Thursday, December 27
Daily News Stuff 27 December 2018
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Tech News
- Passbase helps you create a universally trusted digital identity. (Tech Crunch)
No possible way that could go wrong.
- Banana Pi (I'd prefer pecan, but never mind) is launching a tiny 24 core Arm server. (Phoronix)
Though it's 24 1GHz A53 cores, so in reality it's no faster than a high-end phone.
- More details emerge on that false flag Russian bot fake news social media "researcher" story. (The Verge)
It's pretty clear here that Facebook are right and the "researchers" are just providing dirty deeds done dirt cheap. Except not that cheap.
- Christmas Eggs? It should have been obvious that was a bad idea. (Yet another programming blog)
This is fine to do in an app. It's not quite so fine in a component library, where what you want is consistent behaviour above all else.
Christmas Eggs. What is the world coming to?
- Did cryptocurrency dreams go bust in 2018? (Axios)
Axios as usual has the wrong end of the stick. Cryptocurrency speculators' dreams went bust. I'm working on cryptocurrency apps at my day job and the speculation bubble was a huge problem for anyone trying to run any practical apps - it clogged up the networks and increased transaction fees by an order of magnitude, sometimes two orders of magnitude, and made both costs and schedules impossible to reliably predict.
If it's over, we might be able to get some actual work done.
- Chrome's new UI design looks like poop. (ZDNet)
Google says, "If you don't like it, don't buy it.... Wait, come back!"
- How does the 9700K (8 cores, 8 threads) compare with the older 8700K (6 cores, 12 threads)? (Gamer's Nexus)
For games, it's usually a win. For productivity and rendering, it's mixed. In fact, for Blender the 9700K is only a hair ahead of the Ryzen 1700, an older, lower power, and much cheaper part. (On Amazon, $399 vs. $199.)
Social Media News
- Do you have a license for that Christmas wish? (TechDirt)
The EU is only trying to help. Honest. Ignore the reindeer; they were dead when we got here.
- Do you have a license for that swear? (TechDirt)
South Yorkshire Police clearly do not have enough work.
- Do you have a license for that opinion? (TechDirt)
New Hampshire (state motto: Live free or don't.) is being sued over the gratuitously unconstitutional application of a law that is almost certainly unconstitutional in general.
In a Christmas miracle, the ACLU is on the right side of this case.
- Do you have a license for that discount? (Tech Crunch)
Not in India, you don't. Probably.
Video of the Day
Yeah, I know, but she's a lot easier on the eyes than Bon Scott.
Bonus Video of the Day
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Chrome: the new(ish) rounded tabs are fugly in the extreme. Also, I love that that ZDNet article was like "These complaints aren't just from a handful of annoyed users. There are tens of Reddit threads about how the new UI sucks, and how people want their old Chrome tabs back. The complaints, from hundreds of users, go on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on.
Feedback about the new Chrome UI on Twitter is just as bad as it is on Reddit, with the same grievances being aired over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over." and every "over" and "on" was a link to a reddit or tweet griping about it.
Feedback about the new Chrome UI on Twitter is just as bad as it is on Reddit, with the same grievances being aired over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over." and every "over" and "on" was a link to a reddit or tweet griping about it.
Posted by: Rick C at Friday, December 28 2018 01:47 AM (Q/JG2)
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I think the writer of that piece might have an opinion. 
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, December 28 2018 02:06 AM (PiXy!)
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Yeah, and it's a common one. But most people don't know enough to change a setting, so Google pretends that means most people like the stupid new tabs.
I will admit that "go use someone else's product" is a pretty rare statement. I guess it didn't occur to him that once you start leaving the Google ecosystem, you might consider other ways than just the browser you might find alternatives to Google. (This is what irritates me the most about Microsoft's stupid Windows Phone adventure; they were growing userbase when it was still Windows Mobile, but seemed to have lost the plot with the rebranding and then basically gave up. I'd probably be using it instead of Android if they hadn't done so.)
I'd like to see a handful of those Google people get some forced perspective and realize they are where Microsoft was ten years ago in some respects, but it would probably break some of them mentally.
I will admit that "go use someone else's product" is a pretty rare statement. I guess it didn't occur to him that once you start leaving the Google ecosystem, you might consider other ways than just the browser you might find alternatives to Google. (This is what irritates me the most about Microsoft's stupid Windows Phone adventure; they were growing userbase when it was still Windows Mobile, but seemed to have lost the plot with the rebranding and then basically gave up. I'd probably be using it instead of Android if they hadn't done so.)
I'd like to see a handful of those Google people get some forced perspective and realize they are where Microsoft was ten years ago in some respects, but it would probably break some of them mentally.
Posted by: Rick C at Friday, December 28 2018 06:07 AM (Q/JG2)
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