• Today has been a shitty day for the world in general.  Also I have to move out of my home for the past decade since I'm renting and the owner is putting it on the market.
  
  Might be looking to buy this time.  Move to a less expensive area with worse transport, as long as it has good internet access.
  
  Didn't think I could necessarily swing the deposit but I had completely forgotten about certain financial reserves that have just been sitting there while I've been working 48 hours a day.  So...  I can swing the deposit on a reasonable place.
  
  (You forgot you had how much money?  Yeah, I've been busy.  Also it's not exactly liquid.)
  
  Update: Or move out of Sydney entirely and save about a million bucks plus interest. That seems... Inviting.
  
  
  
• Russia may attempt using cryptocurrency to evade the worst of the incoming sanctions.  (New York Times)
  
  I can see the headline now: Ruble falls to new low of 40 trillion to the dollar as Russia's crypto reserves drained by bot network Weed_Slut_420.

• Intel is working on a new chip aimed at beating Apple's M1 in all respects.  (9to5Mac)
  
  9to5Mac being Tame Apple Press calls this "too late" but the only way to get an M1 is to buy completely into Apple's ecosystem, and the company, frankly, sucks ass.
  
  The new Arrow Lake mobile chips won't have more CPU cores but will have a much faster integrated GPU.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Still 14 cores on the low-to-midrange laptop parts, but 320 (and possibly 384) graphics cores, up from a current maximum of 96.
  
  It will be built on Intel's 20A process node - a nominal 2nm, but as always that's just marketing.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile Intel has also officially announced their 12 generation mobile parts, due next Month.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Up to 14 CPU cores (6 performance and 8 low-power) and up to 96 graphics cores at a base power of 28W.  That provides a significant upgrade over the 11th generation chips which maxed out at 4 cores in that power range.
  
  Arrow Lake desktop parts meanwhile will have 8 performance cores and as many as 32 low-power cores. Since the low-power cores are about half the speed of the performance ones, that's effectively 24 full cores on a mainstream desktop processor. If the low-power cores also get a design and/or clock upgrade as they surely will, that will be a powerhouse.
  
  
  
• TPG aims for 4G and 5G wireless internet out outgrow wired broadband.  (ZDNet)
  
  Yeah, about that.  I'm with TPG (not willingly, they bought iiNet) and right now my ping times to 8.8.8.8 are on the order of TWO SECONDS.
  
  Around 8 milliseconds on my late lamented fiber link.
  
  
  
• And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
  But we've proved it again and again,
  That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
  You never get rid of the Dane.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  If only someone had warned us.

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• Internet is still out.  Playing telephone tag with the idiots at my ISP - how the hell can you run an internet business when your only support is by phone?
  
  Meanwhile I have a 5G phone, a 5G SIM card, and a 5G plan.  What I do not have is a 5G signal, because that would make life too easy.  If I go upstairs and stand by the window I can just about get a second bar on the 4G signal sometimes.
  
  At least I have a much better mobile plan.  The bandwidth fees I was paying would have quickly added up to the cost of the new phone.
  
  
  
• I was wrong, we need crypto.  (Hey.com)
  
  A heartfelt and un-woke post from the guy behind Ruby on Rails, a long-time crypto-skeptic (justifiably) now shocked into being a true believer:

  This is crazy. Absolutely bonkers. Terrifying.
  
  I still can't believe that this is the protest that would prove every Bitcoin crank a prophet. And for me to have to slice a piece of humble pie, and admit that I was wrong on crypto's fundamental necessity in Western democracies.
  
  And that it was the Canadians who brought this on? You might as well have told me that it was really the Care Bears who ran Abu Ghraib.

  I work mostly with Python, though I do like Ruby.  Might be worth taking a look at Rails even though - yep - it does have a Code of Cancer.
  
  
  
• In a cashless society, freezing someone's bank account is a prison sentence.  (The Hub)

  The fact that weaponizing the financial system against nonviolent protestors and their distant supporters was the government’s tool of first resort should worry anyone who understands the role of civil disobedience in democracy. I would like to think Minister Steven Guilbeault, who was once arrested for scaling the CN Tower to hang a Greenpeace banner, lost a little sleep when he considered that disrupting critical infrastructure is still a common tactic of his environmentalist comrades. But somehow I doubt it. If there is one thing we haven’t seen much of in Ottawa recently, it’s principled consistency.

