• I've been working crazy hours lately but it's not without its benefits.  I hadn't even gotten through explaining why I was asking for them to buy me two laptops in the space of a month when my boss approved the request, passed it to accounts, looked up the tech specs and asked if I thought he should get one himself to replace his MacBook.
  
  And accounts ordered it an hour later.
  
  It's the Dell Inspiron 16, a pretty solid desktop replacement laptop.  3072x1920 screen - exactly the same as the 16" MacBook Pro, 8-core CPU, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, and an RTX 3060.  It matches or beats my desktop system on everything except screen resolution, but I can just plug it into the desktop monitor to fix that.
  
  I'll probably upgrade it to 64GB of RAM and 2TB of SSD if I'm happy with it, because until I have more free time I don't need a faster CPU or graphics card than that.
  
  
  
• Google is paying Apple $15 billion to remain the default search engine for iOS.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Just build your own universe.
  
  
  

Tech News

• Intel's i9-12900K "destroys" the Ryzen 5950X on both single and multi-threaded benchmark.  (WCCFTech)
  
  I say benchmark because it is just one, and that one is Geekbench.  The problem is that Geekbench already says that the 11900K is faster that the 5950X, and that is laughably untrue.
  
  
  
• CanIUse is a site that tracks which browsers support which features so you don't accidentally build something that works only on Safari.  CanIStillUse tracks features so that you know when something is going to break because Google deleted it in the next Chrome release.  (Jim Nielsen)
  
  Which they do rather a lot.
  
  
  
• OnlyFans has adopted antidisentumblrarianism.  (Variety)
  
  This is where you plan to drop porn from your site to make it more acceptable - like Tumblr - only to realise just in time that porn accounts for 98% of your gross revenue and doing that would lead to disintegration and your ashes being sold off to the guys who run Wordpress.
  
  
  
• There's a major bug in the Go version of Ethereum, which is the one everyone uses.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Unpatched it could lead to the Ethereum blockchain splitting into shards that no longer communicate with each other.
  
  This was discovered before it happened, at least.  An audit of a new blockchain confirmed that it precisely matched the behaviour of Ethereum - as intended - but also revealed that the behaviour of Ethereum was wrong.  (In certain very specific cases.)
  
  
  
• Maths can help you escape a hungry bear.  (Quanta)
  
  Hungry bears being relatively uncommon in the classroom.
  
  

Now i have to watch it.

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Okay, all is forgiven.  First up is Aki Rose, one of my favourites.  They mention her having to take an extended break for health reasons.  What happened is that she was injured in a car accident and took quite some time and physical therapy to fully recover.  But she did.