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Saturday, August 14

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Daily News Stuff 14 August 2021

Round Up The Usual Suspects Edition

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  • The usual suspects are distraught that the NSW government is refusing to implement an indefinite lockdown and plans to open up again as soon as vaccination numbers are up or case numbers are down.  (Australia waited for more safety data before rolling out vaccines so we're a few months behind the US.)

    I'm surprised that they've shown even that much sense, given their recent history, but I'll take it.


  • Apple "regrets" "confusion" over iPhone scanning.  (BBC)

    What they actually regret is being criticised for spying on children.


  • Apple is rolling out propaganda checklists to staff to "explain" to customers why the company is spying on children.  (Bloomberg)
    Some users have been concerned that they may be implicated for simply storing images of, say, their baby in a bathtub. But a parent’s personal images of their children are unlikely to be in a database of known child pornography, which Apple is cross-referencing as part of its system.
    That's not how it fucking works.  It doesn't take a hash of the file; that's too easy to cheat.  It uses perceptual hashes, the sort of thing that classifies a cat as an avocado.


  • It's so bad they've lost the Ars Technica commentariat.  (Ars Technica)

    That used to be a great site up until about five years ago; it was one of the first to get taken over by brain worms.  Today the comments are full of Apple-loving Biden voters, and yet, and yet, on this topic they are absolutely scathing.
    - I'll be OK with this if all governments super-pinky-swear they won't abuse the hash-repository for their own interests.

    - It’s a brave new world, my sentient brethren.

    - In related news, Apple noted that "ignorance is strength". Additionally, sources familiar with the matter opined "War is peace."

    - I guess you can technically claim this is an "advancement" on privacy, as long as you don't think too hard about what direction Apple is advancing.
    All of those have 90%+ upvotes too.


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  • Turns out the WD Black SN750 4TB model is real.  I'm going to put one in my next laptop - assuming I get the laptop and it works well.  With 64GB RAM and 4TB (maybe 5TB) of SSD I won't need to worry about a new desktop system for a long while.

    I will get the Linux lab set up, since I'll have memory and SSDs on hand to fill up three NUCs.  Plan is to name the desktop and the three Linux nodes Ina, Pina, Pika, and Pomu.

    Update: Ina (big laptop), Pina, Pika, and Pomu (NUCs), Gwem (small laptop), and Kson (desktop system).


  • A WHO expert had concerns about a lab close to the site where the first COVID cases appeared.  (AP News)

    Well, it now seems that the first COVID cases actually appeared at that lab, but the first reported cases were at a market 500 metres away.

    That actually understates things.

    The Wuhan Bat Virus Lab where they were studying bat coronaviruses is diagonally across an intersection from the Wuhan Live Bat Market where the bat coronavirus outbreak was first reported.

    Concerns my bat coronavirus ass.


  • Apple has released MacOS 11.5.2, a 2.5GB bug fix.  (ZDNet)

    What does it fix?

    Dunno.  Apple didn't say.  Microsoft might give you reams of incomprehensible tech jargon to wade through for each individual patch, but it's still better than "macOS 11.5.2 includes bug fixes for your Mac".


  • Gigabyte has released a statement on their exploding power supplies.  (Tom's Hardware)

    It reads, and I quote, Oops.

    A couple of models rebadged and sold by Gigabyte - they don't actually manufacture them - had the overload cutout set at 150% of rated peak load, which was much too high for some of the components.

    They still cut out, they just did so rather permanently.


  • A look at the QNAP TS-873A 8-bay NAS.  (Serve the Home)

    The unit has a Ryzen V1500B - a first-generation quad-core embedded part with a TDP of 16W.  It's a lot slower than current generation parts, but it's cheap, supports ECC RAM, and is rated for ambient temperatures up to 105C so it's not likely to die on the first warm day of spring.

    Apart from the 8 3.5" bays the unit ships with 8GB of RAM - upgradeable to 64GB, two 2.5Gb Ethernet ports, two PCIe slots, and two M.2 NVMe slots for caching.

    There's also a slightly cheaper 6-bay model - the TS-673A.

    Oh, and I completely forgot about this: The TS-H973AX-8G is a 9-bay model, with 5 3.5" and 4 2.5" hot-swap drive bays.  It has the same Ryzen CPU but includes a 10Gb Ethernet port as well as the two 2.5GbE.  It has no M.2 slots but two of the 2.5" bays support U.2 NVMe drives as well as the more common SATA.

