The article last week could be taken both ways, as if a phone with google authenticator was good enough?
Personally? I'm happy with fairly complicated passwords, a unique email for most sites and 2FA (soft, on phone)
If it requires a dongle? I'm not in, I'm sorry but I don't care about the security that much. If it can't be done with a soft token on my phone (and ipad, thanks Authy!) then I can't be bothered and the general public will be even worse.
I know someone (kinda / tangentially) on the Chrome Dev Team and asked them to consider fixing the damn full screen mode.
On FireFox, if you hit F11, it's beautiful and large, yet if you hit "CTRL-D" you can still DO STUFF, type in URLs, CTRL T works for a new tab, etc, you can browse in this giant beautiful relaxing window, without seeing your tabs most of the time. I don't use it often but sometimes it's nice.
I said "Why does Chromes full screen mode have to render the browser, virtually useless" and the answer was very Apple-esque "our way, or the highway" kind of thing.
That teenage girl says what half of us have been saying for about 5 or 6 years now, since they started making UIs WORSE instead of better.
Less lines dividing / defining where you can click and what a button is. Less colours used (red stop / green go) - screw that, let's make it 'flat' colours No labelling on icons, it's ok there MIGHT be a tooltip if you hover (but try hovering a finger?) Bad animations slowing things down or not being smart (a great animation could be informative)
The list goes on. My computer is now covered with unlabelled icons. If you were to wipe my memory and put me in front of a modern PC I suspect it'd be much much harder to learn than it was 10 to 20 years ago.
Everything gotta be flat, one colour, LOTS AND LOTS of god damned white. Use shadows / shading / colour to define things. Who cares if it's gaudy? There's ways of doing it nicely.
I use it quite rarely and I really don't need a bloody notification that a friend has simply uploaded a new picture. I'm not tagged, I wasn't there, it's just them with their kids at the park, what?
Have you all seen the goddamn fees to use ebay? It's a disgrace.
Maybe people are using it less? I try to avoid selling on there absolutely as much as possible. (Note: Australian here, being scammed on ebay seems far less likely than in the US)
Samsungs Galaxy S10, to come in 3 sizes, all of which will be curved.
If you'd like a non curved display? We don't care. We don't offer it, go away. All flagship phones must be curved.
Like putting plastic / glass screen protectors on? Screw you. Like not accidentally 'palming' your phone when it's in your hand? LOL like we care.
I've whined for 2.5 years about it now, they lost me. The lack of a tactile home button already sucks, very much. However this forced curved thing? Nope. No more sales from me.
"Most of the damage that's going to be done in the next 100 years will be done sooner than later"
Based on my very rudimentary knowledge of global warming, exponential curves, runaway effects and what have you. That statement is entirely false?
Also a bit of a scare article. I assume it's implying the 'data sheds' where massive undersea lines terminate are close to the sea (they likely are!) but moving these are probably very very small scale problems in comparison to other issues if the sea rises the distance required to submerge them.
Global warming is bad, how can we tie it to the internet!!!?
"San Francisco, California, United States Uber/Headquarters"
Based on that piece of information, my confidence in the article is already dropped 75%. The definition of gender discrimination in San Francisco is extremely broad. Who knows what they did, if *anything*.
Endless social justice / politics comes out of that place, it's truly agonising.
Ok I figured as much, Macrobusiness is banned on Reddit Aus entirely, such a joke.
I wonder if the Chinese money will stop personally, it's still safer here than China and if houses drop in value, it's just cheaper for them. A select few, appear to be virtually unlimited with resources. It's a huge disgrace.
I've been waiting for this crash for a decade. I thought the prices were nuts 10 years ago. Thank god it looks like it's finally begun. (I'm quite concerned about my cash, I'm 100% liquid, worried about bail-in)
I hope this initiative didn't result in people being refused positions for their skin colour or gender either. Hopefully there was simply more spots available?
In my personal situation, I'm willing to adopt earlier, since I use a proper HTPC as my primary device to watch media. It's just the rippers who need to start adopting it. I'd estimate a bare minimum of 18 months for that too though, considering encoder speed:/
It's only just reached 1.0 and the encoding time of the codec is mind blowingly slow. It makes encoding HEVC look extremely fast.
