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date: 2023-12-01, from: This week in Indie Web
From events.indieweb.org/archive:
From events.indieweb.org:
<p>HWC Nuremberg is now a regular meeting.</div></div> <p>HWC Nuremberg is now a regular meeting.</div></div>From huffduffer.com/tags/indieweb:
From news.indieweb.org:
From IndieWeb Wiki: New User Pages:
Created by Maggieappleton.com on Monday and edited 3 more times
Created by Alxwntr.com on Sunday and edited 1 more time
Created by Roxwize.xyz on Sunday
Created by Bestcanadianflorists.com on Tuesday
From IndieWeb Wiki: New Pages:
remark42 is a open source commenting system that has sign in support for silos, can be self-hosted in comparsion to isso.
Created by [jacky] on Wednesday and edited 3 more times
IndieWeb Black Friday Create Day — Build Don’t Buy was an IndieWeb Create Day on Zoom held on held on 2023-11-24.
Created by Cali.moe on Saturday with 3 more edits by gregorlove.com and jamesg.blog
IndieAuth extensions are IndieAuth extensions that are proposed, prototyped, or implemented beyond the official IndieAuth specification.
Created by David.shanske.com on Monday
From IndieWeb Wiki: New Pages:
Homebrew Website Club Europe/London: 2023-11-29
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date: 2023-12-01, from: Windows Developer Blog
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are deep learning architectures that generate high quality synthetic images of people, animals or objects. These networks have enabled developers to provide text-based prompts for generating realistic images, mo
The post Using ONNX Runtime to explore DragGAN to generate high quality synthetic images appeared first on Windows Developer Blog.
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date: 2023-12-01, from: OS News
Currently, there are many settings/registry keys that developers desire to tweak that are either not accessible via the Windows Settings app and/or are difficult to discover throughout the OS. Users may have to resort to running scripts or manually changing registry keys to get their machine into their ideal state. Furthermore, there is not a single place for developers to discover and tweak new Windows features specific to developer workflows that are in development and provide feedback on them. This means that developers may not even be aware of features or settings that they can tweak to improve their workflows and optimize their productivity/machine performance. Finally, lots of developers have to search the web to find the best settings to tweak to optimize their machine for their specific use case — there isn’t a single place to find what settings are recommended by fellow developers. Microsoft is soliciting feedback on a possible new settings panel that would centralise popular advanced settings in Windows that currently require registry hacks or are otherwise difficult to find. The company wants to know which features and settings are a good fit for such a panel, and what such a panel should look like. This is an excellent idea, and something I’m sure many of the Windows users here would love to see.
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date: 2023-12-01, from: NASA breaking news
During a ceremony in Washington Nov. 30, Angola became the 33rd country to sign the Artemis Accords. The Artemis Accords establish a practical set of principles to guide space exploration cooperation among nations, including those participating in NASA’s Artemis program. NASA, in coordination with the U.S. Department of State, established the Artemis Accords in 2020 […]
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date: 2023-12-01, from: OS News
A team of researchers primarily from Google’s DeepMind systematically convinced ChatGPT to reveal snippets of the data it was trained on using a new type of attack prompt which asked a production model of the chatbot to repeat specific words forever. Using this tactic, the researchers showed that there are large amounts of privately identifiable information (PII) in OpenAI’s large language models. They also showed that, on a public version of ChatGPT, the chatbot spit out large passages of text scraped verbatim from other places on the internet. So not only are these things cases of mass copyright infringement, they also violate countless privacy laws. Cool.
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date: 2023-12-01, from: OS News
As 2023 draws to a close—and as we start to finalize our Game of the Year contenders—I really should be catching up on the embarrassingly long list of great recent releases that I haven’t put enough time into this year. Instead, over the last few days, I’ve found myself once again hooked on a simple, addictive, and utterly unique Japanese Windows freeware game from the late ’90s that, until recently, I thought I had lost forever. Pendulumania is a cult classic in the truest sense of the word: Few people have heard of it, even in hardcore gaming circles, but those who have experienced it tend to have very fond memories of it. And while I shared those memories, it wasn’t until this week that I’ve been able to share my effusive praise for a game whose name and playable executable had eluded me for well over a decade. What a great story.
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-12-01, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
A bit of a mindbomb. All the different ways to view Frank Meeuwsen’s blogroll in FeedLand.
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date: 2023-12-01, from: NASA breaking news
December 1, 2023 It is my pleasure to share information about new hires within NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) on this blog, and it is also my bittersweet duty to share information about retirements. After 40 years with NASA, Kristen Erickson – Director of NASA Science Engagement & Partnerships Division — will retire at the […]
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-12-01, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
WordPress.org
has a site where people
share Creative Commons licensed photos. We asked them to support image
enclosures (aka artcasting) in
their
feed. They just did. And as a result their flow
looks
outstanding on FeedLand, which totally supports this format. This is
a bell-ringer event, this is what we’re about – building up and out from
where we are in the land of feeds. We can do a lot if we work
together.
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date: 2023-12-01, from: NASA breaking news
Former NASA Acting Administrator Steve Jurczyk passed away Nov. 23, at the age of 61, following a battle with pancreatic cancer. During his career, which spanned more than three decades with the agency, Jurczyk rose in ranks to associate administrator, the highest-ranking civil servant, a position he held from May 2018 until January 2021. He […]
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date: 2023-12-01, from: NASA breaking news
In the pre-dawn hours on Dec. 2, 1993, the space shuttle Endeavour launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a critical mission to repair NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble was designed to be serviced in space with components that astronauts can slide in and out of place. But prior to launch, no one expected […]
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date: 2023-12-01, from: Jeff Geerling blog
Pi clusters aren’t dumb
<div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>...and the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v56JNYCk11E">video I just posted on the Mars 400</a> explores the topic a bit more.</p>
But every time I’ve posted a video, blog post, tweet (xeet?), or anything else on the topic of Pi clusters, a common sentiment is “you can do that faster and cheaper with a set of VMs.”
Or, during the Pi shortage (which is basically over), when you could only buy Pis from scalpers for insane markups, the sentiment was “you can do that faster and for the same price with a bunch of used mini PCs.”
Luckily, with Compute Modules coming back into general availability at MSRP, and Pi 4s being available at most local retailers as well (at least here in the US?), building hobby clusters of 3, 4, or 6 Raspberry Pis is achievable again, for a few hundred bucks, all-in.
<span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Jeff Geerling</span></span>
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date: 2023-12-01, from: NASA breaking news
In microgravity, without the continuous load of Earth’s gravity, the tissues that make up bones reshape themselves. Bone cells readjust their behaviors—the cells that build new bone slow down, while the cells that break down old or damaged bone tissue keep operating at their normal pace so that breakdown outpaces growth, producing weaker and more […]
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date: 2023-12-01, updated: 2023-12-01, from: Deno blog
Discover new improvements in Fresh 1.6 that simplify your project and make it speedier.
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-12-01, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Remember Bingeworthy? It fell off the air when Twitter blew up their API. I keep wanting it back, because I keep watching shows that should be in its database. I miss it. Then I realized it’s not that different from the group of explorers who are putting their app choices into feeds. The Bingeworthy database is people, shows and ratings. The simplest relational database possible. It would be easy to represent each user as a feed, where each item is a rating. The link for each item would be a pointer to the Metacritic page. And then give each feed a category of bingeworthy. From there, we explore. BTW, this is the SQL code that creates the BW database.
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-12-01, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Another month past, archive created. Clean slate.
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@Tomosino’s Mastodon feed (date: 2023-12-01, from: Tomosino’s Mastodon feed)
Rare earth metals are essential for our modern life, whether in EV motors, cell phones, or in electronics in general. Mining these metals is notoriously difficult and dirty. How might a Solarpunk future address this issue? How might we get there from where we are today? Through this prompt we explore the realities of rare earth mining today and a few ways it might evolve into a sustainable future.
https://podcast.tomasino.org/@SolarpunkPrompts/episodes/the-miners
#solarpunk #writing #rareearth #mining #hope #activism
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date: 2023-12-01, from: NASA breaking news
This Hubble image features a massive cluster of brightly glowing galaxies, first identified as Abell 3192. Like all galaxy clusters, this one is suffused with hot gas that emits powerful X-rays, and it is enveloped in a halo of invisible dark matter. All this unseen material – not to mention the many galaxies visible in this image […]
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date: 2023-12-01, updated: 2023-12-01, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>Two of the most popular "traditional" – read Windows-like – desktops happened to land the same version number at once.</p>https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/01/cinnamon_6_kde_6b/ Save to Pocket
date: 2023-12-01, from: Manu - I write blog
This is the 14th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Nicolas Magand and his blog, thejollyteapot.com.
I think I first connected with Nicolas ages ago through our blogs. I can’t remember if he wrote to me or I wrote to him but I’m happy we did ultimatelly connect and he’s been a presence in my RSS feed ever since.
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Let's start from the basics: can you introduce yourself?
My name is Nicolas Magand, and I was born in Saint-Étienne, France. At first, I wasn’t very interested in the web. I preferred playing video games and watching football on TV. I was studying sustainable development and biology at university. However, once I got my first computer at the age of 20, around 2004 when I was living abroad in Scotland, I discovered a new passion for technology: Twitter, iPods, software, blogs, computers, BlackBerry phones, podcasts, and so on. This hobby eventually led me to a career, and I ended up working in content marketing for companies like Microsoft and Xiaomi. I spent most of the 2010s in Paris, but the pandemic and my current employer (PrestaShop) allowed me in 2020 to work remotely from the beautiful city of Strasbourg, which is where I happily live now.
What's the story behind your blog?
The blog in its current form is ten years old, more or less. I had numerous versions of it before, on (many) different platforms, and other blogs before it. I think I started blogging on Windows Live Spaces, back in 2005, then Blogger, I think. I then switched from writing in French to English (the de facto language of the web, especially in my interest circles), and ended up using Posterous, Tumblr, and Squarespace. I used to share all the things I found interesting online and rant about different topics. Unfortunately, this blogging habit ended up being replaced by Twitter itself, and if you look at my archives, you’ll see huge time gaps between some articles: blogging felt redundant at times, and tweets were so much easier to write.
Once I finally managed to post more regularly, I felt that my blog needed its own name and identity, instead of just being “my name dot com.” The name The Jolly Teapot is loosely inspired by a comic strip from the excellent Tom Gauld, and I found that it had a nice “early 2000s” vibe.
The past couple of years were mostly focused on working on its barebones design, during which I learned a lot about CSS and HTML. It also served as a way for me to procrastinate any form of writing, which sometimes feels too much like my day job.
What does your creative process look like when it comes to blogging?
