Ambient Irony

Thursday, October 10

Daily News Stuff 10 October 2024

The Closes Are Walling In Edition

The Internet Archive has been hacked and credentials for 31 million users stolen. (Bleeping Computer)

The passwords are encrypted with Bcrypt, which is pretty robust, but if you shared a password between the archive and some other site, it's time to change it and also to stop doing that.

Turkey has banned Discord because, well, Turkey. (Reuters)

If you let a turkey into your house, it's going to do turkey things.
80% of developers will need to "upskill" by 2027 to keep pace with the growing demands of goat vomit. (IT Professional)

Wait, my mistake. It says here "generative AI".
The walls are closing in on (throws dart) ELON MUSK. (The Verge)

Sure, he's worth a quarter of a trillion dollars, but we've got him for sure this time.
Why GOV.UK's Exit this Page doesn't use escape. (Beeps)

Sounds like nonsense at first, but it's actually a useful function and the reasoning is sound.
Are Intel's new CPUs just bad for multi-threaded performance? (CPU Benchmark)

The eight core laptop 288V runs like a four year old AMD 5800U - also with eight cores, and the 24 core desktop 285K runs like a two year old 12 core AMD 7900. In both cases the AMD chips use half the power.

The Intel chips have great single-threaded performance but multi-threaded test results so far are meh at best.

Disclaimer: It do be like that sometimes. D-11.

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