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black3dynamite

Wyze April Newsletter in my email today.

RSTP
https://support.wyzecam.com/hc/en-us/articles/360026245231-Wyze-Cam-RTSP

Two-Factor Authentication
https://support.wyzecam.com/hc/en-us/articles/360026994652-Two-Factor-Authentication

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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Wyze April Newsletter in my email today.

[Microsoft 3Q19 revenue up 14% on the back of strong cloud and, uh, Windows?](

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/microsoft-3q19-revenue-up-14-on-the-back-of-strong-cloud-and-uh-windows/)
The PC market declined, but the Windows market did not.
In the third quarter of its 2019 financial year, which ran up until March 31, 2019, Microsoft's revenue was $30.6 billion, up 14 percent year on year.

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Microsoft Adding SharePoint News Enhancements This Month

Microsoft described coming additions to its News pages in SharePoint Online that will be arriving this month or the next.

News pages and SharePoint Online pages will be getting the option to target various audiences via an "Audience Targeting" toggle switch that's coming to Office 365 tenancies via a "late April" update.

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Microsoft Teams PowerShell Module Now Commercially Available

Microsoft announced on Wednesday that the Microsoft Teams PowerShell Module reached the "general availability" release stage.
The Microsoft Teams PowerShell Module lets IT pros do things like provision a new team or convert an existing group to a team.

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Adobe Illustrator’s latest experimental feature lets you emulate your mood boards

Capture the colors on your mood board
Sign back into your Pinterest and grab those mood boards, because they’re about to come in handy.

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Microsoft is now a $1 trillion company

Strong earnings push Microsoft toward a new milestone
Microsoft has become the third US company to pass a market cap of $1 trillion.

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Scientific Linux Will Be Discontinued After 14 Years as Fermilab Moves to CentOS

Fermilab, the makers of the Scientific Linux distribution based on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system recently announced that they will no longer develop it.

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Why Linux stands out amongst other OSes

Up until recently, Elementary OS was my platform of choice. It's an elegant, simple, and user-friendly solution for the desktop.
One thing that the Elementary developers do that I believe is fairly wise is to not allow upgrades from one major release to another.

Danp

https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2019/04/25/citrix-hypervisor-8-0-is-here/

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Linux Distributions Should Enhance how Sudo Asks for Passwords

sudo is probably the most famous command in the Linux world. It allows ordinary users to run other commands or programs using the superuser privileges, but it doesn't show you the password while you are typing it.
This behavior should change by default.

scottalanmiller

@Danp said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2019/04/25/citrix-hypervisor-8-0-is-here/

This statement leading the article pretty much sums up Citrix to me: "I’ll let you in on a secret. Despite all my years working for Citrix, I never learned how to pronounce “Xen” correctly — even after quite a few brave colleagues tried to get me to say “szen” and not “ksen.”"

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New iPad feature to compete with laptops could come in Apple's iOS 13

Commentary: When Apple unveils the next iOS at WWDC 2019 in June, it could integrate one of the trademarks of the original MAC
The debate over whether an Apple iPad can replace a laptop remains polarized. But with the launch of the next iteration of iOS, Apple could finally remove one of the longest-running arguments against the iPad as a productivity device.

DustinB3403

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@Danp said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2019/04/25/citrix-hypervisor-8-0-is-here/

This statement leading the article pretty much sums up Citrix to me: "I’ll let you in on a secret. Despite all my years working for Citrix, I never learned how to pronounce “Xen” correctly — even after quite a few brave colleagues tried to get me to say “szen” and not “ksen.”"

A complete rebrand of the product, is anyone surprised?

Danp

@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

A complete rebrand of the product, is anyone surprised?

How could you be when they announced this like last year? :smirking_face:

bnrstnr

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@Danp said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2019/04/25/citrix-hypervisor-8-0-is-here/

This statement leading the article pretty much sums up Citrix to me: "I’ll let you in on a secret. Despite all my years working for Citrix, I never learned how to pronounce “Xen” correctly — even after quite a few brave colleagues tried to get me to say “szen” and not “ksen.”"

I can't figure out how to say either "szen" or "ksen"... I say "zen" like a zen garden... from wiki: pronounced /ˈzɛn/

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Tesla’s autonomy event: Impressive progress with an unrealistic timeline

An old software joke explains Elon Musk's implausible autonomy timeline.
There's an old joke in the software engineering world, sometimes attributed to Tom Cargill of Bell Labs: "the first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time.

scottalanmiller

@Danp said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

A complete rebrand of the product, is anyone surprised?

How could you be when they announced this like last year? :smirking_face:

That does make it hard.

scottalanmiller

@bnrstnr said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@Danp said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2019/04/25/citrix-hypervisor-8-0-is-here/

This statement leading the article pretty much sums up Citrix to me: "I’ll let you in on a secret. Despite all my years working for Citrix, I never learned how to pronounce “Xen” correctly — even after quite a few brave colleagues tried to get me to say “szen” and not “ksen.”"

I can't figure out how to say either "szen" or "ksen"... I say "zen" like a zen garden... from wiki: pronounced /ˈzɛn/

zen is the correct pronunciation.

ksen would be like tsar but with a k instead of a t.

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Facebook broke Canadian privacy law, according to regulators

‘Their privacy framework was empty,’ the report said
Privacy regulators in Canada have determined that Facebook broke local privacy laws by mishandling user data.

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Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL are $200 off

This deal ends just before Google I/O begins
You can save $200 on Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL phones at the Google Store until 11:59PM PT on May 6th.