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by RachelF 6y ago
Never forget "the cloud" is someone else's computer. Especially if you're using a free-tier service. On a practical level at least backup your email with Thunderbird and your Google Drive with Syncdocs.
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by RachelF 6y ago
Yes, Notebookcheck is a fantastic site. The German press seems to be more cynical about marketing, c't Magazine is great, but no longer available in English. The Register is also a good less technical site if you want to cut through Bu
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by RachelF 6y ago
Good to see a thorough benchmark and a good writeup. Many "tech" sites now just repeat manufacturers press releases. Not Anandtech.
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by RachelF 6y ago
That's a great article in the link.
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by RachelF 6y ago
It is very hard for DropBox to compete against the free file storage offerings like Google Drive. iCloud and OneDrive are integrated into the operating system now too, too.
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by RachelF 6y ago
We've found the same thing with other software we make. The free users and those charitable organizations and schools we give free licenses to, are the least "nice" in their technical support queries. Odd that.
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by RachelF 6y ago
A cynic would say that tech companies are ingratiating themselves with the new power, the Democrats, in order to get clemency on the anti-trust probes everyone was expecting for 2021.
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by RachelF 6y ago
Have you looked at Syncdocs ( https://syncdocs.com ) too? It does encryption for Google Drive.
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by RachelF 6y ago
So anyone at Boeing going to jail for killing 346 people?
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by RachelF 6y ago
>that it's "on-die" (it's not) It appears to be mounted on the same chip package. Why did Apple do this if not for speed?
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by RachelF 6y ago
"Impartial" courts are one myth those in the UK still believe in.
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by RachelF 6y ago
Boeing has been run by accountants from McDonald Douglas for the last 15 years, not engineers like it used to be. Perhaps that has some bearing on the problem?
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by RachelF 6y ago
More disgrace: "The FAA is also accused of retaliating against whistleblowers, possibly obstructing the Office of the Inspector General’s investigation into the crashes"
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by RachelF 6y ago
Be aware that eBay now censors low star reviews. I've had my 1-star review of fake products removed twice from eBay.
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Hackers used SolarWinds' dominance against it in sprawling spy campaign(in.reuters.com)
250 points by RachelF 6y ago|115 comments
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by RachelF 6y ago
Many Windows anti-virus packages are the same. Any newly released app is classified as a virus by their hueristics.
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Tim Cook intervened personally to stop Apple TV making a series about Gawker(theregister.com)
1 points by RachelF 6y ago|0 comments
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by RachelF 6y ago
Surely there's a typo in the article. There's no TP-Link VT1600V product. They do make a VR1600V, though.
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Cyberattack on 40 Israeli Firms May Be Iran's Revenge for Assassination(haaretz.com)
5 points by RachelF 6y ago|0 comments
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by RachelF 6y ago
I guess it is only a co-incidence then, that Wuhan is the only city in China with a level 4 bio-security lab and Bio weapons research. Their lab had an accident in October 2019: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6
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Japanese space capsule carrying pristine asteroid samples lands in Australia(space.com)
27 points by RachelF 6y ago|2 comments
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by RachelF 6y ago
But one can choose to ignore fashion and wear comfortable clothes. Apple has chosen to make everyone live in its crazy world. Letting users skin the OS would be a better choice.
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by RachelF 6y ago
Why do Apple employees need to carry concealed weapons?
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by RachelF 6y ago
The author of this article has obviously never owned a parrot.
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The Tech Monopolies Go Vertical(mule.substack.com)
1 points by RachelF 6y ago|0 comments
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Obituary – James Randi, the woo-woo catcher(economist.com)
2 points by RachelF 6y ago|0 comments
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by RachelF 6y ago
It's still available in other places: https://anonfiles.com/x7I0p8m5p4/widevine-l3-decryptor-main_...
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by RachelF 6y ago
EBay does the same thing. Leave a 1 star review for a fake product and it gets taken down, due to "unspecified reasons".
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The Rise of the ‘Monologue’ Interview(bbc.com)
2 points by RachelF 6y ago|0 comments
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Massachusetts Voters Will Decide (Again) Who Has the Right to Repair Their Cars(reason.com)
4 points by RachelF 6y ago|0 comments

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