Daily Tech News 22 May 2023

• AWS has a new billing dashboard. I spent the first decade of my programming career working on accounting systems, and I have to say that this particular system is dogshit.
  
  
  
• Is Peter Pan more like a hedgehog or a galaxy-sized agglomeration of sardines? (Nautilus)
  
  Proof once again that the leading experts in a field (in this case, neuroscience) are very often completely retarded.
  
  

• China has banned sales of Micron memory chips because they "failed a network security review". (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Memory chips don't have networking, and don't have security. The Biden Administration's spokesmop is more believable than these idiots.
  
  
  
• Microsoft's Visual Studio code is a free framework that is utterly useless but has a dazzling array of third-party extensions. What could possible go wrong? (Programming Geeks Club)
  
  Oh, yeah. Right.
  
  
  
• Let's put all the Python libraries created by all the programmers in the world in one convenient place. What could possibly go wrong? (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Oh, yeah. Right.
  
  
  
• Google has no customer support because you're not the customer. (Vortex)
  
  This is true even when you are the customer. We went through a similar situation at my day job when Google refused to assist us in any way when the only thing we needed to do was pay our bill.
  
  
  
• Don't buy HP printers. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Not only will they brick themselves if you try to use a less insanely expensive third-party ink cartridge, they will sometimes brick themselves if it's Tuesday.
  
  
  

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