In other news today...
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
Lawns need a lot of water.
Liquid water.
Even more
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
How else do you make hockey rings?
They're mostly indoor. Outside is too cold
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Insert your "favourite" software, website, service provider, etc here
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
From very expensive device with unclear purpose to less expensive (but still) device with unclear purpose:
256x256 per eye? Uh...
Full HD per eye kinda sucks even if you limit the FOV significantly. And they want to go down to 256^2. IIRC that's less than your average letter from the Discourse letter CDN...
The $350 device
A full battery gets you around 25 hours of reading.
256x256Me with my 2012 Kobo that cost $100 CAD, has a decent resolution for text and lasts for weeks on a single charge:
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
I have to move one finger approximately 0.5in to turn a page.
Cheezus! I leave my finger on the button and just rock it so it gets depressed.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
I have to move one finger approximately 0.5in to turn a page.
Cheezus! I leave my finger on the button and just rock it so it gets depressed.
No buttons on mine. I just tap the side of the screen.
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@boomzilla just like the Internet when hiding stuff breaks other stuff. Love computing!
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
How exactly do some subs going private and thus causing less traffic cause outages? In what world is that expected?
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@topspin Here are a couple theories I have heard that only make sense if Reddit's code is as poorly implemented as their business decisions:
- updating the private status of so many subreddits crashed the server
- so many subreddits are private that the front page has no idea what to present
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Reddit's code is as poorly implemented as their business decisions
Pikachu could not be reached for comment.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
has no idea what to present
Overheard conversations at work from a long time ago:
It's easier if I tell you what I don't want....
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@hungrier you forgot one:
- people are running "delete my account" browser scripts which, naturally, only operate on one post at a time, as fast as they can firehose requests.
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I need to know more.
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I wonder if their McAfee licenses lapsed.
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began exploiting a new flaw in a widely used file-transfer software known as MOVEit
What's that?
From ipswitch's website
Progress MOVEit is the leading secure Managed File Transfer (MFT) software
secure
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
began exploiting a new flaw in a widely used file-transfer software known as MOVEit
What's that?
From ipswitch's website
Progress MOVEit is the leading secure Managed File Transfer (MFT) software
secure
Because they're using proprietary encryption?
edit: forgot to insert the quotes
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
Because they're using proprietary encryption?
Because it's managed file transfer, as opposed to unmanaged file transfer, where your files can end up anywhere on the internet
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
Because they're using proprietary encryption?
Because it's managed file transfer, as opposed to unmanaged file transfer, where your files can end up anywhere on the internet
Well, yeah, like with email. But this stuff is for "business" users, the sort of people who can't even spell
scp
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Yahoo's a little slow in writing articles. This is about an underground city that was rediscovered in 1963.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
began exploiting a new flaw in a widely used file-transfer software known as MOVEit
What's that?
From ipswitch's website
Progress MOVEit is the leading secure Managed File Transfer (MFT) software
secure
Because they're using proprietary encryption?
edit: forgot to insert the quotes
I worked for a company that was in negotiations with I think ICE. One of the stipulations was we couldn’t use open source software. Left before learning what came of that though.
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In other news, Google is getting rid of Google Domains.
Relatedly...
Twitter is full of people who are finally getting the hint not to put any stock in anything Google puts out as a product.
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@dcon It's the mention of the chickens that makes this headline compelling.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
finally getting the hint not to put any stock in anything Google puts out as a product.
Um, I just bought a new Google Pixel 7 Pro.
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@HardwareGeek comes with a built in obsolescence plan, right?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Arantor said in In other news today...:
built in obsolescence plan
OOBE.
Out of the box experience
or
out of body experience
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
began exploiting a new flaw in a widely used file-transfer software known as MOVEit
What's that?
From ipswitch's website
Progress MOVEit is the leading secure Managed File Transfer (MFT) software
secure
Fuck MOVEit. It sucks so much, I'm not surprised at all.
