• Russia says it has "neutralised" the REvil hacker gang.  (Ars Technica)
  
  This is being reported straight by multiple sites, and the commenters aren't having it.  Even at Ars Technica where the commenters are mostly insane, they are pointing out that at most Russia switched from condoning the group's activities to controlling them, and most likely just switched them temporarily from attacking Western targets to attacking Ukraine.
  
  Ars Technica has a feature that lets the author of the story promote a comment - and naturally the comment they promoted is one of two not openly contemptuous of this bullshit.
  
  An unnamed White House official said an unnamed individual behind the Colonial Pipeline hack was among those arrested.  (ZDNet)
  
  That doesn't make me more willing to believe it.
  
  It appears that Krebs on Security swallowed this crap too.
  
  
  
• Weekends are question and answer time.  Drop your questions in the comments  today and I'll attempt to answer them tomorrow.  And yes, Etsy.

• Lenovo Tab M8 FHD 4/5
  
  I basically chose the M8 FHD for its 1920x1200 screen, with everything else being secondary.  Fortunately it turns out the the screen is genuinely good - bright, sharp, and colourful without being oversaturated - with everything else being adequate.
  
  The CPU (a Mediatek P22T with eight A53 cores) is fast enough for most things - I opened up Final Fantasy III and there was no noticeable delay and the opening video was glitch-free even when I rotated the tablet by 180 degrees to make it rotate the video as well.  The Kindle and Audible apps bog down when installing lots of content, but I think that's just because those apps are garbage.  The tablet is otherwise responsive when those apps are glitching.
  
  Almost everything is installing neatly to the microSD card, with the exceptions being Google stuff and browsers, which are probably tied to internal storage for security reasons.
  
  Sound is, well, it's there.  There's only one speaker and it's adequate, but no more than that.  There's a headphone jack though if you want something better - no awkward USB dongles needed.
  
  Software is Android 10 with the November 2021 updates.  Given the limited improvements in Android in recent years that's fine.  I installed Nova Launcher as always so I'm not sure what Lenovo might have done with the default UI.  Nova Launcher erases such nonsense.
  
  Note sure of battery life under normal use yet, since I've been busy installing about 200GB of content.  That drains the battery pretty fast, but I have fibre internet now (well, FTTC), so it's installing the content pretty fast too.  If it's draining the battery 3x faster than my old tablet but installing content 6x faster - which is my guess - that's not really a problem.
  
  Overall it gets a 4/5.  It was on sale as low as $89 over the holidays, so keep that in mind if you're looking to buy one - the regular price is $159.
  
  
  
• If you want something a little upmarket and don't mind waiting Lenovo is also bringing their Legion Y700 gaming tablet to market.  (Liliputing)
  
  This is a little larger - 8.8" rather than 8" - with a 120Hz 2560x1600 screen and 100% of DCI-P3 colour.  The CPU is a Snapdragon 870 (A77 core) which is much faster than the P22T - on GeekBench single-threaded test it's between four and five times faster.
  
  If this is made available in Australia and the price isn't insane I'll consider it, but it's certainly going to cost a lot more than the M8 FHD.
  
  
  
• Lenovo's P12 Pro also has a 120Hz 2560x1600 display and a Snapdragon 870 CPU, and costs $630.  (Liliputing)
  
  Well, it did but it's out of stock right now.  
  
  That's a 12.6" model and includes a pen, so I'm hoping the Y700 comes in a bit cheaper.
  
  
  
• If you want a mid-size Android tablet Samsung's new Tab A8 is one.  (Liliputing)
  
  Priced starting at $230 (3/32GB) up to $330 (4/128GB).  The CPU on this one has A75 cores so it's more than twice as fast as cheaper A53-based tablets, and the 1920x1200 display should be fine.
  
  
  
• Blockchains suck.  (Molly White)
  
  True, but the alternative also sucks.
  
  
  
• A former official in the DHS OIG has pleaded guilty to stealing personal information on government employees.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  It sounds like this was for commercial gain and not sold to Russia or China, so that's fine I guess.
  
  
  
• FedEx wants to deploy laser missile-defense systems on its planes.  (Gizmodo)
  
  Everything is going swimmingly.
  
