Daily Tech News 19 December 2022

• Twitter banned linking to your Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, or other toxic hellhole accounts from your profile. (CNN)
  
  This seems incompletely thought out.
  
  
  
• Twitter unbanned linking to your Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, or other toxic hellhole accounts from your profile. (CNN)
  
  Uh.

• He did warn us.
  
  

  Please note that Twitter will do lots of dumb things in coming months.
  
  We will keep what works & change what doesn’t.

  — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 9, 2022

  
  
  
  
• And then:
  
  

  Fun suggestion @elonmusk:
  Let me run Twitter for a bit. No salary. All in. Focus on great engineering and increasing the amount of love in the world.
  
  Just offering my help in the unlikely case it's useful.

  — Lex Fridman (@lexfridman) December 18, 2022

  
  

  Yes. We'll turn it around.

  — Lex Fridman (@lexfridman) December 18, 2022

  
  
  This is odd to me because I still think of Lex Fridman as the scorekeeper for The Incomparable's Game Show podcast. Guess he's been doing other stuff as well the last few years.
  
  I think Musk does need someone to handle the day-to-day bullshit at Twitter and I also think that there are very few candidates who wouldn't be complete disasters.
  
  
  
• Comparing Intel and AMD's mid-range CPUs. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  On the one hand, the 13600K is 1.6% faster in gaming than the 7700X while being $30 cheaper - and having cheaper motherboard and RAM options available.
  
  On the other hand, an overclocked 7700X uses less power than a stock 13600K.
  
  Not a huge amount in it.
  
  You can use last year's DDR4 motherboards - with a BIOS update - to run the 13600K. On the third hand, Intel is introducing a new socket next year so you'll never be able to upgrade beyond the current generation. AMD's current motherboards are more expensive because they already are the new generation, and you should be able to upgrade through at least two generations of new CPUs.
  
  
  
• SpaceX launched three missions in 36 hours, including its 3000th Starlink satellite and a record 15th mission for one lucky Falcon 9 booster. (WCCFTech)
  
  In between doing dumb things at Twitter and showing up at some sportsball event.
  
  
  
• The Golden Age of TV has been cancelled after it turned out to be spray painted plywood. (New York Times)
  
  The number of series being produced is down 40% since 2019 - and though they don't give exact numbers, it sounds like most of the cuts have come in the last six month. Netflix is losing subscribers, Disney+ is losing money, and Discovery is losing staff as fast as it can.
  
  
  
• Year in review starts tomorrow. I'll have to find some music to sprinkle through it, since I wasn't doing so much of that this year.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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