• Yesterday afternoon one of those wonderful high-end enterprise NVMe SSDs we have in our new servers at work dropped dead.
  
  I have the data volumes in RAID-0 because the databases are replicated, but the operating system is RAID-1.  Despite that, the server would not reboot, even with the failed card removed.  Ended up replacing the card and reinstalling, which at least gave me the opportunity to upgrade it to 20.04.
  
  That done, I started work on reloading everything from the other cluster nodes - at which point we had a power distribution failure to our rack.  My own server sailed through this without blinking, it was just our work cluster that went offline in he middle of a rebuild.
  
  
  
• Speaking of rebuilds, had a drive failure in one of those free Synology boxes this morning as well.  Fortunately it's configured RAID-6 so nothing is lost, it just beeped a lot.  Had another drive failure in one of the other boxes as well, but it was one that was detected as having bad sectors previously so I didn't put it into an array anyway.
  
  At least they're not QNAP.  (ZDNet)
  
  
  
• On the plus side, the world's best peanuts ® are back in stock.
  
  A couple of weeks ago I ordered my usual bag of brand-name salted peanuts, but they were out of stock and in their place I got store-brand unsalted peanuts.
  
  I was mildly disgruntled with this substitution until I sampled them.  Then I was much more disgruntled to find that the store-brand peanuts were now also out of stock, because they are the best damn peanuts I've ever had.
  
  Anyway, they're back again, and I bought two bags this evening - one each salted and unsalted - and have six more coming with my next grocery order.  And yes, I checked, and they're just as good as the first batch.
  
  
  
• Speaking of going to the shops this evening, things are definitely returning to normal here.  Not quite there yet, but a lot more people out and about.
  
  A lot more in the city centre.  (Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  Fortunately we've had zero new community Bat Flu cases in New South Wales in the past week, so that is unlikely to cause a second wave.
  
  Meanwhile the WHO has said that yeah, maybe people should wear masks.
  
  Thanks guys.  Thanks a whole lot.
  
  
  
• A mini-ITX Socket 1200 motherboard.  (AnandTech)
  
  From Biostar.
  
  With VGA.  And PS/2.
  
  For $200.
  
  Pass.
  
  
  
• A mini-ITX Atom C3800 motherboard.  (Serve the Home)
  
  This is a companion piece to STH's CPU review of the C3858 - a 12-core 25W Atom-based server CPU.  Here they look at board features, such as the eight built-in network ports - four 1GbE, two 10Gbase-T, and two 10G SFP+.  Plus yet another for remote management.
  
  That's amazing network support, but beyond that it has just four SATA ports, one M.2 slot, and one PCIe x4 slot.  So I'm not sure exactly what it's useful for.
  
  
  
• China wants a kill switch for the internet.  (PC Perspective)
  
  I agree with PCPer that this is probably a bad idea.
  
  
  
• TechDirt is very, very drunk today.
  
  
  
• And has quite possibly got into the 'shrooms.  (TechDirt)
  
  
  
• I wouldn't count on Reddit surviving the year.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Not as any sort of viable platform.
  
  
  
• Liquid helium is also back in stock.  (Physics Today)
  
  
  
• Mint dumps Snap.  (ZDNet)
  
  Snap is Ubuntu's new package manager which has the advantage over older tools of...  Basically nothing.
  
  And now Canonical, makers of Ubuntu, are pushing APT packages which are nothing but wrappers for Snap packages, so not only do you have no choice which package manager to use, you are not even told which package manager you are using.
  
  I haven't had any problems with Snap apart from the fact that every single fucking package is listed as it's own filesystem which is absolutely retarded.  If I wanted to crap all over my servers like that I'd use Docker.
  
  
  
• USB-C is a beautiful train wreck.  (Android Authority)
  
  Good connector, high speeds, incredible flexibility, atrocious standardisation.
  
  
  

• A lost Maxis game has been unlost.  (Ars Technica)
  
  Sim Refinery was a prototype created for Chevron for training non-technical refinery staff, to give them a better idea of what was going on around them.  It was never brought to market as either a game or a training tool, and was presumed lost.

  Until someone emerges with SimRefinery's original code, this ancient title screen—and today's massive feature about its history—is all Maxis Business Simulations left the world.

  Now it's on archive.org.
  
  
  
• Which means it's nice and safe and nothing bad can happen.  (TechDirt)
  
  Download it now.  Download everything now.
  
  
  
• The Core i5-10600K competes quite well AMD's 3600X.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Unfortunately thanks to AMD it's now priced like the 3700X.
  
