Sunday, July 25
Daily News Stuff 25 July 2021
Adventures With Typos Edition
Adventures With Typos Edition
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- Yesterday's post came with bonus typos thanks to lack of sleep and interruptions from work even on a Saturday afternoon. I have spell check turned on of course, but on these posts it's a sea of red squiggles anyway so it doesn't help as much as you might expect.
But I didn't have as bad a day as some poor Google engineer who pushed an update to the login routine for ChromeOS that prevented anyone from logging in. (Ars Technica)
On the downside, ChromeOS updates itself automatically, so it automatically downloaded and installed the bug and prevented you from logging in. On the upside, ChromeOS updates itself automatically even if you can't log in so the patch will find its way to you... Sometime in the next week.
Tech News
- Nvidia's next generation of graphics cards will be built on TSMC's 5nm process. (WCCFTech)
The current generation - which are great cards, you just can't buy them - is built on Samsung's 8nm process, a couple of steps behind the leading edge, but what was available for mass production. So the new cards, when they arrive, and when you are actually able to purchase them, which are not the same thing, should be a significant advance.
- At the other end of the graphics scale AMD's 5600G and 5700G desktop APUs are starting to show up at retail. (WCCFTech)
Official launch is still a couple of weeks out, I think. Early August.
Ryzen motherboards have HDMI and DisplayPort outputs but there's been a shortage of good processors with integrated graphics to actually drive them.
- China's new Loongson 3A5000 is quite competitive - for 2010. (Phoronix)
Or about one tenth the speed of a modern low-end desktop CPU.
- Apple fixed the WiFiDemon bug that soft-bricked iOS devices if you joined a network called . (Bleeping Computer)
And also another bug that could instantly hack your phone if you joined a network called DDDD%x%x%x%@.
I seem to recall this was an episode of Doctor Who. Ah, right, The Bells of Saint John. That was the first time Clara survived to the end of a story.
- On the other side of the hilarious mess that is operating system security these days you know where you are with a PetitPotam. (Bleeping Computer)
An NTML relay attack allowed hackers to compromise Windows domain controllers.
No, I don't know what that means either.
- Apple's mantra, as always, is Fuck Developers. (Litchie.com)
iDOS - a DOS (and Windows 3.1) emulator for the iPad - has been banned because it potentially allow for very old software to be installed on an Apple device without Apple getting its 30%.
- Amazon wants the key to your apartment building. (PennLive)
Which they will hand to delivery drivers who are so overworked they have to pee in bottles.
Nothing bad could possibly come of this.
- Amazon says the number of $2000 graphics cards destroyed by its new turkey-smashing simulator New World is relatively small. (GameSpot)
Oh. Well, that's good to know.
- A new bullshit study of an old bullshit study that predicted that everyone was going to die has predicted that everyone is going to die. (LiveScience)
Fifty years on the infamous Limits to Growth is back and we're double-doomed this time unless we all eat bugs and live in pods.
Disclaimer: I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna eat bugs anymore.
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RE: Bullshit Study; So there's this study that says that people having too much freedom will cause an economic downturn....at about the same time that imposing socialism or at least hyper-regulation all around the world will probably put global GDP somewhere in the vicinity of whale poop.
When that happens they can look to this study and justify taking any freedoms that they didn't get. For science.
When that happens they can look to this study and justify taking any freedoms that they didn't get. For science.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Sunday, July 25 2021 11:02 PM (5iiQK)
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The good thing about that ChromeOS screwup is they pulled the bad update a few days ago after releasing a newer one. Also, even if your device had downloaded the bad update, as long as you don't reboot before you get the newer update it was possible to avoid getting hosed by it. I feel sorry for anyone who had to do a factory reset ("powerwash"), though. (I hadn't gotten the bad update; by the time I heard the story, the fix was already released.)
Posted by: Rick C at Monday, July 26 2021 03:48 AM (eqaFC)
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"But the Amazon program, first announced in 2018, may stir security and privacy concerns as it gains traction. The company said that it does background checks on delivery people and that they can unlock doors only when they have a package in hand to scan."
Here's the thing about that. My last apartment complex had gated buildings. There wasn't a constant parade of doorbells--all delivery drivers needed to go to the office and leave an ID to get a key fob that would let them into the building. After having a couple of cases where I'd get a delivery one day and the next I'd have another fail because "the driver was unable to enter the building", I asked at the office, and was told some drivers won't leave ID for whatever reason, which sounds sketchy to me. (My building had 200 apartments, and was part of a 10-building complex with about 1500 apartments. We had FedEx, UPS, and multiple Amazon drivers there every single day of the week, so the idea that a driver was "unable to get into a building" is simply preposterous, although Amazon doesn't necessarily know that.)
Here's the thing about that. My last apartment complex had gated buildings. There wasn't a constant parade of doorbells--all delivery drivers needed to go to the office and leave an ID to get a key fob that would let them into the building. After having a couple of cases where I'd get a delivery one day and the next I'd have another fail because "the driver was unable to enter the building", I asked at the office, and was told some drivers won't leave ID for whatever reason, which sounds sketchy to me. (My building had 200 apartments, and was part of a 10-building complex with about 1500 apartments. We had FedEx, UPS, and multiple Amazon drivers there every single day of the week, so the idea that a driver was "unable to get into a building" is simply preposterous, although Amazon doesn't necessarily know that.)
Posted by: Rick C at Monday, July 26 2021 04:07 AM (eqaFC)
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