Daily Tech News 12 June 2021

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It's the Queen's Birthday long weekend in certain parts of Oz. The last two long weekends here marked the start and the end of the problems related to the datacenter fire, so I not only didn't get long weekends then, I didn't get weekends at all. This time it looks like I'll at least get the normal two days off.

I need to configure some new servers tomorrow, but they'll make my life a lot easier. And make our newly hired sysadmin's life a lot easier, which will make my life even more easier.
Regular updates for Windows 10 will end in 2025. (Tom's Hardware)

This doesn't mean that support and bugfixes will stop then, but it does indicate that there's an entirely new version of Windows on its way.

We'll see what that brings. As long as they don't drop 32-bit application support like MacOS. I doubt that will happen, because there's still a 32-bit version of Windows and that can still run ancient 16-bit apps.

Anime of the day is Kamichu! from 2005. It's the story of Yurie Hitotsubashi, who wakes up one morning to discover that she's become a god. That is, a kami in the Shinto tradition, a minor supernatural being, not the creator deity.

She doesn't know what she's the god of, though, so she tries some experiments with her friends, and soon finds out.

It's lovingly drawn and animated, almost Ghibliesque in its art style, and the story just follows Yurie's daily life as she navigates her new responsibilities and tries to avoid inadvertent natural disasters.

Interesting too is that the show is set in a very specific time and place, from 1983 to 1984 in the city of Onomichi on Japan's Inland Sea. The background illustrations of the city take great care to capture that particular period.

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Intel's new 11900KB seems to be nearly as fast as the 11900K at half the power consumption. (Tom's Hardware)

That would be great if you could use it in your own desktop builds. But because this is Intel and we can't have nice things, that's not possible. It's a surface-mount BGA package and only useful to OEMs.
HBM3 pushes data clocks to 5.2GT/s. (WCCFTech)

Think of it as 5.2GHz. Technically it's half that because all memory these days is DDR - double data rate, transferring two bits of data per clock - but it doesn't matter unless you're actually designing hardware yourself.

Since the idea behind HBM - high bandwidth memory - is that it would run at relatively low clocks but use very wide buses - 1024 bits for a single chip - pushing the clock up to 5.2GHz makes it very fast indeed.

GDDR6X can currently reach 19GHz, but those chips are only 32 bits wide.
TSMC is looking to add a chip packaging plant to its planned expansions in Arizona. (WCCFTech)

The company has already expanded earlier expansion plans and is looking to build as many as six leading-edge fabs - chip factories - in the US, but those would produce raw silicon dies that would need to be shipped to another factory to be packaged. On this scale adding local packaging facilities makes sense.

Also, the first of the new buildings looks like a WiFi router. I mean, you can see the ventilation slots and the RJ-45 ports and everything.
BuzzFeed has won a Pulitzer Prize. (BuzzFeed)

Before you scoff - I mean, go ahead and scoff anyway, just before that - they won the prize for documenting China's genocide of the Uyghurs. The New York Times won the same prize for covering up the Soviet genocide in Ukraine.

It's progress. It's not much progress, but its something.
Hackers broke into Electronic Arts by social engineering internal tech support via their Slack channel. (Vice)

Rule One: Don't use Slack.
Rule Two: When someone asks for a password, tell them to fill out Form 404.
The Avaddon ransomware gang has called it quits and released decryption keys for their remaining victims. (Bleeping Computer)

No, I don't know why. Water getting too hot with the recent spate of high-profile hacks? More profitable avenues to pursue? Government funding dried up? Don't know.
The US Senate has just agreed on a $52 billion bailout for an industry currently making record profits. (ZDNet)

It's not the dumbest thing they've ever done, not even close, but the three big companies lobbying for this handout have a combined market cap over $5 trillion.
Meanwhile the New York Senate has passed a right to repair bill. (IFixit)

Louis Rossman is currently in Florida, and could not be reached for - who am I kidding, here are his thoughts:

Basically it looks like one step forward and then take the rest of the year off. What a certain blogger calls failure theater.
Proposed federal and state legislation would force online marketplaces like Amazon to publish direct contact information for their sellers. (Ars Technica)

Amazon hates this. Real companies that actually get sued for selling fake products are strongly in favour.
Radeon 6800 and 6800 XT cards seem to be back in stock after going missing for several weeks. Supply is still limited, but they are there, and prices for the 6700 XT are heading back down into the troposphere with the higher-end cards trailing behind. The 6900 XT is still about 20% higher than it was a few weeks ago, but hopefully that will correct itself soon.

