Tuesday, September 04
Daily News Stuff 4 September 2018
Tech News
- Microsoft just took an axe and gave Skype's feature set 40 whacks. (The Register)
It's a start.
- Google is loading the Ethereum blockchain into BigQuery every day so that Google cloud users can search it for stuff. (ZDNet)
You can do that directly with the Ethereum API, but to do anything advanced you end up doing exactly what Google has done - load the whole damn thing into a real database.
- Amazon is eyeing Facebook and Google's river of gold - that is, online advertising. (New York Times)
Which of course they (and Craigslist) swiped from the newspapers before them, effectively bankrupting the industry.
I'm happy to see poorly-behaved companies like Facebook and Google facing competition, but at the same time Amazon are ruining their own site with ads, and I don't want to see more of that.
On the third hand, Amazon US no-longer ships physical goods to Australia, and their Australian store is a dumpster fire, so fuck the lot of 'em.
- If you are taking screenshots with Chrome headless, you must have a full certificate chain for any HTTPS sites you load components from, or the screenshot will be messed up. This, even if it works perfectly in your browser.
At least the error messages tell you something is wrong with your SSL certs, so you're not left blindly scrabbling for a solution.
- Ethereum is doomed! Says a contributor to competitors BitCoin and Stellar who is clearly completely unbiased on the subject. (TechCrunch)
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