• Cloudflare has become a domain registrar, selling domain names at cost.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  One the one hand, this ties your domain, DNS, SSL, and CDN into one epoxy-sealed Gordian knot.  On the other hand, Cloudflare so far are one of the least worst tech companies when it comes to freedom of speech.
  
  
• Skip is a new language from Facebook that sucks.
  
  If the front page of a programming language website doesn't contain a code example, you might as well give up right away.
  
  
• The SEC is suing Elon Must and Tesla over the 420 tweet.  (TechCrunch)
  
  Not surprising, really.
  
  
• Intel's CPU shortage expected to extend until the middle of next year.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  AMD just ordered an entire tanker truck of champagne.
  
  
• Amazon now offers virtual servers with 12TB of RAM.
  
  And 448 CPU cores.  Well, threads, actually; these are running on 8-socket 28-core Intel servers, the largest standard x86 systems currently available.
  
  They cost about as much as a nice house in San Francisco.  Per year.
  
  Our new server does doesn't quite have 12TB of RAM, but it has 12TB of SSD, which is pretty nice.
  
  

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1 Regarding Skip: can we stop making up new language that marks functions with the keyword "fun"?  Please?  Yes, that applies to Kotlin, too.