<p>HWC Nuremberg is a in-person meeting for everybody who is interested in setting up a personal website and talk about web-related issues.</p>
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What We’re Reading

From news.indieweb.org:

New Community Members

From IndieWeb Wiki: New User Pages:

User:Peterkaminski.wiki

Created by Peterkaminski.wiki on Saturday and edited 3 more times

User:Miloslavhomer.cz

Created by Miloslavhomer.cz on Friday

Top New Wiki Pages

From IndieWeb Wiki: New Pages:

Data Dialogues

Data Dialogues (AKA Data Dialogue Series) are three hour interactive and interdisciplinary workshops hosted by Meta Platforms, focused on privacy challenges in rapidly evolving product areas, such as Threads and ActivityPub.

Created by [tantek] on Sunday with 13 more edits by tantek.com and loqi.me

location tag

A location tag (sometimes called a geo tag) is a deliberate visible indicator on a post indicating the location that it is about, either directly in the post from its author, or sometimes as a reply to the post.

Created by Tantek.com on Sunday and edited 7 more times

web component

web component is a reusable HTML element defined using the Web Components API, and created & used by IndieWeb community members on their own sites.

Created by capjamesg on Tuesday with 5 more edits by jamesg.blog, loqi.me and tantek.com

Meta Platforms

Meta Platforms (or Meta for short) is a corporation formerly named Facebook, that runs several silo services (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, that IndieWeb folks have POSSEd to), a couple of messaging services (Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp), and hosts Data Dialogues in-person events that invite and include outside experts including IndieWeb community participants.

Created by Tantek.com on Sunday and edited 2 more times

Massive Wiki

Massive Wiki is a collection of open source tools for building a wiki website with static files, and is used for at least one IndieWeb site.

Created by Www.ciccarello.me on Monday and edited 1 more time

Accra

Accra is the capital city of Ghana, and has hosted several hybrid in-person/online Homebrew Website Club meetups starting on 2019-03-20 and most recently on 2019-05-01.

Created by Tantek.com on Thursday

goifnetwork.org

goifnetwork.org was the domain used for Homebrew Website Club Accra meetups.

Created by Tantek.com on Thursday

2023/SD/Planning

Planning for IndieWebCamp San Diego 2023.

Created by Gregorlove.com on Tuesday

word of the day

word of the day is a featured word that someone may publish on their website, an IndieWeb example of which is capjamesg’s Word of the Day: https://jamesg.blog/assets/wotd.txt.

Created by capjamesg on Tuesday

long word

long word is a word that has more than an arbitrary number of characters, which capjamesg publishes in a list at https://jamesg.blog/assets/longword.txt.

Created by capjamesg on Tuesday

New Event Notes

From IndieWeb Wiki: New Pages:

Homebrew Website Club - The Americas: 2021-06-30, 2021-06-23, 2021-06-16, 2021-06-09, 2021-06-02, 2021-05-26, 2021-05-19, 2021-05-12, 2021-05-05, 2021-04-28, 2021-04-21, 2021-04-14, 2021-04-07

Homebrew Website Club Europe/London: 2023-12-13, 2021-04-28, 2021-04-14

Top Edited Wiki Pages

From IndieWeb Wiki: Recent Changes:

• 2023-12-indieweb-gift-calendar 27 edits by tantek.com, snarfed.org and jamesg.blog
• 2023/SD 11 edits by peterkaminski.wiki, artlung.com, tantek.com, www.ciccarello.me, loqi.me and gregorlove.com
• Homebrew Website Club 5 edits by tantek.com
• events/2019-03-20-homebrew-website-club 5 edits by tantek.com
• Mastodon 5 edits by www.ciccarello.me, loqi.me and tantek.com
• series 3 edits by jamesg.blog
• Facebook 3 edits by loqi.me and tantek.com
• Planning 3 edits by tantek.com, sarajaksa.eu and gregorlove.com
• Yahoo Pipes 3 edits by loqi.me
• Dropbox 2 edits by loqi.me

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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-12-15, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)

I think now, if Bluesky announced outbound RSS 2.0 support, really good RSS support, they’d blow the whole thing up.