  
  
• Docker-OSX. (GitHub)

  docker pull sickcodes/docker-osx
  
  docker run --privileged -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix sickcodes/docker-osx
  
  # press ctrl G if your mouse gets stuck

  So, first, Docker can now run full virtual machines, which I guess is no surprise because so can LXC.  And second, you can now download a Mac.
  
  
• China, Iran, and Russia are working together to call out the US for not murdering protesters en masse.  (ZDNet)
  
  The article has one comment, which criticises the author for...  Being a flaming neocon.
  
  
  
• Instagram just threw its remaining API users under a 1080 pixel square photo of a copright violation of a bus.  (Ars Technica)
  
  Unusually for this sort of thing it's not Instagram's fault, but rather a bad decision in a copyright case that forced their hand.  The same case could kill Twitter if the the plaintiff ultimately succeeds, because it would mean copyright supercedes user agreements - that users can sue for infringement even if they've accepted terms that allow the social network to distribute their content.
  
  That would be...  Some weird quantum superposition of hilarious and terrible.
  
  
  

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• The Chuwi LarkBox is a teeny tiny PC.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  2.4 x 2.4 x 1.7 inches for a quad-core system with 6GB RAM and 128GB of storage.  The CPU is a Celeron J4115 - an Atom, but a relatively decent Atom.
  
  The Indiegogo campaign launches on the 23rd.
  
  
  
• Big Navi will be out before the new consoles launch.  (VideoCardz)
  
  And so will Zen 3.  Source is AMD's CFO, who is probably well-informed of the company's plans.
  
  
  
• Not much happening at the moment.  At least, not so far as positive tech news goes.

• This apparently is a real thing.
  
  
  
  
  Why it is a real thing I cannot say.
  
  
  
• The Surface Book 3 comes with an Ice Lake i7-1065G7 CPU.  (AnandTech)
  
  This has Intel's new Sunny Cove architecture, but that doesn't stop it losing horribly against a Ryzen 4700U on any benchmark with a multi-threaded component.
  
  Here are the two directly compared, with a desktop 9700K thrown in as a baseline.  (CPUBenchmark)
  
  It's still tough to implement Thunderbolt on AMD processors, but the Surface Book doesn't have Thunderbolt.
  
  Otherwise a fairly nice laptop, and still unique as far as I know in having dedicated graphics in the keyboard half.
  
  
  
• Italy wants to shut down Project Gutenberg for copyright infringement on works that aren't copyrighted.  (TechDirt)
  
  Probably just an overzealous prosecutor and not actual policy.
  
  
  
• The elephant is very like a wall says Mike Masnick.  (TechDirt)
  
  Probably because he's blindfolded and a hundred yards away from the elephant, facing in the opposite direction with his face buried in a shrubbery.
  
  
  
• Intel's upcoming Whitley server CPU will take the fight to AMD's Milan in much the same way that fruit takes the fight to a fruit bat.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Whitley has the new Sunny Cove core.
  
  Sunny Cove loses benchmarks to Zen 2.
  
  It will be competing against Zen 3.
  
  
  
• How Take 2 murdered Star Theory and why KSP2 is late.  (Bloomberg)
  
  The article doesn't present Take 2's side of the story where they try to explain why they deliberately torpedoed the company.
  
  
  
• A look inside Intel's new server Atoms.  (Serve the Home)
  
  12 cores at 25 watts sounds good but it sadly gets reduced to paste by AMD's Epyc 3251, a first-generation 8-core Ryzen part.
  
  
  
• How good can a $90 tablet actually be?  (ZDNet)
  
  The Amazon Fire HD 8 is, as it turns out, pretty good.  Certainly worth the money if it has the features you need.  Personally I need a 1920x1200 display, though, and it doesn't have that.
  
  
  
• How good can a $730 tablet be?  (Thurrott.com)
  
  The problem with the Surface Go 2 is not the hardware - except on the base model, which you shouldn't buy - but the price, and the fact that Kindle on Windows is garbage.
  
  
  

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• Sienna Cichlid could be Big Navi.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Or not.  It's an AMD GPU and drivers will be included in Linux 5.9, but other details remain elusive.
  
  
  
• PCIe 4.0 switches!  Get yer PCIe 4.0 switches!  (AnandTech)
  
  Clearly targeted at the storage market, because they make explicit note of hot-plug support.  Up to 100 lanes and 174GB per second of bandwidth.  Not likely to be cheap though.
  
  
  
• Intel's C3000 lineup offers a lot of meh for your dollar.  (PC Perspective)
  
  16 cores for under $400 and using just 24W is the good part.  The bad part is that those are Atom cores.  The other good part is 16 SATA ports and built-in 2.5 or 10GbE.  These are likely to find a home in future products from Synology and Qnap.
  
