Daily Tech News 7 January 2022

• Nerds have swarmed Mozilla, the organisation behind the Firefox browser, after it announced it would accept donations in cryptocurrencies. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Chief nerd and Mozilla cofounder Jamie Zawinski was quoted as saying:
  

  Hi, I'm sure that whoever runs this account has no idea who I am, but I founded @mozilla and I'm here to say fuck you and fuck this. Everyone involved in the project should be witheringly ashamed of this decision to partner with planet-incinerating Ponzi grifters.

  — j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜ (@jwz) January 3, 2022

  
  Which made me laugh out loud because there's nothing better than watching communists fight over money.
  
  
  

• Speaking of communists and money global Bitcoin mining suffered a blow when Kazakhstan shut down its internet. (The Guardian)
  
  The people of Kazakhstan barely rate a mention. The effects of massive civil unrest on Bitcoin's price, though, that's important.
  
  
  
• The Signal messaging app meanwhile now supports untraceable-ish crypto payments. (Wired)
  
  The blockchain is public, but that doesn't mean you need to make it easy to track payments. You just need to be able to prove that a given amount has or has not been paid, and you can do that while keeping other details secret.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile comedy struck Manhattan when an art gallery owner lost two million dollars worth of imaginary monkeys. (Motherboard)
  
  Oh no. Anyway-
  
  
  
• Yes, it's a Ponzi Scheme. So what? (CoinDesk)
  
  That's illegal is what, you chucklefucks. Doing it in purely digital fashion just makes you automatically eligible for wire fraud charges.
  
  
  
• In non-crypto news (I hope) Lenovo's ThinkBook Plus Gen 3 has an 8 inch tablet. (CNet)
  
  Not is an 8 inch tablet, has an 8 inch tablet. To the right of the keyboard.
  
  And it's one of those shitty 1280x800 models too because we can't have nice things even when they are otherwise absurd.
  
  
  
• France has fined Facebook and Google €210 million over asymmetric cookie popups. (The Register)
  
  Being jerks, Facebook and Google made it much harder to turn down cookies than to accept them.
  Being jerks, France decided to steal their lunch money.
  
  Nearly as good as watching communists fight over money.
  
  
  
• The ESA is sending a probe to visit the moons of Jupiter. (Popular Science)
  
  All 67 of them, in fact. Which makes sense. Why travel all that way and not see the sights when you arrive?
  
  
  
• QNAP's TS-h1290FX is a 12-bay 2.5" NAS. (Serve the Home)
  
  And an Epyc server CPU and dual 25GbE and a $7500 price tag. So probably won't be finding its way into Starlab any time soon.
  
  
  
• Speaking of which, got another box today - including the first of the 4TB SSDs.
  
  Still waiting on the laptop RAM to arrive though.
  
  
  

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