• In fairness to the calendar, last October seems like three years ago.
  
  
• Millions of Linux servers are exposed to local and potentially remote exploits due to a bug in the Exim mail server.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  I had three servers with Exim installed.  One had quietly installed a patch already, one wasn't actually receiving email anyway and has now been shut down and its duties redistributed, and one can't be updated right away due to configuration problems and has had Exim completely disabled in the meantime.
  
  
• Need a tablet?  Need it cheap?  Walmart's Onn 8" model is just $64 and basically works.  (9to5Google)
  
  Nothing fancy: 2GB RAM (adequate), 16GB flash (inadequate, but it has a microSD slot), 1280x800 screen (less than I'd like, but acceptable), Android 9.  Unspecified 1.33GHz quad-core processor, probably a MediaTek MT8163 which is adequate and certainly faster than the Snapdragon S4 found in the Nexus 7 (which I still use).
  
  A 10" model with the same general specs is available for $79, or $99 including a detachable keyboard which probably isn't very good but also isn't very expensive.
  
  As long as it supports adoptable storage (and I doubt Walmart would have gone to the trouble of breaking it as Sony and Samsung have) you can add 64GB for about twelve bucks.
  
  
• Google doubles down on bad, Firefox doubles up on good.  (TechDirt)
  
  Google is an ad company, not a technology company.
  
  
• A backdoor in Optergy Proton (who what?) allows hackers to shut down entire office buildings.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  With, basically, a mouse click.
  
  
• Joyent is shutting down its public cloud.
  
  Joyent was an early player in the cloud computing game, basing its infrastructure on Solaris, which had much better containerisation at the time than did Linux.
  
  They are also the criminals responsible for Node.js.
  
  
• Crystal 0.29 is out.
  
  Nothing major, but a number of bug fixes and quality-of-life enhancements.  Crystal is like Ruby, only compiled, and without all the weirdness like packages that globally redefine true to false.
  
  
• Nim 0.20 is out.
  
  This is effectively their 1.0 release candidate, so I will be taking a closer look.  Nim is to Python as Crystal is to Ruby, but it compiles via C++ intermediate code rather than LLVM intermediate code.  How much that matters I'm not sure.
  
  
• Lies, damned lies, and benchmarks: Who to believe in the NAMD benchmark result kerfuffle.  (Serve the Home)
  
  Quick answer: Nobody.
  
  
• Why is the base model Mac Pro so expensive?  (ZDNet)
  
  Because (a) Apple can get away with it and (b) no, that's all.
  
  On the other hand, it is unabashedly a Pro machine, unlike most of Apple's other "Pro" products.  (VodkaPundit)
  
  The problem is it is aimed exclusively at video editing.  Nothing else.  You can see this in not just the price and the co-announced 6K monitor, but in the complete absence of storage options.
  
  If you're a developer / designer / engineer or work in some other role where you need a powerful and flexible computer that isn't outrageously expensive, Apple have nothing for you.  They still have nothing for you.  And they have shown that they won't.
  
  
• Streamlab's YouTube channel was terminated.  (One Angry Gamer)
  
  
• CNet's editor-in-chief is working tirelessly to demonetize small independent YouTube channels.  (One Angry Gamer)
  
  There comes a time where journalists might well be considered the enemy of the people.
  
  
• Xurious' electronic music channel was terminated.  (One Angry Gamer)
  
  Instrumental electronic music.
  
  
  
  
  I found this list on Facebook showing the extent of the mess YouTube has created in a single day.
  
  
  Banned
  
  

  Varg (Thulean Perspective)
  YouKipper
  The Great Order
  Cultured Thug
  Xurious
  Mr Allsop History
  Patrick Slattery
  NBU Media
  FBIV
  Cybεr Nazι
  Nordic Frontier
  Alτ-Rιght Tankιe
  Hora Vero's Archive
  Stay Woke

  
  
  Demonetised
  
  

  Steven Crowder
  Iconoclast
  Revenge Of The Cis
  Martin Sellner
  James Allsup
  Red Ice TV
  SinatraSays
  Jesse Lee Peterson
  Tailed Feature
  Ford Fischer
  Dan Dicks
  Luke Ford
  The Golden One
  RetroRobotRadio
  Dr Shaym
  Mad Black
  E. Michael Jones
  Press For Truth
  The Alternative Hypothesis
  Tailed Feature
  Know More News
  Sandman
  The Red Elephants
  Andy Warski
  Deep Fat Fried Podcast
  Nightwave Radio

  
  
  Videos Deleted
  
  

  Owen Benjamin
  Count Dankula
  Milo
  Gavin McInnes
  Red Ice TV
  Black Pigeon Speaks
  American Krogan
  Angelo John Gage
  Drunken Peasants
  Press For Truth
  J.F Gariepy
  Dire Wolf Media
  E;R
  American Renaissance
  Iconoclast
  Ryan Dawson
  E Michael Jones
  The Higherside Chats
  Bre Faucheux
  Mr Allsop History
  NPI/Radix
  TRS Radio
  Semiogogue
  WhiteRabbitRadioTV
  Ryan Dawson
  Zero Schizo
  No Apologies
  Uncle Chang

  
  Some of these people are likely total jerks, but we're talking about YouTube, the original and still the number one don't read the comments! site on the internet.
  
  Meanwhile Bitchute is opening the champagne.  (Brickmuppet)
  
  
• Return of the Return of the Miniature Giant Space Hamster: Baldur's Gate III is on its way.  (Ars Technica)
  
  

Posted by: Rick C at Saturday, June 08 2019 12:31 AM (Iwkd4)

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