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jmoore

@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Interesting read:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/understanding-raid-how-performance-scales-from-one-disk-to-eight/

It was interesting. I don't have near as much a problem with using raid 0 though. Ive used it for years on my workstations. Never had it fail. I do have everything I care about synced online and to my nas at home so i think Im prepared if it does.

mlnews

Why are there doubts over contact-tracing apps?

There are growing tensions over the best approach to coronavirus contact-tracing apps and whether or not the technology can live up to its promise.
Smartphone software is being developed to alert users when someone they were recently near becomes infected. But the Ada Lovelace Institute has said there is "an absence of evidence" such tools are practical, accurate or technically capable. Others stress the initiative must be backed up by an army of human checkers. To further complicate matters, a schism has emerged among technologists working together to develop a pan-Europe solution. And hundreds of scientists and researchers have signed a statement warning "mission creep" could eventually lead to "unprecedented surveillance of society at large".

Dashrender

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Why are there doubts over contact-tracing apps?

There are growing tensions over the best approach to coronavirus contact-tracing apps and whether or not the technology can live up to its promise.
Smartphone software is being developed to alert users when someone they were recently near becomes infected. But the Ada Lovelace Institute has said there is "an absence of evidence" such tools are practical, accurate or technically capable. Others stress the initiative must be backed up by an army of human checkers. To further complicate matters, a schism has emerged among technologists working together to develop a pan-Europe solution. And hundreds of scientists and researchers have signed a statement warning "mission creep" could eventually lead to "unprecedented surveillance of society at large".

Is the question at the top for real? the end portion that's quoted is why!

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Is the question at the top for real?

You often ask a question in that way to explain what you are about to explain.

mlnews

DForce hacker returns $25m in 'stolen' crypto-currencies

A mystery hacker allegedly stole $25m (£20m) in crypto-currencies - and then returned the funds two days later.
Records show that funds in a variety of crypto-currencies were withdrawn from the DForce platform based in China. A sum of $10m was taken in Ethereum, for example, while a further $10m was taken in digital coins tied to the US dollar and $4m in other coins. Roughly the same amount has now been returned - although in a different mix of crypto-currencies. DForce is an online service that allows users to make crypto-currency transactions with one another.

mlnews

Coronavirus: Apple and France in stand-off over contact-tracing app

France is pressing Apple to let its forthcoming coronavirus contract-tracing app work in the background on iPhones without building in the privacy measures the US company wants.
The country's digital minister confirmed the request in an interview given to Bloomberg. France's system would let it glean more information about participating smartphone owners than Apple and its partner Google want to allow. Privacy experts view it as a test case. "Apple has no reason to agree to this demand and it would open the door to many other requests from other countries and entities," Prof Olivier Blazy from the country's University of Limoges, told BBC News. "As a Frenchman, I think it would be useful to avoid being dependent on the Google-Apple solution but I think it's strange that the government strategy relies on trying to convince Apple to do something that is against its interest, with no incentive to do so."

scottalanmiller

https://www.techspot.com/news/84914-wd-seagate-toshiba-found-selling-slow-smr-drives.html

RAID drives are a marketing farce. People kinda get whats expected when relying on self implying advertising.

black3dynamite

Vivaldi Browser 3.0
https://vivaldi.com/blog/1-day-2-big-Vivaldi-browser-releases/

scotth

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Vivaldi Browser 3.0
https://vivaldi.com/blog/1-day-2-big-Vivaldi-browser-releases/

I saw that. I'm going to see how the onboard blocker works without uBlock Origin.

black3dynamite

@scotth said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Vivaldi Browser 3.0
https://vivaldi.com/blog/1-day-2-big-Vivaldi-browser-releases/

I saw that. I'm going to see how the onboard blocker works without uBlock Origin.

Vivaldi, Brave and Opera builtin blocker is ok but its no where close to uBlock Origin. The custom filters and rules you can do with uBlock Origin is far more useful.