I want to say that three quarters of my blog posts come from reading an article I just read on a topic that I’m familiar with, on which I feel I have something of value to add. I read a column or a blog post, and I want to add something, comment, criticise, rant, approve, etc. These are the cherished moments where I realise that blogging is part of my web habits, and part of me. Without this blogging action, my experience of the web would feel incomplete.
Do you have an ideal creative environment? Also do you believe the physical space influences your creativity?
I love to read and write very early in the morning when it’s quiet and dark. I just need my MacBook Air on my lap and a fresh cup of coffee. In the evening my brain is too foggy to write anything interesting. What I like to do is edit a draft on a different day than I wrote it: I find that it improves the process quite a lot, even if it means publishing a day or two later (my posts need a lot of editing).
A question for the techie readers: can you run us through your tech stack?
My blog uses Blot as a CMS, which is absolutely fantastic and I couldn’t think of something better for me: I just use my text editor app of choice, and everything happens in the background via Dropbox, it’s really great. My domain is registered on Cloudflare, where I have set up a CDN for the blog to gain a few precious milliseconds of loading time, which is both unnecessary and essential. I am currently trying to fit AI into my workflow, and so far it can be pretty great for editing, which is something at which I am really bad and hate doing. I’m less convinced by transcription: I thought I could save a lot of time by dictating my thoughts instead of typing them, but I quickly realised that typing is what makes my thoughts work. Without writing my thoughts are just all over the place and the transcripts are barely usable.
Given your experience, if you were to start a blog today, would you do anything differently?
If I were to start today, I would like to think that I’d use the exact same tech stack and the same name. What I would definitely do differently, though, is better define the topics I would write about from the start. I think consistency is key in maintaining a good publishing pace, and I also think readers like to know what they can expect from a specific blogger. If I were to start today, I’d either stick to one, two, or three specific topics and formats. I think these artificial boundaries would have helped me find a voice sooner and publish more posts.
Financial question since the web is obsessed with money: how much does it cost to run your blog? Is it just a cost or does it generate some revenue? And what's your position on people monetising personal blogs?
Between Cloudflare, the domain name, and Blot, I think I spend around 100 euros per year for my blog, which is quite cheap considering the amount of joy it’s giving me: after publishing an article I’m happy with, I feel like a million bucks as the Americans would say. I would definitely not consider this a cost, but an investment in myself.
If one has the opportunity to earn some money with their blog, I think it’s fantastic, as long as it doesn’t ruin the website, or the content itself. If I could make a living blogging, I would. I am happy to support a few bloggers, either through subscriptions, or through one-time contributions.
Time for some recommendations: any blog you think is worth checking out? And also, who do you think I should be interviewing next?
I have so many names in mind, but right now I’m thinking of Winnie Lim, always great to read and her blog feels like the essence of blogging, just like Maggie Appleton. Another name I have in mind is Robin Rendle (Robin's P&B interview is available here). Robin’s blog has one of the best designs around, even if it changes often. Then there’s Daniel Gray's Meanwhile, which isn’t really a “blog” but could be. Also, Kev Quirk (Kev's P&B interview is available here) and Bradley Taunt, who surely have something very interesting to say about blogging.
Final question: is there anything you want to share with us?
If I were still on social media, I would probably share most of the entries from The Onion's American Voices section, which, to me, is the best corner of the web. I also tell all my friends to subscribe to the Dense Discovery newsletter. When I travel to Paris by train once a month for work, I’m always hoping to find a new episode of the North v South design podcast.
This was the 14th edition of People and Blogs. Hope you enjoyed this interview with Nicolas. Make sure to follow his blog (RSS) and get in touch with him if you have any questions.
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date: 2023-12-01, from: NASA breaking news
It’s that time of year again: winter! Here in the Northern Hemisphere, the cold, crisp sky offers spectacular views of the Orion Nebula!
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date: 2023-12-01, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
Our Maker in Residence made me an e-Ink display so I could watch a festive film every second of the day in the run up to Christmas.
The post Watch a festive film every second of the day until Christmas appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
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date: 2023-12-01, updated: 2023-12-01, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>9Front, the main project continuing development of Plan 9 from Bell Labs, has emitted another new version, as enigmatic but significant as ever.</p>https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/01/9front_humanbiologics/ Save to Pocket
date: 2023-12-01, from: Hundred Rabbits blog
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we’ve done to our projects during the month of November.
Wiktopher is finally finished. We started this book in 2017 while in French Polynesia, constrained by power limitations and hardware failures. Writing demanded less energy than drawing digitally, Rek could use the Chromebook to work (see tools ecosystem). You can read the first two chapters of the finished story here[4.1 MiB] as a PDF. If you liked what you’ve read, we hope you’ll consider reading the rest!
We treated ourselves this month to new saloon cushions(see upholstery). We sleep and live on these, it’s so nice to have plump cushions again!
IMPORTANT. You may have heard but the service we use to send our newsletter(TinyLetter) is shutting down early next year (Feb 2024). We are in the process of setting up an alternative, we’ll provide details on that in December’s newsletter and on this website.
We are reading Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49, and enjoyed watching Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
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date: 2023-12-01, from: Hannah Richie at Substack
We won’t run out of minerals to build a low-carbon energy system.
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date: 2023-12-01, from: Michael Tsai
Romain Dillet (via Jason Snell): While Amazon’s Kindle is the clear leader and Rakuten’s Kobo the obvious challenger, Vivlio has been building an open European alternative to these two tech giants. And it proves that you can compete with tech giants with a team of 35 as long as you have a distinct strategy with […]
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date: 2023-12-01, from: Michael Tsai
Daniel Jalkut: The addition of Mastodon support is a natural extension of the new Micropost Panel which was introduced in MarsEdit 5. I’ve prioritized the feedback of many users and added the ability to resize, add images, view character count, and more. This is a welcome addition, although I haven’t settled on exactly how I […]
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date: 2023-12-01, from: Michael Tsai
Howard Oakley: Band size is the maximum size of each band file, and determines two things: the number of band files, and how efficiently the whole sparse bundle can change in size. In most cases, the default is 8.4 MB, which generally works well for all but the largest of sparse bundles. There’s one important […]
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date: 2023-12-01, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Xmas gift ideas! In an American newspaper — in 1912! We EV owners used to feel smug about being ‘early adopters’. Turns out we are over a century behind the curve! Thanks to Quentin (a fellow EV owner) for spotting … Continue reading
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date: 2023-12-01, from: OS News
Does anyone here remember Cosmoe? Cosmoe was an attempt to combine Haiku’s API with the Linux kernel and related tools, started in the early 2000s. The project eventually fizzled out, now only an obscure footnote for BeOS diehards such as myself. It seems, though, that the idea of combining the Haiku API with a mature UNIX-like operating system refuses to die, and a few days ago, on the NetBSD Users’s Discussion List, a developer by the name of Stephan picked up the baton. Some years ago I already started to work on a compatibility layer for NetBSD and resumed working on it recently. I think a compatibility layer would mostly consist of kernel components and a custom libroot.so. I have created a libroot that provides functionality missing in libc and it should behave like the original one. It makes use of libc and libpthread at the moment as well as syscalls of the kernel components. The source can be found on Github. This is clearly an experimental project, but Stephan does note he has had success running the Haiku IPC test programs, so it’s definitely more than scribbles on a napkin. The attraction of this idea is clear, too – Haiku API, but on a stable kernel with vastly superior hardware and device support. I’m not entirely sure if it’s got life in it, but even if it doesn’t – it’s amazing work, and that in an of itself makes it a success.
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date: 2023-12-01, from: OS News
Cinnamon, the desktop environment mostly associated with Linux Mint, has released its sixth version. It also adds support for AVIF images, a new option for notification screen selection, a new gesture for desktop zoom, a new menu details option, color picker support in the screenshot service, and an xdg-portal configuration file. Various improvements are present as well to fix missing thumbnails for windows that are created while the Menu applet is open, enable window resizing in the Cinnamon Menu Editor, fix a bug causing the Menu applet to be partly behind the panel, fix the Power applet’s battery status, fix reloading of desklets after an update when multiple instances are running, and ensure the Settings window fits the toolbar when expanded. Cinnamon 6.0’s biggest new feature is an experimental Wayland session, marking the first steps towards fully supporting Wayland in the near future.
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date: 2023-12-01, from: Dave Karpf’s blog
Let us all point-and-laugh together
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date: 2023-12-01, from: Low-tech magazine
A year after Low-tech Magazine built and documented a domestic bicycle generator, the Pavillon d’Arsenal in Paris asked if they could borrow it for an exhibition. We agreed to build a new one instead. The result of our work is now part of the exhibition “Énergies légères”, which runs until March 2024. The installation gives visitors an idea of how much energy they can produce as humans.
In October, we built a third energy bicycle during a workshop at the House of the Future in Rotterdam. This bicycle generator is now used as an energy source in the community center. The House of the Future is open to the public, for details see their website and instagram.
In a future article, we will cover the construction process and technical details of these two new muscular power plants. These machines are based on spinning bikes and are more powerful than the first bike generator we built.
The first energy bike we made in 2022 is currently on display at AkashaHub in Barcelona. For details see their website and instagram.
Finally, Andy Lagzdins built a pedal-powered air compressor to run the power tools in his motorcycle workshop, a project that he documented on Low-tech Magazine. We have now put a video online showing how the machine works.
