Daily Tech News 13 April 2022

• Contract: As is, subject to all wear and dilapidation, blah blah blah.
  
  Reality: We're getting the builders back in to touch up the paintwork for you and make sure everything is perfect. Oh, and there's spare paint and tiles left in the storeroom should you need them.
  
  Inspection report found a few minor issues - like a partial blockage in that $2000 digital shower head - and they're getting them fixed prior to settlement. And if the inspection noticed little things like that, I'm pretty comfortable that there aren't any big things. I would have said This fancy shower head kind of sucks and probably just used the other shower.
  
  Which is very different from when I was looking at the heritage-listed house a couple of weeks ago, where it was more It's 145 years old. Comes with the territory, kid. This place even has a warranty.
  
  Also, there's a storeroom? I know exactly where that would be, but I thought that door was just for access under the house. We don't really do basements in Australia.
  
  
  
• The Atlassian outage that started a week ago is expected to be over in no more than another couple of weeks. (The Register)
  
  The outage affects specific customers rather than the entire platform, but hundreds of them. I'm sure that knowing their project management platform will only be down another two weeks will bring them comfort in these trying times.
  
  Atlassian used to have a "free candy" offering where you could get any of their products for a small team - 3 to 10 users depending on the product - for $10 per year, and run it yourself.
  
  Now all of that is going away because The Cloud is the Future which means that when the cloud gets screwed up there is Absolutely Nothing You Can Do.
  
  With even a minimally competent IT team, an on-premises install would limit the recovery effort to restoring last night's backup and re-entering the most recent details. With a cloud service, you have nothing.

  "We know this outage is unacceptable and we are fully committed to resolving this," Atlassian's spokesperson said. "Our global engineering teams are working around the clock to achieve full and safe restoration for our approximately 400 impacted customers and they are continuing to make progress on this incident. Two weeks."

• DuckDuckGo browser is here - beta version available now for Mac, Windows version coming soon. (Liliputing)
  
  This isn't another fork of Chromium, or not quite. HTML is rendered by whatever is native to your operating system: WebKit on MacOS and the Edge library on Windows. The rest of the browser - the UI and networking code - is new and created by DuckDuckGo.
  
  It's intended to provide a simple browsing experience where privacy settings are always on by default, rather than giving you 20 screens full of options to hang yourself with. Doesn't appear to be open source though.
  
  
  
• Update your Git, you git. (GitHub)
  
  There's a security vulnerability not in GitHub or GitLab but in the Git command line client, though you're really only at risk if you're working on a Windows PC you share with untrusted users in which case you are screwed so many ways already that this doesn't much matter.
  
  
  
• You can simply hose out your Honda Element if the interior gets dirty and you're planning to junk the car within a year because this is a really bad idea and will destroy the vehicle so actually yeah don't do that thanks. (Fifth Element Camping)

  We've all heard it before..."I love the Element, you can hose it out".
  
  While this statement is true, one could also drive it off a cliff. Doing either of these will destroy your Element, one will just do it faster than the other.

  Now with pictures.
  
  
  
• How to add an external GPU to your Steam Deck. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Step One: Be extremely determined and not a little crazy.
  Step Two: Use the M.2 slot with an adaptor cable.
  
  It has an M.2 slot - small but standard - and M.2 is PCIe, so with the right adaptor and cable you can hook it up to a graphics card.
  
  And if it gets dirty you can just hose it out.
  
  
  

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