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My Raspberry Pi Learns to Drive

date: 2023-12-15, from: Stephen Smith’s blog

Introduction I received an early XMas present of a SunFounder PiCar-X. This is a car that is controlled via a Raspberry Pi, it contains a number of sensors, including a pan-tilt camera, ultrasonic module and a line tracking module, so you can experiment with self-driving programs. It is capable of avoiding obstacles, following objects, tracking […]

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Where Do You Call Home?

date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: Jason Kottke blog

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Research Physical Scientist Tra-My Justine Richardson

date: 2023-12-15, from: NASA breaking news

“When I mentor students, their academic [talents] are a given. They’re very bright. They’re very smart. But I mentor them to teach them what they don’t learn in school: how to work with other people, how to seek help, and how to mature from a student to a professional.  “[I teach them that] when you […]

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Science magazine’s 2023 Breakthrough of the Year: GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and…

date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: Jason Kottke blog

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Always Interesting: “52 Things I Learned in 2023”

date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: Jason Kottke blog

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Stolen Device Protection in iOS 17.3

date: 2023-12-15, from: Michael Tsai

Joe Rossignol: The first iOS 17.3 beta rolling out to developers today includes a new “Stolen Device Protection” feature that is designed to add an additional layer of security in the event someone has stolen your iPhone and also obtained the device’s passcode. Joanna Stern and Nicole Nguyen: With Stolen Device Protection: If you want […]

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Threads in EU and on ActivityPub

date: 2023-12-15, from: Michael Tsai

Jon Porter (via John Gruber): Meta’s Twitter competitor, Threads, is now available in the European Union, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced. “Today we’re opening Threads to more countries in Europe,” Zuckerberg wrote in a post on Threads. The launch follows the service’s debut in the US and over 100 other countries across the world, including […]

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Apple and Corellium Settlement

date: 2023-12-15, from: Michael Tsai

Thomas Brewster (MacRumors): After four years of court hearings and plenty of controversy, Apple and cyber startup Corellium are settling a copyright lawsuit. Terms have not been disclosed.The suit was filed in 2019, with Apple claiming that Corellium had illegally replicated iOS by creating software that created virtual versions of iPhones so they could be […]

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Apple Expands Self Service Repair

date: 2023-12-15, from: Michael Tsai

Apple: Apple is expanding Self Service Repair, and launching a new diagnostic tool that gives users more transparency and autonomy to troubleshoot issues. Self Service Repair is now available for the iPhone 15 lineup and Mac models powered by the M2 lineup, including the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro, the 15-inch MacBook Air, Mac mini, […]

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Google’s Confusing New Location Data Settings

date: 2023-12-15, from: Michael Tsai

Ron Amadeo: Google’s misleading Location History descriptions in Google Maps have earned it several lawsuits in the US and worldwide. A quick count involves individual lawsuits in California, Arizona, Washington, a joint lawsuit in Texas, Indiana, and the District of Columbia, and another joint lawsuit across 40 additional US states. Internationally, Google has also been […]

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‘Tis the season: How to Make Your Own Die Hard Christmas Tree…

date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: Jason Kottke blog

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Hex time

date: 2023-12-15, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog

Hex time

My wife left to spend the day in a spa with a friend of hers and I am listening to Louis Armstrong recordings from the 1930s.

I read a discussion between @munroe and @Da_Gut about hex sizes for a hexcrawl. My personal take is to think of hexes as distances one can travel in a certain time.

Think about the diversity of the landscape one can see in a day of travel. Arable lands and a forest. Two regions? Arable lands, a forest, hills, a plateau. Four? That is the number of hexes per day. And nobody cares about the miles.

In my case, I think that “one hex is one day of walking” makes the most sense. In the morning, you’re leaving one hex and in the afternoon you’re arriving in the next hex. This assumes an uncharted wilderness. When I try to leave the forest trails in the hills around Zürich or in the Swiss mountains, I feel that progress is really slow. Super slow. Extremely slow. Sure, I can walk as far as the horizon in some cases, but that’s on gravel roads prepared by industrial machines and maintained by a state that is fed by all the tax evading billionaires and conglomerates of the whole planet. So out there in Fantasy land, it’s more like me trying to find a shortcut in the Swiss mountains and forests.

