copy to Amazon S3 for long-term retention
- Policy-based protection
- Deployed from Amazon Marketplace with simple web-based management UI"
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Google Cloud gets a new family of cheaper general-purpose compute instances
https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/11/google-cloud-gets-a-new-family-of-cheaper-general-purpose-compute-instances/"Google Cloud today announced the launch of its new E2 family of compute instances. These new instances, which are meant for general-purpose workloads, offer a significant cost benefit, with saving of around 31% compared to the current N1 general-purpose instances.
The E2 family runs on standard Intel and AMD chips, but as Google notes, they also use a custom CPU scheduler “that dynamically maps virtual CPU and memory to physical CPU and memory to maximize utilization.” In addition, the new system is also smarter about where it places VMs, with the added flexibility to move them to other hosts as necessary. To achieve all of this, Google built a custom CPU scheduler “with significantly better latency guarantees and co-scheduling behavior than Linux’s default scheduler.” The new scheduler promises sub-microsecond wake-up latencies and faster context switching."
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@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Google Cloud gets a new family of cheaper general-purpose compute instances
As soon as someone mentions Google Cloud in News, I assume that they are shutting it down to pursue other projects.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Google Cloud gets a new family of cheaper general-purpose compute instances
As soon as someone mentions Google Cloud in News, I assume that they are shutting it down to pursue other projects.
Yeah. I usually look at these in terms of how it moves the whole cloud industry forward (and making it less expensive).
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@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Google Cloud gets a new family of cheaper general-purpose compute instances
As soon as someone mentions Google Cloud in News, I assume that they are shutting it down to pursue other projects.
Yeah. I usually look at these in terms of how it moves the whole cloud industry forward (and making it less expensive).
For sure. I just keep expecting Google to forget that they do this and shut it down with little warning.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Google Cloud gets a new family of cheaper general-purpose compute instances
As soon as someone mentions Google Cloud in News, I assume that they are shutting it down to pursue other projects.
Yeah. I usually look at these in terms of how it moves the whole cloud industry forward (and making it less expensive).
For sure. I just keep expecting Google to forget that they do this and shut it down with little warning.
Quite possible. It has happened to many of their higher-profile "products".
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@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Google Cloud gets a new family of cheaper general-purpose compute instances
As soon as someone mentions Google Cloud in News, I assume that they are shutting it down to pursue other projects.
Yeah. I usually look at these in terms of how it moves the whole cloud industry forward (and making it less expensive).
For sure. I just keep expecting Google to forget that they do this and shut it down with little warning.
Quite possible. It has happened to many of their higher-profile "products".
Exactly, Google has conditioned me to just assume everything is going to go away.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Google Cloud gets a new family of cheaper general-purpose compute instances
As soon as someone mentions Google Cloud in News, I assume that they are shutting it down to pursue other projects.
Yeah. I usually look at these in terms of how it moves the whole cloud industry forward (and making it less expensive).
For sure. I just keep expecting Google to forget that they do this and shut it down with little warning.
Quite possible. It has happened to many of their higher-profile "products".
Exactly, Google has conditioned me to just assume everything is going to go away.
How they manage to have customers still just amazes me (on everything but the selling of ads)... some day gmail will die because it doesn't make enough money behind the scenes.
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Nebula VPN routes between hosts privately, flexibly, and efficiently
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/12/nebula-vpn-routes-between-hosts-privately-flexibly-and-efficiently/"Last month, the engineering department at Slack—an instant messaging platform commonly used for community and small business organization—released a new distributed VPN mesh tool called Nebula. Nebula is free and open source software, available under the MIT license.
It's difficult to coherently explain Nebula in a nutshell. According to the people on Slack's engineering team, they asked themselves "what is the easiest way to securely connect tens of thousands of computers, hosted at multiple cloud service providers in dozens of locations around the globe?" And (developing) Nebula was the best answer they had. It's a portable, scalable overlay networking tool that runs on most major platforms, including Linux, MacOS, and Windows, with some mobile device support planned for the near future."
