• Sony's Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact is almost the platonic ideal of small tablets. 
  
  The problem I have with mine is that it's the 16GB model and Sony disabled adoptable storage.  If I'd been able to get the 32GB model it would be fine, but I don't think that ever reached Australia, and certainly wasn't available in the half-price sale where I got it.  Or if it had adoptable storage, also no problem.
  
  I recall now why I put it away in the box last time: The Kindle app couldn't store books on the SD card, and it was perpetually running out of space.  Amazon have fixed the app now - mostly - so I have been able to put my entire Kindle library on it (which is 16GB by itself) plus 52 Kairosoft games, Final Fantasy 1 through 6, and a bunch of other essentials.
  
  If they kept the exact same form factor, screen, and battery, updated the CPU from the Snapdragon 801 to even a recent low-end chip like the Snapdragon 460, and either put 32GB in as standard or enabled adoptable storage (preferably both), I'd buy two.
  
  Also, if you happen to be installing apps on your new/old tablet and find that Endless Frontier doesn't pick up your account and instead creates a new one and links it to your Google Play account, and you go back to your other tablet and your account is still there but you pick Load rather than Continue and it overwrites that as well...  Don't Panic.
  
  Turns out that the developer is smarter than that, even if the UI is a bit confusing.  Next time you open the game, both accounts will still be there to choose from.  In fact, I'm not sure how to get rid of the new one it created.
  
  
  
• Sonnet has a USB-C to 5Gb Ethernet adaptor for those of us stuck on all-in-one desktops like the iMac or Dell Inspiron 27.  (AnandTech)
  
  There are a few of these adaptors around, in fact.  They all use the same chipset, and they all seem to be unavailable for purchase anywhere.  I don't know what's up with that.
  
  
  
• Another day, another leaked video card.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  This time it's Nvidia with a card 75% larger than the 2080 Ti.  Probably a Tesla compute board rather than a gaming product though.
  
  
  
• Finland's Minister of Economic Affairs says the EU needs its own operating system.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  If only there were someone from Finland capable of such a task.
  
  
  
• Hydrogen power is stupid.  (BBC)
  
  A hydrogen powered train, with a range of 50 miles.
  
  First, why is the BBC talking in miles?
  
  Second, the article states that the range is 50 to 75 miles, and then that the hydrogen tanks can run it for three hours, so that is one slow train.
  
  Without the style.
  
  
  
  
  
• Go is slowly morphing into Node.js.
  
  Slowly.  The author freaks out about a simple HTTP request timeout function that installs 196 packages.  Node developers would freak out too, because how can anything be that simple?
  
  
  
  
  Anyway, the whole mess (I'll spoil it because the article is pretty lengthy) comes down to one package with one file that has one useful function with one line of code that - wait for it - simply exports something that is already in the Go standard library but that you can't access.
  
  Go has since fixed that, but fixed it in a way that is neither forward nor backward compatible nor controlled by Go's semantic versioning, so if you rely on Google's solution you will, sooner or later, be fucked.  And if you import the very simple third-party solution, a hundred other packages come along for the ride.
  
  
  
• LG has updated its Gram laptop range for 2020.  (ZDNet)
  
  No major changes, just 10th Generation Intel CPUs.  The top of the line 17" model has a 2560x1600 screen (yes, 16:10), 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD, and a four core / eight thread i7-1065G7 and yet weighs just 1350g - a hair under three pounds.  That would make a pretty nice laptop for software development, though I'm not personally looking for a new laptop at the moment.
  
  
  
• Freeman Dyson has passed away, aged 94.  (Brickmuppet)
  
  

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• A look at the results of AMD's 2016 Chinese joint venture.  (AnandTech)
  
  The results are basically slightly broken versions of first-generation Ryzen and Epyc CPUs, with roughly identical integer performance, half or less of the floating-point performance, and encryption that you can be sure is 100% broken.
  
  
  
• If leaked benchmarks are anything to go by Intel's upcoming i7-10700KF is slightly slower than the Ryzen 3800X - but uses twice the power.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  We know the 9900K is a terrible power hog, and Intel have pushed clock speeds even higher with their 10th Generation chips, so we rate this one plausible.
  
