• On August 1 the HP Pavilion Plus 14 was the new best small laptop except for the memory and the price, Intel's 13th gen laptop chips were expected before the end of the year and they'd better bloody hurry, cosy Moon holes, and Anonymous hacks Russia.
  
  
  
  
• On August 2 the CHIPS Act wasn't a $50 billion cash grab - by the time Congress was done it was a $280 billion cahs grab, it was the right time to buy a 6900 XT, twelve was enough, Winamp returned to whip the llama's ass some more, and China's 7nm chips weren't.
  
  
• On August 3 Axie Infinity was a garbage company even before they lost $600 million overnight, eleven executives at crypto company Forsage where charged with fraud, and an advanced quantum-safe cryptography scheme got hacked in an hour.
  
  
• On August 4 GitLab announced it was going to delete projects that didn't have bugs constantly needing fixing, and Robinhood fired a quarter of its staff, which is 25% of what it needed to do.
  
  
• On August 5 AMD's Ryzen 7000 range was expected to have very high clock speeds - and does, and to overclock poorly - and does, chips suddenly got expensive, GitLab said maybe not, and Namie got into the Zenless Zone Zero closed beta and immediately banned live on stream.
  
  
• On August 6 two crypto developers faked an entire ecosystem to sucker people into putting their money into yet another fucking Ponzi scheme, that's no moon, and South Korea launched its lunar orbiter.
  
  
• On August 7 Amazon decided to by poop-spying company iRobot, hackers stole details of 5.4 million Twitter accounts, and Namie got unbanned from the Zenless Zone Zero closed beta.
  
  
• On August 8 EVGA cut prices on the 3090 Ti, JavaScript sucked, STFU mode, and build your own Windows tablet.
  
  
  
  
• On August 9 Threadripper Pro 5000 hit retail, using DALL-E for blog thumbnails, and in an unprecented move crypto lender Hodlnaut stole all its users' money.
  
  
• On August 10 AppLoving (who) offered to buy Unity for $17 billion, and PyPI, Twilio, Cloudflare, and Intel's SGX all had containment breaches.
  
  
• On August 11 Intel's A750 graphics card was a thing that existed, LG's 97" OLED TV double as a 97" speaker, and AMD grew revenue by 70% year-on-year albeit mostly by buying FPGA company Xilinx.
  
  
• On August 12 what this country needs is a good $15 llama, Redis explained - the Swiss Army chainsaw of database-sort-of-things, the CDC said forget all that stuff we told you, and Intel's $3.5 billion graphics gamble.
  
  
• On August 13 smile, you're on Candid Doorbell, Epson sucked, a website called ShitExpress - which did exactly what you think - got hacked, and Node.js still sucked.
  
  
• On August 14 running Android without Google, what to expect in Ryzen 7000 motherboards, and you could pet the dog in Holocure.
  
  
• On August 15 I ordered the Bae case - still hoping to order the Kronii case from the same distributor, how to make electric vehicles even worse, Canada and Germany signed a deal to invade Belgium and generate electricity from trillion of potatoes, and Apple broke every single security measure in MacOS all at once.
  
  
• On August 16 Android 13 was here and we didn't care, Linux 6.0 was here and we didn't care - much, Russia announced a model of its new space station, and New Jersey decided to stomp law enforcement and medical ethics into the dirt.
  
  
• On August 17 AMD announced an announcement for Ryzen 7000, DotNET 6 hit Ubuntu, MailChimp pooped the bed, and American Airlines signed a deal to buy 20 imaginary aircraft.
  
  
• On August 18 ZDNet pooped the bed, Loupedeck had some nice control surfaces at reasonable prices - not cheap but priced at hundreds where professional models often cost thousands, TSMC was about to start producing 3nm chips, do not eat bugs, and it was time to unplug your router, set it on fire, and fling it out the nearest window.
  
  
• On August 19 Samsung announced 32Gb DDR5 chips for early 2023, Gigabyte announced PCIe 5 SSDs for who knows when, Apple's M2 vs. AMD's 6850U under Linux, all Linux versions where the same, and Snap cancelled Pixy.
  
  
• On August 20 I flew my last flight between Sydney and New House City, building an actual display into those classic 80s Lego display bricks, an ocean of Pi Picos, and roundups of Raptor Lake and Ryzen motherboards.
  
  
• On August 21 Google was the pancreatic cancer in the body politic, Ethereum was moving to Eth2 which didn't actually fix anything, and artists united against hands.
  
  
• On August 22 the only thing less capable of human understanding than the AI systems run by Big Tech was the humans employed by Big Tech, and the first big Holocure update was announced. It looks like the next update will bring us HoloJP Gen 2 and 3 and be out late next month. I played a lot of Holocure when I was constantly travelling and had no energy for anything more complicated.
  
  
• On August 23 the Metaverse sucked, donuts were back in stock, the Biren BR1000 hit 1 PFLOPs, and don't copy and paste encryption schemes like Hyundai did.
  
  
• On August 24 I got internet access, Twitter's security was a disaster, Apple offered a 162 page guide to replace your MacBook battery, perfluorocubane was wrid, and Intel was going to go chiplets on its 14th gen desktop parts which now won't exist at all.
  
  
• On August 25 Chattanooga launche 25Gbps community internet, 14kb was the new 15kb, and put your GitLab server behind a VPN.
  
  
• On August 26 Starlink V2 would offer service direct to mobile phones - and Teslas, Mark Zuckerberg admitted to the FBI's election interference, Sony hiked prices, Microsoft didn't, and HP had some nice but overpriced computers.
  
  
• On August 27 the Twilio hack was a targeted attack affecting 130 companies, the adventure game Malasombra came out - for the NES, and an edit button on Twitter.
  
  
  
  
• On August 28 we watched The Saga of Tanya the Evil, the FBI said of course they interfere in elections, everyone knows that, Walmart offered a 30TB SSD of $39, Nvidia announced a new high-end Arm chip for robotics, and nobody was happy in the ongoing Twitter/Elon lawsuit.
  
  
• On August 29 freezing in the dark turned out to be unpopular, Ryzen 7000 launched, and a new remote execution vulnerability was found in the GameBoy Colour.
  
  
• On August 30 California's new age verification law was crap, an animated map of the Berlin subway, Austria decided to defenestrate its own internet, and OpenSea's transaction volume was down 99% in three months.
  
  
• On August 31 it was chip shortage all the way down, the OptiFi DeFi protocol lost $661,000 when it accidentally stopped existing, and Amelia Watson from Hololive reviewed the best tech toys from the 90s/early 2000s.
  
  

1 Code generators - creating messes since the days of COBOL.  But one script kiddie and an AI generator is MUCH cheaper than a team of knowledgeable IT professionals.