    All three models support ZFS rather than BtrFS, which is more common in low-end NAS devices.  ZFS works by magic; it's hard to overstate how much better it is than classic filesystems like NTFS or Ext4.  Need to back something up?  One click, you have a backup.  Need to enable database compression?  Don't need to mess with the database settings, one click and it's compressed.  Need to de-duplicate 18 million images?  One click.

    ZFS does need a fast CPU and plenty of RAM to work well, and if you have a really huge array stuffed full of photos and want deduplication, you'll need more than the stock 8GB.    But we'd be talking about hundreds of thousands of raw camera files before that became a problem.


  • Facebook is rolling out end-to-end encryption for Messenger.  (Bleeping Computer)

    Facebook now has a stronger privacy story than Apple.  How the turn worms.


  • You can get a Threadripper surprisingly cheap now.  (Newegg)

    That's the first-generation 8-core model, though.  It's slower than the 6-core 5600G - a lot slower in single-threaded workloads, slightly slower in multi-threaded - but if you need a ton of PCIe slots and/or 256GB of RAM but not super-high CPU performance, motherboards for it are also available and not crazy expensive.


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Friday, August 13

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Daily News Stuff 13 August 2021

First Law Edition

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Thursday, August 12

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Daily News Stuff 12 August 2021

Department Of Redundancy Edition

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  • The problem with having redundant virtual servers is you don't necessarily know if they are redundant or not....  Until your cloud provider has to reboot a hardware node and your primary and secondary API servers both drop dead.

    That wouldn't have been so bad except one of the nodes came back up with two copies of the core software running, with competing restart scripts fighting over the network port and overwriting each other's log files.

    So downstream apps were getting random, intermittent errors depending on where the load balancer sent them and which instance was active at that moment, but there was nothing to indicate a problem in the server logs because only the instance that was working at that moment was logging anything.

    Fun.


  • Samsung announced their new Flip and Fold.  (AnandTech)

    The Flip is squarish and unfolds into a rather tall but otherwise normal phone.  The Fold is a normal-sized phone that unfolds into a squarish tablet.

    They look quite nice and could actually be great devices if the folding screens are robust now.  But not cheap - starting at $999 for the Flip and $1799 for the Fold.


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Wednesday, August 11

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Daily News Stuff 11 August 2021

Mediocrity And Mendacity Edition

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  • The Radeon RX 6600 XT is here and it's definitely a video card.  (Tom's Hardware)

    AMD jacked up the MSRP on this one because with cards selling as fast as they can produce them, why should the scalpers have all the fun?

    And that seems to be the main point of contention in all the reviews - performance is fine, but the price hike means value is no better than AMD's cards from two or three years ago.

    Well, performance is fine unless you want to run Minecraft with ray tracing enabled at 2560x1440.  Then it plunges to 15fps - half the speed of Nvidia's competing RTX 3060.  You can, of course, just turn off ray tracing, and then Minecraft will run on an elderly potato.


  • There's also a professional version, the W6600, and there things are slightly different.  (Hot Hardware)

    In this case it's only slightly faster than the old model - but half the price.  That really is progress.

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Tuesday, August 10

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Daily News Stuff 10 August 2021

Good News Everyone Edition

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Monday, August 09

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Daily News Stuff 9 August 2021

Optimistically Underwhelmed Edition

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  • So, my new laptop arrived this morning - the Dell Inspiron 14 7000.  It's not physically impressive; it's small, and light, and completely silent.  The keyboard is perfectly fine, with decent travel and no noticeable flex.  The screen is clear, sharp, and vibrant, without being aggressive about it.  I plugged it in, and when I checked a while later, it was fully charged.

    It has an 11th-generation Intel laptop chip, which are rather better than their desktop counterparts.  And Nvidia MX350 graphics, which are not much faster than the latest Intel Xe integrated graphics but do offer an extra 2GB of dedicated VRAM.

    Oh, and it has a tiny physical camera shutter, so you don't need electrical tape.  Basically, there's nothing to complain about.  Everything works just like it should.

    They just discontinued that model.


  • Screw you, Microsoft Edge.  (Charles Petzold)

    Almost as soon as Microsoft shipped Windows they started think up ways to ruin it.  They keep trying to shove ads into it, and people always, always hate it, and they have to take them out again.

    This time - as the title suggests - it's not Windows itself but the Edge browser.  Same deal, though.  To be useful, an operating system or a browser must be a neutral platform.  Anything else is cancer.  Or maybe anthrax.


