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Monday, October 12

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Daily News Stuff 12 October 2020

Foolish Pekopons Edition

Tech News

Yui, Get the Flammenwerfer Video of the Day



Yelp announced on Thursday it is auditioning for class-action lawsuits.  Why it is doing this, no-one was entirely clear, but alcohol was probably involved.



Disclaimer: Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for, you know, the thing.

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Sunday, October 11

Geek

Daily News Stuff 11 October 2020

A Shark, A Map, A Tunnel: Atlantis Edition

Tech News



Biped Video of the Day



This was the perfect game to be livestreamed by two idiots.


You Know It's Gone Mainstream When Video of the Day



The song's not bad either.


Don't Try to Learn English From Anime Either Video of the Day



In fact, that might turn out even worse than learning Japanese from anime.



Disclaimer: Which is actually pretty damn fast compared to 1983.  But most things are.  I mean, not me personally, but most things.

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Daily News Stuff 10 October 2020

Catch Up Edition

Tech News


Let's Corrupt Those Nice Hololive Girls Video of the Day



I like the way the software captures her blinking.  That works really well.


Disclaimer: Nice Hololive girls: Proceed to murder hundreds of people.

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Saturday, October 10

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Daily News Stuff 9 October 2020

Tass Times In ToneTown Edition

Tech News

  • Hololive livestreams are a train wreck here in Australia.  They disable rewind, and that seems to completely ruin YouTube's streaming.

    On this laptop I can play regular videos perfectly fine, but Hololive livestreams are a stuttering unwatchable mess even dialed all the way down to 144p.

    Given that they make all their money from livestreams, this seems like a problem.

    Update: Huh.  Working today.


  • The 2020 Acer Nitro 5 brings Renoir and Turing together starting at just $669.  (AnandTech)

    I/O is good, with USB-A and C ports, wired Ethernet, and HDMI, and expandability is great with user-upgradeable RAM, two M.2 slots, and a 2.5" drive bay.

    CPU performance is great as you'd expect from a 6 Ryzen 4500U, and gaming on the GTX 1650 is pretty solid, though it won't hit 60 FPS on max settings on some games.

    Most interesting is that for a cheap gaming laptop the battery life is not at all bad - 4 hours of gameplay or 10 hours watching movies.

    Downside is it weighs an old-school 2.4kg.

    It does have the Four Essential Keys, but in the form of a full numeric keypad, which I don't like on a laptop.  But YMMV.


  • Speaking of Ryzen performance AMD announced the Ryzen 5000 lineup just as they announced they were going to announce.  (AnandTech)

    19% higher average IPC measured as the geometric mean across 25 benchmarks.  AMD says it's faster than both the 10900K and the 1185G7 on single-threaded tasks.  The latter is a laptop chip but should still be hitting its rated clock on a single core, so it's a fair test.  It will of course crush Intel on multi-threaded tasks.

    Clock speeds increased only marginally, by 100-200MHz, but it's the same TSMC 7nm process and the same TDP, so that's to be expected.

    Price got a $50 increase on all chips, so it now ranges from $299 for six cores to $799 for sixteen.

    No mention yet of new Threadripper or Epyc parts, though we can be sure they are on the way; they will use the same CPU dies as these Ryzen parts, and the same I/O dies as existing Threadripper and Epyc.


  • AMD is reportedly looking to take advantage of it's restored market valuation to buy Xilinx.  (Tom's Hardware)

    That would be an interesting acquisition.  Xilinx is one of the two main FPGA vendors; the other, Altera, got swallowed by Intel about five years ago.


Disclaimer: I still can't find a decent Tass Times in ToneTown video.  There's one from the Amiga but it cuts off the theme music after a few seconds; there are others from the Apple IIgs and the - I think that's an Atari ST - but they sound like crap.  I don't know what's going on with the IIgs version, it sounds like they spilled all the notes and didn't bother putting them back in the correct order.

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Thursday, October 08

Geek

Daily News Stuff 8 October 2020

Available In The Third Quarter Of Never Edition

Tech News


Disclaimer: Because fuck you, they explained.

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Wednesday, October 07

Geek

Daily News Stuff 7 October 2020

The Magic Goes Away Edition

Tech News

  • Wonderduck pointed out the reason for my bizarre and wonderful YouTube feed - not YouTube itself (or chronosynclastic infundibuli) but a caching bug in Google Translate.

    Subscribe to thirty-five Hololive channels all at once and you too can experience the joys of LexxTube.


  • And also two hours of adorable insanity as Korone plays Untitled Rat Game.




  • The House Judiciary Committee has produced a report recommending that AAFG be regulated or broken up.  (Thurrott.com)

    This is the majority report.  That is, it's written by the Democrat members of the committee.  And the big tech companies are the Democrats' best friends in the world.