• On July 1 Apple's senior legal executive in charge of preventing insider trading of Apple stock was convicted on charges of insider trading of Apple stock, Dell's new Inspiron 16 Plus, and the first reviews of the Ryzen 5800X3D.
  
  
• On July 2 GPU prices were down 57% since January from insane to merely horrifying, game consoles were still out of stock everywhere except the Nintendo Switch, China saw its own shadow and announced five more years of Zero COVID, OpenSea sent out emails telling users not to trust emails from OpenSea, and Arm announced new things.
  
  
• On July 3 there were no Synology boxes available which I believe is a conspiracy to force people to buy QNAP devices so that all their data can be stolen, Meta's crypto project was toast, EVGA included a free 1600W power supply with every 3090 Ti, and the 13900K was faster than the 12900K.
  
  
• On July 4 I finally got one of the LG UP850-W monitors I bought six months earlier out of its box and it turned out to be really good, bug bounty company HackerOne had a weasel problem, Amazon piled up half a billion dollars and set it on fire, and don't Kubernetes.
  
  
• On July 5 interest rates went up again for the third straight month (now eight straight months), in a novel twist private information on a billion people was stolen from China, the Xiaomi 12S came with a 1" 50MP Leica camera, and Google did something dumb.
  
  
• On July 6 the EU declared war on Apple, take off every Zig, a serious QNAP NAS for when you want your data seriously hacked, and Intel's 4nm process was on track to start production this year (which means consumer products by mid-2023).
  
  
• On July 7 interns, can't live with 'em, can't shoot 'em, unless you're the Shanghai police in which case you probably can, Drobo filed for bankruptcy which was a surprise because everyone thought they went bankrupt years ago, the UK declared war on Apple as well, and fuck systemd, the Lenovo of Linux.
  
  
• On July 8 Sony was deleting movies that customers had "bought", Google's "Democratic AI" was a communist, Florida once again had giant calamitous snails that spewed parasitic brain worms but they lost their election bids so everything turned out well, Twitter was removing a million spam accounts a day according to Twitter, and QNAP again.
  
  
• On July 9 Elon Musk broke off the engagement, the HP Pavilion Plus 14 was everything I wanted except it maxes out at 16GB of RAM and I now have one sitting on the floor in the music room - I think that's the music room, might be the electronics lab, and Intel announced new NUC laptop kits only these ones suck.
  
  
• On July 10 Twitter did a 540 or maybe a 900 and went from suing to stop Elon Musk's takeover to suing to force him to complete the takeover, ASRock's DeskMeet was a mini-ITX system with four memory slots - a surprisingly rare configuration, all the hard problems in philosophy solved, and do not dumb here.
  
  
• On July 11 Twitter was lying, Elasticsearch was the QNAP of databases, and Netflix told its staff to shut up and sing.
  
  
• On July 12 Sri Lanka's economy imploded due to the people in charge being irredeemable leftist fuckwits, a book of tiny things, and you will always have more problems than engineers - unless you can solve your problems by shooting them.
  
  
  
  
• On July 13 European energy prices were expected to pass through the ionosphere on their way to Mars, North Korea hacked Axie Infinity, yet another otherwise good small Android tablet ruined by saving $3 on the LCD panel, and a bad motherboard.
  
  
• On July 14 Delutaya, Kson, and Namie, Google stopped hiring people until it could figure out why pink-haired communists made bad engineers, and the entire section on Russia in the Chinese edition of Wikipedia turned out to be an elaborate work of fiction.
  
  
  
  
• On July 15 Intel demanded billions of dollars from Congress, why you can't dig Switzerland, something went wrong at Twitter, something went wrong at OpenSea, and waiting for Windows 12.
  
  
• On July 16 don't attack your own customers you idiots, 10% of the top million websites were dead, and Log4j we will have with us always.
  
  
• On July 17 Intel's new graphics cards were a thing that existed, there were no measurable health benefits to drinking alcohol for those under 29 which means more for us 29-year-olds, how to set up Windows 11 without an online login, and a quintuple indirect Hello World.
  
  
• On July 18 wretched hives of scum and villainy, the rise of the Steam-powered Tesla, leaked clock speeds for AMD's new server chips turned out rather to understate matters, and Intel's high-end graphics cards competed evenly with AMD and Nvidia's low-end.
  
  
• On July 19 Denmark banned Chromebooks, Google was fined 21 trillion rubles - about $35, and the US Senate did nothing.
  
  
• On July 20 an Italian court got absolutely everything wrong, 22TB was the new 20TB, and how to build your own (software) X for all values of X.
  
  
• On July 21 sonnets were surprisingly difficult, Neopets was hacked - a shock to everyone who thought Neopets closed down around 2005, Ford fired 8000 workers to fund its EV program, a Threadripper Pro server motherboard from ASRock, Minecraft said fuck the blockchain anyway, and tech journalists were useless - and still are of course, but they were then as well.
  
  
  
  
• On July 22 the FBI was reading Twitter, YouTube was deleting pretty much everything, Samsung was spending $200 billion - in Texas, and reality wasn't real.
  
  
• On July 23 trees - those are called trees, SpaceX broke its 2021 launch record with five months left in the year, Google fired one of its idiots, and the 13700K was a 12900K.
  
  
• On July 24 15 years of Alzheimer's research turned out to have been based on fraudulent images in an early paper, quasicrystals with two time dimensions, and just stop fucking monkeys you sickos.
  
  
• On July 25 a couple of pretty good SSDs, Apple fanboys can be safely ignored, and Sony took down its own website for copyright infringement.
  
  
• On July 26 will there be a new Nvidia Titan, you couldn't create full-custom Lego minifigs in Australia and now you can't do it at all, Instagram wanted to be banned from government-owned devices, and Intel found a customer.
  
  
• On July 27 trees did not exit, social networks were dead, and Google only made $16 billion in profits in a single quarter.
  
  
• On July 28 Facebook's profits were down 36%, TikTok swore it had never heard of this "China" person, and Intel talked some more about Sapphire Rapids which is still not here.
  
  
• On July 29 Congress gave $52 billion of your money to some of the richest companies in the world - and stole $228 billion for itself at the same time, Intel made a loss after years of deliberately fucking things up, Nirvana Finance - another so-called "stablecoin" - got evaporated, and Instagram decided it didn't want to get banned from government devices.
  
  
  
  
• On July 30 Intel didn't cancel its graphics cards not that it would have made any difference, AMD doubled its Minecraft performance, the Steam Deck shipped all pre-orders early, and Intel's top-of-the-line 12900KS was mostly slower than AMD's 5800X3D.
  
  
  
  
• On July 31 Orbital Departures, CERN was absolutely technically not planning to open a portal to Hell, the all-new Dell XPS 13 Plus was dogshit, and TSMC completed primary construction of its huge new factory - in Arizona.

