Leaderboard

Popular Content

Showing content with the highest reputation on 24/04/20 in Posts

  1. Amazing to see the same people raging about the WHO not taking the COVID-19 seriously enough are the same people protesting state lockdowns, they truly are morons.
    6 points
  2. World Health Organization sees fivefold increase in cyber attacks

    Sad to see that one person drops the ball and blames an organization that can only react when given proper access and permissions takes the blame, because Trump was perfect on his response and actually listened when they were warning him in January. But his supports will soon say that that is all a lie and that the WHO completely hid data and lied because Faux news says so. Just remember, murica first (In infected, dead, and stupidity) while other countries who listened to them and followed guidelines have either beat the curve or have been able to start to take control again.
    5 points
  3. Well, one can wonder why that... :rolleyes:
    5 points
  4. 2FA (at least SMS) should be mandatory these days
    4 points
  5. World Health Organization sees fivefold increase in cyber attacks

    Except multiple countries have called out the WHO. Jan. 14th, we were getting this nonsense: https://twitter.com/who/status/1217043229427761152" rel="external nofollow">https://twitter.com/who/status/1217043229427761152 Or seeing news outlets post things like: "The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the rapidly spreading coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, acknowledging what has seemed clear for some time — the virus will likely spread to all countries on the globe." https://www.statnews.com/2020/...virus-outbreak-a-pandemic/" rel="external nofollow">https://www.statnews.com/2020/...avirus-outbreak-a-pandemic/ Call out Trump all you like, but this isn't about him. Yet, somehow I have to sit and listen to people talk about how I'm "deflecting" as if I give two craps what Trump thinks. I'm not the idiot trying to listen to him, and fact of the matter is, neither should the rest of the world. I say all this because even if you take Trump out of the equation, you STILL have bad/slow info coming from the WHO. None of that is good. It's not a contest of abilities, but rather the simple lack thereof. If you're over here drawing a T-chart to compare the two though, chances are we're already doomed. So attack the organization that can only go off of numbers and data freely provided as they have no legal or universal rights to force anyone to actually tell the truth. you can be mad a China for lying and covering up the initial outbreak, but even if the WHO acted slow, they still acted faster than most governments including our own inept government no matter how you look at it. Every country had working tests before the us provided by knowledge gathered by the WHO, but let’s burn them because the American government was to stupid and bullheaded to think that we would be infected and can make our own test. So are you going to hold our government liable for their mistakes as well, or just pass the blame as they have still done a lot more than we have contributed.
    4 points
  6. World Health Organization sees fivefold increase in cyber attacks

    Chinese WHO btfo
    4 points
  7. At Jester: the key point is the WHO did NOT emphasize masks, social distancing, restricted travel, or confirm human-to-human transmission until FEBRUARY. Their 'everything in China is under control' attitude led many world leaders, including those with the greatest suffering, to believe it was just another 'flu'. Their initial figures (based on China's very transparent reporting) said mortality rate was 2%... after the Chinese returned to Europe and the USA after Lunar New Year, the real data started to surface and the WHO upped it's mortality rate to over 4%. And guess what, just 2 weeks ago, China revised their death toll by 50%... Yes. The WHO is doing a fantastic job. s\
    3 points
  8. Except multiple countries have called out the WHO. Jan. 14th, we were getting this nonsense: https://twitter.com/who/status/1217043229427761152 Or seeing news outlets post things like: "The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the rapidly spreading coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, acknowledging what has seemed clear for some time — the virus will likely spread to all countries on the globe." https://www.statnews.com/2020/...avirus-outbreak-a-pandemic/ Call out Trump all you like, but this isn't about him. Yet, somehow I have to sit and listen to people talk about how I'm "deflecting" as if I give two craps what Trump thinks. I'm not the idiot trying to listen to him, and fact of the matter is, neither should the rest of the world. I say all this because even if you take Trump out of the equation, you STILL have bad/slow info coming from the WHO. None of that is good. It's not a contest of abilities, but rather the simple lack thereof. If you're over here drawing a T-chart to compare the two though, chances are we're already doomed.
    3 points
  9. NHS says its contact tracing app will be transparent

