The General Technology Thread

[ArcadiaGP]

Due to the Contributor's Covenant, a developer has dropped their project. "This is last SC-Controller release for a while. With all that mess happening around Linux this week, I've decided to move away as far as possible."

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/artic...ion-045-is-out-last-release-for-a-while.12615

Someone's FIRST POST TO GITHUB ALTOGETHER (thus, having made no contribution's to projects whatsoever) is to tell the Systemd project to adopt the Contributor's Covenant CoC.

Looks like the pushing of the CoC in Linux is now pushing activists to have every FOSS project adopt it

Please adopt the Code of Conduct · Issue #10148 · systemd/systemd · GitHub

 

[bwframe]

Makes you wonder what Google's motivation is in promoting such before a "menial" mid-term election, eh?

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[video=youtube;k7iPJMCxOZY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=k7iPJMCxOZY[/video]

 

[jkaetz]

Due to the Contributor's Covenant, a developer has dropped their project. "This is last SC-Controller release for a while. With all that mess happening around Linux this week, I've decided to move away as far as possible."

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/artic...ion-045-is-out-last-release-for-a-while.12615

Someone's FIRST POST TO GITHUB ALTOGETHER (thus, having made no contribution's to projects whatsoever) is to tell the Systemd project to adopt the Contributor's Covenant CoC.

Looks like the pushing of the CoC in Linux is now pushing activists to have every FOSS project adopt it

Please adopt the Code of Conduct · Issue #10148 · systemd/systemd · GitHub

I despise the insinuation that because one does not adopt the suggested CoC that one must therefore be against it and thus an evil intolerant person.

 

[actaeon277]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nasa...otted-still-silent-opportunity-185138562.html
NASA’s Mars orbiter just spotted the still-silent Opportunity rover, and things aren’t looking good


It’s now been several months since NASA’s Opportunity rover fell silent. A massive dust storm on Mars shrouded the planet in darkness and cut off Opportunity’s ability to generate solar power. It entered a hibernation state while it waited for the skies to clear, and while the dust storm has long since passed the rover has yet to actually wake back up.




That being said, the bad news is that it’s difficult to tell from the photo just how much debris might still be obscuring Opportunity’s solar panels. Is there just a light sprinkling of dirt which sunlight could penetrate or are they caked with dust to the point that the rover is now effectively dead? We just don’t know. It’s clear from the photo that sunlight is striking the robot, but whether that light is actually getting to the solar panels is still a mystery.




Keep in mind that Opportunity was only intended to last a few months on Mars. It’s since spent well over a decade performing various scientific experiments and observations,

 

[eldirector]

If you zoom in REAL CLOSE, you can just make out Opportunity's on-board diagnostics screen:

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Facebook Confirms Giving Advertisers Access to User Phone Numbers

 

[ArcadiaGP]

And breaking now...

Facebook says 50 million user accounts have been affected by a security breach.

 

[actaeon277]

One of the reasons that although I have an account, I always refuse to give a phone number.

 

[JettaKnight]

One of the reasons that although I have an account, I always refuse to give a phone number.

Don't you use a phone to access FB?

 

[actaeon277]

Don't you use a phone to access FB?

As far as I know, browsers don't send your phone number.
If they did, why would they keep asking me?

They have my IP address. Yes.

 

[JettaKnight]

As far as I know, browsers don't send your phone number.
If they did, why would they keep asking me?

They have my IP address. Yes.

I was assuming you had the FB installed; which would do vile and disgusting things with any data it found on the device. (or with the camera, the microphone, the BT...)

 

[jamil]

I was assuming you had the FB installed; which would do vile and disgusting things with any data it found on the device. (or with the camera, the microphone, the BT...)

Well. Apple has a petty rigorous acceptance policy for apps. They surely wouldn’t allow apps that spy on people.

 

[foszoe]

https://www.fastcompany.com/9024393...-radical-new-plan-to-upend-the-world-wide-web

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Feds Force Suspect To Unlock An Apple iPhone X With Their Face

 

[Cameramonkey]

Feds Force Suspect To Unlock An Apple iPhone X With Their Face

Somewhat old news. They've been forcing people to use their fingerprint readers for the past several years.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

More than a dozen U.S. government and company sources tell Bloomberg that Chinese military operatives got tiny little spy chips into motherboards used by major American companies including Amazon and Apple.

 

[foszoe]

More than a dozen U.S. government and company sources tell Bloomberg that Chinese military operatives got tiny little spy chips into motherboards used by major American companies including Amazon and Apple.

At least they were cheap

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Hm, perhaps the story was false?

From Stephen Schmidt at Amazon:

Setting the Record Straight on Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s Erroneous Article

Today, Bloomberg BusinessWeek published a story claiming that AWS was aware of modified hardware or malicious chips in SuperMicro motherboards in Elemental Media’s hardware at the time Amazon acquired Elemental in 2015, and that Amazon was aware of modified hardware or chips in AWS’s China Region.

As we shared with Bloomberg BusinessWeek multiple times over the last couple months, this is untrue. At no time, past or present, have we ever found any issues relating to modified hardware or malicious chips in SuperMicro motherboards in any Elemental or Amazon systems. Nor have we engaged in an investigation with the government.

There are so many inaccuracies in ‎this article as it relates to Amazon that they’re hard to count.

 

[JettaKnight]

OK, so read the article; it seems plausible, if not a massive feet of engineering.

My only doubt is their claim that a tiny six pin chip contains a powerful enough CPU, memory and networking capability. ...like how does it communicate? SMBus?

I not saying it's impossible - there's be an untold number of hacks that were previously thought to be impossible.


Actually, the article says "looks like". Well, this electrical engineer wants the exact chip!

 

[bwframe]

Windows 10’s latest update is deleting some users’ documents