Saturday, June 13
Daily News Stuff 13 June 2020
Glittermitten Edition
Glittermitten Edition
Tech News
- Before I forget again, a correction of sorts: Brave has said they do not automatically insert affiliate codes into URLs on distributed finance sites without telling you.
Instead, they populate the suggestions box with links to distributed finance sites with affiliate codes pre-inserted, without telling you.
There is an opt-out for that somewhere, and they will be changing it to opt-in. If it had been opt-in all along, no-one would have minded.
- Comparing the SSDs of the Xbox XX and Playstation V. (AnandTech)
Xbox SSD is bigger. Playstation SSD is faster.
Xbox has a custom expansion slot. Playstation can be replaced with any approved M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSD, of which there are currently none.
- Zoom is bad because it is controlled by China. (TechDirt)
- Sure Huawei is controlled by China, but it's Republicans pointing that out, so we should pretend it didn't happen. (TechDirt)
This is what I mean when I say "TechDirt is drunk again".
- HSBC is migrating 65 relational databases to a single global MongoDB database. (Diginomica)
Having been in both situations, I'm not sure which is worse.
- Comparing the Ryzen 3300X to the i3 10100. (Phoronix)
Across 350 benchmarks.
On productivity and software development workloads, the Ryzen is the clear winner - 14% faster across a suite of Python tasks, 17% faster on rendering, 70% faster on linear algebra.
On single-threaded tasks though, the two are almost exactly matched - the Ryzen is 0.4% faster on the geometric mean.
On gaming the story is similar. The geometric mean is almost exactly the same, with the Ryzen ahead by about 0.08%. But there are variances on individual games that are large enough to matter, with Ryzen taking a 25% lead in one and the Core i3 taking a 17% lead in another.
- Twitter has deleted 170,000 Chinese propaganda accounts. (The Hill)
MSNBC hardest hit.
- A MongoDB driver for Crystal that's in active development. (GitHub)
I've taken a look at the code. This looks like it was a lot of work.
Disclaimer: CNN also hardest hit. And The New York Times, they're hardest hit too.
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