I might get a new PC this year after all. I'm currently running on a Ryzen 1700 and a Radeon 580; I'm looking at a 5900X and a 6700 XT for the new build. That would be about 2.5 times as fast.

Nvidia, as yet, need not apply. The RTX 3060 is currently priced as high as the 6700 XT despite being a much slower card.

Satellites Anime Music Video of the Day

Not technically groundbreaking but I love the energy of this one.

Disclaimer: The creator of that AMV said he just wanted to put some clips from his favourite anime together before his hard drive exploded. Mission accomplished.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 03:44 AM

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1 Kudos to Buzzfeed.

Posted by: m at June 12, 2021 03:01 AM (fVJPF)

2 I have told the morons on the ONT that it's Pixytime.

Posted by: m at June 12, 2021 03:03 AM (fVJPF)

3 To get up or not?

Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2021 03:03 AM (Cxk7w)

4 nooooooooooodddd !

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 12, 2021 03:04 AM (bTQ72)

5 oops wrong thread

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 12, 2021 03:05 AM (bTQ72)

6 on alcoholism...

I have struggled with it personally, and watched family members with it

on alcoholism. Some of it is about the past, but alot of it is about the future

alchy's can fix themselves, it just takes som etime and felings

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 12, 2021 03:10 AM (bTQ72)

7 Re: Last night's Anime of the day.

I really hated Gurren Lagann, hated it to the point i had to keep turning it off in the middle of an episode it was so pointless, cliche & unfunny, and I'm a person who sat through Risky Safety.

I was always told it was a great and hilarious Gainax series, but it just felt like every awful Shounen show where some annoying kid screams something stupid and magically becomes stronger than everyone else.

I think the worst part was how it's original premise of yearning for freedom was abandoned for crap

Posted by: Rbastid at June 12, 2021 03:11 AM (XwTyM)

8 7 I really hated Gurren Lagann, hated it to the point i had to keep turning it off in the middle of an episode it was so pointless, cliche & unfunny

It was cliched, yes. They just turned all the cliches up to 11. Then 12. Then 13.

I enjoyed that, but I can certainly understand how it would rub others the wrong way.

and I'm a person who sat through Risky Safety.

Oh dear.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 12, 2021 03:14 AM (MqQvv)

9 stuck in a crazy place, with zero hope, addiction is a possibility

to make it thru , is to appreciate life it's self with all the messy-ness

everyone is not the same but the book 'Lost Connections' turned my life around

saw the author on Tucker

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 12, 2021 03:14 AM (bTQ72)

10 Proposed federal and state legislation would force online marketplaces like Amazon to publish direct contact information for their sellers.

Kabukki theater. Google "forced" Google Play developers to publish contact on the Play Store years ago.

To this day, most developers won't publish their real information to stop crybaby users from abusing devs.

Shitty world. It should be illegal to give childre mobile devices. Gen Z is the psychopath generation.

Posted by: nobody at June 12, 2021 03:16 AM (MszXz)

11 Good stuff, Pixy. I'm rarely up at this hour anymore, but what a treat.

Posted by: t-bird at June 12, 2021 03:18 AM (JioHo)

12 If a dumbass will doxx fast-food employees because they didn't like the burger Mommy or Daddy bought, what do you think they will do when they are told to pay to continue using the mobile app they like?

Oh here's an idea. Get the developers' contact info from the store and use it for abuse.

Posted by: nobody at June 12, 2021 03:19 AM (MszXz)

13 an acoholic's brain has been rewired. I read recently that their bodies use alcohol for energy in ways other bodies do not. In the end, for sommone who has never experienced the disease to opine on it, is like someone who can eat every carb in sight and still stay thin. Others can eat a few carbs, eat way less than you, and get fatter and sicker. What it comes down to is caring about people and reaching outside yourself. You have to be a legit fool to not see alcoholism is a disease. When you see people drinking the most Godawful stuff, with no redeeming value whatsoever, that alone should be a hint.

Posted by: Quint at June 12, 2021 03:20 AM (gJfTA)

14 https://www.americanthinker.com/selling the reasonableness of the iran deal

I'm now reading how this kind of thing worked out in the late 1930s in Europe, doesn't end well there.

Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2021 03:23 AM (Cxk7w)

15 It was cliched, yes. They just turned all the cliches up to 11. Then 12. Then 13.

Posted by:�Pixy Misa�at June 12, 2021 03:14 AM (MqQvv)

I just didn't think they were doing it to be funny though, it felt like they thought they were making a great serious series.

While i also didn't enjoy it too much, I think Gravion and Gravion Zwei did a much better job mocking mecha shows and how so many of them are absurd.

Posted by: Rbastid at June 12, 2021 03:23 AM (XwTyM)

16 and the people pushing pot at the answer to societies ills, F you too. I am kidding there, mainly quoting Scent of a Woman. But anyone pushing this other than believing it should be legal, makes me wonder. I have never seen a residential environment improved by pot.

I believe in freedom, liberty, etc. But not everyone lives in a ten acre spread. Not everyone lives in a nice suburban home. I know people who live in apartments, and they have to shuffle their grade school kids through pot stink...or stank.

Posted by: Quint at June 12, 2021 03:24 AM (gJfTA)

17 The girls in Kamachu should take up Tankery

Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2021 03:26 AM (Cxk7w)

18 Laura Blumenfeld's 1995 Washington Post article, "Teresa McGovern: A death in the cold," is a heart-breaking, humane look at one person's alcoholism.

https://tinyurl.com/2dxwep99

Posted by: m at June 12, 2021 03:31 AM (fVJPF)

19
I posted this in the wrong thread. Noting enlightening about it but at least it should be in the right thread.

I know dick about computers. For sure I never learned to code. I mean, I have used them since the early 90s and knew guys who used the net in
the early 80s. That was weird looking back, I knew guys that
communicated on the net in the very early 80s. They were the 1 percent
for sure.
Anyway, I think I am running windows 8 here. I recall
MSFT said the world would end if you did not upgrade. I now believe a
lot of that is just trying to get people to upgrade. I still have the
old software and I have not run into anything that stands out. Funny, as
I recall, it was the most hated version of Windows. I am not saying I
like it, but I just never got around to upgrading.

Posted by: Quint at June 12, 2021 03:28 AM (gJfTA)

Posted by: Quint at June 12, 2021 03:33 AM (gJfTA)

20 Hey Pixy, can you fix the Twitter links on AoSHQ? They are never displayed because the parameters added to the Twitter base link are URL-encoded.

Posted by: nobody at June 12, 2021 03:33 AM (MszXz)

21 TSMC -- Everyone Wants To Rule The World

Okay, right title but wrong sentiment. When TSMC sneezes, the chip making companies come down with the silicon flu.

Let's hope they are vaccinated or something.

PS Fuck the Communist Chinese.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 12, 2021 03:34 AM (F0YaR)

22 Wondering if cherry diced up would work in pancakes

Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2021 03:35 AM (Cxk7w)

23 Pulitzer is just another name for chicken processors.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 12, 2021 03:36 AM (F0YaR)

24 I would never have thought that NY could pass anything good.

Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2021 03:41 AM (Cxk7w)

25 The US Senate has just agreed...

I can FEEL my sphincter tightening in self defense.

It knows a cornholin' is coming well before I do.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 12, 2021 03:42 AM (F0YaR)

26 24 I would never have thought that NY could pass anything good.

In the accompanying video, Louis Rossman, who has been pushing for this legislation for years, says he thinks it's probably all theater to shake down the lobbyists for more money.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 12, 2021 03:44 AM (MqQvv)

27 I was thinking today about how much I liked CRT better when it meant "cathode ray tube."

Posted by: Bitblt at June 12, 2021 03:45 AM (RlmT3)

28 I need to watch the video then, shakedown are their style so it's the more likely scenario

Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2021 03:47 AM (Cxk7w)

29 aura Blumenfeld's 1995 Washington Post article,
"Teresa McGovern: A death in the cold," is a heart-breaking, humane look
at one person's alcoholism.

https://tinyurl.com/2dxwep99

Posted by: m at June 12, 2021 03:31 AM (fVJPF)

That is a tough one and long. I might need to go back to reading it to give it it's full worth. Thanks for posting it though.

Posted by: Quint at June 12, 2021 04:08 AM (gJfTA)

30 DP OVA 2 was goofy

Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2021 04:15 AM (Cxk7w)

31 I was thinking today about how much I liked CRT better when it meant "cathode ray tube."

Posted by: Bitblt at June 12, 2021 03:45 AM (RlmT3)

BLM, used to mean the Bureau of Land Management.

