• The much-anticipated Cities: Skylines 2 is out, and I was hoping to finally build my new PC, with a configuration that could run the game comfortably at 4K.
  
  Looks like I won't be doing that any time soon, first because my money may be headed to something else entirely, and second because there is no such configuration.  (Rock, Paper, Shotgun)
  
  An RTX 3070 - a decent card from the previous generation - at the 1080p High setting, gets 13fps.  The 4070 Ti, which is the fastest Nvidia card at anything resembling a sane price, gets 22fps.
  
  And that's at 1080p, not 4K.
  
  I'll leave it for six months.  I might buy it - I'm definitely going to play it at some point - but it looks like it needs some more time in the oven.

• Millions of fruit flies are to be dropped on Los Angeles.  (The Hill)
  
  Not sure what the flies did to deserve this, but such is life for a fly.
  
  
  
• Russia is cracking down on VPNs and email services as the country tries to implement its own version of China's Great Firewall.  (Torrent Freak)
  
  On of the concerns I have about the Australian internet is that the fiber network here was built by the government, and the have at least a potential chokepoint to implement this kind of thing.  Though at least now there's Starlink and other nascent satellite services.
  
  The US internet is a chaotic mess, but the fact that nobody planned it also means that nobody controls it.
  
  
  
• The People Who Ruined the Internet.  (The Verge)
  
  Ugh, it's The Verge.  Who are they blaming today?

  As the public begins to believe Google isn’t as useful anymore, what happens to the cottage industry of search engine optimization experts who struck content oil and smeared it all over the web?

  Oh.  Yes.  Right then, carry on.
  
  
  
• Atlassian has sent a message to its customers saying please, for the love of God, stop running our software.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Keep paying for it, mind you.  Just don't run it.
  
  
  
  

Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, November 02 2023 11:14 PM (BMUHC)

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