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Sunday, August 08

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Server Move Progress

Won't be complete today, but I was able to sneakily fix a corrupted index while the server was running, so I don't need to worry about that during the move.

I also have a new editor I'm trying out that actually generates and displays BBCode directly, rather than the messy mix of BBCode and HTML we use right now.  While BBCode is dated it does solve real problems when you're running a multi-blog environment like this.

Update: And the damn server crashed again.  Ugh.

Update: Here's what the new editor looks like, after a couple of minutes tweaking the theme settings.

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It supports complete customisation of the BBCode, so all the fancy tags no-one uses because they don't know about them can be buttons in the editor.

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Daily News Stuff 8 August 2021

Alive And Brilliant Edition

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  • Scenes from the Sydney lockdown.

    My American friends might ask why we're not marching in the streets over this.  Well, we are, in our own way.

    The little dog is emblematic of how Australian voters deal with government overreach.

    (I'm not convinced this is a recent photo.  Not sure it's not, either.  It's winter here, and it's chilly today, but we just had a couple of warm days so....  Maybe.)


  • Another tame Apple press outlet weighs in and it's not good for Apple.  (Tidbits)

    The writers go out of their way to afford Apple every courtesy, and still find themselves in line with the company's harshest critics:
    Apple’s head of privacy, Erik Neuenschwander, told the New York Times, "If you’re storing a collection of C.S.A.M. material, yes, this is bad for you. But for the rest of you, this is no different."

    Given that only a very small number of people engage in downloading or sending CSAM (and only the really stupid ones would use a cloud-based service; most use peer-to-peer networks), this is a specious remark, akin to saying, "If you’re not guilty of possessing stolen goods, you should welcome an Apple camera in your home that lets us prove you own everything."
    Some readers are still drinking the Flavor Aid and one of the writers pushes back firmly in the comments:
    Correct. We don’t know anything except they’re building a system that they entirely control, offer no transparency into, and will not allow outside audits of.
    A system that is designed specifically to spy on children.
    The best way for totalitarian governments to implement surveillance is on the back of systems that people all agree are necessary.

    The most dangerous phrase in the world is "trust me."

    The tame Apple press can bark after all.


  • Let me explain.  No, there is too much.  Let me sum up.

    Um.  I swear there was a tweet here.

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  • Still pissed off about my dead HP Spectres.  New laptop should arrive tomorrow though - the Dell Inspiron 14 7000. 

    And I'll likely be getting an Inspiron 16 Plus as well.  They're pretty much Dell's equivalent of the MacBook Pro 13" and 16" models - exactly the same screen resolutions and close to the same weights, though the 14" Dell is actually a few ounces lighter than the 13" Mac.  Probably has worse battery life, but that's not the deciding factor for me.

    The Inspiron 16 is faster than my current desktop and will be my desktop system - plugged into a couple of 27" monitors - until graphics cards become affordable or there's a game more demanding than Minecraft that I want to play.


  • Stop putting numeric keypads on gaming laptops, dammit.  Or at least offer some with a sane keyboard layout, like HP.

    Gigabyte has some models that are priced similarly to the Inspiron 16 but with better specs - RTX 3070 and 4K OLED screen.  But the Dell is 40% off and much easier to get sign-off on for a company purchase.

    If the Gigabyte had a sensible keyboard layout though, I might buy it with my own cash.


  • You can now expand the storage on the PlayStation 5 you don't have because it's not available anywhere.  (Tom's Hardware)

    You need a high-end PCIe 4.0 M.2 NVMe SSD, with a minimum read speed of 5.5GB per second.  And a heatsink, since the expansion slot isn't cooled by the PS5's fan.  But the Samsung 980 Pro was tested and works fine, loading as fast as the integrated storage, and writing much faster.

    Write speeds were probably not a priority when Sony designed the PS5 - even if you have gigabit internet and are downloading at full speed, the cheapest SATA SSDs from 2015 would cope just fine.


  • EVGA is pushing a firmware patch for its GeForce RTX 3090 FTW3 graphics cards.  (WCCFTech)

    These are the ones most often cited as being killed by Amazon's game New World.  Problems extend to other Nvidia cards and even some AMD ones, but the 3090 and specifically EVGA 3090 cards are hardest hit.


  • If your EVGA card has already died and you need a replacement right away, you might be in for a bad time.  (WCCFTech)

    They asked for a deposit of €1,728.20 to replace a 3080.  Which is double MSRP for the card itself.


