Friday, November 29
Daily News Stuff 29 November 2024
Tea Bean Edition
Tea Bean Edition
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- The price of tea beans is set to hit record highs after it (checks note) rained in Brazil. (Semafor)
This apparently is an unusual event that nobody was prepared for.
Tech News
- Need a faster network connection on your Thunderbolt / USB4 equipped laptop or mini-PC? The RaidenDigit LightONE might be what you need. (Serve the Home)
It is a general-purpose dock, with four USB-C ports (plus a fifth one purely for power), four USB-A ports, full-size and micro SD card slots, and a DisplayPort port. Where it stands out is that it also offers two 25Gbit Ethernet ports.
Yes, they're SFP, but while 25Gbase-T is a recognised standard using Cat-8 cables, there are approximately zero devices supporting it, so I can't really fault the designers there.
Only problem is that if you don't already have one of these you apparently can't get one. There was a Kickstarter, they delivered, the product worked, and then they disappeared.
- Microsoft is not using your Word and Excel data to train AI. (Bleeping Computer)
Okay.
- Australia has passed a law to ban children from social media. (The Register)
The government was repeatedly asked how this was supposed to work, and it had no idea. The legislation nonetheless passed with bipartisan support, because our nominal opposition party is as useless as our nominal government.
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I just figured out that the commonwealth parliamentary system can have technically clean elections, and still be quite institutionally crooked depending on what the security services are up to, what the academics are teaching the politicians to do, and how much the academics are twits. Apparently I am the slow child in this corner, and must sit in the corner wearing the dunce cap.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Friday, November 29 2024 11:53 PM (rcPLc)
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Are you allowed to use tea beans as a pizza topping?
Posted by: Joe Redfield at Saturday, November 30 2024 04:28 AM (KOtXO)
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PatBuckman - the elections in Australia seem to be clean as far as counting the votes goes (though there has been some pretty blatant bias in enforcing some of the campaign rules). The government still pushes through laws that literally nobody wants.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, November 30 2024 04:49 PM (PiXy!)
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There's a self selection bias, in that a lot of the sorts of people who run might be the sort to either hire staff from universities, or to work with their local party machine. There is also some opportunity for false choice manipulation in who is running, and talking to people before they run. That might be weaker and less proveable than the opportunities that security services have to manipulate any legislature with incumbents by selective destruction. Blatant funding and license for security services is a little unsubtle, but pushing consensus and the same universities that the bureaucrats come from could easily drive them all insane, without being so gauche as to manipulate ballots. In about five years, I think it will be hilarious to follow up with the Euros calling the US unstable now.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Monday, December 02 2024 09:07 AM (rcPLc)
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