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  1. Intel says this is going to go into 2022, the console makers say this could and probably will go into 2022. A few other chip makers said it's going to go into 2022. So who do you listen to? The people making the hardware or the guy trying to wring everyones wallets dry at the big investment firm?
    7 points
  2. Riiiiight... I'll believe Goldman Sachs the day I see storeshelves full of PS5's, Xbox Series X's, RTX 3080's and Ryzen 5900x/5950x CPU's.
    6 points
  3. FBI-run encrypted messaging app snares hundreds of criminals worldwide

    I suspect the public was not supposed to generally be aware of it. That would just add more noise in terms of traffic and load to the system. I think you missed my point... When I need secure communications even if I was a criminal I am using a known product that is open sourced. Not a unknown device/service being sold "for criminals". That is just plain dumb.
    4 points
  4. Afte reading the first sentence: "We have always believed in offering people and businesses choice and competing on the merits of our services." you know the rest is BS as well
    4 points
  5. Apple announces new privacy features for Mail and Safari

    Safari... it still exists?
    4 points
  6. Not sure the play here. When it comes to political issues, even with "Tiananmen Square" specific censorship, Microsoft and Bing are at the bottom of the list. Simple, do a test, look up specific censorship of these incidents and other similar human rights violations. Google literally has blood dripping from their hands, in helping disodendents be tracked and killed by various governments. Apple has also bent over without a fight to comply with all censorship requirements in China and other countries. The list goes on and on through various social media companies, like Facebook, along with other online services and partners. So why the slap at Bing? Something Microsoft agreed was wrong. It would be different if Microsoft had not fixed it and instead proclaimed the censorship was 'right' or 'good'. (Which Google, Apple and others have done in similar circumstances. ) Weird. If there is 'more' to this, and there is a real reason for this action that goes deeper than what we know, I want to hear it, we need to hear it, especially if NotePad++ thinks it is important enough to do their own internal protest. PS NotePad++ was a rip off of a similar product over 20 years ago, so there is some internal issues of morality and honesty. (I worked with the developer of the project they ripped off a long time ago. In my opinion they were too kind and shouldn't have just let it go.)
    4 points
  7. Suggestion: I would avoid using “till”. It’s informal and inappropriate for using in journalism in the US/Europian markets. The word “Until” should always be used. I have noticed the word “till” being used in english news publications from India and Bangladesh, however, and so that might be appropriate in those market. But I have always seen the word “until” used over “till” in us publications. I may be mistaken in my observation. If so, my apologies, and please feel free to correct me.
    4 points
  8. Oh, yeh...and like 5 million other features we never use or even know about! lol
    4 points
  9. Notepad++ had a web search command? huh...... never noticed
    4 points
  10. This is such a kneejerk reaction. They kept DuckDuckGo which uses Bing and had the same issue (no results for those queries). It's like they didn't even read about it.
    4 points
  11. I'm guessing the operation was just over. They eventually have to take these criminals to court and present the evidence and how they obtained it so they can't keep it a secret forever.
    3 points
  12. FBI-run encrypted messaging app snares hundreds of criminals worldwide

    ANoM? I never heard of it. LOL I guess some criminals don't know to use well known products and services that are open sourced. They would have been better off using a regular Android phone with Signal.
    3 points
  13. Very clever. I read the article about Hakan on the weekend and wondered where it came from. Now it looks like it was a coordinated piece. First the article mentions where he lives and what hotel he owns, then a few days later they release a piece saying he inadvertently let the entire network into the clutches of the law. Almost like the media knew the plan He’s not going to be a popular guy amongst his friends
    3 points
  14. We need more chip foundries, preferably across the globe instead of concentrating on South east Asia. It's a long investment game, will probably take a foundry a decade to catch up, with with iot everywhere it's not a bad investment
    3 points
  15. Good job but I have to wonder how exactly did the FBI get the private key for the specific bitcoin wallet?
    3 points
  16. Do anyone use the web search feature of notepad++ ?
    3 points
  17. The “human error” is that while Microsoft was updating their list of banned words for the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre (June 4th), they applied the banned word list to all locales, instead of just China-owned locales, where the updated list of banned words would apply by law (banned words/phrases get updated frequently as users find code words/phrases to get around filters that ban a topic from being taught) Must be the same list with Winnie the Pooh on it...
    3 points
  18. Apple announces new privacy features for Mail and Safari

