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    Facebook Outage Caused by BGP Routing Error

    What? Facebook was down? Didn't notice.
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    Firefox Send Is a Free File Transfer Service Featuring Encryption

    I've been using this for over a year. It was beta, but worked great.
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    Star Wars Episode 1: Racer Reimagined in Unreal Engine 4

    I remember when I was in school a guy had this game for N64. It looked like shit to me, as I was used to PC gaming. It was fun though.
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    Adobe to Kill Shockwave in April

    Didn't know it still existed. Better late than never.
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    Microsoft Announces the Open Sourcing of Windows Calculator

    I wouldn't be surprised if someone finds a serious bug in the calculator code, like a privilege escalation o worse. Microsoft has a talent for those kind of things.
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    Backblaze Analyzes SSD Reliability

    My 1TB Spinpoint F1 died a couple years ago... I had it since around 2007. Most reliable HDD I ever had. Still, HDDs have been very unreliable fire the for decade.
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    Backblaze Analyzes SSD Reliability

    There was a firmware bug that caused data loss and the drive was recognized as having 8MB capacity. I never saw a drive with that problem though.
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    Backblaze Analyzes SSD Reliability

    RAID 5/6 is not recommended anymmore, as rebuid times takes ages on modern high capacity drives and poses a risk of another drive dying during the rebuild. Most storage arrays now use RAID 10.
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    Backblaze Analyzes SSD Reliability

    I've had only 3 SSDs deaths. Two of those are OCZ Vertex 4, the other one is a Samsung 840 Evo, but this one died because of a short circuit along with the motherboard (apparently a mouse peed inside the computer). The most worn-out drives are various models of 120GB ADATA branded drives used...
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    Rumor: AMD Ryzen 3000 "Matisse" Launching July 7

    I don't think there will be a 16 core part for AM4, just doesn't make much sense. I may be wrong.
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    Facebook Faces a Multi-Billion Dollar Fine for Its Privacy Practices

    "for Its Privacy Practices" Haha, I'll rephrase it "for it's lack of privacy". The only privacy they practice is hiding the identity of who they sell their user's info to.
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    The Army's Next-Generation Rifle Will Be "The iPhone of Lethality," Officials Say

    So this rifle will be bend-prone, will have (trigger) touch issues, sometimes it will not respond, other times it'll fire on it's own. Ammo can only be purchased from the rifle manufacture's store, when something breaks you need to replace the whole thing, you have to take it to a certified...
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    Thousands of IoT Refrigerators Worldwide Are Using Default Passwords

    Hmm, let's use them for the Pied Piper network!
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    Google Uses TensorFlow to Fight Spam Emails

    I get tons of scam and phishing emails to my gmail account, so the filter seems to not be working. Then, emails I send from my own domain and server get identified as phishing by gmail despite my server having a good reputation and not being in any blacklist.
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    Intel to Discontinue the Last of the Itaniums

    Is there any special application where using Itanium has any advantage to using x86 (or Power for that matter)?
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    Intel Xeon W-3175X Is the Fastest Workstation Processor on the Market

    The post says: " In some testing, the Coreprio utility helped uplift the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX performance to a virtual tie with the Intel Xeon W-3175X."
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    Intel Xeon W-3175X Is the Fastest Workstation Processor on the Market

    I'll say it's the hottest computer product ever!
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    Windows 10 Mobile Is Officially Dead

    Windows 10 Mobile was already dead, it just had been in denial all this time.
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    Future Windows 10 Builds Will Reserve Storage and Tabulate It

    I've seen systems get infected with cryptoviruses or mining viruses by just being connected to the internet behind a firewall, even systems that don't her user interaction like test VMs or db severs.
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    Microsoft's Direct3D Team Mounts Old GPUs on Their Office Wall

    Yeah I remember the Riva TNT. With that I could play Quake II at 1024x768 (or was it 800x600?) and it looked great. The early days saw big jumps in performance from generation to generation, unlike now.
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    Microsoft's Direct3D Team Mounts Old GPUs on Their Office Wall

