wk25/2021

Links from week 25 of 2021 (21-27 June)

• Turn Your Old, Cracked Android Phone Into a Backup Server! - (hannahtech.co) - I don't know if this is a good idea, but a low powered ARM CPU and built in battery backup make it seem like a phone-based server could be a ideal
• Don't Piss Off Bradley, the Parts Seller Keeping Atari Machines Alive (vice.com) - the Atari parts seller that holds a huge stock of the rarest stock, and is potentially difficult to deal with
• The Lazarus heist: How North Korea almost pulled off a billion-dollar hack (bbc.co.uk) - a huge computer hack that almost netted NK hundreds of millions of dollars
• Your CPU May Have Slowed Down on Wednesday (travisdowns.github.io) - following on from the Spectre / Meltdown patches released for Intel CPUs, here's another one that can affect CPU performance, one day I'll make the switch to Ryzen
• Microsoft announces Windows 11, with a new design, Start menu, and more (theverge.com) - the latest version of Windows officially announced

• The Wrong Way to Switch Operating Systems on Your Server (figbert.com) - a troubled transfer from one server to another, I think this is always difficult, surely no one changes server seemlessly
• Windows 11, Amazon, and Uncomfortable Questions (commonsware.com) - the improved data-acquisition in Windows 11 that now brings Amazon into the fray with its Android store