  
  
• The Raspberry Pi 4 now starts at 2GB for $35.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It replaces the 1GB model at that price.  The 1GB model is still available if you're using it in embedded systems, but hobbyists now get twice the memory for the same price.
  
  Also, that bug with USB-C power delivery got fixed at some point, so unless you somehow get a unit that's been sitting on the shelf for months, you should be safe.
  
  
  
• In terms of number of new mobile apps added in 2019 Google's Play Store is fourth and Apple App Store is fifth.  (ZDNet)
  
  Far in the lead is ApkGK which seems to have every Android app in existence and many that are not, which I have never heard of before, and which I would trust about as far as an elephant could jump on the surface of a neutron star.
  
  
  
• Corona-chan has scuttled Facebook's F8 conference.  (The Verge)
  
  Good work, CC!
  
  It remains to be seen what will happen with upcoming events such as Computex and, um, the Olympic Games.
  
  
  
• The Chang'e rover says that the Moon has more cheese dirt than previously thought.  (New York Times)
  
  130 feet deep in places.  A Fall of Moondust, anyone?
  
  
  

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• Spent five hours tracking down a bug that turned out to be the sha3 NPM package doesn't install under the current version of Node,js.  Or the previous version.  Don't know about the version before that, but if you go to the version before that, presto.
  
  Of course nothing anywhere says that this is the case, but if you dig back through bug reports for the past couple of years, you will find that the exact same thing happened in 2018, only three versions removed.
  
  
  
• Dug out my Xperia tablet - an Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact - and fired it up.
  
  After sitting in a box for two years it works perfectly and still had 88% on its battery.
  
  As it happens, it's the 16GB model, and now that I have it running again I remember that I gave up on it because the Kindle app ate all the available space.  About a year ago the Amazon finally updated the Kindle app to support external storage.
  
  None of this would be a problem at all if Sony hadn't broken adoptable storage, but they did.
  
  
  
• If you can't find a good 7" tablet anymore, why not a 6.8" phone?  (AnandTech)
  
  I mean, Snapdragon 865, 8GB RAM, 128GB storage, 2460x1080 AMOLED display, 64MP main camera, wireless charging, 5G, IP68 water resistance, microSD, and a headphone jack.  Oh, and an optional second screen.
  
  Price TBA but probably not cheap.
  
  
  
• SK Hynix says that Radeon 5950X rumour is totally baseless and it will take legal action against whoever leaked their internal documents.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Um.
  
  
  
• TechDirt is still drunk.
  
  
  
• A case of the Tik calling the Tok a parasite?  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Or are there some things even Silicon Valley won't do for a buck?
  
  
  
• An overview of that half-height HP MicroServer.  (Serve the Home)
  
  It has four Ethernet ports which is nice, but they're just gigabit, so eh.
  
  
  
• Your browser is spying on you.  (Tech Report)
  
  Unless it's Brave.
  
  
  

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• The Smithsonian has released an archive of 2.8 million photos into the public domain.
  
  Specifically a CC0 license.  They're planning to digitise their entire collection of 155 million items.
  
  
  
• Microsoft can go fuck themselves.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  No, I am not going to depend on an online service to log into my own computer.
  
  I think I ran into this recently when reinstalling my spare laptop, which got stuck in a boot loop after a failed upgrade to Windows 10 1909.  I hadn't configured WiFi at that point so it wasn't possible for me to use an online account, and the installer allowed me to set up a local account.  Apparently that is now the only way to do so at install time.
  
  
  
• Really want a Nintendo PlayStation?  Got $300,000 plus burning a hole in your pocket?  It could be yours.  (Tech Report)
  
  It's the real deal and in working order.  (Heritage Auctions)
  
  And probably the only one in the world, since it's a prototype for a joint venture that never went ahead.

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• Microsoft's Xbox Series X will be twice as fast as the Xbox One X.  (AnandTech)
  
  For graphics, that is.  Four times faster on the CPU side.
  
  The Xbox One X is four times faster on the graphics side than the Xbox One, but unchanged on the CPU, so overall the Xbox Series X is four times faster on CPU and eight times faster on graphics than the Xbox One non-X.
  
