Non-IT News Thread

black3dynamite

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Facebook CEO apparently caught off guard to learn about shadow profiles in front of Congress.

Shadow Profiles of people who arent even registered. Fuck that bullshit.
edit sorry for swearz, but it is deserved.

There's been a lot of WTF moments.

mlnews

Sometimes it was Congress looking a bit foolish while questioning Zuckerberg.

mlnews

Irish judge requests that the EU court determine if Facebook can routinely ship user data to the US.

mlnews

End of an era, as AmEx, Mastercard, and Discover end the need for signatures, with Visa following right behind, later this month.

mlnews

High definition vinyl records are coming. Better sound, longer lasting.

momurda

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

High definition vinyl records are coming. Better sound, longer lasting.

Still worse than cd

scottalanmiller

None of it is as good as lossless audio files. Who works with physical media today!

momurda

wav(cd) is lossless.

scottalanmiller

@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

wav(cd) is lossless.

That's a thing? Still annoying to have a media.

mlnews

Goldman Sachs admits that curing patients is not a sustainable business model.

mlnews

Russian woman embalmed alive during a surgery.

mlnews

Investor group calls for Zuckerberg to resign or be removed from at least one of his roles stating that he "doesn't understand how a large, global, and publicly-held company is run".

coliver

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Goldman Sachs admits that curing patients is not a sustainable business model.

Who is this news to?

scottalanmiller

@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Goldman Sachs admits that curing patients is not a sustainable business model.

Who is this news to?

The news is that they announced it as a major investor.

mlnews

NASA mulling deep(er) space manned mission sooner than expected.

mlnews

Facebook mobile device microphone eavesdropping is, believed at least, a myth, according to The Verge.

scottalanmiller

DW just said that the US has launched a strike on syria.

JaredBusch

Interesting review of Isle of Dogs

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-isle-of-dogs-gets-right-about-japan

scottalanmiller

@jaredbusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

Interesting review of Isle of Dogs

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-isle-of-dogs-gets-right-about-japan

That looks really interesting in trailers.

JaredBusch

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@jaredbusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

Interesting review of Isle of Dogs

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-isle-of-dogs-gets-right-about-japan

That looks really interesting in trailers.

And reading that review from a native Japanese speaker makes it even better IMO.