Miscellaneous Tech News
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
calc.exe is now open source; there’s surprising depth in its ancient code
The actual calculation engine is more than 20 years old.
The repository shows Calculator's surprisingly long history. Although it is in some regards one of the most modern Windows applications—it's an early adopter of Fluent Design and has been used to showcase a number of design elements—core parts of the codebase date all the way back to 1995.
Cool cool. . . Now let's resurrect clippy from the great beyond and open source that code! Clippy is back baby!
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I really do kind of miss Clippy and his useless, but continual nagging. . .
It would be great to have clippy attached to an AI. So when you're working in word or whatever program it realizes you screwed up and says "Hey Dumbass. . ."
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I really do kind of miss Clippy and his useless, but continual nagging. . .
It would be great to have clippy attached to an AI. So when you're working in word or whatever program it realizes you screwed up and says "Hey Dumbass. . ."
I can just see it now. Clipping popping out and saying, "Hey, we need to make your computer more secure. I'm gonna install updates for you at 3AM. Make sure you save your work."
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
calc.exe is now open source; there’s surprising depth in its ancient code
The actual calculation engine is more than 20 years old.
The repository shows Calculator's surprisingly long history. Although it is in some regards one of the most modern Windows applications—it's an early adopter of Fluent Design and has been used to showcase a number of design elements—core parts of the codebase date all the way back to 1995.
Cool cool. . . Now let's resurrect clippy from the great beyond and open source that code! Clippy is back baby!
i liked Rover, but i think its because he was a dog.
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GNOME Recipes on Fedora
https://fedoramagazine.org/get-cooking-with-gnome-recipes-on-fedora/ -
@black3dynamite Saw that yesterday. Got it installed and I like it. Lot of nice features, just hoping more recipes get added contnually.
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You can now play PlayStation 4 games on your iPhone
The PS4's 6.50 firmware update adds support for an iOS remote play app.
Today, Sony released its 6.50 firmware for PlayStation 4 systems. The tentpole feature of the update is support for remote play to iOS devices like iPhones and iPads. The release coincided with the release of a "PS4 Remote Play" app on the Apple App Store.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
You can now play PlayStation 4 games on your iPhone
The PS4's 6.50 firmware update adds support for an iOS remote play app.
Today, Sony released its 6.50 firmware for PlayStation 4 systems. The tentpole feature of the update is support for remote play to iOS devices like iPhones and iPads. The release coincided with the release of a "PS4 Remote Play" app on the Apple App Store.
why do people want this? you pretty much have to be home to use it - why not just play on the read deal on the TV for a better experience?
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
You can now play PlayStation 4 games on your iPhone
The PS4's 6.50 firmware update adds support for an iOS remote play app.
Today, Sony released its 6.50 firmware for PlayStation 4 systems. The tentpole feature of the update is support for remote play to iOS devices like iPhones and iPads. The release coincided with the release of a "PS4 Remote Play" app on the Apple App Store.
why do people want this? you pretty much have to be home to use it - why not just play on the read deal on the TV for a better experience?
Because they can, obviously and the mindless drones need to be entertained as frequently as possible.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
You can now play PlayStation 4 games on your iPhone
The PS4's 6.50 firmware update adds support for an iOS remote play app.
Today, Sony released its 6.50 firmware for PlayStation 4 systems. The tentpole feature of the update is support for remote play to iOS devices like iPhones and iPads. The release coincided with the release of a "PS4 Remote Play" app on the Apple App Store.
why do people want this? you pretty much have to be home to use it - why not just play on the read deal on the TV for a better experience?
Because they can, obviously and the mindless drones need to be entertained as frequently as possible.
I'm really trying to think this through.
I suppose the main thing I can come up with is the parents are watching the only TV in the house - and the kid takes their iPhone somewhere and plays PS on the iPhone - but damn.. if the Kid has an iPhone - I can't believe they don't have a second TV for the PS. And it's pretty damned unlikely they have a Sony Android phone either.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
if the Kid has an iPhone - I can't believe they don't have a second TV for the PS.
We don't.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
you pretty much have to be home to use it - why not just play on the read deal on the TV for a better experience?
What is the "pretty much" here? Is it that you have to be home? Or can you not be home?
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I can't believe they don't have a second TV for the PS. And it's pretty damned unlikely they have a Sony Android phone either.
We have four, but moving a video game device around is annoying.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I can't believe they don't have a second TV for the PS. And it's pretty damned unlikely they have a Sony Android phone either.
We have four, but moving a video game device around is annoying.
Then you kick the person who's watching tv to another TV, problem solved.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
you pretty much have to be home to use it - why not just play on the read deal on the TV for a better experience?
What is the "pretty much" here? Is it that you have to be home? Or can you not be home?
The article said it does not work over LTE - but didn't test using WiFi from another network - so I'm assuming it's a primarily if not exclusively used at home/same place where the PS is.
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Disney to close “vault” for good as it moves film library to streaming service
Exclusive streaming rights to titles like Frozen will encourage subscriptions.
Disney is rapidly preparing to launch its own streaming service, dubbed Disney+, later this year. While the debut date is still unknown, we now know that the service will include the entire Disney movie library shortly after the service launches. According to a report in Polygon, Disney CEO Bob Iger explained the strategy to investors at a meeting in St. Louis, Missouri, pointing at the retirement of Disney's longstanding "vault."
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More from the wonderful world of Microsoft updates...
https://www.pcgamer.com/a-recent-windows-10-update-is-hurting-game-performance-and-messing-with-mice/ -
Citrix today warned its customers that foreign hackers romped through its internal company network and stole corporate secrets.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/08/citrix_hacked_data_stolen/
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A brief history of Wi-Fi security protocols from “oh my, that’s bad” to WPA3
Enjoy our primer on the ups and downs of Wi-Fi protocols since the mid-1990s.
Thanks to upcoming developments in Wi-Fi, all of us connectivity-heads out there can look forward to getting familiar with new 802.11 protocols in the near future. Ars took a deep look at what's on the horizon last fall, but readers seemed to have a clear request in response—the time had come to specifically discuss the new Wi-Fi security protocol, WPA3.
