Miscellaneous Tech News
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Amazon's Ring video doorbells catch fire because wrong screw used
Dozens of Amazon's Ring smart doorbells have caught fire or burned their owners after being fitted with the wrong screw.
The problem has prompted US and Canadian product safety officials to issue a formal notice, and Amazon to provide a revised instruction manual. The issue is that if a longer, sharper screw is used at the device's base, it can damage the battery pack. This causes it to overheat, which has led to property damage and injuries. However, despite a "recall notice" having been issued, users are not actually being asked to send the devices back. Instead, they are simply being urged to follow the new guidance. -
Proxmox Backup Server 1.0 (stable)
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-backup-server-1-0-stable.78851/ -
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Proxmox Backup Server 1.0 (stable)
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-backup-server-1-0-stable.78851/That's cool. Appears they recommend installing onto hardware and not a VM based on the install instructions.
Likely a box dedicated for just that purpose.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Proxmox Backup Server 1.0 (stable)
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-backup-server-1-0-stable.78851/That's cool. Appears they recommend installing onto hardware and not a VM based on the install instructions.
Likely a box dedicated for just that purpose.
Even so, no reason not to virtualize that box.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Proxmox Backup Server 1.0 (stable)
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-backup-server-1-0-stable.78851/That's cool. Appears they recommend installing onto hardware and not a VM based on the install instructions.
Likely a box dedicated for just that purpose.
Even so, no reason not to virtualize that box.
There are reasons to not virtualize listed in the documentation.
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Xbox and Call of Duty cause record broadband data use in UK
The UK's leading internet providers have experienced record broadband use as a result of new Xbox consoles and fresh releases to the Call of Duty games franchise.
BT, Virgin Media, TalkTalk, Vodafone, City Fibre and Zen Internet said they had all coped with the spike in demand on Tuesday. Much of the activity was generated by video gamers downloading large files. Some people will have experienced slower speeds as a consequence. The internet service providers will be tested again on 19 November when the PlayStation 5 comes to the UK. -
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Proxmox Backup Server 1.0 (stable)
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-backup-server-1-0-stable.78851/That's cool. Appears they recommend installing onto hardware and not a VM based on the install instructions.
Likely a box dedicated for just that purpose.
Even so, no reason not to virtualize that box.
There are reasons to not virtualize listed in the documentation.
I haven't spotted that yet. I wonder if they're so bad as their "Don't use software RAID" thing they used to spew.
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Proxmox Backup Server 1.0 (stable)
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-backup-server-1-0-stable.78851/That's cool. Appears they recommend installing onto hardware and not a VM based on the install instructions.
Likely a box dedicated for just that purpose.
Even so, no reason not to virtualize that box.
There are reasons to not virtualize listed in the documentation.
I haven't spotted that yet. I wonder if they're so bad as their "Don't use software RAID" thing they used to spew.
Essentially it's a ZFS storage reason.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Proxmox Backup Server 1.0 (stable)
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-backup-server-1-0-stable.78851/That's cool. Appears they recommend installing onto hardware and not a VM based on the install instructions.
Likely a box dedicated for just that purpose.
Even so, no reason not to virtualize that box.
There are reasons to not virtualize listed in the documentation.
I haven't spotted that yet. I wonder if they're so bad as their "Don't use software RAID" thing they used to spew.
Essentially it's a ZFS storage reason.
Yep, I'd call that bad for sure.
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Kickstarter replies to complaints from seven years ago
Crowdfunding website Kickstarter has surprised some of its users by replying to complaints they made seven years ago.
These included complaints about a book which some felt encouraged sexual harassment. Users who received responses to long-expired projects from 2013 took to Twitter to congratulate the company on its response times. Kickstarter said the emails were "auto-generated in error". "The emails folks received yesterday was due to an unfortunate human error while working on a clean-up task completely unrelated to the ticket from 2013," a company spokeswoman said. "It's important to remember we are still a small team at Kickstarter and mistakes can happen." -
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Proxmox Backup Server 1.0 (stable)
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-backup-server-1-0-stable.78851/That's cool. Appears they recommend installing onto hardware and not a VM based on the install instructions.
