Daily Tech News 13 September 2021

• Apple won a battle to lose the war. (500ish)
  
  An interesting examination of the recent ruling that suggests Apple is incapable of doing what is needed to avoid further antitrust cases - which they will eventually lose.
  
  
  
• Another look at the Apple ruling. (MacStories)
  
  This one gets key facts immediately and comically wrong, spinning wildly in Apple's favour, and even it says that Apple lost.
  
  
  
• Ethereum sucks. I don't mean the ecosystem or the inflationary nature or the weird cult followers or any of that, I mean the technical implementation of the blockchain. It's fucking garbage.
  
  

• Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to reinvent XML, badly. (KDL)
  
  We don't need a JSON alternative that is simultaneously more complicated and less powerful than JSON.
  
  
  
• Nvidia might be bringing back the RTX 2060 - only with double the memory. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  With capacity constraints and products selling out as fast as they can make them, no-one is in a rush to bring out new low-end video cards. But if you already have the chips - or the capacity, since the 2060 was built on an older 12nm process - then maybe adding it back in to the product line is not a terrible idea.
  
  
  
• Why Firefox is losing users. (It's FOSS)
  
  Because, in short, they write bad code and hate their users.

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