Daily Tech News 9 May 2021

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AMD's upcoming Rembrandt APU will feature 8 Zen 3+ cores and 12 RDNA2 GPU cores with support for PCIe 4.0, USB 4, and DDR 5 on TSMC's 6nm process unless it doesn't. (WCCFTech)

The two big changes are the much faster integrated GPU, and the much faster DDR5 memory support to match. One isn't really much good without the other. AMD hasn't released PCIe 4.0 for laptop parts yet because of the increased power consumption, so this will be the first part with that as well.

These are expected to arrive early next year for both laptops and desktops, with the updated Zen 4 desktop CPUs coming later in the year. Both will require new motherboards, because DDR5 memory uses a different socket. (Not unreasonable since it runs twice as fast.)

Straight Zen 3+ CPUs have reportedly been cancelled, but this will combine Zen 3 CPU cores with RDNA 2 graphics for the first time. The new Xbox and PlayStation consoles have RDNA 2 graphics but use the older Zen 2 cores.

Notice me senpai!

Anime is Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, a high-school romantic comedy that has that rarest of all traits - it knows when to end, and does.

Tech News

We've reached peak web, and started going backwards. (Datagubbe)

And the trend is accelerating.
How to do things to stuff. (KalkiCode)

A helpful and pretty comprehensive collection of datastructures and algorithms, with code examples for each one in 10 programming languages plus PHP and JavaScript.
I guess a quad-core Arm computer with 1GB of RAM is enough to reboot another computer. (Serve the Home)

It's a Raspberry Pi turned into a remote KVM adaptor - which is pretty handy if you have non-standard hardware without it built in. We run some Threadripper nodes remotely that don't have motherboard KVM and it's kind of annoying if we have to open a support ticket just for a reboot.

We'll be replacing those this year with Epyc servers, once they finish rebuilding the datacenter. Because, yes, they're there in Utah.
And a pound of sugar, and a spoon.

you’d be surprised . a lady ordered this in person with a completely straight face 😐 pic.twitter.com/2OuTuN3Hti
— baby velociraptor (@tunafishpro) May 3, 2021
Colonial Pipeline, which apparently distributes 45% of the fuel for the US east coast, is offline following a cyberattack. (ZDNet)

That's gonna suck.

High School Romantic Comedy Video of the Derp

(This is showing with a broken thumbnail for me here, but it plays just fine.)

I like this series because the characters aren't idiots, they just keep falling into the gap between knowing what to do and actually doing it.

Disclaimer: Which is the most many of us ever achieve in life.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:40 AM

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1 Watching the Dirty Pair video from yesterday I noted how clean the video was, and wondered if there had been a Blu-Ray release of the series, and indeed there has been. TV, OVA, movies, and Dirty Pair Flash as well. Japan only, I believe.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 09, 2021 03:45 AM (MqQvv)

2 How are things down under?

Posted by: Skip at May 09, 2021 03:58 AM (Cxk7w)

3 Watching Girls Und panzer on Crunchyroll a choice was Upotte,kind of a rip off in school girls use real firearms ( and get named by them kind of)Toronto each other figuratively.
Lots of real information on the Rifles like ranges, ballistics.
But it's bizarre to watch.

Posted by: Skip at May 09, 2021 04:03 AM (Cxk7w)

4 Upotte is the one where the girls literally are guns, right?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 09, 2021 04:09 AM (MqQvv)

5 Colonial Pipeline is calling in the FBI.

The FBI is now looking for people wearing MAGA hats

Posted by: Bruce at May 09, 2021 04:14 AM (vd8XM)

6 Yes, going to stay with Dirty Pair

Posted by: Skip at May 09, 2021 04:19 AM (Cxk7w)

7 Peak web?
I find there's a lot more stuff to look at online. But about the only thing better then when I first went online in 2004 is I no longer have to do a dial up modem to get online.

Posted by: Bruce at May 09, 2021 04:20 AM (vd8XM)

8 Crunchyroll is a pain in lots of same commercials in them and touching screen seems to send you back into them they have to play out before getting to the show.

Posted by: Skip at May 09, 2021 04:22 AM (Cxk7w)

9 Been watching lots of movies on line , mostly YouTube but sometimes on other channels.
Watched Land of Mine, a WWII era film and it was good

Posted by: Skip at May 09, 2021 04:25 AM (Cxk7w)

10
If I understand it, that Chicom rocket has reentered and crashed in somewhere north of the Maldives in the Indian ocean.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 09, 2021 04:28 AM (Mzdiz)

11 If I understand it, that Chicom rocket has reentered and crashed in somewhere north of the Maldives in the Indian ocean.
Posted by: publius

Not a problem. The Maldives have been underwater for the past 5 years due to Globull Warming....um...Climate Change, so no humans were in the area

Posted by: Bruce at May 09, 2021 04:33 AM (vd8XM)

12 Chances always were it would land in ocean

Posted by: Skip at May 09, 2021 04:33 AM (Cxk7w)

13
71% of the Earth's surface is covered with water, so any random hit is most likely going to be in the water.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 09, 2021 04:37 AM (Mzdiz)

14 'morning.