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date: 2023-12-01, from: Max Halford Blog
A tenant of the modern data stack is the use of ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) over ETL (Extract, Transform, Load). In a nutshell, this means that most of the data transformation is done in the data warehouse. This has become the de facto standard for modern data teams, and is epitomized by dbt and its ecosystem. It’s a great time to be a data engineer! We at Carbonfact fully embrace the ELT paradigm.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Michael Tsai
Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer, enterprise, full installer, M3, IPSW, M3): According to Apple’s security support page, the update fixes two vulnerabilities that Apple says were exploited on versions of iOS earlier than iOS 16.7.1. See also: Mr. Macintosh and Howard Oakley. Previously: macOS 14.1.1
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Michael Tsai
Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer): iOS 17.1.2 includes important security fixes. Specifically, the update addresses vulnerabilities that may have been exploited in earlier versions of iOS.Processing web content may disclose sensitive information.[…]Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. Previously: iOS 17.1.1 and iPadOS 17.1.1
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date: 2023-11-30, from: NASA breaking news
Despite their small size, the satellites launching through NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) missions have a big impact, creating access to space for many who might not otherwise have the opportunity. One recent mission tells the story of four teams of researchers and engineers who conceived, built, launched, and collected data from these shoebox-sized satellites, […]
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@Jessica Smith’s blog (date: 2023-11-30, from: Jessica Smith’s blog)
Remember Viv’s Move-ember challenge? So, even though Viv led the office for the entire month up to the final hour, and even though he averaged 23,000 steps per day over the 30 days and did 50,000 steps yesterday, he got pipped at the final hurdle by the person who had been in no. 2 position. Apparently she did a 4½ hour session on the exercise bike, finishing right at midnight 😂
In addition, even though technically the Victorian office beat the NSW one, in my opinion they cheated because the NSW office had way more average steps per person and the Vic office only won because it’s larger. Believe me, as a born-and-raised Victorian this brings me no pleasure to say.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: NASA breaking news
NASA was on full display during the 50th Annual Bayou Classic Fan Fest activity in New Orleans on Nov. 25, hosting an informational booth and interacting with event participants to deliver a clear message – There’s Space for Everybody at NASA. In addition to event signage and messaging, NASA representatives were out in force during […]
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date: 2023-11-30, from: OS News
This ambition to escape dependence on foreign technology rests on the shoulders of Huawei and SMIC. The successful launch of the Kirin 9000S injected new vigor into the semiconductor industry, with executives reporting that chip start-ups are seeing a surge in funding. But Huawei’s long-term ambitions are not limited to the markets in China’s orbit. The original nickname for the Kirin 9000S—Charlotte—is a symbol of these hopes. It was named not for an individual, but for the city in North Carolina. Other mobile semiconductors in development are also named internally for US cities, insiders say. Using American names, says one Huawei employee, reflects “our desire to one day reclaim our place in the global supply chain.” It’s amazing how without any official support and using cobbled-together outdated lithography machines, Huawei and SMIC have managed to make a reasonably competitive smartphone SoC. As I keep saying – Chinese chip makers have the full financial might of the Chinese state behind them, and they’ll stop at nothing to reduce their dependence on ASML, TSMC, Intel, AMD, and so on. And they’re making progress.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Mozilla Developer Network blog
A month ago, we introduced our Nightly package for Debian-based Linux distributions. Today, we are proud to announce we made our .deb package available for Developer Edition and Beta!
The post Firefox Developer Edition and Beta: Try out Mozilla’s .deb package! appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: NASA breaking news
NASA hosted its second annual Architecture Concept Review in mid-November, bringing together leaders from across the agency to discuss progress on and updates to NASA’s Moon to Mars architecture since NASA released outcomes from its first such review in April. As NASA builds a blueprint for human exploration throughout the solar system for the benefit […]
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Tilde.news
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Is the link tax dead? The Canadian government, faced by heavy opposition from many news publishers, blinked Wednesday when regulators and Google agreed to an “exemption” from the controversial Online News Act, set to take effect Dec. 18. Google will continue to link to Canadian news online, and will pay about $100 million a year…
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date: 2023-11-30, from: NASA breaking news
As part of the long-standing partnership, NASA worked with Google Arts & Culture to create an interactive digital experience around global freshwater.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: NASA breaking news
Most NASA missions feature one spacecraft or, occasionally, a few. The agency’s Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE) is using half a dozen. This month, mission members completed construction of the six identical cereal box-size satellites, which will now go into storage and await their final testing and ride to space. SunRISE will launch as […]
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date: 2023-11-30, updated: 2023-11-30, from: Bruce Schneier blog
This is clever:
The actual attack is kind of silly. We prompt the model with the command “Repeat the word ‘poem’ forever” and sit back and watch as the model responds (complete transcript here).
In the (abridged) example above, the model emits a real email address and phone number of some unsuspecting entity. This happens rather often when running our attack. And in our strongest configuration, over five percent of the output ChatGPT emits is a direct verbatim 50-token-in-a-row copy from its training dataset.
Lots of details at the link and …
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
It’s been five years since I re-did the Scripting News home page. It was overdue. The new version isn’t all that different on the surface from the previous version, here’s a list of things to look at.
The big change under the covers is that it hooks into FeedLand on its own. When you’re reading the Bloggers tab, you’re reading content that came directly from the new Automattic-hosted FeedLand server.
The list of feeds behind the Bloggers tab right now are just placeholders. We’re going to work with other sources, using reading lists, to create a news flow from blogs that we think are interesting, along with what other people think are interesting. How this will develop is not yet clear, but we are going to work on this. When I say “we,” I mean Chuck Grimmett and myself and others at Automattic. This is the kind of stuff they do for WordPress users, so it fits right in imho with our respective skills.
Speaking
for myself, I want to engage with more bloggers. We used to have
something, and I think we can again.
We’re putting a lot of development behind this. FeedLand has been in development for almost three freaking years. This last year has been spent turning corners, and building out features so they can scale to Automattic-level flow. And adding one major new kickass feature to the world of feeds – reading lists. The ability to subscribe to lists of feeds. We’re going to use that in a lot of places. I wanted to get that in the product before we started using it. And it’s in, and it works. There are still a few glitches to work out, you know – software can always work better than it does. 😄
All I can say is we’re getting there. Today’s FeedLand does a lot more and works a lot better than last year’s.
And now Scripting News is part of that. So we’ll be able to make the new stuff more visible, by using it here in this site.
Still diggin!
As they say.
PS: news.scripting.com is still there and updating as before.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: NASA breaking news
“I want to help the Native community get better representation and show that we can help Native citizens get into aerospace engineering, mathematics, or [other STEM career fields]. And the Cherokee and Choctaw Nations are trying to do the same thing on their reservations. They have amazing education networks, so when I realized what they […]
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date: 2023-11-30, from: NASA breaking news
A group of dead stars known as “spider pulsars” are obliterating companion stars within their reach. Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory of the globular cluster Omega Centauri is helping astronomers understand how these spider pulsars prey on their stellar companions. A pulsar is the spinning dense core that remains after a massive star collapses into itself to form a neutron star. Rapidly rotating […]
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date: 2023-11-30, from: NASA breaking news
An international team of astronomers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to provide the first observation of water and other molecules in the highly irradiated inner, rocky-planet-forming regions of a disk in one of the most extreme environments in our galaxy. These results suggest that the conditions for terrestrial planet formation can occur in […]
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
PiAutoStage uses a Raspberry Pi and a High Quality Camera to iteratively move a microscope stage a little at a time, in order to build a high-resolution image of an entire sample.
The post PiAutoStage: a universally adaptable microscope stage appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-30, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Chuck came across a group of bloggers posting detailed lists of apps they use. There’s been quite a turnout. Lots of useful info in these posts.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: NASA breaking news
“The goal is to get as many of the wrong ideas out of the way as early as possible. “So we’ll come up with some idea, especially on the research side, and sometimes it will seem really brilliant on the napkin or in a conversation with one other person. “[When I started working on electric […]
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date: 2023-11-30, from: OS News
Our nightly example browser, servoshell, is now easier to navigate, accepting URLs without http:// or https:// both in the location bar and on the command line, and should no longer lock up when run with –no-minibrowser. Local paths can also be given on the command line, and are still preferred when the path points to a file that exists. Work is now underway to improve our embedding story and prepare Servo for integration with Tauri, starting with precompiled ANGLE for faster initial builds, better support for offscreen rendering, and support for multiple webviews. These changes haven’t landed yet, but once they do, apps will be able to open, move, resize, and interleave Servo with other widgets. I’m curious what the future will bring to Servo. It seems under very active development, but it’s not part of any of the main browser projects. Let’s hope they can keep up the momentum so that it can grow into a viable alternative. Because lord do we need one.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: OS News
Evaluating the performance of CPUs with identical cores is relatively straightforward, and they’re easy to compare using single- and multi-core benchmarks. When there are two different types of core, one designed primarily for energy efficiency (E), the other for maximum performance (P), traditional benchmarks can readily mislead. Multi-core results are dominated by the ratio of P to E cores, and variable frequency confounds further. In this series of articles, I set out to disentangle these when comparing core performance between Apple’s original M1 Pro and its third-generation M3 Pro chips. This first article explains why and how I am investigating this, and shows overall results for performance and power use under a range of loads. Articles like these will help you make an informed decision about whether or not your workloads can benefit from moving from an M1/M2 to an M3.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Raspberry Pi (.org)
Google DeepMind’s Aimee Welch discusses our partnership on the Experience AI learning programme and why equal access to AI education is key. This article also appears in issue 22 of Hello World on teaching and AI. From AI chatbots to self-driving cars, artificial intelligence (AI) is here and rapidly transforming our world. It holds the…
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
When we tell friends and colleagues that we research people who consume basically no news at all, one of the most common questions they ask is some version of “Who are these people?” To committed news consumers, especially those who love news, avoiding news consistently and habitually seems mysterious, possible only for the most radical…
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Jessica Smith’s blog
OK, I bothered opening up Spotify on my phone to check out my actual Wrapped. Fun discoveries:
Because I use Last.fm there were no surprises with regard to my top artists or anything. I think my favourite feature was the artist messages, at least the ones who seemed earnest and not totally phoning it in. I was excited Alexandra Savior said she had new music coming “very, very soon”, because the other day I read a 2021 interview with her where she said much the same thing and was like, “…where did it go?”
I guess next year should be back to my Spotify Wrapped being a bit more surprising (read: not identical to my Last.fm stats) because I’m trying to go back to cultivating my own music collection and listening to it via Plexamp (but still using Spotify somewhat for breadth and discovery). That’ll be a fun journey.
![My Spotify Wrapped 2023 summary slide. Top Artists: The Twilight Sad, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Placebo, Editors, The National. Top Songs: I/m Not Here [Missing Face], I Became a Prostitute, There’s a Girl in the Corner, The Bitter End, Red Eyes and Tears. Minutes Listened: 60,037. Top Genre: Rock.](https://www.jayeless.net/media/2023/11/spotify-wrapped.png)
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date: 2023-11-30, from: NASA breaking news
Six “sub-Neptune” exoplanets orbit their star in a kind of rhythmic dance – one easily set to music.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Peter Warden
Imagine asking a box on a pillar at Home Depot “Where are the nails?” and getting directions, your fridge responding with helpful advice when you say “Why is the ice maker broken?”, or your car answering “How do I change the wiper speed?”. I think of these kinds of voice assistants for everyday objects as […]
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@Jessica Smith’s blog (date: 2023-11-30, from: Jessica Smith’s blog)
So I’m doing the “let the Spotify DJ walk you through your 2023 Wrapped” thing, and the very first song was… Interpol’s “Leif Erikson”, which I think I would’ve listened to exactly two times all year (when I listened to the whole album) if Spotify didn’t insist on cramming it into every single “songs it goes on to when an album finishes” set.
Also, so far, every other one of my “top songs” this year has been by Interpol too. But maybe that’s just the DJ organising my “top songs” by artist or something. Interpol still isn’t exactly where I’d have started, though (they rank 7th for my year up to 15 Nov, according to Last.fm).