    Privacy had gone bye bye a while ago.
    2 points
  10. 2FA via SMS isn't secure, 2FA via an authenticator app is the best way to go. ::rolls eyes:: It's totally fine for most users and general hacking efforts. The weakness of SMS requires a very targeted attack and isn't the kind of thing going on in articles like this. To flat out call it "insecure" is like calling a housekey insecure because someone could copy it. I realize a bunch of articles went around some time ago about how SMS wasn't a good form of 2FA and a bunch of armchair experts internalized that and now scoff at the mere mention of it, but it's still better than no 2FA at all.
    2 points
  11. Really good idea!
    2 points
  12. Idiot conspiracy theories? ;-)
    2 points
  13. Since when do CEOs deserve massive bonuses while the company they are running needs a taxpayer bail-out to be able to continue operating? And airlines want you to feel sorry for them?? Not me.
    2 points
  14. Before screaming at Richard Branson, people should probably first check who ACTUALLY owns Virgin Atlantic... https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelgoldstein/2019/07/05/richard-branson-and-virgin-atlantic-airways-the-next-35-years/#3f977ff17770 Not that I'm calling him an angel, I'm not, but seeing as he only owns a 20% stake in his airline, perhaps folks should be demanding the other LARGER stakeholders should sacrifice their personal holdings before getting a bailout, too?
    2 points
  15. Agreed. It was a colossal disappointment.
    2 points
  16. Macs with chips based on the Apple A14 could arrive next year

    x86 chips are claiscally CISC whereas ARM is RISC. So whilst in ARM chips you have a very small instruction set and let's say you want to do some encryption on some data, you would call many, many instructions to do that, intel CISC chips could have a single function for that... However, under the hood, x86 chips are RISC, when a CISC command is ran it runs all the RISC commands to run that function internally. The things that greatly improve processor performance are caching, pipelining and (branch) prediction, when SPECTRE hit you may remember there were claims that it impacted performance, and it did, if you had a newer CPU it wasn't terrible but it had an impact, but if you had one of the older i7 CPUs you could expect your performance to halve because branch prediction was disabled. You're still not going to get an ARM chip to beat an x86 chip at this time, maybe one day. A couple of things to look for with ARM and Apple. ARM used to be more of a RISC purist design, around ARMv8 this changed with a lot of CISC code and modules being added to the design. This was the x64 change as well, but the performance leap came from the capitulation to taking advantage of CiSC as needed. Using the new module design in ARMv8, full x86 or x64 could be added to an ARM SoC. This was planned to happen until Intel started threatening x86 lawsuits. People at the time thought there threats were at Microsoft because of the upcoming WOA emulation of x86, but it was a direct threat to ARM SoC makers to not try to shove some unlicensed variation of x86 emulation into the ARM silicon (hardware). This is still possible with ARM assuming there is a way around the 'hardware' licensing of x86. However, more importantly, with Apple, they may be able to side step Intel with a licensing deal of AMD64 with AMD. The tricky part of this, is that AMD64 is based off of x86 and although untested in court may be subject to Intel licensing. Also, being Apple, they could just throw in a full x64 module in their ARM processors for compatibility, and fight Intel in courts for a licensing deal. Which they have done several times with technology, and have the money to do so now more than ever. As you stated, a current ARM SoC isn't going to compete with Intel or AMD in general computing yet. ARM can show impressive numbers, but these are specialized applications. A comparison for others reading, an NVidia 2080 GPU also cannot compete with a CISC ARM/Intel CPU for general computing, even with a ton of processing power. There are some exceptions to the CISC/RISC, and one of them is the kernel design of NT, and one reason it is very different from other kernel designs. WOA uses an agnostic scheduler technology that was updated and built on with the Vista GPU technologies. This allows Windows to throw RISC GPU calls through a CPU easily by packaging them, and vise versa, taking CISC calls and throwing them through the GPU - one simple example is CPU codecs in Windows often are packaged to run on the GPU reducing the CPU as GPUs and RISC are very good at codec work. I wouldn't be surprised to see Apple come out with either an ARM SoC with x64 or some x64 to help the emulation of current software. It is also telling that Apple has done virtually nothing with their ARM CPUs for several years now, meaning the changes will be big if they can pull it off.
    2 points
  17. Microsoft Surface Earbuds could finally launch on May 6

    But it is very similar to Apple sticking an "i" in front of their products.
    2 points
  18. Add this to the list of satisfying permission changes they've made in the last couple years. I was happy just to see Android give me the option to limit some permissions to only be in effect while the app is in the foreground. Disabling background permissions is great for apps that shouldn't need them in the first place. For apps I give background permissions to, this is a nice extra in case I get lazy or lose track of the app and it pulls something like that ES File Explorer crap a couple years back.
    1 point
  19. A new notification bug can cause Apple devices to crash

    What are the actual characters? Notifications are hard.
    1 point
  20. Android 11 will automatically revoke permissions from unused apps

