Dear Santa, thank you for the dolls and pencils and the fish. It's Easter now, so I hope I didn't wake you but... honest, it is an emergency. There's a crack in my wall. Aunt Sharon says it's just an ordinary crack, but I know its not cause at night there's voices so... please please can you send someone to fix it? Or a policeman, or...
Back in a moment.
Thank you Santa.
Back in a moment.
Thank you Santa.
Thursday, November 04
Daily News Stuff 4 November 2021
Can't Code For What Edition
Top Story
- Gen Z isn't going to solve your tech skills crisis. (ZDNet)
Our most recent hires have been Gen X because, yeah, Gen Z can't code for shit.
Tech News
- Australia is preparing for the launch of two lunar rovers. (The Conversation)
One in a partnership with Japanese and Canadian companies, for launch in 2024, and one in partnership with NASA, for launch in 2026.
The automated rovers will be tasked with searching the lunar soil for indicators of water. We know it's there, but we don't know much about how it is distributed.
- Minisforum has a new mini-PC based on the AMD 4700S. (WCCFTech)
This chip is a recycled PlayStation 5 processor with failed graphics cores, and... It's not completely terrible. Memory is soldered onto the motherboard though, because the PS5 has no provision for anything else.
- Start11 is out of beta. (Thurrott.com)
You still probably don't want to upgrade to Windows 11, but if you buy a new system new may be stuck with it.
- AMD's Zen 4, Zen 4D, and Zen 5 are on their way. (WCCFTech)
Zen 4 is the big update due at the end of next year, with the new socket, and DDR5 and PCIe 5 support. Zen 4D is an alternate version of Zen 4 that packs 16 cores onto each chiplet rather than the current 8, at the expense of cache size. Which might mean a 32-core chip for standard desktops, but might also find its way only into servers.
Zen 5 is the next big iteration after that, and will come in a mix-and-match configuration - one Zen 5 die and one Zen 4D die. So 8 of the fastest cores available and 16 cores that are merely very good.
Zen 5 is expected at the end of 2023 - a much shorter schedule than Zen 4. There was originally planned to be a Zen 3+ out around now, but most versions of that got cancelled to focus resources on Zen 4 and Zen 5.
- The McRib is now an NFT. (Yahoo)
Can't eat NFTs. Well, I have celiac so I can't eat McRibs either, so for me there's not a whole lot of difference.
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Wednesday, November 03
Daily News Stuff 3 November 2021
Power Of The Babe Edition
Power Of The Babe Edition
Top Story
- Looks like congratulations are in order for the good people of the Commonwealth of Virginia, including my friend Brickmuppet.
- Mark Zuckerberg's goal is the world of Karl Schroeder's Permanence. (Vice)
When everything is monetised, only the monets will ever... Wait, how does that go again?
- Zillow decided to use their price tracking data and clever AI to flip houses wholesale. They lost their shirts. (MarketWatch)
In fact, they lost over half a billion dollars worth of shirts, which is a lot of shirts.
What a shame.
Tech News
- Facebook is shutting down its facial recognition project and deleting all the related data. (Bleeping Computer)
Also, I have a great deal to offer on beachfront timeshares in Wyoming.
- Over 30,000 GitLab servers have a serious unpatched vulnerability. (Bleeping Computer)
GitLab is great. It's one of the best pieces of open source software out there, and I use it every day. You still need to keep it up to date.
- A deep dive into Google's new Tensor chip, powering the Pixel 6. (AnandTech)
It looks like this is similar to Samsung's Exynos 2100, but with a different CPU balance and a custom Google AI core. Which is much faster than the similar cores found in chips from Samsung and Qualcomm, but mostly on things you don't do on a phone.
Disclaimer: Who do? You do. Do what?
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That's What
The Democrats are racist, communist, carpet-bagging retards, and they forgot to pay the photocopier bill. That's what went wrong.
The Democrats are racist, communist, carpet-bagging retards, and they forgot to pay the photocopier bill. That's what went wrong.
Cretin.
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Tuesday, November 02
Daily News Stuff 2 November 2021
Load Imbalancer Edition
Load Imbalancer Edition
Top Story
- An in-depth review of the Surface Pro8. (Thurrott.com
He judges it the best tablet PC you can buy, but there isn't that much competition right now. Apple doesn't make one, Dell's attempts kind of suck, and HP has a nice model but seems to hide it away where customers won't find it.
Tech News
- A new storage method can pack 500TB onto an optical disk using a technique known as notched quanta. (Tom's Hardware)
Albeit a glass disk rather than a more robust polymer like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Rays.
Downside is it writes at CD speed, and can't be pressed in bulk like existing formats. But they're working on it.
- Nvidia's rumoured video cards only with more RAM are rumoured again. (WCCFTech)
This time it's a 3070 Ti with 16GB and a 3080 with 12GB, because... I dunno.
- MangoDB is an, um, thing. (MangoDB)
It's an interface that talks MongoDB wire protocol on one side and PostgreSQL on the other. Which is, um, useful I guess.
- Complexity is killing software developers. (InfoWorld)
The solution is to throw Node.js developers into a volcano. It may or may not appease the Volcano God, but at least you'll be rid of the Node.js guys.
- Some older MacBooks are being bricked by the MacOS whatever update. (MacRumors)
"Well, don't do that then" applies.
As bad as Windows updates can be, they generally don't destroy your computer.
Disclaimer: Generally.
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Monday, November 01
Daily News Stuff 1 November 2021
Everything Edition
Everything Edition
Top Story
- Microsoft insists on linking your Windows login to a cloud account. Now those cloud accounts are under attack. (Bleeping Computer)
Unexpectedly.
- Why everything is worse than the government is pretending.
For their part, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department say the weird, inflationary economy we're seeing right now is transitory. And they're probably right.
Yeah, it's going to get much worse.
Tech News
- Everything you didn't want to know about Intel's new Alder Lake CPUs and still won't know after reading the article because they haven't been announced yet but here it is anyway and were afraid to ask because you might get an answer. (Tom's Hardware)
A roundup of the announced facts pre-announcement.
- We still don't know what the hell is going on with neutrinos. (Quanta)
Devious little bastiches.
- Google Pixel 6 Pro: First impressions. (Thurrott.com)
- Google Pixel 6 Pro: Second impressions. (Thurrott.com)
It's a good camera and an okay phone. Sounds like the solution is Nova Launcher, which does for Android what Stardock does for Windows.
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