• You could steal half a million dollars from a museum and nobody would notice.  (Calvin.sh)
  
  The million-dollar cube in the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s Money Museum contains a little over $1.5 million.
  
  
  
• Websites used to be simple.  (Simplesite)
  
  Some still are:

  You're experiencing it right now. This website is looped through a RS-232 serial connection at 56k baud rate (actually a little bit extra to handle protocol overhead). I disabled the server cache so you can experience the scrollbar shrinking as content slowly loads in.

  The way nature intended.
  
  
  
• The Crucial T710 is that company's latest PCIe 5.0 SSD.  (Serve the Home)
  
  It's fast, yes.  It's also expensive at $280 for 2TB.  You're still better off with two PCIe 4.0 SSDs.  Or even just one of them.
  
  
  
• Speaking of expensive, Synology's new PCIe 3.0 SSD costs twice as much as that.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  $535 for 1.6TB.  It's sold as a caching device for NASes, so the critique in this article is a little misplaced.  Even at PCIe 3.0 speeds it can easily keep up with two 10Gb Ethernet ports running at full speed in both directions.
  
  It does have a pretty substantial write endurance of 2900TB, but a 4TB Crucial T500 is twice as fast, offers more than twice the storage, still promises 2400TB of endurance, and sells for around $300.
  
  
  
• Xerox just bough Lexmark for $1.5 billion.  (Nerds)
  
  I think I ran a brief article about this last year when the deal was first announced; the acquisition has now been completed.
  
  
  
• The GOP's spending bill could kill renewable energy projects.  (The Verge)
  
  Promise?
  
  

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1 Renewable energy projects are arguably a fraud in the proper accounting of the machine world. I don't want to entirely trust the nuclear engineers, but fission was the only viable way of making 'addressing climate change' something other than mass murdery.

2 Ah, The Platters...pleasant memories of a time when popular music was still actual music and not the random noise and incoherent shouting that many contemporary persons seem to find entertaining.