I'm praying that AV1 takes off in a big big way, I like the idea of a superior codec, saving me disk space and being open source and free, my inner PC hippie is into that.
I don't know if it does every single feature HEVC or 264 does mind you, it might be crap at 10bit or 12bit or something, I just don't know, but my understanding is, it's fairly good.
None the less, it's not going to be replacing anything for several years. You need to wait multiple generations for smartphones, tablets, laptops, PCs, TVs and god knows what else to have new AV1 capable chips in them. Plus the encoder needs obvious, intense optimisation. Honestly the litmus test is when the piracy teams (or at least a few hardcore anime groups) start using the codec.
When I can replace some of my stuff on my NAS, with something at least 33% smaller and identical or better quality, I'm much more interested. I do wish them well and I hope these hype articles continue, but patience will be a virtue here.
I'm so sick of that site, for over 5 years they've done Geo IP redirection, ensuring if I click their links, I'll be just redirected to the front page of their Aussie web site.
It's some antique internet rubbish. I've even emailed them, it's moronic.
Can I put a hit out on their site here? Can someone please take them out?
Slashdot Mirror
The article last week could be taken both ways, as if a phone with google authenticator was good enough?
Personally? I'm happy with fairly complicated passwords, a unique email for most sites and 2FA (soft, on phone)
If it requires a dongle? I'm not in, I'm sorry but I don't care about the security that much. If it can't be done with a soft token on my phone (and ipad, thanks Authy!) then I can't be bothered and the general public will be even worse.
I'm an Android guy and I know which phone feels consistently snappier is to work with, and it's not the Android phones.
33Mbit LTE vs 50Mbit won't make much difference in casual browsing.
Shut up Stannis.
I use authy (Google authenticator, improved edition) and just load all my soft tokens in there. Very good program.
I have even followed a very frustrating process to load in my PayPal authenticator in to it.
https://medium.com/@dubistkomi... (really recommend that for PayPal users)
Screw SMS authentication.
Oh and while I'm at it.
I know someone (kinda / tangentially) on the Chrome Dev Team and asked them to consider fixing the damn full screen mode.
On FireFox, if you hit F11, it's beautiful and large, yet if you hit "CTRL-D" you can still DO STUFF, type in URLs, CTRL T works for a new tab, etc, you can browse in this giant beautiful relaxing window, without seeing your tabs most of the time. I don't use it often but sometimes it's nice.
I said "Why does Chromes full screen mode have to render the browser, virtually useless" and the answer was very Apple-esque "our way, or the highway" kind of thing.
Groan, not surprising though.
My girl watches some awful youtube, I recently saw her watch this a week ago and I screamed YES at the television.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
That teenage girl says what half of us have been saying for about 5 or 6 years now, since they started making UIs WORSE instead of better.
Less lines dividing / defining where you can click and what a button is.
Less colours used (red stop / green go) - screw that, let's make it 'flat' colours
No labelling on icons, it's ok there MIGHT be a tooltip if you hover (but try hovering a finger?)
Bad animations slowing things down or not being smart (a great animation could be informative)
The list goes on. My computer is now covered with unlabelled icons. If you were to wipe my memory and put me in front of a modern PC I suspect it'd be much much harder to learn than it was 10 to 20 years ago.
Everything gotta be flat, one colour, LOTS AND LOTS of god damned white. Use shadows / shading / colour to define things. Who cares if it's gaudy? There's ways of doing it nicely.
Modern UI is a shambles. Utter shambles.
You are seventh level delusional.
What a waymo vehicle can do autonomously vs a Tesla doesn't even compare. It's just not even a competition.
I use it quite rarely and I really don't need a bloody notification that a friend has simply uploaded a new picture. I'm not tagged, I wasn't there, it's just them with their kids at the park, what?
It's getting worse.
I seriously can't tell if this post is sarcastic or not?
Sorry, what?
Have you all seen the goddamn fees to use ebay? It's a disgrace.
Maybe people are using it less? I try to avoid selling on there absolutely as much as possible.
(Note: Australian here, being scammed on ebay seems far less likely than in the US)
"When i make $150,000 it's because IT salaries are too high and we need more visas."
I can't tell if you're American or Australian from that comment, but either way, I sympathise.