  Very true.
  
  
  

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• This tweet is by the author of that Hey.com article:
  
  
  Lots of agreement in the quote tweets.  Lots of disagreement from the pronoun-in-bio crowd, who claim to be against government oppression.
  
  That was always a lie.  They just want to be the oppressors.
  
  
  
• Also, fuck you Samsung. (Samsung)

  Adoptable storage is not available on Samsung devices. Using a microSD card for adoptable storage will reduce the overall performance of your phone or tablet, and is meant for devices with very low internal memory sizes. MicroSD cards used for adoptable storage are encrypted and cannot be removed from your device without factory resetting your phone or tablet, and formatting the SD card.

  It's not your phone, assholes. I bought it. It's mine.
  
  
  
• The AeroCool Cipher case has room for eleven 3.5" and four 2.5" drives in a fairly average-size ATX tower.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Specifically targeted at Chia mining. 
  
  Gonna be expensive-
  
  $75.
  
  I'll take two.
  
  Though I already have a 5-bay and an 8-bay external 3.5" drive arrays and two 2-bay 2.5" boxes, so I'm actually ahead of this.  Did cost rather more than $75 though.
  
  
  
• What is this shit?  (Krebs on Security)
  
  IRS delenda est.
  
  
  
• Woolworths online sales increased 48% in the second half of 2021.  (ZDNet)
  
  I don't know how because they routinely lose half my order.
  
  
  
• Peloton sold rusty bikes that don't move to idiots for $2495.  (Ars Technica)
  
  Why are there so many rich idiots in the world?  Though I guess I could afford to buy a $2495 exercise bike myself; I just wouldn't.
  
  
  
• Truth Social is at the top of Apple's App Store charts.  (CNBC)
  
  I can't speak to the quality of the service because right now it's Apple-only and I won't buy Apple products, and US-only and I can't be bothered fussing with my VPN.
  
  
  
• Salesforce employees are up in arms over the company's NFT plans.  (Some weird Reuters site)
  
  Live by the woke idiot, die by the woke idiot.
  
  
  

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• Crypto engineers would welcome a prolonged "crypto winter" says Ethereum cofounder Vitalik Buterin.  (Business Insider)

  "In Russian winter, only strong survive.  Weak are thrown from troika to be devoured by wolves." said Buterin.  "The wolves are the financial regulators in this analogy," he added, "and the troika is Ethereum and the ecosystem of Layer 2 blockchains and DAOs.  The snow-swept tundra is of course conventional financial systems."

  At night the ice weasels come.
  
  
  

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• The Netherlands has fined Apple $5 million again.  (Reuters)
  
  This is over Apple locking developers into their own payment processing system and with its 30% transaction fees.  The Netherlands is fining Apple $5 million per week until it fixes it.
  
  
  
• Atlassian cofounder Mike Cannon-Brookes wants to wreck Australia's electricity supply.  (Wall Street Journal)
  
  He's offered $3.5 billion for energy company AGL, and wants it to shut down its coal-burning power stations.  Australia doesn't have any nuclear power for some weird reason - we have one reactor for research and production of radioisotopes for medicine and industry - so this would mean leave hydroelectric as the only reliable baseload capacity, in a country noted for routinely suffering years-long droughts.
  
  
  
• Full specs on Lenovo's Legion Y700 8" gaming tablet.  (Liliputing)
  
  Interestingly it uses the Core A77-based Snapdragon 870 compared to the 778G in my new Samsung A52s, which has A78 cores.  So if I manage to find this tablet it would still only be my second fastest Android device.
  
  
  
•  Is Firefox okay?  (Ars Technica)
  
  No.  The company is run by communists.
  
  
  
• Intel's 13th generation Raptor Lake chips could be up to 40% faster than Alder Lake on multi-threaded workloads.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Which is not that big of a deal.  They're going from an 8+8 core layout to 8+16, which given the relative performance of the cores should improve performance by 33% with no other changes.
  
