• 83% of software developers suffer from burnout, according to a new study.  (Haystack)
  
  The other 17% are dead.

• Give me /events, not webhooks.  (Sync Inc)
  
  Webhooks are a great idea: Rather than having to poll an API for your data, it will arrive at your application automatically.
  
  The only problem is everything about this.  Now every application is an API provider.  Every application has to worry about authentication and message digests and idempotency and a million other layers of poop.
  
  Oh, and your application has to work perfectly 24/7.
  
  Instead, give me a feed API, and a webhook that simply says "there are 5 new items in your feed, go look".
  
  
  
• If you're on the other side of things and need to deliver  that events feed you might want to look at RabbitMQ's new Streams  (RabbitMQ)
  
  They're like conventional queues except they're append-only: Messages never get deleted in a normal workflow.  So if you miss something you can go back and replay it at any time.
  
  That actually simplifies the structure of the data, so that streams are - according to RabbitMQ - orders of magnitude faster than queues.
  
  I like RabbitMQ.  Except for its error logs, which are fucking terrifying.  It basically just sits there and works, day after day, even on a small virtual server.
  
  
  
• Will Intel's 12th generation parts actually not suck?  (WCCFTech)
  
  There are engineering samples out there and leaked benchmarks aren't bad at all.  It supports DDR5 and PCIe 5.0 and is supposed to be arriving before the end of the year, long before AMD's next generation chips.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  
  
• On the other hand, if you want a small, fast, general-purpose desktop computer right now AMD is a good choice.  (Guru3D)
  
  The Minisforum HM80 uses the Ryzen 4800U laptop chip - 8 cores, 16 threads, and 8 graphics cores - in a box the size of a really good sandwich.
  
  It has room for an M.2 drive and a 2.5" SATA drive and 64GB of RAM.  I/O consists of seven USB ports including one USB-C with video support, DisplayPort, HDMI, and separate 1Gb and 2.5Gb Ethernet.  Plus built-in WiFi 6 and Bluetooth and 1/8" headphone and microphone jacks.
  
  It's a bit bigger than an Intel NUC but it needs to be to fit that selection of ports.
  
  The 4800U itself is a low-power laptop part so this should run cool and quiet, but it's by no means slow; it's faster than my current desktop.
  
  
  
• China - yes, not Russia this time, but China - has been using the new SolarWinds vulnerability to attack US defense and software companies.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  There was a remote code execution vulnerability in the embedded FTP server.
  
  We went through all that back in the 90s.  Why is anyone writing a new FTP server now?
  
  
  
• Amazon is rolling out end-to-end encryption for their Ring video doorbells.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  This means that only you, Amazon, the police of two hundred nations, China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea will have access to your recordings.
  
  
  
• If you are using Windows Hello stop doing that and use a fingerprint scanner and/or a password.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Seriously, image recognition is hard and computers are dumb.
  
  
  
• Adobe has fixed 22 critical vulnerabilities.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Mostly in Fucking Acrobat.  That's the official product name now, Fucking Acrobat.
  
  
  
• More Apple products not to buy.  (ZDNet)
  
  The list includes all current iPhones, the MacBook Pro, iPad Mini, all models of Apple Watch, and AirPods.
  
  Sure.  No problem.
  
  
  
• AT&T plans to let customers on unlimited data plans pay more to download unlimited data.  (Ars Technica)
  
  I'm on an unlimited data plan here in Australia.  Okay, so my connection is a relatively leisurely 80Mbps, but I can and have downloaded terabytes of data in a single month without anyone saying anything, and without my connection being slowed down.
  
  
  
• Reddit did not order the (very useful) SaveVideo bot to shut down.  (TorrentFreak)
  
  Some asshole sent a fake takedown notice, but Reddit confirmed it wasn't them.
  
  If the originator can be tracked down, that's perjury under the DMCA.
  
  
  
• Google has been fined 500 million Euros for (insert made up bullshit euroweenie complaint here).  (CNBC)
  
  Good.  More of this please.
  