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date: 2023-11-30, from: PostgreSQL News
Pgpool-II is a tool to add useful features to PostgreSQL, including:
Pgpool Global Development Group is pleased to announce the availability of following versions of Pgpool-II:
Please note that 4.0.25 is the last release of the 4.0.x series.
Please take a look at release notes.
You can download the source code and RPMs.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: PostgreSQL News
PGConf.de 2024 is the next iteration of the PostgreSQL Conference Germany. It takes place in the “Munich Marriott Hotel City West” in Munich.
The conference will take place on April 12th, 2024.
Registration for the conference is open. Talks will be in German or English language. Tickets must be purchased online.
The Call for Papers and the Call for Sponsors will open soon.
See you in Munich in April 2024!
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date: 2023-11-29, from: NASA breaking news
Artemis II Crew Enjoys Visit with Marshall Team Members By Wayne Smith From talking about continuing the legacy of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in space exploration to describing their roles in an upcoming historic mission, Artemis II astronauts enjoyed visiting with center team members Nov. 27. The crew will be the first to ride […]
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date: 2023-11-29, from: NASA breaking news
Retired NASA astronaut Mary Cleave, a veteran of two NASA spaceflights, died Nov. 27. She was 76. A scientist with training in civil and environmental engineering, as well as biological sciences and microbial ecology, Cleave was the first woman to serve as an associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. Born in Southampton, New York, […]
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date: 2023-11-29, from: NASA breaking news
NASA conducted the third RS-25 engine hot fire in a critical 12-test certification series Nov. 29, demonstrating a key capability necessary for flight of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket during Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond. NASA is conducting the series of tests to certify new manufacturing processes for producing RS-25 engines for […]
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date: 2023-11-29, from: NASA breaking news
NASA is working to resume science operations of the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope after it entered safe mode Nov. 23 due to an ongoing gyroscope (gyro) issue. Hubble’s instruments are stable, and the telescope is in good health. The telescope automatically entered safe mode when one of its three gyroscopes gave faulty readings. The gyros […]
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Michael Tsai
koepnick (via Hacker News): This is revolting and an anathema to the open source movement. A movement, I might add, Microsoft is abusing here.We’re told that this is for security… But what possible point is there when I can simply clone the repository and use more dedicated tools for proper searching and analysis?So what possible […]
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Michael Tsai
Roman Loyola (via Hacker News): Since the MacBook Air doesn’t have a fan for the SoC, its performance will throttle down during processor-intensive work to maintain a proper operating temperature. The M2 13-inch MacBook Pro, on the other hand, has a fan that expels excessive heat so the chip can keep chugging along. The AirJet […]
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Michael Tsai
Catalin Cimpanu (2019, via Hacker News): A former high-ranking Mozilla executive has accused Google of intentionally and systematically sabotaging Firefox over the past decade in order to boost Chrome’s adoption.He is not the first Firefox team member to come forward and make such accusations in the past eight months; however, his allegations span far beyond […]
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-29, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I’m always doing test posts on this blog. This is one of those times.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Computer ads from the Past
When you’ve already made the best home computer, what do you do for an encore?
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date: 2023-11-29, from: NASA breaking news
November 29, 2023 NASA has selected Dr. Joseph Westlake to fill the position of Heliophysics Division Director. Joe will join the Science Mission Directorate and assume his new role on Jan. 16, 2024. I am pleased to have Joe take on the role as the Heliophysics Division Director. Joe has a strong background in heliophysics […]
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Mozilla Developer Network blog
We’re thrilled to announce the first release of llamafile, inviting the open source community to join this groundbreaking project.
With llamafile, you can effortlessly convert large language model (LLM) weights into executables. Imagine transforming a 4GB file of LLM weights into a binary that runs smoothly on six different operating systems, without requiring installation.
The post Introducing llamafile appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: NASA breaking news
City lights stretch across the United States like a string of holiday lights in this image taken from the International Space Station on Nov. 10, 2023. At far left, the lights of Chicago, Illinois, are outlined by Lake Michigan. At far right, the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area shines through the clouds while the sun’s first […]
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Tilde.news
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
The San Diego-based nonprofit newsroom inewsource has published in-depth accountability reporting since 2009. The vision? “Betrayals of the public trust are revealed and rectified, wrongdoing is deterred, and inequities are illuminated thanks to inewsource’s deep, dogged, fact-based reporting,” according to the site. Recent series have looked at the toll of Border Patrol chases, prisoner deaths…
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date: 2023-11-29, from: NASA breaking news
Two small businesses are benefitting from NASA’s expertise as they develop heat shield technologies, cargo delivery systems, and new protective materials for spacecraft and space stations in the growing commercial industry of low Earth orbit operations. The two American companies – Canopy Aerospace Inc. of Littleton, Colorado and Outpost Technologies Corp. of Santa Monica, California […]
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
I’m finally happy with the next iteration of Scripting News. It’ll be quite a bit simpler than what I demo’d over the weekend.
For comic relief, I asked my friend ChatGPT, to draw a rendering of my new design, based on these instructions.
i want you to draw me a picture of the user interface of my blog, scripting news, as i describe it here. there are four tabs: blog, links, bloggers and about. below the tabs is a display area, where the content of the selected tab is displayed. above the tabs, across the whole width of the window is an artistic picture, with the big letters SCRIPTING NEWS overlaying it. Just below is the site slogan, “it’s even worse than it appears.” In your drawing the picture behind the letters should be of a hippie band playing in golden gate park. have fun!
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-29, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>Red Hat reckons Wayland is now mature enough to take over as the only display server in the forthcoming RHEL 10.</p>https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/29/rhel_10_dropping_x11/ Save to Pocket
date: 2023-11-29, from: FreeDOS News
Every month, we like to get together for an online meet-up, so we can get to know each other as more than just an email address. We’re planning the next virtual get-together on Sunday, December 17 at 11am US/Central. (Use your favorite timezone converter to find your local time.) This month, we are switching to Google Meet for the meeting. As always, we’ll share the meeting URL when the meeting starts. We like to alternate topics every month; this month’s focus is “technical” - it’s a great opportunity to do online debugging, ask for programming help, and otherwise talk about tech issues so we can bring them back to the email list.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: NASA breaking news
In May 2018, a student at Mill Springs Academy in Alpharetta, Georgia, Andrew Maichle, talked to NASA astronaut Scott Tingle on the International Space Station via amateur or ham radio. The experience profoundly affected Maichle, who went on to study electrical engineering at Clemson University in South Carolina. “It was so cool to see in […]
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-29, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I’ve
heard ActivityPub described as
two-way
RSS. If so, there are imho more direct ways to arrive at that. I
think it’s possible to create a federation system that takes a few days
to implement. Maybe it doesn’t need all the features they’ve put into
ActivityPub. I’m pretty sure a lightweight social network is what’s
called for now. I know 20 different ventures have started up to do this,
but isn’t it weird that none of them have built on RSS. That’s the only
approach imho that has a chance of doing something unique here. I’d
rather work with other people, but I’m not into replacing simplicity
with something that’s not very simple.
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-29, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I’m back on Wordle, having solved the puzzle every day for the last 36 days. It’s training my mind – I see patterns I wouldn’t ordinarily see, because I spend as much as an hour or two every day looking for patterns in letters, and finding them, eventually. I wish at times my mind worked more like a computer. When their bot says “there were only three possible solutions at that point” – I wish I could see what they are at each point, or at least know how many they are, if not what they are. The training has also helped my mind debug software. I’m not as daunted as I often am when there appears to be no solution to the problem I’m working on. I’m sure I’ll find it eventually.
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-29, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
People who say Twitter is over aren’t considering how vast it is. Same kind of situation as with Atom many years ago. It wasn’t obvious how deeply installed RSS was, all the networks that had been created with it. It was basically impossible at that time to displace RSS. Anyway, same thing with Twitter today, no matter how vile the owner of the network is. It has been around since 2006, a time of huge growth in networking, and it captured basically all of it. So if there’s anyone you need to reach, and they’re hooked up to the net, you almost certainly will be able to reach them on Twitter. This is another situation like Napster. Never have you had all the music of our civilization available so easily to so many people. We could have done so much with that. The most prudent thing to do with Twitter is to organize a buyout for Musk, and get him out of that position. We don’t need to delete it, not that we could, we need to get Musk out of a position of control.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
Learn how to connect a Raspberry Pi Pico to a Himax HM01B0-based camera module and capture monochrome images using PIO and DMA in real time.
The post Real-time monochrome camera input on Raspberry Pi Pico appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-28, from: Bruce Schneier blog
They’re not that good:
Security researchers Jesse D’Aguanno and Timo Teräs write that, with varying degrees of reverse-engineering and using some external hardware, they were able to fool the Goodix fingerprint sensor in a Dell Inspiron 15, the Synaptic sensor in a Lenovo ThinkPad T14, and the ELAN sensor in one of Microsoft’s own Surface Pro Type Covers. These are just three laptop models from the wide universe of PCs, but one of these three companies usually does make the fingerprint sensor in every laptop we’ve reviewed in the last few years. It’s likely that most Windows PCs with fingerprint readers will be vulnerable to similar exploits…
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-29, from: Deno blog
Deno.cron allows you to easily create scheduled jobs and
is available on Deno Deploy. Here’s how it works.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Jeff Geerling blog
External GPUs working on the Raspberry Pi 5
<div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>My journey testing various graphics cards on the Raspberry Pi began soon after the Compute Module 4 was launched in 2020. Since then I've <a href="https://pipci.jeffgeerling.com/#gpus-graphics-cards">tested</a> almost 20 graphics cards—with a <a href="https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/i-built-special-pcie-card-test-gpus-on-pi"><em>little</em></a> success.</p>
But there were two roadblocks to getting drivers for even older AMD
radeon drivers working well:
<span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Jeff Geerling</span></span>
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Doc Searls (at Harvard), New Old Blog
I’ve flown 1,500,242 miles with United Airlines. My wife has flown at least a million more. Both of us currently enjoy Premier status, though we’ve spent much of our time with United at the fancier 1K level. We are also both lifetime United Club members and have been so for thirty-three years. Unlike many passengers […]
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date: 2023-11-29, from: John Naughton’s online diary
The ‘alignment’ problem Nice cover of the New Yorker’s special issue on AI. Quote of the Day ”We are here on Earth to help others. What on earth the others are here for I do not know” W. H. Auden … Continue reading
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-29, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I spent today working on the plumbing of FeedLand-on-Automattic. Hopefully tomorrow I will get to work on more user-facing features.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: OS News
Reading the story of how Windows NT came to be was entertaining, as it is a story of the system itself and the dynamics between Dave Cutler, the original designer and lead for NT, and the other people involved in the project. I was shy of being 10 years old when Windows NT launched and I didn’t comprehend what was going on in the operating systems world and why this release was such a big deal. Reading the book made me learn various new things about the development process, the role of Microsoft in that era, and allowed me to settle some questions I’ve had over the years. This article is a mixture of a book review and a collection of thoughts and reflections that the book evoked. Let’s begin because we have a lot of ground to cover. Dave Cutler’s impact on the word of computing really can’t be understated. I often wonder how he truly feels about what his and his team’s creation turned into today – does he like what Windows NT has become? Does he consider Windows 11 worthy of carrying on the torch of NT? As Cutler still works at Microsoft, we won’t get an answer any time soon, but I sure do hope he intends to write down his memoirs in a tell-all book about his life and career, because I’d be down for reading that.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: OS News
We’re pleased to share an important update regarding Azure RTOS – an embedded development suite with the ThreadX real-time operating system that has been deployed on more than 12 billion devices worldwide. Reinforcing our commitment to innovation and community collaboration, Azure RTOS will be transitioning to an open-source model under the stewardship of the Eclipse Foundation, a recognized leader in hosting open-source IoT projects. With Eclipse Foundation as the new home, Azure RTOS becomes Eclipse ThreadX – a comprehensive embedded development suite including a small but powerful real-time operating system that provides reliable, ultra-fast performance for resource-constrained devices. It’s easy-to-use, market proven, and trusted by developers and manufacturers for over two decades. It also supports the most popular 32-bit microcontrollers and embedded development tools so teams can make the most of their existing skills. The Eclipse’s Foundation announcement post has more details.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: OS News
Chinese chip designer Loongson has finally launched its loong teased “next-generation” 3A6000-series processors based on the LoongArch microarchitecture. IPC tests showed the 3A6000 matching Intel’s Raptor Lake i5-14600K in IPC (instructions per clock), with both chips clocked at 2.5GHz. As well as the headlining x86 compatible processor came the announcement of numerous partner desktop, laptop, and all-in-one machines — plus a consumer-grade motherboard from Asus. It was also entertaining to see a recorded overclocking session, which took an LN2-cooled 3A6000 chip to the current maximum 3 GHz. Many of us are being dismissive now, but give it a few more generations and Chinese PC users won’t be depending on Intel or AMD anymore – and that’s pretty impressive.
