Tech~Covo Home of -jm- AKA juanm ,,, with stuff, some news, an album and so on 2021-01-02T10:18:13+03:00 http://juanm.altervista.org/forum/feed.php?f=13 2021-01-02T10:18:13+03:00 2021-01-02T10:18:13+03:00 http://juanm.altervista.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4275&p=5592#p5592 <![CDATA[Tech news • So long and thanks for all the fish]]> 363

(As per developer instructions, Dec 31st 2020 has ended and so I removed Adobe Flash player from PC. This is the end of an era)

Statistics: Posted by Juanm — Saturday January 2nd, 2021 10h18:13

]]> 2020-07-20T13:08:35+03:00 2020-07-20T13:08:35+03:00 http://juanm.altervista.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4274&p=5591#p5591 <![CDATA[Tech news • Flash player will be terminated by the end of the year]]>

When is the Flash Player end-of-life (EOL)?

As previously announced in July 2017, Adobe will stop distributing and updating Flash Player after December 31, 2020 (“EOL Date”). We made this announcement in collaboration with several of our technology partners – including Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla – which issued complementary announcements with more technical detail on what the Flash Player EOL will mean for developers, enterprises, and consumers using their specific OS environments or browsers. 


There will be NO update after December 2020, NO download will remain available.


Users will be prompted by Adobe to uninstall Flash Player on their machines later this year and Flash-based content will be blocked from running in Adobe Flash Player after the EOL Date.


(all quoted content comes from here: https://www.adobe.com/products/flashpla ... -life.html)

This is the end of a 20 years experience, started with Macromedia Flash player and then continued under Adobe. Until now.

The evolution of open standards is cited as the main reason for the phase-out

Statistics: Posted by Juanm — Monday July 20th, 2020 13h08:35

]]> 2020-01-29T16:55:38+03:00 2020-01-29T16:55:38+03:00 http://juanm.altervista.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4263&p=5578#p5578 <![CDATA[Tech news • Bye bye, EA Tetris]]> iframe
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Game developer EA has announced via app updates that they will be ‘retiring’, or pulling Tetris apps in the App Store on the 21st of April this year. Support will be ended for Tetris Blitz, Tetris 2011 and Tetris Premium.

In the updates section, EA mentioned that players will still be able to run the apps and use in-game items until April of 2020. Keep in mind that you’ll need to consume all in-app purchases before the Tetris apps are officially gone.

Tetris games on iOS to retire in April
The same happens for Google Play version, already retired.

The game will go down on April 21st 2020. so sorry to see it go

Statistics: Posted by Juanm — Wednesday January 29th, 2020 16h55:38

]]> 2020-01-28T10:24:22+03:00 2020-01-28T10:24:22+03:00 http://juanm.altervista.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4072&p=5577#p5577 <![CDATA[Tech news • Re: Critical patches for Adobe Acrobat, Shockwave and Flash]]> Statistics: Posted by Juanm — Tuesday January 28th, 2020 10h24:22

]]> 2020-01-27T17:31:07+03:00 2020-01-27T17:31:07+03:00 http://juanm.altervista.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4262&p=5576#p5576 <![CDATA[Tech news • En.wiki has more than 6M articles]]> 324

Congratulations to all editors

The article count on en-Wiki surpassed 6,000,000 at about 18:59 UTC on January 23. Due to the limitations of the software and the volume of article creations at about that time, it is impossible to determine exactly when the milestone was reached. The symbolic 6,000,000th article was decided by consensus to be Maria Elise Turner Lauder written by User:Rosiestep. [cut]
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CoffeandCrumbs told The Signpost in detail how the symbolic article was chosen, saying it is impossible to exactly identify the 6,000,000th article. "We don't know if a redirect (with an old creation date) that was converted to an article or disambiguation page was what brought us over the threshold, or which of the new articles created that same minute was the one. Like in all things on Wikipedia, consensus should reign supreme and consensus determined that Rosiestep's article deserved recognition."

