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Hey, corporate types. Microsoft would really love to pick your brains about Project Cortex
Bad news, developers: Apple Mac App Store tells cross-platform Electron apps to get lost
Boffins don bad 1980s fashion to avoid being detected by object-recognizing AI cameras
Please tell us why you're not securing yourselves, UK.gov asks businesses
Monday 4th November 2019 21:23 GMT
Re: Small biz
"From my experience many of them have view of "we are too small to be a target"."
The irony of this is that very small businesses are often the preferred target of hackers (especially if those business contract with larger businesses such as credit card companies, government agencies, etc.) precisely because they know that small businesses think that way.
DoHn't believe the hype! You are being lied to by data-hungry ISPs, Mozilla warns lawmakers
Google forks out $2.1bn for Fitbit – and promises not to exploit all that delicious health data to sling ads (honest)
Friday 1st November 2019 21:29 GMT
Phew!
When Fitbit bought Pebble, I kept an eye on their smartwatches, hoping that they'd produce something like the Pebble. That never happened, so I never bought any of their gear.
Now, I'm SO happy about that, as I would be pretty angry at Google getting their hands on whatever data Fitbit collected.
Not just adhesive, but alcohol-resistant adhesive: Well done, Apple. Airpods Pro repairability is a zero
Friday 1st November 2019 21:15 GMT
Re: I like it loud...
Blame government regulations for that. But you can disable it -- here's a method that doesn't require rooting your device (I can't say first-hand if it works, as I root my phone and disabled it using Xposed.)
https://www.xda-developers.com/how-to-automatically-disable-the-high-volume-warning-without-root/
Friday 1st November 2019 20:54 GMT
Re: in all seriousness
"The battery ? unobtainium."
The battery appears to be a standard one.
"The circuitboard ? good luck buying a BGA rework station, getting your hands on the custom chips and developing the fine motor skills to replace 01005 capacitors off a flex board."
For the AirPods, you wouldn't need speciality BGA gear. A hot air rework station would do the job. I hate dealing with BGA chips, personally, but I wouldn't worry too much about ones that are as small as that. Dealing with those tiny SMD capacitors and such can be a little fiddly, but it's not as hard as you're implying. The custom chips could be easily obtained by getting your hands on other people's broken AirPods. However, the chips are the least likely thing to go wrong.
I'm not saying that repairing these things would be a walk in the park, and certainly most people wouldn't do it even if it were -- however, it's not really a huge problem for electronics hobbyists, and if you didn't have to destroy the things to get access to the nougat center, it would likely be a tidy little side business for electronic repair shops.
Friday 1st November 2019 16:09 GMT
Re: Double the reason
I go the opposite way -- I buy fairly high-priced wired earbuds (because the sound quality becomes annoying to me below a certain price point). The pair I currently use are intended for sound engineer roadies at concerts, so they're very, very robust, fit well, and sound great. I've had those for five years now (I use them, on average, about 5 hours a day), and they still work perfectly -- you'd even have to closely examine them to notice they're not new.
Friday 1st November 2019 15:15 GMT
Re: That vendor's track record for reparability is miserable
"They don't care if they can repair something that will be obsolete in 2-3 years."
Apparently they don't care about plonking down so much cash for something that they expect to be tossing away in 2 or 3 years, either. Weirdness abounds.
Friday 1st November 2019 15:13 GMT
Double the reason
"Those who've bought a pair of the $250 buds will have to accept that when its rechargeable battery eventually fails (give it a couple of years), they'll have to purchase a brand-new product"
I avoid wireless earbuds for a number of reasons, but among the largest is that I don't need any more devices that require recharging. However, that the battery can't be replaced when it wears out provides a second reason to avoid AirPods, at least, but I'd be surprised if any other wireless earbuds are much better on this count.
The Feds are building an America-wide face surveillance system – and we're going to court to prove it, says ACLU
From Instagram to insta-banned: Facebook wipes NSO Group workers' personal profiles amid WhatsApp hack rap
Wednesday 30th October 2019 19:20 GMT
Not helping
""Why? Because I work for a company called NSO Group, and according to their statements, have found and used vulnerabilities in their WhatsApp architecture, to provide security agencies and governments sophisticated tools to prevent the next 9/11."
Craven appeals to fear like that aren't a good look for you, NSO.
Just take a look at the carnage on Notepad++'s GitHub: 'Free Uyghur' release sparks spam tsunami by pro-Chinese
Thursday 31st October 2019 21:09 GMT
Re: Why do businesses try to avoid politics?
I'm not going to comment on your opinions, You're perfectly entitled to them. But this:
"getting people *FIRED* over political things, like the former CEO of Mozilla"
is factually incorrect. Brendan Eich was not fired, he resigned in order to get heat off of Mozilla.
Thursday 31st October 2019 20:30 GMT
Re: "Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart." — Winnie the Pooh
"What concerns me is that, it may be legal to sell it, but how is anyone meant to know if it is safe until after they have opened it or eaten it."
For the vast majority of foods, it's quite easy to tell whether or not its safe to eat by smelling, tasting, or looking at it. If you've purchased something and later find out its' spoiled, I'll bet the store will let you return it (when this has happened to me, the store has refunded my money 100% of the time).
Those "best by" dates are almost totally worthless in terms of determining food safety. Those dates are set far, far shorter than when the food would actually spoil -- as in, less than half of the expected shelf life. Those dates aren't even intended for consumers, they're to tell the store when to rotate stock and are essentially a sales tool.
FYI, we're now in the timeline where Facebook decides who is and isn't a politician on its 2bn-plus-person network
Wednesday 30th October 2019 23:53 GMT
"In the last 30 or so years, the USA has completely dropped the ball on anti-trust."
Yep, and not coincidentally, I think that was around the time that the feds changed the threshold for when antitrust action would be required to "does it cause consumer harm". Because apparently the only thing we care about anymore is money.
Wednesday 30th October 2019 22:29 GMT
Re: Is almost 2020, why are you still using Facebook?
"So if you participate in a particular hobby, sport or special interest the only place left to share information and chat with like minded people is on Zucks site."
It may depend on what your particular special interests are, but I have absolutely not found this to be true for mine.
GitLab pulls U-turn on plan to crank up usage telemetry after both staff and customers cry foul
Wednesday 30th October 2019 19:27 GMT
In fairness to Gitlab, in the discussion thread where the CFO said that, their legal team pushed back with that same observation (amongst others), and the overall consensus in the Gitlab management crowd -- including the CEO -- was to reject the CFO's assertion.
That said, Gitlab's actions here have left a bad taste in my mouth.
Traffic lights worldwide set to change after Swedish engineer saw red over getting a ticket
Q. Who's triumphantly slamming barn door shut after horse bolted at warp 9? A. NordVPN
Wednesday 30th October 2019 16:59 GMT
Re: Just out of curiousity....
"I'll note that if you want to use public wifi, then a VPN is recommended"
I think that's understating things a bit. I'd say it's highly advised, if not mandatory. And not just for open WiFi APs, but also for cell system data connections and password-protected WiFi APs that are run by businesses (hotels, etc.)
Chrome devs tell world that DNS over HTTPS won't open the floodgates of hell
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