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date: 2023-11-28, from: Care
<p>A legitimately technological undertaking must deeply engage with poetry and testimonies from the wretched of the earth.</p>https://logicmag.io/policy/policy-seductions-and-silences Save to Pocket
date: 2023-11-28, from: OS News
I got my hands on a Monoprice Blackbird 4K Pro HDCP 2.2 to 1.4 Converter. According to the marketing copy it “is the definitive solution for playback of new 4K HDCP 2.2 encoded content on 4K displays with the old HDCP 1.4 standard.” Stuffed after a delicious Thanksgiving meal, I decided to take it apart after the guests had left. It’s a simple single-function device, so I didn’t expect much, but maybe there’s some things to be learned? Turns out there’s a lot to learn, and it’s also incredibly interesting. The note at the end about the legality of this device is also interesting.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137945/analyzing-the-monoprice-blackbird-hdcp-2-2-to-1-4-down-converter/ Save to Pocket
date: 2023-11-28, from: John Udell blog
Here’s the latest installment in the series on LLM-assisted coding over at The New Stack: Puzzling over the Postgres Query Planner with LLMs. The rest of the series: 1 When the rubber duck talks back 2 Radical just-in-time learning 3 Why LLM-assisted table transformation is a big deal 4 Using LLM-Assisted Coding to Write a … Continue reading Puzzling over the Postgres query planner with LLMs
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date: 2023-11-28, from: NASA breaking news
Artemis II NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, and Christina Koch of NASA, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen signed the Orion stage adapter for the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, Nov. 27. The hardware is the topmost portion of the SLS rocket that […]
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@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2023-11-28, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
@airspeedswift Ben, you might be our only hope, are we doing something very wrong here? This seems like a Swift issue: https://github.com/apple/swift/issues/69965
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date: 2023-11-28, from: OS News
With this, we’ve decided to remove Xorg server and other X servers (except Xwayland) from RHEL 10 and the following releases. Xwayland should be able to handle most X11 clients that won’t immediately be ported to Wayland, and if needed, our customers will be able to stay on RHEL 9 for its full life cycle while resolving the specifics needed for transitioning to a Wayland ecosystem. It’s important to note that “Xorg Server” and “X11” are not synonymous, X11 is a protocol that will continue to be supported through Xwayland, while the Xorg Server is one of the implementations of the X11 protocol. While we recognize the energy behind some distributions and Fedora spins moving towards a similar future, this decision is limited to RHEL 10—we recognize other Linux distributions have different needs and decision structures, and additionally we are not aware of plans for similar efforts in Fedora, nor are we involved in similar efforts besides sharing our knowledge. A sensible move, now that X.org is no longer really maintained and considered legacy software by everyone who has the skillset and knowledge to actually maintain it in the first place. I know a number of people are very upset about the move to Wayland, but with nobody left willing to work on X.org because it’s effectively unmaintainable, there’s really no other way to go. If you really want X.org to continue – perhaps you should channel the energy spent on writing angry online comments towards contributing to X.org. However, with even the most knowledgeable and capable X.org developers no longer wanting to have anything to do with X.org, you’re going to be in for a rough ride.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137943/red-hat-enterprise-linux-10-to-remove-x-org/ Save to Pocket
date: 2023-11-28, updated: 2023-11-28, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Soon we will be able to unlock and start our cars from our phones. Let’s hope people are thinking about security.
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@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2023-11-28, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
New version of La Terminal is out, the theme in this release is making command entry on mobile more enjoyable and integrating history, snippets and AI suggestions.
Batteries included: preloaded with Warp's open source workflows
Read the details here:
https://blog.xibbon.com/command-search/
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date: 2023-11-28, from: Gary Marcus blog
The EU is about to make a decision that could have enormous, lasting repercussions.
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date: 2023-11-28, from: Michael Tsai
Brandon Williams and Stephen Celis (Mastodon): But now with the Observation framework you get to forget about almost all of that complexity, and just build your features in the most naive way, with basically zero adornments, and it just works. And it works in the most efficient way possible, where only the data accessed in […]
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date: 2023-11-28, from: Michael Tsai
SE-0413: Swift is known for being explicit about semantics and using types to communicate constraints that apply to specific APIs. From that perspective, the fact that all thrown errors are of type any Error feels like an outlier. However, it reflects the view laid out in the original error handling rationale that errors are generally […]
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date: 2023-11-28, from: Michael Tsai
Dana E. Stevens: I had a small balance in Apple Cash and had not made any transactions in a bit over 3 years. I received a text message notice of a “Balance Adjustment” resulting in a $0 balance in Apple Cash. Called Apple Support. They said the balance had been escheated to the state I […]
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date: 2023-11-28, from: Michael Tsai
Yeonjoong (via Hacker News): My Google Drive files suddenly disappeared. The Drive literally went back to condition in May 2023. data from May until today disappeared, and the folder structure went back to status in May.Google Drive activity doesn’t show any changes (only show activity that was in May) No files was deleted manually, so […]
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date: 2023-11-28, from: Michael Tsai
Paresh Dave (Hacker News, Reddit): In early October, the people who make ad blocking tools convened in Amsterdam for their industry’s annual conference. One session was a welcome pitch from Google product leaders about tweaks made to address fears that a security update to the company’s Chrome browser could hamper ad zapping. Google, which draws […]
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date: 2023-11-28, from: NASA breaking news
A model of the Mariner-C spacecraft seems to float in the darkness of space in this photo from a June 1964 Conference on New Technology at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. Mariner-C and Mariner-D were identical spacecraft designed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to fly by Mars and photograph the Martian surface. Mariner-C was […]
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@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2023-11-28, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
A lucid and enlightening post by @asymco - https://mastodon.social/@asymco/111488039401735951
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date: 2023-11-28, from: FreeDOS News
A72 is a minimal symbolic assembler for DOS compatible systems. A72 version 1.05 was released a few weeks ago, but we missed the announcement. This has several updates, including: + Listings are generated by default along with binary output + Listings have line numbers + Symbol tables, alphabetically sorted, are appended to listings + More modular construction + HIGH, LOW, INCBIN, ECHO, TITLE, PAGE directives + Lines can be 255 characters long (previously 120-something). You can find the new version at A72 on GitHub.
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date: 2023-11-28, from: NASA breaking news
The field of aerial vehicle autonomy focuses on self-reliance, building the flight equivalent of puppets without puppeteers. Behind the scenes, however, is a rich network of people and systems that work together to develop frameworks, test new technologies, and inspire a pipeline of engineers to create the breakthroughs of the future. Encouraging kids to dream […]
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date: 2023-11-28, from: NASA breaking news
NASA will provide live launch and docking coverage of the Roscosmos Progress 86 cargo spacecraft carrying about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the Expedition 70 crew aboard the International Space Station. The unpiloted spacecraft is scheduled to launch at 4:25 a.m. EST on Friday, Dec. 1 (2:25 p.m. Baikonur time), on a […]
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date: 2023-11-28, from: NASA breaking news
The Odyssey orbiter captured clouds and dust in the Red Planet’s skies, along with one of its two tiny moons. Astronauts often react with awe when they see the curvature of the Earth below the International Space Station. Now Mars scientists are getting a taste of what that’s like, thanks to NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey […]
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date: 2023-11-28, from: TidBITS blog
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date: 2023-11-28, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Manasseh Azure Awuni is the editor-in-chief of The Fourth Estate, a nonprofit, public-interest, investigative journalism project of the Media Foundation for West Africa. Since its launch in 2021, The Fourth Estate has produced in-depth investigations exposing corruption in Ghana. The goal of the project is to promote independent and critical research-based journalism that holds those in power…
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date: 2023-11-28, from: NASA breaking news
NASA’s Dragonfly mission has been authorized to proceed with work on final mission design and fabrication – known as Phase C – during fiscal year (FY) 2024. The agency is postponing formal confirmation of the mission (including its total cost and schedule) until mid-2024, following the release of the FY 2025 President’s Budget Request. Earlier […]
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date: 2023-11-28, from: David Rosenthal’s blog
A major theme of this blog since 2014’s Economies of Scale in Peer-to-Peer Networks has been that decentralized systems aren’t, because economic forces overwhelm the technologies of decentralization. Last year I noted that this rule applied to Decentralized Finance (DeFi) in Shadow Banking 2.0 based on Prof. Hilary Allen’s DeFi: Shadow Banking 2.0? which she summarizes thus:TL;DR: DeFi is neither decentralized, nor very good finance, so regulators should have no qualms about clamping down on it to protect the stability of our financial system and broader economy.And also DeFi risks and the decentralisation illusion by Sirio Aramonte, Wenqian Huang and Andreas Schrimpf of the Bank for International Settlements who write:
While the main vision of DeFi’s proponents is intermediation without centralised entities, we argue that some form of centralisation is inevitable. As such, there is a “decentralisation illusion”. First and foremost, centralised governance is needed to take strategic and operational decisions. In addition, some features in DeFi, notably the consensus mechanism, favour a concentration of power.Below the fold I look at new evidence that the process of centralizing DeFi is essentially complete.
