• DRAM prices are down, flash prices steady.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Good news for everyone except DRAM and flash manufacturers.  As long as prices don't fall far and fast enough to harm those manufacturers and cause factory closures, as happened back in 2013.  Memory prices are only now approaching the lows set back then.
  
  
• Google plans to deprecate FTP support in Chrome.  (PixelsTech)
  
  They're planning to remove FTP support because it's insecure.
  
  It's insecure because they don't support FTPS.
  
  They don't support FTPS because fuck you that's why.
  
  
• If it's hot enough to boil water, it's too hot.
  
  
  
  
• Why is the result of ('b'+'a'+ + 'a'+'a').toLowerCase() 'banana'?  (StackOverflow)
  
  See Google's response to FTPS.
  
  (The toLowerCase() call hides the clue that would let most programmers spot the cause, apart from the obvious problem that it's fucking JavaScript and could do anything at any moment.)
  
  
• Ew.  Ugh.  Seriously, Mozilla?  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Coupled with a remote access vulnerability that could have been seriously nasty.
  
  
• Google wants to reduce the maximum lifespan for SSL certificates to one year.  (ZDNet)
  
  Because, basically, fuck you that's why.
  
  Certificate revocation is a major problem that has no good solution, so Google's plan is to make all certificates revoke themselves every year anyway.
  
  
• Notepad is moving to the Microsoft Store.  (Thurrott,com)
  
  Because...  That allows Microsoft to separate minor application updates out from Windows updates, which actually makes a lot of sense.
  
  
• Imgur got banned from running Google AdSense because .  (One Angry Gamer)
  
  

Posted by: Rick C at Sunday, August 18 2019 06:55 AM (GYEIO)

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