Daily Tech News 16 October 2023

• Minecraft has sold over 300 million copies. (The Verge)
  
  That's a lot. That's a lot of a lot.
  
  Also, with Henya pushing the crabs and Pina Pengin naturally enough backing the penguins, the Minecraft userbase voted for the armadillo to be the next animal added to the game.
  
  Seriously, what are they going to do? There aren't any 18 wheelers for them to run under.
  
  
  

• With Microsoft now the owner of Activision (as well as Minecraft) (although the US government is still fighting that despite the deal having gone through) (Activision, not Minecraft) what is going to happen to the old Infocom games? (Zarf)
  
  Yes, Activision has been around that long.
  
  
  
• Why is the frontend stack so complicated. (Matt Rickard)
  
  By "frontend stack" he means the user side of web development, and the reason it's so complicated is that JavaScript is kind of bad and server-side JavaScript is cancer, and yet it's used everywhere.
  
  There is no solution except fire.
  
  
  
• The Asus Expertcenter PN64-E1 is perfectly adequate. (Serve the Home)
  
  No stand-out qualities. No notable weaknesses.
  
  Oh, it's a NUC. A desktop mini-PC. Intel.
  
  
  
• Plant-based cheese. (Ars Technica)
  
  I like my plant-based cheese just like my plant-based steak: Thoroughly cowed.
  
  
  

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