  • Why CAPTCHA photos are so unbearably depressing.  (Clive Thompson)

    If we ever get general AI and put it in an autonomous vehicle, it will probably commit suicide.


  • If you have one of the listed WiFi routers, either patch it right away or yeet that sucker straight out the window.  (Bleeping Computer)

    The list includes models distributed by Verizon and Telstra so it might not even be one you bought yourself.


  • Go and Rust are vulnerable to that weird mixed octal/decimal IP address thing.  (Bleeping Computer)

    The problem is, decades ago when octal was still in use - I'm old enough to have seen an octal core dump, but I've never used one in anger - someone had the bright idea that the addresses 127.0.0.1 and 0127.0.0.1 would go to entirely different locations.

    It was never much used and pretty much all software gets it wrong.  Except routers, which follow the spec to the letter and will send your packets to somewhere you never expected.


  • It doesn't matter how secure your hashing algorithm is if your password is 123.  (ZDNet)

    So...  Don't do that.


  • To sum up, again:

    Elasticsearch built a search server, based on the open source Lucene library, and released it as open source.  So far, so good.

    The reserved certain features for paying customers.  Okay, gotta make a living.

    This reservation extended to even the most basic security mechanisms, so anyone using the free version was left completely open to attack.  And this led to a whole string of data breaches.  I was reporting on them weekly for a year.  Not so good.

    Amazon came along and offered their own paid Elasticsearch-as-a-service, even calling it Elasticsearch, which Elasticsearch had trademarked.  Also not good.

    Elasticsearch responded by changing the licensing of their code so it was no longer open source.  Double plus ungood.

    Amazon responded by taking the last open source release of Elasticsearch, forking it, and releasing it as OpenSearch.  This is kind of a jerk move given where Amazon started out, and would have been better received if another party had done it, but here we are.

    Elasticsearch responded by breaking API compatibility so that code libraries for Elasticsearch no longer work with OpenSearch.  (The New Stack)

    Elasticsearch uses semantic versioning - supposedly.  Moving from 7.13 to 7.14 can add new features and can certainly fix bugs, but shouldn't break your code.  They've always been bad at sticking to that, but this time the sole purpose of the update was to break things.


    And now Amazon has responded by forking the API clients as well to restore compatibility.

    It takes talent and determination to make Amazon look like the good guy.  Congratulations, Elasticsearch.

    Curiously enough I was recently talking to one of the original developers of Lucene and he apologised to me when I mentioned using Elasticsearch extensively.  But it's not Lucene I have a problem with.


  • A network of 350 fake accounts have been spreading Chinese propaganda.  (BBC)

    Tree fiddy, you say?


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Saturday, August 07

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Daily News Stuff 7 August 2021

Unexpectedly Edition

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  • Working on the server move.  I panicked because this server went down again and we might miss an update on Brickmuppet's status, but when I got it back up and checked he'd already posted.

    Situation isn't great and he'll be in rehab for weeks, so time to smuggle him catgirls and computers.

    Wonderduck chimed in over there.  He's still recovering too.

    Properly puts my personal upsets into perspective.


  • Surprised by pushback over their massive violation of the privacy of children, Apple poured oil on troubled waters...  And lit it on fire.

    Dismissing the entire security community, which has universally decried this, and the entire privacy community likewise as "screeching voices of the minority" shows exactly where this is coming from.

    They are fully aware that what they are doing is wrong.  They know it will harm people.  That's why they kept it secret.  They just don't care.

    This is the end result of intellectual monoculture.  To whatever small extent they spoke to any security or privacy advocates about this, their concerns were overridden because by definition anyone objecting to this was evil.

    Cupertino delenda est.

    Google is no better, except that - well, we'll get to that in a moment.


  • The problem with perceptual hashes.  (Rent-a-founder)

    Perceptual hashes are numbers that are supposed to represent what a picture looks like.  They're what Apple plan to use to spy on children.  Click through to that link to see what a computer considers a match of perceptual hashes of two images.  I won't spoil it for you.


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While he works on getting better, here's a bouncy anime girl playing Kerbal Space Program.  New agency, Cyberlive, which like PRISM seems to be based in Japan but targeted at an English-speaking audience.  They just launched two weeks ago.

Gotta love her self-description: Konlumi! I'm the star known as Gliese 667C and space's greatest thief, Kaneko Lumi!

Update: Nope, US-based.