  
  
• John Deere has been hit with a class action lawsuit over right-to-repair.  (Motherboard)
  
  John Deere absolutely sucks in this area.  Everything on their modern equipment is locked down and impossible to repair independently.  They're the Apple of tractors.  The only upside is a booming market for second-hand farm equipment.
  
  
  
• Newly released documents from the Google antitrust lawsuit allege that the company engaged in outright fraud in setting ad prices.  (Wired)
  
  Google denies the allegations.  And Google wouldn't lie, would they?  Their corporate motto after all is "...".
  
  
  
• Asus has some new portable display / drawing tablets that look interesting.  (Liliputing)
  
  At the high end this includes a 15.6" 4K screen that includes a pressure-sensitive pen.  At $799 it's not exactly cheap, but there are also three 1080p models, including one with WiFi and an internal battery that are likely more budget-friendly.

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  When open source developers tell you to go fuck yourself go bad.  (ZDNet)

  While open-source developers should be fairly compensated for their work, wrecking your code isn't the way to persuade others to pay you.

  Yes it is.
  
  
  
• My new tablet is set up and installing stuff.  The one significant quirk is that it thinks the 400GB Sandisk microSD card is a 512GB card with a bunch of space already used.
  
  I'm not sure why; I think they've monkeyed with Android's adoptable storage mechanism and screwed it up.  I don't have a recent stock Android device with expandable storage to compare it with, but I don't think Google is that dumb, even now.
  
  I wondered if it was a fake card, but I've bought a dozen Sandisk microSD cards in recent years and the packaging and card looked genuine, and I've installed 54GB to it so far without a hiccup.*  I think Lenovo just messed this up.
  
  * Mostly my Audible library.  Being a member for 10 years times two books a month equals about 400 audiobooks.  Somehow.
  
  
  
• Our hosting company found the payment - it fell down behind the sofa cushion.  So we're safe for another month unless the IP address falls off the proxy server and how likely is it for that to happO*_$%#*#@ NO CARRIER
  
  
  
  

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• TSMC has increased its CapEx for 2022 to $44 billion.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  That's three times what they spent in 2019.  It will take a while for this to resolve the chip shortage but you certainly can't say they're not working on it.
  
  
  
• AMD's new 5800X3D is likely to be in short supply.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Sounds like AMD is prioritising its $10,000 Epyc CPUs over its $400 Ryzen CPUs for the limited amount of 3D cache dies available.  Which makes sense, but also means the fastest readily available gaming CPUs will remain Intel until Zen 4 arrives in the second half of the year.
  
  
  
• QNAP has released patches for three critical security vulnerabilities and how to breed wolves.  (Serve the Home)
  
  If you run your QNAP NAS behind a firewall you're probably safe, except that -
  
  
  
• Chrome is introducing a new security measure to block an entire underexamined class of attacks.  (Ars Technica)
  
  When you load a web page - this one, for example - JavaScript can make requests to other resources on the internet.  Including your own private network.
  
  So if you have an insecure QNAP NAS locked away safely behind your firewall, and then you browse to a malicious website, guess what happens to your safe, secure, locked-away NAS?
  
  If you guessed "something bad" you win a goldfish with an extremely short life expectancy.
  
  
  
• Android phones can now mostly disable 2G.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Stingray devices used to intercept phone calls often use old, insecure 2G, so blocking it will help keep the feds out of your business.
  
  
  
• China is doing the impossible: Making NFTs worse.  (SCMP)
  
  It's not clear exactly what they think they're doing, since the Chinese government has banned cryptocurrencies and public blockchains, so these will be government-approved NFTs on government approved blockchains that you can't buy or sell, and can only trade with government approval.
  
  And the government are communists.

• My Lenovo Tab M8 FHD arrived, and despite some listing weirdness (Amazon has it as a "business laptop" running ChromeOS) it is actually the right thing.
  
  Since it's currently the only small Android tablet with a high resolution screen, and at A$234 including international shipping and taxes it's reasonably priced - less than a third of the cheapest iPad Mini - if it works well I'll buy a second one.
  
  Lenovo has an 8.8" gaming tablet in the works, but nothing showed up at CES so it could be some way off.  Samsung's latest small tablet only has a resolution of 1340x800 which is barely better than the 2012 Nexus 7.
  