1 Viking Kittens - blast from the past. If they aren't in some digital music video Hall of Fame they should be.

2 "I ordered it with Cherry MX Red which I hope I like"
Do you have a brick-and-mortar store with a tech section close by?  Best Buy, or even Target or Walmart, or Australian equivalents, should/will usually have a keyboard or two you can type on to feel what it's like.

3 "You can run DaVince Resolve - a video editing thingy - on an iPad now."
I know remote desktop is a thing but I'd be more interested in an iPad if I could run Eclipse, GCC, Steam, etc.

4

Do you have a brick-and-mortar store with a tech section close by?

Not anymore.  On the one hand, I saved at least a million dollars on the house vs. buying in Sydney.  On the other hand, I don't think there's a store with a selection of mechanical keyboards within 60 miles.

5 Pixy, I'm either cursed or stooped. I'm still not authorized by The Pond.
I can't honestly blame it, but...

6 I think it's a curse, totally not your fault.  I'll have another poke at it today.

7 7 Speedy Dua For Good Life Partner

8 Mailly - Anonymous Disposable Temporary Email For Verification - Free Temp Email For All"

9 URZ is a free url shortener through it you can make money by shortening URL; when somebody views it, you will get paid according to our publisher plans.

10 Cheapest AI Content Writer - Affordable & Cheapest AI Writing Tool - AI Image & Art Generator (AI Copywriter).

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• On June 1 Intel showed off its Sapphire Rapids Plus HBM chips which still aren't out yet, over 3 million MySQL servers exposed themselves, SpaceX showed off Stalink 2.0, and an Apple-1, yours for just $500,000.
  
  
• On June 2 researchers showed off logic gates switching at a petahetz - which is very a lot, Taiwan restricted Russia and Belarus to 25MHz, a former employee of OpenSea was arrested for insider trading, and reassigning 240/4.
  
  
• On June 3 I was in a motel in New House City waiting to pick up the keys, AMD released the Radeon 6700 which is kind of a niche within a niche but not bad at the right price, and buy now pay later was always a scam.
  
  
• On June 4 we got to New House and ate donuts, and didn't tech blog.
  
  
• On June 5 the movers arrived with my stuff, DDR5 prices were down, more stolen ugly monkey JPEGs, and Apple was totally going into space sure whatever.
  
  
• On June 6 we were expecting an M2 Mac Mini, the ROG Zephyrus G14 was a pretty solid laptop except that it lacks the Four Essential Keys, and the screen on my laptop - the one I am using right now - crapped out after the flight back to Sydney.
  
  
• On June 7 we didn'g get an M2 Mac Mini, we did get MacOS 13, Python 3.11 would be faster than Python < 3.11, and LG's Gram notebooks weight more than a gram.
  
  
• On June 8 we expected Apple's M2 Pro and M2 Max but not until next year, Dell's Precision 7865 put a 2022 CPU in a 2002 case, China "must seize TSMC", and a not insanely expensive eight slog M.2 adaptor.
  
  
• On June 9 we had a fight with Windows ASLR, Twitter was hiding data, physicsts discovered a thing, and Samsungs TVs were also fridges.
  
  
• On June 10 AMD promised 10% higher IPC and 10% higher clocks with Zen 4 - and overdelivered, Amazon fell over, and polystyrene-eating superworms.
  
  
• On June 11 Acer warned that the market was slowing down - bad for them but good for us, Zen 5 would arrive in 2024 with a major redesign, OpenSSL as a GUI, and no Virginia you can't do real work on an iPad.
  
  
• On June 12 discovering things at New House, a billion dollars worth of sour grapes, you can't repair the new XPS 13, a 950W CPU, you wouldn't 3D print a car, and that insane AI researcher at Google.
  
  
• On June 13 Intel announced its 4nm process node, Fresh was yet another fucking web framework, and AWS simply lost 12 hours of data.
  
  
• On June 14 fuck Polygon again, we were in Sydney wishing we weren't, SpaceX had environmental approval to test Starship, and the Celsius Ponzi scheme imploded.

  Any time some stranger promises to let you, yes you, in on their amazing investment opportunity that reliably and consistently outperforms other investment vehicles, you are being scammed. They are not your friend. If they had such an opportunity, they would hoard it zealously, borrowing against other assets in order to make a shitload for themselves.

• On June 15 the Mac Studio was cool but overpriced, Gambian Pouched Rat Pox, and little lime green Corvette.
  
  
• On June 16 rooftop solar was viable - in Australia (despite being twice the size of Old Place, in a colder climate, and having electric central heating, my electric bill is half what it used to be), don't put half a million files in one Git repository, and benchmarks leaked for a Zen 4 laptop chip.
  
  
• On June 17 we were at the airport - again - but briefly noted that Redbean 2.0 was out. Redbean is a web/application/database server in a single binary file that can just be dropped on any Windows, Mac, Linux, or BSD system and run.
  
  
• On June 18 your browser was helpfully keeping a copy of your secret crypto access keys, video card prices finally fell to Earth, everything you never wanted to know about USB-C, TikTok was owned by China, and building a single quantum system from two time crystals.
  
  
  
  
• On June 19 don't use Zstd compression on Arch Linux, and don't fly into Sydney on a Sunday.
  
  
• On June 20 Intel's Core i3-12100 was great value at $129, philosophers were completely fucking retarded on the subject of consciousness, the Samsung 980 Pro SSD was good, and Ada 2022 could be persuaded to be as dumb as JavaScript but would give you an electric shock if you tried.
  
  
• On June 21 Cloudflare went down and took one third of the internet with it - or if you used Cloudflare's DNS, all of it, Disabling notifications in Nextdoor took 130 clicks or one uninstall, and more gluten-free donuts (I have two boxes in the new freezer).
  
  
• On June 22 the FAA ordered airlines to update their shitty altimeters - which are the problem with using phones during takeoff and landing but only because they don't work propery, and tracking the PCIe 7 spec when there aren't even PCIe 5 cards yet.
  
  
  
  
• On June 23 the PNY XLR8 CS3140 was actually kind of amazing, QNAP AGAIN, Intel's 13th gen chips would still work with DDR4, and Samsung's new 200MP phone camera.
  
  
• On June 24 planning 40 feet of desk - in the main office, planning 240 feet of bookshelves - in the hallway, and bad things happened to bad people.
  
  
• On June 25 THERE WERE NO BOOKCASES, there were also no good small Android tablets, losing personal data the old fashioned way, and Intel's new chips would also be faster.
  
  
• On June 26 Amazon's spec sheets were maintained by idiots, 1000W power supplies, Italy banned Google Analytics on the basis that it was analytics by Google, Robinhood lied, and more insanely overpriced garbage water bottles.
  
  
• On June 27 DevOps was old-school ops with a bunch of stickers plastered all over it, code bloat to the stars, and QNAP?
  
