Friday, March 22
Daily News Stuff 22 March 2024
Opens today.
The trailer doesn't entirely sell me but this is a direct sequel to the 2021 Ghostbusters Afterlife and that was actually good.
Yep, that one is back too.
Juice Edition
Top Story
- Nobody ever said anything about it keeping the lawyer away: The DOJ has filed its very long awaited antitrust lawsuit against Apple. (The Verge)
While Apple isn't a monopoly in terms of total market control, it does control about two thirds of the US smartphone market, and it certainly abuses that market dominance to the detriment of its customers.
And as we've seen, Apple has been playing the malicious compliance game with market regulators for the past decade.
Interestingly, California is one of the sixteen states joining the DOJ in this lawsuit. New York is another. Woke idiot governments gone to war with woke idiot businesses?
- Nuh uh, said Apple, arguing that the lawsuit could prevent it looting the corpses of crippled orphans. (9to5Mac)
That is kind of the point, Apple.
Tech News
- Apple is not a monopoly like Windows was a monopoly. (Tech Crunch)
No.
Windows succeeded because anyone could develop and sell software for it without having to give Microsoft 30% of every transaction.
- Oh, and there's this: An security flaw in all Apple Silicon Macs leaks encryption keys if an attacker can get you to run suspect code. (Ars Technica)
It's another "side channel" attack; these are subtle and not very efficient but very hard to avoid. Intel, AMD, and Arm have all seen side channel attacks in recent years.
It's kind of like figuring out someone's password just by listening to them type, and matching the sounds of the keys to letter frequencies. Takes forever - or 26 minutes, whichever comes first - but very hard to guard against.
Encryption software can be rewritten to avoid the flaw, but that will make it much slower.
Minecraft Modpack Mayhem
Got my modpack to load and run smoothly on my laptop (i7-12700H, 16GB RAM, 2880x1800 screen, integrated graphics).
If you figure that each 1MB of mod will need 10MB of memory, you'll be pretty close. I took an axe to the existing pack starting with the largest mods. Sorry, Better Nether, but you were using close to 1GB of RAM all by yourself.
If you figure that each 1MB of mod will need 10MB of memory, you'll be pretty close. I took an axe to the existing pack starting with the largest mods. Sorry, Better Nether, but you were using close to 1GB of RAM all by yourself.
What Year Is It Videos of the Day
Opens today.
The trailer doesn't entirely sell me but this is a direct sequel to the 2021 Ghostbusters Afterlife and that was actually good.
Yep, that one is back too.
Things could be worse.
Disclaimer: Could be raining.
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