  Clear?
  
  
  
• Mobile World Conference got cancelled by Corona-chan, but the industry burbles on, even if we sometimes wish it wouldn't.  
  
  Huawei announced the Mediapad Pro 5G, an update to the Mediapad Pro 4G, now with an extra G.  (AnandTech)
  
  It's a 10.8" Android 10 tablet, with a 2560x1600 screen and an A76-powered Kirin 990 CPU.
  
  Starting at €549 with no Gs at all, and up to €949 with 5G, 8GB RAM, and 512GB of storage.  Plus €129 for the keyboard and €99 for the stylus.  So...  Not exactly a budget device.
  
  
  
• Speaking of Android tablets, I found this one on Amazon Australia.
  
  It's an older model, but it has basically the same specs as my Mediapad M3 and you can't beat the price.
  
  However...  The seller has a rating of zero.  100% negative.  And if you search the site for Teclast T8, it doesn't exist.
  
  For $280 they have a superseded Samsung tablet with specs in between the 2012 and 2013 Nexus 7 models.
  
  For $941 plus $312 shipping you could get the also superseded Mediapad M5.
  
  Or for $998.91 you could get the 2019 Galaxy Tab A 8" model with S-pen which matches or exceeds the specs of the 2013 Nexus 7 and has an almost up-to-date version of Android, and comes from a seller with 100% positive feedback.  Which feedback consists, unfortunately, entirely of this single review:

  The Green Elephant Ceramic Sharping Rod Sharpens my knives with ease and gets them sharp quicker than outer Sharping rods

  I spent years wishing Amazon would open an Australian storefront.  Now I want them to go away again.  Amazon Australia sucks.
  
  Which reminds me, though - I have a Sony Xperia tablet around here somewhere that I haven't been using since I got the Mediapad.  I should dig it out.  I can't remember if it had 16GB or 32GB of storage; if it was 32GB it's high time I swapped out my Nexus 7.  Something weird is going on with the Nexus 7 and its storage is slowly disappearing no matter what I do.  The Xperia tablet has a 128GB microSD card in it which would help a lot with that.
  
  Come to think of it, the last time I used it was probably that failed experiment to force adoptable storage to work.  Damn you, Sony.
  
  
  
• Where was I?  Oh, right.  Kvetching.
  
  Speaking of 8" tablets at unreasonable prices Huawei announced the Mate Xs, the successor to the Mate X which as far as I am aware nobody anywhere ever actually bought.  (AnandTech)
  
  It also has a Kirin 990 CPU, with an 8" 2480x2200 AMOLED display, which folds and also - an advance over the original model - unfolds.
  
  It has 5G because why not and pricing starts at €2499.
  
  
  
• What a tangled web we weave when first we venture to segment the market.  (AnandTech)
  
  People have been pointing out for weeks that a single $4000 64-core Epyc or Threadripper part can outperform two $10,000 28-core Xeon Platinum CPUs.
  
  Intel's response is a $2600 28-core Xeon Gold.  It's the same chip - it is literally the same chip - but with some interconnects spiked so it only supports up to two sockets instead of 8.
  
  There's also a new 26-core part for $1900, 24-core for $1550, and 20-core for $1270.  For Xeons, those are really good prices.
  
  Still not competitive with AMD, but really good for Intel.
  
  Serve the Home has further analysis.
  
  
  
• TechDirt seems to be drunk today.
  
  
  
• The specs for Big Navi have leaked unless they haven't and I suspect haven't but I could be wrong.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Supposedly the Radeon 5950X will be an 80 CU card with 24GB of HBM2 providing 2TB per second of bandwidth.  But that would mean four 6GB modules, and while that is certainly possible I've never seen such a configuration.
  
  Source is, well, Twitter.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• You used to need a PhD to understand AWS pricing.  Now you need an entire research department.  (Andrew Wray)
  
  Some Amazon services are fixed price.  Some variable.  Some cost you nothing until a user lands on your page.  Others cost you a fortune even if you have no users at all.
  
  The only way I am able to wade through this nonsense and emerge with my sanity mostly intact is a childhood misspent min-maxing D&D characters.
  
