Miscellaneous Tech News

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Wine 3.4 looking good with new MS Office anti-aliased font support coming.

[Obsolesce]

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@popester said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/14/sierra-leone-just-ran-the-first-blockchain-based-election/

Maybe someday the US will catch up with the technically advanced countries

Doubtful when there's so much money in it for companies to use old existing tech.

[scottalanmiller]

@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@popester said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/14/sierra-leone-just-ran-the-first-blockchain-based-election/

Maybe someday the US will catch up with the technically advanced countries

Doubtful when there's so much money in it for companies to use old existing tech.

That's the problem with this system, it's so heavily designed around status quo, at almost any cost.

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Major Flaw in Firefox 59.0.1 fixed.

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GNU Mcron 1.1 released as replacement to traditional Vixie Cron.

GNU Mcron is written in GNU Guile and the Mcron 1.1 release now supports the Guile 2.2 update. The main new feature of this Mcron release is the job procedure now having a #:user keyword argument to allow specifying a different user that will run the given job.

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Linux has been ported to the new 32bit C-SKY architecture.

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New, thinner Gigabute Aero 15 laptops revealed.

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Ubuntu 18.10 to get LZ4 Compressed InitRAMFS by default.

[momurda]

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

GNU Mcron 1.1 released as replacement to traditional Vixie Cron.

GNU Mcron is written in GNU Guile and the Mcron 1.1 release now supports the Guile 2.2 update. The main new feature of this Mcron release is the job procedure now having a #:user keyword argument to allow specifying a different user that will run the given job.

Does this mean i will need to learn another command besides cron
Or will this replace cron and keep the name.

[scottalanmiller]

@momurda said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

GNU Mcron 1.1 released as replacement to traditional Vixie Cron.

GNU Mcron is written in GNU Guile and the Mcron 1.1 release now supports the Guile 2.2 update. The main new feature of this Mcron release is the job procedure now having a #:user keyword argument to allow specifying a different user that will run the given job.

Does this mean i will need to learn another command besides cron
Or will this replace cron and keep the name.

Cron is cron, more or less. These are all different implementations of cron.

[mlnews]

It appears that Apple is going to try to make their own microLED displays for the Apple Watch.

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DirectX Raytracing announced by MS.

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NVidia announces RTX, the Real Time Ray Tracing Acceleration.

[hobbit666]

Uber halts self-driving car tests after death - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43459156

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Ray tracing set to revolutionize desktop 3D rendering.

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MS Talks about Windows Machine Learning for Gaming. DirectML could be extremely interesting.

[NerdyDad]

Ubiquiti has released its EdgeRouter 4 (ER-4) & 6P (ER-6P).

https://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgerouter-6p/
https://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgerouter-4/

The ER-4 is already on Amazon for about $240.

[JaredBusch]

@nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Ubiquiti has released its EdgeRouter 4 (ER-4) & 6P (ER-6P).

https://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgerouter-6p/
https://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgerouter-4/

The ER-4 is already on Amazon for about $240.

This is not new. The ER-4 has been released since November.

Supply is low still. So never buy shit from Amazon when supply is not flush, because you will pay too much money.

The ER-4 is $199 from official distribution channels.

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Gnome 3.28 has released and will make it into Fedora 28.

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Future Windows 10 updates to get slower.