Friday, March 22
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- Nobody ever said anything about it keeping the lawyer away: The DOJ has filed its very long awaited antitrust lawsuit against Apple. (The Verge)
While Apple isn't a monopoly in terms of total market control, it does control about two thirds of the US smartphone market, and it certainly abuses that market dominance to the detriment of its customers.
And as we've seen, Apple has been playing the malicious compliance game with market regulators for the past decade.
Interestingly, California is one of the sixteen states joining the DOJ in this lawsuit. New York is another. Woke idiot governments gone to war with woke idiot businesses?
- Nuh uh, said Apple, arguing that the lawsuit could prevent it looting the corpses of crippled orphans. (9to5Mac)
That is kind of the point, Apple.
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- Apple is not a monopoly like Windows was a monopoly. (Tech Crunch)
No.
Windows succeeded because anyone could develop and sell software for it without having to give Microsoft 30% of every transaction.
- Oh, and there's this: An security flaw in all Apple Silicon Macs leaks encryption keys if an attacker can get you to run suspect code. (Ars Technica)
It's another "side channel" attack; these are subtle and not very efficient but very hard to avoid. Intel, AMD, and Arm have all seen side channel attacks in recent years.
It's kind of like figuring out someone's password just by listening to them type, and matching the sounds of the keys to letter frequencies. Takes forever - or 26 minutes, whichever comes first - but very hard to guard against.
Encryption software can be rewritten to avoid the flaw, but that will make it much slower.
Minecraft Modpack Mayhem
If you figure that each 1MB of mod will need 10MB of memory, you'll be pretty close. I took an axe to the existing pack starting with the largest mods. Sorry, Better Nether, but you were using close to 1GB of RAM all by yourself.
What Year Is It Videos of the Day
Opens today.
The trailer doesn't entirely sell me but this is a direct sequel to the 2021 Ghostbusters Afterlife and that was actually good.
Yep, that one is back too.
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Thursday, March 21
All Roads Lead To RAM Edition
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- The US House of Representatives is doing something vaguely useful for once: It just passed a bill banning the sale of your private information to the nation's enemies. (The Verge)
No, not Washington DC. They already have your information. The other enemies.
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- Dungeons and Dragons is dying of acute woke poisoning but I still kind of want this D&D Lego set. (The Verge)
It comes with a dragon, a beholder, a displacer beast, a gelatinous cube, an owlbear, and a mimic, as well as a team of adventurers for them to menace.
- MacOS 14.4 may have another trick up its sleeve: Deleting your files. (MacRumors)
If you're using iCloud for storage because you bought a 256GB MacBook Air and it filled up instantly and you can't upgrade the storage, well, if you delete the local copy of a file you have on iCloud it might just delete all the backups on iCloud as well.
This is not good.
- The Asus Vivobook 15 OLED has received a little upgrade this year.
While it still has a Ryzen 7730U CPU and comes with 16GB of RAM upgradable to 40GB (8GB soldered and one SO-DIMM slot), the screen has improved from a 1920x1080 60Hz panel to 2880x1620 120Hz.
So 50% better in X and Y and 100% better in T.
It costs A$1200 vs. A$2200 for the Zenbook 15 OLED I mentioned recently (about $800 vs. $1450).
The differences are:
* It has a Ryzen 7730U vs. the 7735U in the more expensive model
* It's half a pound heavier
* Despite that, it actually has a smaller battery
So obviously the Zenbook is built and priced as a premium model, but the screen in the cheaper Vivobook is identical (and excellent), the CPU performance is identical, and it's 40% cheaper.
I looked at getting the previous model Vivobook a couple of years ago but passed it up. With the updated screen I think I'll get one, and swap in 32GB of RAM and a 4TB SSD from my old HP laptop which has developed a couple of minor issues... Like just switching itself off whenever it feels like it.
My preferred online store says they'll have it in stock on Monday.
- And that should solve my Minecraft modpack woes.
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Wednesday, March 20
But Can It Run Minecraft Edition
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- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AI hallucination problems are solvable and AGI is five years away. (Tech Crunch)
To the first point: Current AI models - that is, LLMs - are specifically designed and trained to generate bullshit. "Hallucinations" are simply the times when the bullshit is not even surface-level plausible. You can't prevent this without discarding the entire model.
LLMs work the way your brain does when you're not paying attention, like when someone wishes you a happy birthday and you respond "Thanks, you too." before your conscious mind catches up and you die a little inside.
To the second point: AGI is artificial general intelligence, which is to say, human-level intelligence. Current commercial research is not even on a path towards that, and what Huang is talking about is defining a set of tasks and then giving the AI an open-book exam.
Which is not AGI in any meaningful sense, but might make AI useful, if you're using an open-source model that doesn't come pre-lobotomised by the left-wing parasites currently infesting Big Tech.
