Daily Tech News 5 April 2023

• The music mafia has won a court order in Germany to take down the website of Youtube-dl. (TorrentFreak)
  
  Which is Pyrrhic at best, because Youtube-dl is open source software and hosted on GitHub, which got so annoyed at the baseless takedown demands that it created a legal defense fund for open source projects.
  
  They've taken down what the developers described as a business card, rather than the business.

• We all know about QNAP NASes, but what about their switches? (Serve the Home)
  
  Cheap and good. In fact, cheaper than anything better and better than anything cheaper. Which is a good place to be.
  
  
  
• Cyberpunk 2077 has a new graphics mode delivering improved visual effects. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  And a frame rate of 16 fps on a $1600 RTX 4090.
  
  
  
• If you've left your secret decoder ring at home, look for the orange sticker. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Ryzen 7000 laptop chips are a mix of Zen 4, Zen 3, and Zen 2 cores, which is utter dogshit. You can tell by the part number - the third digit is the core generation - but you shouldn't have to.
  
  Thankfully AMD is putting orange stickers on the Zen 4 models to replace to older silver / gray stickers.
  
  
  

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