Tuesday, February 22
Daily News Stuff 22 February 2022
Party Like It's 1999.99 Edition
Party Like It's 1999.99 Edition
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- Crypto engineers would welcome a prolonged "crypto winter" says Ethereum cofounder Vitalik Buterin. (Business Insider)
"In Russian winter, only strong survive. Weak are thrown from troika to be devoured by wolves." said Buterin. "The wolves are the financial regulators in this analogy," he added, "and the troika is Ethereum and the ecosystem of Layer 2 blockchains and DAOs. The snow-swept tundra is of course conventional financial systems."
At night the ice weasels come.
Tech News
- The Netherlands has fined Apple $5 million again. (Reuters)
This is over Apple locking developers into their own payment processing system and with its 30% transaction fees. The Netherlands is fining Apple $5 million per week until it fixes it.
- Atlassian cofounder Mike Cannon-Brookes wants to wreck Australia's electricity supply. (Wall Street Journal)
He's offered $3.5 billion for energy company AGL, and wants it to shut down its coal-burning power stations. Australia doesn't have any nuclear power for some weird reason - we have one reactor for research and production of radioisotopes for medicine and industry - so this would mean leave hydroelectric as the only reliable baseload capacity, in a country noted for routinely suffering years-long droughts.
- Full specs on Lenovo's Legion Y700 8" gaming tablet. (Liliputing)
Interestingly it uses the Core A77-based Snapdragon 870 compared to the 778G in my new Samsung A52s, which has A78 cores. So if I manage to find this tablet it would still only be my second fastest Android device.
- Is Firefox okay? (Ars Technica)
No. The company is run by communists.
- Intel's 13th generation Raptor Lake chips could be up to 40% faster than Alder Lake on multi-threaded workloads. (WCCFTech)
Which is not that big of a deal. They're going from an 8+8 core layout to 8+16, which given the relative performance of the cores should improve performance by 33% with no other changes.
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Disclaimer: All of these things I do, because I don't want to reboot.
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A report on gaming tablet's "full specs" should explicitly mention the GPU, which is an Adreno 650.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, February 23 2022 12:12 AM (Z0GF0)
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"The company is run by communists."
Not that the Arses have a problem with that.
Not that the Arses have a problem with that.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, February 23 2022 12:15 AM (Z0GF0)
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In happier news, Moona has become the first member of Hololive ID to break the million subscriber mark.
On the other hand...Ina finally changed her background graphic, which is sad because it was a familiar gesture from the beginning of Hololive EN.
On the other hand...Ina finally changed her background graphic, which is sad because it was a familiar gesture from the beginning of Hololive EN.
Posted by: cxt217 at Wednesday, February 23 2022 07:52 AM (MuaLM)
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