Saturday, January 05
Daily News Stuff 5 January 2019
Tech News
- Nvidia's Jetson AGX has a chewy caramel center. (AnandTech)
I think that's right. It's an embedded controller for cars and other robots, so I'm not sure why they needed to make it edible.
- Samsung's Space Monitor is a regular monitor with a desk mount. (Tech Crunch)
You can do that with any monitor with a standard VESA mount, but whatever.
- How does the Delusional Dirigible compare with the Zoonotic Zoetrope on a Ryzen 1800X? (Phoronix)
(I think whenever I mention Ubuntu in the future I'm just going to make up the code names.)
New kernel, new compiler. A few regressions, possibly because of security patches, but nice performance improvements in some cases. Python is nearly 40% faster on PyBench, and PHP scores 30% better on PHPBench. I should look for a similar article on Intel, and see how much of that is tuning for Ryzen since it launched, and how much is just general compiler improvement.
- You've been in that garage for fifteen years! (Six Colors)
- In the market for an 8TB enterprise TLC SSD? Not sure which brand to buy? Here's a review. (AnandTech)
No prices though, because enterprise.
- The internet of litter boxes: The dumbest gadgets of CES. (Quartz)
One of these is not actually dumb. It's a great idea, though the first versions will be expensive and buggy. Another is a USB coffee blender.
- Apple Death Watch: Pay no attention to the sales figures behind the curtain. (Wired)
Apple is a services company now.
Best evidence yet that Apple is screwed. Their services suck.
Social Media News
- Coinbase banned Gab CEO Andrew Torba's personal account. (Reddit)
Gab's corporate account was banned months ago.
It's almost beginning to look like a trend.
- It's been a quiet few days. None of the social media companies have managed to embarrass themselves in any major new ways, but the year is young.
Now, if I covered the traditional media, things would be different. I'd have hundreds of news items a day.
Which is why I don't, as a rule.
- You can't fight City Hall. Not without a +2 sword and a bunch of healing potions, anyway. (The Keene Sentinel)
Pho Keene Great is a French-Vietnamese eatery that plans to open March 1 at 11 Central Square, according to owner Isabelle Jolie. The space is adjacent to City Hall, in a publicly owned building.
Jolie placed a "coming soon" sign in the window of the Central Square space with the business logo and name on Dec. 21. In a Facebook message, Jolie wrote that City Manager Elizabeth A. Dragon called her Monday morning and asked her to remove the sign, citing a contract violation as well as "a concern about the appropriateness of the 'intended play on words' on a city building."
Pho, a Vietnamese soup, is pronounced fuh.
Video of the Day
Other Linus talks about the payment deplatforming furore and what his company is doing about it. Interesting take because (a) he's a free speech supporter, (b) he runs a company depending on online payments, and (c) he's building his own video/monetisation platform called Floatplane.
Picture of the Day
I don't wear buttons, but I've got a cool hat. Art by Kyu yong Eom.
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