MaX Falstein @ MSD

Apple

2023 USB-C iPhones and iPads

Rumours are circulating Apple is testing USB Type-C ports on various iPhone models. This raises the question of commonality with the iPad Pro which now offers Apple Silicon M1 from the Mac lineup which affords the iPad Pro Thunderbolt 3/USB4 Gen 3x2 at up to 40 Gbps.

BBC

BBC brandTLD Proposal

The British Broadcasting Company owns .bbc brandTLD; however, very little is run on .bbc. bbc.co.uk, bbc.com, etc. are the preferred domains. .bbc home.bbc news.bbc ideas.bbc iplayer.bbc research.bbc + r&d.bbc network.bbc cdn.bbc edge.bbc edgecdn.bbc

Elon Musk

Elon Musk Should Leave Tesla

Elon needs a huge change! A collection of major and minor changes to make up a huge change. Stage OneOver the next year: Swap CEO and Chairman roles with Robyn DenholmFocus on Tesla technology as TechnokingStage TwoOver the following two years: (One to three years from now) Reduce hours at

Apple

Apple MacBook Pro M1 Max

Apple's latest MacBook Pro looks at professional users instead of enterprise users. An interesting mix of ports it used to have before Apple decided sleek single-type ports were the answer.

Lightning

Apple Lightning 2 Based on Thunderbolt 4

Having seen the surge in Thunderbolt 4 and its backwards-compatibility to Thunderbolt 3 (useful for full bandwith, non-breakout (via hubs) buses), my proposal for Lighting 2 to be based on USB4 should be superseded by this Thunderbolt 4 proposal.

Cloudflare

Cloudflare Teams

MaX Saxe Design is migrating to Cloudflare Teams. We have a few Ubquiti routers, switches, APs along with a collection of Mac products and Lenovo products with a few servers. Some of our Cloudflare network is only available via Cloudflare Teams.

Apple Silicon

Apple M2 Needs an FPGA

I would like to see a pro-user programmable FPGA in Apple's M2 Max SoC if Apple continues its nomenclature.

DMARC

Get on With DMARC

Every company and small business should use DMARC. Every ISP should use DMARC for their hosted customer email accounts.

DMARC

MaX Saxe Design DMARC

MaX explains our DMARC policy.

Apple

M1 Mac mini - Not Powerful Enough

For five years, MaX used a 12-inch MacBook "Core m7" 1.3 12" (Early 2016) and offload nearly everything to Intel NUCs, cloud servers, local servers, etc. That ended when MaX's preordered top-of-the-range M1 Mac mini arrived with 16 GiB DDR4 RAM and 2 TiB NVMe storage. MaX continues to

Apple

MPX AMD Radeon Pro Update

Apple added three new MPX modules with latest AMD Radeon Pro GPUs. AMD Radeon Pro W6800X60 compute units, 3,840 stream processors 32GB of GDDR6 memory with 512GB/s memory bandwidth Up to 16.0 teraflops single precision or 32.0 teraflops half precision Infinity Fabric Link connection enables two

Cloudflare

MaX Saxe Design Cloudflare Infrastructure

We started our full migration of web services to Cloudflare in mid-2019. We concluded our full migration of web services to Cloudflare on 11th February 2021 at which time we decommissioned our DigitalOcean origin servers. We removed our edge servers back in 2017 when we migrated to Cloudflare. We have

Twitch

Twitch Lacks Creator Discussion

Withdrawing someone's income without their knowledge could be seen as a Federal Crime which could lead to a Criminal Court Case which could result in penalties to the US and remuneration of the lost revenue along with any extra judgements.

Tesla

Elon Tangled Tesla in Crypto

Tesla does not love Bitcoin anymore - what could happen?

Disney

Disney + Discovery vs. AT&T WarnerMedia

AT&T WarnerMedia are in discussions to acquire Disney or Discovery. Whether AT&T WarnerMedia will acquire both companies is another matter. MaX suggested Disney acquire Discovery to bolster its National Geographic channel and to keep the Discovery brand as lifestyle channels. Disney+ brands: Disney Pixar Marvel Star

NCSC

GCHQ & NCSC Security Update Advice

I tend to agree with everything the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and National Cycber Security Centre (NCSC) published for advising businesses, enterprise, Government and residential cyber security. A few of the key NCSC directors, experts and leaders issued advice during the NCSC CYBERUK21 virtual conference I do not agree with

Apple

Apple Capped at $2.25 Trillion

Apple is not in trouble being stuck around $2.25 Trillion - this is not a bad thing. $115 to $145 is the range MaX expects Apple to be ponging for the next 12 to 24 months.

Apple

Apple 2021 eGPU Module

2020 Apple Mac mini M1 does not currently support any external graphics Check out my previous article on Apple Silicon M1 + eGPU2020 Apple Mac mini M1 does not currently support any external graphics Check out my previous article on Apple Silicon M1 + eGPUApple worked with Blackmagic Design to build the

UK Government

UK Government Communication/Social Orchestration Platform

The United Kingdom Government is keen to maintain high-levels of communication with the United Kingdom public, partner organisations and countries around the World. This culminates in blogs hosted on blog.gov.uk which contains 143 blogs with thousands of posts. The United Kingdom Government's communication commitments can be seen with

SpaceX

Elon - Is it Worth Landing a Micro Data Centre on the Moon?

MaX recently posted "Elon - Land a Micro Data Centre on Mars" which led to considering landing a micro data centre on the Moon as a good first step to test such a significant task of landing a micro data centre on Mars.

SpaceX

Elon - Land a Micro Data Centre on Mars

In an effort to show the capabilities of SpaceX, along with preparing for Humans on Mars, MaX suggests building a micro data centre the size of a shipping container which can be landed on Mars with fold out solar, battery storage, nuclear battery for stormy days and communications links.

Discord

Discord Fell From Microsoft’s Tree

Discord communities were crying at the news Discord is in talks to be acquired by Microsoft for $10 B+ Seemingly all happier now Discord is no longer in talks with Microsoft.

Discord

Discord and Microsoft Sitting in a Tree

Discord communities are crying at the news Discord is in talks to be acquired by Microsoft for $10 B+

ICANN

Brand TLD Root Hosting

A Brand TLD is very different to the country code TLD (ccTLD) and generic TLD (gTLD) which service many domains and subdomains. MaX Saxe Design could acquire .msd (already registered). MaX would want to be able to host on https://msd and register max@msd.

PCIe

PCIe 4.0 or Go Home

Go Home Intel - you are 14 nm and PCIe 3.0 AMD is 7 nm and PCIe 4.0 Arm is 7nm and PCIe 4.0/5.0 IBM is 7 nm and PCIe 4.0/5.0 + OpenCAPI