Daily Tech News 24 November 2022

• Why Twitter didn't go down, from a Twitter site reliability engineer. (Substack)
  
  Because it's automated.
  
  The funny thing is, this guy worked on the distributed caching system, and the distributed cache is the most visibly unreliable component of the entire platform.
  
  
  
• Twitter is not only still not dead, but is planning to cast some advanced necromancy:
  
  

  Should Twitter offer a general amnesty to suspended accounts, provided that they have not broken the law or engaged in egregious spam?

  — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 23, 2022

  
  This will be fun.

• Stable Diffusion 2.0 is here. (Stability.ai)
  
  The new version of the AI image generation tool has all the same features, only 2.
  
  
  
• The US Navy has been found to have committed software piracy in a $600 million lawsuit. (Gizmodo)
  
  And ordered to pay $150,000.
  
  Which is a pretty sweet deal, honestly. Maybe someone remembered that they have an almost unlimited number of guided missiles.
  
  
  
• Amazon is planning to spend $1 billion a year producing bad movies. (CNBC)
  
  The operative word bad wasn't in the press release for some reason. I guess they just assumed we'd know.
  
  
  
• An in-depth look at the (current) low-end Ryzen 7000 models. (Hot Hardware)
  
  They're by no means bad, but for a pure gaming setup you might be better off with Intel's 13600K than the Ryzen 7600X.
  
  For the stuff I do (software development and testing), the efficiency cores on Intel chips are a pain in the bum, and AMD's chips provide both better and more consistent multi-threaded performance. For gaming or tasks like 3D rendering there's less difference between the two options.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:02 AM

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