  
• On June 28 Rufus was a tool for generating Windows install images and also a naked mole rat, building your own Ryzen server, FTX was in talks to acquire Robinhood, which is like the Yakuza being in talks to acquire the Mafia, and don't buy the base M2 MacBook.
  
  
  
  
• On June 29 someone copied ugly monkey JPEGs, Raccoon Stealer stole all the raccoons, Apple was lying, and everything was worse than you thought.
  
  
• And then on June 30 it was time to update to 28nm, the Raspberry Pi Pico W was the Raspberry Pi Pico with added W, and Threadripper Pro 5000 pricing was ouch.

1 Merry Christmas from a long time lurker.  Thank you for maintaining this blog, it's a daily highlight to read.

2 Happy Christmas, Pixy!

3 What's a Layer 1 blockchain, and what does "optimized for Metaverse" mean beyond "designed to filter money into Zuck's pockets"?

4 I wonder about the 13500, since it's a 65W part.  I suspect that without motherboard multicore enhancements it won't be nearly as fast.
My work machine, which should be replaced next month, hopefully with a laptop with a 12th-gen P series, is an i7-8700, and Dell scrupulously abides by Intel's stock recommendations.  The result is that if you run something like Prime95, it will settle in after tau expires at about 64W and 100MHz or so under the base speed.

5 Rick C: I don't have any atual power numbers, but I have a crappy Dell cheapo with an iCINCO-8400h. Yeah, Mike Dell is pretty conservative about that stuff.

6 normal:  I was curious about it so I got hwinfo64 and prime95 and a few other stress test apps to see.  It runs pretty well for the first 28 seconds or so, with an all-core at 4.4 (IIRC), but, unfortunately, not for very long.

• On May 1 Intel predicted chip shortages would ease before, um, 2025, both CPUs and GPUs where selling at MSRP - some of them, Kindle's EPUB but not MOBI, Snap's Pixy, Sony's Prism.
  
  
• On May 2 the cost to transfer a single NFT on Ethereum hit $3500 - totally not a bubble, the Ugly Monkey JPEG people launched a new scam and it immediately got stolen, and Decepticons.
  
  
• On May 3 Plastic Nine, where your recycling actually goes, new scanners, I underestimate how much desk I could fit, RDNA3 added thingies, Squenix committed blockchain suicide, and so did Facebook.
  
  
• On May 4 China invaded Russia - in Minecraft, AMD confirmed plans for 16 core laptops, the Gigabyte Aero 16 was shiny but expensive, and Axios was garbage.
  
  
• On May 5 update your Chrome right now, Heroku got hacked, Connie Willis call your lawyers, and Sara Nagare's 45,000 viewers.
  
  
• On May 6 save us from the libertarian billionaires, 8TB SSDs were expensive, stop disabling zoom, and New York declared war on crypto miners.
  
  
• On May 7 Xbox crashed, QNAP - again, declaring email bankruptcy, and, and, and, and, and, speculative prefetch bit Apple's M1, and you couldn't buy books in the Kindle app.
  
  
• On May 8 invading New House City in winter, sudden concern over Twitter's existing investors, how to back up Gmail, and Threadripper 7000 wasn't coming any time soon.
  
  
• On May 9 regulators told regulatees that regulation is bad - again, the average time before a new WordPress got hacked was less than the time taken to set it up, and the US Treasury sanctioned Blender.
  
  
• On May 10 Russia sued the rest of the world, I couldn't afford the shipping, don't use YikYak, solving global warming with cloned mammoths, and more nice laptops you can't get in Australia.
  
  
• On May 11 send help and gluten free pizza, fuck YouTube, the Terra stablecoin wasn't, Journalists Against Free Speech, and six figures was the new five figures.
  
  
• On May 12 fuck Polygon, once chip to rule them all, MIPS dropped MIPS, and serial enetrepeneurn'tism.
  
  
• On May 13 Twitter started firing anyone remotely competent, the EU wanted to BIK the BIKs, Google fixed some of the most broken YouTube stuff, BBC Basic for anything, and gas in bottles.
  
  
• On May 14 AMD leaked - including some stuff that hasn't shown up yet, Luna followed Terra down the hole because that's what happens when you tie two things together and throw them in a hole, and securing open source software would cost far less than a single security incident.
  
  
• On May 15 cutting off fingers for fun and profit, Kobo got banned because fuck YouTube - again, the general form of the Seven Colour Map Theorem, and great APUs of fire.
  
  
• On May 16 Venus Protocol followed Terra and Luna down the hole, Python got faster, just tape a GPS unit to your 1970s fighter jet, and Heroku continued to have a bad day.
  
  
• On May 17 the guy who blew up two planets and a major moon was seeking investors to do it again, road trains without the road, and Web3 was not even P2P.
  
  
• On May 18 got the last piece of paper I needed to buy the house I had already bought - that process was rather backwards from how normal people do it, "We're all commie as fuck", 21 Linux desktops compared and they're all the same, and the component shortage was solved when the economy cratered and people abruptly stopped buying stuff.
  
  
• On May 19 I had a house - I mean officially, paperwork signed, sealed, and electronically delivered, serves Google right, what a disaster it would be if the wrong people were permitted to speak, DigitalOcean's price increase, Vultr's didn't (and since then they've more than doubled bandwidth allocations, making it an even better deal), and Aussie Broadband all the way.
  
  
• On May 20 Web3 was going great, Twitter announced it would simply shiv users in the back if it wanted to, Netflix made things worse, Framework's 12th gen models, and you're not gonna believe this but QNAP.
  
  
• On May 21 my cunning plan for dealing with slow Amazon deliveries in New House City was just to buy everything I could need before I needed it - a plan that is working so far and I'm not even close to running out of storage space, Russia turned to China for CPUs - a plan that didn't work out so well, the RTX 4080, the four day work day, and Google's new AI was just the latest victim of Dunning Kruger.
  
  
• On May 22 beyond 1nm, AMD's dual chipset chipset, and Apple fled China.
  
  
• On May 23 AMD announced Ryzen 7000 - and also for some reason Ryzen 2000, what's in which Python, looking gift horses in the mouth, and the $1200 79-pound toolkit for replacing your iPhone battery.
  
  
• On May 24 double it, add one, and use the next larger unit, GitLab 15, criminals gonna crim, and PCIe 5 SSDs are behind schedule.
  
  
• On May 25 criminals also gonna steal Ugly Monkey JPEGs, 500Hz monitors, expensive motherboards, and Spain has a chip industry?
  
  
• On May 26 Eastasia has always been at war with Elonania, China's concentration camps got hacked, and Twitter got fined $150 million by the FTC for, and I quote, "being rampaging shitweasels".
  
  
• On May 27 when even Vox can tell your scam is a scam you need a better scam or dumber victims, the high-end Ryzen 7000s would have a 170W TDP (I wonder what the new 7900 will be), and Broadcom bought VMWare for $61 billion, or as we now measure it, six crypto scams.
  
