Daily Tech News 23 April 2024

• Australia has elbowed Brazil out of the way and decided that it is going to be the new global censor. (MSN)
  
  An Australian federal court has ordered Twitter and Facebook to take down a video wherein a Christian bishop was stabbed in his own church by a Usual Suspect... Globally.
  
  You are not permitted to know that this happened, because it might, I don't know, look bad for Usual Suspects.
  
  (Note that the other recent stabbing in Sydney that made the news was a random mentally ill man, who, while known to the police, was not a Usual Suspect.)
  
  In the ensuing brouhaha a senator from Tasmania has asserted that Elon Musk should go to jail and Australia's nominally conservative party leader has covered himself in shit and given full-throated support for the nonsense.
  
  Sorry. I didn't vote for any of these idiots.
  
  
  
• Journalists for Censorship has also given this their thumbs up. (The Register)
  
  "I never thought the leopards would eat my face", sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
  
  
  

• Meanwhile the US government is not only spying on you, it is forcing everyone else to spy on you. (Ars Technica)
  
  I have a solution: Attach the video of that stabbing in Sydney to every email and tweet you send.
  
  
  
• DDR5 now officially goes to 11... Um, 8800. (AnandTech)
  
  Previously the specification only covered speeds up to 6400MHz, but now there's an official standard for 8800MHz RAM.
  
  Which used to be a lot.
  
  
  
• Huawei wants to take its "home grown" HarmonyOS global. (The Register)
  
  It's Android.
  
  It's a bad version of Android.
  
  The first review version they shipped still said "Android" in many places.
  
  
  
• Hands on with Tiny11Builder - debloating Windows 11. (Thurrott.com)
  
  This looks like far too much work given the price of SSDs these days.
  
  Though given that my laptop spat out its new SSD, maybe.
  
  
  
• In lighter news, someone has found a solution to the AI porn bots plaguing Twitter right now: Literally Hitler. (Twitter)
  
  The bots are using commercially available AI services, and if you post anything relating to Hitler they melt down and instead of being invited to view fifth-rate porn you get a flood of replies saying:

  I'm sorry, but I cannot fulfil this request as it promotes a hateful and negative ideology. Please let me know how I can assist you with another topic. #cool

  It's like dealing with vampires, only you use swastikas instead of crosses.
  
  
  

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