Miscellaneous Tech News
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company to bid for Chicago airport link project
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@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://nypost.com/2017/11/28/this-smart-condom-is-like-a-fitbit-for-sex/
A British firm has released the first photos of its Fitbit-style condom that measures a man’s performance in bed.
The high-tech jimmy jacket — which looks like a small rubber bracelet — logs data during sex and sends it to the user’s smartphone, according to the creators of the i.Con Smart Condom, which released images of it Tuesday.
The reusable, one-size-fits-all band measures the number of calories burned during sex, the speed of a man’s thrusts and how long he lasts, lead engineer Adam Levers told the UK Metro.
LOL, the next stat added to those dating sites
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@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://nypost.com/2017/11/28/this-smart-condom-is-like-a-fitbit-for-sex/
A British firm has released the first photos of its Fitbit-style condom that measures a man’s performance in bed.
The high-tech jimmy jacket — which looks like a small rubber bracelet — logs data during sex and sends it to the user’s smartphone, according to the creators of the i.Con Smart Condom, which released images of it Tuesday.
The reusable, one-size-fits-all band measures the number of calories burned during sex, the speed of a man’s thrusts and how long he lasts, lead engineer Adam Levers told the UK Metro.
LOL, the next stat added to those dating sites
New features include cloud upload to your favorite dating site(s).
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Nest gets folded into the Google Hardware team
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/report-nest-might-be-folded-into-googles-hardware-team/Hopefully they can fix the security issues, but seems doubtful.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Even better would be either minimized or a background task that only shows up in a list of running applications. I doubt it'll take people long to do it, seems like it should be a well known thing to do for drivers and such.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
No surprise since they are an Android app platform now too.
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@nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Nest gets folded into the Google Hardware team
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/report-nest-might-be-folded-into-googles-hardware-team/Hopefully they can fix the security issues, but seems doubtful.
Yeah, I'd need to see some serious independent security reviews (not paid for by Google) before I'd even consider their shit in my house!
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Closed source Apple APFS drive coming to Linux near you.
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PHP 7.2 released. Reports are that performance improvements can be seen over PHP 7.0 and 7.1.
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Reiser4 keeps moving forward, slowly. New compression added in Linux 4.14.
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Also in LibreOffice news, LO Calc is getting threading support.
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Just got an email. StartCom is done at the beginning of 2018.
As you are surely aware, the browser makers distrusted StartCom around a year ago and therefore all the end entity certificates newly issued by StartCom are not trusted by default in browsers.
The browsers imposed some conditions in order for the certificates to be re-accepted. While StartCom believes that these conditions have been met, it appears there are still certain difficulties forthcoming. Considering this situation, the owners of StartCom have decided to terminate the company as a Certification Authority as mentioned in Startcom´s website.
StartCom will stop issuing new certificates starting from January 1st, 2018 and will provide only CRL and OCSP services for two more years.
StartCom would like to thank you for your support during this difficult time.
StartCom is contacting some other CAs to provide you with the certificates needed. In case you don´t want us to provide you an alternative, please, contact us at [email protected]
Please let us know if you need any further assistance with the transition process. We deeply apologize for any inconveniences that this may cause.
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@stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Just got an email. StartCom is done at the beginning of 2018.
As you are surely aware, the browser makers distrusted StartCom around a year ago and therefore all the end entity certificates newly issued by StartCom are not trusted by default in browsers.
The browsers imposed some conditions in order for the certificates to be re-accepted. While StartCom believes that these conditions have been met, it appears there are still certain difficulties forthcoming. Considering this situation, the owners of StartCom have decided to terminate the company as a Certification Authority as mentioned in Startcom´s website.
StartCom will stop issuing new certificates starting from January 1st, 2018 and will provide only CRL and OCSP services for two more years.
StartCom would like to thank you for your support during this difficult time.
StartCom is contacting some other CAs to provide you with the certificates needed. In case you don´t want us to provide you an alternative, please, contact us at [email protected]
Please let us know if you need any further assistance with the transition process. We deeply apologize for any inconveniences that this may cause.
Couldn't happen to a better set of folks. Now if only they'd check the rest of them in the crazy list!