  
• On May 28 omnipotent BMCs from Quanta remaind vulnerable to the critical Pantsdown threat, an 8K gaming resolution or maybe not, the US was falling behind in the race to set trillions of dollars on fire, there was more than one maker of PCs, and how to cancel Amazon Prime (click the cancel button).
  
  
• On May 29 a $70 Bluetooth water bottle with microtransactions, reboot your crabs, remote learning ads, and Pikamee vs. GlaDOS.
  
  
• On May 30 I threw out an actual, literal ton of junk, robot orders were up 40%, two right-to-repair bills died, and the iPhone didn't jump to 3nm.
  
  
• And then on May 31 reasons, Vodafone declared war on privacy, Needy Joueur-Animateur en Direct Overdose, and blockchain, the amazing solution for nobody's problems.

1 Shorter arse techniqua:  We're happy to gloss over the fact that tiktok/bytedance is even collecting this information, let alone that it's easily accessible to random employees, because it's important to support chinese spy programs.

• On April 1 CNN+ announced limited edition NFTs - less limited than the network itself as it turned out, quis scamodiet ipsos custodes, Google's new spam API, and finding Earendel.
  
  
• On April 2 GitLab's default password oopsie, Sabrent's 8TB SSD, the EU's proposed terrible horrible no good very bad blockchain legislation, and this is not Twitter and we are not Scottish.
  
  
• On April 3 I think it's defaulting to utf8mb4 instead of utf8mb3, UnDune II is Dune II for the Pico 8, American Express's bad day, and brouillard.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• On April 4 the house that got away, the internet was exactly what we thought it was, the teapot calling the other teapot a teapot, and Facebook doing Facebook things.
  
  
• On April 5 Elon Musk bought 9.2% of Twitter, AMD's new Ryzen 5000 models, GitHub's automatic default password detector, and MailChimp's bad day.
  
  
• On April 6 the reboot was a success but the server died, Twitter was adding an edit button maybe, $50 billion worth of video cards, $1 worth of EV charging stations, and Elon Musk joined the board of Twitter.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• On April 7 the house that didn't get away, Australia reinforcement data quantum priority roadmap, Atlassian's two bad days, fuck you Lenovo, and a delightfully dull gaming laptop from Asus.
  
  
• On April 8 here comes the rain again, offer accepted, Threadripper Pro headed toward retail, and Twitter tried and failed to change how deleted embedded tweets appeared.
  
  
• On April 9 an 8 port USB-C adaptor, Twitter experimented with autodethreadistration, wifi-enabled spanners, and the W boson was 0.1% overweight.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• On April 10 GitHub's supply chain vulnerability detector could tell you stuff like hey GitHub is down, going back to Windows 10, and recursive popcorn.
  
  
• On April 11 turning Twitter's HQ into a homeless shelter, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 broke opening weekend records - for a video game movie, staying on Windows 10, and TVs sucked.
  
  
• On April 12 Pinterest went full climate Nazi, Intel moved up 18A to 2024, and 3D poop detection - Facebook uploading optional.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• On April 13 Atlassian's bad, um, two weeks, update every Git, do not hose out your Honda Element, and adding an eGPU to a Steam Deck.
  
  
• On April 14 contracts exchanged, dinnerware bought, ISPs replaed, the 3090 Ti was here yet again, Zero Nines Uptime, and the Gambler's Fallacy isn't always.
  
  
• On April 15 Elon Musk launched his takeover bid for MySpace I think it was, the first PCIe 6 chips showed up, GitHub's tiny $127 million billing hiccup, and the almost perfect laptop that of course isn't available in Australia.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• On April 16 Twitter chose suicide rather than be taken over by Elon Musk, what happened at Atlassian, TSMC expected 2nm in late 2025, Russia expected 28m in late 2030, and the Phase Invaders.
  
  
• On April 17 communists bad, journalists worse, the average lead time for semiconductors exceeded six months, the only good Russian was a radioactive Russian, and the only good GitHub was self-hosted GitLab.
  
  
• On April 18 Dell's CAMM was maybe not entirely awful, Sapphire Rapids blah blah blah they're still not out yet, and our new robot chef overlords.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• On April 19 web scraping was legal, stealing crypto wallets via iCloud backup, new universe who dis, and more Sapphire Rapids blah blah.
  
  
• On April 20 Brave browser bypassed AMP, fuck Lenovo, upgrading a 4TB PostgreSQL database the hard way, and QNAP again.
  
  
• On April 21 commies destroy Marmite, AMD's upcoming Phoenix laptop chips could have double the graphics performance of Rembrandt (which would make them faster than the Xbox Series S), GitHub did bad things, and Insteon was Insteoff.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• On April 22 Elon Musk had $46.5 billion in committed financy ready to buy Bebo or something, Russia sanctioned everybody, Dunning Kruger wasn't autocorrelation, and QNAP again.
  
  
• On April 23 Netflix planned to try sucking less, China committed fully to economic implosion as the only way forward, I found 128GB of RAM, MongoDB 5 didn't run on Ubuntu 22.04, and books in libraries.
  
  
• On April 24 my supermarket had a mochi aisle, how to delete the EFI system partition and how to fix your computer after deleting the EFI system partition and breaking it, Atlassian - not down this time, just hacked, and the Apple cable conspiracy.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• On April 25 moving Disney World to New York City, Ryzen 7000 would be DDR5 only - and is, and Twitter's board of directors forgot Rule One of Holes.
  
  
• On April 26 Elon Musk bought Twitter and I offered my own checklist of what he needed to do - which he did, Elon Musk bought Twitter and the usual suspects had a meltdown - which we enjoyed, Elon Musk bought twitter and free speech experts were worried about the prospect of free speech, and Elon Musk bought Twitter but we would have to wait six months for the Great Defenestration to commence.
  
  
• On April 27 the left broke out in hives at the prospect of free speech, I told Elon to close all of Twitter's European offices immediately and again it was good advice, the Erie Railroad War of 1869, and I couldn't come to work because (checks clay tablet) a scorpion bit me while I was brewing beer.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• On April 28 we precelebrated the inevitable firing of Vijaya Gadde, Coca-Cola, now with 3.5 grams of cocaine in every - hmm - approximately eight gallons, everything but the kitchen sink and the four essential keys, and fucking QNAP again.
  
  
• On April 29 all declarations are crap unless they involve cannons, not QNAP this time, Qualcomm planned a chip that didn't suck, and Amazon lost $3.8 billion, half of it on free shipping to my place.
  
  
• On April 30 the FBI was the second largest organised criminal gang in the world, don't hire communists you idiots, fuck China twice, and no, you're just idiots.
  
