Friday, July 05
Daily News Stuff 4 July 2019
Eagle Screech Edition
Eagle Screech Edition
Tech News
- Verizon, Cloudflare, Microsoft, Facebook, and Twitter break the internet. (Ars Technica)
Ralph hardest hit.
- Apple has added googly eyes to FaceTime. (Tech Crunch)
AI-driven googly eyes that follow you around the room.
- YouTube sticks to what it knows: Fucking everything up. (Boing Boing)
Now they've banned videos discussing network security, and as usual they are implenting it with all due care and consideration.
There is not one single functioning adult at YouTube.
- One person, beard: Using failure analysis to peek inside Facebook's AI. (The Verge)
This is how we've learned much of what we know about the human mind as well. A complex machine that is working might as well be magic, but a complex machine that is broken is a fount of information.
- Axon (formerly Taser) drops face recognition from its body cams. (TechDirt)
Good call. Accuracy is terrible and you can always apply it to the video after the fact if needed.
- Fix this bug, Firefox!
It's an indirect, but nasty flaw that potentially gives attackers access to everything.
- China says no podcast for you! (ZDNet)
These affected podcast and audio apps have disseminated "historical nihilism" and "obscene and pornographic information" on their platforms, the regulator said in the statement, and has severely damaged the internet ecology and badly impacted on the healthy growth of young people.
The kids have been listening to Chapo Traphouse again.
- Bitcoin uses more energy than Switzerland. (BBC News)
While being completely and utterly useless.
- GitLab is dropping support for MySQL "because it sucks". (GitLab)
True.
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Disclaimer: Happy birthday America!
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Gitlab/MySql: "By providing support for both database backends (PostgreSQL and MySQL) we were unable to truly take advantage of either."
Yeah, that's not uncommon.
Yeah, that's not uncommon.
Posted by: Rick C at Friday, July 05 2019 02:55 AM (Iwkd4)
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Me.nu and Youtube are having a weird interaction for me. Embedded videos won't play audio, unless I reload the page first.
Posted by: Mauser at Friday, July 05 2019 01:41 PM (Ix1l6)
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Which browser? I'll try poking it.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, July 05 2019 05:56 PM (PiXy!)
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