What is that?
It's a duck pond.
Why aren't there any ducks?
I don't know. There's never any ducks.
Then how do you know it's a duck pond?
It's a duck pond.
Why aren't there any ducks?
I don't know. There's never any ducks.
Then how do you know it's a duck pond?
Thursday, September 02
Daily News Stuff 2 September 2021
Farting In Your General Direction Edition
Don't have time for an anime of the day, but this King cover by Gura and Calli from Hololive English is a fun little song. They have very different personalities but they work together really well.
I've been watching some of HoloCouncil the past couple of weeks - haven't been able to keep up because there's now 11 HoloEN members, and 6 Nijisanji EN, and 9 PRISM, and then Cyberlive turns out to actually be good and there's Phase Connect which I've hardly seen at all, and Vyolfers and Mooyu and Nymroot (who I collectively call VMN).
But I did enjoy Sana's Banana Galaxy stream, where she asked the eternal question, What if I collide Spica into Earth at the speed of light?
Also asked - and answered - What if you combined Steve Irwin and Carl Sagan, only you got a dark-skinned busty blonde chick?
Meanwhile Fubuki has flipped out and decided to launch an impromptu HoloJP Gen 6, featuring herself. As the only member of two generations (Gen 1 and Gamers) I guess she's the perfect candidate.
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Disclaimer: Not the bees!
Farting In Your General Direction Edition
Top Story
- Amazon is trying to block Starlink at the FCC because Amazon sucks, says Starlink. (Ars Technica)
While these statements are self-serving on the part of Starlink, they are nonetheless accurate. Starlink is active now with 100,000 Beta customers and 1700 satellites, where Amazon's competing Kuiper service has yet to launch anything whatsoever.
Amazon has not had a single meeting with the FCC this year about issues raised with its own planned service, but has found time to have fifteen meetings to complain about Starlink.
Tech News
- Cloudflare has ditched Intel for AMD. (The Register)
Cloudflare runs a lot of servers - not Facebook or Amazon scale, but they act as a gateway for a scary percentage of the web. They evaluated the latest server chips from Intel and AMD and say that while Intel can now compete in performance, they use much more power to do so - several hundred watts more per server.
When you have to budget power for 200 datacenters, it starts to add up.
- AWS AP-NORTHEAST-1 fell over. (The Register)
That's one of the Amazon datacenters serving minor cities of little global import, like... Tokyo.
I think they need to invest in some Tandem Nonstops.
- Professor Plum in the EVGA factory with the lead-free solder. (Tom's Hardware)
Amazon's game New World was not directly responsible for killing RTX 3090s, though it does push graphics cards pretty hard. It was dodgy solder work on the initial run of cards from the factory, so if you were lucky enough to get one before the price shot up, karma circled back to pay you a visit.
- A California judge has ruled that UC Berkeley must conduct an environmental impact study on its own students. (Slate)
Satire is alive and well but has been taken over by the government.
King Cover of the Day
Don't have time for an anime of the day, but this King cover by Gura and Calli from Hololive English is a fun little song. They have very different personalities but they work together really well.
I've been watching some of HoloCouncil the past couple of weeks - haven't been able to keep up because there's now 11 HoloEN members, and 6 Nijisanji EN, and 9 PRISM, and then Cyberlive turns out to actually be good and there's Phase Connect which I've hardly seen at all, and Vyolfers and Mooyu and Nymroot (who I collectively call VMN).
But I did enjoy Sana's Banana Galaxy stream, where she asked the eternal question, What if I collide Spica into Earth at the speed of light?
Also asked - and answered - What if you combined Steve Irwin and Carl Sagan, only you got a dark-skinned busty blonde chick?
Meanwhile Fubuki has flipped out and decided to launch an impromptu HoloJP Gen 6, featuring herself. As the only member of two generations (Gen 1 and Gamers) I guess she's the perfect candidate.
That's the official Hololive account, so it's all real.
Update: Aaand it's gone. The whole thing, the stream, the official Hololive post, everything. Leaving only an anime trailer behind.
Update: Aaand it's gone. The whole thing, the stream, the official Hololive post, everything. Leaving only an anime trailer behind.
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Wednesday, September 01
Daily News Stuff 1 September 2021
Gnome Ungnomes Edition
Gnome Ungnomes Edition
Top Story
- The Australian Federal Police - our equivalent of the FBI - now have the authority to compel Australian social network providers (of which there are none) to hand over or even alter the details of your accounts. (Tutanota)
Of course this had strong bipartisan support as only the very worst legislation does.
And of course the FBI does this already, even where they're forbidden to do so by law, but it doesn't help anything to grant such broad powers. Basically all networks now need to be designed with the explicit expectation of faithless nodes.
Now, that's not a news site - it's the blog of a company selling encrypted email - but it's an entirely legitimate concern.
Tech News
- A Node.js library that is downloaded 3 million times a week - and is used in Amazon's developer libraries - has a remote execution flaw. (HTTPToolkit)
An attacker that can convince you to read a malicious URL can run whatever code they like on your server.
The problem is it uses the vm module to run untrusted code - when the vm module explicitly says not to use it to run untrusted code.
- If you're stuck at home in Australia waiting for one of (1) the 70% vaccination target to be met and things at least in NSW open up again, (2) the police kick your door down over a Facebook post that they posted for you, or (3) your package arrives in the mail don't bet too much on option 3. (ZDNet)
I understand they have staff out sick, can't easily hire more with this fucking lockdown going on, and are working to shift a much greater than usual volume, but I'm not sure how stopping accepting packages for three days is meant to help.
- Get your own Amiga! (Apollo Core)
In case you're too young to have joined in the fun back in the 80s and 90s, the Vampire V4+ has a Motorola-compatible "68080" chip implemented in an FPGA - not emulated - with 512MB of RAM and a new (but compatible) chipset.
It's around eight times faster than the most powerful stock Amiga ever sold - the A4000 - and uses just 2W of power. It has both Amiga-style mouse and joystick ports and USB, plus the usual things like Ethernet, don't-call-it-HDMI-and-we-don't-need-to-pay-royalties, and an internal CF slot and an external SD card slot for extra storage. (Actually, that should also be a don't-call-it-SD slot.)
About 600 Euros so it's not exactly a bargain unless you compare it with what those systems cost originally in which case it is absolutely dirt cheap.
- On the other end of the scale, if you're looking for an AMD motherboard with Thunderbolt 4 the Asus ProArt B550 Creator is one. (Tom's Hardware)
One of exactly two such, in fact.
It has dual Thunderbolt 4 ports, dual 2.5Gb Ethernet ports, dual M.2 slots, HDMI out, DisplayPort in - it's routed to the Thunderbolt ports - and otherwise the usual bits and pieces. Oh, and a PS/2 combo keyboard and mouse port in case you have a 30 year old keyboard that you just can't bear to part ways with yet.
I wonder how well it works if you just plug two of these together with a Thunderbolt cable.
Disclaimer: Never mind the quality, can you feel the width when I do this?
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