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- At the other end of the scale, here's an 8080 emulator. (Nanochess)
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How the heck does that work?
I have no idea. But it can run CP/M.
- Misconfigured Firebases instances have been found leaking usernames and passwords to the internet. (Bleeping Computer)
And 98% of the 20 million passwords found so far were in plain text, which, uh, no. Just no.
- Microsoft Office 2024 is here, and you can buy it. (The Register)
As in, not a subscription. Pay once and use it forever.
Microsoft has also promised that this is not the last one-time purchase version of Office.
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Tuesday, March 19
Good, Betteridge, Best Edition
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- Ars Technica violated Betteridge's Law (any headline phrased as a question can be answered with no) and the First Rule of the Internet (never read the comments) with a single article: Is TikTok's parent company an agent of the Chinese state? (Ars Technica)
Yes, they say, but only because if Bytedance executives refuse to comply the communists will murder their families.
Which is accurate but would read better if you elided the "but only".
Oh, and the first comment simply reads, Yes.
Now, whether the proposed legislation is a good idea is another thing entirely; the very worst legislation often comes with massive bipartisan support, because it benefits them, not you.
But doing something about TikTok seems necessary.
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- Here we go again - or not: The naturally occurring mineral miassite turns out to be a superconductor. (Tom's Hardware)
At liquid helium temperatures. Most things are.
- MacOS 14.4 breaks all the things. (Ars Technica)
When I was regularly using my Mac (I have a 2015 Retina iMac which probably still works) every time I updated the operating system the mouse acceleration utility I was using would break. So I just stopped updating, because the default mouse support was unusable on a 27" screen.
14.4 breaks USB, printing, Java, many command line functions, and license key managers - which would be a big deal for professional audio users except they're probably still clinging to 10.6.
- In other news, Apple may be partnering with Google Gemini to provide AI functions. (Ars Technica)
Laughs in Microsoft.
- Microsoft meanwhile is deprecating 1024-bit RSA keys. (Bleeping Computer)
Which... Is actually sensible and necessary; 1024-bit keys have been deprecated in internet standards since 2013.
- Stripe and Substack want all your financial history. (Substack)
Well, Stripe certainly does, and Substack doesn't seem to have clean hands here.
Substack processes all payments via Stripe, and Stripe appears to be selectively enforcing new rules that require you to provide them with the full transaction history of your bank account.
Robert Malone (author of the piece) got a lawyer instead. Substack has so far refused to speak to him.
- I bank with CBE. (BBC)
As you can see, my last transaction was yesterday, when I withdrew $40 million from the nearest ATM.
- The TOXMAX rocket uses a molten, radioactive mix of lithium and cesium-137 as fuel, and a fluorine oxidiser. (Twitter)
It has a higher specific impulse than hydrogen/oxygen while keeping itself warm on cold winter nights. Yes, it will kill you, and everyone else in the area, but who wants to live forever?
- How to make your large Minecraft modpack run smoothly with 16GB of RAM.
Step One: Upgrade to 32GB.
I read r/feedthebeast (the modded Minecraft subreddit) to see if I was doing something wrong and nope, Minecraft uses ten times more RAM than disk space for mods.
Just Java things, I guess.
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Monday, March 18
Return Of The Bing Edition
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- Microsoft really, really wants you to use its Etch browser and Thing search engine. (Bleeping Computer)
If you use Chrome, you will get a popup ad begging you to come back. Please, they won't spam you with ads anymore.
Only problem is the popup ad is so poorly rendered that users reported it as a virus.
Well, not the only problem.
Tech News
- I missed this one when it came out because it originally shipped with only 16GB of RAM: The Asus Zenbook OLED 15 2023 model. (TechRadar)
It has a 15.6" 2880x1620 120Hz OLED display with 100% DCI-P3 colour. That's very similar to the display I'm using right now and it's very, very good.
CPU is a previous-generation Ryzen 7735U - eight Zen 3 CPU cores and 12 RDNA2 graphics cores, so not quite the latest but very capable. One USB 4 port, one USB 3 C port, one USB 3 A port, HDMI, and a headphone jack. Not a huge wealth of ports but adequate.
It has a numeric keypad but it's a compact three column layout so you can just leave NumLock off and use it as a cursor pad and the Four Essential Keys. And reprogram the extra keys to your whim with PowerToys.
And it's readily available with 32GB of RAM.
- How the House quietly revived the TikTok ban before most of us noticed. (The Verge)
If "us" means tech journalists, you guys wouldn't notice a tapdancing elephant in the bathroom if it was inconvenient to the narrative.
- You can download GPT-2 and run it in Excel. (Spreadsheets Are All You Need)
Seriously.
