Miscellaneous Tech News
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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.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
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@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.
Does it not fail if the dependencies are not there?
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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?
That's whta the DNF --best option is supposed to avoid. It will install the latest version of the package that it can meet all of the dependencies for.
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@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@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?
That's whta the DNF --best option is supposed to avoid. It will install the latest version of the package that it can meet all of the dependencies for.
Right, it clearly states that in the article.. It simply tells you that there is a newer one that cannot be installed.
By enabling the DNF best mode by default, the user will be alerted to the fact a newer package version is available but it can't satisfy the dependencies. DNF best will "fail early and fail fast" should problems occur so the user can know. Fedora developers are seeking to make this default change in case a package upgrade for a security fix can't be made due to dependency problems, under the current premise it could be silently ignored and the user wouldn't be aware. Additionally, using the DNF best mode will alert developers quickly to problems in upgrade paths.
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Microsoft’s latest security service uses human intelligence, not artificial
Computers are good at processing vast amounts of data, but humans still have their uses.
Microsoft has announced two new cloud services to help administrators detect and manage threats to their systems. The first, Azure Sentinel, is very much in line with other cloud services: it's dependent on machine learning to sift through vast amounts of data to find a signal among all the noise. The second, Microsoft Threat Experts, is a little different: it's powered by humans, not machines.
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USB 3.2 is going to make the current USB branding even worse
People already get the names wrong, so the USB group has doubled down on bad naming.
USB 3.2, which doubles the maximum speed of a USB connection to 20Gb/s, is likely to materialize in systems later this year. In preparation for this, the USB-IF—the industry group that together develops the various USB specifications—has announced the branding and naming that the new revision is going to use, and... it's awful.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I LOVE the new metadata/config backup option. I'll go ahead and take all the credit for posting the feature request
Seriously those, these guys are doing an amazing job.
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I installed xcp-ng a couple months ago and it was very nice if you overlook the constant notifications to "upgrade to pro" on XO. I have a few KVM hosts set up and running with no issues, but the backup feature in xcp-ng (XO) makes it appealing to me. The guest backup is one of the most important things to have IMO and I wish KVM made it easier.
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The real reason that Microsoft is already testing a 2020 Windows release? Azure
Internal platforms have gotten out of sync and need to be realigned.
The core parts of Windows—the kernel, file system, networking stack, hypervisor, security subsystem, and so on—underpin a wide range of Windows variants, including Windows 10, Windows Server 2019, HoloLens, Xbox One, and Azure. According to Foley, Microsoft makes two releases of these core parts each year, in June and December. The various Windows variants build on these dual releases.
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@brandon220 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I installed xcp-ng a couple months ago and it was very nice if you overlook the constant notifications to "upgrade to pro" on XO. I have a few KVM hosts set up and running with no issues, but the backup feature in xcp-ng (XO) makes it appealing to me. The guest backup is one of the most important things to have IMO and I wish KVM made it easier.
Constant notifications on the community version or on the appliance? I barely even notice the little red box. I always leave my XO tab open so I never see the initial welcome message.
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Amazon stops selling Dash buttons
Amazon says it has stopped selling its Dash buttons because shoppers are using other methods to buy products.
The plastic Dash buttons were designed to be stuck around the home and pressed to reorder specific products on Amazon. When the buttons were launched in 2015, Amazon had to reassure the BBC's Dave Lee they were not an April Fool's joke. Amazon said product subscriptions and automatic reordering had since grown in popularity making the buttons unnecessary.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Does it fold in half?! If not I'm not interested! Plebeian technology is rigid, my phone MUST FOLD!
I mean when it unfolds theres a huge crease in the middle...
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@LilAng said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Does it fold in half?! If not I'm not interested! Plebeian technology is rigid, my phone MUST FOLD!
I mean when it unfolds theres a huge crease in the middle...
Is there? I've not seen one close enough yet.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Amazon stops selling Dash buttons
Amazon says it has stopped selling its Dash buttons because shoppers are using other methods to buy products.
The plastic Dash buttons were designed to be stuck around the home and pressed to reorder specific products on Amazon. When the buttons were launched in 2015, Amazon had to reassure the BBC's Dave Lee they were not an April Fool's joke. Amazon said product subscriptions and automatic reordering had since grown in popularity making the buttons unnecessary.
It was a bit of a silly idea.
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@LilAng said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Does it fold in half?! If not I'm not interested! Plebeian technology is rigid, my phone MUST FOLD!
I mean when it unfolds theres a huge crease in the middle...
The Foldable Phones are a great idea, I think -- at least once the prices come down. I definitely wouldn't buy one without seeing how bad that crease is in the middle. If it's not going to affect my ability to see content or use the device, then I might could live with it.
I'm holding out to see if Verizon gets the Galaxy Fold. If not, I may grab the Note 9 since it has the same CPU as the Note 10.
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Foldable is interesting. I wonder if I will love it or find it annoying. Would I prefer smaller, thinner, stronger... or the bigger screen option? Don't know.