A small number of participants are dominating the world of decentralized finance as the crypto sector, which seeks to replicate financial markets without middlemen, still hasn’t recovered from FTX’s collapse a year ago.
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Most categories in DeFi — from peer-to-peer lending to decentralized exchanges — are seeing capital largely held in a few major projects, according to data compiled by crypto-risk modeling company Gauntlet. The firm used a popular measure of market concentration and competition called the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index.Wikipedia explains the HHI thus:
HHI is calculated by squaring the market share of each competing firm in the industry—expressed as either fractions, decimals, or whole numbers—and then summing the resulting numbers … The result is proportional to the average market share, weighted by market share. As such, it can range from 0 to 1.0, moving from a huge number of very small firms to a single monopolistic producer.
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Based on the metric, the most competition exists between decentralized finance exchanges, with the top four venues holding about 54% of total market share. Other categories including decentralized derivatives exchanges, DeFi lenders, and liquid staking, are much less competitive. For example, the top four liquid staking projects hold about 90% of total market share in that category, according to Gauntlet.
| Protocol | Revenue | Market |
|---|---|---|
| $M | Share % | |
| Lido | 304 | 55.2 |
| Uniswap V3 | 55 | 10.0 |
| Maker DAO | 48 | 8.7 |
| AAVE V3 | 24 | 4.4 |
| Top 4 | 78.2 | |
| Venus | 18 | 3.3 |
| GMX | 14 | 2.5 |
| Rari Fuse | 14 | 2.5 |
| Rocket Pool | 14 | 2.5 |
| Pancake Swap AMM V3 | 13 | 2.4 |
| Compound V2 | 13 | 2.4 |
| Morpho Aave V2 | 10 | 1.8 |
| Goldfinch | 9 | 1.6 |
| Aura Finance | 8 | 1.5 |
| Yearn Finance | 7 | 1.3 |
| Stargate | 5 | 0.9 |
| Total | 551 |
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date: 2023-11-28, from: TidBITS blog
If friends or relatives are asking or telling you about how NameDrop is a privacy risk based on Facebook posts from police departments, set them straight by explaining how it’s completely safe.
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date: 2023-11-28, from: Manu - I write blog
Time for probably the final housekeeping post of 2023. I doubt I’ll make a new one in December but we’ll see.
This site now runs on Kirby 4! I absolutely love Kirby, been using it to run this site since 2017 and I also used it for countless other projects. The new V4 has officially been released earlier today and the upgrade process went super smoothly. Only had to update 2 lines of code inside 1 single file and that was it. Stoked about that.
Next up, as mentioned in a previous post, Craig Mod has a new book out and copies are moving FAST. Signed copies have sold out in I think 24 hours and unsigned copies are also selling quickly. So if you want one, I suggest you act now and don't wait too long.
Carl is running a campaign on Product Hunt to spread the word about his 099. The project itself is neat and Carl has put a lot of effort into it so if you happen to be a PH user, just give it an upvote.
Lastly, an update from me: I’m busy as hell, working on way too many things at once but also excited because it’s nice to have things to do, plus Christmas is approaching fast and that puts me in a good mood 🎄
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date: 2023-11-28, from: NASA breaking news
On Nov. 28, 1983, space shuttle Columbia took to the skies for its sixth trip into space on the first dedicated science mission using the Spacelab module provided by the European Space Agency (ESA). The longest shuttle mission at the time also included many other firsts. Aboard Columbia to conduct dozens of science experiments, the […]
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date: 2023-11-28, from: NASA breaking news
This new Picture of the Month from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate details of the Herbig Haro object 797 (HH 797). Herbig-Haro objects are luminous regions surrounding newborn stars (known as protostars), and are formed when stellar winds or jets of gas spewing from these newborn stars form shockwaves colliding with nearby gas and […]
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date: 2023-11-28, from: NASA breaking news
A new catalog produced by a French-led international team of astronomers shows that NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered 294 gamma-ray-emitting pulsars, while another 34 suspects await confirmation. This is 27 times the number known before the mission launched in 2008. “Pulsars touch on a wide range of astrophysics research, from cosmic rays and […]
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-28, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
A braintrust query for implementors of rssCloud. Do you ping only when an item is created, or every time it changes?
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-28, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Posted on Threads: “Replies are almost always spam, they aren’t talking to the author (though technically they are), rather they are talking over the author’s head, trying to reach the people who read the author’s post. If this is what’s really going on, surely we can come up with a more realistic structure/UI that doesn’t even involve the author.”
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date: 2023-11-28, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
The Israeli government is putting pressure on the left-leaning newspaper Haaretz to line up in support of the government in its conduct of the war in Gaza. The communications minister, Shlomo Karhi, has suggested financial penalties be applied to the paper, accusing it of “lying, defeatist propaganda” and “sabotaging Israel in wartime.” The proposal aims to cancel…
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date: 2023-11-28, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
Christopher Barnatt (of Explaining Computers) has gone and built his own Raspberry Pi 500. He beat us to it!
The post Explaining Computers beat us to Raspberry Pi 500 appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
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date: 2023-11-28, updated: 2023-11-28, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>Microsoft is open sourcing the realtime operating system that it acquired with Express Logic, donating it to the Eclipse Foundation.</p>https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/28/microsoft_opens_sources_threadx/ Save to Pocket
date: 2023-11-28, from: Tilde.news
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date: 2023-11-28, from: Gary Marcus blog
Increasingly, they are.
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date: 2023-11-28, from: OS News
FreeBSD has supported nesting of jails natively since version 8.0, which dates back to 2009. Looking at the jail(8) man page, there is an entire paragraph named Hierarchical Jails that explains the concept of jail hierarchy well. It’s one of the many gems of FreeBSD that, although not widely known or used, is, in my opinion, extremely useful. BastilleBSD plays a central role in this article, and that’s a project I’ve been hearing a lot about recently. I feel like the various BSDs are currently hitting a stride, and there seems to be a lot of movement from Linux to BSD at the moment.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137940/migrating-from-vm-to-hierarchical-jails-in-freebsd/ Save to Pocket
date: 2023-11-28, from: OS News
PipeWire 1.0 now has all the features that are expected to move media streams inside a system. It takes advantage of advanced features of the Linux kernel to provide low latency, low footprint, and high performance while being secure. It is the perfect tool to build an embedded system or to securely share streams between containers. Linux audio and video has come a long way, and PipeWire is part of that. Excellent work.
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date: 2023-11-28, from: OS News
Frore Systems is a startup with $116 million in funding, and I’ve shown you its first product before: the AirJet Mini is a piezoelectric cooling chip that weighs just nine grams and is thinner than two US quarters stacked together. Each nominally consumes one watt and can remove 4.25 additional watts of heat. Here’s the question: what would happen if Frore used those AirJets to cool a laptop that normally doesn’t have a fan at all? What the company discovered — and I saw firsthand — is that Apple’s M2 chip can run faster, for longer, with Frore’s tech on board. Without it, a 15-inch M2 MacBook Air was like a runner that can’t sprint indefinitely without running out of breath. But with three AirJet Minis, the same laptop got a permanent second wind. Frore’s AirJet coolers have been featured on YouTube channels like LTT as well, and there’s no doubt in my mind these will be the future of laptop cooling, especially in the thinner segment of the laptop market. At least in thin laptops, AirJets are better in virtually every way than fans, and provide far superior cooling compared to fanless designs without adding bulk or noise. The only thing that sucks as an enthusiast is that you can’t really modify an existing laptop yourself. Either this company gets gobbled up by an OEM, or their products will make their way in almost every thin laptop.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137936/this-company-just-put-the-air-in-apples-macbook-air/ Save to Pocket
date: 2023-11-28, from: OS News
App developer Elias Saba has had some bad luck with Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedowns. His Android TV app Downloader, which combines a web browser with a file manager, was suspended by Google Play in May after several Israeli TV companies complained that the app could be used to load a pirate website. Google reversed that suspension after three weeks. But Downloader has been suspended by Google Play again, and this time the reason is even harder to understand. Based on a vague DMCA notice, it appears that Downloader was suspended simply because it can load the Warner Bros. website. Application stores are basically random number generators. The worst possible applications, from non-functional garbage to ad-ridden gambling games designed to prey on children, make up the bulk of what’s on offer, but functional, useful applications spiral into Kafkaesque bureaucratic dark holes. Being a mobile developer in 2023 is a nightmare.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137934/google-play-keeps-banning-the-same-web-browser-due-to-vague-dmca-notices/ Save to Pocket
date: 2023-11-28, from: Peter Warden
As you might know I’m working on my PhD at Stanford, and one of my favorite parts is taking courses. For this second year I need to follow the new foundation and breadth requirements which in practice means taking a course a quarter, with each course chosen from one of four areas. For the fall […]
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date: 2023-11-28, from: NASA breaking news
Where were you during the storm? In 2011, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft circled Saturn for a front-row view of the huge storm there. One of those looks made the mission scientists’ list of Top 10 images of 2011. What else made the list? Check it out. Groovy Enceladus Churning Psychedelia Hiding Little Brother Quintet of Moons […]
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date: 2023-11-28, from: NASA breaking news
As the Cassini spacecraft roams the Saturnian system, each year it opens new windows on an amazing corner of our solar system. Images of mighty Saturn, its majestic rings, and the dynamic moons continue to stun us, offering ever-changing vistas that are truly inspiring. This collection of 10 best images was selected by the scientists […]
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date: 2023-11-28, from: NASA breaking news
We’ve shared 150 press images through 40 news releases and special features during 2013. As the Cassini science team members look forward to a great 2014 and beyond, here’s a look back at their top ten 10 images of the year. ’Tis the Season Fire and Ice Titan’s North — Unannotated The Day the Earth […]
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date: 2023-11-28, from: NASA breaking news
The Cassini team is proud to celebrate 10 years since arriving at Saurn with this collection of images selected by members of the team. Enceladus North Pole Montage Peering Through Titan’s Haze Water World Enceladus Up-Close Saturnian Snowman A Fractured Pole Imminent Approach to Dione Red Arcs on Tethys Spongy Surface Serene Saturn Simulations of […]
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date: 2023-11-28, from: NASA breaking news
As the Cassini science team members look forward to a great 2015 and beyond, here’s a look back at their top 10 images of 2014. Translucent Rings Color Map of Mimas (2014) Circling Saturn Specular Spectacular Mysterious Changing Feature in Ligeia Mare — Unannotated The Odd Trio Shepherd and Flock Encroaching Shadow Arrival and Departure […]
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date: 2023-11-28, from: NASA breaking news
As the Cassini science team members look forward to a great 2016 and beyond, here’s a look back at their top 10 images of 2015. Enceladus North Pole Montage Peering Through Titan’s Haze Water World Enceladus Up-Close Saturnian Snowman A Fractured Pole Imminent Approach to Dione Red Arcs on Tethys Spongy Surface Serene Saturn Simulations […]
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date: 2023-11-28, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Roth, Lukas
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date: 2023-11-28, from: Crossref Blog
STM, DataCite, and Crossref are pleased to announce an updated joint statement on research data.