  
  

• On March 1 Ukrain got internet access, Australia lost internet access, and Toyota shut down 28 production lines just in time.
• On March 2 hackers hacked, chips benched, drives driven, and smaller, faster, cheaper - pick at most one.
• On March 3 UCIe was PCIe for chips - which PCIe is also for, caching in on Nvidia's next generation, and Apple announced an announcement.
  
  
  
  
• On March 4 don't mention the war, a good $143 CPU, and a twelve core NUC, sort of.
• On March 5 in the only intelligent move the country made all year Russia banned Twitter and Facebook, the FCC cracked down on crap, the great neon shortage, and Western Digital's new NAS drives were kind of useless for NASes.
• On March 6 the Flow 13 didn't, Threadripper 5000 did, our ovens were full of eels, and we explained vtubers (though not Haachama).
  
  
  
  
• On March 7 Ryoko was on the loose, Nvidia launched the 3090 Ti - again, Australia introduced garbage internet legislation, and Russia was basically fucked.
• On March 8 the Asus Vivobook Pro 15 OLED scored a resounding Meh, Britain approved production of modular nuclear reactors, and dirty pipes ruined everyone's day.
• On March 9 Apple's Mac Studio arrived, and a new iPad, and that monitor turned out to be less insanely expensive than feared but still insanely expensive.
  
  
  
  
• On March 10 I found another house I ended up not buying, cPanel announced support for Ubuntu, and Congress gave literally dozens of dollars to NASA for its new Moon program.
• On March 11 things do not go according to keikaku at Polygon, Apple as planning a new Mac Mini - which still has not made an appearance, and someone dumped 800GB of Russian internet regulator Rozkozmozdanoz's files onto the internet.
• On March 12 it didn't rain for three entire days, Russia also banned Instagram so that was two smart things, Axios was garbage, so was Lenovo, so was Twitter but that was nothing new, and Tether got shorted.
  
  
  
  
  
• On March 13 the fastest CPU in the world was from AMD - again, plugging the Pi Pico into your C64, and the freezer framed us.
• On March 14 somebody sneezed and global electronics manufacturing hub Shenzhen went into lockdown, and anti-spam measures that simply create new types of spam.
• On March 15 Microsoft was adding ads to everything - again, QNAP - again, Twitter undid the most recent stupid thing they did - again, a privilege escalation bug in Linux - again, and Google denied doing what it was doing - still.
  
  
  
  
• On March 16 China could catch up with Intel by 2025 - if Intel got hit by an asteroid and set back 20 years, the goggles did nothing, and AMD introduced the 5800X3D, which despite subsequent launches from AMD and Intel is still perhaps the fastest gaming CPU available.
• On March 17 graphics cards got very slightly cheaper, hybrid atoms were surprisingly normal, and okay then, that was always allowed.
• On March 18 inside the Mac Meh-ni, Apple's M1 Ultra showed the future of chip design within a single very specific niche, no ragrats, China went double plus Orwell, and the EU issued a formal complaint that Microsoft's datacenters weren't on fire.
  
  
  
  
• On March 19 we got some retrospective perspective on graphics card prices, how Zillow didn't get its groove back, Node.js was a disaster - again, the win that wasn't, and Minnesota banned Haachama.
• On March 20 it took longer to complete a single environmental impact study than it did to build an entire subway line in 1904, the 3090 Ti was extremely not worth it, and a new grand unified field theory explained both gravity and Twitter.
• On March 21 sleeping with the light on killed people, where sleeping with the light off merely meant the monster under the bed would eat your feet, DRAMless and QLC was a match made in Hell, half of Shenzhen half left lockdown, and a possibly radioactive 3D printer.
  
  
  
  
• On March 22 the internet was back on, a new experiment t detect dark matter conclusively showed nothing, and don't buy an iPad, not even the 27" model.
• On March 23 I found the house I wanted - and failed to get, the promise was a lie, inattentive idiots had a bad day, and the creator of Ethereum dissed the ugly monkey JPEG crowd.
• On March 24 another one that got away, "stablecoin" Cashio lost 99.995% of its value overnight because oops, Apple's new 20 core CPU was nearly as fast as AMD's 12 core model, just buy the EXOS, Node developers were idiots, and I finally got the opportunity to upgrade my internet - sometime after I would be moving to a new house with faster internet anyway.
  
  
  
  
  
• On March 25 LAPSU$ Darknesss was arrested, Nestle wasn't hacked - they were just dumb, another reminder of just how bad graphics card prices were, and Pipkin Pippa went house hunting - with a .30-06.
• On March 26 the New York Times published something egregiously stupid about crypto which was set to become a theme for the year, the EU regulated stuff that it couldn't regulate, and don't make your Redis nodes public. Just don't.
• On March 27 air-cooled SSDs, Baldur's Gate 3 might not suck - if it ever gets finished, and the Ubuntu story that wasn't.
  
  
  
  
• On March 28 we explored the house of minus seven doors, the Salton Sea contained enough lithium to stabilise almost half of San Francisco, and slow down to speed up - not just for orbital mechanics anymore.
• On March 29 a pretty good motherboard, MIT planted a fresh crop of morons (and not the fun kind), and the car dealership did it.
• On March 30 Axie Infinity's crypto platform got hacked and thieves stole $620 million, what price 1km of CAT5, HP's FX900 Pro SSD didn't suck but Ubiquiti did, and Sydney acquired sandworms.
  
  
  
  
• On March 31 YouTube added 100 free TV shows that you couldn't find, phenylephrine didn't work, and QNAP again.

1 I guess in that Verge author's world, the business world hasn't been transitioning to mostly laptops for years, so he hasn't considered the case of people who use one, but mainly only at their desk at the office (or WFH.)

2 Well, at $7k USD (unpopulated, I assume), I don't think I'm going to be getting a 22-drive NAS for the home any time soon.

• On February 1 we scored some name-brand toilet paper, checked out PhoenixNAP, and hired an alient bug in a skin suit.
  
  
• On February 2 Google made $20 billion in profit in a single quarter, the US Senate introduced a right-to-repair bill which has gone precisely nowhere, and it looks like the encoding of fancy quotes broke somewhere during the server move.
  
  
• On February 3 the Wormhole cross-blockchain platform got hacked for $326 million which used to be a lot, the WD Black SN770 SSD was okay, the RTX 3090 Ti appeared but you couldn't buy one even if you had the money which you didn't, and not just boing but super-boingy.
  
  
  
  
• On February 4 someone crossed the streams when Nick Rekieta gave a shout out to Pipkin Pippa, the bullshit EARN IT Act came back, everything in the article was wrong, and a large Android phone with a stylus at a not insane price.
  
  
• On February 5 GoFundMe decided to steal $9 million, Apple announced that it would take a 27% cut of every payment it didn't process, Facebook's stock price fell off a cliff, and Cisco's small business routers coded.
  
  
• On February 6 GoFundMe decided not to steal $9 million after all, spam blacklists were out of control, Twitter unveiled its new hugbox feature which has since disappeared without trace, six more reasons why Facebook is doomed, and making Sus Nuggies for the Tongue-Stupid.
  
