Miscellaneous Tech News
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
We have an echo DOT in the bathroom (with the camera covered). I really like the display
That is not an Echo Dot.
I assume Echo Show?
yep.. I'm batting a 1000 today - in failures.. I should just go the fuck home!
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Charter data use “rising rapidly” as cord cutters average 400GB a month
And median data usage exceeds 200GB for all residential customers.
Charter cable Internet customers who don't subscribe to Charter's TV service are using an average of more than 400GB of data a month, the company said yesterday.So? That's still well below the 1 TB cap they put on most people (unless Charter's cap is lower than one TB).
400GB seems tiny to me.
Well it might be for you... I normally run around 600 - unless I'm catching up on a lot of torrents of TV shows.. but just normal streaming, I very typically stay below 700GB
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Ex-YouTube engineer reveals how video site worked to kill off Internet Explorer 6
Banner said that Internet Explorer 6 would soon be dropped.
The year is 2009. YouTube, four years old, has become the Web's leading video site. Though Internet Explorer 6 was far from current—it had been superseded by versions 7 and 8—it nonetheless made up some 18 percent of YouTube's traffic.Buy that man a beer!
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Buy that man a beer!
Any time you want to buy me a beer you know how to get a hold of me.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Buy that man a beer!
Any time you want to buy me a beer you know how to get a hold of me.
Kill off an old version of IE and I'll buy you a 6 pack.
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@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Buy that man a beer!
Any time you want to buy me a beer you know how to get a hold of me.
Kill off an old version of IE and I'll buy you a 6 pack.
Does disabling IE on Windows count as killing it off?
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Found this comparison of WordPress Cache Plugins.
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HoloLens 2 dev kits: $3,500, or $99/month, with Azure credits, Unity trials
Support for Unreal Engine 4 should arrive by the end of the month.
The second-generation HoloLens 2 was announced back in February. -
Blockchain, zero-code machine learning coming to Azure
Microsoft has started the announcements, with more to come next week.
Microsoft's annual developer conference kicks off on Monday, and the company will no doubt have all manner of things to announce for Azure and, if we're lucky, Windows. -
DENON D9200 REVIEW: THE BEST PORTABLE HEADPHONES DON’T COME CHEAP
These $1,599 headphones are premium both in price and in fact
Three years and a few dozen reviews ago, I declared the Bang & Olufsen H6 the best portable headphones you could buy. -
Microsoft unveils HoloLens 2 developer edition for $3,500
Available later this year
Microsoft is launching a developer edition of the company’s HoloLens 2 headset today. -
ROBOCALLS ARE GETTING WORSE. HOW DO WE STOP THEM?
Hint: it’s a little bit of everything
If it seems like robocalls are getting worse, it’s not simply your imagination. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
ROBOCALLS ARE GETTING WORSE. HOW DO WE STOP THEM?
Hint: it’s a little bit of everything
If it seems like robocalls are getting worse, it’s not simply your imagination.First of all, the problem is not robocalls. The problem is unwanted calls from scammers.
STIR/SHAKEN cannot the problem itself. But slowly, over time because the outbound CID will have to be validated and thus traceable, scammers will be more easily caught and fined and thus make it less profitable to attempt to do this.
The next part of the problem is simply unwanted calls from things like political surveys and such.
Assuming that STIR/SHAKEN is implmented, and these people also have to use traceable CID, then services can be created based on those numbers to identify them as what they are and let people choose to accept them or not.
The issue is not robocalls. This issue is criminals and politicians.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
ROBOCALLS ARE GETTING WORSE. HOW DO WE STOP THEM?
Hint: it’s a little bit of everything
If it seems like robocalls are getting worse, it’s not simply your imagination.First of all, the problem is not robocalls. The problem is unwanted calls from scammers.
STIR/SHAKEN cannot the problem itself. But slowly, over time because the outbound CID will have to be validated and thus traceable, scammers will be more easily caught and fined and thus make it less profitable to attempt to do this.
The next part of the problem is simply unwanted calls from things like political surveys and such.
Assuming that STIR/SHAKEN is implmented, and these people also have to use traceable CID, then services can be created based on those numbers to identify them as what they are and let people choose to accept them or not.
The issue is not robocalls. This issue is criminals and politicians.
:thumbs_up:
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
ROBOCALLS ARE GETTING WORSE. HOW DO WE STOP THEM?
Hint: it’s a little bit of everything
If it seems like robocalls are getting worse, it’s not simply your imagination.First of all, the problem is not robocalls. The problem is unwanted calls from scammers.
STIR/SHAKEN cannot the problem itself. But slowly, over time because the outbound CID will have to be validated and thus traceable, scammers will be more easily caught and fined and thus make it less profitable to attempt to do this.
The next part of the problem is simply unwanted calls from things like political surveys and such.
Assuming that STIR/SHAKEN is implmented, and these people also have to use traceable CID, then services can be created based on those numbers to identify them as what they are and let people choose to accept them or not.
The issue is not robocalls. This issue is criminals and politicians.
So you're saying you're OK with Robocalls? I, for one, am not. I'd say that 80% of the shit calls I get now days are robo calls - they might have criminals behind them.. but they are still a robo call to start.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The issue is not robocalls. This issue is criminals and politicians.
Kind of, but I'm not okay with any call being made that isn't worth a human having dialed. I'm not saying that that is stoppable, but I find robocalls themselves to be a problem of sorts. If I'm not worth dialing, I don't want my phone to ring.
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HP Chromebook 14 review: a decent screen and good keyboard aren’t enough
This might prove a popular choice for schools, but consumers should skip it
There’s nothing about HP’s 2019 Chromebook 14 that’s flashy or makes it stand out among the field of inexpensive Chromebooks. -
The Apple Watch Series 4 is cheaper than ever at Amazon and Best Buy
Both the 40mm and 44mm sizes are discounted
The Apple Watch Series 4 is currently $349 from Amazon and Best Buy. -
After 32-bit purge, GameClub raises $2.5M to bring back classic iOS games
Premium rereleases will be "free of intrusive ads and microtransactions"
Apple's 2017 shift from 32-bit to a 64-bit code base for iOS has shut the door on countless games and apps designed during the platform's early days. -
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez supports Big Tech breakup plan laid out by Elizabeth Warren
Antitrust enforcement is catching fire in the Democratic Party
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has signed on to a plan to break up major tech platforms, as reported by Politico in its Morning Tech newsletter.