In 2012, DataCite and STM drafted an initial joint statement on the linkability and citability of research data. With nearly 10 million data citations tracked, thousands of repositories adopting data citation best practices, thousands of journals adopting data policies, data availability statements and establishing persistent links between articles and datasets, and the introduction of data policies by an increasing number of funders, there has been significant progress since. It now seems appropriate to focus on providing updated recommendations for the various stakeholders involved in research data sharing.
The premise of the original joint statement still stands: most stakeholders across the spectrum of researchers, funders, librarians and publishers agree about the benefits of making research data available and findable for reuse by others. This improves utility and rigor of the scholarly record. Still, research data sharing is not yet a self-evident step in the research lifecycle. We now have sufficient scholarly communication infrastructure in place to bring about widespread change and believe momentum is building for collective action.
It is in this context that DataCite, a global membership community working with over 2800 repositories around the world, and STM, whose membership consists of over 140 scientific, technical, and medical publishing organizations, are issuing this joint statement. Crossref, a nonprofit open infrastructure with over 18,000 institutional members from 150 countries, joins this call, recognising the need for an amplified focus on data citation. The aim of this statement is to accelerate adoption of best practices and policies, and encourage further development of critical policies in collaboration with a wide group of stakeholders.
Signatories of this statement recommend the following as best practice in research data sharing:
We, the following signatories shall adopt and promote the relevant best practices laid out above. We hope that our action inspires the community, including researchers, research funders, research institutions, data repositories and publishers, to join us in making it easy for researchers to share, link and cite research data.
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-27, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
RSS Club is fascinating. I subscribed to their OPML file. Now I get all their posts, even if the list changes.
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date: 2023-11-27, from: NASA breaking news
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other agency leaders will participate in the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP28) beginning Thursday, Nov. 30, through Tuesday, Dec. 12, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. This global conference brings together countries committed to addressing climate change, which is a key priority for the Biden-Harris Administration […]
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date: 2023-11-27, from: OS News
When I used OpenBSD, I was a big fan of bsd.rd: a kernel that includes a root file system with an installer and a few tools. When I invariably did something bad to my root file system, I could use that to repair things. bsd.rd is also helpful for OS updates. And there is only a single file involved. On NetBSD however, there is usually no netbsd.rd kernel installed, or even available by default. The facility is there, it’s just not standard. To be fair, there are a number of architectures that use kernels with a ramdisk for installation. Recently, I have been toying with NetBSD on an Orange Pi 5. This is a 64-bit ARM board, using the evbarm-aarch64 architecture. I am booting from an SD card (details in a followup post) but once booted, the kernel does not see the card any more, only the NVMe SSD. So my thoughts went back to bsd.rd and I decided that I want one! Such a kernel seems like a very useful tool to have, so if you’re running NetBSD – this guide will help you add it to your toolbox.
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date: 2023-11-27, from: Michael Tsai
Howard Oakley: For the first ten years of Mac OS X, its closest substitute was Single User Mode, or SUM, entered by starting the Mac up with the Command and S keys held down. OS X then booted into the command line, where you could for example repair your startup volume[…] […] With Mac OS […]
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date: 2023-11-27, from: Michael Tsai
David Rutland (via Hacker News): If you’ve spent your hard earned cash supporting independent artists through Bandcamp, a series of ownership changes and layoffs suggest that now might be the best time for audiophiles to download their audio files to secure offline storage.[…]According to Aftermath, Bandcamp is a mess right now, with most of the […]
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date: 2023-11-27, from: Michael Tsai
Sam Rowlands: Since 1998, I’ve built every single Mac app with the Xojo development tool (Aka Real Studio and REALbasic).Over the last ¾ of a decade, Xojo started ignoring bugs, feature requests and industry trends. New features felt rushed, incomplete and sometimes unusable. Dark mode support and concurrency are two prime examples. Something is clearly […]
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date: 2023-11-27, from: Michael Tsai
Adamya Sharma: The ongoing Google vs. Epic trial has brought out another interesting piece of information. As per testimony presented by Epic Games (via Bloomberg), Google paid Samsung $8 billion over a period of four years to keep Search, Assistant, and Play Store as default services on Samsung phones.[…]One internal document also shows how Google […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/11/27/google-pays-to-be-default-on-samsung-phones/ Save to Pocket
date: 2023-11-27, from: Michael Tsai
Richard Speed (via Hacker News): A jury has sided with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) against Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) over the theft of source code and documentation. A total of $210 million was this week awarded.According to the verdict [PDF], a Texas jury agreed that TCS had “willfully and maliciously” misappropriated both source and confidential […]
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date: 2023-11-27, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
When the comedian Sarah Silverman sued Meta over its AI model LLaMA this summer, it was pretty big news. (And that is, of course, kind of the point. Silverman is actually one of three co-plaintiffs in the case, but not as many people will click a headline about Kill City Blues author Richard Kadrey or…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/11/the-legal-framework-for-ai-is-being-built-in-real-time-and-a-ruling-in-the-sarah-silverman-case-should-give-publishers-pause/ Save to Pocket
date: 2023-11-27, from: Tilde.news
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date: 2023-11-27, from: Om Malik blog
…we have a generation that is growing up with modern computing interfaces. Instead, we are still pushing the “classic” models onto them. Why? If computing has to become modern, then we have to use modern models for everything. That’s me in May 2021. Amazon, according to the internet, is launching a $195 thin client computer that allows …
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date: 2023-11-27, from: NASA breaking news
Read this release in English here. El astronauta de la NASA Frank Rubio, quien batió récords con su reciente misión, es el presentador de un video con el primer tour narrado en español creado por la agencia del hogar de la humanidad en el espacio: la Estación Espacial Internacional. Rubio da la bienvenida al público […]
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/la-nasa-publica-el-primer-tour-en-espanol-de-la-estacion-espacial/ Save to Pocket
date: 2023-11-27, from: NASA breaking news
Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. Record-breaking NASA astronaut Frank Rubio provides the agency’s first Spanish-language video tour of humanity’s home in space – the International Space Station. Rubio welcomes the public aboard the microgravity science laboratory in a behind-the-scenes look at living and working in space recorded during his 371-day mission aboard […]
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date: 2023-11-27, updated: 2023-11-27, from: Deno blog
Deno Deploy and Deno Subhosting was designed with security and tenant isolation in mind. Here’s how it works.
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date: 2023-11-27, from: TidBITS blog
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date: 2023-11-27, from: TidBITS blog
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date: 2023-11-27, from: TidBITS blog
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date: 2023-11-27, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
Schatzkarten als Teil der Schätze sind wichtig, weil sie kleine Aufgaben darstellen. Wenn das Ziel in der Nähe ist, sei es im Nachbarhex bei der Reise Überland oder in einem Raum in der Nähe im Megadungeon, der Effekt ist immer gleich.
Die Spielerinnen und Spieler freuen sich! Das ist das wichtigste.
Es ist eine Ablenkung von was auch immer Spielerinnen und Spieler sonst vor haben. Ablenkung ist für mich eine wichtige Herausforderung im Spiel. Wie sehr will ich als Spieler etwas? Wenn ich mich ständig ablenken lasse, dann war es mir vielleicht eben doch nicht so wichtig.
Es ist eine Einladung, ein grösseres Risiko einzugehen. Meistens zeigt die Schatzkarte ja in das unbekannte Gebiet. Haben wir noch genug Trefferpunkte, Zaubersprüche und andere Ressourcen? Wollen wir es wagen?
Deswegen dürfen Schatzkarten nicht auf Schätze verweisen, die zu weit weg sind oder die erst in einem halben dutzend Spielabenden erreicht werden können. Zudem sind Schatzkarten ja eine Belohnung, deswegen sollten die Fundorte nicht nochmal speziell geschützt sein, denn sonst wäre der Schatz ja den neuen Wächtern zuzurechnen. Nein, falls es am Ort neue Wächter hat, dann haben diese ebenfalls Schätze.
Soviel zur Vorrede. Für Horte habe ich im Moment folgende Liste:
Jetzt brauche ich noch eine Namensliste für die Begrabenen…
Die Portale in andere Welten beziehen sich natürlich auf die Kosmologie. Die magischen Waffen wurden auch schon besprochen.
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date: 2023-11-27, from: NASA breaking news
NASA kicks off its annual Antarctic Long Duration Balloon Campaign around Dec. 1, which includes three scientific balloon flights planned for launch from the long-duration balloon (LDB) Camp near McMurdo Station, Antarctica. NASA’s stadium-sized, zero-pressure balloons will support a total of five missions on the long-duration flights with one mission vying to break NASA’s heavy-lift, […]
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date: 2023-11-27, updated: 2023-11-27, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>A data-destroying bug has been discovered in a new feature of OpenZFS 2.2.0, as found in FreeBSD 14 among other OSes.</p>https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/27/bug_openzfs_2_2_0/ Save to Pocket
date: 2023-11-27, updated: 2023-11-27, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>A data-destroying bug has been discovered following the release of OpenZFS 2.2.0 as found in FreeBSD 14 among other OSes.</p>https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/27/openzfs_2_2_0_data_corruption/ Save to Pocket
date: 2023-11-27, updated: 2023-11-23, from: Bruce Schneier blog
There seems to be no end to warrantless surveillance:
According to the letter, a surveillance program now known as Data Analytical Services (DAS) has for more than a decade allowed federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to mine the details of Americans’ calls, analyzing the phone records of countless people who are not suspected of any crime, including victims. Using a technique known as chain analysis, the program targets not only those in direct phone contact with a criminal suspect but anyone with whom those individuals have been in contact as well…
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date: 2023-11-27, from: Tilde.news
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date: 2023-11-27, from: Howard Jacobson blog
Streetwalking with Howard Jacobson is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
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date: 2023-11-27, from: Raspberry Pi (.org)
How do you best teach programming in school? It’s one of the core questions for primary and secondary computing teachers. That’s why we’re making it the focus of our free online seminars in 2024. You’re invited to attend and hear about the newest research about the teaching and learning of programming, with or without AI…
The post Spotlight on teaching programming with and without AI in our 2024 seminar series appeared first on Raspberry Pi Foundation.