Likely a box dedicated for just that purpose.
Even so, no reason not to virtualize that box.
I concur. I do see they say not to install it directly on the hypervisor -- now that I could get behind. Install it as a VM and connect it to the storage that it should use (off-box, preferably!) and go.
I actually want to play with Proxmox, I just don't have the hardware to do it with ATM.
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@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Proxmox Backup Server 1.0 (stable)
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-backup-server-1-0-stable.78851/That's cool. Appears they recommend installing onto hardware and not a VM based on the install instructions.
Likely a box dedicated for just that purpose.
Even so, no reason not to virtualize that box.
I concur. I do see they say not to install it directly on the hypervisor -- now that I could get behind. Install it as a VM and connect it to the storage that it should use (off-box, preferably!) and go.
I actually want to play with Proxmox, I just don't have the hardware to do it with ATM.
At my last job, I used some extra low end laptops that we had, to setup Proxmox. I did they with XenServer/XCP-ng too.
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Kamala Harris: Facebook removes racist posts about US vice-president-elect
Facebook has taken down a string of racist and misogynistic posts, memes and comments about US Vice-President-Elect Kamala Harris.
The social network removed the content after BBC News alerted it to three groups that regularly hosted hateful material on their pages. Facebook says it takes down 90% of hate speech before it is flagged. One media monitoring body described the pages as "dedicated to propagating racist and misogynistic smears". However, despite the pages being places where hate-speech is regularly directed towards the vice-president-elect, Facebook said it would not take action on the groups themselves. Media Matters president Angelo Carusone said: "Facebook's removal of this content only after it's been flagged to them by the media confirms that the rules and guidelines they establish are hollow because they put little to no effort into detection and enforcement. -
Facebook and Twitter grilled over US election actions
Facebook and Twitter's chief executives have been challenged over their handling of the US election in their latest appearance before the US Senate.
Democrats questioned whether steps taken to flag that President Trump's claims of election fraud were "disputed" had gone far enough. Republican members of the Judiciary Committee asked whether the tech firms should be taking such action at all. This was the second time the CEOs had been cross-examined in three weeks.They were previously questioned by the Senate Commerce Committee last month in what was a more rowdy event. Once again, the issue of a law known as Section 230 loomed large. It says the platforms are generally not responsible for illegal or offensive things users post on them. -
Bloomberg reporting SuSe ipo
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-06/eqt-is-said-to-plan-ipo-of-6-billion-software-developer-suse -
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Proxmox Backup Server 1.0 (stable)
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-backup-server-1-0-stable.78851/That's cool. Appears they recommend installing onto hardware and not a VM based on the install instructions.
Likely a box dedicated for just that purpose.
Even so, no reason not to virtualize that box.
I concur. I do see they say not to install it directly on the hypervisor -- now that I could get behind. Install it as a VM and connect it to the storage that it should use (off-box, preferably!) and go.
I actually want to play with Proxmox, I just don't have the hardware to do it with ATM.
At my last job, I used some extra low end laptops that we had, to setup Proxmox. I did they with XenServer/XCP-ng too.
RIght now, my laptop only has wireless available. So that's the reason I'm stuck using a desktop distro, lol.
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FiOS renamed to Frontier FiberOptic
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
FiOS renamed to Frontier FiberOptic
They brought their crappy name to the foreground? uh - what?
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Backlash to Twitter's disappearing tweets feature
A new feature on Twitter designed to allow people to share "their fleeting thoughts" has faced a backlash, with many saying it encouraged harassment.
So-called "fleets" vanish in 24 hours, and Twitter said they are meant to "help people feel more comfortable joining the conversation". But many users spotted issues which they fear could also be abused. Twitter said it was listening to user feedback about the new feature. Fleets are similar to Instagram Stories and Snapchat Stories, and allow users to post text, photos or video which appear in bubbles at the top of the app for 24 hours. The feature was tested in several countries, including Brazil, Italy and India, before the global rollout this week.