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@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Nebula VPN routes between hosts privately, flexibly, and efficiently
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/12/nebula-vpn-routes-between-hosts-privately-flexibly-and-efficiently/"Last month, the engineering department at Slack—an instant messaging platform commonly used for community and small business organization—released a new distributed VPN mesh tool called Nebula. Nebula is free and open source software, available under the MIT license.
It's difficult to coherently explain Nebula in a nutshell. According to the people on Slack's engineering team, they asked themselves "what is the easiest way to securely connect tens of thousands of computers, hosted at multiple cloud service providers in dozens of locations around the globe?" And (developing) Nebula was the best answer they had. It's a portable, scalable overlay networking tool that runs on most major platforms, including Linux, MacOS, and Windows, with some mobile device support planned for the near future."
It's like Napster, Limewire, Gnutella, Bit Torrent, etc with SSL. Only Nebula appears to actually be secure against side channel leaks.
Maybe Nebula (unlike all the other P2P before it) will actually take off and be used by many. Their first step in the right direction is to push the VPN nomenclature without ever mentioning P2P file sharing.
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@JasGot said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Their first step in the right direction is to push the VPN nomenclature without ever mentioning P2P file sharing.
It's just a VPN. P2P is a file transfer thing. This is a VPN thing. Not really related at all. This is like ZeroTier.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JasGot said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Their first step in the right direction is to push the VPN nomenclature without ever mentioning P2P file sharing.
It's just a VPN. P2P is a file transfer thing. This is a VPN thing. Not really related at all. This is like ZeroTier.
I understand file sharing is just a rider in the transit system, but can you imagine how software piracy will take off when everyone is wearing a cloaking cape? ie; Mesh-VPN
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Nginx office raided
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/12/nginx_moscow_office_raided/
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@JasGot said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JasGot said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Their first step in the right direction is to push the VPN nomenclature without ever mentioning P2P file sharing.
It's just a VPN. P2P is a file transfer thing. This is a VPN thing. Not really related at all. This is like ZeroTier.
I understand file sharing is just a rider in the transit system, but can you imagine how software piracy will take off when everyone is wearing a cloaking cape? ie; Mesh-VPN
People don't, though. Mesh VPNs were standard in the 1990s and companies like Pertino and ZeroTier have made them crazy accessible and basically no one uses them.
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@StuartJordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Nginx office raided
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/12/nginx_moscow_office_raided/
Interesting
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@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Nebula VPN routes between hosts privately, flexibly, and efficiently
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/12/nebula-vpn-routes-between-hosts-privately-flexibly-and-efficiently/"Last month, the engineering department at Slack—an instant messaging platform commonly used for community and small business organization—released a new distributed VPN mesh tool called Nebula. Nebula is free and open source software, available under the MIT license.
It's difficult to coherently explain Nebula in a nutshell. According to the people on Slack's engineering team, they asked themselves "what is the easiest way to securely connect tens of thousands of computers, hosted at multiple cloud service providers in dozens of locations around the globe?" And (developing) Nebula was the best answer they had. It's a portable, scalable overlay networking tool that runs on most major platforms, including Linux, MacOS, and Windows, with some mobile device support planned for the near future."
This is what we are trying to move away from, and move towards something with way more practicality in the enterprise, SDP.
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Speaking of VPNs, anyone know anything about Wireguard?
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@StuartJordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Nginx office raided
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/12/nginx_moscow_office_raided/
I read a little bit of that story. Sounds like they really don't have a case, but it is Russia, so who knows.
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The World Relies on China's Surveillance Technology
China supplies AI surveillance to most of the world, positioning the country to have control over the growing $60 billion industry.
Surveillance technology is projected to be a $62 billion industry by 2023, and it looks like that market will be controlled by China. In 2019, the world relies on Chinese surveillance technology, with a majority of countries that use AI surveillence and facial recognition getting it from China. While many countries use American and Chinese surveillance tech together, China has far more exclusivity around the world. According to a report from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, tech from America and China are used in Australia, Brazil, India, Russia, and many European countries, as well as in the US and China themselves. Many countries in Africa, the Middle East, South-East Asia, and South America use Chinese tech only. Meanwhile, Canada and New Zealand are the only countries that rely solely on American technology.