    "Apple is no stranger to trying to keep its users safe on the internet" Um, that is a bit more generous than they deserve. When they were using marketing and conning users to ignore security, they very much didn't give two ######s about user security or privacy. Even what they are doing now is more lip service than actual technical investment into their products. Example: MacOS is still a ###### show of issues that Apple still ignores. iOS also has major issues, and just because Apple keeps most of the problem out of the press, doesn't mean they aren't still there. Or how about this simple concept. The M1 predictive exploit is something that NEVER should have appeared in any modern design after watching and learning from Intel and AMD and ARM's missteps. They either didn't care, or their engineers on the project are so ######ing arrogant they ignored learning from information and models and data that non-engineers have access across the industry. Apple isn't Google, but they also only 'care' about user privacy when it makes their argument or becomes a selling point. When the opposite was a selling point, doing commercials about Windows and Viruses, their users security/privacy meant nothing. (Also look back at all the times Apple was on the other side of policies and legal cases from Microsoft and others that were fighting for user privacy.)
    3 points
  19. It seems the features are somewhat lacking in this new version. I wonder what the new underlying changes are and what they didn't mention
    3 points
  20. Didn't Microsoft say it was an accident? Has the issue not been corrected? If it has, then this just seems like an attention-grab. I personally don't like DDG.. Article says it's been resolved, so... guess for now, I won't be updating their software.
    3 points
  21. Solar Power finally kicked off today.

    Wasn't sure where to put this.. But with all the bad stuff going on, finally something good.. Been waiting for PTO (permission to operate) for a while now.. Finally kicked in, first day of production.. Has been cloudy all morning, but look's like starting to clear... Very curious what first day of production will end up as, etc.. Anyone else running solar - I did a search and didn't really find any threads discussing..
    2 points
  22. I can understand the nostalgia factor, but this pricing is crazy imho.
    2 points
  23. Notepad++ 8.0

    Because it looks like crap. Simply changing to colour to black doesn't make it 'dark mode'. Almost as if there was no thought put into it at all. There has never been a lot of thought put into the UI. I just downloaded it and turned on dark mode. OMG, they make MS look good.
    2 points
  24. The global chip shortage is finally over... almost, says Goldman Sachs

    I couldn't agree more and a great comment.
    2 points
  25. Trump to remain banned till at least January 2023, confirms Facebook

    I happen to understand science very well I guess everyone is wrong. This guy knows science, very well. You are telling me a lot of these people haven't been talking out of their a$$? They should have all shut up and said we don't know what is going on yet but we will get back to you. This would have freaked out all the stupid sheep that need to be told what to do constantly, so they couldn't do that. Instead they spewed stuff that wasn't factually correct just to appease people. You can argue that science changes with time and that is why they were wrong, but we all know this is not true. A lot of this was political to push a narrative. If I gave management in my job answers that were this wrong, I would be fired or removed from a project. A lot of the stuff they said defied logic and common sense and as soon as sane people started questioning anything, they were labeled as crazy conspiracy theorists. There is nothing wrong with questioning things. How is it good or even legal to only allow one point of view? Ask the people in Nazi Germany how that worked out. Good grief, haha
    2 points
  26. Solar Power finally kicked off today.