  
  
• Second Sock Syndrome and How to Solve It.  (Sheep Among Wolves)
  
  The article is talking about actual literal socks, but it works even better as a metaphor.
  
  
  
• Pinterest is a train wreck.
  
  
  
• China is hunting down anyone who tries to harsh Corona-chan's mellow.  (Vice)
  
  Because the Wuhan Bat Soup Death Plague is less of a threat than an informed populace.
  
  
  
• We apologise for starving your cat to death.  (Ars Technica)
  
  Only not very much.
  
  
  
• If you missed out on the excitement of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum due to not having been born yet, now is your chance.  (Slashdot)
  
  The ZX Spectrum Next, just slightly delayed, is now shipping.  (Kickstarter)
  
  It includes a 28MHz Z80 implemented in an FPGA, with hardware sprites and 1MB of RAM.  It actually looks quite nice, very professionally designed and manufactured.
  
  If you missed out on the original Kickstarter due to not having paid any attention to Kickstarter lately, they will be running another Kickstarter soon for a second production run.
  
  
  

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• Sony has announced the Xperia 1 II which has got to be the most awkward model name since the Xbox One X.  (AnandTech)
  
  Snapdragon 865 with the new Cortex A77, 6.5" 3840x1644 screen, 8GB RAM, 256GB storage.  Surprisingly the main camera is only 12MP, but it's joined by a 12MP telephoto camera and a 12MP wide angle camera.  USB-C port, micro-SD, and a headphone jack make for a pretty complete package.
  
  Though not a cheap one at €1199.
  
  
  
• Docker is great for deploying code without having to understand exactly what it does or how it works.  (Test Double)
  
  Two notes: First, maybe that is not such a great idea, and second, it doesn't help with anything else.
  
  
  
• Eyeing that new Mediapad M6?  Forget about it, says Google.  (ZDNet)
  
  Google's core apps aren't available on any Huawei device that shipped after May 16, 2019, and there's no indication if or when that might change.
  
  Xiaomi, Oppo, Umidigi, LG - could one of you guys make a decent small tablet, please?  Preferably one that doesn't steal all my data.
  
  
  
• AirBNB is offering spying devices to allow owners to keep track of their guests.  (Vice)
  
  That?  That's not creepy.  This is creepy:
  
  The new KidCraft kitchen playset has a built-in Amazon Alexa device.  (CNet)
  
  And all the accessories - all of them - are RFID tagged.

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• Samsung has started 7nm production at its new EUV facility.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The factory will be used to produce chips down to 3nm GAA (gate all around).
  
  
  
• Chrome has started Edging Edge users.  (MSPowerUser)
  
  Chrome extensions work in the new version of Edge, which doesn't make Google very happy.
  
  
  
• The Star Trek transporter doesn't kill you and re-create you somewhere else.  (SyFy)
  
  It destroys the rest of the Universe and then re-creates it around you.
  
  
  
  

• So if DigitalOcean is 1% the size of AWS, how exactly is the market divided up?
  
  Turns out to be easy to approximate, since the total cloud spend for 2019 was on the close order of $100 billion.  (MSN)
  
  DigitalOcean's share puts it at around 0.25% - and DigitalOcean is not a small company, giving you an idea of just how big this is.
  
  AWS is the market leader, of course, with 32.4%.  Azure is second with 17.6% - but is growing at twice the rate.  Between them they control exactly half the market.
  
  Google is a rather distant third at 6%.  Despite the fact that their service works very well and their management interface is light years ahead of AWS - we use both at my day job - I would hesitate to recommend it because their entire corporate culture has brain worms.
  
  Alibaba has 5.4%.  Both Google and Alibaba are growing at similar rates to Azure.
  
  IBM's total cloud and hosting revenues are greater larger than Azure, but that's not a pure cloud offering, combining cloud, traditional servers, and services.  Oracle, SAP, and Salesforce are also pretty substantial but are largely service-oriented rather than pure cloud.
  
