Monday, December 03
Daily News Stuff 3 December 2018
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll get an otter." Now they have two problems.
Tech News
- Want to do something ridiculous with a MicroATX motherboard but POWER9 just ain't your style? ASRock have just the thing with their X399M Threadripper motherboard. (Tom's Hardware)
Downside: The VRM's don't offer a lot of overclocking potential if you're planning on running one of the 32 core parts. Only four memory slots so you're limited to 64GB right now, 128GB shortly.
Upside: Three full x16 PCIe slots and three full x4 M.2 slots. No conflicts, no waiting. 8 SATA ports, 8 USB 3.0 ports, two USB 3.1, WiFi, the usual audio, and dual gigabit Ethernet.
- iTunes downloads aren't HTTPS. (Wired)
To allow caching, Apple says. Surprises me all the same.
- A portmanteau of every word in a given language is called a portmantout.
- Australia's NBN is running trial deployments of gigabit-class G.fast equipment. (Computerworld)
This will be great if I ever actually get connected. G.fast can achieve 600Mbps at 200m and 900Mbps at 100m. The nearest NBN FTTC point is currently about 100m from my house, and they'll likely install a closer one when they finally wake up from their nap and complete the promised rollout. Reportedly the average distance for FTTC deployments is 40m.
NBNCo wrote about this last year but they are so slow moving and have such a history of missing their targets that I'd either forgotten or ignored it, or both.
Social Media News
- A couple of the reasons why Twitter in particular is so terrible. (USA Today)
Twitter and Facebook seem very badly designed until you realise that the point was never to allow people to have meaningful conversations.
Video of the Day
Why do cats meow? Because if they let on they could talk we'd make them buy their own tuna.
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I saw a rumor last night that MS is finally throwing in the towel in the browser wars and writing a new browser using Chromium's engine.
Edge really needed work on speeding up the JS engine but I'll be sad to see it go because, while I admit Chrome works better, I have always preferred Edge's rendering.
Edge really needed work on speeding up the JS engine but I'll be sad to see it go because, while I admit Chrome works better, I have always preferred Edge's rendering.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, December 05 2018 12:00 AM (Q/JG2)
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Yeah, that rumour is getting broader circulation now. Basically just leaves Gecko (Firefox) and Blink/Webkit/KHTML, which are all forks of each other (Chrome/Safari/Opera).
Still plenty of browsers, just not many rendering engines. Not sure that's entirely bad.
Still plenty of browsers, just not many rendering engines. Not sure that's entirely bad.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, December 05 2018 11:17 AM (PiXy!)
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Edge's rendering engine was my favorite by a wide margin. It's a lot of little stuff, like: find a page that's got lots of nested paragraphs (e.g., blockquotes within blockquotes). Microsoft products (not just Edge, IIRC, but Word and stuff too), if you drag-select a whole lot of text, will highlight just the text, meaning you get sort of a ziggurat effect. Chrome just creates one large highlight blob consisting of the largest bounding rectangle, so the highlight encompasses a lot of whitespace. I know it's a small thing but it looks lazy to me. Also, there's Chrome's insistence of including half a dozen scheduled tasks for updates and telemetry. And the way it does per-user installations to avoid proper filesystem security is just lazy too.
Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, December 06 2018 01:23 AM (Q/JG2)
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I've seen a lot of speculation on discussion boards about MS throwing in the towel and doing an OS X with Windows: ie dropping the windows kernel and laying a Windows UI and backwards compatibility on top of the Linux kernel. This seems to be mainly based on WSL and the amount of stuff they've been opensourcing lately. It would make some sense from a cost reduction and overall headache reduction point of view as maintaining the Windows kernel isn't where they are making their money these days.
I don't know if it will happen, but imagining Steve Ballmer's reaction if Windows went Linux is certainly amusing
I don't know if it will happen, but imagining Steve Ballmer's reaction if Windows went Linux is certainly amusing
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