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Monday, June 06
Oops.
I didn't forget to post, I just went out to get dinner (back in Old House this week but already moved the fridge) and the place I was going to was closed and...
* Apple's WWDC starts tomorrow. M2 MacBook Air and Mac Mini expected. And an alleged Mac Mini Tower.
* A photographer is following the Willie Sutton rule and suing hosting provider Leaseweb for selling a server that was used to host infringing images. If that succeeds, we're all doomed.
* The Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 is a pretty solid lightweight business gaming laptop, which is a double oxymoron, but it makes it work. Missing the Four Essential Keys though.
* Screen on my travel laptop is all crapped up after the flight yesterday. Not sure what happened, but it's very annoying because I have four monitors and four other laptops at New House but that's a bit of a walk.
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Sunday, June 05
They're heeeere!
- Security bugs in Confluence are under attack.
- DDR5 RAM prices down 20% in May.
- The SK hynix P41 is a pretty good SSD.
- 32 ugly monkey JPEGs were stolen after a Discord server hack, with a total value of zero plus or minus $2 million.
- Apple has space ambitions but everything the tech pundits are saying is bullshit.
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Saturday, June 04
Actually made it to New House today. Turned out the real estate agent isn't open on Saturdays, but the agents are out doing open homes and my agent came back and gave me the keys and a little box of goodies that I can't eat.
New House is as expected. Took me a long time to find the heating controls - the panel is in the back hallway - so it was a pretty chill place for the first few hours.
Everything I tried seemed to work. I didn't have an Ethernet cable with me (those will arrive tomorrow) so I couldn't try out the fiber internet, but I did discover that there are four rooms wired with Ethernet, and a patch panel in the study where the fiber connection comes in. Unless they've used truly garbage cables I should be able to get at least 2.5Gb between those rooms.
Shower works. Built-in Pepsi fridge has a capacity of 24 1.25L bottles - or presumably 30 wine bottles. Boiling and chilled water on tap work. Garbage disposal - I didn't know there was one - seems to work.
I also opened the Never Open This Door door. Behind it are a lot of tins of paint, spare tiles, that kind of thing, a 3000 litre rainwater tank and pump, and a lot of dirt. No Eldritch Horrors so far.
Normal tech news to resume shortly.
Oh, and I found donuts. Gluten-free donuts. Bought half a dozen. They're going to be dinner tonight.
The one thing I really miss after a decade and change with Celiac Disease is donuts. If these are even half decent I'm going to buy a lot of them.
Donut Update: They are good. Katz's, an American brand. Made in New York, imported by a company in Virginia, Queensland.
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Friday, June 03
I'm not in New House yet, but I'm in a motel in New House City. Picking up the keys in the morning.
Will take a quick look for tech topics while I eat a thing.
* The Radeon 6700 fits precisely in between the 6650 XT and the 6700 XT. 10GB RAM, 36 GPU cores.
* Why don't we know much about Nvidia's upcoming 40 series? Because it's upcoming.
* By now pay later with a high tech shine and a hugely overvalued share price is no better than the usual kind.
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Thursday, June 02
Panic Stations Edition
Top Story
- Researchers have created logic gates with a switching rate measured in petahertz. (New Atlas)
That's a million gigahertz. Or a billion megahertz. Whichever.
The gates are currently completely impractical, but extremely fast.
- Taiwan has restricted CPUs shipped to Russia and Belarus to speeds of 25MHz. (Tom's Hardware)
Or 5 GFLOPs, whichever comes first. I don't think there are any chips running at 25MHz that exceed 5 GFLOPs, but I could be wrong.
25MHz, by the way, is 0.000000025 petahertz.
- Intel is looking to grow RISC-V to Zettascale. (Tom's Hardware)
1 zettaFLOPs is 1,000,000,000,000 gigaFLOPs.
Tech News
- A former product manager at OpenSea has been charged with insider trading. (Bleeping Computer)
Of ugly monkey JPEGs, which are a scam in the first place.
- Connecticut is hiring a meme analysts for $150k per year. (Popular Science)
Wonder if the artist formerly known as Kiryu Coco can fit this into her busy schedule.
- Qualcomm wants to buy a stake in Arm. (Ars Technica)
The purchase by Nvidia foundered on regulatory issues, but they could reappear as part of a consortium with other major Arm customers.
- Changes to IPv4 private address ranges could free up 400 million IP addresses and also break a whole lot of stuff. (The Regoster_
If you're using the 240/4 range as private addresses, you could be in for a bad time.
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Wednesday, June 01
Could Have Skipped That Part Edition
Top Story
- I got hacked and Facebook banned me. (Emily Cordes)
Well, lah-di-dah. I fell down the stairs and landed hard enough that I was peeing blood for a while.
Anyway, either delete your Facebook account or set up two-factor authentication, or bo... No, not both, that doesn't make sense.
Tech News
- Intel showed off its new Sapphire Rapids Plus HBM chips, which are basically Sapphire Rapids plus HBM. (AnandTech)
The CPU includes up to 64GB of RAM wired directly to the cores. With lots and lots of wires - 4096, I think.
- Over 3.6 million MySQL servers were found exposed on the internet. (Bleeping Computer)
Shame!
No, actually, unlike Redis or MongoDB or Elasticsearch, all of which come without any password authentication set by default, MySQL makes you jump through flaming hoops to disable it. Possibly a widely-used but rather stupid installer.
- SpaceX has shown off the next generation of Starlink satellites. (Gizmodo)
Starlink 2.0 satellites are five times faster and have 10 times the network capacity of the current model.
Since the satellites are bigger, they need a bigger launch vehicle, which just coincidentally SpaceX also has.
- If you want an Apple-1, you have a chance. (9to5Mac)
If you also have half a million bucks you can set on fire.