  
  
• SLC is back - sort of.  (AnandTech)
  
  Nobody makes SLC SSDs - that I know of - though you can buy SLC flash chips for embedded and industrial applications.  But most modern SSDs have a pseudo-SLC cache, where instead of using (for example) all sixteen discrete levels on a QLC device, you only use 1111 and 0000.  That gives you much larger margins for error and lets you write data faster.
  
  So what if rather than making that a cache, you made the whole drive like that?  MEMXPRO did exactly that.
  
  If the target niche isn't obvious, the drives are also waterproof and rated for -40°C to +85°C.  Transfer rates are around the 3GBps mark for both reads and writes, close to the limit of PCIe 3.0.
  
  
  
• Speaking of limits PCIe 6.0 is on its way with a final spec due next year.  (AnandTech)
  
  PCIe 6.0 uses PAM4 encoding, so the signal frequencies are the same as with PCIe 5.0, but with four levels.  I'm not sure what the plan is for PCIe 7.0, though 112Gbps PAM4 encoding is already a thing  (SemiAccurate) and I'd be surprised if they didn't leverage that work.
  
  
  
• Bethesda has pulled most of its games from Nvidia's GeForce Now streaming service.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  I don't know what's going on with this, and haven't seen anyone explain it.  You have to buy the game first - on Steam or Epic or another supported store - so the game publishers already have their money.
  
  
  
• Every melody in the world is now in the public domain or something.  (TechDirt)
  
  Well, every possible short melodic phrase within a normal harmonic scale, anyway; 68.7 billion of theme.  You can still copyright a song, of course, but you might need more than that if you want to sue someone for sounding similar in the future.
  
  
  
• The first benchmarks for Intel's upcoming ten core Comet Lake Core i9-10900 ES have leaked and they don't even rise to the level of meh.  (WCCFTech)
  
  It's unlikely to reach the performance of AMD's 3900x, but so far it's struggling to beat the 3800X.
  
  
  
• Twitter has suspended 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts.  (LA Times)
  
  Apparently they've finally found a Democrat they don't like.  Admittedly Bloomberg's viral efforts have been pretty amateurish.
  
  
  
• Is fusion finally less than 20 years away?  (New Atlas)
  
  Maybe.  The new approach fuses regular hydrogen with boron-11 using 10-petawatt chirped pulse amplification lasers.  Boron-11 is the most common isotope and is stable, but boron itself isn't particularly abundant, since it's not part of any of the regular fusion pathways in stars.  Still, you don't need a lot of it - and it's more plentiful than uranium.
  
  The research is going on at the University of New South Wales and elsewhere, and I found a published paper but even so it seems rather heavy on the speculation and light on the results.
  
  

• Lois McMaster Bujold's Penric stories finally have a proper print edition, having been collected in Penric's Progress and Penric's Travels, the latter out in May.  These form volumes four and five in her World of the Five Gods series.
  
  If you enjoy well-written, tightly-plotted fantasy with relatable heroes and complex villains, you can't go wrong with these.  The first two books, The Curse of Chalion and Paladin of Souls, form a trilogy where the first volume doesn't exist. Instead, the history of those events comes out naturally as the characters discover it. 
  
  I call the hypothetical Chalion trilogy Ista's Fall, Ista's Redemption, and Ista's Glory.  That's a minor spoiler but nothing you wouldn't get if you read the blurb for Paladin before reading Curse.
  
  The remaining books in the series are actually set earlier chronologically, but work fine because they're not prequels, just stories that happened in the past of Curse of Chalion.
  
  If you prefer science fiction and haven't read the Vorkosigan Saga, pick up either Shards of Honor or The Warrior's Apprentice.  My own experience started with The Vor Game, which actually comes after The Warrior's Apprentice, and that works too.
  
  They are absolutely brilliant military SF with a focus on the people rather than the battles, though there are certainly battles.
  
  Bujold's other major series is Dag and Fawn Go on a Boat, otherwise known as The Sharing Knife.  Which is very well written and engaging but doesn't have the same impact.
  
  
• Repairman Jack uses DuckDuckGo.
  
  The latest Repairman Jack book - The Last Christmas - is a sort of sequel to the Ice Trilogy, which happens during the events of the Repairman Jack series, which happens during the events of the Adversary Cycle.
  
