Saturday, January 02

Geek

Daily News Stuff 2 January 2021

Doom Rabbit Edition

Tech News

  • This happened last month but I missed it and so did everyone else: The EU has signed a €145 billion declaration to develop next-gen processors.  (EETimes)

    This is a very EU thing to do.  They will allocate "up to" €145 billion over the next few years.  The real amount might turn out to be 10% of that, and of that, perhaps 10% will be spent on anything worthwhile.


  • Meanwhile, the top seven tech companies gained $3.4 trillion in market cap during 2020.  (CNBC)

    If you keeping pumping money into the economy, you're going to get inflation.  Somewhere.  If it's not grocery prices, it's something else.


  • ECS has a half mini-ITX motherboard.  (Tom's Hardware)

    You might think that mini-ITX is about as small as you can make a full-featured motherboard.  And you'd be right.  This is an Atom-based board for embedded applications.  I'm not sure what the advantage is over the mini-STX form factor, except that it does match up with the standard IO backplate shared by everything from mini-ITX to EATX.


  • PyPy is seeking sponsorship to enable support for MacOS on Arm.  (More PyPy)

    They already support Linux on Arm, so it's not a new compiler, just fixing it to deal with weird stuff Apple has done.


  • There's a backdoor account in Zyxel enterprise firewalls and VPN gateways.  (ZDNet)

    It's been patched on most models, but who keeps up with all the patches on network appliances?


  • After only reading tech stuff and the Hololive subreddit for a couple of weeks, and ignoring the rest of the internet, I visited Twitter again today.

    It is a very strange place.


  • Tohru - my other desktop - just went splut.  Literally since it's plugged into a 400W Logitech speaker system and it makes a pretty loud splut sound when it powers off.  It's working again now.  Not sure why but the CPU temperature seems rather high if it's being reported correctly.  I might need to get a can of compressed air and clean it out while I'm installing the upgrade bits.


  • SSDNodes are upgrading their hardware in Los Angeles, which I noticed when signing up for the two new servers was sold out.  My original server with them is in LA, so it will get migrated to new hardware.

    I mention this because it's currently on a Xeon E5-2690 v3, a 2014 CPU that makes perfect sense for a budget VPS provider.  It was a high-end part then and it still provides decent performance.

    They'll most likely be upgrading to a Xeon Silver 4214 which is what they seem to use now.  That's a 2019 part, but this being Intel is actually slightly slower.  (CPUBenchmark)


  • Then they came for Top Hat Studios...  And got a well-deserved middle finger.

    I was only vaguely aware of this game previously, but now I've bought it.  Well, also there was nothing interesting in the Steam sale.

    Life hack for game publishers: If you tell the Twitter mob to go fuck itself, I will buy your game.  It's really that simple.


  • There was no English-language Hololive Minecraft today. Send help.


Christmas Karaoke Video of the Day



Haachama had a sleepover at the Holohouse, where Coco and Kanata share an apartment, and Suisei shares another with her sister.  Then they had a karaoke party.

Those are mostly livestream only and not archived because of copyright, so this is a bootleg upload.  As you would expect with both Haachama and Coco involved, it's slightly chaotic but a lot of fun.  I caught it live because I have notifications on for both of them, but didn't notice anyone had archived it until the YouTube algorithm did something good for once and popped it into my recommendations.


Disclaimer: Slightly chaotic?

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1 I mean, Siemens did have some experience with processor design in the 1980s.  I'm sure that's enough to surpass Intel, at the very least.  Problem is, TSMC is probably already testing the so-called 2nm node, so they'll only be 10 years behind if they even do anything more than push billions of euros worth of paper around on tables and pop off for some pthc in the darkened offices.

Posted by: normal at Sunday, January 03 2021 06:09 AM (obo9H)

2 I dunno what you meant by pthc but when I tried searching for it on Bing the top thing was a "child abuse material is illegal" with a link to some website.

Posted by: Rick C at Sunday, January 03 2021 08:31 AM (eqaFC)

3 ptch: because most high-level government officials are child rapists, and in europe doubly so (and in countries where it's legal, it's not _most_).  I mean, you really don't know why Roberts suddenly changed his entire judicial philosophy?

Posted by: normal at Sunday, January 03 2021 04:07 PM (obo9H)

4 There could be any number of reasons for Roberts suddenly freeing his inner weasel - first among those being no-one is now in a position to rebuke him.

Let's tone down the speculation; there's enough verifiable and provable corruption to fill an entire server full of blogs.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, January 03 2021 05:35 PM (PiXy!)

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