Thursday, December 05
Daily News Stuff 4 December 2019
Blargh Edition
Blargh Edition
Tech News
- Seagate is bringing back dual actuator technology. (Tom's Hardware)
The question is, why? This was tried and quickly died twenty years ago, and that was at a time when there wasn't a better solution.
- Huawei has introduced a PC motherboard with an 8 core ARM CPU. (Tom's Hardware)
The question is, who would want such a thing? It would be significantly slower than a Ryzen APU, and probably significantly more expensive, and have a small fraction of the software support.
Even if it had far more cores, AMD's 3900X and its larger siblings have effectively shut ARM out of the market.
- Reddit is doing quite well for itself. (Tech Crunch)
It's a useful platform once you unsubscribe from all the default subreddits and find your own comfortable niche. Every so often I hit the site when I'm not logged in and I'm shocked by how much of a dumpster fire it is for new users.
- Google AMP can go to hell. (Polemic Digital)
Google has gone from being an engineering-focused company providing essential services to a plague ship that needs to be towed outside the harbour and burned to the waterline.
- Two spyware modules have been removed from the Python package index. (ZDNet)
These tried to steal SSH and GPG keys and other application data.
- Your iPhone could be reporting your location even when all location tracking is disabled. (Krebs on Security)
Apple's response: "We do not see any actual security implications. Anyway, what are you going to do, switch to Android?"
- Wikipedia has cancer. (Wikipedia)
An honest look at the problems with the organisation running the world's largest trivia site.
Disclaimer: No, seriously.
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Wikipedia spending: Just another reason not to give them any money.
Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, December 05 2019 03:15 AM (Iwkd4)
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I have a reddit account for some reason, but I never log into it; I pretty much just google to find the subreddit for whatever game I've started playing, read the FAQs and top-rated posts, and then never return. Does logging in reduce the number of inline ads?
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Posted by: J Greely at Thursday, December 05 2019 04:41 AM (ZlYZd)
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Logged in and with adblock, the ads are minimal.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, December 05 2019 08:46 AM (PiXy!)
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