Daily Tech News 9 September 2022

• The real reason Apple doesn't support standard RCS text messaging on iPhones: Because fuck you, that's why. (The Verge)
  
  By relegating messages from other phones to third class, they can shame people with perfectly functional phones to burn money on Apple's own expensive and unrepairable toys.
  
  Which strategy, to be fair, (a) works and (b) basically paid for the massive growth of TSMC that has allowed smaller companies like AMD access to extremely advanced chipmaking facilities.

• MSI has announced the specs and pricing of its new X670 motherboards for AMD ahead of the official launch on September 27. (Anandtech)
  
  Prices range from expensive ($290) to absurd ($1299). If you want integrated 10Gb Ethernet you're looking at $700.
  
  There will be cheaper models showing up soon, based on the B650 chipset that supports most of the same features.
  
  
  
• The Motorola Edge 30 costs 900 Euros and has a 200 megapixel camera. (WCCFTech)
  
  Which is great except that the camera sensor is too small to really take advantage of that resolution, so unless you're taking photos in broad daylight on the Moon you're really looking at 50 megapixel images.
  
  Which is still a lot, to be fair.
  
  
  
• Taichi is a new compile for Python - an interpreted language that has compilers the way some people have mice, probably freeze-dried to feed their python - that compiles not only to your CPU but to your GPU as well. (Taichi)
  
  They compare it to PyPy, the Python compiler I use in production, and note that both are useful but have very different tradeoffs. Taichi is more designed for writing computational kernels without having to ever leave PyCharm, delivering up to 100x performance for specific type of code, where PyPy will speed up your code by an average of 4.5x and eat memory like mice.
  
  
  
• I hate everything.
  
  

  "http://http://http://@http://http://?http://#http://"
  
  is a legitimate URL

  — daniel:// stenberg:// (@bagder) September 6, 2022

  
  
  
  
• Well, maybe not everything. The new 0.4 update to fan-made Hololive game Holocure is out now. (Itch.io)
  
  It's fun and it's free. Can't ask for more except maybe for it to not melt my laptop in the later stages.

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