The General Technology Thread

[actaeon277]

They'll end up like this:

Worthy of the funny pics thread.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Working in an Office 365/Skype/Lync environment? Have a "Conversation History" folder in your Outlook?

Careful who you delegate access to your mail, they might snoop through that folder and print out your conversations and bring them up with HR

 

[Hop]

Working in an Office 365/Skype/Lync environment? Have a "Conversation History" folder in your Outlook?

Careful who you delegate access to your mail, they might snoop through that folder and print out your conversations and bring them up with HR

I'm a Notes Admin. Admins already have full access and were instructed by management, not just HR, to search/retrieve messages.

I'm sure Outlook works the same, when it works, I HATE O365 especially now that Teams has been pushed out as mandatory by Corporate.

Using Tapatalk to annoy my INGO buddies cameramonkey & churchmouse. Hi!

 

[jkaetz]

Working in an Office 365/Skype/Lync environment? Have a "Conversation History" folder in your Outlook?

Careful who you delegate access to your mail, they might snoop through that folder and print out your conversations and bring them up with HR

Isn't this an obvious one for people? Don't say something in a company provided communication environment that you don't want seen by the company?

 

[Sigblitz]

Wanted to share a picture. Street lights with solar and wind power. There are wind turbines spinning under the solar panels.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Isn't this an obvious one for people? Don't say something in a company provided communication environment that you don't want seen by the company?

For the most part, yeah. Though I think less of the person that did the snooping than I do of the person that was talking ****.

These are just two regular users, too. Lot of users give each other access to their inbox for when they go on vacation, etc. Going outside that scope of responsibility and taking advantage of it to dig into their conversations is a ****ty thing to do.

I talk **** all the time, but I'm also the admin, and clean up after myself.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Online lyric service Genius hid a Morse code message in song lyrics to prove Google was copying them to its own search page

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Cleveland Clinic successfully performed its first in utero fetal surgery to repair a spina bifida birth defect.

 

[historian]

Online lyric service Genius hid a Morse code message in song lyrics to prove Google was copying them to its own search page

That's....



Genius

 

[Phase2]

Own a Samsung QLED TV? They are recommending you run a virus scan on it. Well, it is an internet-connected computer...

Samsung asks users to please virus-scan their TVs

Now, about all those IOT gadgets you've installed...

 

[jkaetz]

Own a Samsung QLED TV? They are recommending you run a virus scan on it. Well, it is an internet-connected computer...

Samsung asks users to please virus-scan their TVs

Now, about all those IOT gadgets you've installed...

time to start segregating your network people. Not that it will stop the massive bot nets that will inevitably be created by wifi toilets and garbage cans.

The "smart" TV craze is just another way to advertise to you. How I long for the days of high quality dumb TVs again. Imagine what could be done if they would devote all that compute power to picture quality instead of advertising.

 

[BugI02]

Segregated networks? Sounds raysist

 

[Cameramonkey]

time to start segregating your network people. Not that it will stop the massive bot nets that will inevitably be created by wifi toilets and garbage cans.

The "smart" TV craze is just another way to advertise to you. How I long for the days of high quality dumb TVs again. Imagine what could be done if they would devote all that compute power to picture quality instead of advertising.

The CEO of Vizio all but outright admitted they are harvesting our info and monetizing it. He said that if they started making a separate line of "dumb" TVs, they would have to charge more for them than the smart versions because they wouldnt have any data on the back end from us to monetize.

 

[jkaetz]

The CEO of Vizio all but outright admitted they are harvesting our info and monetizing it. He said that if they started making a separate line of "dumb" TVs, they would have to charge more for them than the smart versions because they wouldnt have any data on the back end from us to monetize.

I suppose when i finally get one I'll have to either not connect it or setup a new network that can only route to destinations explicitly allowed.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Joe Rogan had Bob Lazar and Jeremy Corbell on to talk Area 51 and flying saucers.

May be an interesting listen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEWz4SXfyCQ

Also a bunch of shorter clips from it on the JRE Clips youtube channel

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Facebook and Google could be forced to tell you how much your data is worth under new US legislation

 

[PistolBob]

On the technolgy front....Raspberry Pi folks announced the brand new Raspberry Pi 4B today. It's a big improvement over the model 3.

Quad Core Processor at 1.5 Ghz
2 Micro HDMI Ports
2 USB 3 ports
2 USB 2 ports
A real live 1GB ethernet port
WIFI
Bluetooth 5.0
1GB RAM
Composite Video Output/Heandphone Jack

All for $35

Add 3GB of RAM for a total of 4GB and the price is $55.00

Saweeeeet

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Touching on the unspoken scientific/biology side of this thread... my wife just figured out she has Aphantasia.

She can't imagine things and see them... whereas I can see anything I want, manipulate it, impose it into the world, hear things, smell things, even convince myself I'm feeling touch sensations...

Was an interesting ride home from work conversation. Asking her weird questions, she definitely couldn't give a clear answer

Apparently affects 1-3% of people. Here's a goofy video she found today that sort of explains it. Like your brain computer not having a monitor

[video=youtube;ewsGmhAjjjI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewsGmhAjjjI[/video]

 

[BoilerWes]

Joe Rogan had Bob Lazar and Jeremy Corbell on to talk Area 51 and flying saucers.

May be an interesting listen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEWz4SXfyCQ

Also a bunch of shorter clips from it on the JRE Clips youtube channel

I really enjoyed it. Interesting stuff. Just finished the Netflix documentary as well.

 

[KLB]

Touching on the unspoken scientific/biology side of this thread... my wife just figured out she has Aphantasia.

She can't imagine things and see them... whereas I can see anything I want, manipulate it, impose it into the world, hear things, smell things, even convince myself I'm feeling touch sensations...

Was an interesting ride home from work conversation. Asking her weird questions, she definitely couldn't give a clear answer

Apparently affects 1-3% of people. Here's a goofy video she found today that sort of explains it. Like your brain computer not having a monitor

Hmm.. I never thought about it, but I probably have that too. I would put myself in the 0-2 range at best.

I never had any issues reading like she says she does though. Quite the opposite.