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  1. US source: North Korean leader in grave danger after surgery

    I think he's okay
    7 points
  2. US source: North Korean leader in grave danger after surgery

    So, Kim Jong-dun? Schrödinger's Kim ... he is both alive and dead.
    3 points
  3. Yes, Human.Online is 100% correct and it's something I probably should've highlighted more specifically in the article -- once the drive is decrypted (entirely done on the thumb drive itself), it works exactly like any regular USB thumb drive and so can be used on any system. All the processing is done on the drive, so there's no drivers to install on any system. I just added clarification to the specifications section to address your question - thanks for the feedback. "The USB drive contains a rechargeable battery. This lets you type in the PIN and unlock the device before connecting the datAshur PRO2 to a USB port on your computer. Since all of the encryption and decryption is done on the thumb drive itself, the datAshur PRO2 can be used on Windows, Mac, and Linux without the need to install any drivers. If the battery dies from lack of use, you can still plug it into a computer and unlock the drive while it's charging."
    3 points
  4. US source: North Korean leader in grave danger after surgery

    I'd pay to see him loose his hand 😄
    3 points
  5. US source: North Korean leader in grave danger after surgery

    A photo leaked showing the surgeons who preformed the surgery on Kim:
    2 points
  6. OnePlus 8 Pro review: A killer flagship

    Seeing photos of beautiful phones placed face down on bricks is the thing of nightmares.
    2 points
  7. That is it then, we are doomed.
    2 points
  8. Creating the problem to sell the solution: MS motto for life.
    2 points
  9. NHS says its contact tracing app will be transparent

    Anyone that believes that, I have some ocean front property in South Dakota for sale.
    2 points
  10. Macs with chips based on the Apple A14 could arrive next year

    LOL... No, but keep wishing for lower prices.
    2 points
  11. US source: North Korean leader in grave danger after surgery

    Long Live Marshal Kim Jong Un. May the Supreme Leader be safe.
    1 point
  12. This would be handled by having the data backed up on one or more separate systems - no different than acknowleging and addressing the possibility of storage system failure for any other type of drive.
    1 point
  13. I’m just waiting for it to malfunction and lock somebody out of all their information
    1 point
  14. qBittorrent 4.2.5 [Update]

    Still using uTorrent 2.2.1, stable and use way less resources.
    1 point
  15. Multiple external IP addresses on a FRITZ!Box 7530

    ^ exactly that is how the instructions read... If you want to do natting and give your devices a rfc1918 address, then your isp devices would need to support vips and how suggested it "could" work earlier in the thread.. Which is a common way of doing it..
    1 point
  16. crazy only 3 hours and half to reach station, when few years ago it was days.
    1 point
  17. I have a very old corsair? or kingston? padlock drive. Didn't buy it, was given it, and as the other commenters have said they work on any OS, the unlocking and encryption is performed by the hardware inside the USB drive itself, to your linux PC it looks just like any other USB flash drive. I've used mine as an arch linux installer and also as a testing drive holding raspberry pi firmware which has booted fine.
    1 point
  18. Messenger Rooms launching with a fifty-person limit

    Could be interesting to try it out. When we had our weekly family quiz we tried just using the video call function in Messenger but there seemed to be a limit on the number of people allowed to join. We tried with Zoom last week, and for the moment they have removed the 40 minute limit on group calls so that worked for us. Perhaps we'll try this when it gets rolled out...
    1 point
  19. Astronauts bored to death: At last, pron, chips, and mountain dew.
    1 point
  20. Recover Chrome passwords

    If you still have access to the HDD you could try copying the user data folder from C:\Users\<username>\App Data\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data and then putting it in the same location but for the new user account. But for security reasons I wouldn't be surprised if that didn't work for local accounts, the system would possibly recognize that it isn't the same account and would prevent you from accessing the data. Otherwise you could do this for any account and gain access to someone else's passwords. This is one of the reasons that we use LastPass in the office. If the computer dies then they will still have access to all their saved passwords...so long as they remember their master password, which seems to be more difficult for some to do than others...
    1 point
  21. NHS says its contact tracing app will be transparent

    "Earlier this week, the NHS said it found a way to work around this issue, but it’s not clear if this is a legitimate workaround or whether Apple will update its operating system to “fix” the issue." Ah, NHS finding exploits in iOS eh? Clearly it is not your run-of-the-mill app developer working on this, and that should send alarm bells ringing through everyone's head
    1 point
  22. Most of which could have been done via email with almost 0 added cost.
    1 point
  23. NHS says its contact tracing app will be transparent

