• Disinformation is mostly bullshit.  (Harpers)
  
  If you read the article, note that much of it is biting satire.  The point is that most of the claims being made regarding disinformation are themselves disinformation - or more specifically, utterly baseless, pseudoscientific garbage.
  
  
  
• Not that this is going to stop anyone, or even slow them down much.  (ZDNet)
  
  Australia is demanding to know why Google and Facebook aren't censoring "disinformation" faster.
  
  While our government is as shitty as America's in this respect and unconstrained by our constitution, I have no sympathy whatsoever for the Big Tech companies that gleefully dug this hole for themselves.
  
  
  

Tech News

• Polygon implemented EIP-1559.  It did not go smoothly.
  
  
  
• Intel has announced 20 new mobile CPUs.  (AnandTech)
  
  Ranging from 5 to 14 cores (in various combinations of big and small cores) and 9W to 28W.  There's only one 14 core part though, and everything below 28W has only one or two big cores.  AMD meanwhile has eight big cores at 15W.
  
  
  
• AMD's RX 6500XT is an overpriced, underwhelming budget GPU.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  If it sold at MSRP it would be mediocre.  It doesn't.
  
  
  
• iMessage is a failure.  (MacWorld)
  
  If your measure of success is actually being a good app, sure.  If your measure is locking idiots into a walled garden, it's doing that quite well.
  
  
  
• DevToys is a desktop app for developers.  (DevToys)
  
  Not an IDE, but a collection of little utilities for formatting and converting data - that runs locally on your own computer.
  
  What a novel concept.
  
  And it's open source.
  
  
  
• Google is upset about potential legislation that might not permit them to do whatever the hell they want.  (Thurrott.com)
  
  Oh no.
  
  Anyway...
  
  
  
• Intel meanwhile has told the US government never to let a crisis go to waste.  (Bloomberg)
  
  CEO Pat Gelsinger used almost those exact words when asking for a bigger handout in a time when is company is raking in record profits.
  
  
  
• The EU wants to build its own DNS that will block naughty content.  (The Record)
  
  Sure.  You do that.  That will work perfectly.
  
  Morons.
  

Posted by: normal at Thursday, January 20 2022 09:01 PM (obo9H)

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