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6 votes
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French white supremacist network Suavelos is attracting traffic to their site by using deceptive Facebook pages that appear to support popular causes
8 votes -
The iPhone and Apple’s services strategy
7 votes -
Apple Keynote Discussion Thread [September 10, 2019 @ 10:00 am PDT]
The Apple Keynote is on September 10th, at 10am Pacific Daylight Time (daylight savings is in effect). I'm making this thread as a place to discuss the announcements here on ~tech. TIme: 10:00am...
The Apple Keynote is on September 10th, at 10am Pacific Daylight Time (daylight savings is in effect). I'm making this thread as a place to discuss the announcements here on ~tech.
TIme:
- 10:00am PDT (California / Apple time)
- 5:00pm GMT (Greenwich time)
Livestream Links
- Apple's website stream -- requires a browser that supports both HLS and HEVC (safari and edge)
- Apple's Youtube stream -- first time Apple is streaming on youtube. Should work anywhere that Youtube works :) They'll probably break the stream record.
Tl;Dr of actual announcements (updating right now)
- Apple Arcade announced
- $4.99 / month and one month free.
- 100 indie exclusives on launch
- Apple TV+ announced
- $4.99 / month, launching November 1
- New originals every month! 100 countries at launch
- Including 1 year free with device (iPhone, iPad, or mac) purchases starting today.
- New base model iPad
- 10.2 inch display, Runs A10 Fusion chip, (optional) smart keyboard
- New iPad is made from 100% recycled aluminum (like the new MacBook air)
- Starts at $399 (competing with chrome books). $299 for education customers.
- includes Apple Pencil support
- Apple Watch Series 5!!!!
- Health and Fitness video
- 3 New health studies!!!
- Apple Hearing Study
- Apple Women's Health Study (How cycles affect various health conditions)
- Apple Heart Study
- Enrollment is voluntary. OPT-IN by downloading the app and getting enrolled. - Apple Watch Series 5
- ALWAYS ON LTPO OLED display, with Dynamic Refresh Rate (1Hz - 60Hz VRR)
- Same 18 hour battery life
- International Emergency Calling on all cellular models
- 100% recycled aluminum.
- Stainless Steel, Titanium, Ceramic
- Series 3 watch starts at $199, Series 5 starts at $499
- iPhone 11!
- Aluminum and Glass, comes in a bunch of colors
- Spatial audio + Dolby Atmos for next level smartphone sound
- New Camera -- 120º FOV Wide angle camera, 12MP with 100% Focus Pixels
- 0.5x Optical Zoom out :)
- New Image processing pipelines, with semantic rendering and adaptive tone mapping
- Portrait mode improvements (wider portraits, and more) (yay, now for pets!)
- Night Mode has adaptive image slicing and fusion for reducing blur in long exposure.
- 4K HDR video at 60fps (was previously 30fps!)
- Front Camera is now 12MP wide angle
- 4K 30fps HDR video, Slowmotion Video for front facing camera! :) - A13 Bionic processor
- fastest GPU and CPU ever in a smartphone
- Game demo showing off Metal 2 Shaders, Bloom, and AA in realtime at 60fps
- Battery is now 1 hr longer than the previous XR
- U1 Chip? (on slide, not mentioned) - Wifi 6 support!
- 2m water resistance for 30 minutes
- 6.1 inch Liquid Retina display
- Priced sanely at $699
- iPhone 11 Pro
- 3 camera array
- Matte Textured Glass
- Super Retina XDR Display.
- 2,000,000:1 contrast ratio
- 1200 nits of brightness
- 426 ppi
- Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos - A13 Bionic Chip Design
- Machine Learning Matrix Multiplier Accelerators make matrix operations 6x faster on iPhone
- Best ML platform of any Smartphone
- Lower power design using 7nm+ lithography
- 8.5 Billion Transistors
- 4 High Efficiency CPU cores
- Hundreds of Voltage domains and clock domains
- Each region of the chip is at least 20% faster, and uses at least 20% less power - 3 camera system
- 4x zoom range (0.5 to 2x)
- 53-13mm focal lengths, and f1.8 to f2.4
- Deep Fusion camera system - stitches together burst photos + long exposure to maximize detail and reduce noise.
- Filmic Pro demo -- allowing multiple camera use at the same time. - iPhone 11 Pro at $999, Pro Max at $1099
- iPhone 11 at $699 and XR at $599 and iPhone 8 at $499 to complete the lineup.
- Apple Store Updates
- Apple Watch Studio - pair any watch with any band of your choice. Configure as you want
- iPhone trade ins can now be used for a lower monthly rate if you buy an iPhone, rather than simply taking off the purchase price.
- 5th Ave Store is being redesigned and re-opening Sept 20th!
Other miscellaneous / fun stuff
- Apple Keynote Bingo Card -- 5 in a row to win! :)
- Upgrade Podcast Draft Card -- the hosts have predicted what they should see at the event. Person with the most points wins.
Edits:
- fixed part about browsers with HLS support, and added a table showing compatible browsers.
- remved "what we're expecting" section, and started updating the event live feed.