  
  
• How Intel fucked up.  (Ineteconmics)
  
  Basically, they were working to make their executives rich, rather than to make the company successful.
  
  And it worked.
  
  
  
• Firefox is updating is ad blocking feature to not break Facebook logins.  (The Verge)
  
  No, no, you had it right the first time.
  
  
  

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• The death toll from the massive Bat Flu outbreak that has paralysed Sydney and most of the state of New South Wales rose sharply overnight.
  
  To two.
  
  
  
• AMD's Threadripper 5000 is expected to launch in August.  (WCCFTech)
  
  This upgrades the platform from Zen 2 and PCIe 3.0 to Zen 3 and PCIe 4.0, and also doubles the size of the L3 cache.
  
  This should provide a healthy performance boost for the 24 and 32 core models, but judging by the new Epyc CPUs the high-end 64 core models will be thermally constrained and won't do much better than the older parts.
  
  
  
• Speaking of being thermally constrained, my PC just overheated and crashed because it forgot to spin up its fan.  So I get to type all this in again.
  
  
  

Tech News

• Do not Google the term "rainbow dildo butt monkey".
  
  
  
• OpenSearch has reached 1.0.  (OpenSearch)
  
  OpenSearch takes the last Apache-licensed released of Elasticsearch, fixes it, and ships it with advanced features like...  Security.
  
  Elasticsearch roasted its own goat by refusing for years to include even the most basic authentication methods in their open source release, resulting in a string of massive data breaches.  At one point this was happening every couple of days, all caused by one obviously stupid decision.
  
  
  
• SolarWinds has patched a critical vulnerability being actively exploited.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  No, not that one.  Another one.
  
  
  
• Don't ever buy an iPhone.  (ZDNet)
  
  ...
  
  ...
  
  ...
  
  In July.
  
  Oh.  Don't ever buy an iPhone in July.  Okay.  Think I've got that covered.  No worries.
  
  
  
• Plans are afoot to open a nuclear-powered Bitcoin mining facility in Pennsylvania.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Okay.  Fine.  Seriously, go for it.
  
  
  
• The Salton Sea could fill 40% of the world's demand for lithium.  (Motherboard)
  
  For batteries, that is.  There's not enough lithium in the solar system to stabilise the woke left.
  
  The advantage is that the Salton Sea - created by accident in 1905 - is already a highly toxic disaster area, so mining it for lithium is unlikely to make things much worse.
  
  
  
  
  

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• Kaseya has patched the vulnerabilities that led to over 1500 companies getting compromised with ransomware.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  To be fair, it took a while because there were a lot of bugs needing fixing.

• Giant pandas are no longer classified as being endangered.  (BBC)
  
  Wait, did China not ruin something for once?
  
  
  
• The free and open internet is under attack all around the world, says Google.  (BBC)
  
  "Mostly by us", added CEO Sundar Pichai.
  
  
  
• Cartoon streaming service Toomics filed a bunch of DMCA takedown notices...  Against itself.  (TorrentFreak)
  
  Neat.
  
  

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• Pina Pengin (PRISM)  YouTube  Twitter
  
• Mooyü (Indie)  YouTube  Twitter
  
• kson ONAIR (Indie)  YouTube  Twitter  Mildom

• How to enable the Windows 10 Start Menu on Windows 11.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Well, nice that they -
  
  
  
• Too slow.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  This falls under the Stardock Full Employment Act of whenever Windows 8 was released.  (The original Windows 8 was unusable without Stardock's Start8.  I lasted two days.)
  
  
  
• On the other hand, you can at least control positions for snapping windows.  (Thurott.com)
  
  I run two monitors side by side each with two windows snapped into place.  I really want a super ultra wide monitor with five or maybe seven windows and no gap in the middle, but Windows 10 doesn't support that.
  