    Privacy had gone bye bye a while ago. True to a certain extent, but this will be a step too far.
    1 point
  24. ADDED on Steam; will add to XBOX ONE/Windows 10 over the weekend.
    1 point
  25. 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. Heh, I remember when people on here legit made this same argument about how TouchID / fingerprint readers were insecure because you could copy them. Internet comments are the only sort of place where you'll find someone who'd choose their security options based on a fear of having their finger cut off or eye gauged out. 🤷‍♂️ If someone is willing to go that far to get access to your game library or payment info, why even think about account security anymore? You're in a situation WAY bigger than worrying about your property. Similarly, if someone is willing to go through the kind of targeted effort of spoofing my phone in order to intercept a text message, then I'm not exactly in a "our servers were hacked" situation and any common sense I might have picked up about that won't be of any use.
    1 point
  26. qBittorrent 4.2.5 [Update]

    qBittorrent 4.2.5 is out.
    1 point
  27. Boo-freaking hoo. It's god-damn hilarious how the Righties don't just start their own platforms. They would rather complain about being victims, which is a big recruiting tool for these groups.
    1 point
  28. western government relied on WHO for their actions. if the WHO said the virus was a serious business from the start everyone would have acted promptly We relied on the WHO for Ebola as well. We had 2 deaths in the US because President Obama's administration was swift and took action EARLY. This time it was, "I'm a businessman. I don't like people to be just hanging around. I figured we could just call Home Advisors or read the Yelp reviews and get em in here quickly." That worked to get us 50 thousand dead and counting.
    1 point
  29. the fact that jester is bashing trump instead shows he is just one of those progressives told by cnn to hate trump That fool doesn't need CNN to get people to not like him.
    1 point
  30. Messenger Rooms launching with a fifty-person limit

    yeah no thanks. Should tryout https://www.webex.com/ instead.
    1 point
  31. I Keep Seeing This...

    I will report this, thanks.
    1 point
  32. NHS says its contact tracing app will be transparent

    Everyone else will NOT have access to the API, just apps authorised to use it. And they'll be discontinued after COVID-19.
    1 point
  33. Canonical launches Ubuntu 20.04 LTS ‘Focal Fossa'

    What kind of updates would you want to keep you interested? I used Ubuntu for a while but stopped because it kept changing things. I'm happy using Mint because the updates aren't very noticeable, they improve things under the hood. I want a consistent reliable experience. I'm curious about what you would want/expect. Geezy ; I like your general mindset. I like Mint since it's basically what Ubuntu should be in the first place as I like it's more Windows like interface regardless of whether you choose Cinnamon/MATE/Xfce the general experience is familiar. it has just enough default stuff pre-installed and only a 2GB ISO size is reasonable as it's not super light but no where near bloated either. it strikes a solid balance. I've been on Linux for a long time and had settled on Gnome as my UI because it seemed to stay the same forever and only refine things. Then there was Gnome 3, which seemed to be redone from the ground up and only eventually gave you back the abilities you had in Gnome 2. Gnome 2 was still available and I could use that, but I didn't like the mindset of the transition the Gnome team envisioned. Their work on GTK is great but their approach to the desktop UX end user transition was the issue. Because of that I looked for another solution, and settled on Mint's UI offerings because they made it part of their mission statement to be as consistent as possible. The underlying OS was stable, based on Ubuntu/Debian, so I knew I could rely on that. It has a great community which is always nice and helpful too, I've reported bugs and issues and they have been excellent to work with at resolving them and with the community taking feedback constructively as well. Yeah, Gnome 3 still isn't great and I don't like the direction it took. Things that you pointed out are why Gnome 2 ended up getting forked into MATE which has kept the spirit of Gnome 2 while updating it's back end code for modern frameworks.
    1 point
  34. Go back to 7, stable and secure. /s You're not even trying, Windows 2000 is far more resource friendly than that fisherprice Windows XP!! Hold on now, talking resource friendly, I went back to MS-DOS 3.31. MS-DOS is a lousy ripoff, I only use CP/M. Sod PCs I'm running CP/M on my Spectrum +3, which it could run BTW.
    1 point
  35. 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.
    1 point
  36. Bill Gates calls Trump's de-funding of WHO dangerous

