Last minute geek

1. Dropbox aggiorna le app iOS e Android
(Italiano/webnews)

Le nuove app mobile di Dropbox permettono di controllare le attività effettuate sui file dai colleghi di lavoro e aggiungere facilmente i commenti. The post Dropbox aggiorna le app iOS e Android appeared ...

2. Canonical finally comments on Ubuntu Linux Snap Store security failure
(English/Betanews)

... other submissions. The apps will eventually be re-listed without the mining code. Today, the company breaks its silence, finally commenting officially on this fiasco. The big question is whether or not ...

3. Instagram consente di scaricare tutte le foto
(Italiano/webnews)

Anche Instagram offre un tool per il download dei dati condivisi sul social network, tra cui foto, video, messaggi, like e commenti, per rispettare il GDPR. The post Instagram consente di scaricare tutte ...

4. A Comment on the Military Industrial Complex
(English/WTF)

... is going. Simon left off his closing } on the comment, which handily provided a closing curly brace, essentially commenting out the entire body of the if statement. In their testing, they’d somehow ...

5. Facebook testa il pulsante downvote
(Italiano/webnews)

Facebook ha iniziato a testare il pulsante downvote che permette agli iscritti di segnalare i commenti inappropriati. Read all  ...

6. Google Drive enables commenting on Microsoft Office files
(English/engadget)

It's not that hard to convert Microsoft Office files into G Suite docs, sheets or slides, so you and your teammates or clients can collaborate via Google Drive. But thing is, it's just so much ...

7. Trump calls Americans who don't clap for him 'treasonous,' 'Un-American' while stock market drops
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

'President' Donald Trump used the word 'treason' when commenting today on the behavior of Democratic lawmakers people at his shitty State of the Union address last week. They failed to clap, smile, or ...

8. Instagram, commenti diretti dal feed
(Italiano/webnews)

Instagram offre un nuovo modo più rapido per commentare i post; gli utenti potranno commentare le foto direttamente dal loro feed. Read all

9. Instagram adds commenting directly from the photo feed
(English/engadget)

We wouldn't say that commenting on an Instagram post is a hassle, but it is slower than it could be. Wouldn't it be nice if you could simply share your thoughts while you're still in your ...

10. Facebook testa i commenti privati
(Italiano/webnews)

Facebook ha iniziato a testare la possibilità di scegliere chi potrà visualizzare un commento per migliorare la privacy degli iscritti. Read all

11. WHOIS: How Could I Have Been So Blind?
(English/CircleID)

A colleague was recently commenting on an article by Michele Neylon "European Data Protection Authorities Send Clear Message to ICANN” citing the EU Data Commissioners of the Article 29 Working Party, ...

12. Disqus has been acquired by marketing firm Zeta Global
(English/Betanews)

Interacting with BetaNews -- and countless other websites -- means making use of the Disqus commenting system. Today the firm has been acquired by "marketing technology company" Zeta Global. Disqus says ...

13. YouTube stars gone wild
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... amount of time to watching her videos, commenting on her posts, and setting up stan accounts in her likeness. When they saw someone had hurt her on Saturday night, that fanbase didn’t ask questions. But ...

14. Foxit Reader 9 unveils single-key accelerators, plus improves search, commenting and accessibility tools
(English/Betanews)

... accelerators among other changes, but also adds a new single-column Reflow view and features notable updates to the program’s commenting features and search tools. The headline new feature in version 9 ...

15. The FCC Robocall Proceeding: International Insularity
(English/CircleID)

... commenting parties even responded to the question of international calls — and only to simplistically restate the question. In the Commission's treatment of standards in the initial Notice, it ...

16. How much do you comment your source code?
(English/Linuxtoday)

opensource.com: No matter what you think the "perfect amount" of code commenting is, let's agree that high-quality comments are important in open source. Read all  ...

17. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says Twitter needs to be a "lot more transparent in our actions" around suspending users, after it broke its silence on Rose McGowan (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
(English/Techmeme)

... —  Twitter has abruptly broken its own policy of not commenting on individual accounts to explain why it temporarily suspended … Read all  ...

18. Disqus hacked!
(English/Betanews)

So, Disqus has been hacked. Yeah, it is what we at BetaNews -- plus many other websites -- use for commenting. Should you be worried? Probably not. You see, this hack happened all the way back in July ...

19. Federal court rules politicians can't block users on social media
(English/Neowin)

A federal court ruling in Virginia has found that a politician contravened a constituent's freedom of speech rights when she blocked him from commenting or sending her messages on her Facebook page. ...

20. Mid-Year .brands Review: 2017 Off to a Brilliant Start
(English/CircleID)

... railway's plans to move to its .brand TLD. I was published in B&T commenting on the Australian Football League's use of .afl for its historic women's league competition. Moving forward In just ...

21. What Does Trump's Cuba Policy Memorandum Say About the Internet?
(English/CircleID)

... the State Department to see if they could tell me more about the task force, but they offered no details at this time. I'll follow up on this. I cannot end this post without commenting on the writing ...

22. Uptime, YouTube's experimental app for watching videos with friends, has quietly opened to all and gotten a design refresh since its launch in March (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
(English/Techmeme)

... experimental app Uptime, which lets you watch videos with friends while reacting and commenting, has now opened up to all users. Read all  ...

23. UK consumers increasingly prefer biometric authentication
(English/Betanews)

... development for some time. Commenting on the report, Anthony Duffy, the company's director of retail banking, UK and Ireland at Fujitsu, says the findings show that biometrics are "coming of age." "Biometric ...

24. CodeSOD: Classic WTF: It's Like Calling Assert
(English/WTF)

... by commenting “Like calling assert(false) in C,” the author doesn’t mean assert.h, but means my_assert.h. After all, who is C – or any other language – to tell him how errors ...

25. Lo spreco di incentivi troppo generosi
(Italiano/intopic)

Una politica folle Ringraziamo i lettori per i molti commenti al nostro articolo "Primi nelle energie rinnovabili. Ma a che prezzo?" Uno dei lettori scrive "oggi si potrebbero istallare altri 15 GWp di ...