  
  
  
• On February 7 acts of terrorism that never happened for $400 please Alex, the CEO of Spotify decided to divide the baby into equal sevenths, ENS went full Margaret Sanger, and we predicted a world of pain for American tech companies, which indeed came to pass though not exactly as expected.
  
  
• On February 8 the USG DHS was on the LO for MDM, Gigabyte had shiny new haptops, Intel was bleeding cash on Optane, and Nvidia failed to purchase Arm.
  
  
• On February 9 we were shopping for 4TB SSDs - which due to subsequent events are still waiting to be used, squaring the circle with a knife, the most profitable arrest in human history, RAID-Z expansion was go.
  
  
  
  
• On February 10 SpaceX lost 40 brand new satellites - not due to a launch failure but a geomagnetic storm, Western Digital lost 6.5 exabytes of flash chips which still is a lot, accelerating Python by rewriting it in C, and whatever happened to that new season of Futurama anyway?
  
  
• On February 11 Russia sentenced three teenagers to prison over a plot to blow up a government building - in Minecraft, GDPR violations all the way down, and AMD got approval for its acquisition of Xilinx.
  
  
• On February 12 Twitter suffered a sudden total existence failure which unfortuntely was resolved, Cisco offered $20 billion in cash to buy Spatula City, and lake leaks got it right.
  
  
  
  
• On February 13 Binance invested $200 million in Forbes - which is more interesting in hindsight than it was at the time, Sony offered a $3600 walkman, and the Big List of Bad Bots.
  
  
• On February 14 two was one and one was none, someone misconfigured an S3 bucket, Sapphire Rapids vs. Milan-X only now Genoa is here and Sapphire Rapids still isn't, $2 million bug bounties, France went nuclear, and on second thought that was actually stupid.
  
  
• On February 15 paying your taxes in Ugly Monkey JPEGs, a good $120 CPU, and Android virtual machines.
  
  
  
  
• On February 16 you're blockchaining wrong, AMD's market cap exceeded Intel's - it's now less, but only very slightly, Akamai bought Linode for a not-insane price, Google was dying, and writing your own Minecraft server - in Bash.
  
  
• On February 17 WE GOT HIT BY LIGHTNING. Oh, and Audible was stealing royalties from authors.
  
  
• On February 18 Sethra Linode got us back onto the server farm, the Sydney region got hit by 150,000 lightning bolts, Wordle and Gizmodo were watching you, and all of Canada's major banks somehow experienced technical issues at the exact same time.
  
  
  
  
• On February 19 New York was fucked, Nunchuck.io told Canada to get fucked, $1500 NUCs, and Google banned Apple.
  
  
• On February 20 low-quality Twitter bots ahoy, and Clearview AI needed to be nuked from orbit.
  
  
• On February 21 explaining the OpenSea heist as a Dortmunder novel, San Francisco tried to persuade workers to come back without any noticeable success, and yes we have no diodes, we have no diodes today.
  
  
  
  
• On February 22 crypto engineers would welcome a prolonged "crypto winter" said a guy who already has all the money he could possibly need, Atlassian tried to wreck Australia's electricity, and Firefox was not okay.
  
  
• On February 23 my internet was still out after being vaporised by lightning, the guy behind Ruby on Rails noticed to encroaching fascism, fuck you Samsung, the Aerocool Cipher had 15 drive bays and cost just $75 and isn't available in Australia, and IRS delenda est but that's nothing new.
  
  
• On February 24 it was a bad day, I considered the possibility of moving out of Sydney, I had a ping time of two seconds to Google, and you'll never get rid of the Dane.
  
  
  
  
• On February 25 I found a house I didn't end up buying - given what happened with interest rates since then probably a good thing, Samsung shipped two or three phones with flawed encryption, and forget I mentioned that.
  
  
• On February 26 I got my internet back - temporarily as it turned out, the great unarchived HoloEN off-collab, Russia got shut out by the mean girls, poverty was relative, the USPS told the EPA to get fucked, and the Status Page Status Page.
  
  
• On February 27 Elon Musk hadn't bought Twitter yet, LAPSU$ Darknesss hacked Nvidia, and Russia turned out to own $500 billion in fairy gold.
  
  
  
  
• And then on February 28 I continued the home hunt in New House City, BitConnect's found was charged with operating a $2.4 billion Ponzi scheme which used to be a lot, and Apple filed a patent for building a computer into a keyboard like (insert mile long list of prior art here).
  
  

• On January 1 we looked back at 2021, alleged rumour leaks of AMD's Ryzen 6000 were 100% accurate, and SIXBIT OR BUST.
  
  
• On January 2 we enjoyed Microsoft's Y2.022K bug, Intel killed AVX-512 on the desktop, Lenovo's Y700 tablet leaked and you still can't get it outside China, and a bank, jealous of this crypto stuff, accidentally misplaced $176 million, which used to be a lot.
  
  
• On January 3 Huawei's revenue was down by $100 billion, which still is a lot, Apple was planning a monitor that was merely exorbitantly expensive, Dwarf Fortress was heading to Steam, and don't work with FOOF.
  
  
  
  
• On January 4 Elizabeth Holmes was found guilty on four chargers of bullshit with intent, CES was a whole bunch of nothin', Intel's Arc A380 was only mostly terrible, rumours of AMD's Ryzen 7000 were 0% accurate, Apple hit a market cap of $3 trillion despite not having any products worth buying, and 14,000 gaming companies in China shut down because China.
  
  
• On January 5 AMD announced Ryzen 6000 for laptops and Ryzen 5000X3D for desktops, Intel announced 22 new desktop CPUs several of which weren't awful, and Asus and Lenovo were missing the Four Essential Keys.
  
  
• On January 6 sunflowers ruined everything, Honda joined in with its own Y2.022K bug, and Arbix Finance stole $10 million in customer funds which used to be a lot back in, oh, 1913 or so.
  
  
  
  
• On January 7 we ate popcorn and watched communists fight over money, Kazakhstan shut down the internet, a New York art gallery owner lost $2 million worth of monkeys, the hot new anime series was So It's a Ponzi Scheme, So What?, and QNAP announced a $7500 NAS that automatically auctions off your personal data and splits the proceeds with you.
  
  
• On January 8 we blocked Europe at the router, SonicWall joined the Y2.022K bug party, the Ruby MongoDB library changed what "OR" meant, Web3 was doing great, and a fire in a critical part of ASML's Berlin factory didn't fuck things up enough to be noticed above the global background level of complete disaster.
  
  
• On January 9 we answered questions - remember that?, the James Web Space Telescope entirely failed to explode, and YouTube launched into an entire year of brokenness.
  