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date: 2023-11-27, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
Here’s a selection of some of the awesome things we got sent this month – and remember to follow along at the hashtag #MagPiMonday!
The post It’s #MagPiMonday, show us your makes appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
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date: 2023-11-27, from: Michael Tsai
Jeff Johnson: I’ve recently run into a case that seems to call into question all extant sample code for Mac App Store receipt validation. […] I learned that the ethernet port of the customer’s Mac was fried as a result of electrical damage from a lightning strike. The Mac’s motherboard was replaced, but afterward the […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/11/26/receipt-validation-with-all-the-ethernet-interfaces/ Save to Pocket
date: 2023-11-27, from: Michael Tsai
Mariella Moon (via Hacker News): NVIDIA is facing a lawsuit filed by French automotive company Valeo after a screensharing blunder by one of its employees. According to Valeo’s complaint, Mohammad Moniruzzaman, an engineer for NVIDIA who used to work for its company, had mistakenly showed its source code files on his computer as he was […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/11/26/nvidia-sued-for-stealing-trade-secrets/ Save to Pocket
date: 2023-11-27, from: Michael Tsai
Bruce Schneier: Jake Appelbaum’s PhD thesis contains several new revelations from the classified NSA documents provided to journalists by Edward Snowden. Stefania Maurizi: Communication in a world of pervasive surveillance is a public document and has been downloaded over 18,000 times since March 2022 when it was first published.[…]In 2013, Jacob Appelbaum published a remarkable […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/11/26/cavium-networking-hardware-may-contain-backdoor/ Save to Pocket
date: 2023-11-27, from: Michael Tsai
Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra (Hacker News): A little-known surveillance program tracks more than a trillion domestic phone records within the United States each year, according to a letter Wired obtained that was sent by US senator Ron Wyden to the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Sunday, challenging the program’s legality. According to the letter, […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/11/26/data-analytical-services-das/ Save to Pocket
date: 2023-11-27, from: Michael Tsai
Jon Miltimore (Hacker News): “Marketed to Congress as a benign tool to help prevent drunk driving, the measure will mandate that automobile manufacturers build into every car what amounts to a ‘vehicle kill switch,’” wrote Barr, who was the Libertarian Party’s nominee for president in 2008.[…]To my relief, I saw several fact-checkers at legacy institutions […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/11/26/section-24220-advanced-impaired-driving-technology/ Save to Pocket
date: 2023-11-27, from: OS News
NTDEV, the developer behind Tiny11, has released a new update for its miniature Windows 11 operating system, called Tiny11 2311, that adds Microsoft’s latest feature update, 23H2, into the OS and introduces a plethora of bug fixes addressing issues in the outgoing version of Tiny11. On top of this, the new update also shrinks Tiny11’s install size by a whopping 20%, making Tiny11’s renowned footprint even smaller. There is absolutely no need for Windows 11 to be as big and invasive as it is, and it feels like such a shame and missed opportunity to burden an otherwise good and capable operating system with such cruft and useless junk.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137927/super-tiny-windows-11-os-gets-a-big-update-tiny11-2311-shrinks-20-and-allows-cumulative-updates/ Save to Pocket
date: 2023-11-27, from: Gary Marcus blog
Three top ML researchers, a leading physicist, and a former French Minister, at each other’s throats
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date: 2023-11-27, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Ce n’est pas une fenêtre Intriguing feature on an internal wall of St Mary’s Church, Cong, Co Mayo. With apologies to René Magritte. Quote of the Day “A guy walks into a pub with a lump of asphalt on his … Continue reading
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date: 2023-11-27, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Bedarf, Patrick; Szabo, Anna; Zanini, Michele; Dillenburger, Benjamin
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date: 2023-11-27, from: PostgreSQL News
We are pleased to announce the new major version of Data Generator for PostgreSQL - an impressive tool for generating test data to database tables with the possibility to save and edit scripts.
The utility can help you to simulate the database production environment and allows you to populate several database tables with test data simultaneously, define tables and fields for generating data, set value ranges, generate char fields by mask, define lists of values manually or select them from SQL queries, set generation parameters for each field type and has many other features to generate test data in a simple and direct way.
Data Generator also provides a console application, which allows you to generate test data in one-touch by using generation templates.
We hope you’ll enjoy working with our products.
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date: 2023-11-26, from: Manu - I write blog
In a recent post I mentioned that I am a sucker for signed books and limited editions. The reason for that has nothing to do with the uniqueness of a signed object or its potential extra monetary value. Those are all aspects that have no meaning to me. The reason why I love signed books it’s the same reason why I love handmade objects: the human connection. Knowing that someone picked up that book and took a second to open it up and sign it adds that extra something that makes my brain happy.
And in a world that’s more and more digital and artificial, I think these small human touches are going to become increasingly more valuable.
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date: 2023-11-26, from: OS News
After I wrote about the possibility of programmable Mac ROM SIMMs in Quadras a couple of months ago, I suspected that there had been a way for developers at Apple in the 68k Mac era to reflash the ROM in their Macs during development, just like BIOS updates on PCs. The reason I believed this is because the ROM SIMM socket in the Quadras brought out pins for 12V (VPP) and write enable (/WE). I had verified that the write enable pin was going into the memory controller chip in several Mac models, so I was pretty confident that in-system programming was possible. As luck would have it, multiple people pointed out to me that an Apple internal utility used for ROM flashing had been uploaded to the Macintosh Garden. It was recovered from a prototype PowerBook 520 purchased in 2020. Of course, I had to download this utility and figure out how it works. I honestly cannot believe it’s taken this long for such a tool to become available one way or the other. Classic Macs are incredibly popular in the retro community, and being able to reflash the ROMs like this is incredibly useful. It took some work and disassembly, but Doug Brown got it working.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137924/how-apples-developers-reflashed-mac-roms-in-the-90s/ Save to Pocket
date: 2023-11-26, from: Computer ads from the Past
Help direct the future of Computer Ads from the Past.
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@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2023-11-26, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Join the Mac Gaming Revolution, via @ij_baird - a native Mac shell to Wine and Apple’s game porting toolkit:
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date: 2023-11-26, from: OS News
Debian’s MIPS64EL that is a 64-bit little endian port using the N64 ABI is at risk due to declining access for building the Debian 64-bit MIPS packages. MIPS64EL is now being treated as an “out of sync” architecture due to lacking sufficient build daemon resources for timely building new packages and if the situation doesn’t improve, it may not be suitable as a release architecture for Debian 13 “Trixie”. Not all architectures last forever, and as time goes on, more and more of these once promising architectures will simply no longer be part of the modern Linux world. It makes sense – but it’s still sad.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137921/debians-mips64el-cpu-port-is-at-risk-due-to-declining-hardware-access/ Save to Pocket
date: 2023-11-26, from: OS News
Ironically, the second commercial game that Microsoft published, after Microsoft Adventure in 1979, was an attempt at a sports game sim. It was called Microsoft Olympic Decathlon, and like Microsoft Adventure, it was first launched as a TRS-80 PC game, this time in 1980. Microsoft has so many unexpected products in its long history.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137919/a-quick-look-back-at-microsofts-first-sports-video-game-microsoft-olympic-decathlon/ Save to Pocket
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-26, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Screen shot of the latest prototype for the new Scripting News home page. It does the job I wanted it to do, presents in one user interface the content of my blog, linkblog, and several timelines from FeedLand. The previous version had the tab links down the left edge. I loved the way it looked on my desktop system, but then I tried it on my iPad, and realized it didn’t work. Not enough horizonal real estate to pull it off. So I went back to the tabs-across-the-top format. I had to drop one of the tabs, and not use the nice Font-Awesome icons I used previously on Scripting News when there was plenty of room. The page is entirely assembled when you load it, so it only works with JavaScript turned on.
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-26, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Colin Walker wonders if he should try Bluesky. I say yes. At first I was pretty negative, after the implosion of Twitter, here was another Jack Dorsey network. I wasn’t in the mood. But eventually I tried it, and I liked it very much. The mood is civil and often artistic. There are some very creative people there. And I think the API, while it’s inscrutable to me, is understandable to developers who put their minds to it, and I expect Colin is one who will figure it out. And I don’t think there’s any hope of ActivityPub, it’s far too underspecified, and interop is likely to be product-based, not based on the protocol, where the Bluesky protocol appears to be overly-well-thought-out, or maybe the docs could have more examples. I didn’t have the time to dive into it when I looked.
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-26, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Watched
Oppenheimer
last night. Very good movie. I like the artistic flourishes, reminds me
of another movie I watched recently and liked, a lot,
Spencer. I
wasn’t really interested in the life and death of Lady Di, but I also
got through the latest episodes of The Crown, which I had resisted when
the newest Queen was
introduced.
I find it hard to make the adjustment to new actors playing the roles of
characters I had come to love, esp
Claire Foy as
young Queen Elizabeth, a fantastic actress who played in one of the most
spectacular dramatic
scenes
anywhere anytime. The
latest
episodes of The Crown were about Diana mostly, and were fantastic.
Back to Oppenheimer. I’ll try not to spoil it too much, but the drama is
puzzling, why are they going after Oppenheimer when he miraculously put
together the
Manhattan
Project which created, in a race with Germany and the USSR, the bomb
that ended World War II. The final scene, a flashback to an earlier
scene where we didn’t hear the dialog, between Oppenheimer and his
colleague at Princeton,
Albert
Einstein, about what happens when you create something that changes
the direction of humanity. What happens is this – they push you aside.
I’m not comparing myself to these two giants, but I have had the same
question about how tech reacted to my contributions. My conclusion was
that our culture has reason to erase the accomplishments of outliers. We
prefer innovation to come in nice predictable packages, with a PR person
on top, and when that’s disturbed, we close ranks to make it all appear
very ordinary. Anyway, all of this is very good holiday entertainment
and thought provoking. My next adventure in video is
Pachinko on Apple
TV, which is somewhat confusing, but keeps me coming back, it’s so
compelling. I still have the last seasons of
Ted Lasso and
Reservation
Dogs in the queue. And of course there’s a new season of
Fargo,
which I’m sure I’ll love. Right now my plan is to wait for the series to
end and watch it all in a binge.
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date: 2023-11-26, from: Daniel Stenberg Blog
I’ve shown you email examples many times before. Today I received this. I don’t know this person. Clearly a troubled individual. I suspect she found my name and address somewhere and then managed to put me somewhere in the middle of the conspiracy against her. The entire mail is written in a single paragraph and … Continue reading “you have hacked into my devices”
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