Monday, November 19
Daily News Stuff 19 November 2018
Part of an educational series by Bangzheng Du
Tech News
- CherryPy 18 has dropped support for Python 2.x. Fortunately (a) Cherrypy 17 has been made an LTS release and will continue to receive bugfixes, and (b) PyPy 3 is solid enough for production use now.
(Minx, both current and new versions, uses CherryPy.)
- Speaking of LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 has been announced as an XLTS release with 10 year support instead of the usual 5 years. (ZDNet)
Some commenters have pointed out that extended support is already available on LTS releases if you pay for it and it hasn't been made explicitly clear that this is free XLTS.
(Our new server runs Ubuntu 18.04, so this will be nice.)
- Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate your iPad Pro. (TechSpot)
Particularly do not fold.
- The original author of AMOS is working on AMOS 2.
Ack. JavaScript.
- Gmail allows other people to send you email and have it show up in your Sent folder. (Bleeping Computer)
This is not good. Expect a tsunami of new targeted spam if this is not fixed quickly.
- The FCC has granted SpaceX permission to launch 11,943 satellites. (Ars Technica)
The vast constellation will provide broadband coverage to the entire planet, transmitting in the millimetre band between 37GHz and 52GHz.
The satellites will be in low-Earth orbit and relatively short-lived, so that they won't sit around forever and present a hazard to future launches.
Social Media News
- China, apparently upset that Europe is getting all the totalitarian nutcase points lately, has clamped down on economic reporting. (Financial Times)
They wouldn't be doing this if things were going well. No news is bad news.
- Australia's terrible internet insecurity legislation keeps finding new ways to be terrible. (ZDNet)
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