  
  
  
• On January 10 Canon printers went DRM free because they couldn't get the DRM chips for the toner cartridges, Pixy's First Law of Personal Responsibility, and someone sprayed those damn sunflowers with RoundUp.
  
  
• On January 11 what the internet really needed was more socialism, securing your QNAP NAS with this one easy trick, Apple tried to do something good (ish) for once and the phone companies blocked it, and building your own Cobalt Qube.
  
  
• On January 12 Web3 was still doing great, the PCIe 6 spec was finalised (a year later there are still no PCIe 5 cards available anywhere), and friends don't let friends run IIS.
  
  
  
  
• On January 13 I made the mistake of not buying two Lenovo Tab M8 FHDs, Plausible Analytics was plausible, Intel's 12400 was pretty good, and Apple fixed an unintended kill switch in iOS.
  
  
• On January 14 our hosting company found the missing payment and we didn't get cut off, TSMC increased CapEx for 2022 to $44 billion, QNAP released 317 security patches, Chrome patched a long-existing and very obvious security hole that affected every browser in the world, and China made NFTs worse. Somehow.
  
  
• On January 15 Russia "neutralised" the REvil hacker gang by which they mean they assigned them a new name and new targets, FedEx planned to deploy laster missile-defense systems, and what happened to that Google antitrust case anyway?
  
  
  
  
• On January 16 it was question time again, Safari leaked your browser history, Intel's next gen server chips where delayed to Q3 - which turned out to be wildly optimistic, and you couldn't back up a MacBook.
  
  
• On January 17 Tonga's internet went down due to (checks notes) being blown up by a volcano, NPM was worse than Cthulhu, you couldn't get a 3090 Ti, and emulating the Sega Genesis.
  
  
• On January 18 Google banned an Android app because they - Google - translated the description incorrectly, and then banned it again because an app without logins didn't have a test login, the RP2040 cost 70 cents, and China did China stuff.
  
  
  
  
• On January 19 Microsoft announced it was buying Actilizard for $687 trillion, everyone planned price hikes, SQLite was genuinely good, and regulatees told regulators that regulation was bad.
  
  
• On January 20 disinformation was disinformation, Intel announced 20 new mobile CPUs, DevToys was a toy for devs, and the Polygon blockchain fell in a heap. Again.
  
  
• On January 21 NFT marketplace OpenSea vanished for a couple of hours and took every wallet supporting NFTs with it because the blockchain is distributed and resilient you guys, use Ada, Twitter was - still mostly is - stupid, and 78% of planes could land safely with mobile phones switched on so just hope you're not on one of the 22%.
  
  
  
  
• On January 22 intel announce a $20 billion facility in Ohio, Google was working tirelessly to prevent offense to inanimate objects, China was back to doing China stuff, and the Radeon 6500 XT sucked as a desktop graphics card because it was designed as a mobile graphics card.
  
  
• On January 23 we explained Hololive, Australia's government said the surveillance state was "maybe kind of bad" and naturally lost the election, everything had two prices and three elevators, and fuck WordPress.
  
  
• On January 24 an entire country got DDOSed off the internet just so that someone could cheat at Minecraft, you can't log in from here, how Medium turned to shit, and how everything else did.
  
  
  
  
• On January 25 the crew of The Incomparable including Lex Friedman with an e were definitely probably not communists, save 99% on your Cloudfront bill with this one simple trick, hackers stoll a million dollars worth of store brand ugly monkey JPEGs, and Russia was totally not going to invade Ukraine swearsies.
  
  
• On January 26 Google dropped its new spying scheme in favour of a different new spying scheme, there was a privilege escalation and/or remote execution vulnerability in everything, there was a shortage, and Google banned the numeral 1.
  
  
• On January 27 in particular there was a shortage of my usual gluten-free food which I have since resolved by buying an entire house and a larger fridge and a separate freezer, solving Apple's 30% cut problem, and the RTX 3050 wasn't entirely awful.
  
  
  
  
• On January 28 Facebook's blockchain adventure came to an abrupt end when it got eaten by a grue, Lex Fridman (without an e) got hacked because QNAP, Microsoft got hit with 46 billion modems, a MacOS update broke critical apps for the first time ever cough cough, and the RTX 3050 was sold out already.
  
  
• On January 29 80% of NFTs created on OpenSea were fraud or spam according to OpenSea, Qubit asked thieves to please return the $80 billion they - wait, $80 million, hardly seems worth it, Samsung definitely did not dump 763,000 gallons of sulfuric acid into an Austin creek, something was headed for the Moon, and Neil who?
  
  
• On January 30 the Wonderland crypto protocol turned out the work of a serial fraudster unlike everything else in the industry which is mostly the work of first-time fraudsters, case in point - over three thousand blockchain projects stole users' money and disappeared in 2021, the IRS decided that maybe you shouldn't have to go through an audition just to pay your taxes, and chip makers started investing more in older, cheaper processes.
  
  
  
  
• On January 31 there were still no nuggies (a situation which has improved over the course of the year - I currently have ten boxes), censorship was bad, memory leaks were worse, civil asset forfeiture stole ten times as much as social media scammers, and PCs were back on the menu.

1 Where balancing speed and skill is Drive mad . Navigate treacherous terrains and avoid flips in this addictive driving challenge.  

1 Based on my wife's use of twitter, I'm convinced that it's simply a form of concentrated mental illness. ANd what I mean by that is that the form itself encourages pathological behaviours. Also, web browsers are getting worse every day. Now I'm getting "insecure form" pop-ups when I try to comment. Can we just go back to the good ol' days when "e-commerce" meant calling a toll-free number and ordering some crap for the nieces and newphews? And can we go back the the world wide web being a place for grainy porn gifs and bomb recipes (and for malignant narcissists to post whatever passes for thought these days)?

2 Pixy? My blog hates me. Whenever I try to log in, I get a "not authorized" message.
As you can see, I can log in HERE just fine.
Halp? 

3 Wonderduck!  Good to hear from you, I'll get that fixed.  Not sure why it's happening but we did move servers recently so it's probably something I broke in the process of doing that.

4 I also can't log in to your blog, which should make the problem easier for me to find.

5 Ah, aha! That could be it indeed.
It's been a very bad December,  health-wise. 

6 Definitely odd.  It's rejecting logins for your site but not mee.nu sites.  I can see in the logs that it thinks the password is wrong or something.

7 Hope things get better for you.  I was getting worried.

8 It's not generating a session cookie for you, presumably because of the different parent domain.  I had to change the session handling code because with the server move we jumped several years forward in the underlying operating system, and I missed something.  Will be fixed by tomorrow; might need a little experimentation.

1 Indeed, that's my breakfast champagne rule:  there's two of us, so I'll need two bottles, double that to four, add one and buy five cases for breakfast.  And since bubbly doesn't keep, I guess we'll have to polish it all off at one go.

2 Also, should have gone for 201 myriametres.