The Apple-1 is the hand-made predecessor of the massively successful Apple II, and it, well, it works, I guess.
Auction runs from June 2 to June 12.
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Tuesday, May 31
All The China In Thailand Edition
Tech News
- Quick one because of a double helping of reasons today.
- Vodafone is planning to add carrier-level tracking to bust ad blockers. (Bleeping Computer)
This is designed to work around such problematic features as privacy controls and end-to-end encryption and hand power back to the advertisers, because fuck you that's why.
Let's hope they get sued.
- Ryzen 7000 may clock as high as 5.85GHz. (WCCFTech)
Or it may not, but we have seen a live demo at 5.5GHz multi-core, so 5.85GHz single core is not out of the question. But is fast.
- Thou shalt not speak English. (The Guardian)
The French are back at their favourite pastime, taking simple and widely-used English-language terms - "stream" - and replacing them with drivel - "joueur-animateur en direct".
- Blockchain: The amazing solution for almost nothing. (The Correspondent)
For the work I do, I need a cryptographically verifiable public ledger - and that's what the blockchain is. I'm taking things that would usually just be a record in a corporate database and handing them over into the control of the customer.
It might not be much, but it's yours. If the company cancels your account, it's still yours. If the company goes out of business entirely, it's still yours. So long as the blockchain itself stays up somewhere.
But it would be much easier, much cheaper, much faster, much more reliable to just use a database. Blockchains are like databases except they have a thousand-dollar-a-day cocaine habit and sometimes just don't show up on Monday morning.
If your work doesn't actually need to be publicly verifiable and provably outside your control, don't use a blockchain. Use a database. Or clay tablets.
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Monday, May 30
It's Not Junk, Its... Okay, Yeah, It's Junk Edition
Top Story
- The Ryzen 5800X3D is the fastest gaming CPU you can buy today. (Tom's hardware)
About 10% faster than Intel's 12900K, or 8% faster than the 12900KS with power unlocked, and about 15% faster than AMD's previous fastest gaming CPU, the 5900X.
For productivity it's a different story - the 5900X has 12 cores rather than 8, and runs at a higher clock speed. But effective zero games use more than 8 cores because that's what the latest consoles have.
- AMD's Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge is the fastest computer in the world. (Tom's Hardware)
Clocking in at 1.1 ExaFlops, it's almost enough to handle Microsoft Flight Simulator at 4K.
Tech News
- More headlines from he 21st century: Robot orders increased 40% in the first quarter. (Business Insider / MSN)
Many entry level jobs are going to go extinct, which while inevitable, is not necessarily a trend we want to accelerate. Change is a fine thing as long as it's not deliberately pushed faster than people can adapt.
- 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
4. A robot may not be repaired by anyone other than the original manufacturer.
Separate right-to-repair bills failed in North Carolina and California.
You'll own nothing, and you'll repair nothing. And you'll eat journalists, because bugs are too valuable.
- This year's iPhone will stick to TSMC's 5nm, and not jump to 4nm or 3nm. (9to5Mac)
4nm chips are in early production now, but apparently not in the volumes Apple requires. 3nm won't ship until late next year. And 5nm is pretty damn good already.
But this means the iPhone... The 2022 iPhone probably won't be a significant advance over the 2021 model.
- Stuck some of my 8TB SMR drives in the Synology NASes so they're at least full of working drives. Two mirrored in one unit, and one as a separate backup disk in another.
So far they haven't done anything awful; as far as I know the serious problems only arise when rebuilding a RAID-5 or RAID-6 array, where they blow the time out from days to weeks.
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Sunday, May 29
Peak Bullshit Edition
Top Story
- If you thought NFTs were bad: This $70 water bottle has LED indicators, Bluetooth pairing, and an iOS app with microtransactions. (9to5Mac)
And it can't be used with hot liquids or submerged in water for washing.
On the plus side, it doesn't need to be recharged all that often.
Tech News
- Have you tried turning your crabs off and on again? (Northwestern Now)
Speaking of headlines from the 21st century.
- 90% of remote learning apps used during school lockdowns - in the US and elsewhere - collected data on children and transferred it to ad companies. (Washington Post / MSN)
Almost 200 ad companies.
- Diesel prices are up sharply. The way to solve the inflationary effects of this is clearly to spend untold trillions over an unknown period replacing all diesel fuel use with electricity. (Tech Crunch)
Not just any electricity, but electricity from renewable sources.
And presumably not nuclear either, but I can't confirm that because the rest of the article is behind a paywall and no way in hell am I contributing to the maintenance of their insanity.
- If your entire class is cheating on the exam don't use a public forum that the lecturer knows about. (CrumpLab)
I didn’t tell them I was in the chat. If you are a student reading this who happened to be on that chat, I was the account with the cactus emoji, named after our cat Detective Inspector Mr. Ernie Cactus Pants.
And try to be a little bit subtle about it. These college students cheat like third-graders.What did the student have to say? There were many full sentences and as I read them I got that feeling again. So, I copied and pasted some sentences into Google, and yup, the student was plagiarizing the academic integrity assignment. Whole swaths of text verbatim copied.
The story does, eventually, have a happy ending.
- More notes about AMD's new Ryzen 7000 / Socket AM5 platform. (Tech Powerup)
Main point is that Ryzen 7000 has 28 PCIe 5 lanes from the CPU, compared to 24 PCIe 4 lanes on Ryzen 5000 - more than double the bandwidth. That's nearly as much bandwidth as the early Epyc server CPUs, with their 128 lanes of PCIe 3. These will make good desktop chips, but they'll also be great small server CPUs.
And not that small either - the current Ryzen 5950X is already faster than any first-generation Epyc server CPU.
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Of course Pikamee is still Pikamee, beloved bilingual kettle dolphin.
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