  
  
• Sydney lockdown status report:
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• You're a slave to multiple masters, with no rights whatsoever.  Here's why that's a good thing.  (Gizmodo)
  
  The author explains that it's a good thing because she has the mental capacity of a retarded mosquito.
  
  
  
• AMD's 4700S might be a faulty PlayStation 5 chip with disabled graphics and not an Xbox chip.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Looking at the side by side photos, that assessment seems correct to me.  The CPU cores are identical and the graphics switched off, so it was only by looking at the physical chips that someone could confirm this.
  
  Asked to confirm this, AMD said:

  AMD 4700S Desktop Kit is its own unique solution, designed to address the desire for robust, high-core count performance in the mainstream market – ideal for multi-tasking, productivity, and light 3D workflows.

  Which is a lot of words for yes but I'm not allowed to say so.
  
  
  
• How to merge two Apple IDs into one, part one of sixty.  (Brian Stucki)
  
  1. Don't.
  2. No, seriously, don't.
  3. Beer.
  4. Wait, what was I doing again?
  
  
  
• Science Based Medicine shoots self in foot, reloads, and repeats.  (Jesse Singal)
  
  Science Based Medicine is an effort to defend medicine from obvious quackery - homeopathy, naturopathy, chiropractic bullshit, healing crystals and a hundred other kinds of fashionable nonsense - and also from irreproducible research, noting that half of all new research papers published in medical journals are wrong to the point of worthlessness.
  
  Unfortunately - and this is something I've noticed before, because I've been following them for more than a decade - they all lean left politically and are utterly blind to bullshit dressed in the trappings of progressivism.
  
  In this case it's the blatantly obvious moral panic of transgender teenagers, and the accompanying idea that irreversible medical interventions on minors are suddenly a good idea because shut up you bigot.
  
  This ideological blindness is why I dropped almost all the podcasts I listened to a year ago and switched to Hololive and other vtubers.  It means I need to read the news rather than listening to it while I work, but it also means that I don't get enraged by fresh outbreaks of woke insanity every fifty minutes.
  
  If it comes to a choice between science and tech mixed with socialism and a Japanese-speaking Australian girl swearing at a thousand words per minute and singing the Aeroplane Jelly song, I'll take the latter.
  
  Oh, the article tearing Science Based Medicine a new arsehole is written by Jesse Singal, who is kind of annoying in his own right.  He correctly identified the dangers of CRT and the rest of the woke bullshit but voted for Biden because he thought that would calm things down which is, if not quite the stupidest decision imaginable, at least commendable effort.

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• Nothing has gone horribly wrong in the tech world in the last 24 hours.
  
  
  
• The NSW state government has gone full fascist, though.  And this is what passes for our conservative party; the other lot are even worse.
  
  So far the police have just said they may arrest people for buying things "we don't think they need" - like shoes.  In Victoria they were kicking down doors over Facebook posts.
  
  They actually did something similar - arresting people suspected of existing without a license - during the first outbreak early last year - but then the had the slim excuse of not knowing how severe it was or how fast it might spread, and there was no vaccine.
  
  But thin as that excuse was back then, it doesn't exist at all now.  I'll see these fuckers in Hell before they get my vote again.
  
  
  
• Samsung's 3nm GAA process will go into early production next year, with full commercial production in 2023.  (AnandTech)
  
  TSMC's 3nm process is expected to go into full production next year, but it's still what is known as FINFET - the transistor design introduced by Intel with their 22nm node.  Gate All Around, or GAA, is the next generation design, but TSMC have pushed it back to their 2nm node, which will probably appear in 2023 at the same time as Samsung's commercial ramp up.
  
  The early production next year probably means just Samsung's own chips, which could give their devices a competitive edge for a while.
  
  Samsung will also have a 4nm process in full production next year.  As a reference point, Nvidia's latest graphics chips are produced on Samsung's 8nm process, so there are some big upgrades in the pipeline if they ever get the pipeline under control.