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@jinpa
Have you ever heard ofEXIF
metadata of image files?
How GPS data can be stored there is standardized.
Also storage of date and time are standardized - though with a : timezone cannot be stored at all.
So, in the end, when you have access to the image file, you can show date and time when the photo was taken, and if GPS data were stored, you can put the photo on a map.
So what? That's what I expect to be able to do.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek comes with a built in obsolescence plan, right?
Wait. Is there a cell phone that doesn't?
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@dcon no but some are worse than others about this. Like, Apple's gear will still get updates for a few years and still be usable (for some definition of usable) in that time. Android... is manufacturer specific, sometimes model specific as to updates you're going to get.
I guess I was digging on the whole killed-by-google thing especially since they just sold Google Domains off to Squarespace, maybe after realising they shit the bed with .zip domains...?
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
Apple's gear will still get updates for a few years and still be usable (for some definition of usable) in that time
I used an iPhone 6S for 6 years. Had to replace the battery though.
(That's not really Apple's fault, but making it difficult and expensive to replace is.)
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Another sad day for bears.
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@dcon It's recycled every few years.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Arantor said in In other news today...:
finally getting the hint not to put any stock in anything Google puts out as a product.
Um, I just bought a new Google Pixel 7 Pro.
I'm looking at getting a Pixel, and waffling between Pro and un-Pro on the theory that cell phones are slowly growing larger than I can comfortably hold in a hand, and maybe I want one a hair smaller this time. So how nice is the camera on the Pro?
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@PotatoEngineer I don't actually have it yet. It's scheduled to arrive Thursday (give or take disturbances in the Delivery Distortion Field). The specs look good, though.
For the size, it's longer, but hardly any wider or thicker, than my current phone, so it should still fit in a pocket comfortably. Maybe not so much with the hard case I bought, though.
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@PotatoEngineer It's not bad. I have a Pixel 7 Pro and the camera seems good for the very little I tend to use it.
Example picture I just took using the default settings of a random spot in my living room:
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@e4tmyl33t We've found your Secret Lab
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@e4tmyl33t ... and two packages of
Monopoly
. And - is that? -Pandemic
?
Ha!
It was you who started that !
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@e4tmyl33t ... and two packages of
Monopoly
. And - is that? -Pandemic
?
Ha!
It was you who started that !Yes, there's a copy of Mega Monopoly and a (completely unplayed) copy of Klingon Monopoly in that game cabinet.
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@e4tmyl33t We've found your Secret Lab
Not mine, the cats'. After I unboxed and assembled my chair, we packed it with some blankets and cut a big-ass hole in the side so the cats could have a little fort.
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@e4tmyl33t said in In other news today...:
Not mine, the cats
Well since they are our overlords the statement still holds.
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@e4tmyl33t said in In other news today...:
@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@e4tmyl33t ... and two packages of
Monopoly
. And - is that? -Pandemic
?
Ha!
It was you who started that !Yes, there's a copy of Mega Monopoly and a (completely unplayed) copy of Klingon Monopoly in that game cabinet.
NetRunner, Mansion Of Madness, Elder Sign, Arkham Horror, Ticket To Ride, Scattegories, Archer, Civilization, and some I don't recognize.
Quite a nice collection.
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The wood box on the top shelf is a 15th (or so) anniversary edition of Settlers of Catan with wood tiles and the 5-6 player expansion included. To its left are Tsumo and Carcassonne.
Blue box on second shelf is a complete edition of Suburbia. White-ish box with the hooded guy to the left of Ticket to Ride is some form of Magic the Gathering boardgame.
Bottom shelf underneath the Civ boardgame is something called "Ricochet Rock Jockeys", and that Archer game is complete shit.
There's some more stuff to the right of those boxes (A copy of Million Dollars But..., another copy of Scattergories for some reason, 7 Wonders, some Battletech maps/hex sets, Red Dragon Inn 1-3...possibly one or two other things but my memory is failing and to get up and check.)