Miscellaneous Tech News
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Numbers speak.
Not desktop use numbers. Those are meaningless as there is no known way to track them. It's all just estimates and absolutely no one knows what they are supposed to mean.
Systems purchased? Systems deployed? Systems used? I don't have any clue what that chart is pretending to show us.
What I do know is that in working on machines all over, we see alternative OSes often enough that while Windows is clearly still the most used, it's amazing how often non-tech people have already tested and deployed Linux. And how there would be no way for anyone to get a stat on that. Which makes me wonder... how do we get charts showing deployment rates when there is no known way to collect that data?
But more importantly, it's about usage. Not deployments. And numbers would speak, if we had some.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Numbers speak.
Not desktop use numbers. Those are meaningless as there is no known way to track them. It's all just estimates and absolutely no one knows what they are supposed to mean.
Systems purchased? Systems deployed? Systems used? I don't have any clue what that chart is pretending to show us.
What I do know is that in working on machines all over, we see alternative OSes often enough that while Windows is clearly still the most used, it's amazing how often non-tech people have already tested and deployed Linux. And how there would be no way for anyone to get a stat on that. Which makes me wonder... how do we get charts showing deployment rates when there is no known way to collect that data?
But more importantly, it's about usage. Not deployments. And numbers would speak, if we had some.
You have a point, actually a pretty big one, but I still 'feel' like the numbers show are largely correct.
As I understand it - most of these types of charts come from places where people visit to download something common, like games.
So guesses are made based on the numbers of machines they see, guestimate the number of desktops in the wild, and extrapolate from there. is it off? likely, so much to really matter? probably not. Even if it's off 10%, which seems highly unlikely, would that change much? It means that Linux based OS's could be what, at 11% assuming it steals 100% of that 10% difference from Windows, leaves them at 70% (using graph above) and Mac still at 16% I think it was... still leaves them in last place.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
New York City schools won't be using Zoom anymore because of security concerns
As far as I know all security issues have been resolved.
now they were still evil for selling user data to FB - so make your choice..
I still don't like the fact that they can tap the calls. again make your own choice -
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
New York City schools won't be using Zoom anymore because of security concerns
As far as I know all security issues have been resolved.
now they were still evil for selling user data to FB - so make your choice..
I still don't like the fact that they can tap the calls. again make your own choiceSo there are two ways to look at it.
The first: "All known issues are believed to have been resolved."
The second: "What caused issues like this to come up in the first place and how has the fundamental approach to security changed?"
When it comes to actual security, we are about #2, not #1. That they resolved the issues they were caught with is important, but doesn't change the actual issue. Now the later issue of leaking passwords looks to have been a mistake, accidents happen. But the bigger issue, of intentionally using their system to get info about customers and sell it and to sell it to a really evil company is so big that in reality, nothing they do short of firing all management that could have known and changing out the board would make them taken seriously from a security perspective. And AFAIK, they've not even addressed the issue.
So really... what have they done to actual fix anything? Really, nothing AFAIK.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I still don't like the fact that they can tap the calls. again make your own choice
That's a necessary evil in any platform with certain features. It's why, if you want extreme security, you give up some features.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I still don't like the fact that they can tap the calls.
Every single actual player in this market can do that. Period.
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State of NJ seeks COBAL programmers
https://qz.com/1832988/covid-19-results-in-new-jersey-desperately-needing-cobol-coders/ -
Coronavirus: Exercise bike firm Peloton stops live classes
Exercise bike company Peloton has cancelled its live classes, days after one of its employees tested positive for coronavirus.
It sells exercise bikes, the cheapest of which costs nearly £2,000, for use with its online classes. Users must purchase a subscription for £39 a month to access both live-streamed and recorded classes. Peloton emailed members to announce it had suspended production in its New York and London studios until 30 April. Until May, members can only access pre-recorded classes. “We had continued to operate both our New York and London Peloton studios in adherence with guidance provided by the local governments and public health authorities in both regions,” Peloton told the BBC. -
@jt1001001 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
State of NJ seeks COBAL programmers
https://qz.com/1832988/covid-19-results-in-new-jersey-desperately-needing-cobol-coders/Because all the existing ones were 90+ years old and died of COVID, I'm assuming.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Coronavirus: Exercise bike firm Peloton stops live classes
Exercise bike company Peloton has cancelled its live classes, days after one of its employees tested positive for coronavirus.