Tech News

• Backblaze says that farming Chia  - the cryptocurrency, that is - isn't profitable.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Not even for them, and they have better economies of scale than anyone else in the world.
  
  They'll still let you pay to do it on their servers, they just point out that you're going to lose money.
  
  
  
• Intel's SSD D7-P5510 SSD is nearly as fast as that Optane drive from the other day, has ten times the capacity, and is 20% cheaper.  (Hot Hardware)
  
  There are reasons Intel and Micron's Xpoint storage technology - used in Optane - hasn't set the world on fire: It's too expensive to produce in bulk, and smart controllers and caches mean flash-based storage can keep up with Xpoint in almost all cases.
  
  Xpoint is also being targeted at non-volatile memory, but even there it's not much cheaper than RAM, so it's another niche market.
  
  Anyway, $1600 for a 7.68TB PCIe 4.0 enterprise SSD is pretty good value.  Still a lot of money, sure, but that's roughly the same price per GB as high-end desktop drives like the Samsung 980 Pro.  And the kind of server you'd put this drive in would probably have two CPUs in the $4000 to $8000 range.
  
  
  
• Tencent is spying on children.  (Bloomberg)
  
  Kids are staying up late playing games.  I know, lets monitor their activity using video cameras and secret AI.  That'll fix everything.
  
  
  
• Samsung's app to control their internet-connected washing machine requires access to your location, phone calls, media, contacts, bank account, voting record, last three payslips, and the contents of your fridge.  (Vice)
  
  I've noticed something similar with Japanese web apps - they just ask for a whole slate of permissions they can't possibly need because their audience just clicks okay.
  
  And there's an added problem that if you change the permissions requested you need to re-submit your app for authorisation.  Even if you require fewer permissions than before.
  
  I have an internet-enabled washing machine from LG.  I wanted a combination washer/dryer, and they all had that.
  
  The fact that it's internet-enabled doesn't mean it has internet access, of course.  It's a bit of a pain, though, because simple, obvious functions like remembering the wash cycle from last time are relegated to the LG Android app, and there is no way in Hell I'm going to use the app.
  
  
  
• Chrome for Android is always connected to Google Search.  (Ctrl Blog)
  
  This makes sense from a performance standpoint, because resolving DNS - particularly over a secure connection - and then establishing the secure connection for the website itself - takes long enough for a user to notice.
  
  And in theory Brave could arrange to do the same with Duck Duck Go.  Not without asking, though, because millions of unused connections that are permanently open would be rather a nuisance.
  
  

• The lesser of two REvils: The recent Russian ransomware attack was the biggest in history - but not the smartest.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Although it affected at least 1500 businesses and possibly many more, the broad scope of the attack meant it wasn't tailored to anyone in particular - and it left backups intact.
  
  So victims are, for the most part, restoring backups rather than coughing up.

• Ethereum miners are dumping used video cards onto the second-hand market.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Don't buy them, they're probably fried from being run 24/7 in an overheated server room, by which I mean a tin shed somewhere outside Shenzhen.
  
  My benchmark 6700 XT still hasn't dropped below A$1000, but availability is vastly improved from a few weeks ago.  All models from both AMD and Nvidia are in stock from multiple brands in multiple online stores.
  
  
  
• The new Atari console is kind of crap.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It's not a hardware issue; with an AMD Ryzen APU and 8GB of RAM, it has more than enough horsepower.  The software, on the other hand, is kind of broken, even at the BIOS level.  You can install Windows 10, since it's really jut a PC, but good luck getting it to run apps without constantly throwing up errors.
  
  Unfortunately you're much better off with a Raspberry Pi and your choice of free emulators.
  
  
  
• The Radeon 6600 XT will reportedly launch next month with an MSRP of $399.  (WCCFTech)
  
  If the 6700 XT was selling for anything like its MSRP of $479 it would be a no-brainer to go for the faster card.  In reality it's selling at a premium of about 60% here in Australia and 80% in the US, so any real comparison will have to wait for street prices of the 6600 XT.
  
