Daily Tech News 4 February 2022

• So between Zoom calls this evening I briefly tuned into Nick Rekieta's stream with Robert Barnes, and thought I'd misheard him because it sounded like he was giving a shout out to Phase Connect vtuber Pipkin Pippa.
  
  Turns out he was giving a shout out to Phase Connect vtuber Pipkin Pippa and I'd missed something special - and the stream has been privated now.
  
  Two observations: First, that vtubers are counter-culture in a world where mainstream culture is increasingly insulting Marxist drivel (not a new observation I admit), and second, that if the three rabbit vtubers Pippa, Pekora, and Non ever get together we may experience an Earth-shattering kaboom of record proportions.
  
  
  
• There's nothing worse than legislation with a cutesy name and popular bipartisan support: The abominable EARN IT Act is back again. (EFF)
  
  The point of the bill is to eradicate online privacy. Not only would it open up every online to government snooping, it would make the use of encryption evidence against defendants in civil and criminal prosecution.
  
  Here's a handy list of the culprits.
  
  On the plus side - though I doubt this has entered the thinking of any of those listed - is that this would annihilate American Big Tech.
  
  
  

• Supermicro's Alder Lake server motherboards have started showing up. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  I know of at least one hosting provider offering Alder Lake servers right now, but they are using desktop motherboards and don't have end-to-end ECC or remote management features. DDR5 RAM has on-die ECC which is a partial solution but DDR5currently costs three times as much as DDR4.
  
  
  
• Why not ZFS? (Ivysaur)
  
  Impressive. Everything in the article is wrong.
  
  
  
• Requests bodies in GET. (Evert Pot)
  
  Do not.
  
  
  
• Mathematicians have proved the André-Oort Conjecture. (Quanta)
  
  This means that... Nope, no idea.
  
  
  
• If you want a large Android phone with a high resolution screen, a pretty decent CPU, a 50MP camera, and a stylus, but only want to spend three hundred bucks to buy it outright, the Moto G Stylus is one. (Liliputing)
  
  They're pretty good about not crapping all over stock Android too.

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