Saturday, December 22
Tech News
- SEL has shown off 8K OLED displays at 8.3" and 13.3" for tablets and laptops. (AnandTech)
Or tablets and bigger tablets. Or really big phones.
The 13.3" panel even has a 120Hz refresh rate. Good thing it's not an external display, because that would take four DisplayPort cables.
- AMD has announced some CPUs that are basically identical to their existing CPUs (PC Perspective)
The Athlon 220GE and 240GE are respectively 200MHz and 300MHz faster than the 200GE.
- Apple tells its users to get bent. (Ars Technica)
If I spent A$2869 on an iPad Pro and it arrived as crooked as a Chicago politician and Apple told me that's the way the iPad do I might be slightly miffed.
- Discord has raised $150 million in funding. (Tech Crunch)
It has 200 million users, so that doesn't seem unreasonable.
- Intel's E-2186G isn't bad. (Serve the Home)
Its high clock speed lets its six cores compete with AMD's eight core embedded EPYC parts. I don't understand why AMD doesn't have a socket AM4 server platform though.
Social Media News
- The only thing worse than Facebook is the mainstream news media. (TechDirt)
Remember when you're reading a story about how bad Facebook is (very) where you are reading it, and the last hundred stories they got completely wrong.
Case in point, this pile of manure. (Washington Post)
I mean, Facebook does enough stupid shit without having to make it up. (Bleeping Computer)
Disclaimer: I am currently working through a document to get an app re-authorised for the Facebook API. Ugh city.
- Facebook is planning its own cryptocurrency. (Tech Crunch)
Chances of this going hilariously wrong asymptotically approach unity.
- Artstation, the site that hosts Professor Bangzheng Du's educational posters and other fine works, has had its app pulled by the Google Play Store over what those morons on Tumblr would describe as "female presenting nipples". (ArtStation)
Of course, the content is not in the app, the content is browseable via the app, and has Google looked at what's available in Chrome lately?
Censourious Basterds.
Video of the Day
It's not going away, Patreon. This guy is not a political or social commentator, he does workshop videos. And he's pissed. And he has over a million subscribers.
Bonus Patreon is a Complete Shitshow Video of the Day
You'd think with the tens of millions of dollars they have raised, Patreon could afford to hire one rational adult, but apparently there aren't any left who are willing to live in San Francisco. Can't say I blame them.
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Thankfully, the US Constitution bans it (Which did not stop the US Congress from having passed such things before a few years ago.) but if there was ever a chance that a bill of attainder passing into law, the entire executive staff of Google, Facebook, Patreon, PayPal..Actually, the management of most of the tech industry, should be tossed into prison and their collective assets be seized.
It is getting to the point where individual culpability and responsibility in the decision making chain of Facebook et al no long matters - they are all guilty either action or association and they ALL need to be punished and serve as an object example for rest. It is getting increasingly hard to see how punish a few malefactors among the management will get the rest to understand the need for course correction, because the entire structure is rotten and they all need to go.
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