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Re:Kugelblitz – Mac-Native Google Earth Alternative on Friday November 06, 2026 @07:13AM (#50391453)
Terravision started much earlier than Keyhole, however the lawsuit agains Google wasn't successful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terravision#History

There is also a Netflix Mini-series inspired by the case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Billion_Dollar_Code

Re:Mozilla Thunderbird Beta now supports Matrix chat on Saturday April 09, 2022 @04:56AM (#30966340)
You don't need an add-on for that. I have a plain TB 91 setup with three identies configured for three different mail servers. When replying I can choose from the identities, and in the drop down there is another option "Customize From Address" which enables editing the address without creating another identity. It's a bit hidden, but should be there without an add-on. Doesn't work for new mails though, in this case the option is there but disabled.
It's not an alternative to volume rendering as the title suggests. It's a kind of a brand name the manufacturer wants to establish for their admittedly very impressive volume rendering implementation
Re:Why Is the Cyber Security Industry Addicted to Marketing? on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @02:23PM (#16587067)
Found this today after an intense discussion about the pros and cons of buying a rather expensive web security gateway. Still feel uncomfortable with a closed source solution from a big vendor, and the security consultants could not really explain what the benefit will be. But looking at these sales budgets I'm not surprised that management was already biased.
Re:Continuous low-power music recognition on Thursday January 11, 2018 @08:13AM (#16123515)
Great work, but super scary for me. The "service" of music recognition will probably be extended very quickly to a constantly running "environment recognition", just fingerprinting the audio around you, places, speakers etc..
Re:LLVM patch to fix half of Spectre attack on Thursday January 04, 2018 @02:49PM (#16073424)
Qubes OS [1] does something like that

[1]: https://www.qubes-os.org/

I work at a German research center and we recently also got informed by our library that all contracts with Elsevier will end at the end of year. However, and this is the fun part, it was also noted that it has been reported by other institutions that Elsevier did not actually cancel the access permissions for them after the contracts ended. Seems to me we could finally got into a good position for negotiations about fair access to our own work.