Daily Tech News 28 June 2021

• I mentioned that October was going to be a crazy month and the length, timing, and frequency of these posts might become erratic.
  
  It's now October.
  
  
  
• Windows 11 doesn't need TPM, Microsoft just requires it. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  <chorus>Because fuck you, that's why.</chorus>
  
  
  
• That's because if there's one Windows 11 machine out there without TPM, the whole house of cards collapses. (Thurrott.com)
  
  That's not actually true, as far as I know, because it's a certainty that there will be Windows 11 systems out there without TPM and they'd be insane to set up security that requires perfect compliance from a billion people to function.
  
  
  
• Microsoft aren't that insane but the people creating Unicode certainly are. (Hexops)
  
  ASCII sorting of course doesn't work. Standard regular expressions don't work. JavaScript sorting is inconsistent. Go doesn't recognise your local, and nor does Rust.
  
  Oh, and WebAssembly makes everything worse.
  
  
  
• Unicode 14.0 supports Toto, Cypro-Minoan - which no-one can read, Vithkuqi, Tangsa, and Old Uyghur. (Unicode)
  
  Let's put every written language and every symbol together in a single huge character set, they said. What could possibly go wrong, they said. It currently has 3633 emojis, they said.
  
  
  
• Binance has been refused licenses to operate in the UK, Japan, Germany, and Ontario. (BBC)
  
  Binance is the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, handling a trillion dollars a day in... I actually have no idea what their transaction volume is.
  
  But they're registered in the Cayman Islands, which should give you lots of warm fuzzies.
  
  
  
• Open offices suck and everyone hates them. (Harvard Business Review)
  
  We've known this for at least 35 years; it was a major point in the book Peopleware, from 1987. (Which I still recommend.)

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