It's the "small" version of GPT-2, which has 124 million parameters, so it's small enough that Excel doesn't explode. (Unless you're running on a Mac in which case you might want a blast shield.) But being able to poke at it as a spreadsheet can help demonstrate how it works.
Modern small LLMs are typically 7 billion parameters, so Excel need not apply.
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Sunday, March 17
A Proxy By Any Other Name Edition
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- As many as 5.8 million US children could be suffering from Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy, a.k.a your mom should take up day drinking and leave you alone. (CBS)
"Long COVID" does not exist. There is such a thing as post-viral syndrome, where vague symptoms persists long after the specific symptoms of the disease, because viruses mess you up.
But COVID is no different there from the flu, or indeed from a cold. What this "study" is measuring is that 5.8 million US children either (a) don't want to go to school, (b) have mothers who seriously need a hobby, or (c) both.
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- The Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Fold 16 2024 is actually good. (The Verge)
I don't know what the specs are because the review focuses almost entirely on the screen, but then the device is almost entirely screen, so that kind of makes sense.
Folded up with the keyboard in place the screen is about 12" diagonally. Unfolded it's a 16" 2560x2024 display, and great for artists since it's pen-enabled.
Problem, as usual, is that it costs around $3000.
- The LinkedIn app is adding games, because... It just is. (Tech Crunch)
Okay, I guess.
- If you were watching the VMWare mess and feeling glad your company chose Citrix well there's bad news on the way for you as well. (The Register)
Now that the competition has destroyed itself, Citrix is doubling its pricing.
- Get noted, commies. (Newsweek)
China posted to Twitter arguing against the proposed forced divestiture of TikTok.
They got hit with a community note pointing out that TikTok is banned in China.
And despite claims that TikTok is not controlled by the Chinese government as a spying operation, that same government says it would rather shut the whole thing down than permit it to be sold.
- NASA's old supercomputers are causing mission delays. (Tom's Hardware)
What missions?
- Twelve years later, the game Star Citizen is approaching 1.0. (WCCFTech)
The game was formerly infamous for raising half a billion dollars while still in beta, but it took about a decade to do that and Palworld just did the same thing in under two months.
So... New normal, I guess?
- How many ways are there for 225 Minecraft mods to be mutually incompatible?
Latest one I've tripped over is that adding compatibility between Aquamirae and Expanded Combat causes the game to crash. I've got Forge and Fabric working together with no problems (I wanted Incendium and Nullscape together with BetterNether and BetterEnd), but when I add that tiny straw to all the other mods, it kills the game instantly.
- A lot. The answer is, a lot.
- I'm building a modpack that's intended to look vanilla when you start out, but have a ton of content open up as you explore.
Apart from drastically changed Nether and End dimensions, it adds the Aether, the Everbright and Everdawn, Twilight Forest, Midnight, and Undergarden dimensions, and several more that I'm still testing. Plus lots of mobs, building materials, crafting options, and transport.
It doesn't have Create because (a) that changes the goals of the game and (b) when I add that in with all the other mods my 16GB laptop thrashes endlessly. To be fair with all the software I have installed 8GB is gone by the time Windows has booted.
I'll be playing on a 64GB system but I want it to work with 16GB.
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Saturday, March 16
Bean There Edition
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- Tech sector layoffs are a thing of the past... 2001 and the Dot Com crash to be precise. (CNBC)
US tech companies laid off more than 260,000 workers last year, and another 50,000 already this year. What's more, they're not hiring.
Brush up on your COBOL and be prepared to move to Nebraska.
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- Sony's PS5 Pro could be out in time for it to be not available for Christmas. (The Verge)
And also to have no games to play.
It's not a huge upgrade - around 50% faster graphics, same CPU - but that should help with any games that are just not quite smooth enough.
Not that there are any games.
- Walmart is now selling the M1 MacBook Air for $699. (Liliputing)
Which would be a great price except that's the 8GB model and, of course, you can't upgrade it.
- Someone out there is worth $70 billion, and nobody knows who it is except that it's not Craig Wright. (WCCFTech)
Bitcoin was invented by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto. Australian "computer scientist" Craig Write claimed to be the person behind the pseudonym, but just had his claims thrown out in court as being laughably without merit.
Whoever it is owns over a million Bitcoin, worth around $70,000 each.
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Friday, March 15
Mission Failed Successfully Edition
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- Intel's 6.2GHz 24 core i9 14900KS is here. (AnandTech)
Priced at $689, it's a theoretical 150W part with a 253W maximum short-term power consumption that uses 375W here in the real world.
PassMark doesn't have any scores up yet but I doubt it's worth the cost and heat for most users. A 14700 will give you 75% of the performance at less than half the power consumption.
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- Western Digital's SN5000 is a budget SSD that can hit read speeds of 6GB per second. (AnandTech)
It's QLC and DRAMless which is a bad combination for server workloads, but if you're doing typical desktop stuff where you want to load and save files quickly rather than perform millions of tiny updates within files (the way a database does) it should be fine.