  
  
• Why you can't hire engineers.  (GitHub)
  
  Probability 1: Your company sucks.
  
  Probability 2: Everything else sucks, so even though they are actively looking for a new job because their current company sucks, you need to work twice as hard just to convince them that your company might suck less.
  
  Probability 3: Someone at your company installed Node.js without your knowledge, and now it looms over your headquarters like a great looming thing.
  
  
  
  

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• Plausible Analytics is an alternative to Google.  (GitHub)
  
  Uses 1k of JavaScript on your website, and the server-side code is written in Elixir, which while not quite a mainstream language is miles ahead of garbage like PHP or Node.js.
  
  Free to download and run yourself, or available as cloud service from $9 per month.
  
  Not a paid ad, just that any solid alternative to Big Tech is worth a mention.
  
  
  
• Intel's new Celeron runs single-threaded tasks as fast as the Core i9-10900K.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Meaning if you only need  computer for light use - email, word processing, spreadsheets, web browsing, YouTube - a $42 CPU might be all you need.
  
  
  
• A little upmarket, Intel's i5 12400 makes a good Linux CPU.  (Phoronix)
  
  No low-power cores so no performance weirdness, and it's pretty solid on both single-threaded and multi-threaded tasks while keeping power consumption under control.  
  
  
  
• Apple fixed a bug that would kill your iPhone if it detected an IoT device with a bad name.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Add Cthulhu to your network Y/N?
  
  
  

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• Is Web3 a scam?  (Stack Diary)
  
  <shake shake>
  
  Signs point to yes.
  
  
  
• NFT projects are MLMs for tech elites.  (Every)
  
  Yes.  Mostly.  I'm trying to do work using NFTs to solve practical problems, as ownership or identity tokens for digital property, where an NFT has an intrinsic value of a few cents to a few dollars.
  
  The people who burn tens of thousands of dollars on intrinsically worthless garbage annoy the hell out of me because they price the blockchain out of reach of the practical stuff I want to do.  At best it's money laundering.  That's at least an understandable motive.
  
  
  
• Blockchain apps are not what they appear to be.  (Molly White)
  
  All too often they fail to deliver on their promises - and fail in the worst possible way.
  
  You could at least eat tulip bulbs.

• The PCIe 6 spec has been finalised.  (AnandTech)
  
  This doubles bandwidth yet again - to as much as 128GBps in each direction on a x16 slot - by using four electrical levels rather than just 1 and 0, an encoding method known as PAM4.
  
  I don't expect it to arrive soon, but then I didn't expect PCIe 5 in consumer systems until maybe 2023, and it actually showed up in the new Intel Alder Lake systems last year
  
  
  
• Intel NUC 12 is on its way.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Some models have been cancelled but the regular models are still expected to ship.  
  
  These will probably be using the 1200P range of CPUs, which have 8 low power cores and 2, 4, or 6 fast cores.  Only the fastest model has 6 fast cores and that might not make it into a NUC, but the four i5 and i7 models with a 4+8 core configuration should be about twice as fast as current model NUCs, which is a pretty substantial generational advance.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile Intel is desperately trying to pretend that they've never heard of Xinjiang province.  (WCCFTech)
  
  It's a no-win situation for them.  True, it's a no-win situation because the company is run by spineless worms, but it's still a no-win situation.
  
  
  
• Windows has an HTTP vulnerability tht is not currently being actively exploited.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Only really affects Windows servers.  Friends don't let friends run IIS.
  
  
  
•  T-Mobile said it isn't "broadly blocking" Apple's Private Relay function.  (9to5Mac)
  
  They blamed it mostly on an iOS bug that turns the function off.
  
  I mean, which is more likely, a cellular carrier behaving badly, or a stupid bug in an Apple operating system?
  
  
  
• Podcasting hasn't produced a hit in years.  (Bloomberg)
  
  No surprise.  Podcasting caught cancer in 2020 and died.  Everyone with talent moved to YouTube.
  
  
  

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• Web3 can't fix the internet.  What we need is socialism.  (Jacobin)
  
  Socialists: Celebrating 180 years of finding problems and making them worse.

• How to secure your QNAP NAS.  (Serve the Home)
  
  1. Follow the menus in QTS or QUTS depending on your device to perform a clean shutdown.
  2. Turn off the power and unplug the power and network cables.
  
