• I finally remembered to turn spell check back on in Chrome, so post quality might improve a little.  Though because of all the special terms these posts tend to be a sea of red squiggles regardless.
  
  
• Google's Pixel 4 XL gets a meh out of ten.  (AnandTech)
  
  Universal opinion is that it's a 2017 phone shipping in late 2019.  No headphone jack, no microSD card, no fingerprint sensor.  It does have radar because that's what everyone was demanding.  Apparently.
  
  
• Speaking of old school, the Dynabook T8 and T9 feature a 16" screen and a Blu-Ray drive.  (AnandTech)
  
  They remind me of my Vaio from...  Uh, quite a long time ago.  But with a much better battery life; that thing lasted no time at all.
  
  
• Blizzard explains no, it's the children who are wrong.  (TechDirt)

  In explaining that decision,Brack reiterated the message that Blizzard supports free speech and encourages employees and players to say what they want in "all kinds of ways and all kinds of places." The one exception to that, he said, is "if it affects our bottom line".

  (Paraphrased slightly.)
  
  
• Volta XL is basically a USB-C Magsafe power cable.  (ZDNet)
  
  So it falls out all the time rather than occasionally getting snagged on something and bringing your laptop crashing onto the floor.  With modern fast charging the former is probably a worthwhile tradeoff for many.
  
  
• Gfycat is not only mass deleting old images, but threatening to sue Archive Team over attempts to back them up.  (Boing Boing)
  
  The first part is understandable - the images are old, anonymously posted, and mostly copyright violations.
  
  The second part is straight out of the Blizzard Public Relations Handbook.
  
  
• GitLab's director of risk and global compliance has resigned because GitLab was thinking seriously about issues of risk and global compliance.  (Business Insider)
  
  Specifically, considering whether to hire staff living in Russia and China for positions where they would have access to private user data.
  
  
• MSI leaked the existence of the 64 core Thirdripper that everyone knows is coming.  (OC3D)
  
  
• The ASRock X570 Creator combines Ryzen 3000 with Thunderbolt 3.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It also has an Aquantia 10Gb Ethernet port, WiFi 6, and two M.2 slots.
  
  At $500 it's not exactly cheap, though.
  
  
• Facebook is censoring mentions of posts mentioning the censorship of posts mentioning quote-whistleblower-unquote Eric Ciaramella:
  
  
  
  
  
• And so is YouTube:
  
  
  
  
  
• YouTube also says that 141 minutes isn't enough context to determine if a video violates their "community guidelines":
  
  
  
  
  Fortunately, we still have BitChute - for now.
  
  
  
  
• Twitter, oddly enough, is not censoring the name.  Possibly because they retain enough functioning neurons to realise that doing so would provoke an unimaginable trollpocalypse.
  
  
• Lilith is an operating system written in Crystal.  (GitHub)
  
  If you ignore all the fancy stuff, at its lowest level Crystal is basically C with a saner syntax, but a single person writing a complete working operating system in it is still an impressive achievement.
  
  
• Fresh benchmark leaks continue to indicate that AMD's mainstream 16 core 3950X will outperform Intel's high end 18-core 10980XE.  (WCCFTech)
  
  The 10980XE is no faster than the 9980XE, and the 3950X beats the 9980XE on both single-threaded and multi-threaded tests.
  

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