    The chaos should be delightful to watch.

    Not that they are wrong.


  • Netflix are left out of this report.  But that's okay because they've been indicted on criminal charges over Cuties.  (TMZ)

    I expect that to go nowhere, and to go nowhere far more quickly and at less expense than the antitrust action, but still, popcorn futures.


  • In actual tech news ASRock has some new STX-format Tiger Lake motherboards.  (Tom's Hardware)

    These don't have USB4, but given what I just learned about USB4 that's probably for the best.

    They do have two network ports (2.5Gb and 1Gb) and four HDMI ports, including one at the front.  Which is not something you'd need every day but would be really useful for a test-bench machine.


  • Apple's T2 security chip is broken and unfixable.  (ironPeak)

    If you allow untrusted parties unsupervised physical access to your Mac.  So don't do that.


Please Don't Suck Video of the Day



It's out in early access today, but I'll wait.  Still have, um, several games left in the queue.

It has 3127 reviews on Steam at time of writing.  I was confused by that, since it supposedly only hit early access today.

In fact, it did only hit early access today.  3127 reviews.  In less than a day.  Average rating "very positive".


Disclaimer: Bloop.

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Life

Videos From A Parallel Universe, Part Two

They're baaaack!

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Daily News Stuff 6 October 2020

Digital Puppets Edition

Tech News

  • Nvidia can now reduce the bandwidth required for your next conference call to just a few kilobytes per second.



    Plus you can have doggy ears.


  • The first DDR5 modules are showing up.  (AnandTech)

    Unless I've missed something, there is currently no hardware for these to plug into.


  • It's even worse than you thought.  (AnandTech)

    One of those rare cases where it pays to read the comments.

    USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 is 20Gbps USB.  USB 4 is 40Gbps USB.  USB 4 may or may not support USB 3.2 Gen 2x2.  And, depending on the individual controller chip, it may not support USB at speeds greater than 10Gbps at all, despite the fact that it is USB and supports speeds of 40Gbps.

    If that sounds absurd, well, yes.


  • Python 3.9 is here.  (Python.org)

    I spend most of my programming hours working in Python and I don't care about this release at all.  On the other hand, the last groundbreaking release of Python took them five years to recover from, so maybe that's good.


  • Unfortunately YouTube fixed my feed and I'm no longer receiving videos from a
    parallel universe.


  • Happened to be online right when the latest SpaceX Starlink launch went up.

    Whoosh!  And then a few minutes later, hsoohw! and the first stage lands dead center on the recovery ship without so much as a bobble.


LexxTube: Videos From a Parallel Universe

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I captured about eight pages of this stuff before the interdimensional vortex closed.


Other Linus Eat Your Heart Out Video of the Day




Disclaimer: Don't turn it on, rip and tear it apart.

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Tuesday, October 06

Life

So How Are Things On Earth 2?

Things are wonderful.  Come join us!

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Well, some things could be better.

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But the tech channels over here are endlessly entertaining.

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In unrelated news my YouTube feed seems to have had an aneurysm.

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Monday, October 05

Geek

Daily News Stuff 5 October 2020

Technically Correct Edition

Tech News

  • You can run Doom 3 on an RTX 3090.  (Tom's Hardware)

    Literally in this case, using that 24GB GDDR6X as a RAM disk.


  • An Xbox Series X gameplay preview preview.



    Some people have the Series X already, but no games are available for it yet, so these are all unoptimised Xbox One games running at 4k.  Still looks pretty good.


  • Using Windows kernel timers.  (Random ASCII)

    This is horrible.

    Nim's os.sleep takes a value in milliseconds, but Windows itself doesn't necessarily do what you ask it to.  I'll see what happens.


  • The 2TB Western Digital Blue SN550 now sells in Australia for less than twice the price of the 1TB model.  Before it was around two-and-a-half times.

    Very tempted.  It's not a high-end drive, but will do just fine for now, and when I get a new system in a year or two will make a great data drive.


  • A roundup of new laptops.  (Thurrott.com)

    I've already mentioned the Lenovo and HP models, but Dell has also announced Tiger Lake updates for the XPS 13.


Doog Video of the Day



I caught a bit of Korone's Assassin's Creed Syndicate livestream over the weekend.  I watched for about an hour while working on other things, then came back a couple of hours later and it was still going.  

Apparently she marathoned the entire game.  (Reddit)



Bonus Doog Video of the Day



In the stream where she was discussing with her followers what games to stream, Doom came up a lot.  She found the cover art, and edited so that her face was on Doom guy and changed the title to Doog.



Very Angry Dog Video of the Day




Disclaimer: Yes, we have no yubi yubi.  We have no yubi yubi today.

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