    I like the idea of this, specially if you can set the time period.
    1 point
  21. Heart issues

    Ok!
    1 point
  22. Heart issues

    TBF also read the spoiler in his post.
    1 point
  23. It was just added to Switch accounts and most likely, people haven't enabled it yet and isn't supported on the older systems. Definitely agree though, but Nintendo is obviously still catching up.
    1 point
  24. Heart issues

    I'm almost positive that someone purchased a service for bots to join and post topics like this, to garner and generate discussion... only for the fact that anytime I mention it, it's deleted by a staff member.
    1 point
  25. Heart issues

    A slight break from those "can you identify this bug bite" posts. It is weird...
    1 point
  26. I trust the dev's at OnePlus to resolve this issue if the problem is the result of software. What I am a bit puzzled about, OnePlus sends these devices out early to Youtube vloggers weeks ahead of the release of the device to the public. Why didn't this show up then?
    1 point
  27. Macs with chips based on the Apple A14 could arrive next year

    The other reason why you might not be seeing things like that is when they transitioned from PPC to x86, they mastered how to release a FAT binary that supported both architectures.
    1 point
  28. try and inform yourself. the WHO helped china spread the virus. they also know the information they were giving the world was designed to let the virus spread. How can an organisation encourage the world to allow travel from china and out of china when even the chinese blocked wuhan from accessing other parts of china but allow same wuhan resident to leave to other parts of the world.
    1 point
  29. Macs with chips based on the Apple A14 could arrive next year

    Ahem. Take a look at the iPhones and iPads running on the said ARM chips. The fact that Android doesn't bother with their support doesn't mean that everyone does, the 5 years lifecycle on Apple devices is still standing and not that iPhone 8 runs impossibly slow given the time gap. Ahem .. ahem .. ahem ... someone so soon forgot about the "slowing down of iPhones" ... God knows for how long had than been happening ... Second, you are still looking at one application at a time product and comparing it with the performance of a laptop that doesn't limit you on how many apps you have open concurrently. So, ARM has yet to prove its strength in that scenario. Ahem x4, please refresh your memory and recall that it was done for the battery life sake and they sent a patch to turn it off on demand. One application at a time? I usually run 3-4 on my iPad (which is not even a Pro) simultaneously and sometimes in split-screen as well without any issues, not counting the background operations like messengers and mail. In most cases, that alone will suffice for a majority of users. The gaming will suffer but a rare person buys a Mac for gaming.
    1 point
  30. It boggles the mind there is no glass option in Windows when they achieved it with Vista 13 years ago, but I believe the official explanation was about technical limitations and hardware manufacturers (and consumers) not being happy about it not working on all hardware. Well, these same brainiacs turned off the F8 functionality by default so nothing surprises me. that just made it so you had to hold left shift and hit restart to bring that same menu up The whole point of safe mode, is because Windows is haivng problems booting normally. and i think after a consecutive time of failed boot attempts safe mode automatically comes up =] No it doesn't, it boots to recovery in which you then have to tell it to boot to safemode. I've seem many times when the damn button isn't even there. yeah as it gives you more options to fix rather than just safe mode which half the time does nothing anyway
    1 point
  31. World Health Organization sees fivefold increase in cyber attacks

    Billions of dollars well spent.
    1 point
  32. Shoot, for most of the stuff I use my smartphone for, phone, texting, web, camera, watching a video now and then, from about android jelly bean, they've been "good enough" for me
    1 point
  33. How to connect to NAS?

    Well it does have gig, so lets hope its not too slow... Gig you should be able to get 100-113MBps But even if could do half of that, it could still be storage for your media.. Glad you got in!
    1 point
  34. yeah, but if you're stuck with AWS then .. beggars can't be choosers, you're happy with what you got. Actually, you're free to combine Cloud Platforms as you please. There *are* services that get you into a complete lockdown such as databases provided like Firebase (GCP - Google Cloud), DynamoDB (AWS). But you're free to combine them as you please. You may have latency issues and it may get tricky when you're inside VPNs, but you can connect with them. Yeah, I know that technically everything is possible, but you can be "stuck" in more than one way. For example it's been decided that we use AWS and that's it. Yes, there are companies like this out there.
    1 point
  35. How to connect to NAS?

