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  1. xdcc send

  2. Re:Prices are actually falling on GPU Prices Soar as Bitcoin Miners Buy Up Hardware To Build Rigs (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Some of us just want a cheap CUDA device for playing around with.

  3. Re:Also prices are down 25% on GPU Prices Soar as Bitcoin Miners Buy Up Hardware To Build Rigs (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You'd think someone would have worked out how to make an ASIC that took cheap RAM modules.

    There are multiple tutorials on getting FPGAs working with generic DDR3. FPGAs were stepping stones to ASICs for Bitcoin, there should be some board out there that can handle memory intensive coins.

  4. Re:Nostalgia on Ubuntu Linux 18.04 LTS 'Bionic Beaver' Beta 2 Now Available (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    For desktop or server? When did they break those apart?

  5. Re:Wow, Yes, EXCITING! on Ubuntu Linux 18.04 LTS 'Bionic Beaver' Beta 2 Now Available (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Ubuntu has hit industry and pretty much the only option from most companies for those that prefer .deb over .rpm.

    Companies usually target LTS and LTS-1 for this reason. Most of my tools are on 14.04 and 16.04. Knowing that 18.04 is coming and in beta means that I can get out ahead of the curve and figure out what's broken and what scripts I need to write to prepare for our migration.

    Knowing how we roll things out that may come 2019, but I can at least start preparing now in my 'down time'. Or I can sit on my hands until bossman says "We're moving to 18.04 LTS" and give them a deer in the headlights look and expect breakage like my peers.

    This is about as much news for nerds in industry as you can get.

  6. Re:Why Apple gets away with this bullshit on Latest macOS Update Disables DisplayLink, Rendering Thousands of Monitors Dead (displaylink.com) · · Score: 1

    They display 4k. Not sure what more features you want? I have 2x 42" TVs that I got on blackfriday for under $300.

    Displays 4k@60Hz. I don't game and that's the realestate of 8 1080p screens for under $600.

    4 HDMI in that can easily be switched. CEC to control what computer is displayed

  7. Re:Displaylink sucks anyway on Latest macOS Update Disables DisplayLink, Rendering Thousands of Monitors Dead (displaylink.com) · · Score: 1

    DisplayLink is a 3rd party "Video over USB" company. Trying to find out more about them I question their tech more than Apple.

    https://www.displaylink.com/ Doesn't resolve.

    https://displaylink.com/ SSL broken.

  8. Almost all cars are using RISC.

    https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/da...

  9. Re:Marketing on Adobe Is Helping Some 60 Companies Track People Across Devices (neowin.net) · · Score: 2

    Hyper targeted ads suck. I search for some tool and now all I see is those ads? It was a cursory search.

    I've bought many more things from ads that target a demographic where I visit online. Camping ads on a camping forum. Tech ads on Slashdot, etc.

  10. Re:Use our Postal System as their Delivery Boy? on President Trump Slams Amazon For 'Causing Tremendous Loss To the United States' (cnet.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If they want to go after someone that is abusing the USPS it's the Chinese sellers that use international postal law to get the USPS to pay the expensive last mile.

  11. Re:Next: "Everybody can do brain surgery!" on Apple Trains Chicago Teachers To Put Coding In More Classrooms (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    And yet we introduce the concepts that those brain surgeons will use in primary school.

  12. Millennials are discerning. on Forget Millennials, the Internet's Most Wanted Users Are Older -- and Poorer (wsj.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Facebook is overrun by old people that didn't grow up with the internet and believe anything they see.

  13. Re:USENET was pretty good on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Good Alternative to Facebook? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    So we need an updated KILL script. Where it filters by grading reading level, etc.

  14. Re:USENET was pretty good on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Good Alternative to Facebook? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone just needs to make a distributed moderation service / protocol. Let people run their own, let people subscribe to others.

    I would happily pay for a service that let me filter Usenet into something usable.

  15. Re:time to bring back USENET? :) on Reddit Bans Subreddits Related To Selling Guns, Drugs, Sex, and More (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Most nntp servers have hooks for hooks to check content.

    Just make sure that every post is at an 8th grade reading level.

    Offer paid 'moderation services'. For $1/month you can get a 'white list' of comments to fetch and read and all of the spam gets modded immediately at -10 because they don't.

    Or this: https://xkcd.com/810/

  16. Re:time to bring back USENET? :) on Reddit Bans Subreddits Related To Selling Guns, Drugs, Sex, and More (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Then they can unsubscribe from that 'moderation server' and subscribe to another one.

    Everyone talking at once in one place would be great, let people choose what filter they want to see the world through.

  17. Re:time to bring back USENET? :) on Reddit Bans Subreddits Related To Selling Guns, Drugs, Sex, and More (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It just needs a moderation protocol on top of it. Let people subscribe to what ever moderation service they want to read USENET with.

  18. Re:Institutional memory down the drain on Cutting 'Old Heads' at IBM (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    How much of it is dead weight promoting and developing stillborn technologies like ClearCase, JazzSCM, DOORS, etc?

    IBM has a massive catalog of terrible software that they like to shove down the throats of businesses. Business are realizing that stuff like Git is a lot cheaper in the long run.

  19. Re:We're spinning plates on Ask Slashdot: Were Developments In Technology More Exciting 30 Years Ago? · · Score: 0

    Ignorant millennial, how was Gopher to use?

  20. Stop giving me a half finished, half documented "open source" operating system that still puts me in your ecosystem.

    I just want uboot, fastboot and mainline support.

    My current 'HTPC' is a device that I SSH to and run mpv from. I don't want your GUI stack. Just let me write my own stack.

  21. Re:Wow on IBM Unveils the 'World's Smallest Computer' (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    They have to find something to prop up the part of the business trying to sell their own SCM. A lot of companies are dumping ClearCase and Jazz SCM and moving to git.

    Although it seems like we'll never be free of DOORS.

  22. Ultra SoC on IBM Unveils the 'World's Smallest Computer' (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    So they added some memory to an existing SoC?

    It can also do basic AI tasks, such as sorting the data it's given

    So it's a bunch of integer calculators. uint8 or uint16. Like the old FPU less machines of yester year.

  23. Re:A lot of words for a simple concept on Say Goodbye To the Information Age: It's All About Reputation Now (aeon.co) · · Score: 1

    Back in my day we called it 'moderation'. For example you're discussing on a website where you trust the people to moderate out comments that aren't worth reading.

  24. Re:That assumes... on Say Goodbye To the Information Age: It's All About Reputation Now (aeon.co) · · Score: 2

    You make the assumption that everyone wants the same thing. Not everyone watches Entertainment Tonight and talks politics on Facebook.

    I would pay money, good money, to participate on a website with quality discussion. I would imagine other people are the same.

    Some people are always trying to outrun the "Eternal September" that came to their platform. Facebook used to require a college e-mail account.

  25. PGP? Regular E-mail? Usenet? on Encrypted Email Service ProtonMail is Being Blocked in Turkey (protonmail.com) · · Score: 1

    Everything is an encrypted communication service if you know what you're doing.