• Carpe Diem is a lovely Apache privilege escalation bug that fortunately was fairly easy to patch.
  
  
• Intel has released its first Wi-Fi 6 cards.  (AnandTech)
  
  They're standard M.2 2230 devices so you should be able to drop them into any system that uses such - which is probably any computer you can open anyway.
  
  
• Of all the possible antitrust cases currently floating around like so many turtles in a giant bowl of tomato soup the DOJ picked up on Steven Spielberg's anti-Netflix rant.  (TechDirt)
  
  Are they all asleep over there?
  
  
• Anyone working with the Facebook API has recently been faced with a 30-page questionnaire that asks for details right down to the vendor of the hardware on which you are running your virtual machines that run the databases that store your data.
  
  This is why.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  
• Microsoft's news app had a configuration bug that made users think their computer is infected with malware.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  
• Which to be fair is probably true.  (ZDNet)
  
  
• Be sure to make a good impression on your next 8:30 AM international developer conference call with Voidol, which can make you sound like a cute anime girl and/or the lead singer from Queen.  (One Angry Gamer)
  
  Only two settings, I'm afraid.  Mikuru and Mercury.
  
  
• Nuitka's idea of a standalone binary is not quite the same as mine.  Plus if you use the Requests library, which I do, rather a lot, it burns down, falls over, and sinks into the swamp.
  
  I did get to spend half an hour with Crystal, and it does seem to work, though I'm not certain that the standalone executable I generated is truly standalone.
  
  

Social Media News

• There's a lot of social media news to get to, but it all sucks, so I'm leaving it for tomorrow.  Or maybe the weekend, when I'll have time to work up a really good rant.

This video is cool because not only does it explain how Klein bottles work, it gives you a way to accurately visualise many kinds of four-dimensional structures just using familiar everyday concepts.  Ten dimensional hyperspheres not so much; the trick only really lets you jump from 3D to 4D, not beyond.