Samsungs Galaxy S10, to come in 3 sizes, all of which will be curved.
If you'd like a non curved display? We don't care.
We don't offer it, go away. All flagship phones must be curved.
Like putting plastic / glass screen protectors on? Screw you.
Like not accidentally 'palming' your phone when it's in your hand? LOL like we care.
I've whined for 2.5 years about it now, they lost me. The lack of a tactile home button already sucks, very much. However this forced curved thing? Nope. No more sales from me.
Screw em.
ALL Chinese citizens attempting to buy property (money launder) in
Melbourne
Auckland
Sydney
London
San Francisco
Vancouver
Toronto
and anywhere else the young have had their hopes of owning a home, destroyed by a massive influx of foreign wealth driving up prices?
Cmon China, keep your rich people home, please
"Most of the damage that's going to be done in the next 100 years will be done sooner than later"
Based on my very rudimentary knowledge of global warming, exponential curves, runaway effects and what have you. That statement is entirely false?
Also a bit of a scare article. I assume it's implying the 'data sheds' where massive undersea lines terminate are close to the sea (they likely are!) but moving these are probably very very small scale problems in comparison to other issues if the sea rises the distance required to submerge them.
Global warming is bad, how can we tie it to the internet!!!?
Google fed back this response:
"San Francisco, California, United States
Uber/Headquarters"
Based on that piece of information, my confidence in the article is already dropped 75%. The definition of gender discrimination in San Francisco is extremely broad. Who knows what they did, if *anything*.
Endless social justice / politics comes out of that place, it's truly agonising.
Ok I figured as much, Macrobusiness is banned on Reddit Aus entirely, such a joke.
I wonder if the Chinese money will stop personally, it's still safer here than China and if houses drop in value, it's just cheaper for them. A select few, appear to be virtually unlimited with resources. It's a huge disgrace.
I've been waiting for this crash for a decade. I thought the prices were nuts 10 years ago. Thank god it looks like it's finally begun.
(I'm quite concerned about my cash, I'm 100% liquid, worried about bail-in)
Thanks for the response, saves me doing it.
This country is fucked, big big trouble soon and the government (s) have been clueless.
What news sites are you reading to get your (correct) information? Because most places don't have the balls to print the truth that you just did.
We're also running a total population Ponzi scheme at unhinged levels, to cover up economic issues.
. For lack of a better word, we're raping the young of a future here.
I have Facebook lite, it uses way less memory and intrusive crap, it even omits messenger! Huge bonus.
Even the best of the best phones are too slow for me, I want ridiculous quick response doing stuff.
Equality for everyone.
I hope this initiative didn't result in people being refused positions for their skin colour or gender either. Hopefully there was simply more spots available?
In my personal situation, I'm willing to adopt earlier, since I use a proper HTPC as my primary device to watch media. It's just the rippers who need to start adopting it. I'd estimate a bare minimum of 18 months for that too though, considering encoder speed :/
It's only just reached 1.0 and the encoding time of the codec is mind blowingly slow. It makes encoding HEVC look extremely fast.
I'm praying that AV1 takes off in a big big way, I like the idea of a superior codec, saving me disk space and being open source and free, my inner PC hippie is into that.
I don't know if it does every single feature HEVC or 264 does mind you, it might be crap at 10bit or 12bit or something, I just don't know, but my understanding is, it's fairly good.
None the less, it's not going to be replacing anything for several years. You need to wait multiple generations for smartphones, tablets, laptops, PCs, TVs and god knows what else to have new AV1 capable chips in them. Plus the encoder needs obvious, intense optimisation. Honestly the litmus test is when the piracy teams (or at least a few hardcore anime groups) start using the codec.
When I can replace some of my stuff on my NAS, with something at least 33% smaller and identical or better quality, I'm much more interested.
I do wish them well and I hope these hype articles continue, but patience will be a virtue here.
I'm so sick of that site, for over 5 years they've done Geo IP redirection, ensuring if I click their links, I'll be just redirected to the front page of their Aussie web site.
It's some antique internet rubbish. I've even emailed them, it's moronic.
Can I put a hit out on their site here? Can someone please take them out?
To save me re typing some of my longer messages to particular friends. It's going to look bad on my part now