  
  

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• Hackers took advantage of the confusion around an update to OpenSea's smart contracts to launch a phishing attack and steal NFTs worth between $0 and $200 million.  (The Verge)
  
  Apparently they managed to make $1.7 million in real crypto before being caught at it and locked out.  The NFTs can easily be rendered untradeable and worthless, but once sold the cryptocurrency is harder to block.
  
  So the ALV (Average Laundering Value) of the NFTs - the imaginary hyper-inflated prices they were listed for - was around $200 million, the thieves actually made off with $1.7 million in ETH, and the remaining stolen NFTs are now worth absolutely nothing.
  
  
  
• Here's how it went down, translated into non-crypto terms:
  
  1. The Open Seas Zoo was planning on transferring $200 million worth of extremely rare monkeys to a new secure location in a U-Haul with security features and GPS tracking.
  2. The thieves stole an identical truck and added removable U-Haul decals to make it look exactly like the real thing.
  3. On the night of the transfer, they parked their U-Haul right behind the Zoo one and overpowered the driver.
  4. They then directed the monkey wranglers to fill their truck with monkeys.
  5. The original U-Haul was ostentatiously driven off, breaking the speed limit and getting caught on camera before being abandoned in an open field where it would be quickly tracked and found.
  6. Meanwhile the decals were stripped off the fake U-Haul and it was driven sedately from the crime scene and parked under a disused railway bridge where it wouldn't be found.
  7. The thieves now laid low for a few weeks while the police traced the real U-Haul but found no sign of the monkeys.
  8. A month later after the fuss had settled down the thieves could return to the stashed truck at their leisure.
  9. This is all your fault, Brian.
  10. You can have your monkeys back, guys.
  
  
  
• These crypto enthusiasts are idiots.  (CNBC)

• I have two lights now on my fiber internet box.  Yesterday it had one; it's supposed to have three.  Progress, I guess.
  
  
  
• I also have the new phone, a new SIM card on a 120GB plan instead of a 2GB plan, and probably a 400GB microSD card.  I say probably because I accidentally bought it from a third-party vendor when ordering from Amazon, something you should never ever do for SD cards and USB drives.  It's probably real though.  If it's fake, it's a very good fake.  I've bought a dozen or so SanDisk cards and it looks 100% legit.
  
  The Samsung A52s is very close in specs to the Oppo A91 I already have - same 2400x1080 AMOLED screen, just 0.1" bigger, same camera layout, same 128GB storage - but has an A78 core instead of A73.  It's about 140% faster according to benchmarks, and by far the fastest Android device I own.  Will be interesting to play with it.
  
  
  
• San Francisco mayor London Breed also wants to flush workers who have fled their offices back into the city.  (SF Chronicle)
  
  In her case it is rather more literally a shithole.
  
  
  
• AMD's new Radeon 660M RDNA2 integrated graphics outperforms Intel's fastest Iris Xe offering in most benchmarks.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  On the one hand, it's not a lot faster than Intel's best integrated graphics.
  
  On the other hand, this is the cut-down version with 6 graphics cores.  The full version has 12 cores and isn't too far behind dedicated GTX 1060 and 1650 desktop cards.  (WCCFTech)
  
  
  
• Yet another thunderstorm rolling in this evening, but at least this one isn't directly on top of me.
  
  
  
• Was going to share the worst take in the history of takes, but he got ratioed out of existence.
  
  
  
• At least in software I can just sigh and deploy to older, crappier, but still working hardware.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Speaking of older crappier but still working hardware, 2.82TB of backups transferred so far.  I could reduce that way down with some cleanup effort, but never have the time.
  
  Compression and dedup on the new backup server reduce the actual storage used to 1.67TB.
  
  Also, hard drives are really slow when you have 100 million files.

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• I noticed this too.  Apart from the usual propaganda outlets like the CBC and the mainstream Canadian press, there's a huge amount of bot activity supporting police brutality against peaceful protestors.
  
  
  
  
  They're not even very good bots.  This really needs an investigation because if what I'm seeing is real, it's a massive scandal.

• This exchange was real - though the best part is now deleted.
  
  Bots tend not to actively embarrass themselves like that.
  
