• I pushed my house move back a week.  Just too many things to get done.  Which meant I needed to order more groceries at the old place - I'd planned to move this week and had already emptied the fridge.
  
  
  
• Florida's law curtailing social media's rampant viewpoint bias has - mostly - been ruled unconstitutional by a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit.  (ABC News)
  
  Everyone expected this; legislation directly preventing corporations from infringing users' broader freedom of speech violates the corporations' specific First Amendment protections.  It's a tricky needle to thread, and I'm not convinced this bill tried very hard.
  
  
  

Tech News

• Coinbase is testing an app for employees to rate each other during meetings.  (The Information)
  
  Are you people stupid?
  
  No, wait, the answer is clearly yes.
  
  The question then is...  No.  I don't care.  Just go away.
  
  
  
• GitLab 15.0 is out.  (GitLab)
  
  GitLab is increasingly a complete collaboration solution for development teams.  We use it at work.  It's great.
  
  It used to run happily in 1GB of RAM; these days I wouldn't try to run it in less than 8GB.  But if you are paying salaries for even a small number of programmers, a server with 8GB of RAM isn't even a blip.
  
  
  
• Why it's hard to sanction ransomware groups.  (Ars Technica)
  
  Because they're criminals.
  
  
  
• PCIe 5 consumer SSDs are expected later this year.  (WCCFTech)
  
  With transfer rates up to 13GB per second.  Which is a lot.

Posted by: normal at Wednesday, May 25 2022 01:15 AM (LADmw)

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