Posted by: Quint at June 12, 2021 04:16 AM (gJfTA)

32 Wondering if cherry diced up would work in pancakes
Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2021 03:35 AM (Cxk7w)

===
Put some of Mrs. F's cherry jam on top

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 12, 2021 04:37 AM (EZebt)

33 I do have good cherry jam in fridge

Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2021 04:40 AM (Cxk7w)

34 She made these mini cheese cakes and put the jam on top for dinner last night but gave the remainder to Girl San Franpsycho to take home.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 12, 2021 04:44 AM (EZebt)

35 nothing beats cherry jam and cherry pie. But the real deal mostly comes from Sour Cherries. They only come around a few weeks of the year. They get canned like crazy for obvious reasons But when people think of cherry flavor they mostly are thinking of sour cherries. In some ways it sucks that they are only around a few weeks a year, but then again, it is kind of cool.

Posted by: Quint at June 12, 2021 04:46 AM (gJfTA)

36 There are dozens and dozens of varieties of sour cherry products in every Russian deli here, jam, jelly, pastry, candy, syrup,...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 12, 2021 04:49 AM (EZebt)

37
It's the Queen's Birthday long weekend in certain parts of Oz.

_________

Are you on the Birthday Honours List?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 12, 2021 04:50 AM (mht8P)

38 I'm watching Dir. Wray testify before Congress. Bbehind him on a table are a gigantic tub of sanitizing wipes and hand sanitizer. Two gigantic tubs.

*thousand-yard stare*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 12, 2021 04:57 AM (EZebt)

39 Is it wrong I'm enjoying so much schadenfreude from Kamala falling on her face in her international debut?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 12, 2021 05:00 AM (EZebt)

40 KRAK AND VIC NEWS IS UP

Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2021 05:02 AM (Cxk7w)

41 She asks, "Why are the people of Guatemala leaving?"

B*tch, the same reason the people of California are leaving.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 12, 2021 05:04 AM (EZebt)

42 Is it wrong I'm enjoying so much schadenfreude from Kamala falling on her face in her international debut?

***

Not really. I'm enjoying watching her and President Slipfoot make fools of themselves, and it will be comical watching what an ex-KGB type will do to Slipfoot.

What bothers me is how weak the US clearly is now, and what that could mean regarding wars. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the reason China feels no need to act in order to take the west coast is because they've already bought off the US and there is no need for violence to achieve their goals.

Russia remains to be seen. I guarantee China will act to protect her interests if Russia were to decide the US should suffer.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Sure it works in practice, but does it work in theory? The $2 Drug that Cracked COVID at June 12, 2021 05:04 AM (KpdiX)

43 Thank you Skip

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 12, 2021 05:04 AM (EZebt)

44 Just getting this in the name field

Posted by: Moron Robbie - it turns out that Karmella stutters, too at June 12, 2021 05:05 AM (KpdiX)

45 42 Posted by: Moron Robbie - Sure it works in practice, but does it work in theory? The $2 Drug that Cracked COVID at June 12, 2021 05:04 AM (KpdiX)

The American people evidently wanted this, they may need reminded that it is better to be strong than weak.

Posted by: sven at June 12, 2021 05:33 AM (Lzpvj)

46 26 Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 12, 2021 03:44 AM (MqQvv)

It is at least as real as the WWE.

Posted by: sven at June 12, 2021 05:34 AM (Lzpvj)

47 Pixy, how do I find your own blog?

Posted by: Wenda at June 12, 2021 06:28 AM (I9nMq)

48 I'm down for the change in amazon vendor rules. I ordered some crap tools from them and the reviews were faked. The metal in them was substandard and failed. It took me some searching, but the "vendor" was some weird factory in china probably owned by amazon.

Posted by: Draki at June 12, 2021 08:42 AM (bPUO8)

49 Unless your a gamer, Linux is fantastic.

Posted by: Infidelic at June 12, 2021 08:43 AM (i/mdy)

50 'morning...

Hungry! Gonna make some eggs...

Posted by: Oldowan at June 12, 2021 08:57 AM (XCDmi)

51 As long as the $ the Senate gives results in chip factories within CONUS, I'm less upset than otherwise.

You won't be able to have a modern military without electronics and you really should not expect them to come from places near your major military adversary. You also might want to be able to be sure that the chips you use for military purposes to have only what you expect in them.

If those companies use that money to build fabs outside of CONUS and the Senate is jiggy with that, feel free to point at me and laugh. I'll deserve it.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at June 12, 2021 03:29 PM (CTKUo)

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