  
  
• Google is making updates to Android to improve user privacy, sort of.  (Washington Post / MSN)
  
  Similar to steps taken by Apple with iOS in recent years, the changes would prevent third parties from tracking Android user activity across the internet.  While doing absolutely nothing to protect users from Google.
  
  This is not about what's best for the customer.  It's entirely about control.
  
  
  
• Clearview AI aims to have 100 billion facial photos in its database within a year.  (Washington Post / MSN)
  
  Take off and nuke the entire site from orbit.
  
  (And no, they're not talking about porn. Though it might be better if they were.)
  
  
  

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• New phone has arrived and joined the dozens of other boxes waiting to be opened.  Yay.  I'll do that on Monday when the SIM arrives as well.
  
  
  
• New backup server has been deployed and data is trucking over from the old one with the failed drive.  The old server is RAID-Z1 so it can't survive losing another drive; the new one is RAID-Z3 so it takes four drive failures to put it out of action.
  
  Also enabled compression and dedup on the new server, which slows things down a bit but is probably going to be fine.  
  
  
  
• Now that people - both workers and business owners - have discovered they mostly don't need to come in to the office anymore, don't need to fight traffic on the one hand and pay obscene rents on the other hand - cities such as New York are basically fucked.  (New York Post)
  
  New York's new mayor, who, against all probability, seems to be even dumber than the previous one, is telling people that it's time to leave their comfortable, functional home offices and venture once more into his foetid crime-ridden shithole of a city before his budget completely implodes.
  
  If you don't go into the office, your company will reduce or cancel its lease entirely, and the small businesses around it that depend on passing trade will go broke.
  
  Elections have consequences, and elections that put idiots into office doubly so.
  
  
  
• Update: This is the way.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• Thanks GOG Galaxy.  Your unscheduled update just ate my entire mobile data cap.
  
  Fortunately I'll be moving to a much higher data cap on Monday.  I would have just upgraded the existing plan except I can't because my once-competent service provider was acquired by idiots.
  
  
  
• Leaks suggest Motorola (Lenovo these days) is planning to launch a camera this year.  (Liliputing)
  
  The camera will have a 194MP primary sensor, 50MP wide angle, 12MP telephoto, and 60MP selfie.  Oh, and there's a phone attached to that as well.
  
  You might be saying that a small phone camera cannot possibly have a useful 194MP sensor, because the pixels would be smaller than the wavelength of light, and you'd be correct.  Motorola's engineers have worked around this by the clever trick of making the sensor freaking enormous - by phone standards anyway.
  
  You'd probably use it downsampled to 50MP, but that is still super-detailed.  If you want a decent take-anywhere camera this might be one to watch.  It won't rival a proper DSLR because of the limitations of its physical size, but you're not going to have a DSLR in your pocket everywhere you go.
  
  
  
• A detailed look at AMD's new Ryzen 6000 mobile CPU.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  This is not a huge design change; it's based on existing Zen 3 cores and RDNA 2 graphics.  But this is the first time those have been put together on the same chip, and the chip itself is using TSMC's update 6nm node so it runs faster and cooler than the previous generation.
  
  If you want to play games on integrated graphics, it is a huge upgrade though, easily twice as fast as 5000-series chips.  It requires DDR5 (or LPDDR5) RAM because DDR4 doesn't have the bandwidth for that level of graphics performance, so that might push prices up a bit.
  
  It also has built-in support for USB4 at 40Gbps, essentially a store-brand Thunderbolt port.
  
  
  
• Intel is preparing to launch its new line of Alder Lake NUCs, starting at - oh.  Starting at $1500.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Nice try, Intel.
  
  
  
• Google Drive is flagging MacOS .DS_Store metadata files for copyright violation.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Google is the world leader in practical applications of artificial intelligence, so this could not possibly be a mistake, they will patiently explain after they delete all your files and terminate your account.
  
  
  
• Samsung's Galaxy S22 lineup is here.  (ZDNet)
  
  I could get the S22 Ultra for only, let's see, four times the price of my newly acquired Galaxy A52s.  Given the panic that apparently arose after my abrupt disappearance from the Zoom meeting when I got hit by lightning, I could probably tell work I needed it and they'd pay for it - except that it won't be released for two weeks yet.
  
  And also I don't need it.  There's that too.
  