    Just to update in case anyone at all has interest.. Been a couple of months past a year now.. And have uploaded all my generation to https://pvoutput.org Seems pretty slick for tracking your production and comparison of others with sim sized installs and in the same region of the world as you. I am liking the trend in year 2 so far where first 2 months have surpassed last years production. And last 3 months this year has exceeded estimate of production. Another useful tool I found for estimating what your system should produce for size and location, etc. https://pvwatts.nrel.gov/pvwatts.php And I hit a new all time high production day on 5/29/21 of 51.544 kWh.. I believe the increase in production for Apr and May this year could be partly due at least to my neighbor having cut down a tree that was casting shade on portion of panels in the early morning. If I can maintain my current average for june so far I will surpass estimate this month as well and easy break the 1000 kWh mark. Sure hoping either produce more excess over the summer and fall this year than last year, or we have a sunny winter for 2021.. Ended up using way more electric than produced in Jan and Feb.. And did not have enough rollover to cover.. Another fun milestone is broke 10 MWh, Lifetime Total 10.70 MWh
    2 points
  27. Tony Montana would be proud.
    2 points
  28. Who needs Facebook to provide backdoors in their software? Just offer criminals "exclusive" apps that only they (oh, and the FBI) can access and they will be happy to use it. Brilliant!
    2 points
  29. The events here wouldn't look out of place as a Only Fools and Horses episode 😂
    2 points
  30. Perhaps they (the FBI) just extorted the money from the exchange
    2 points
  31. Apple announces new privacy features for Mail and Safari

    I don't think you know this, but as a developer safari is a huge pain, and as long as small developer teams exist outside America, a lot of sites are not going to work properly on safari as Apple just don't seem to understand consistency (their browser on ipad and iPhone supports date input but the macOS one don't, and so many more). Desktop Safari has had date input support since version 14.1 Exactly, 14.1 came out on April of this year (and added date input support after it being available for years on other browsers and iOS safari) with only partial support: https://caniuse.com/input-datetime and that's the kind of inconsistency I am talking about.
    2 points
  32. Even for non-gamers, this seems like a really well spec'ed phone! If the camera were class-leading, I'd buy one. But $500-$600 is a decent flagship price. I don't even need the quad-HD display. Full HD is plenty on a phone as long as you aren't wearing it in VR goggles. The corner triggers could even be useful for other functions, like a shutter, or launching directly into user-specified apps.
    2 points
  33. Notepad++ 8.0

    This is just the Notepad++ devs being as childish as you are. Bing's a much nicer search experience than Google, and doesn't come with the massive privacy and ethical issues of Google. Bings search results SUCK ...for me at least.
    2 points
  34. 2 points
  35. The widget feature is stupid because you just know they could have done it in the current version. Feels like they held it back just so they could show a new feature on iOS 15.
    2 points
  36. https://www.neowin.net/terms/ is not a new page, it's been there a while. There has never, ever been "freedom of speech" here. Yet, you're not decrying the end of freedom online because of the rules here.
    2 points
  37. hehe...what? What is "freedom of speech online" while on someone else's platform anyway? You still have to abide by their TOS, moderation, etc. With respect to Facebook...it is still filled with right wing nuts like Ben Shapiro. They just had to draw a line with someone who incited a deadly Capitol riot.
    2 points
  38. Solar Power finally kicked off today.