  
  
• TechDirt is drunk again.
  
  
  
• MSI's Creator 15 has Intel's brand new Core i7 10875H which is a shame because it's otherwise a rather nice laptop.  (WCCFTech)
  
  15.6" 1080p or 4K display, up to RTX 2070 Super graphics, two M.2 slots and two SODIMM slots for up to 64GB RAM, and a bevy of I/O ports including Thunderbolt, HDMI, and wired Ethernet.
  
  AMD-based designs with Thunderbolt are still far and few between, so that likely guided their choice.  Oh, and all essential keys are accounted for.
  
  
  
• An image of an Angel becomes an Angel itself.  (Android Authority)
  
  In this case at least it only bricks your phone rather than transporting you into the past to live yourself to death.

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• The Elbrus 8CB is, um, a thing.  (AnandTech)
  
  It's an 8-core 6-issue VLIW design with a peak floating point throughput of 576 GFLOPs.  A nominal 4GHz 8-core Ryzen can do 1024 GFLOPs, but considering the Ryzen is built on a 7nm process and the Elbrus is on 28nm, it's not too shabby.
  
  VLIW puts the hard work for achieving real-world performance on the compiler, though, and thus far that hasn't worked out too well.  Not even Intel could deliver, and their hardware designers and compiler writers are among the best in the world.
  
  
  
• Apple says, go buy that MSI Modern 14.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Apple is back to its old tricks, charging $200 for an 8GB memory upgrade.  No, you can't upgrade it yourself.  No, you can't bring it back to the store for an upgrade later.
  
  Because fuck you, that's why.
  
  
  
• Linux 5.7 is out.  (Kernel.org)
  
  It's 0.1 louder.
  
  
  
• Moderation transparency matters.  (ACM)
  
  Twitter and Google are notoriously opaque about their moderation and account suspension activities, when they don't outright lie.  This study shows that telling users why content was moderated produces objectively better results.
  
  
  
• A look at the Lenovo Flex 5.  (Phoronix)
  
  6-core Ryzen 5 4500U, 14" 1080p screen, 16GB of dual-channel memory, 256GB NVMe SSD, $599.
  
  Fairly standard array of ports: USB-C, two USB-A, HDMI, SD card, combo audio jack, and separate charging port.
  
  Does not have the four essential keys though, so again I'd go for the MSI Modern 14.
  
  
  
• CDA 230 doesn't apply to Australia.  (AFR)
  
  This does not seem like a good decision.  Though perhaps legally correct.
  
  
  
• The apatosaurus has reached the ISS.

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• All the D&D 5th Edition stuff you could ever want.  (The Trove)
  
  Also, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 3.5th, 4th, and in a folder labeled "BECMI", the Basic / Expert / Companion / Master / Immortals boxed sets, which were an interesting alternate take on D&D.  And the original edition plus expansions in a folder under within the 1st Edition.
  
  Meanwhile, thanks to a bunch of Humble Bundles, I have a pretty complete collection of entirely legitimate Pathfinder PDFs.
  
  
  
• Speaking of Humble Bundle they have a really nice Cities Skylines bundle going right now.
  
  For $18 you get the base game and the Concerts, Snowfall, Natural Disasters, Mass Transit, Green Cities, Industries, and Campus expansions, plus four content packs.  That only leaves Parklife and the recent Sunset Harbor expansions, and a few radio stations.
  
  
  
• Liva has a new Socket AM4 mini PC.  (PC Perspective)
  
  It takes any 35W AM4 APU, and supports two SODIMMs for up to 32GB (and probably 64GB),  an M.2 NVMe slot, and a 2.5" drive.
  
  I/O consists of six USB 3.0 ports, gigabit Ethernet, HDMI, VGA, two DisplayPort ports, a good old DB9 serial port, a USB 3.1 type C port, headphone and microphone jacks, and WiFi 5 a.k.a. 802.11ac.
  
  The only problem is that the review unit didn't entirely work - it crashed while they were running benchmarks.
  
  Which I must admit is a rather substantial problem.
  
  It's rather larger than a NUC - about 8" x 7" - but needs to be to fit all those ports and a socketed CPU.
  
  
  
• Perhaps the MSI Modern 14 would be a better choice.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It has a Ryzen 4000 APU - a choice of a 4500U in the $649 model, or a 4700U in the $749 model, two SODIMM slots, an M.2 slot supporting both PCIe 3.0 and SATA drives, two USB 2.0 ports, one USB 3 Type-C port, an audio combo jack, and a microSD card slot.
  