  
  
• (Some) Apple Store workers are planning to unionise.  (9to5Mac)
  
  Good.

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• So as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted...  No, never mind, can't remember.  
  
  I have a sneaking suspicion my wired internet might be down for a few days.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• When I got my current phone - an Oppo A91 - I just went for something inexpensive, with decent specs and a great screen, and critically a headphone jack and microSD slot.  It's not 5G because I don't need 5G; I have high-speed internet and I'm not utterly dependent on my phone to get my job done...
  
  Well, crap.
  
  Ordered a Samsung A52s (5G model) today.  I can probably expense it because my 4G speeds won't even support a Zoom meeting.  Also a new SIM on a 120GB data plan for a surprisingly reasonable price.
  
  Phone arrives tomorrow, SIM card probably Monday.  Don't even have a response about internet repairs much less an ETA.

• Second new backup server is being deployed now.  This will be named after (checks list) Mikan from Gakuen Alice.

• Despite all that I am online and none of my computers or appliances seem to have died.
  
  I was in the middle of a Zoom meeting with a dozen other people - and just about to deploy a critical patch that would allow a project to roll out to customers - when the lightning hit.  I had to SMS instructions for deployment and testing to the team because I couldn't even make a phone call right then.
  
  
  
• How it started:
  
  
  
  
  How it's going:
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Speaking of watching you do not trust otters.  (Politico)
  
  Otter.ai is a service for journalists that assists in transcribing interviews, stealing all your data, and selling it to the highest bidder.
  
  
  
• All of Canada's major banks experienced unspecified technical issues just hours after the Nazi takeover.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Curiouser and curiouser.
  
  
  
• S3 (and compatible services) are a great solution for storage if you don't care about your data and/or want to create a mess so bad that you'll happily spend $100,000 to click a button that makes it all go away.  (Cyclic)
  
  To use S3 effectively you have to maintain your own database of all the objects, and manage keeping the two in sync.  S3 does nothing to help you there.  Less than nothing, in fact, because it will simply lie about your metadata.
  
  
  
• The Asus Zephyrus G14 gets several things right.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It has AMD's brand new Ryzen 6900HS CPU and Radeon 6800S graphics, with 32GB DDR5 RAM and 8GB GDDR6 VRAM, a 2560x1600 14" 120Hz display, 1TB of PCIe 4 SSD, two USB-C ports, two USB-A ports, HDMI, microSD, and a headphone jack.
  
  It has a massive 240W power brick, but on the other hand lasts over 10 hours of constant use on battery power, so you might not need to lug that everywhere (maybe take a smaller USB-C charger to extend battery life).
  
  Unfortunately the Four Essential Keys are a no-show on this one.  Asus is hit-and-miss on the FEK.
  
  
  
• Slow down to speed up: Intel is planning server CPUs with only slow cores.  (AnandTech)
  
  Intel's 12th generation Alder Lake desktop and laptop chips have a mix of fast and slow cores.  The slow ones are about half the speed of the fast cores - but one quarter the size.
  
  Desktop apps can't generally make use of a ton of slow cores (though you're going to get that anyway) but servers can, and if you have four times as many cores at half the speed, that means you double your throughput.
  
  Expected in 2024.
  
  AMD is doing something similar with their Zen 4c Bergamo chips, but that will be out a year before Intel.
  
  
  
• Intel's Sapphire Rapids chips are twice as fast as AMD's Milan-X, says Intel.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Not only is that true only of a very specific subset of benchmarks, you can't and won't be able to buy Sapphire Rapids.  It's for supercomputers, and you don't count.
  
  Also by the time it arrives it will be competing with AMD's next-generation Genoa, which will truly be twice as fast as Milan.
  
  
  

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• Lightning doesn't strike twice because once is plenty.
  
  My internet is fried.
  
  
  
• Audible steals roughly half of the royalties it promises to audiobook producers.  (AudibleGate)
  
  The rates kind of suck to begin with, and then Audible steals half anyway.
  
  

• Apple's solid-state drives are non-standard, encrypted, and soldered in place, but at least they're fast.
  
  They're fast, right?
  
  
  
  
  Not a huge problem for laptop users, and probably not for the average desktop user, but don't run an important database on a Mac.  Just don't.

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