    so this has been my costs for the last year with comed There is a cost for just being connected to the electric company.. Last year it was like 16$, but looks like it has gone down to like 14.50ish this year.. Some sort of credit? So for example here is my bill from last month You can see how much I sent to the grid, and how much I pulled from the grid... Since I sent way more than I used this month. That sits in my account, rolled over - so if I do not produce as much as I use next month I have that many kwh saved up to pay for what I used in the month(s) I do not produce as much as I use. I don't have a battery so always pull from grid at night. And if cloudy, rainy, snow etc.. and not producing as much as using then yes it pulls from the grid. As I mentioned in a previous post - in the first year I saved a few hundred from the year before.. If you add up total cost of solar and what paid electric company. Now time will only tell if was a good choice for the long run, since I didn't buy my system I leased it. Not your best choice for most bang for your buck economically that is for sure, but it was zero out of pocket cost.. I saw it as just locking into a specific cost for electricity, for the time of the lease. So from my point of view I hope electric costs go way up so will be saving more money. And not have to worry about any cost for repairs if something breaks.. But I am happy with choice so far - now will I still be happy in a few years? Not sure - if electric costs drop into the dirt then might not be a good choice.. But the system running is not my problem, so don't have to worry about that. And if doesn't produce what they say it should produce - then they have to pay me the difference.. So I saw it as a way to lock in price of electric and not have to worry. And pretty much lock my monthly cost to a flat cost every month.. Before summer months were killers, I have had a bill well over 200$ for a few months in the summer. Hoping this year I build up more of a rollover to for the winter months.. ###### thing is April 1 they zero your account.. I had 300 some kwh extra in march this year, but they zeroed that out.. Bastards! I think your roll over should just continue to rollover the electric company zero'ing that out is BS if you ask me. Or have a more sunny days this winter.. I would of preferred to have just bought the system outright.. But budget committee (wife) wouldn't let me.. So this was a way to get to play with solar without any out of pocket costs.. Happy to answer any questions you might have - just ask. Keep in mind that other states or other regions of the world - how they deal with net metering or solar users could be way different.
    1 point
  39. Who needs Hollywood if you have the FBI. This story is like a movie plot, pure gold.
    1 point
  40. I'm using this since the beta and I'm liking it. It's basically the same OS, but prettier and snappier. Plex still doesn't work too well on it (latest RC candidate is a problem for the Plex team, they stopped updating the DSM7 package until final release), but, for my usage, the rest is working flawlessly.
    1 point
  41. Notepad++ 8.0

    This is just the Notepad++ devs being as childish as you are. Bing's a much nicer search experience than Google, and doesn't come with the massive privacy and ethical issues of Google.
    1 point
  42. Notepad++ 8.0

    It might be just me, but it doesn't look that nice It's awful and so are the fluent icons. God yes... that might be the worst "dark" theme I've seen in forever.
    1 point
  43. Apple is bringing FaceTime to Windows 10 and Android users via the web

    lol Apple will never do imessage on Android. There was someone (a developer, I think) they recently interviewed within Apple who said that would just take away their monopoly bc then people could use Apple services on other platforms and not feel the need to buy Apple products.
    1 point
  44. Universal Control is so cool!
    1 point
  45. Still has iPhone 6s/SE/Air 2 support? I would have to figure a big portion of the reason they're doing it is just to completely embarrass Google at this point. If so, mission accomplished. Honestly I don't even personally like using iOS and am perfectly capable of loading up an off-support Android ROM for myself, but it's getting really hard to recommend Android to friends in good faith when Google treats everything they touch as disposable.
    1 point
  46. I watched the keynote and it is amazing how they can fill more than an hour with minor stuff that other apps just silently introduce in a minor app update. Almost all the features are catching up to other solutions like Teams, Google Photos, Lens, Bing/Google Translate etc
    1 point
  47. If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. Guess I'll be quiet then.
    1 point
  48. Sound's like the lightbulb scam to me, this mining crap needs to die out.
    1 point
  49. Trump to remain banned till at least January 2023, confirms Facebook

    To hell with your "censorship" and "first amendment" BS! Facebook is a business. They set the terms (of service) for using their service. The same terms which most users simply scroll to the bottom before hitting "I agree", but terms none-the-less. If you violate those terms, and get banned from the service that's entirely on YOU! Has nothing to do with censorship or first amendment. The First Amendment protection protects your freedom of speech from the government. But it is not unrestricted. You can't run into a crowded airport or cinema and yell "Fire!!!" without having to deal with the consequences. Trump violated the terms of service. Now he deals with the consequences.
    1 point
  50. I'd expect the 'Shared with' and link copying improvements to make it to consumers. While they aren't explicitly saying it, the rest look like features for OneDrive for Business and other enterprise customers in general.
    1 point