  The screen is a 14" 1080p IPS model, which is adequate, and the battery is a 52 Wh unit delivering up to 10 hours of operation.
  
  And it has dedicated PgUp/PgDn/Home/End keys and weighs just 1.3kg.
  
  I'd like perhaps a higher-resolution display, but the light weight and socketed memory and storage make it an attractive buy.  The eight core 4700U model should keep up with application demands for a good long while given that you can throw as much as 64GB of RAM into it.
  
  
  
• In other news, Elon Musk and NASA collaborated to launch an apatosaurus into orbit.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  That capsule looks rather roomy.  By comparison.
  
  
  
• Beekeeper Studio is either a studio for keeping bees or a SQL editor and database management tool.  (GitHub)
  
  One of those.
  
  Probably.
  
  
  
• Intel's Xeon Gold 6250 is a high clock speed 8 core server part that costs $3400.  (Serve the Home)
  
  Which by strange coincidence is just $50 less than the current price for the 64 core Threadripper 3990X meaning you'd have to be completely crazy to buy the Xeon.  (WCCFTech)
  
  
  
• Oh.  Looks like one of our Threadripper servers rebooted itself.  And my restart script wasn't quite production-ready.
  
  
  
• That was a nuisance.  The MongoDB startup script was timing out before the journal recovery could complete, so it would start up, then shut down again, over and over.
  
  
  
• In corporate America, website port-scan you.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  There's actually a good reason for this: A number of malicious programs keep known ports open on your computer.  Your browser can connect to a local port and check if it's open, so if you're doing online banking your bank can check your computer for certain types of malware on the spot.
  
  On the other hand, they can also do bad stuff.  As I've mentioned before, you need to password-protect even local web servers.
  
  
  
• Google has postponed the launch of Android 11 due to (spins wheel) an international Vegemite shortage.  (Thurrott.com)
  
  
  
• An eighth Amazon worker has died of Wuhan Bat Soup Death Plague.  (Slashdot)
  
  Which puts Amazon at about 1/30th of the national average.
  
  
  
• A repeal of CDA Section 230 might be bad news for social networks.  (WBUR)
  
  Okay, so yes, that's true.  And given that I am attempting, fitfully, to launch my own social network, I am personally in the crosshairs.
  
  On the one hand, CDA 230 is why all the social networks that have survived are based either in the US, or in China where the CCP wants people to speak freely and openly of their political views so that they can be shoved into a van and carted off for reprogramming.
  
  On the other hand, Twitter.

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• Hivelocity - a server hosting company - has declared war on Gelbooru.
  
  
  
  
  Catgirls hardest hit.  Won't somebody think of the catgirls?
  
  
  
  Knowing what the fans get up to, there are probably some objectionable images in there.  But Hivelocity is handling this with Twitterish levels of professionalism.
  
  
  
• Ryzen 4000 is 90% faster than Ryzen 3000.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Except that this is APUs, so we're talking about the new 8-core parts against the old 4-core parts, so we'd expect them to be 90% faster.  At least they are indeed meeting expectations.
  
  
  
• Samsung's new Galaxy Book S is the first product based on Intel's Lakelake architecture.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Field Lake?  Lakefield?  One of those.
  
  This has one Core core and four Atom cores.  Unless these Atom cores are significantly faster than any previous ones, it really needs at least two Core cores to run modern apps smoothly.
  
  
  
• Mike Masnick has a blind spot the size of Iowa.  (TechDirt)
  
  No matter how blatant Twitter's anti-conservative bias, he will always excuse them on the grounds that they were only applying their rules.  And their rules don't actually say "we hate conservatives" therefore they don't hate conservatives.
  
  
  
• Critics - by which we mean idiots - are angry with Facebook for not censoring President Trump.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  So simultaneously (a) social networks aren't censoring anyone and especially not conservatives and (b) Facebook is bad for not applying the same censorship as the other networks.
  
  
  
• Better Red than Red.  (Serve the Home)
  
  Serve the Home compared a RAID array built of regular Western Digital Red drives against one made up of the shingled model.
  
  For most tests, the shingled models worked reasonably well, though somewhat slower than the regular ones.  But when it came to rebuilding a (deliberately) failed array, well:

  The WD40EFAX performed so poorly that we repeated the test on a second disk to rule out user error.

  In this case the shingled drives were fifteen times slower than the regular ones.

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• President Trump has issued an executive order to conduct a review of CDA Section 230.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Full text of the order is here.  (WhiteHouse.gov)
  
  It doesn't repeal Section 230, because an executive order can't do that.
  
