Tuesday, October 08
Daily News Stuff 8 October 2019
Revenge Of Truck-kun Edition
Revenge Of Truck-kun Edition
Tech News
- Chucklefish, developers of Starbound and publishers of Stardew Valley, have been accused of not paying volunteers. (One Angry Gamer)
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Yeah, that's it. That's the story.
- Need 96GB of VRAM at 1.2TB per second? (AnandTech)
Samsung previously had 16Gbit HBM2 dies and 12-high 8Gbit HBM1 stacks; now they have combined the two for 24GB per package. Existing Vega 7 cards by comparison only have 16GB in four stacks.
- There's a serious bug with oh it's already been patched. (Tom's Hardware)
Chrome and Firefox users were experiencing crashes on Gemini Lake Atom systems. Google and Mozilla deployed workarounds and Intel has relesed a firmware update. The end.
- Group Nine acquires PopSugar. (Tech Crunch)
Isn't that what killed Mikey?
- Instagram has killed the following tab after it was revealed that people are ghastly preening sanctimonious hypocritical morons. (Tech Crunch)
Amazing, neither Instagram nor parent Facebook did anything wrong. It's people who are the problem.
- Sheppard moons. (Carnegie Science)
C'mon, someone had to say it.
- Elliptic curve cryptography made simple.
Well, simple-ish. Anyway, there are pictures.
- Pedants of the world unite. (Reddit)
- KeyDB is a multi-threaded fork of Redis that I mentioned back in March.
With the cloud migration I'm planning at my day job we'll get a lot of benefits, but one thing we'll lose is the ton of cheap DDR3 RAM we stuffed into our old servers. We use it to run huge Redis instances to do data analysis - not something we need constantly, but very handy when we do need it.
Well, KeyDB has a new trick: You can have it swap safely to SSD. It memory-maps a file using ZFS and then uses filesystem snapshot in place of the regular Redis fork-and-dump mechanism.
That's actually really useful to us. Unlike previous forks, KeyDB looks to be in active maintenance and offers some features for free that are paid extras on Redis.
- MacOS Catalina is out and you should probably avoid it. (Six Colors)
This version murders 32-bit support so older apps and device drivers simply won't work. On the other hand, it can run some iPad apps - badly - so what you lose on the swings you also lose on the roundabouts.
Disclaimer: I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favourite moon on the Citadel.
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"Yeah, that's it. That's the story."
No doubt there are people out there clamoring for a bunch of laws & regulations. Perhaps a simpler solution would be for parents and/or schools to tell teenagers "don't work for free." (I'm not intending any snark here. This is a lesson too many people learn the hard way.)
Sheppard moons: Unrelated except this site reminded me: if I could choose a superpower, it would be to reach through the monitor of web devs for sites that use gray text and slap them upside the head until they stop.
No doubt there are people out there clamoring for a bunch of laws & regulations. Perhaps a simpler solution would be for parents and/or schools to tell teenagers "don't work for free." (I'm not intending any snark here. This is a lesson too many people learn the hard way.)
Sheppard moons: Unrelated except this site reminded me: if I could choose a superpower, it would be to reach through the monitor of web devs for sites that use gray text and slap them upside the head until they stop.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, October 09 2019 12:59 AM (Iwkd4)
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