• ASRock's DeskMini A300 gets reviewed.  (AnandTech)
  
  This is the Ryzen version of ASRock's functional-but-ugly mini-STX platform.  With two full x4 M.2 storage slots (plus another one for WiFi) and two 2.5" drive bays, it's a pretty flexible little beastie.
  
  
• Intel says no chips for you.  (AnandTech)
  
  CPU shortages will continue for several months at least.
  
  
• Need a compact passively cooled 8 core system with integrated and optional dedicated graphics, two M.2 slots, four 2.5" drive bays, redundant power supplies, dual gigabit Ethernet ports, MiMo WiFi, and up to 128GB of RAM, with a proper server chipset that includes ECC support if your CPU allows it?
  
  Oh, and a tiny integrated OLED display?  And three serial ports?  And an optional module for another four GbE ports and four extra USB 2.0 ports?  (Though that replaces the standard front panel I/O.)  And another optional module for another three M.2 slots?  (Which I'm guessing uses the PCIe slot, because I can't see anywhere else it would fit.)  And optional 4G wireless?
  
  The CompuLab Airtop3 has you covered.  (AnandTech)
  
  At 30x25x10 cm it's a lot bigger than the A300's 15x15x8 cm, but it couldn't be much smaller; the front and back are full of I/O ports and indicators and the interior is absolutely packed.
  
  
  
  It's an impressive piece of kit, though I wouldn't try it with a full 9900K.  9900T maybe, or even better a Xeon E 2146G.  Slower, yes, but you get ECC support and your new toy won't double as a toaster oven.
  
  What it is not - judging from the current Airtop2 build-to-order page - is cheap.
  
  
• How Facebook dealt with the Christchurch shooting videos.  (TechDirt)
  
  Under Australia's proposed laws they would be fined $7 billion for their efforts.
  
  
• Two companies are looking to be the Netflix of podcasts.  (TechDirt)
  
  Uh...  Did anyone tell them that podcasts are free?
  
  Oh, look, they've lined up a bunch of talentless hacks for their "premium" service.  That's sure to work.
  
  
• Slack has filed to go public, and also mentioned it lost $139M down the back of the sofa.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  
• Gmail is bad for email.
  
  If they don't like you, they'll block you.  And now you're screwed.
  
  
• "It’s like Lucky Charms got spewed all over the screen." (Thurrott.com)
  
  Three guesses which app used by hundreds of millions of people that I just mentioned three seconds ago is being discussed here.
  
  
• 28 cores at 5.7GHz.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Liquid nitrogen may have been involved.  Okay, liquid nitrogen was definited involved.  Rather a lot of it.
  
  
• GitLab 11.10 is out.
  
  
• Amazon's AMD-based T3a virtual server instances are now available.  (Serve the Home)
  
  And they're a whole 10% cheaper than Intel.  Isn't that exciting.
  
  
• Python 2 will likely be dropped from Fedora 32.  (Phoronix)
  
  EOL for Python 2 is coming up, and although my new code is in Python 3 (or just recently, Crystal), I do have 200,000 lines of Python 2 code in production.  Ugh.
  
  
• Burn the witch!  (Six Colors)
  
  A Mac user asks for touchscreen support on MacOS.
  
  
• Dual socket servers make up 80% of sales, with 10% being one socket and 10% being four or more.  But is that a real trend or just Intel's pricing strategies at work?  (The Next Platform)
  
  If a single socket provides 64 cores and 256GB/s of I/O, why exactly is the most common server platform going to continue to be two of those?  Inter-core bandwidth and latency is much better within a die or package than between them.
  
  
• Anyone else remember when Donald Trump was being mocked for mentioning 6G wireless?  (ZDNet)

  "This summit is about 5G, but it is also 'Year 0' of the 6G era," remarked Nokia President and CEO Rajeev Suri.

  How about that.
  
  
• Scientists discover nearly 200,000 kinds of virus in the ocean.  (Quanta)
  
  Okay, first, stop that, I'd rather not know.
  
  Second, "kinds"?  Actually, yes.  Viruses reproduce but don't breed, so the concept of a species of virus is messy.
  
  
• Amazon Kerblam: Terrible HR as a Service.  (The Verge).
  
  
• A 4TB MLC SSD for just over $400?  (OWC via PC Perspective)
  
  Wonder if I can get my boss to order 20 of them.  That would solve our storage problems for a while.

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