  
  
• Linux Mint has sold out to the commies at Mozilla.  (ZDNet)
  
  Who get their money in turn from the commies at Google.
  
  This is in place of previously selling out to Yahoo, so I'm honestly not sure very much has changed here.  It's free money; they'd be fools not to take it.
  
  
  
• Multiple carriers including T-Mobile/Sprint are blocking Apple's Private Relay.  (9to5Mac)
  
  Private Relay is a sort of low-grade corporatist TOR, and T-Mobile is blocking it specifically because it prevents them from spying on their customers.
  
  
  
• How NPM can prevent a new colors attack.  (RSC)
  
  Pinned versions.
  
  My first suggestion would be burn it and piss on the ashes, but pinned versions might work too.
  
  
  
• If you want to build the next Cobalt Qube the Interceptor board from Axzes might be what you need.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It's a carrier board for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 - a smaller version of the Raspberry Pi with just the CPU and RAM, no I/O ports - that provides five SATA ports, four gigabit Ethernet ports, two USB ports (plus two USB headers), and two HDMI ports.  $99 plus the cost of the compute module itself, which is, um, out of stock.

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• Oh nyo.
  
  
  This is the game that wrecked my vacation and now that I'm back from vaction has wrecked my first day back at work.
  
  Thanks anonymous hacker, but couldn't you have done this a week earlier?

• Canon can't get the chips it uses to lock users into approved toner cartridges and has had to issue instructions on how to unlock your printer to use toner cartridges without those chips.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Which means you no longer have to buy Canon cartridges at all.  Every silver lining has a cloud, or however that saying goes.
  
  
  
• Pixy's First Law of Personal Responsibility: Once you choose to use Node.js, everything that happens subsequently is your own damn fault.
  
  One developer broke about 20,000 Node.js projects after getting fed up with Big Tech taking advantage of open source developers.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  He uploaded broken versions of two of his libraries in protest against being treated basically as slave labour.  The guy appears to be something of a nut and reportedly set his own apartment on fire with amateur pyrotechnics experiments, but he's not wrong.
  
  And for uploading unapproved changes to his own code - which broke the functionality but didn't do anything malicious - he's now locked out of GitHub. 
  
  Which is owned by Microsoft.
  
  
  
  That's exactly how people should be trained.  It's entirely correct.
  
  

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• Currently reading Tim Powers' Stolen Skies, the third book in the Vickery & Castine series.  Powers doesn't really do sequels; other than this series there's Earthquake Weather which was mostly solid and Hide Me Among the Graves which was not - his only novel in 30 years that came up short.
  
  The first of these was great, classic Powers; the second was pretty good but not quite as good; the third is shaping up to be better than the second.  Recommended.
  
  Also recently read (or re-read) Lawrence Watt-Evans' Obsidian Chronicles - Dragon Weather, Dragon Society, and Dragon Venom.  Turns out I had never read the third volume before - I would have remembered that ending.  Quite a change from the more light-hearted Ethshar stories; people die in all sorts of gruesome ways throughout the series.
  
  
  
• Let's call the whole thing off.
  
  
  
  
  
• Totally Not Feds R Us
  
  
  
  

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• Everyone in this story deserves everything that is about to happen to them: A new "tech startup" wants to allow people to bet on lawsuits using purpose-made cryptocurrencies.  (Motherboard)
  
  That's an awful idea in at least three different ways but the people behind it aren't likely to have much time to enjoy the chaos because they are dumb enough to market the idea with "50%+ annual returns".
  
  Yes, anything that offers that is a Ponzi scheme - or a robbery - and yes, the feds do still take a dim view of such things.
  
  Unless they're the ones running it.
  
  
  
• Weekends are Question and Answer time.  Drop your tech questions in the comments and I'll attempt to answer them tomorrow.
  
  
  
  

Tech News

• If you offer a Patreon subscription in an international subscriber's local currency, you are now subject to the laws of that country.  (The Register)
  
  Says a ruling by Lord Justice Fuckbiscuit of Britain.
  
  Since this is in regards to a libel suit, and libel laws in Britain are shit, this is important.
  
  The solution is to block all GDPR countries at the router.  Let them eat cold kippers and warm beer.
  