    Well connect to the nas with an IP in its network, and then change it to use an IP on your network... Or set the nas to be dhcp, so it will pull and address and info from your router. If you know the routers IP 192.168.0.x, set your computer static IP to say 192.168.0.1... Then do a ping sweep of the 192.168.0/24 network - ping 192.168.0.255, should hopefully return an IP and then you can connect to the nas with that IP and change it. Or quite often they make software to do this for your specific nas.. Do you have a model number of the nas? If you know its specific IP.. you wouldn't need to do the ping sweep. Many of these nas have a way to reset them as well, then it should come up with a default IP you can use, or come up dhcp.
    1 point
  36. Microsoft Edge 81.0.416.64 (offline installer)

    v81.0.416.64 is out.
    1 point
  37. Macs with chips based on the Apple A14 could arrive next year

    In 2011, Apples ARM chips were no where near close to benchmarking better than regular Intel laptop procs. Not so much the case today. An A13 bests some i5/i3 procs. It's entirely feasible now, assuming they can emulate from the getgo. The powerpc/intel change over was easier for devs, going from intel to arm not so much, unless they've got iOS offerings already out there.
    1 point
  38. Macs with chips based on the Apple A14 could arrive next year

    Intel's consumer market has been suffering along with the rest of consumer PC sales. There server proc offerings however are generally still the ones to beat. They won't be going the way of the dodo anytime soon for that simple reason. Not to mention consumers are trained to look for Intel. They still see AMD as off brand or budget oriented.
    1 point
  39. I guess the mobile OSs have matured and stabilized like desktop OSs now, no massive new features, just a half dozen optimizations and new protocols/hardware support.
    1 point
  40. Macs with chips based on the Apple A14 could arrive next year

    So, we will enter an era where each year a new Mac will be introduced with another *Axx* chip that will make the yesteryear product looks way *slower* in comparison... If anything so far, ARM based products have been proven to be not long-lasting from performance point of view. So, another tech-sector is about to enter disposable category [it already has been with non-upgrade-able components but still now with ARM, a 2-3 year old product may simply be phased-out of updates altogether]
    1 point
  41. Macs with chips based on the Apple A14 could arrive next year

    Will this make Macs cheaper because they don't have to pay an ARM and a leg for Intel chips?
    1 point
  42. They weren't doing this before?!?!
    1 point
  43. If you can/let yourself to get sucked into the world, it's not boring. It's not for everyone; it's pretty slow, it requires you to travel around, but if you can get immersed in it… you'll love it! I love it.
    1 point
  44. Microsoft Surface Earbuds could finally launch on May 6

    I think these look ridiculous, but not as ridiculous as I thought the Apple Airpods looked when they first came out. Maybe it will grow on me.
    1 point
  45. Canonical launches Ubuntu 20.04 LTS ‘Focal Fossa'

    When Unity and the idea of a convergent mobile/desktop OS failed, they just decided to cut costs, and who can blame them? It's just pointless effort at that point, because even when someone innovates and tries to steer the ship like Canonical did, mainstream won't respond, and Linux geeks will criticize them of wanting too much control, and the projects simply spin off into 30 different directions. It's just the nature of the community. It works well enough if you know what you need it for, but we'll never see proper innovation or at least an ironed out desktop experience, it's just the nature of Linux. Actually canonical have themselves to blame entirely, whilst the whole world went full steam with wayland, they believed they were smarter and better than everyone else and created mir, which in all honesty is a pile of steaming ######, and they continued with this absolutely nonsensical path for a long time before dropping it, thus wasting everyone's time and a lot of money. That's not to say all their decisions are bad, their kernel live patching system is apparently pretty good, but a lot of decisions they took make no sense and didn't have the support of anyone except themselves.
    1 point
  46. Falcon 9: StarLink v1.0 Launch 6

    Pretty much perfect. Musk says a private beta starts in ~3 months, and a public beta in ~6 months. The DoD is already running tests during live fire exercises.
    1 point
  47. Stardock announces Curtains, letting you add new styles to Windows 10

    Why are the Close, Maximize and Minimize buttons so separated? Yuck!
    1 point
  48. Traditional PCs do need a radical overhaul - instant on sounds great. Wriggling my mouse and waiting for my PC to slowly spring into life, compared to clicking a button on my smartphone and being ready to go. Having a whirring fan with a couple of apps open on a traditional PC when doing minimal tasks compared to a silent fanless smart phone. Two very different devices, sure. But the experiences really need to converge. I find using a PC increasingly frustrating. Especially for content consumption.
    1 point
  49. Can teachers view your deleted search history on a school chrome book?

    You rang? but yeah, what he said. If you don't want school following you, use your own crap...
    1 point
  50. Mac OS Desktops: 2Q 2020

    1 point