Fifteen articles which were created at 18:59 UTC on January were screened for quality. The entire decision process may be viewed at Wikipedia talk:Six million articles.

full article here

Statistics: Posted by Juanm — Monday January 27th, 2020 17h31:07

]]> 2020-01-16T15:01:10+03:00 2020-01-16T13:39:11+03:00 http://juanm.altervista.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4261&p=5565#p5565 <![CDATA[Tech news • Is RSS still alive?]]> 6 years ago.

What about browsers?
  • Firefox removed its core support since version 64.0 (December 11th, 2018)
  • Chrome removed its RSS add-on few weeks after Google reader shutdown
  • Opera removed Opera mail (containing also RSS reader) with Opera 15, back in February 2013
  • Safari removed its built in RSS reader back in June 10th, 2013
  • Samsung Internet is a Chromium fork. But Chromium has less features than Google Chrome
  • Yabrowser (Yandex browser) is a Chromium based one

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The only major browser to support RSS is Internet Explorer.
Well, we have a trouble. A severe trouble. The standard might be dead or dying ...

Statistics: Posted by Juanm — Thursday January 16th, 2020 13h39:11

]]> 2020-01-10T14:02:01+03:00 2020-01-10T14:02:01+03:00 http://juanm.altervista.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=867&p=5560#p5560 <![CDATA[Tech news • Re: Google Plus will add support for nicknames in few days]]> passed away in 2019, the source link can be traced here
https://web.archive.org/web/20120124085 ... M5RjubbMmV

Statistics: Posted by Juanm — Friday January 10th, 2020 14h02:01

]]> 2017-01-03T03:28:25+03:00 2017-01-03T03:28:25+03:00 http://juanm.altervista.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4114&p=5293#p5293 <![CDATA[Tech news • Freedom of speech vs fighting fake news]]>
  • If you want to kick fake news in the butt, you might want to sacrificate some degrees ('till all) of freedom of speech, including your own one. A Chinese style network has no fake news (apart for the gov propaganda, defined as true by the government) and no freedom of speech at all.
  • If you want to preserve your freedom of speech you have to tolerate a certain dose of fake news hanging around.

And btw the anonimity online is accessory to freedom of speech, so it should be defended as much as possible.
Tools to punish people spreading fake news are already present and they are the same used to punish libel or other freedom of speech abuse.

BTW we have some example of fakenews spread by main stream media, the same who are crying against fakenews in so called populist media.

Here we go

  1. Italian banks are solid (2008 - today, all Italian media)
  2. Monte Paschi (Italian bank) is a good deal (jan 22nd 2016, all Italian media)
  3. After Donald Trump victory the stocks will plummet (hum .. they raised ... all financial media oct-nov 2016, all over the world)
  4. russians hacked electricity grid in Vermont (WaPost, late 2016 ... Vermont grid officials said it was a non grid infected laptop)

:badgrin:

Statistics: Posted by Juanm — Tuesday January 3rd, 2017 03h28:25

]]> 2016-11-10T16:10:47+03:00 2016-11-10T16:10:47+03:00 http://juanm.altervista.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4112&p=5290#p5290 <![CDATA[Tech news • Re: TwitterFeed bites the dust]]>
Mario, twitterfeed founder wrote:
Howdy, Twitterfeeders!

We're writing to let you know that Twitterfeed will be shutting its doors on October 31st, 2016. It's been one heck of a run and we can't thank you enough for your loyal usage and support over the years.

If you're looking for a service similar to Twitterfeed to continue using in our absence, we recommend checking out the good folks at Buffer (https://buffer.com) or Dlvr.it (https://dlvr.it)

Thanks again for all the feeds!

- Mario
Founder, Twitterfeed
https://twitterfeed.com/
139 5th Ave. New York, NY 10010

Statistics: Posted by Juanm — Thursday November 10th, 2016 16h10:47

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TwitterFeed closed on October 31st 2016. No email notification detected, no reason provided.
If someone is not following them or other RSS related communities, the only way to realize they were down was seeing no more bot posts on the TL.

They recommend to switch to dlvr.it, another web company providing free and paid plans. Bit.ly (their parent company) apparently doesn't offer autoposting or bot posting.

Statistics: Posted by Juanm — Tuesday November 8th, 2016 15h33:08

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