  The new card has 80% of the shaders, 66% of the memory and memory bandwidth, and just 33% of the on-chip cache.  So how it performs will be very dependent on the game you're playing.
  
  Wait for benchmarks.
  
  
  
• There are many options for API pagination.  (GitHub)
  
  All of them are annoying.
  
  
  
• Don't buy the Lexar NM620 NVMe SSD.  (Serve the Home)
  
  Once it fills its pseudo-SLC cache, sequential writes drop to the speed of a regular disk drive.
  
  A laptop drive.
  
  From around 1998.
  
  Probably just a firmware issue, but that's their problem.
  
  
  
• Google is dropping Play Services support for Android Jelly Bean. (ZDNet)
  
  I'm totally fine with this.  That's versions 4.1 through 4.3, and the new baseline for ongoing support will be Kit Kat - Android 4.4.
  
  Even my 2013 Nexus 7 has updated to Android 6.  If you have something still running on 4.1 with no way to upgrade, well, congratulations on keeping it going for eight or ten years, but maybe time to look at something slightly newer?
  
  
  
• California exodus is just a myth, says....  California.  (SFGate)
  
  The University of California's Department of Denying Reality looked into the question and said, and I quote, Nuh-uh.
  
  
  
• Also there are no problems with the water supply in the state.  (Axios)
  
  You just can't have any.

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• npm audit is broken by design.  (Overreacted)
  
  To unpack that: npm audit is a tool for tracking the infinite number of vulnerabilities NPM causes.  NPM is the unbelievably awful package manager for Node.js.  Node.js is the godforsaken fusion of JavaScript and interrupt-driven code for server-side applications.
  
  And JavaScript is a quick hack Brendan Eich threw together over a weekend in 1995 to get some basic field validation into Netscape Navigator.
  
  It's all broken, in every way imaginable, and in many ways impossible to imagine.

• Gigabyte has announced a 10Gbit Ethernet card.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  I can't even remember when I upgrade to gigabit ethernet - twenty years ago, maybe - and we're still mostly stuck at that speed.  Recent motherboards have started to show up with 2.5Gb Ethernet, and 100Gb cards are readily available, but the switch situation is a complete nightmare.
  
  
  
• Unexpectedly: Neurons encode information in the timing of their firing.  (Quanta)
  
  Speaking from a computer and network background, why the bleeping bleep was this in any way unexpected?  It's entirely routine in computer networks - and in pre-computer networks like the telegraph system - so there's no reason to expect the brain not to have evolved the same tricks in some form.
  
  Neuroscientists love to tell people that the brain is not a computer, but all they show when they say that is they don't know what computers are.
  
  
  
• 36 US states and one swamp are going after Google for monopolistic shit relating to the Play Store.  (Thurrott.com)
  
  Don't know if this will also run afoul of a random Hawaiian judge the way the Facebook case recently did, but keep it up guys.
  
  
  
• What browser should you use to replace Chrome?  (ZDNet)
  
  They suggest Brave, and it's a good choice.  I'm running it on my Android tablet and I get the occasional UI glitch - which might be due to the fact that I'm browsing huge pages on an old A53 CPU - but it's quickly fixed by switching out of the app and then back in again.
  
  It has built in ad blocking, when Chrome on Android doesn't even allow you to set up a plugin for that.
  
  
  
• A Chinese prenatal test has been used by the PLA to gather genetic data on millions of women.  (Reuters)
  
  The privacy agreement promises to hold the data confidential unless...  Basically unless the Chinese government wants to take a look.
  
  
  
• New Hololive member IRyS has now passed 200,000 subscribers, without posting anything, and 150,000 Twitter followers, with a single tweet and her account restricted - still, because this is Twitter.
  
  
  
  
  Meanwhile YouTube demonetised Pikamee, everyone's favourite electric kettle, and in a shocking turn of events admitted it was a mistake and fixed it in a matter of hours.
  
