Miscellaneous Tech News
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Twitch: Streamers call for a blackout to recognise victims of sexual and racial abuses
#Twitchblackout is trending today as streamers across the world ask people to avoid the site for a day.
They're calling for a blackout because they think the streaming site can do more to recognise victims of sexual and racial abuse. Dozens of women have recently claimed they have been sexually assaulted by people in the gaming industry. Twitch says it takes accusations of sexual harassment seriously. Streamers are arguing Twitch has not acted quickly enough when there have been sexual assault claims made against some of its content creators. Some also think the site has been too lenient when others have been accused of using racist or homophobic language. Encouraging people to stay off the platform for a day could deprive Twitch of viewers and income. -
@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://fedoramagazine.org/protect-your-system-with-fail2ban-and-firewalld-blacklists/
Read that earlier this morning, was good. I didn't know you could use firewalld to block by country. I guess I never noticed that before but that is going to be very helpful!
Read that yesterday when it was posted. That article is lazy. I really need to up my writing game and get active posting stuff.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://fedoramagazine.org/protect-your-system-with-fail2ban-and-firewalld-blacklists/
Read that earlier this morning, was good. I didn't know you could use firewalld to block by country. I guess I never noticed that before but that is going to be very helpful!
A firewall by definition can block by region, because regions are assigned by ranges. It's not accurate, but mostly works.
There are lots of problems with it. The range FiOS uses in Dallas is assigned to Ontario, CA so every IP detection here comes up as Toronto. Few people block Canada, but once in a while it causes issues.
It's rare that you'd get a wildly different region in your IPs for now. Once SpaceX style ISPs are live, all bets are off.
But just be aware it's range blocking, not actually country blocking. It's just that ranges typically have a country association.
Good to know, thanks
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://fedoramagazine.org/protect-your-system-with-fail2ban-and-firewalld-blacklists/
Read that earlier this morning, was good. I didn't know you could use firewalld to block by country. I guess I never noticed that before but that is going to be very helpful!
Read that yesterday when it was posted. That article is lazy. I really need to up my writing game and get active posting stuff.
I love hearing different viewpoints on information so I'll read it
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Google to pay for 'high quality' news in three countries
Google says it will pay some news outlets for "high-quality" stories that it uses amid pressure from publishers.
Part of the initiative will require Google to pay for its users to access news stories otherwise locked behind a so-called paywall on certain websites. The first sites to join are in Australia, Brazil, and Germany, with a product launch set for later this year. It comes as authorities in some countries investigate how tech firms use news content without paying for it. Australia has put forward plans to force Google and Facebook to pay news publishers under competition rules. France has already issued Google with an order to do so. It is the latest development in a long-standing row with news publishers over whether tech giants should pay them to include "snippets" of news articles in search results or on social media. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Google to pay for 'high quality' news in three countries
Google says it will pay some news outlets for "high-quality" stories that it uses amid pressure from publishers.
Part of the initiative will require Google to pay for its users to access news stories otherwise locked behind a so-called paywall on certain websites. The first sites to join are in Australia, Brazil, and Germany, with a product launch set for later this year. It comes as authorities in some countries investigate how tech firms use news content without paying for it. Australia has put forward plans to force Google and Facebook to pay news publishers under competition rules. France has already issued Google with an order to do so. It is the latest development in a long-standing row with news publishers over whether tech giants should pay them to include "snippets" of news articles in search results or on social media.So the question is - will Google choose to just stop with snippets to those news sites like they did in the past.
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Northern Ireland to launch separate contact-tracing app
Northern Ireland is planning to release its own coronavirus contact-tracing app within weeks, the BBC has learned.
It follows the failure of the NHS app in England, which was trialled on the Isle of Wight. The NI app will be based on the Google/Apple model. It is designed to be compatible with an app due to be released soon in the Republic of Ireland. That app is also based on the toolkit provided by Apple and Google. The Apple and Google model is more privacy-focused, but provides less data to epidemiologists than the centralised version that England was trialling. "The Health Minister has commissioned work to develop a proximity app, based on the de-centralised Google/ Apple model, for use in Northern Ireland," said the Northern Ireland Department of Health in a statement. "This work includes examining the interoperability of apps and the sharing of information across the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic," it said. -
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-kills-one-of-its-best-windows-10-update-looph-1844180993
That's a good thing.
If we can test and keep many thousands of Windows PCs in many countries around the world that use many diverse apps current and updated, then I know anyone can. There's no excuse.
If you want to run a PC out of date for years just install Linux.
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
If you want to run a PC out of date for years just install Linux.
