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Wednesday, April 05

Daily News Stuff 5 April 2023

Ugh Blerk Edition

The music mafia has won a court order in Germany to take down the website of Youtube-dl. (TorrentFreak)

Which is Pyrrhic at best, because Youtube-dl is open source software and hosted on GitHub, which got so annoyed at the baseless takedown demands that it created a legal defense fund for open source projects.

They've taken down what the developers described as a business card, rather than the business.

We all know about QNAP NASes, but what about their switches? (Serve the Home)

Cheap and good. In fact, cheaper than anything better and better than anything cheaper. Which is a good place to be.
Cyberpunk 2077 has a new graphics mode delivering improved visual effects. (Tom's Hardware)

And a frame rate of 16 fps on a $1600 RTX 4090.
If you've left your secret decoder ring at home, look for the orange sticker. (Tom's Hardware)

Ryzen 7000 laptop chips are a mix of Zen 4, Zen 3, and Zen 2 cores, which is utter dogshit. You can tell by the part number - the third digit is the core generation - but you shouldn't have to.

Thankfully AMD is putting orange stickers on the Zen 4 models to replace to older silver / gray stickers.

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