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NVIDIA announced that the RTX 3060 will have its mining efficiency limited — when it detects the Ethereum algorithm, performance is cut in half — hoping to control the market so gaming GPUs truly serve gamers. An NVIDIA spokesperson said on social media that the limitation will be enforced through a three-way mechanism: the chip itself, the driver, and the BIOS firmware, to prevent bypassing.

Found another free ride: using the edge computing power of Cloudflare, the world’s biggest CDN, you can get things done without any server. The API shown in the screenshot added CORS restrictions this month, so I use Cloudflare Workers as a reverse proxy to forward requests and tamper with the response headers. Also discovered you can reverse-proxy Google, YouTube, and the like through it.

Ever since my tracker server joined the public BitTorrent network, it’s been getting hammered daily. The traffic is enormous — far beyond what I expected.

Google released Chrome 88 today (January 20), permanently removing support for Adobe Flash Player and dropping FTP protocol support.
Microsoft plans to ship a browser update removing Adobe Flash Player later this month.

Apple officially announced today that after July 31, all paid games without a Chinese publishing license will be removed from the mainland China App Store. In the early hours of July 8, Apple emailed Chinese game developers requiring paid games and games with in-app purchases to submit their license number before July 31 or be taken down. There are nearly 170,000 game products on iOS right now, but fewer than 20% hold a license — meaning over 50,000 games could face removal.

Google announced it is shutting down the Isolated Region cloud computing project, which means Google Cloud will not be landing in China. Google further explained the decision was made “after extensive discussions with and feedback from government stakeholders in Europe and elsewhere.”

Tried out GitHub Actions: a single YAML file defines the whole workflow, Docker defines the runtime environment. Multiple jobs, multiple automatic trigger mechanisms — it can handle testing as well as release CI/CD. Best of all, it’s free. It competes with Jenkins and Azure Pipelines.

Just noticed my blog triggered Google Sitelinks again — sub-sections now show under the main title in search results. The last time it happened was February 2014. I changed domains since then and had to start from scratch, but consistently publishing original content does pay off eventually.

The US Congress passed a law under which the Department of Defense will release its surplus IPv4 address blocks to the market: 6.0.0.0/8, 7.0.0.0/8, 11.0.0.0/8, 21.0.0.0/8, 22.0.0.0/8, 26.0.0.0/8, 28.0.0.0/8, 29.0.0.0/8, 30.0.0.0/8, 33.0.0.0/8, 55.0.0.0/8, 214.0.0.0/8, and 215.0.0.0/8 — 13 /8 blocks in total, roughly 218 million IP addresses.

When the frontend receives data from the backend