Ambient Irony

Saturday, November 10

Daily News Stuff 10 November 2018

Tech News

Speaking of things with 128GB and things that use too much power, Eurocom's Tornado F7W DTR provides an Intel 9900K and up to 128GB RAM and 22TB storage in a svelte 9lb package. (AnandTech)

That's not entirely terrible.
AnandTech has some of those never-mind-the-capacity-feel-the-height 32GB memory modules in the labs for testing.

You can't use these to get 128GB in total, unless you have a four channel CPU. They look like two DIMMs to the memory controller, so you can only use one per channel.

32GB unbuffered modules that look and act like single modules are available, but are scarce so far. For servers you can easily find 64GB and even 128GB modules, but those don't work on most desktop systems.
OWC have 64GB SO-DIMM kits available today that should work with Tohru and Rally but they cost nearly as much as the computers did.

[64GB is $1080 or about A$1500, and I'd have to pay 10% GST on import since it's over the personal limit. So A$1650. Rally cost A$1800 including GST and shipping. So it sure ain't gonna happen this year.]
Those new Arm-based Windows laptops run a version of Windows that is not officially supported - and does not, technically, exist. (Tom's Hardware)

That's just one more reason not to buy them.
Sony's PlayStation Classic is based on an open source PlayStation emulator. (Tech Crunch)
Cloudflare's workers are fast, cheap, flexible, don't need containerisation for security, and require you to use fucking JavaScript.

Brython might help with that.
Why do all websites look the same? A professor teaching interactive design in Germany got his students to reimagine some popular websites. The results were godawful unusable crap.

That's why.
Microsoft did not have a great October (ZDNet)

Oh, their hardware side is doing fine. Software less so.
There's a vaccine for celiac disease entering clinical trial right now.

They are looking for trial subjects in Australia.

It involves twice-weekly injections. Also, you need to have had your diagnosis confirmed by biopsy, which I never did, because ugh.

On the other hand, gluten-free chicken tenders are half price at Woolworths this week.

Social Media News

When bad supranational law and bad national governments collide: Romania's socialist goverment is using the EU's awful GDPR to force investigative journalists to reveal their sources. (OCCRP)
Pennsylvania AG subpoenas Epik, Gab's new domain registrar, for no stated reason. (Ars Technica)

The useful idiots are unsure what to think about this one.

Video of the Day

What? It's just someone in noisy shoes walking through some kind of plaza in China.

Click on the video and drag it around.

This is the camera Naomi (the young lady in the video) is using. It doesn't look that impressive, but it contains two super wide angle - 190Â° field of view - cameras back to back. Some clever software stitches the two images together and removes most of the distortion.