• Looking at yet another house.  About 10% more expensive than the one that got away, and a bit smaller overall, but  closer to the shops and with nicer fixtures - like a built-in wine fridge (I don't drink), a butlers pantry (I may buttle on occasion), and an ensuite bigger than my current bedroom.
  
  There are some brand new 4-bedroom houses that are 30% cheaper, but they're the type that are extruded by a machine and plopped down on a tiny block of land so there's a bare ribbon of grass on each side.  This one is at the end of a dead-end street adjacent a nature reserve, so while not my first choice - or my second - it has some good points.
  
  
  
• If I get this place I'm going to fill the wine fridge with Pepsi just because I can.
  
  
  
• Australia reinforcement data quantum priority roadmap.  (ZDNet)
  
  Verbing weirds language, doubly so when governments do it.

Tech News

• Atlassian went down.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  For two days.
  
  
  
  
  And for many users is still down.
  
  
  
  
  During their big annual conference.
  
  
  
  
  In Vegas.
  
  Priorities!
  
  
  
• MIT grad students have been de-ionised.  (WBUR)
  
  I think that's what happened.
  
  
  
• Canada wants to force Big Tech to compensate state media for linking to their propaganda.  (CBC)
  
  There aren't many cases where I'll take the side of Google and Facebook, but if against Fidel Castrato, sign me up.
  
  
  
• OpenSea is facing multiple lawsuits over mistakenly charging $80,000 for poorly-drawn monkey JPEGs.  (Motherboard)
  
  Not because the price was too high, mind you.  Not because it was too high.
  
  
  
• Google has banned apps that secretly harvest your personal data.  (WSJ)
  
  Okay.  Yes, I can see an argument for that.
  
  
  
• The Lenovo Yoga 9i Gen 7 is a 12th Gen P Series laptop with an OLED screen and the four essential....  Wait.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Fuck you Lenovo.  Next!
  
  
  
• The Asus ROG Zephyrus M17 does not have the four essential keys.  (Hot Hardware)
  
  What it does have is a 14 core (ish) i9-12900H, RTX 3070 graphics, a 16-inch 2560x1600 165Hz display with 100% of DCI-P3 colour, DDR5 RAM - half of it soldered in place just to be annoying - and a bunch of ports including three video outputs and wired 2.5Gb Ethernet.
  
  It's a gaming laptop that looks like a business laptop, which I do appreciate.