You mean distros like CentOS, Ubuntu LTS? Just saying Linux makes it sound like you are saying Linux in general.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
If you want to run a PC out of date for years just install Linux.
You mean distros like CentOS, Ubuntu LTS? Just saying Linux makes it sound like you are saying Linux in general.
Yes, Linux in general. It will never update on its own unless you tell it to. You can choose to never update. With windows and Mac, and Android I think, you are pretty much forced to stay mostly current.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Grey said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
From the company that brought you "data loss" and "holy shit this screwed me" moments....
When is the last time you used it?
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
If you want to run a PC out of date for years just install Linux.
You mean distros like CentOS, Ubuntu LTS? Just saying Linux makes it sound like you are saying Linux in general.
Yes, Linux in general. It will never update on its own unless you tell it to. You can choose to never update. With windows and Mac, and Android I think, you are pretty much forced to stay mostly current.
Thats determined by distro and has no connection to Linux one way or the other.
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@VoIP_n00b said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Grey said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
From the company that brought you "data loss" and "holy shit this screwed me" moments....
When is the last time you used it?
I have no reason to run unsafe valueless hobby systems. I get to use it when I am brought in to save foolish companies who thought they could skip having IT skills or enterprise vendors for storage.
You are implying by this question that a fundamentally bad and unsafe idea and process without value has to be constantly tried to be understood- but that is not the case.
You dont have to stub your toe on each new piece of furniture once you understand that stubbing it itself hurts.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
You dont have to stub your toe on each new piece of furniture once you understand that stubbing it itself hurts.
But stubbing your toe on different pieces of furniture would certainly teach you to watch where you are walking.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
You dont have to stub your toe on each new piece of furniture once you understand that stubbing it itself hurts.
But stubbing your toe on different pieces of furniture would certainly teach you to watch where you are walking.
That's my point, once you know how stubbing your toe works, you don't need to keep testing as you learn not to do it. FreeNas is like that. Once you know the pattern, you don't need to keep testing it since you already know the pattern isn't good.
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
If you want to run a PC out of date for years just install Linux.
You mean distros like CentOS, Ubuntu LTS? Just saying Linux makes it sound like you are saying Linux in general.
Yes, Linux in general. It will never update on its own unless you tell it to. You can choose to never update. With windows and Mac, and Android I think, you are pretty much forced to stay mostly current.
Yeah - forcing is a good thing, no matter what people say - without forcing, 90% would never upgrade/update - leaving the internet a hugely vulnerable place...
Wait wait wait - /sigh - it's still a hugely vulnerable place
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Could a boycott kill Facebook?
Boycotts can be extremely effective - as Facebook is finding out.
In the late 18th century, the abolitionist movement encouraged British people to stay away from goods produced by slaves. It worked. Around 300,000 stopped buying sugar - increasing the pressure to abolish slavery. The Stop Hate for Profit campaign is the latest movement to use boycott as a political tool. It claims that Facebook doesn't do enough to remove racist and hateful content from its platform. It's convinced a series of major companies - including Coca-Cola, Unilever and Starbucks - to pull advertising from Facebook and some other social media companies. Meanwhile, other online platforms, including Reddit and Twitch, have piled on more pressure by taking anti-hate steps of their own. -
Huawei: Ministers signal switch in policy over 5G policy
The government has signalled it is set to take a tougher line against Chinese telecoms equipment-maker Huawei.
A review is under way into how forthcoming US sanctions would affect the UK's continued use of its products. "Given that these sanctions... are extensive, it is likely to have an impact on the viability of Huawei as a provider for the 5G network," said Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden. He added he wanted Samsung and NEC to become 5G network kit providers. They would help make the UK's mobile networks become less dependent on the other two suppliers: Ericsson and Nokia. Mr Dowden said the current situation represented a "market failure". Defence Secretary Ben Wallace added that the sanctions - which are set to come into effect in September - had specifically been designed to force the UK into a rethink. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Could a boycott kill Facebook?
Boycotts can be extremely effective - as Facebook is finding out.
In the late 18th century, the abolitionist movement encouraged British people to stay away from goods produced by slaves. It worked. Around 300,000 stopped buying sugar - increasing the pressure to abolish slavery. The Stop Hate for Profit campaign is the latest movement to use boycott as a political tool. It claims that Facebook doesn't do enough to remove racist and hateful content from its platform. It's convinced a series of major companies - including Coca-Cola, Unilever and Starbucks - to pull advertising from Facebook and some other social media companies. Meanwhile, other online platforms, including Reddit and Twitch, have piled on more pressure by taking anti-hate steps of their own.I hope this kills facebook, or draws it back to a shell of it's former self.
