Another day, another possible controversy marring the tainted Galaxycove brand that is prevalent across social media. In case you missed my review and experience buying a Galaxycove projector, you can read about that here. You can also read about Galaxycove flagging legitimate negative reviews on their TrustPilot page here.
After having my negative and legitimate review flagged, I got it reinstated by providing proof that I actually purchased a projector from Galaxycove, my review now has the “verified” label on it over at TrustPilot.
It seems that almost no one learned from the dot com crash of the early 2000s which saw numerous internet companies valued at clinically insane valuations and overfunded fail causing widespread layoffs and market turmoil. Quibi is the latest high-profile casualty that has announced it is shutting down.
The shutdown was honestly, all but inevitable, Quibi was never going to work. Which is why it might surprise some to learn they raised almost $2 billion US dollars, securing $1.75 billion in funding. Who in their right mind thought this was a good idea?
The US Justice Department has announced they are suing Google for antitrust violations. The crux of the legal matter stems from this line in the filing, “unlawfully maintaining monopolies in the markets for general search services, search advertising, and general search text advertising in the United States.”
If you don’t mind a bit of dry legal jargon and extensive reading, the full filing is available here and it is quite interesting the information they have collected during their investigation.
Chances are, you and everyone you know or love has heard about the new iPhone 12 that Apple just announced at one of its cult-like keynote events. Now, Apple releasing a new iPhone is not surprising, it’s about as expected as the sun rising tomorrow.
While Apple has run out of ways to surprise and delight their customers as competitors and Apple find themselves on equal footing in terms of features and power, sometimes Apple finding themselves behind, they have managed to shock consumers once again and it’s not a new feature that has everyone talking.
It is difficult to believe that WordPress’ Gutenberg editor is almost two years old (released in WordPress 5.0 in December 2018). Since then, Gutenberg has seen a plethora of development and resources thrown at it, promising a revolutionary writing experience driven by blocks.
So, two years on, has Gutenberg become the beloved new writing experience in WordPress? Have the wrinkles been ironed out? Nope.
Despite the amount of work developers have put into polishing Gutenberg and trying to make it a decent writing experience, many continue to avoid it at all costs.
I recently published a review here on this blog about my experience buying the Galaxycove projector. In the review, I talked about how the projector was a poorly made dropshipped projector, how it is unbranded and the company has an intentionally misleading website.
It appears that Galaxycove is desperately attempting to control the narrative by scrubbing any negativity of their projector from the Internet. Although, the Galaxycove website might have glowing endorsements from alleged customers and their Facebook and Instagram, over on Trustpilot the story is different.
As great as AMD CPU’s are, Intel has had a distinct advantage even though the Zen 2 architecture was stellar and I upgraded to a Ryzen 3900x not too long ago and absolutely love it, it’s a performance and core monster.
Intel’s only advantage against AMD was single-core performance. All of the benchmarks for 1080p gaming had AMD trailing behind Intel, with AMD beating Intel in multicore benchmarks.
Thanks to a different architecture in Zen 3, the amount of latency between the CCX’s which resulted in some reduced performance on Zen 2 is now gone. If you’re wanting to know what core complex is and how it works, Tom’s Hardware has a great explainer here. The performance is claimed to offer a 2.4x performance per watt increase and 19% higher instructions per clock.
Recently in a developer Q&A with the head of the Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 team and CEO of Asobo, some key community questions were sort of addressed by the team.
One of the questions was about DirectX 12 support. In the following timestamped embed, Sebastian Wloch says they have a big team working on Direct X 12 support.
If you’re time scarce or don’t want to watch the video, basically DirectX 12 support is summarised:
I am sure you might have seen this post doing the rounds recently, titled DigitalOcean’s Hacktoberfest is Hurting Open Source. Despite the spicy post title an exaggerated claim of Hacktoberfest being a corporate distributed denial of service attack, it does make some valid points about Hacktoberfest.
I don’t operate many popular repos and I’ve admittedly only seen one PR come through on one of my repos which was sort-of spammish, but not spammy to the point where it was low-quality, it was just a low hanging fruit pull request.
If you’re like me, in Aurelia 1 you configured the Fetch client with some defaults, usually inside of your main bootstrap code (main.js/main.ts) where you might have added an authorization header, set up a default base URL and other configuration options you wanted to be global for the fetch client.
While there are other ways you can approach configuring the fetch client globally, I wanted to approach it in the same way you would if you were creating an Aurelia 2 plugin. This approach will also allow us to test it easier (testing is beyond the scope of this post).