Thanks for the KalkiCode link. Very cool.
Always wanted to do that. One less thing to do after I retire, I guess...

Happy Victory Day!

Posted by: Oldowan at May 09, 2021 04:38 AM (F3zQg)

15 So far only a Japan only Blu-Ray, nothing in the US yet for the Lovely Angels.

Yes Upotte! is well weird.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 09, 2021 04:40 AM (Gerdm)

16
And only 3% of the Earth's land area is densely populated. The definition of that is somewhat fuzzy, but in this case, the odds of some random space junk hitting some heavily populated area is pretty small.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 09, 2021 04:42 AM (Mzdiz)

17 Hot Coffee...Gunslinger Girl!!!

Posted by: qmark at May 09, 2021 04:42 AM (emnp2)

18 The Kickstarter for MADOX-01 has now reached $141,968. 21 days to go.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 09, 2021 04:44 AM (Gerdm)

19 Ack. Got sucked into that tea thread...

Posted by: Oldowan at May 09, 2021 04:52 AM (F3zQg)

20 KRAK IS UP

Posted by: Skip guy who says NOOD at May 09, 2021 05:01 AM (Cxk7w)

21 That "Peak Web" article was interesting. Seems a lifetime ago when I got my first apple laptop in college - the first full color 180c that was like 7 inches narrow, not even a full sheet of paper. And then email was AOL. I still have my first hotmail account from 1997, dont use but its still there. All those CDs we'd get in the mail with the newest online gig (Netscape, compuserve, etc). I agree entirely - our (definitely my) web enjoyments are a fraction of what they once were. So much for progress.

Posted by: Cringe Biscuit at May 09, 2021 05:08 AM (k+13S)

22 Did any of you ever use that now defunct movie share site Stagevu.com? That thing was a gold mine. Took a while for the copyright cops to turn their focus away from music sharing over to film.

Posted by: Cringe Biscuit at May 09, 2021 05:14 AM (k+13S)

23 Even on YouTube it sometimes takes a little time from someone posting a movie until its removed.

Posted by: Skip at May 09, 2021 05:24 AM (Cxk7w)

24 Hurawatch...

Posted by: qmark at May 09, 2021 05:27 AM (emnp2)

25 Hmm, try the original Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (Battle of the Planets in the 70's in the US). The sequels got less good as they went along, ditto the OAV series from either the 90's or 2000's

That took me back

Posted by: acethepug at May 09, 2021 05:52 AM (qPKAe)

26 Colonial Pipeline, which apparently distributes 45% of the fuel for the US east coast, is offline following a cyberattack.

Someday it'll be illegal to run critical infrastructure on internet-connected Windows (hello, Dominion!). This is clearly not that day.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 09, 2021 07:01 AM (6XLoz)

27 Boy, no kidding about Peak Web. Everywhere you look these days, sites are awash in distracting videos and other crap.

Adblockers have become absolute necessities these days...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 09, 2021 07:59 AM (ZSK0i)

28 27 Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 09, 2021 07:59 AM (ZSK0i)

The internet has been debauched from its original goals, we pay to get access to sh*t we actively do not want that impeded our ability to get to what we need.

The equivalent would have been a telephone that randomly called people near what you wanted and relied on you navigating through 5 callers to get to the target of your call.

Posted by: sven at May 09, 2021 08:07 AM (Lzpvj)

29 26 Posted by: Ian S. at May 09, 2021 07:01 AM (6XLoz)

A pipeline by definition should be the easiest thing in the world to set up a secure network on.

Spoiler run the wire along the pipeline.

Posted by: sven at May 09, 2021 08:08 AM (Lzpvj)

30 5 Posted by: Bruce at May 09, 2021 04:14 AM (vd8XM)

"Obviously the oil and natural gas businesses big haters are all right wing nutjobs."

//SA Jack Arse Head Chief Agent in Charge of Domestic Surveillance

Posted by: sven at May 09, 2021 08:10 AM (Lzpvj)

31 Missed me, eh? Few comments.

Posted by: HouseTroll at May 09, 2021 08:57 AM (6dm4A)

32 One thing our Intel Community does right is keeping internal networks unconnected to the Internet

Posted by: JM in Florida at May 09, 2021 09:15 AM (HCeRP)

33 Thanks for the tech stuff, Pixy.

Yeah, that pipeline thing: I'm quite sure their internal IT people didn't want it connected to the internet, but, the IT contractors hired said they could secure it and the bosses said, "Make it so."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 09, 2021 09:25 AM (2SdPm)

34 A pipeline by definition should be the easiest thing in the world to set up a secure network on.

Spoiler run the wire along the pipeline.
Posted by: sven at May 09, 2021 08:08 AM (Lzpvj)
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Years, maybe decades ago, William Pipeline Company had capacity they were not using, so, they had the bright idea of using their pipelines for fiber and invented a machine for pulling the cable. They turned into a major player for the fiber network.

