• Liquid cooling isn't just for overclockers anymore and never was.  (Ars Technica)
  
  It's a weird article, desperately trying to credit a fringe activity among hardware enthusiasts for a technology that existed before any of them were born.
  
  
• How long will a 64-bit PostgreSQL transaction ID last?
  
  292,000 years.  Oops, spoilers.
  
  
• Slack files for IPO, says don't tell anyone.  (Bloomberg)
  
  
• The developers of the Electron app framework are hard at work ensuring that no-one, anywhere, will ever have any free memory ever again.
  
  
• Firefox 66 will block auto-play audio and video.
  
  It will probably get blocked by injunction from a Hawaiian judge though.
  
  They are also working on blocking cryptomining and fingerprinting.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Fingerprinting allows web sites to match your computer across different browsers.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Turns out browsers are, by default, more chatty than they need to be.  They don't leak private information, but they do leak unique information that can be cross-referenced against a sufficiently large dataset - the sort of dataset we would find in the hands of the usual suspects.
  
  
• Do you really miss the Windows 3.0 file manager?  Me neither.  But it's available on GitHub anyway.  (ZDNet)
  
  
• The Australian copyright protection racket (APRA) is now going after sites that allow you to download videos from YouTube.  (ZDNet)
  
  Note: YouTube allows you to download videos from YouTube.
  
  
• Russia has put similar rules into place. How did that work out for them?  (TechDirt)

  In 2017, the number of torrent sites offering content to the Russian market sat at around 1,300. However, last year – in the face of overwhelming blocking measures – that number grew to around 2,000.

  Oh.

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