Daily Tech News 4 September 2023

• Having destroyed the original city, tech billionaires are planning to build their own San Francisco, with blackjack, and hookers. (Associated Press)
  
  They've bought up 78 square miles of land between Travis AFB and Rio Vista in Solano County, about sixty miles northeast of San Francisco and safely out of shitting range.

  But Princess Washington, mayor pro tempore of Suisun City, said residents deliberately decided to protect open space and keep the area around Travis Air Force Base free of encroachment given its significance.

  I included that quote solely because of the mayor's name.

  She's suspicious that the group's real purpose is "to create a city for the elite" under the guise of more housing.

  Well, yes.

  "Economic blight is everywhere. So why do you need to spend upwards of a billion dollars to create a brand new city when you have all these other things that can be achieved throughout the Bay Area?" she said.

  I would assume this is because Solano County (a) is cheaper - though with median house prices around $600k, not cheap - and (b) has less crime, drugs, and human excrement, though again this is California so I might be incorrect there.
  
  Unfortunately for the project, while buying up all the land, the planners appear to have forgotten to buy the residents or the politicians:

  "You big wealthy Silicon Valley billionaires, you're party to all of this. This is the kind of people you are? This is how you want to operate?" he said. "What they've managed to do is to totally poison the well."

  In order: Yes, yes, yes, and yes.

• You can't run MongoDB 5.0 or later under Linux under VirtualBox on Windows 11 because the built-in Windows virtualisation (as used by Windows Services for Linux, for example) - part of Microsoft's Hyper-V - doesn't pass through AVX support.
  
  But you can run MongoDB 5.0 under WSL, because Hyper-V does pass through AVX support to that.
  
  But WSL assigns itself a random IP address from a random subnet every time it starts. Static IPs? DHCP? Never heard of that, sorry.
  
  So kind of useless for anything that requires a network connection.
  
  
  
• Is Scrum cancer? Yes, but is cancer always bad? Also yes. (Devops)
  
  There you have it.
  
  
  
• Western Digital's Blue SN580 SSD is a slightly faster Blue SN570 SSD. (Serve the Home)
  
  Perfectly adequate for most tasks, but if you're writing terabytes of data on a regular basis you'd be better off with the Black SN850X - once you exhaust the SLC cache it's three times faster than the Blue model.
  
  If you don't routinely write terabytes of data, the 580 should be fine.
  
  
  
• [company] has [verbed] its [name-of-ai-project] after [details-of-embarrassing-screwup] (CNN)
  
  Literally.
  
  
  
• After completely failing to destroy its automated lunar lander in a catastrophic collision with the Moon, India has been merrily buzzing around on the lunar surface. (Reuters)
  
  Well, their rover has anyway. And now it's being put to sleep.
  
  For two weeks, until the sun comes up again and the solar panels start working.
  
  
  

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:07 AM

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