Miscellaneous Tech News
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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:
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@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. -
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
FiOS renamed to Frontier FiberOptic
I'm with @Dashrender, rebranding that to Frontier is a bad idea around here. They've been so terrible for so long that nobody wants to deal with anything with the Frontier name.
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https://meshcentral2.blogspot.com/2020/11/meshcentral-multi-upload-live-cpu-file.html
My favorites are these two:
Upload files to multiple devices at once. If you want to upload a batch of files to many remote systems all at once, generally you upload to each device one at a time. With the latest MeshCentral administrators can now check many devices, hit the “Group Action” button, select one or more files and a destination path. MeshCentral will then receive the files and start uploading them to each device in a single step. It’s faster and a more efficient this way to perform this operation as the file is sent to the server only once.File search feature. When browsing files on a remote system using MeshCentral, there is a new “Find” button you can use to search for files recursively starting at the folder the administrator is looking at now. You can stop the search at anytime and results will show up as they arrive. Like both features above, this works on all platforms (Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD).
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
FiOS renamed to Frontier FiberOptic
I'm with @Dashrender, rebranding that to Frontier is a bad idea around here. They've been so terrible for so long that nobody wants to deal with anything with the Frontier name.
It's not rebranding TO Frontier, it's always been Frontier. It's Frontier FiOS is now Frontier FiberOptic.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
FiOS renamed to Frontier FiberOptic
They brought their crappy name to the foreground? uh - what?
What name, Frontier? Best ISP I know of nationwide. Not that there aren't better, but I work with hundreds of companies across the US and literally not one can get any ISP as good as Frontier. Best support, best speeds, best stability. I'd move offices to get access to Frontier over any other carrier.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
FiOS renamed to Frontier FiberOptic
They brought their crappy name to the foreground? uh - what?
What name, Frontier? Best ISP I know of nationwide. Not that there aren't better, but I work with hundreds of companies across the US and literally not one can get any ISP as good as Frontier. Best support, best speeds, best stability. I'd move offices to get access to Frontier over any other carrier.
I've had the exact opposite experience with them. Cruddy DSL and support that's powerless to actually do anything. Litterally so bad that people move houses to get a different provider.
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
FiOS renamed to Frontier FiberOptic
They brought their crappy name to the foreground? uh - what?
What name, Frontier? Best ISP I know of nationwide. Not that there aren't better, but I work with hundreds of companies across the US and literally not one can get any ISP as good as Frontier. Best support, best speeds, best stability. I'd move offices to get access to Frontier over any other carrier.
I've had the exact opposite experience with them. Cruddy DSL and support that's powerless to actually do anything. Litterally so bad that people move houses to get a different provider.
Their old DSL was terrible. Once they went to FiOS, best provider I've ever come across.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
FiOS renamed to Frontier FiberOptic
They brought their crappy name to the foreground? uh - what?
What name, Frontier? Best ISP I know of nationwide. Not that there aren't better, but I work with hundreds of companies across the US and literally not one can get any ISP as good as Frontier. Best support, best speeds, best stability. I'd move offices to get access to Frontier over any other carrier.
I've had the exact opposite experience with them. Cruddy DSL and support that's powerless to actually do anything. Litterally so bad that people move houses to get a different provider.
Their old DSL was terrible. Once they went to FiOS, best provider I've ever come across.
You mean once they purchased a large portion of Verizon FiOS. It's Frontier, I have no faith that they'll maintain it.
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
FiOS renamed to Frontier FiberOptic
They brought their crappy name to the foreground? uh - what?
What name, Frontier? Best ISP I know of nationwide. Not that there aren't better, but I work with hundreds of companies across the US and literally not one can get any ISP as good as Frontier. Best support, best speeds, best stability. I'd move offices to get access to Frontier over any other carrier.
I've had the exact opposite experience with them. Cruddy DSL and support that's powerless to actually do anything. Litterally so bad that people move houses to get a different provider.
Their old DSL was terrible. Once they went to FiOS, best provider I've ever come across.
You mean once they purchased a large portion of Verizon FiOS. It's Frontier, I have no faith that they'll maintain it.
they already have for a really long time, way past the point of waiting to see. We already have the pudding.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
FiOS renamed to Frontier FiberOptic
They brought their crappy name to the foreground? uh - what?
What name, Frontier? Best ISP I know of nationwide. Not that there aren't better, but I work with hundreds of companies across the US and literally not one can get any ISP as good as Frontier. Best support, best speeds, best stability. I'd move offices to get access to Frontier over any other carrier.
I've had the exact opposite experience with them. Cruddy DSL and support that's powerless to actually do anything. Litterally so bad that people move houses to get a different provider.
Their old DSL was terrible. Once they went to FiOS, best provider I've ever come across.
You mean once they purchased a large portion of Verizon FiOS. It's Frontier, I have no faith that they'll maintain it.
they already have for a really long time, way past the point of waiting to see. We already have the pudding.
It took over 10 years before their DSL degraded due to lack of maintenance, and they just recently bought up large swaths of Verizon's FiOS. I'd argue that we won't have any proof for years yet.
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Sony PlayStation 5 delivery delays spark row over who is to blame
Many customers hoping to get hold of a PlayStation 5 on its launch day have been left disappointed after online retailers sold out of the console.
In an email to customers, Game blamed courier firm Yodel, which has strenuously denied it is at fault, for some pre-ordered consoles not being delivered on launch day. Currys PC World and John Lewis had sold out of the PS5 by lunchtime. That led some gamers to pay nearly double the retail price on eBay. The PS5 was released in the UK on 19 November but lockdown has meant that people cannot purchase one in physical stores. The US launch took place last week.
