• At last an inexpensive >1Gb Ethernet switch.  (AnandTech)
  
  This only took seven forevers.  Good fucking work, entire tech industry.
  
  
  
• How to install Windows 10 on your Raspberry Pi.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Step 1: Don't.
  
  Though to be fair, at least the Raspberry Pi can used for something else after you get tired of watching a hamster ride a bicycle.
  
  
  
• How to run Steam games on a Raspberry Pi.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Fun game: How many computers have you owned that collectively were less powerful than a Raspberry Pi?  I have four Macs, a Silicon Graphics O2 and a Sun Ultra 5 that combined wouldn't put a dent in it.
  
  
  
• Loren Chariot Addy the Titbit of Cholame questioned Cele Garth Alda and 16 windy frogs.  (GitHub)
  
  This makes some slight sense.  I once had difficulty tracing a bug in a large customer-service app because users weren't reporting it consistently, so I changed it to show up as Fruitcake Error.  I got 100% of instances reported and was able to fix the problem.
  
  What?  Oh.  It turnes UUIDs into vaguely Shakespearean and grammatically correct nonsense.
  
  
  
• Well, if your entire lab disappears, that would be a sign.  (Quanta)
  
  Kind of like the old question, How do you tell when there's an elephant in your refrigerator?
  
  
  
• The UAE has launched a Mars probe, from Japan.
  
  
  
  
  I think this is a good development.  Probably.

Not At All Tech News

• H.R. 6666 - the Testing, Reaching, And Contacting Everyone (TRACE) Act - has 66 sponsors.  (Congress.gov)
  
  The writers for 2020 are getting lazy.
  
  
  

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