    Yes everyone made mistakes, nobody was prepared but WHO is a bigger picture org and they failed to ring the alarms about the pandemic in China to take protective measures. There is no transparency about their COVID-19 activities either which makes people think they arent doing something. They are certainly not talking about distributing ventialtors and decontamination of developing and 3rd world countries, there is no talk of vaccines. But even then, this is uncharted waters even for the WHO, it's easy to say they should have known what they were doing but looking at the actions of most countries is showing most didn't know what they were doing or worse, too many were putting the economy first before the well-being of its people. Either way, there is a lot of blame to go around and a lot of soul-searching, a lot of tough questions need to be asked with a lot of governments and with any luck, many will be held to account, especially in the west where we reacted to this way too slow even when we knew about this virus. I am sorry but this is just empty talk. Yes local governments could of done more and same goes for precious EU. The "alliance" is divided there is no task force at any level to take care of practicalities like venitlators, protective gear for first line staff, vaccine, tracking infections. EU showed its true colours that its nothing more than big boi business and WHO has shown that its outdated and in desparate need of a shake up. local governments as well should of organised a task force or appoint a minister on this big subject. End of the day we looked at scientists for reasoning and they told us we need to hide under a rock. infections arent significantly slowing down, deaths arent either. And then we get all that speculative talk based on statistics that it affects elderly, vulunerable teams, asian and black and all this BS that people come up based on numbers and not a single scientific fact. Why is each country and local institutions working independently for a vacine? Why isnt WHO organising something? It's not about could they have done more but how effective they would be, this virus doesn't care about petty things like borders and nationalism and because of that, we needed a more coordinated response to this virus which so far we have done really poor on that and even the US have done poor on that where US states are having to fend for themselves. As for the EU, how did it show it's true colours when it's got limited powers in how it can help in these areas? don't you think the real guilty ones are the euroseptics that held the EU's hands behind it's back, demanding control back at a national level, it also begs the question how many lives that died could have been saved if it wasn't for the petty bickering? This virus has exposed a massive hole in the argument that euroseptics kept telling us and people are losing their lives because of it, the question is, will we learn from that mistake once the dust settles. As for the WHO, they do need a shake up, I agree but the US response to it is reckless and likely puts more lives at risk, so reform the WHO, make it more accountable and then asks the real tough questions on the incompetents of many national governments like the US that treated this virus like a joke. As for infections and deaths, it was always going to take about 2 months of a full lock down and the countries that did that more effectively are already showing it's working, some countries are a bit soft on the lock down and they are paying the price for that now. At the end of the day, too many countries in Asia took this virus serious and clamped down on it hard whereas us in the west were making jokes about it and reacted to it to slow and even when we did react to it, we are doing a poor job of it, like it or not, this is showing the west in a very poor light.
    1 point
  37. Canonical launches Ubuntu 20.04 LTS ‘Focal Fossa'

    Used Ubuntu for many years, but the OS development is mostly "dead". It's noticeable that Canonical reduced the budget for Ubuntu Desktop development and are now focusing somewhere else. There's no direction, there's no innovation, always just a bunch of minor changes with every release. Lost my interest in Linux and now I'm back to Windows 10 for personal usage and macOS for professional.
    1 point
  38. Unfortunately many people do not care much about security. I know it from my surroundings. https://www.reuters.com/articl...an-list-grows-idUSKCN22420R
    1 point
  39. Too little too late. Many places have already banned this.
    1 point
  40. Zoom adds encryption support and new security controls in new update

    Wondering if the new AES 256-bit GCM encryption, will be end to end.
    1 point
  41. Google reveals four enhancements that it's making to Duo

    2 out of 4 already included in Skype
    1 point
  42. Your sentiments surprise me... /s
    1 point
  43. Twitter PWA gets new improvements for accessibility and more

    Overall I think the twitter PWA is good BUT the one key reason I still use a app like Tweetium is because, as far as I can see, the Twitter PWA doesn't allow for me to go through my timeline from the place I left off of, it just jumps right to the top and I have to scroll back to the last place I was. I just don't like that.
    1 point
  44. Office 365 consumer subscriptions become Microsoft 365 today

    It's more than just Office. Office 365 never made sense (except for the Office brand name). It includes multiple offerings from Microsoft now, so the name change makes sense. It's not really that confusing... Change is hard.
    1 point
  45. Office 365 consumer subscriptions become Microsoft 365 today

    Don't make no never mind to me, all I want to see is Microsoft Money back
    1 point
  46. Just wait till you see what useless Potato CPU they put in there. I expect it won't run games like my desktop can. But that's not the reason to get this device.
    1 point
  47. Yammer Communities app for Teams is now available

    Or... use what you are told to use. My phone, so they can not force me to install it. As i said to them, if they want me to use it then I will in their time on their computers/tablets. They don't force people to use Yammer, when it first started they did a fair bit of pushing to get people to sign up for it. We used to manage without it before, if there is anything important then tell us. Also not everyone has a smart phone.
    1 point
  48. Minor, but welcome update. My wife has the Go and uses it for Netflix/hulu etc and recipes. They really are a good little take anywhere to quick stuff kinda tablet
    1 point
  49. As someone that's owned both a 1st gen Surface RT and now a Pro X, I can say that Windows 10 ARM devices are far and away better. WoA no longer feels like a forgotten step child. There are no stupid limitations on the OS; it's full unlocked Windows. These devices are all coming with real SSD storage instead of eMMC, and plenty of ram. Since x64 emulation is coming, my only real grip is the lack of proper OpenGL support, and I suspect it's due to Qualcomm not including it in their drivers (is so, shame on them). Yeah, I realize it can't do everything an Intel device can so I agree that these devices aren't for everyone. I think they are a lot more compelling than the ill-fated RT devices, though even those had their uses, especially with the so-called jailbreak.
    1 point
  50. Having owned the Pro X I think these devices can cater to a large portion of school and office workers needs. Echo the authors comments that in their wheelhouse with native software (or hybrid like office) you're hard pressed to tell a difference. I had the SP7 i7 and the X at the same time and on things like loading chromium or office, you are hard pressed to notice the difference. Agree with comments above that MS has a lot of work to do to get others onboard and starting inhouse. While web-apps work surprisingly well there are usually little trade-offs, should be no excuse for not having native ARM apps for things like teams.
    1 point