Miscellaneous Tech News
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Pets 'go hungry' after smart feeder goes offline
Owners of a device designed to release food for pets say their animals were left hungry during a week-long system failure.
Petnet allows owners to schedule and control feeding via a smartphone app. When the BBC contacted Petnet on its advertised email address, the email bounced back with a delivery failure notice. One pet owner tweeted: "My cat starved for over a week", while others complained about other hardware issues. "My three Gen2 feeders constantly jam and won't dispense food," wrote another. Some expressed relief that the feeders were now back online.This is why we have a camera aimed at the cat's dish under the auto feeder.
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@JasGot said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Pets 'go hungry' after smart feeder goes offline
Owners of a device designed to release food for pets say their animals were left hungry during a week-long system failure.
Petnet allows owners to schedule and control feeding via a smartphone app. When the BBC contacted Petnet on its advertised email address, the email bounced back with a delivery failure notice. One pet owner tweeted: "My cat starved for over a week", while others complained about other hardware issues. "My three Gen2 feeders constantly jam and won't dispense food," wrote another. Some expressed relief that the feeders were now back online.This is why we have a camera aimed at the cat's dish under the auto feeder.
Lol, did he eat the fish? Do you have a recording if he did?
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@marcinozga said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Pets 'go hungry' after smart feeder goes offline
/s Whatever happened to just leaving a 40lb bag of food open on the floor?
With my dog leaving even unopened bag of food on the floor equals trip to a vet. We did that mistake once with cat food, little fucker ripped the bag open and enjoyed all you can eat buffet with 3 cats. When we got home few hours later all 4 animals had bulging bellies. Dog couldn't move. It wasn't fun cleaning litter box next couple of days and vet bill was almost my monthly rent.
Smart feeders can be a good thing when you have to leave for a few days, but even then I prefer human pet sitter.
That's my point. If you are leaving for a few days at a time or a week, how is your pet taking care of its needs? Wouldn't you want someone to go and check on the pet?
I mean I get that a kennel might give your dog a cough, but compared to starving for a week. . .
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Cloudflare evaluation of Epyc vs Xeon
https://blog.cloudflare.com/an-epyc-trip-to-rome-amd-is-cloudflares-10th-generation-edge-server-cpu/
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://fedoramagazine.org/make-free-encrypted-backups-to-the-cloud-on-fedora/
25GB of free storage? That's really nice. Do they say latter on what the price is once you reach the paid tiers?
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Ars takes the new Opera R2020 browser for a spin
Opera bundles in some killer UI features that Firefox and Chrome don't.
When the topic of Web browsers comes up, most people only think of Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and whatever Microsoft's doing this week. (Just kidding, Microsoft—the new Edge is unironically great!) But today, we're going to look at perennial bridesmaid Opera, which released a new version codenamed R2020 this Tuesday. -
We are seeing an east coast CDN down causing some websites to fail with things like login buttons broken this morning. Just to let people know to look for this if you get problems with websites.
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://fedoramagazine.org/make-free-encrypted-backups-to-the-cloud-on-fedora/
25GB of free storage? That's really nice. Do they say latter on what the price is once you reach the paid tiers?
I don't know.
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@scottalanmiller Maybe like my ADP
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More Cloud flare notes on Xeon vs Epic. Quite a difference for them.
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Redcar council IT hack confirmed as ransomware attack
A council has admitted its IT service was targeted by hackers, who scrambled files and made a demand for money.
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@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Redcar council IT hack confirmed as ransomware attack
A council has admitted its IT service was targeted by hackers, who scrambled files and made a demand for money.
Systems at Redcar and Cleveland Council have been down for almost three weeks after the ransomware attack."As a council, we have always taken cyber security seriously, and we will continue to engage with the relevant authorities to ensure our systems are as secure as possible in the future," she said
No time like getting caught with your pants down to scream at the choir about being up to date with security practices and policies. . .
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Tesla Autopilot crash driver 'was playing video game'
An Apple employee who died after his Tesla car hit a concrete barrier was playing a video game at the time of the crash, investigators believe.
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said the car had been driving semi-autonomously using Tesla's Autopilot software. Tesla instructs drivers to keep their hands on the wheel in Autopilot mode. But the NTSB said more crashes were foreseeable if Tesla did not implement changes to its Autopilot system. -
Cloud flare on tuning Epyc performance.
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HTTPS for all: Let’s Encrypt reaches one billion certificates issued
The ISRG's Let's Encrypt is putting the S in HTTPS on a massive scale.
Let's Encrypt, the Internet Security Research Group's free certificate signing authority, issued its first certificate a little over four years ago. Today, it issued its billionth. The ISRG's goal for Let's Encrypt is to bring the Web up to a 100% encryption rate. When Let's Encrypt launched in 2015, the idea was pretty outré—at that time, a bit more than a third of all Web traffic was encrypted, with the rest being plain text HTTP. There were significant barriers to HTTPS adoption—for one thing, it cost money. But more importantly, it cost a significant amount of time and human effort, both of which are in limited supply. -
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Criminals on CCTV: Scammers caught red-handed
Hundreds of thousands of people fall victim to scams in the UK every year.
Many are run from criminal call centres abroad, where teams of fraudsters operate around the clock.One man in the UK, who goes by the name "Jim Browning", decided to do something about it. He hacked into a call centre in India from where scammers target their victims.
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