  
  
• It never rains but it rains some more, particularly when there's an idiot on the roof with a hose.
  
  
  
  
  Marine only has 1.4 million subscribers.  No reason to maybe assign someone to take a look before deleting her entire fucking account.
  
  Yes, it's back now.  But maybe, YouTube, maybe you could try skipping the part where you delete the entire account and go straight to the having something with a functioning brain check on things?

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• Australia is getting a shiny new computer.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  200,000 cores, 750 next-gen graphics cards (with 128GB of RAM each), 548TB of total RAM, 2.7PB of SSD, and over 100PB of total storage.
  
  It will be used for radio astronomy and Minecraft.  Well, mostly Minecraft.
  
  
  
• Hololive announced their new English-branch VSinger - that is, a real human vocalist using a virtual avatar - about seven hours ago.
  
  Her name is IRyS - her equivalent in the Japanese branch is called AZKi, so there's something of a theme there - and she has 122,000 subscribers on YouTube so far.
  
  Without actually streaming anything - she won't debut until Sunday.
  
  100,000 subscribers used to be a lot for a vtuber.  Nijisanji's new EN branch all hit it in their first month; Hololive talents now hit it before their channels go live.
  
  Meanwhile, Twitter being Twitter has restricted her account.
  
  
  
• And now YouTube has demonetised Pikamee.
  
  Pikamee.
  
  If they don't fix that quick smart, we riot.
  
  Update: They fixed it quick smart.  For once.  Riot cancelled.
  
  
  
  

• Lies, damned lies, and benchmarks: Oppo is doing weird shit, and not always to their advantage.  (AnandTech)
  
  Apps don't always load on the fastest X1 core - I don't know of any phone CPU that has more than one of Arm's new X1 core - and don't always even run the A78 cores at full speed.  In some cases Vivaldi can run six times faster than Chrome even though they use the same rendering engine.
  
  It looks like an error in the power vs. performance profile of the phone, that it's trying to reduce power of apps where it should be maximising performance.  Phones have been caught cheating benchmark results before by detecting that a benchmark was running and turning everything up to max just short of melting the phone entirely.
  
  But this is the opposite of that.
  
  
  
• JEDI has been cancelled.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The Trump Administration awarded a major contract to Microsoft to run cloud services for the DoD, as the obviously least sucky option.
  
  New administration, new priorities.  Since the goal now is to make everything suck as much as humanly possible, the deal has been cancelled and will now be split up into an obviously unworkable hell-brew spread across every cloud platform in existence.
  
  
  
• There's a big bug in Windows printing.  (WCCFTech)
  
  If you have remote printing enabled, and attacker on your network can take over your computer - bad enough if you're just sharing a printer from your PC, a lot worse if it's an enterprise server.
  
  Patches are out now for Windows 7, 8, 10, and Server 2008 R2, 2012, and 2019.
  
  If you're running something older than 7, you probably still have the bug, but there's not going to be a patch.
  
  
  
• An 800GB Optane P5800X costs $2044.  (Serve the Home)
  
  It is fast, yes.  But for that price you can get a 6.4TB Micron 9300 Max, with an 11 microsecond average write latency - barely slower than the Optane - and a 37PB total write endurance.
  
  The big difference is in read latency, but given the price difference it might be better to save your money and add 256GB of RAM instead.
  
  
  
• WSL2 on Windows 11 vs Ubuntu.  (Phoronix)
  
  I use WSL - Linux on Windows - every day.  Its a big upgrade over Cygwin, since it's real Linux, and you can just download regular Linux apps and run them.
  
  These benchmarks show that if you're not doing a lot of I/O, it's basically indistinguishable from the real thing.
  
  If you are doing a lot of I/O, though...  Not so hard to distinguish.
  
  
  
• The US has reserved the right to consider sending a strongly-worded letter to Russia if it keeps attacking US companies.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Maybe Joe can make another list.

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