Price is... Not mentioned. And whether this is worthwhile depends entirely on that price.
- GPT-4 can now play Doom... Very, very badly. (Hot Hardware)
Likewise.
- Google gets one right: Every major AI except Google Gemini leaks private information. (Ars Technica)
Samsung banned the use of third-party AI tools by all its employees last year after three leaks of proprietary information were traced back to, well, that.
- The FTC and DOJ say it should be legal to fix McDonalds' ice cream machines. (The Verge)
The company that makes the machines is as notoriously litigious about third-party repairs as the machines themselves are notoriously unreliable.
- Let a thousand Nintendo Switch emulators bloom... Maybe. (The Verge)
Nintendo sued the Yuzu emulator for "facilitating piracy", and the developers settled the suit and vanished.
Since Yuzu was open source, though, there is now a swarm of clones for Nintendo to contend with.
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Thursday, March 14
What's This Edition
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- Hello, what's this? (Liliputing)
2024 HP Pavilion Plus 14
AMD CPU: Check, 8845HS (8 cores, 5.1GHz)
High-resolution screen: Check, 2880x1800 120Hz OLED
Upgradeable RAM: No
At least 32GB then: Check
USB-C: Check, two of
USB-A: Check, two of
HDMI: Check
Headphone jack: Check
Four essential keys: Check
Micro-SD slot: No
Actually available to buy: Yes, at least in the US
It's not perfect, but close enough.
Pricing starts at $850. That's not particularly cheap, but it's $250 less than the new MacBook Air while providing twice the memory and storage.
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- If an 8 core 5.1GHz laptop CPU just doesn't do it for you anymore maybe the Cerebras WSE-3 is more your speed. (Tom's Hardware)
900,000 cores. Yes, on one chip. Yes, it's a very big chip.
The chip also contains 44GB of RAM with a bandwidth of 21 petabyte per second, which is a lot.
Cerebras says you can link up to 2048 of these chips together in a single system, which would let you train a 70 billion parameter LLM in, uh, three minutes.
- SpaceX has scheduled the third test flight of Starship - the most important advance in spaceflight since Robert Goddard - for March 14. (WCCFTech)
Yes, today.
- Epic Games is back in court seeking a contempt order against Apple for violating its existing injunction. (Reuters)
Godspeed. You're also assholes, but to a lesser degree.
- The FBI and DHS are targeting extremist gamers... In Roblox. (The Intercept)
I'm bulldozing the whole of DC into a river of lava... In Minecraft.
- The M3 MacBook Air received a 5 out of 10 for repairability. (WCCFTech)
That's 5 points for not gluing the battery in place.
Some recent Apple products have received a score of 0, because you can't even open them without causing permanent damage. This might be grading on a scale, but at least it's an improvement.
- Let's ban TikTok! (Tech Crunch)
Thinks of the result of 170 million delusional TikTok users infesting every other social network.
Let's ban TikTok users from the rest of the world!
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Wednesday, March 13
Chapa Chapa Edition
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- Google is giving its Gemini AI yet another lobotomy to prevent it accidentally telling the truth about the 2024 presidential election. (Reuters)
When asked about elections such as the upcoming U.S. presidential match-up between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, Gemini responds with "I'm still learning how to answer this question. In the meantime, try Google Search", or "For God's sake, Joe can't make it through two lines on the teleprompter without starting a war. Maybe you should move to New Zealand."
Tech News
- Speaking of AI, and all the AI developers warning us of the disasters AI is likely to cause, it seems that the likelihood of such an event could be greatly reduced if there were no AI developers.
- It turns out I can pre-order the Lavie Tab - the Japanese model of the Lenovo Legion Y700, the only good small Android table currently in production, but not sold outside China - from Amazon Japan.
It costs even more than Apple's iPad Mini. It's better than the iPad Mini, yes, but that's awfully expensive for a small tablet.
- Speaking of Apple, the company will permit EU users to download apps directly from the developers' websites rather than using the App Store. (9to5Mac)
The developers will have to pay Apple for this privilege, of course.
Pay a lot.
- Someone retouched a photo. (The Verge)
The Verge has been foaming at the mouth about this for the past 48 hours.
- Intel is heavily promoting AI PCs. What is an AI PC? Anything with the latest Intel CPUs in it. (The Register)
Last year's Intel chips? Don't count. AMD chips? Burn, heretic! Arm chips? I'll pretend I didn't hear that.
- Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X Elite - a chip designed specifically for laptops - is three times faster than Intel's latest laptop chips on AI tasks. (WCCFTech)
No mention of how good it is for doing actual useful work, but the specs suggest this one will be miles ahead of Qualcomm's previous laptop attempts - which frankly sucked - and possibly even good.
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