• Type checking 4 million lines of Python.  (Dropbox)
  
  Ick.  I maintain about 250,000 lines of Python at my day job, and that's bad enough.
  
  I'd like to port it all to Crystal but that's not commercially viable at the moment.
  
  
• Excellivization.
  
  
  
  
• Apple is under attack for attacking Google over publicising websites attacking iOS.  (Ars Technica)
  
  One more and we'll square the circle.
  
  
• Western Digital announced 18TB CMR and 20TB SMR 3.5" hard drives - to ship next year, so you'll have to wait a bit.  (Serve the Home)
  
  These are 9 platter helium-filled models again.  Density really isn't going anywhere.
  
  
• Google knows your grandparents' names, addresses, phone numbers, and middle initials.  (Forbes)

  Beyond that, Google knew their exact addresses and their middle initials.  I couldn't even have told you those things about my grandparents...

  Could someone explain the concept of phone books to these idiots?  I have some kids I need to get off my lawn.
  
  
• Two college students thought it was a great idea to use another student's account to try to hack a student financial aid database, get the entry for Tiffany Trump, and then load in her dad's tax returns.  (The Inquirer)  
  
  They couldn't guess her password reset questions even though every detail of her family's life is public, and their attempts set off alarms at the IRS.
  
  Brillant, as the saying goes.  Laurel and Hardy now face two years in prison.
  
  
• Sony announced a new family of Walkmans.  Walkmen?  Walkpeople?  (Forbes)
  
  Each is basically a little Android device - 2" x 4" - with a microSD slot, USB C, an old-school Walkman-styled case, and (checks and double-checks fine print) a headphone jack.
  
  Prices are not particularly cheap, starting at AU$499 (which might mean US$299), but it looks like they've used top-quality DACs and amplifiers so it might be worthwhile.
  
  
• Twitter is fickle.
  
  

Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Monday, September 09 2019 05:54 AM (YUAc9)

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