• Did you buy any Discovery Channel content on the PlayStation Network?  Because it turns out you didn't.  (Kotaku)
  
  You just rented it.  At full purchase price.
  
  And now it's gone.
  
  Surprise!
  
  

Tech News

• This is a real photo taken with a real iPhone.  (Apple Insider)
  
  This is an artifact of Apple's computational photography, where the camera takes multiple photos and stitches them together.  Or maybe it's a side-effect of a rolling shutter, something that affects other models of digital camera.  Or maybe it's a fake.
  
  Or maybe mirrors are portals to another dimension.
  
  
  
• Tech startup Prophetic has announced the Halo, a $2000 device that triggers lucid dreams through focused beams of ultrasound.  (Fortune)  (archive site)
  
  The company says that this will allow programmers to write code in their sleep.
  
  Which is the least implausible part of this story, because getting developers to work 24/7 is the dream of the entire tech industry.
  
  Frankly, anyone who buys one of these paperweights deserves to lose their money.
  
  
  
• After a surge in sales when everyone was locked in their homes during the Wuhan Bat Soup Death Plague, followed by a slump when nothing much happened, PC sales are growing again except they're not, this is a forecast, and it's shit.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Canalys says that the two drivers of growth will be AI and Arm, with AI powered PCs making up 19% of the market in 2024, and Arm taking 30% of the market in 2026.
  
  Coughbullshitcough.
  
  
  

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• The web browser that was banned from the Google Play store because it can browse the web is back up.  (Ars Technica)
  
  Google may be both evil and stupid, but apparently they still have limits.

• How come tech founders don't give a crap about sustainability.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Because nobody does.  It's almost entirely a grift.  And if the secondary grift interferes with the primary grift, out it goes.
  
  
  
• The weirdest bug I've seen yet.  (Gusto)
  
  Not me, but the person writing the blog.
  
  Tracking down why the company's internal customer support application would crash Chrome...  Sometimes.
  
  
  
• ASRock has a new mini-ITX Ryzen server motherboard.  (Serve the Home)
  
  With four memory slots, dual 10Gb Ethernet ports, and remote management.
  
  Awesome.  Sounds perfect for my little NAS cases.  How many SATA ports does it have?
  
  Oh.
  
  Zero.
  
  
  
• Yes, Virginia, you can have too many cores.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Ampere's new Arm-based server CPUs have 192 cores.  And you can put two of them on a motherboard.
  
  Only problem is the Linux Arm kernel supports a maximum of 256 cores, so with two of these chips it just won't boot.
  
  In fact, the smallest model of these chips has 136 cores, so any two-socket server will refuse to boot under Linux.

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