    Very nice idea. Brings back many memories, good and bad. My first graphics accelerator (or dececelerator) was an S3 Virge I bought to play Descent II with hardware rendering. Big mistake.
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    Future Windows 10 Builds Will Reserve Storage and Tabulate It

    True. When I haven't updated my mom's computer in several months (it runs Manjaro) there are a lot of pending updates. In fact, most of the OS AND programs get updated, and the download size is at must a little over 1GB. Linux reserves by default 5% of any given filesystem for root (so if the /...
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    Intel Introduces New 9th Gen Desktop Processors

    Well, I'm impatiently awaiting AMD's conference today.
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    Intel Introduces New 9th Gen Desktop Processors

    I think it should be called 7th gen refresh refresh. Or better yet, Skylake refresh refresh refresh.
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    Google Chrome's New UI Is Ugly, and People Are Very Angry

    The import wizard will move everything, bookmarks, history, passwords and even cookies. As for the "mess" with bookmarks, you can easily order them in the FF bookmark manger. Why change? You get to try something new. You like it, great, you don't like it, then it's fine. It won't be much of a...
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    Google Chrome's New UI Is Ugly, and People Are Very Angry

    You can tell FF to import everything from Chrome for you. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-bookmarks-data-another-browser There's also FF for Android and you can sync your devices with FF Sync.
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    RAM Makers Plan to Cut Production Even Further

    Yes and no. ECC RAM usually does not have ultra-low timings as performance oriented modules have, but the timings agre comparable to mainstream RAM modules. My experience had been that you can use lower timings in ECC modules than what the SPD advertises.
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    RAM Makers Plan to Cut Production Even Further

    Forgot to mention, DDR3 ECC UDIMMs work in consumer boards, at least it has in every one I've tested (many Gigabyte, Zotac and AsRock in mATX or ITX form factor). ECC RAM is cheaper than non-ECC RAM, so you can upgrade RAM for cheap. Of course, you won't get any ECC functionality.
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    RAM Makers Plan to Cut Production Even Further

    The only DDR4 rig I owned was a Skylake ITX build, from a time you could buy a decent kit of 16GB of DDR4-2400 for $75. As RAM prices are still insane, I've dedicated myself to build systems from old parts I got laying around and used ones from eBay. DDR3 prices are ridiculously low, I got 16GB...
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    Ryzen 3000 Processors Listed on Russian Retail Site

    Could this be a scam site? How could they be selling unannounced unreleased products? I'm sure Zen2 will be great, but I'm skeptical about those clocks.
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    Epic Games to Launch an App Store to Compete with Google and Apple

    Sounds good, except it's Epic Games we're taking about. Well go from bad to much worse.
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    After 9 Years, Half-Life 2: MMod Is Available for Download

    Nice! Makes me want to play it again.
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    Apple's Former Marketing Director Says He Returned a Bent iPad

    Why do people complain about this? The are curved monitors, now Apple gives you curved tablets. It's a feature.
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    Google Chrome's New UI Is Ugly, and People Are Very Angry

    I never liked the look and "feel" of Chrome, and the new look I like even less. Forcing change on people is bad, forcing stupid superfluous (aesthetic) changes on people is bad and stupid.
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    PlayStation Classic with RetroArch Runs Games Better Than the Stock Emulator

    Sure, 8bitdo controllers are awesome for retro gaming. I have a Zero, a NES30 Pro and a SN30 Pro and play old games with my kids on a Fire 4K (2015)
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    Could Microsoft Release a Desktop Linux?

    And they'll f*ck up their Linux or DM with every update
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    Former NASA Engineer Makes a Box That Tortures Package Thieves

    I would have used something that really ruined clothes, upholstery and walls, paint, inkjet ink or similar. I would also use something that scares the shit out of them, something like a high db alarm siren that cannot be turned off or a flashbang.
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