  
  
• SonicWall has its own Y2K22 bug.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  There is at least a patch for this one, unlike Honda cars which are trapped in 2002 until August.
  
  
  
• How a routine gem update created $73k in subscriptions.  (SerpApi)
  
  They weren't hacked and subscribed to garbage services as I first thought.  Rather, after updating the libraries for a code deployment (Ruby libraries are called "gems") their software charged existing customers an extra $73k.
  
  Why?
  
  Because (after much debugging on their side) there was a change in what "or" meant in a MongoDB database library.
  
  The maintainers of that library should be strapped to the outside of a rocket and launched directly at Cygnus X-1 because you do not ever, ever, ever do that.
  
  
  
• First impressions of Web3.  (Moxie)
  
  Web3 is the web, only fucked up with catastrophically bad blockchain implementations which promise to decentralise everything but in fact centralise it on new platforms that don't answer to you any more than the current ones do but also cost you money.
  
  The article gives a specific example of the rapid corruption of a supposedly decentralised protocol.
  
  
  
• What is Web3?  (Substack)
  
  Is it all a scam, or is it only almost all a scam?
  
  
  
• AMD's cheap(ish) new RX 6500 XT video cards kinda suck.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Only 4 PCIe lanes and missing hardware for  video decoding, meaning that task lands back on your CPU, makes it a big pile of meh.
  
  
  
• A fire at ASML's factory in Berlin affected less than 1% of the floor space.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  But the area is involved in making key components for EUV lithography, and ASML is the only company in the world that makes machines for EUV lithography.  
  
  And EUV lithography is what is used to make all the latest computer chips.  All of them.
  
  
  

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• Nerds have swarmed Mozilla, the organisation behind the Firefox browser, after it announced it would accept donations in cryptocurrencies.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Chief nerd and Mozilla cofounder Jamie Zawinski was quoted as saying:
  
  
  Which made me laugh out loud because there's nothing better than watching communists fight over money.
  
  
  
• Talking to the blockchain camp and the anti-blockchain camp makes me understand why jocks shoved nerds into lockers back in the day.  Insufferable asshats the lot of them.
  
  
  

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• Speaking of communist and money global Bitcoin mining suffered a blow when Kazakhstan shut down its internet.  (The Guardian)
  
  The people of Kazakhstan barely rate a mention.  The effects of massive civil unrest on Bitcoin's price, though, that's important.
  
  
  
• The Signal messaging app meanwhile now supports untraceable-ish crypto payments.  (Wired)
  
  The blockchain is public, but that doesn't mean you need to make it easy to track payments.  You just need to be able to prove that a given amount has or has not been paid, and you can do that while keeping other details secret.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile comedy struck Manhattan when an art gallery owner lost two million dollars worth of imaginary monkeys.  (Motherboard)
  
  Oh no.  Anyway-
  
  
  
• Yes, it's a Ponzi Scheme.  So what?  (CoinDesk)
  
  That's illegal is what, you chucklefucks.  Doing it in purely digital fashion just makes you automatically eligible for wire fraud charges.
  
  
  
• In non-crypto news (I hope) Lenovo's ThinkBook Plus Gen 3 has an 8 inch tablet.  (CNet)
  
  Not is an 8 inch tablet, has an 8 inch tablet.  To the right of the keyboard.
  
  And it's one of those shitty 1280x800 models too because we can't have nice things even when they are otherwise absurd.
  
  
  
• France has fined Facebook and Google €210 million over asymmetric cookie popups.  (The Register)
  
  Being jerks, Facebook and Google made it much harder to turn down cookies than to accept them.
  Being jerks, France decided to steal their lunch money.
  
  Nearly as good as watching communists fight over money.
  
  
  
• The ESA is sending a probe to visit the moons of Jupiter.  (Popular Science)
  
  All 67 of them, in fact.  Which makes sense.  Why travel all that way and not see the sights when you arrive?
  
  
  
• QNAP's TS-h1290FX is a 12-bay 2.5" NAS.  (Serve the Home)
  
  And an Epyc server CPU and dual 25GbE and a $7500 price tag.  So probably won't be finding its way into Starlab any time soon.
  
  
  
• Speaking of which, got another box today - including the first of the 4TB SSDs.
  
  Still waiting on the laptop RAM to arrive though.
  
  
  

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