• Will Twitter become an ocean of suck?  (Matt Taibbi)
  
  Twitter CEO and ornamental hermit Jack Dorsey has resigned and everyone is wondering what this means for the world's favourite digital sewer, since he was - not kidding - leading the charge for freedom of speech as much as there is such a thing at Twitter.
  
  I respect Matt Taibbi as a reporter but I think he's being hopelessly optimistic here.  I can't think of any force that would raise Twitter to the level of being an ocean of suck.

• The SilverStone NighJar NJ700 is a 700W passive power supply.  (AnandTech)
  
  700W power supplies are nothing new.  Passively cooled power supplies are nothing new.  But a 700W passively cooled power supply - and one that doesn't have enormous radiator fins - is a nice trick.
  
  It don't come cheap though.
  
  
  
• Are there any 4K dumb televisions?  (Hacker News)
  
  Yes, but also no.  The best option is a large format computer monitor, and there's even a list.
  
  They don't come cheap though, for reasons we've seen.  (Such as Vizio making twice as much money from ads as from selling televisions.)
  
  And Samsung just demonstrated another reason you might want this.  (Hackaday)
  
  A warehouse in South Africa was robbed and thieves made off with a truckload of Samsung smart TVs.  So Samsung remotely bricked the lot of them.
  
  A lot of people don't think that should be possible.  Cars - which are supposed to move in the first place, and which can contain other valuable items, not to mention people  - maybe there's an argument for.  Home electronics not so much.
  
  Giving the end user some facility to configure their devices that way, sure.  Giving the manufacturer carte blanche, no.
  
  
  
• A survey of 7000 companies finds that only 3% rely on a single cloud provider.  (ZDNet)
  
  I wonder how much of that is planning to mitigate vendor lock-in, and how much is lack of planning and being captured by vendor lock-in, only at multiple vendors simultaneously.  I would guess mostly the latter.
  
  
  
• A proposed change to Ethereum gas calculations has been put forward to help deal with sky-high transaction fees.  (Cryptonews)
  
  This does not even attempt to right the sinking ship; it merely rearranges the deckchairs.
  
  
  
• Three ex-Google employees are suing the company for being evil.  (Vice)
  
  No, really.
  
  

Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, December 01 2021 12:36 AM (Z0GF0)

Posted by: normal at Wednesday, December 01 2021 10:36 AM (obo9H)

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