No idea Williams Pipeline is still a major player, but, I thought it was a brilliant use of existing infrastructure.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 09, 2021 09:30 AM (2SdPm)

35 Well, on my daily visit to Hacker News and Maoist Recruiting Inc. web site, there were all the sanctimonious posts about security from all the people there who want to drive the oilfield out of business to begin with...

Well, guess what... if you spend two decades trying to drive an industry out of business you wind up with an entire industry full of people who cut corners on maintenance. Physician, look in the mirror.

(Further comment about Maoist recruiting service typed and deleted).

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at May 09, 2021 09:38 AM (Clxcy)

36 One thing our Intel Community does right is keeping internal networks unconnected to the Internet

You're obviously ignorant of the whole OPM Database Breach back in the second Obama administration.

I think it was one of the major enabling actions to the whole epidemic we've been suffering.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at May 09, 2021 09:47 AM (Clxcy)

37 WIFI scares me on my home network. I don't use it on sensitive computers, and use just CAT 6 cable.

Posted by: Exactly at May 09, 2021 10:04 AM (6VLuo)

38 Pixy,

I'm never up at the time you post these, and I'm not the most tech savvy guy around, but I wanted to say thanks for these posts.

There's news you can use in every one of them.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at May 09, 2021 10:25 AM (BgMrQ)

39 And while the FBI is looking for people in MAGA pants, the eco-loon they hired as head of their IT department because "woke" is laughing at them.

Posted by: SDN at May 09, 2021 10:55 AM (K9d/B)

40 "36 One thing our Intel Community does right is keeping internal networks unconnected to the Internet

You're obviously ignorant of the whole OPM Database Breach back in the second Obama administration.

I think it was one of the major enabling actions to the whole epidemic we've been suffering.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at May 09, 2021 09:47 AM (Clxcy)"

Uhh... yeah... And lets not forget the IC's near-total failure to prevent lapses and abuses at the top levels, as well.

Re: peak web, we've peaked in a lot of other things as well, owing to wokeness, batshit moonbats, and pervasive third world H1B labor.

Posted by: somedood at May 09, 2021 10:55 AM (BRmwW)

41 'You're obviously ignorant of the whole OPM Database Breach back in the second Obama administration.

I think it was one of the major enabling actions to the whole epidemic we've been suffering."

Yeah, showing that when you hire a couple of Chinese non-citizens and make them admins of your database being disconnected from the net isn't much of a defense.

Posted by: SDN at May 09, 2021 10:57 AM (K9d/B)

42 I got my Lenovo M10 yesterday. I we t through all the setup crap, turning off all the reports to the mothership, and gotbthe wifi connected. The thing downloaded a system update, and askefbif i wanted to apply it. Seemed like the thing to do, so I said yes.

After a couple of reboots the damn thing bricked itself, couldn't even get to the recovery console. Eventually I was able to get their PC app up and did a full reflash with the latest code and it recovered. Then I had to go through the setup again...

I'm glad it was recoverable, 'cause good luck getting tech support, nothing available but forums.

Posted by: West at May 09, 2021 10:58 AM (QY+6a)

43 I hate anime -- those big eyes are creepy. Seems a waste of time and energy when live actors can portray a story quickly and realistically.

I wish that Steven den Beste had given more time to writing about our culture and politics before he died than to spend his talent on anime. His insights were profound and terrifyingly prophetic.

Posted by: Margaret at May 09, 2021 11:01 AM (F2qnR)

44 In tech fun news, Stern Pinball teased The MAndalorian last week; They are supposed to unveil it this Tuesday. Rumor has it that Gina Carino won't appear in it anywhere, although I would expect them to have the Cara Dune character, voiced by some SJW.

Posted by: Just Another Gaming Guy at May 09, 2021 01:07 PM (FPuSC)

45 Are skip and pix the same person?

Posted by: Dinkler at May 09, 2021 01:35 PM (6VLuo)

46 42 I got my Lenovo M10 yesterday. I we t through all the setup crap, turning off all the reports to the mothership, and gotbthe wifi connected. The thing downloaded a system update, and askefbif i wanted to apply it. Seemed like the thing to do, so I said yes.

After a couple of reboots the damn thing bricked itself, couldn't even get to the recovery console

Yikes. Mine also wanted to do an update, but it all went smoothly. Glad you were at least able to recover with the app. And it's good that they have that app.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 09, 2021 02:15 PM (MqQvv)

47 Pixy - Yup, good they had the app., 'cause tech support is pretty much nonexistent. And good thing I knew what I was doing.

I recommend the app, simple and worked well. It also offered backup to the PC, which is good as there is no way i would trust "teh cloud" with even storing my favorites list.

No idea why it blew up, there isn't much a user can do to screw up an android tablet with no hardware power switch.

Posted by: West at May 09, 2021 03:24 PM (QY+6a)

48 Good afternoon, want to second OldDog.
It's refreshing to have something interesting and entirely different.

Thanks.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 10, 2021 12:31 AM (uxOXQ)

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