Miscellaneous Tech News
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What happens when the internet vanishes?
From his high-rise desk overlooking the sprawling city of Addis Ababa, Markos Lemma has a pretty good view of things.
As the founder of technology innovation hub IceAddis, his co-working space is usually abuzz with wide-eyed entrepreneurs fuelled on strong coffee and big dreams. But when the internet shuts down, everything is killed in its tracks. Data shared with the BBC by digital rights group Access Now, shows that last year services were deliberately shut down more than 200 times in 33 separate countries."Traffic around here just stops. No one comes in - or when they do they don't stay for long because without the internet, what are they going to do?" Markos says. -
Pets 'go hungry' after smart feeder goes offline
Owners of a device designed to release food for pets say their animals were left hungry during a week-long system failure.
Petnet allows owners to schedule and control feeding via a smartphone app. When the BBC contacted Petnet on its advertised email address, the email bounced back with a delivery failure notice. One pet owner tweeted: "My cat starved for over a week", while others complained about other hardware issues. "My three Gen2 feeders constantly jam and won't dispense food," wrote another. Some expressed relief that the feeders were now back online. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Pets 'go hungry' after smart feeder goes offline
/s Whatever happened to just leaving a 40lb bag of food open on the floor?
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Pets 'go hungry' after smart feeder goes offline
/s Whatever happened to just leaving a 40lb bag of food open on the floor?
People who control all their IoT devices from their phones need someone to blame for their personal shortcomings. God forbid they take 20 seconds to manually feed their pets.
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@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Pets 'go hungry' after smart feeder goes offline
/s Whatever happened to just leaving a 40lb bag of food open on the floor?
People who control all their IoT devices from their phones need someone to blame for their personal shortcomings. God forbid they take 20 seconds to manually feed their pets.
TRUTH.
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@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Pets 'go hungry' after smart feeder goes offline
/s Whatever happened to just leaving a 40lb bag of food open on the floor?
People who control all their IoT devices from their phones need someone to blame for their personal shortcomings. God forbid they take 20 seconds to manually feed their pets.
I agree with you for the most part. If you have cats, an automatic feeder, and automatic litter box, then you might not be home for days at a time.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Pets 'go hungry' after smart feeder goes offline
/s Whatever happened to just leaving a 40lb bag of food open on the floor?
With my dog leaving even unopened bag of food on the floor equals trip to a vet. We did that mistake once with cat food, little fucker ripped the bag open and enjoyed all you can eat buffet with 3 cats. When we got home few hours later all 4 animals had bulging bellies. Dog couldn't move. It wasn't fun cleaning litter box next couple of days and vet bill was almost my monthly rent.
Smart feeders can be a good thing when you have to leave for a few days, but even then I prefer human pet sitter.
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@marcinozga said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Pets 'go hungry' after smart feeder goes offline
/s Whatever happened to just leaving a 40lb bag of food open on the floor?
With my dog leaving even unopened bag of food on the floor equals trip to a vet. We did that mistake once with cat food, little fucker ripped the bag open and enjoyed all you can eat buffet with 3 cats. When we got home few hours later all 4 animals had bulging bellies. Dog couldn't move. It wasn't fun cleaning litter box next couple of days and vet bill was almost my monthly rent.
Smart feeders can be a good thing when you have to leave for a few days, but even then I prefer human pet sitter.
For sure
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Pets 'go hungry' after smart feeder goes offline
Owners of a device designed to release food for pets say their animals were left hungry during a week-long system failure.
Petnet allows owners to schedule and control feeding via a smartphone app. When the BBC contacted Petnet on its advertised email address, the email bounced back with a delivery failure notice. One pet owner tweeted: "My cat starved for over a week", while others complained about other hardware issues. "My three Gen2 feeders constantly jam and won't dispense food," wrote another. Some expressed relief that the feeders were now back online.This is why we have a camera aimed at the cat's dish under the auto feeder.
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@JasGot said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Pets 'go hungry' after smart feeder goes offline
Owners of a device designed to release food for pets say their animals were left hungry during a week-long system failure.
Petnet allows owners to schedule and control feeding via a smartphone app. When the BBC contacted Petnet on its advertised email address, the email bounced back with a delivery failure notice. One pet owner tweeted: "My cat starved for over a week", while others complained about other hardware issues. "My three Gen2 feeders constantly jam and won't dispense food," wrote another. Some expressed relief that the feeders were now back online.This is why we have a camera aimed at the cat's dish under the auto feeder.
Lol, did he eat the fish? Do you have a recording if he did?
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@marcinozga said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Pets 'go hungry' after smart feeder goes offline
/s Whatever happened to just leaving a 40lb bag of food open on the floor?
With my dog leaving even unopened bag of food on the floor equals trip to a vet. We did that mistake once with cat food, little fucker ripped the bag open and enjoyed all you can eat buffet with 3 cats. When we got home few hours later all 4 animals had bulging bellies. Dog couldn't move. It wasn't fun cleaning litter box next couple of days and vet bill was almost my monthly rent.
Smart feeders can be a good thing when you have to leave for a few days, but even then I prefer human pet sitter.
That's my point. If you are leaving for a few days at a time or a week, how is your pet taking care of its needs? Wouldn't you want someone to go and check on the pet?
I mean I get that a kennel might give your dog a cough, but compared to starving for a week. . .
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Cloudflare evaluation of Epyc vs Xeon
https://blog.cloudflare.com/an-epyc-trip-to-rome-amd-is-cloudflares-10th-generation-edge-server-cpu/
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://fedoramagazine.org/make-free-encrypted-backups-to-the-cloud-on-fedora/
25GB of free storage? That's really nice. Do they say latter on what the price is once you reach the paid tiers?
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Ars takes the new Opera R2020 browser for a spin
Opera bundles in some killer UI features that Firefox and Chrome don't.
When the topic of Web browsers comes up, most people only think of Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and whatever Microsoft's doing this week. (Just kidding, Microsoft—the new Edge is unironically great!) But today, we're going to look at perennial bridesmaid Opera, which released a new version codenamed R2020 this Tuesday. -
We are seeing an east coast CDN down causing some websites to fail with things like login buttons broken this morning. Just to let people know to look for this if you get problems with websites.
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://fedoramagazine.org/make-free-encrypted-backups-to-the-cloud-on-fedora/
25GB of free storage? That's really nice. Do they say latter on what the price is once you reach the paid tiers?
I don't know.
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@scottalanmiller Maybe like my ADP
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More Cloud flare notes on Xeon vs Epic. Quite a difference for them.
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Redcar council IT hack confirmed as ransomware attack
A council has admitted its IT service was targeted by hackers, who scrambled files and made a demand for money.
Systems at Redcar and Cleveland Council have been down for almost three weeks after the ransomware attack.