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Friday, August 06

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Daily News Stuff 6 August 2021

Sigh Edition

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  • Hoping for good news from Brickmuppet soon.


  • In Apple's defense, they're only spying on your children.  (Ars Technica)

    Ace touched on this: Apple's touted new feature for iOS 15 is that it will secretly scan all the photos on your device and your cloud storage, secretly compare them with a secret catalogue of designated bad things, and then very publicly send the details to the feds.

    Initially it will only - they say - invade your privacy this way if you're a child.  Which makes everything so much better.

    Even (most) of the idiots at Ars Technica are up in arms about this.  Wade far enough into the comments and there's someone who will excuse anything.  (Rule One: Never read the comments.)





    End-to-end encryption means that nobody in the middle can see your private content.  But when one party - which is to say, Apple - controls both ends, they can do whatever the fuck they want.  And what they want to do is spy on you.

    For your own good.

    The EFF is unimpressed.  (EFF)

    This is not so much a slippery slope as an express elevator to hell.


  • Remember, Apple cares about your privacy.  They won't allow anyone else to violate it.



    Fans of YouTubers can no longer send in gifts - even via a management company - thanks to Apple's AirTags.  I think a really big induction coil could solve this problem though.  Drop it from orbit right into Cupertino.


Tech News 

  • Intel's upcoming Alder Lake CPUs include up to 8 high-performance cores and 8 high-efficiency cores, to reduce power consumption when you're not running heavy workloads.

    How well does this work?  Signs are, it doesn't.  (WCCFTech)

    Power deliver specs for the new 12th gen chips are 50-100W higher than for 10th and 11th gen, which are infamously power hungry.

    On the other hand, it comes with PCIe 5.0.  That could account for a chunk of that increase; running I/O at 32Gbps isn't easy.


  • Adata has announced ECC DDR5 memory modules running at up to 12600MHz in capacities up to 64GB.  (WCCFTech)

    Still no dates or prices, but the capacity is new information.  I was certainly not expecting 64GB modules this soon.


  • The Ryzen 5600G and 5700G desktop APUs are available now.  (WCCFTech)

    I checked and it's true.  I might switch around the planned config for my new Linux system.  Again.

    If you just want basic graphics - enough for playing Minecraft and running two 4K monitors - these will handle it without paying the current 50-100% markups on video cards.  Performance doesn't trail too far behind the CPU-only versions - and they're actually cheaper.


  • I might be getting a second Dell laptop, since they're having a major sale (they usually are, true) and I just had two HP laptops expire on me.

    This one would be the Inspiron 16 Plus.  8-core Intel CPU, 3072x1920 16" screen, 16GB RAM (upgradeable), 512GB NVMe SSD (also upgradeable), RTX 3050 with 4GB RAM, which again is plenty for Minecraft, and a...  Numeric keypad.

    Not my favourite layout, but probably better than not having the Four Essential Keys at all.

    With the SSD, it actually has two M.2 slots.  One 2230 size, and one 2280 size.  It seems to ship with a 2230-size drive, so you can just drop in a full-size unit to upgrade it.  

    There's a model with 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, and a 3060, but it's not on sale so it would cost twice as much.  And I already have 32GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD.


  • A personal tale of getting put on a secret list.  (Areoform)

    The author had the good fortune to share the name of someone working with a sanctioned company.  That meant they couldn't receive funds from, basically, anyone.  And they couldn't get taken off the list either, because none of this is coded into law and there's no oversight whatsoever. And that leads to lives being destroyed, if not cancelled entirely:
    In my case, when the programmers punted to the KYC department and legal, a bunch of transactions were cancelled.  In this case, the police will raid your house and arrest you for "child porn.”

    The image they will raid you for wouldn’t even necessarily have to be an adult one.  Computers are strange.  They are very literal beings.  They do exactly what they are told, which is both their greatest asset and weakness.  For example, this neural network thinks that this cat is guacamole.
    A recent test showed that putting a label that said "iPod" on an apple fooled an image recognition AI into believing that it was an iPod.

    And that's what Apple is foisting upon you.


  • Oh, and the US government plans to track you everywhere you go.  (The Intercept)

    If you're going to tax cars by the mile you have to know how many miles they travel, and they are planning to do this in the most invasive way possible.

    The data - if this goes through - will of course also leak.  All of it.


  • Google's new Nest cameras work even without a subscription fee.  (Ars Technica)

    Well, that's novel.  Almost as if you own what you bought.


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