Miscellaneous Tech News
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 That's triple facepalm material right there.
It's so bad. I just finished the article, and X was communicating with a Lawyer for SEDC who made claims that storing and sending plaintext passwords was not a PCI compliance issue.
Over 180 days of back and forth according to the article, with the lawyer (Mr Cole) claiming everything X was stating was not a compliance or security issue.
sadly - it probably isn't.
That is very likely the truth. PCI compliance has so many weird and stupid things that are requirements and other things that are perfectly fine on paper and abhorrent in reality.
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Lenovo introduces the ThinkVision M14—a 14-inch, portable, USB-C monitor
The company brought new laptops to MWC, but they're mostly spec bumps.
Labeled the ThinkVision M14, it's a 14-inch monitor with an IPS panel. The resolution is 1920x1080 pixels, which is plenty for 14 inches. It's built with modern laptop trends in mind, so it connects to your computer with USB-C. In fact, it has two USB-C ports, and both can be used for passthrough, provided you connect the monitor to an AC adapter. You can power the monitor from your laptop, but that doesn't seem like enough for passthrough, and Lenovo hasn't specified just how much power it needs from said laptop.
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Apple Watch may finally gain sleep-tracking abilities in 2020
And that may mean big gains in battery life to support the feature.
Apple is reportedly working on bringing a feature to the Apple Watch that has been noticeably absent since the wearable's inception: sleep tracking. According to a report by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, "people familiar with the work" claim the iPhone maker has been testing a native sleep-tracking feature for its smartwatch over the past several months. Apple reportedly plans to introduce the feature by 2020, likely in a new model of the Apple Watch.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Lenovo introduces the ThinkVision M14—a 14-inch, portable, USB-C monitor
The company brought new laptops to MWC, but they're mostly spec bumps.
Labeled the ThinkVision M14, it's a 14-inch monitor with an IPS panel. The resolution is 1920x1080 pixels, which is plenty for 14 inches. It's built with modern laptop trends in mind, so it connects to your computer with USB-C. In fact, it has two USB-C ports, and both can be used for passthrough, provided you connect the monitor to an AC adapter. You can power the monitor from your laptop, but that doesn't seem like enough for passthrough, and Lenovo hasn't specified just how much power it needs from said laptop.
With all their other issues, I wouldn't trust even a monitor from Lenovo.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Apple Watch may finally gain sleep-tracking abilities in 2020
And that may mean big gains in battery life to support the feature.
Apple is reportedly working on bringing a feature to the Apple Watch that has been noticeably absent since the wearable's inception: sleep tracking. According to a report by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, "people familiar with the work" claim the iPhone maker has been testing a native sleep-tracking feature for its smartwatch over the past several months. Apple reportedly plans to introduce the feature by 2020, likely in a new model of the Apple Watch.
They are going all Microsoft on us, getting stuff years and years behind.
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Oppo’s foldable smartphone is another futuristic wraparound display device
Oppo's foldable features an interesting looking "bike chain" hinge design.
Mobile World Congress is happening this week, and so far it has definitely been the foldable smartphone show. Samsung and Huawei have so far wowed the world with their folding smartphone demos, offering a tantalizing future in which a smartphone can open up into a tablet. Next up in the foldable smartphone wars is Oppo, with the company's vice president, Brian Shen, showing off this unnamed prototype foldable on Weibo, a Chinese social media site.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Apple Watch may finally gain sleep-tracking abilities in 2020
And that may mean big gains in battery life to support the feature.
Apple is reportedly working on bringing a feature to the Apple Watch that has been noticeably absent since the wearable's inception: sleep tracking. According to a report by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, "people familiar with the work" claim the iPhone maker has been testing a native sleep-tracking feature for its smartwatch over the past several months. Apple reportedly plans to introduce the feature by 2020, likely in a new model of the Apple Watch.
They are going all Microsoft on us, getting stuff years and years behind.
Apple is usually not first to market. They let 3rd party stuff go first and potentially fail. and then roll out their version.
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Energizer’s brick of a smartphone uses “world’s most powerful” phone battery
18mm-thick smartphone goes just a bit overboard in the quest for more battery.
Mobile World Congress has been home to some truly unique smartphone designs this year, and one of the strangest has to be the Energizer PowerMax P18K Pop, an attention-grabbing brick of a smartphone with an 18,000mAh battery.
I know what you're going to ask: "Wait, Energizer makes phones?" Yes, this is something like the 45th announced Energizer phone. Energizer Holdings licenses its brand to Avenir Telecom for mobile phones, and this French company has been using the brand to pump out generic-looking feature phones and smartphones since 2016.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-30-Slick-Boot-Ready
Oh yeah, Fedora 30 is coming up soon. Hard to believe. Where does the time go?
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-30-Eyeing-DNF-Best
I like that.
Aren't you worried about dependency breakages especially when using dnf automatic?
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Or would this be more of an issue with 3rd party repos?
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-30-Eyeing-DNF-Best
I like that.
Aren't you worried about dependency breakages especially when using dnf automatic?
I can always turn it off, but I like it as a default.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-30-Firefox-Wayland-Tent
This new change is for those GNOME 3 users who are running on the GNOME Shell Wayland session.
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Google turbo-charging the back button with Chrome’s new “back/forward cache”
Company claims that 19% of pages on mobile Chrome come from hitting back.
Chrome already caches the files that make up a page, so revisiting a page in most circumstances shouldn't force the browser to retrieve the images, JavaScripts, and CSS that are used to build the page. But currently, the browser has to re-parse the HTML and re-build the page's programmatic representation, uncompress the images, re-execute all the JavaScript, reapply all the stylesheets, and so on. It's just the networking step that gets skipped.
