Miscellaneous Tech News
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
OPNsense 19.1
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=11398.0OPNsense 19.1 is now based on HardenedBSD instead FreeBSD.
Interesting. Nice update.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
OPNsense 19.1
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=11398.0OPNsense 19.1 is now based on HardenedBSD instead FreeBSD.
Interesting. Nice update.
My brother and I are pushing this out for our replacement firewalls this weekend. <<crossing fingers>>
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Itanium’s demise approaches: Intel to stop shipments in mid-2021
Intel's grand adventure with smart compilers and dumb processors comes to an end.
The Itanium 9700 line of four- and eight-core processors represents the last vestiges of Intel's attempt to switch the world to an entirely new processor architecture: IA-64. Instead of being a 64-bit extension to IA-32 ("Intel Architecture-32," Intel's preferred name for x86-compatible designs), IA-64 was an entirely new design built around what Intel and HP called "Explicitly parallel instruction computing."
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@scotth said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
OPNsense 19.1
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=11398.0OPNsense 19.1 is now based on HardenedBSD instead FreeBSD.
Interesting. Nice update.
My brother and I are pushing this out for our replacement firewalls this weekend. <<crossing fingers>>
I'd love to put this out in production somewhere and watch it.
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Deepin is on 15.9.1 now.
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Any new features on latest?
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@StuartJordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Any new features on latest?
Not that I've seen yet. I found out because it updated and after reboot it lists the new version. I didn't go to update it knowing a new version was out. So I've not seen an announcement.
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Bless the overclockers: In the data center world, liquid cooling is becoming king
"For high performance computing, you just can’t do it with air.”
In Iron Man 2, there is a moment when Tony Stark is watching a decades-old film of his deceased father, who tells him “I'm limited by the technology of my time, but one day you'll figure this out. And when you do, you will change the world.” It’s a work of fiction but the notion expressed is legitimate. The visions and ideas of technologists are frequently well ahead of the technology of their times. Star Trek may have always had it, but it took the rest of us decades to get tablets and e-readers right.
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@mlnews apropos timing on that article
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews apropos timing on that article
Not really as the Liquid cooling discussed in the article is focused on Liquid cooling (immersion) in the datacenter and just gives thanks to gamers who built their own systems.
Also I already posted it to his topic on his PC overheating.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews apropos timing on that article
Not really as the Liquid cooling discussed in the article is focused on Liquid cooling (immersion) in the datacenter and just gives thanks to gamers who built their own systems.
Also I already posted it to his topic on his PC overheating.
Did you read the entire article? It was certianly not focused on immersion.
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Alexa, give me nostalgia: Choose Your Own Adventure skill debuts from Audible
Two titles are available so far, but more will come.
Founded in 2003 by R.A. Montgomery and Shannon Gilligan, ChooseCo has printed new editions of Choose Your Own Adventure books over the years. In the new Alexa skill, the story will be read to you, and then Alexa will beep whenever a choice that branches the narrative comes up. You just speak the choice to proceed.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Alexa, give me nostalgia: Choose Your Own Adventure skill debuts from Audible
Two titles are available so far, but more will come.
Founded in 2003 by R.A. Montgomery and Shannon Gilligan, ChooseCo has printed new editions of Choose Your Own Adventure books over the years. In the new Alexa skill, the story will be read to you, and then Alexa will beep whenever a choice that branches the narrative comes up. You just speak the choice to proceed.
My kids play those and love them. At least one has been around for a while.
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Slack Technologies prepares for flotation
Slack Technologies, a messaging service used by companies across the world, is officially gearing up for a public stock listing.
The firm said it had filed a confidential notice with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
In one of the year's most anticipated flotations, Slack could be seeking a $10bn valuation.
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Ajit Pai loses in court—judges overturn gutting of tribal broadband program
A federal appeals court has overturned Ajit Pai's attempt to take broadband subsidies away from tribal residents.
The Pai-led Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 in November 2017 to make it much harder for tribal residents to obtain a $25-per-month Lifeline subsidy that reduces the cost of Internet or phone service.
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Researchers find working USB drive in seal poop
Defecated drive "downloaded" to New Zealand beach has pictures, video of seals.
As any parent who has sifted through their offspring’s bowel movements in search of something that shouldn’t have been swallowed in the first place can tell you, coins, magnets, and even small plastic toys can survive a voyage through the digestive tract. It turns out that USB thumb drives can as well, at least when the pinniped digestive system is involved.
Researchers in New Zealand are looking for the owner of a USB thumb drive that was discovered in a frozen seal turd—specifically, that of an Antarctic leopard seal. According to the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in New Zealand, volunteers working with an organization devoted to studying leopard seals and educating the public about them collected and froze the seal scat in November 2017.
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Apple pays France €500 million to cover a decade of back taxes
Paris has been urging other EU states to more heavily tax Silicon Valley giants.
Apple has reportedly paid 10 years of back taxes to the French tax authority—around €500 million (over $570 million)—according to L’Express, a business newspaper.
The iPhone maker has been under pressure to pay taxes to European Union countries after it was found to have engaged in legal financial chicanery to drastically mitigate its tax burden.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Apple pays France €500 million to cover a decade of back taxes
Paris has been urging other EU states to more heavily tax Silicon Valley giants.
Apple has reportedly paid 10 years of back taxes to the French tax authority—around €500 million (over $570 million)—according to L’Express, a business newspaper.
The iPhone maker has been under pressure to pay taxes to European Union countries after it was found to have engaged in legal financial chicanery to drastically mitigate its tax burden.
If it's legal, what's the issue? Why does Apple owe?
