Ambient Irony

Saturday, January 05

Daily News Stuff 5 January 2019

Tech News

Nvidia's Jetson AGX has a chewy caramel center. (AnandTech)

I think that's right. It's an embedded controller for cars and other robots, so I'm not sure why they needed to make it edible.
Samsung's Space Monitor is a regular monitor with a desk mount. (Tech Crunch)

You can do that with any monitor with a standard VESA mount, but whatever.
How does the Delusional Dirigible compare with the Zoonotic Zoetrope on a Ryzen 1800X? (Phoronix)

(I think whenever I mention Ubuntu in the future I'm just going to make up the code names.)

New kernel, new compiler. A few regressions, possibly because of security patches, but nice performance improvements in some cases. Python is nearly 40% faster on PyBench, and PHP scores 30% better on PHPBench. I should look for a similar article on Intel, and see how much of that is tuning for Ryzen since it launched, and how much is just general compiler improvement.
You've been in that garage for fifteen years! (Six Colors)
In the market for an 8TB enterprise TLC SSD? Not sure which brand to buy? Here's a review. (AnandTech)

No prices though, because enterprise.
The internet of litter boxes: The dumbest gadgets of CES. (Quartz)

One of these is not actually dumb. It's a great idea, though the first versions will be expensive and buggy. Another is a USB coffee blender.
Apple Death Watch: Pay no attention to the sales figures behind the curtain. (Wired)

Apple is a services company now.

Best evidence yet that Apple is screwed. Their services suck.

Social Media News

Coinbase banned Gab CEO Andrew Torba's personal account. (Reddit)

Gab's corporate account was banned months ago.

It's almost beginning to look like a trend.
It's been a quiet few days. None of the social media companies have managed to embarrass themselves in any major new ways, but the year is young.

Now, if I covered the traditional media, things would be different. I'd have hundreds of news items a day.

Which is why I don't, as a rule.
You can't fight City Hall. Not without a +2 sword and a bunch of healing potions, anyway. (The Keene Sentinel)
Pho Keene Great is a French-Vietnamese eatery that plans to open March 1 at 11 Central Square, according to owner Isabelle Jolie. The space is adjacent to City Hall, in a publicly owned building.

Jolie placed a "coming soon" sign in the window of the Central Square space with the business logo and name on Dec. 21. In a Facebook message, Jolie wrote that City Manager Elizabeth A. Dragon called her Monday morning and asked her to remove the sign, citing a contract violation as well as "a concern about the appropriateness of the 'intended play on words' on a city building."

Pho, a Vietnamese soup, is pronounced fuh.

Video of the Day

Other Linus talks about the payment deplatforming furore and what his company is doing about it. Interesting take because (a) he's a free speech supporter, (b) he runs a company depending on online payments, and (c) he's building his own video/monetisation platform called Floatplane.