Miscellaneous Tech News
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 Microsoft suspends development of touch-friendly Office apps for Windows... The focus is on the iOS, Android, Web, and Win32 versions of the apps. 
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 Microsoft offers completely passwordless authentication for online apps, opting for phone based authentication instead. 
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 @scottalanmiller didn't like it anyway 
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 @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News: Microsoft offers completely passwordless authentication for online apps, opting for phone based authentication instead. Password vs PIN? Still something you have to type, arguably not as good as keeping a password with the OTP. A phone missing for a few hours could easily go without being reported - and guessing a PIN might not be as hard some some think. But meh - I guess they are getting there.  
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 DigitalOcean now supports Custom Images https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/images/custom-images/overview/ Custom ISO's by the end of the year 
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 I didn't see this elsewhere yet, so here you go. Free transfer between Backblaze and Cloudflare: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-and-cloudflare-partner-to-provide-free-data-transfer/ Sweetness. 
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 @dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News: UNMS 0.13.0 
 https://github.com/Ubiquiti-App/UNMS/releases/tag/v0.13.0Different Login Screen 
  
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 Sounds like the Linux Devs are not overly happy with this new Code of Conduct: 
 https://lulz.com/linux-devs-threaten-killswitch-coc-controversy-1252/
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 @stuartjordan yeah I think @JaredBusch posted a link about this the other day. The rules that exist today someone exclude everyone who isn't a straight white male from contributing. . . If I was a more daring person I might actually have an opinion of this. . . This is news to me. . 
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 @black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/10/hardware-acceleration-chrome-linux Basically... use Firefox. 









