• The US and 60 other countries today announced A Declaration for the Future of the Internet and it is bilge. (Access Now)
  
  You can read the full document here (PDF) though it's a waste of your time.
  
  The First Amendment is just 45 words, was written 230 years ago, and covers much more than this useless Declaration.
  
  
  
• Of course, the US government just ignores the First Amendment when it is inconvenient. (Law Enforcement Today)
  
  The new Disinformation Governance Board - part of the DHS, which has absolutely no authority to do this - is intended to address the number one threat facing the world today: Reality.

• Synology. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Not QNAP for once.
  
  
  
• The EU set up a Mastodon node. (PC Magazine)
  
  Congratulations Europe! There's no limit to what 450 million idiots can do if they put their minds to it.
  
  Maybe next year you could start a blog.
  
  
  
• Weibo is going to attach your location to the comments you post. (Asia Financial)
  
  You can expect the people behind the Declaration and the Disinformation Board to jump on this right away.
  
  
  
• Qualcomm is promising to release new Arm-based laptop chips that don't suck - next year. (Ars Technica)
  
  These are intended to compete with Apple's M1 chips from 2020.
  
  
  
• Amazon's latest quarterly results are in and they made a loss of $3.8 billion. (Thurrott.com)
  
  Probably on the free shipping on all the boxes they've been sending me.
  
  
  
• Samsung's 3nm process is scheduled to start mass production in Q2. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Judging from the specs it is not a much denser process than TSMC's 5nm, but should be faster and use less power.

Posted by: normal at Saturday, April 30 2022 07:39 AM (obo9H)

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