  It doesn't even postulate any infringement of First Amendment rights.
  
  It just questions the assumptions that predicate Section 230, and the way it is applied in practice, and asks for a review.
  
  Naturally, Twitter is going bananas.
  
  
  
• Twitter hates Roof Koreans.*
  
  
  
  
  Edit: Huh.  It doesn't show on the embed.  You'll have to click on that to see what they're up to now.
  
  Brought to you by Twitter's new Department of Proving Trump Right.
  
  * I realise the words used by Trump come from a different, earlier event, one that I am unfamiliar with.  The point though is the same: Twitter is run by idiots.
  
  
  
• Censorship is an irregular verb.  (TechDirt)
  
  I exercise discretion.
  You moderate.
  He censors.
  
  The fundamental flaw in this idiocy is that Twitter's censorship - and Facebook's, YouTube's, Google's - does come with a threat, implicit or explicit.  If you don't comply with the rules that change every five minutes and are mostly secret anyway, your account gets wiped.
  
  All your content, gone.  All your friends and contacts, gone.  If you try to create a new account, that in itself is grounds for you to be banned immediately.  If you try to appeal, you account stays suspended while they sit around laughing for a week before they reject your appeal without any response whatsoever.
  
  
  
• Ryzen 4000 with its Zen 3 core might be produced on TSMC's 5nm process and launch at CES next year but I really doubt it.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Not least because the rumour the very next day is that Ryzen 5000 will also feature Zen 3 and be produced on 7nm.
  
  It's pretty clear that no-one actually knows anything.
  
  
  
• Run Solaris on your PowerPC!  (Virtually Fun)
  
  Because... Nope, can't think of a reason.  Do I even have a...  Oh, yeah, of course I have a PowerPC system.  Just made by Apple, not IBM. 
  
  I have the Cube.  In my closet.
  
  
  
• Bleeping Computer is back after its server mishap and is full of blargh.
  
  It would probably be quicker to make a list of who hasn't been hacked.
  
  
  
• Android Studio 4.0 is out.  (Google)
  
  It's based on the same framework as PyCharm and therefor does not completely suck.
  
  
  
• Australia's NBN now supports gigabit speeds except for wherever it is you happen to live.  (ZDNet)
  
  If you have FTTP, which no-one does, you can get it now, maybe.  If you're on the ancient decaying HFC system, you can get it now, with full download speeds being available for up to 50 seconds per day.
  
  If you're on FTTC or FTTN, fuhgedaboutit.
  
  
  
• The ACLU is suing Clearview AI over invasion of privacy.  (New York Times)
  
  First useful thing they've done since...  Um.
  
  
  
• YouTube says that their deletion of all comments critical of Chinese fascists was not influenced by outside parties.  (The Verge)
  
  "We're just morons", said CEO Susan Wojcicki.  "We'd forget our own shoes if they weren't stapled to our hands."
  
  
  
• Amazon is planning to offer permanent jobs to 70% of the 175,000 temporary hires they put on during the Wuhan Bat Soup Death Plague.  (Reuters)
  
  That seems like good news.  Are we allowed to have good news?
  
  
  

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• The problem is Twitter.  (TechDirt)
  
  TechDirt is drunk again, arguing that this is somehow complicated.

  The basic problem is that there is no easy answer for what to do with Trump's tweets, also for many reasons. One fundamental reason is that content moderation is essentially an impossible task.

  There is an easy answer, though.  The easiest answer.  Leave them the fuck alone.  Stop thinking that everything is a problem and that you are required to solve every problem.
  
  
  
• Reuters is reporting on a supposed draft of the executive order behind all this fuss. 
  
  Do they actually provide the executive order they claim to have?
  
  They do not.
  
  
  
• Python in 917 easy steps.  (GitHub)
  
  A sufficiently determined programmer can turn anything into Node.js.
  
  
  
• Python 3.9 is in beta.  (LWN)
  
  It has two new string functions.
  
  And dict unions.
  
  
  
• Intel vs. AMD on the Linux desktop.  (Phoronix)
  
  On 380 benchmarks - a mix of single and multi-threaded workloads - the 10900K edged out the 3900X but was in turn beaten by the 3950X.
  
  
  
• There's an 8GB Pi available now.  (Tom's Hardware)
    
  $75, compared to $35 for 2GB and $55 for 4GB.  The default OS is still 32-bit so an individual user process can only address 3GB of RAM, but that's likely fine for anything you would run on a Pi, and there is now a 64-bit option as well.