Miscellaneous Tech News

[mlnews]

How to see if YOU were affected by the Cambridge Analytics scandal...

https://www.facebook.com/help/1873665312923476?helpref=search&sr=1&query=cambridge

[scottalanmiller]

I was affected. Someone on my feed used the CA application and got some of my data.

[JaredBusch]

Opened the app for the first time since December.

Got this.

[JaredBusch]

That takes you to this

[mlnews]

WebAuthn coming to Firefox and Chrome. Passwordless web logins may become a standard reality.

[mlnews]

US Senators proposing new laws to protect US user' privacies.

[nadnerB]

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

New GMail design leaked.

As long as I can use a dark theme, I'm ok with that.

[NerdyDad]

Ubiquiti hires Home Assistant founder as a developer for tighter integration between products. Home Assistant stays independent and Open Source.

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2018/04/12/ubiquiti-and-home-assistant/

[JaredBusch]

@nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Ubiquiti hires Home Assistant founder as a developer for tighter integration between products. Home Assistant stays independent and Open Source.

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2018/04/12/ubiquiti-and-home-assistant/

Never heard of it before. But likely only because I have no home automation yet.

[NerdyDad]

@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Ubiquiti hires Home Assistant founder as a developer for tighter integration between products. Home Assistant stays independent and Open Source.

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2018/04/12/ubiquiti-and-home-assistant/

Never heard of it before. But likely only because I have no home automation yet.

I've been watching it for a couple of years. Integrates with a lot of things. Works on RPi, if your interested. Probably could work on other platforms too. Works with Ubiquiti, Lifx, Plex, Lodi, has Pi Hole built in, LE, just a number of different things.

[DustinB3403]

ShareX 12.1.1 is finally on Chocolatey, the choco package manager abandoned the project it seems and has been picked up by one of the choco devs.

[scottalanmiller]

I've not seen it before. Here it is: ShareX

[dafyre]

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

I've not seen it before. Here it is: ShareX

I use this almost exclusively for Screenshotting on Windows these days.

Copy to clipboard, save to file, automatic upload to Imgur and others...

[scottalanmiller]

@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

I've not seen it before. Here it is: ShareX

I use this almost exclusively for Screenshotting on Windows these days.

Copy to clipboard, save to file, automatic upload to Imgur and others...

Better than GreenShot?

[coliver]

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

I've not seen it before. Here it is: ShareX

I use this almost exclusively for Screenshotting on Windows these days.

Copy to clipboard, save to file, automatic upload to Imgur and others...

Better than GreenShot?

A bit, it has a nicer management interface and some more options.

[dafyre]

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

I've not seen it before. Here it is: ShareX

I use this almost exclusively for Screenshotting on Windows these days.

Copy to clipboard, save to file, automatic upload to Imgur and others...

Better than GreenShot?

I switched to ShareX from Greenshot.

[mlnews]

Woolen mouse pad that is also a phone charger.

[mlnews]

Xiaomi Black Shark gaming phone... are we ready for these, yet?

[Kelly]

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Xiaomi Black Shark gaming phone... are we ready for these, yet?

Combine this with the concept of Samsung's DeX, and we have the end of the midrange desktop/laptop market.

[mlnews]

System76 Pop!_OS is exploring Intel Clear Linux optimizations.