26 votes -
Best Buy is discontinuing Insignia smart home line
8 votes -
Firefox’s test pilot program returns with Firefox Private Network beta
11 votes -
Coalition of fifty US attorneys general launch antitrust investigation into Google
17 votes -
Face recognition, bad people and bad data
6 votes -
Humans who are not concentrating are not general intelligences
6 votes -
The science is clear; we've more to fear from baby monitors than 5G
12 votes -
Reddit launches /r/Layer, a "community canvas" sponsored by Adobe
25 votes -
ProtonMail and Huawei: A relationship made in privacy hell
13 votes -
Web scraping doesn’t violate anti-hacking law, appeals court rules
12 votes -
Clarifying ProtonMail and Huawei
32 votes -
Tildenet (Not related to tildes.net)
5 votes -
Kuo: Apple to debut Tile-like tracker next week, new iPhone design in 2020
7 votes -
The stakes are too high for Apple to spin the iPhone exploits
6 votes -
US Department of Justice demands Apple and Google hand over names of 10,000+ users of a gun scope app
11 votes -
DMVs Are Selling Your Data to Private Investigators
11 votes -
The people who built Etsy dreamed of remaking commerce with their bare hands. Fifteen years later, its sellers are being asked to compete with Amazon.
11 votes -
Facebook is under investigation for antitrust violations by a coalition of the attorneys general of 8 states and DC, led by New York Attorney General Letitia James
10 votes -
Thieves used voice-mimicking software to imitate a company executive’s speech and dupe his subordinate into sending $243,000 to a secret account
20 votes -
Apple Change Causes Scramble Among Private Messaging App Makers
7 votes -
Our past on the internet is disappearing before we can make it history
12 votes -
In 2002, still reeling from the dot-com crash, Google realized they’d been harvesting a very valuable raw material — your behavior
9 votes -
Jeremy Renner’s app is shutting down because of trolls
13 votes -
The race to create a perfect lie detector – and the dangers of succeeding
5 votes -
"Satori" Internet-of-Things botnet operator Kenneth Currin Schuchman pleads guilty
5 votes -
Google and YouTube will pay record $170 million for alleged violations of US children’s privacy law
6 votes -
Brave uncovers Google’s GDPR workaround
13 votes -
US Senator says Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg should face ‘possibility of a prison term’
14 votes -
Android 10 has been released
13 votes -
Burnout symptoms in tech
7 votes -
AMD announces BIOS fix for Ryzen 3000 boost clocks, update comes September 10
7 votes -
Virtual Cards by Privacy
8 votes -
Communications and internet have been blacked out in Kashmir since August 4 - five people explain what it's like to live through
8 votes -
Robots that can kill: Tomorrow’s wars will be faster, more high-tech, and less human than ever before. Welcome to a new era of machine-driven warfare
6 votes -
Firefox 69.0 released
22 votes -
Usage share of desktop internet browsers 1996–2019
20 votes -
Hong Kong protestors using Mesh messaging app China can't block: Usage up 3685%
23 votes -
Mozilla’s Manifest v3 FAQ
5 votes -
The Kindle is fine. It could’ve been much more than that.
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Advice for first home server?
Hello, I have a few questions. I didn't want to wast money so I wanna use what I have in terms of hardware, only the PSU and storage if needed. PC: CPU AMD 5 1600 RAM 16G SSD 125 GB for OS...
Hello,
I have a few questions. I didn't want to wast money so I wanna use what I have in terms of hardware, only the PSU and storage if needed.
PC:
- CPU AMD 5 1600
- RAM 16G
- SSD 125 GB for OS
Services I think of running:
- Node Tor middle relay
- Node Bitcoin
- Node XMR
- Gitea or Gitlab
- Maybe some service to host files or make a share for lan or a could service
- Maybe a TS Server or Minecraft
Questions:
- Do I have enough power to run all of this or I am being to greedy? I have raspberry(not pi 4) stopped at home doing nothing I could run some of this services on them if the computer can't handle everything.
- Should I virtualize? Can you explain me your response on this?
- I thinking of buying a good PSU since I am running this 24/7, should I invest in gold platinum or something like that?
- Should I have multiple disks if yes can you explain how much and for what.
This is will be my first server at home so I would like to hear tips if you think I am forgetting something.
Thanks in advance.
Edit: visualize > virtualize17 votes -
Less than ideal router strength, curious what my Tech Tilderinos would recommend
I just moved, and my new apartment is set up a little weird - gotta love old construction. As a result, the router has to be in the other end of the home from my PS4 which is my primary internet...
I just moved, and my new apartment is set up a little weird - gotta love old construction. As a result, the router has to be in the other end of the home from my PS4 which is my primary internet consumption device. The way I see it I have four options:
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Hot spot from my cell phone - not ideal because I pay per gig of data and it's not fast enough for gaming
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Run a really long Ethernet cord - possible but would be a little bit of a project. I looked into it a little and I'm curious if there is any appreciable difference between Cat 5, 6, 7, or 8 from a home user perspective. Also, what's a good resource for buying one, since Amazon is not really trustworthy anymore?
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Use a WiFi booster - I don't really have any experience with these. Would it be as fast as using the router, and if I used an Ethernet cable to connect my PS4 to it would it still be limited to wifi speeds?
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Get a stronger router - considering I technically rent my router from Verizon this is probably the most cost effective way to go in the long term, any suggestions for brands?
10 votes -
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Less… Is More? Apple’s Inconsistent Ellipsis Icons Inspire User Confusion
8 votes -
Privacy Tools
19 votes -
Flawed algorithms are grading millions of students’ essays
13 votes -
The extortion economy: How insurance companies are fueling a rise in ransomware attacks
12 votes -
Apple will give indie repair shops the tools to fix iPhones
7 votes -
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's account was compromised, sent public tweets and retweets including racial slurs
17 votes