  F. Paul Wilson started out writing the Adversary Cycle, found he had a hit with Repairman Jack, the main character in the second volume, completed the Adversary Cycle first, then circled back and added in 15 books in the chronological middle of the main series, plus six additional prequels.
  
  And then updated the original six volumes to fix up the chronology a bit, because the last volume of the series by internal chronology was published in 1992, and the second last in 2011.
  
  These are all well worth reading.  The two starting points are The Keep - first book of the Adversary Cycle, or The Tomb, the first book of Repairman Jack.  The Keep is set during WWII and The Tomb in present-day New York, and it takes a while for the events to link up, but they do.
  
  
  

• Everyone is reviewing the Fractal Design Define 7.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It's a case.  I built a couple of servers in Fractal Design cases for work, years ago.  They were fine.  This is version 7.
  
  
  
• DigitalOcean is borrowing $100 million for expansion.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Some interesting details on their size and revenue in the article.  They are basically 1% of the size of AWS.  There's no comparison between the management UIs of the two platforms, though: DigitalOcean leaves AWS in the dust.
  
  
  
• Time for PCIe 5: New Kioxia (Toshiba) SSDs now saturate PCIe 4.0.  (Serve the Home)
  
  I believe PCIe 5.0 is still on track for next year.  Very unlikely to go straight to the desktop, though.
  
  
  
• An AI project scanning a vast database of known chemical compounds to search out potential antibiotics has found some, including one that is proving effective on multi-drug-resistant bacterial strains.  (The Guardian)
  
  This is good.

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• The great thing about blockchain applications is that they are completely resilient against certain types of attack.  If someone doesn't have your private key, they have no way to steal your Bitcoins...  Except, of course, the old-fashioned approach of a big guy in a mask threatening you with a pipe wrench.
  
  The not so great thing about blockchain applications is that they are completely irresilient against certain types of failure.  If you forget the password to your wallet with 50 Bitcoins in it, haha fuck you that's half a mil you'll never see again.
  
  
  
• Repealing DMCA Section 230 is just a form of regulatory capture.  (TechDirt)
  
  That's why Facebook is in favour of doing so.  It would be a sort of reverse SMOD that leaves the huge dinosaurs intact and kills off all the scrappy little egg-stealing proto-mammals.
  
  Don't go after the social networks.  Go after the payment processors.  Force them to treat all customers equally, and the problem will solve itself.
  
  
  
• UCLA decides that maybe it doesn't want to turn itself into the village from The Prisoner after all.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  
  
• Yes, things at Google really are as bad as we feared.  Their Cloud Vision API has spontaneously developed one of those neurological disorders that Oliver Sacks wrote so many entertaining and terrifying books about.  (Business Insider)
  
  It can no longer distinguish men from women.  There's no telling what it might not be able to distinguish tomorrow, once Google's new Department of Cybernetic Lobotomization is done with their work.
  
  
  
• To be honest, I forgot there even was a 12Mbps NBN plan.  (ZDNet)
  
  NBNCo is rolling out three new pricing tiers, which unfortunately are kind of garbage.  The fastest plan will offer gigabit download speeds - but only 50Mbps up, only a little faster than what I already have.
  
  That article led me to this page which lists other tiers I wasn't aware of: 250/100 and 500/200.
  
  In fact, NBNCo has offered gigabit speeds for at least five years but priced them insanely high, so that no-one bothers to offer them.  (Lifehacker)
  
  Oh well.  100/40 - or really, 80/40, which is what I actually get - is still a big step up from 15/2.
  
  
  
• Google has released the first developer preview of Android 11.  (Thurrott.com)
  
  I have devices that have perfectly working hardware that haven't received an update since 6.0.  My PCs of the same age are quite capable of running the latest version of Windows 10.
  
  I do not anticipate Google solving this problem.  I do not anticipate Google even recognising this problem.  They will probably mistake it for a hat.
  
  
  
• ICANN is looking into maybe using that newfangled internet thingy they've heard so much about.  (CircleID)
  
  No junket to Cancún for you!
  
  

Posted by: Wonderduck at Friday, February 21 2020 05:57 AM (cTMj+)

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