It sells exercise bikes, the cheapest of which costs nearly £2,000, for use with its online classes. Users must purchase a subscription for £39 a month to access both live-streamed and recorded classes. Peloton emailed members to announce it had suspended production in its New York and London studios until 30 April. Until May, members can only access pre-recorded classes. “We had continued to operate both our New York and London Peloton studios in adherence with guidance provided by the local governments and public health authorities in both regions,” Peloton told the BBC.Instead of... streaming the classes from home? WTF.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Coronavirus: Exercise bike firm Peloton stops live classes
Exercise bike company Peloton has cancelled its live classes, days after one of its employees tested positive for coronavirus.
It sells exercise bikes, the cheapest of which costs nearly £2,000, for use with its online classes. Users must purchase a subscription for £39 a month to access both live-streamed and recorded classes. Peloton emailed members to announce it had suspended production in its New York and London studios until 30 April. Until May, members can only access pre-recorded classes. “We had continued to operate both our New York and London Peloton studios in adherence with guidance provided by the local governments and public health authorities in both regions,” Peloton told the BBC.lame!
My gym moved from in person to streamed classes - only one instructor in the building at a time, though really, that's no needed, they could teach from home, and they wipe everything down before they leave.
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Coronavirus: YouTube tightens rules after David Icke 5G interview
YouTube has banned all conspiracy theory videos falsely linking coronavirus symptoms to 5G networks.
The Google-owned service will now delete videos violating the policy. It had previously limited itself to reducing the frequency it recommended them in its Up Next section. The move follows a live-streamed interview with conspiracy theorist David Icke on Monday, in which he had linked the technology to the pandemic. YouTube said the video would be wiped. During the interview, Mr Icke falsely claimed there "is a link between 5G and this health crisis". -
Coronavirus: Covid-19 detecting apps face teething problems
Two leading universities are trying to develop apps that listen to users' coughs and voices to predict whether they are infected with the coronavirus.
But the two projects are taking different approaches to privacy. The Cambridge University effort seeks to keep volunteers anonymous, but says this is currently limiting its work. Meanwhile, a team at Carnegie Mellon University says it is critical that users register themselves, but it has had to temporarily go offline. The two initiatives are independent of one another. Both rely on machine learning, a form of artificial intelligence in which computers analyse large amounts of data to find patterns that can be used to solve problems. -
Coronavirus: UK tech sector begs for help - but does it need it?
The UK's high-growth tech companies say they need help from the government to get through the coronavirus crisis - and at the moment they are not getting it.
That was the message of a letter to the chancellor from 12 leaders of some of the country's best-known tech businesses. They include Babylon, Citymapper, Deliveroo and Improbable.But just hours after the letter arrived at the Treasury, there is confusion about what it intends to achieve and some criticism - even from within the tech sector - of an appeal for government money from firms that may not actually need it. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Coronavirus: UK tech sector begs for help - but does it need it?
The UK's high-growth tech companies say they need help from the government to get through the coronavirus crisis - and at the moment they are not getting it.
That was the message of a letter to the chancellor from 12 leaders of some of the country's best-known tech businesses. They include Babylon, Citymapper, Deliveroo and Improbable.But just hours after the letter arrived at the Treasury, there is confusion about what it intends to achieve and some criticism - even from within the tech sector - of an appeal for government money from firms that may not actually need it.Although that begs another question - when you are bailing out 80% of the businesses, is that really just secretly taxing the other 20%?
Should tech companies be targeted to have their taxes funneled to non-tech businesses? Once they are providing assistance, shouldn't it be universal rather than attempting to discriminate to see who is deemed worthy and who isn't?
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Although that begs another question - when you are bailing out 80% of the businesses, is that really just secretly taxing the other 20%?
And the citizens.
