Friday, January 28
Daily News Stuff 28 January 2022
Tax But Verify Edition
Tax But Verify Edition
Top Story
- Facebook's venture into the blockchain space is apparently an ex-parrot. (The Register)
Called Libra, it's a multi-purpose payment processing, cryptocurrency, and NFT platform. The plan was to have a core stablecoin and and easy way of implementing third-party cryptocurrencies and NFTs.
Creating a cryptocurrency on Libra is very easy - no blockchain code required - and an NFT apparently not too much harder. Certainly better in that respect than Ethereum.
But Facebook's plans ran head-first into disapproving regulators because they made the mistake of announcing their plans rather than just launching the platform and leaving regulators scrambling to catch up.
- Russia meanwhile is not intending to ban cryptocurrency mining as previously rumoured. (Tom's Hardware)
Just going to track it and tax the hell out of it.
Fine. Whatever.
Tech News
- Oh QNAP, you've done it again. (ZDNet)
Is this a new vulnerability or a new exploit of an existing vulnerability? It's hard to keep track.
- Microsoft got hit with a 2.45Tbps DDOS attack. (Tom's Hardware)
That's equivalent to 46,266,666,666 1200/75 modems.
- Nvidia's RTX 3050 is here aaand it's sold out. (Tom's Hardware)
Seems to be available here in Australia - and graphics cards have increased from one per customer to three per customer - but it's at least 50% over MSRP.
- Team Group has announced its first PCIe 5 SSD. (Tom's Hardware)
Won't ship until Q3 and there's no pricing yet, but speeds will reach 13GBps on reads and 12GBps on writes. Which is a lot.
- When open source isn't free. (Gnu)
Free as in freedom, that is. As I often say, Richard Stallman is just crazy, not wrong.
- If you use cloud storage on your Mac and you didn't disable automated updates three years ago your in for a bad day sometime soon. (Ars Technica)
The 12.3 update will break Dropbox and OneDrive integration, and quite likely others as well. Because keeping things working is simply not on Apple's radar.
iCloud support won't be broken by this update... Because that would be redundant.
Party Like It's 1980-ish Video of the Day
Disclaimer: It's not just you. I speak all 37 dialects of Strine at a native level and I still don't know what he's saying.
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My local Micro Center has both the 6500 and the 3050 in stock, several varieties of each. The 6500 goes for anywhere between $260 and $300 depending on model. The 3050 models go for $380 to $490. But if you were prepared to spend $490 on a 3050, then you'd be stupid not to get a 6600 (non-XT) instead, because they have 50+ of them in stock for $20 less.
For comparison they've got one model of 1050 Ti for $280.
For comparison they've got one model of 1050 Ti for $280.
Posted by: Rick C at Saturday, January 29 2022 01:02 AM (Z0GF0)
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Sounds like a synth-driven version of "Physical (You're So)" by Adam and the Ants. Uh, NTTAWWT.
Posted by: normal at Saturday, January 29 2022 10:25 AM (obo9H)
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