And sure, if people have horses and mules to carry their stuff, they can travel faster. Twice as fast makes it easy to move the little token around on the map. And roads also speed things up. Like, twice as fast? With horses and mules to carry stuff, on a flat road: 4 hexes per day. If you want to read up on ancient rows, see historic roads and trails on Wikipedia.

Regular exploration of the wilderness where the players are strangers, intruders, colonizers, potential murderers, belonging to the wannabe-conquerors, then surely it’s going to be 1 hex per day. This is the equivalent of slow and careful dungeon exploration speed. Avoid getting lost in the bogs, crossing the rivers and creeks without losing your stuff, without getting ambushed in gullies and canyons, without getting lost in forests, without slipping into ravines, spraining angles or scraping your knees, keeping dry, finding good camping sites, digging a latrine, digging a fire pit, washing clothes, maintaining equipment, baking bread, and on and on. This is the speed you can maintain for long expeditions.

Now, you can get into all the nitty-gritty of it all. Luckily, @settembrini already did all that and wrote Inch by inch it’s all a cinch, by the yard it’s hard. It’s a long article and not an easy read. But here’s one of the things I can put into my gamer notes:

1 hour’s walk = 1 league = 3 miles = 3000 double paces = 15 000 feet= 5000 yards.

So let’s go back to my example. Using the above equivalences, 8 hours of walking takes you 24 miles out in the open, on a road or well kept and straight trail. At the same time, I said that 1 day of walking is 2 hexes in my world, without mules or horses. So now we know: one day of walking is 24 miles and 2 hexes. Therefore my hexes should be 12 miles across, if you really need to know.

But of course you don’t because nothing happens “per mile” in the game. All the things happen “per unit of time”. The most important one of these is “how many random encounters per day?” Or “per 4 hour watch?”

I’m serious about one thing, however: It’s better if you don’t think about the miles per hex. If you do, you’ll keep thinking about all the other things, too. How far was your hike last summer? Did you have to set up camp? How heavy was your backpack? Did you wear armour? Is travelling by horse really faster than walking by foot if you can’t switch horses? How fast are you if you have two horses per person? How fast is a wagon. The questions are endless and somehow I find them all very boring questions. These are not good questions.

It’s better if you think about what’s important in the game for you and the table and go from there. Is the world dangerous because of random encounters? Start with the question of how often you want to roll for random encounters as the party travels from landmark to landmark. Think about the distances between settlements. Traditionally, that would be about a day’s march by foot in arable land: half a day out and do a bit of work and half a day back is the limit.

So let’s say you answered the above with “I’m going to roll once for random encounters per day of travel”. And every landmark has something: either it’s arable land so there are people living there, a camp, a hamlet, a village, or it’s dangerous because of a monster lair, or because of a natural hazard like mountains, swamps, deep forest, or something else that’s similarly inhospitable.

If you follow this train of thought then you’ll arrive at my setup: the slowest speed is one hex per day, and then there are ways to speed things up with transporation methods and infrastructure. Take a boat downriver or along the coast: 8 hexes per day? More? What about taking a boat upriver? Just as slow as walking but you can unlimited supplies? How far can the flying carpet go? All these questions need settling, eventually. All I am concerned about right now, however, is that they can be answered in principle: a certain multiple of the slowest speed is good enough.

The only good argument for switching things up that I can think of is wanting to present more variety to your players. No problem. If the land is full of stuff, a river ford, a tower ruin, then up onto the plateau and into the moors until you reach the cairns of Arguable, you can scale it up. Multiply it all by two or three or four and you’re good to go. I find that this leads to a lot more mapping and so I don’t do it, but if you feel like it, you have my blessings.

If you are like me and prefer more diversity in theory but cannot be bothered to map in practice, I have a suggestion: start with the sparse map and keep adding. Using the example above, there’s a hex with a settlement, and the next hex is hills, and there’s a river between the two. You can improvise a story about the fields giving way to brushland, the river winding its way between the willows and the ford with the poles of King Borgobob who raised them in the times of your grandfather, and then there’s that plateau. If the players don’t look for the tower, it does not show up. But if the players know about the old tower you add a tower symbol to the hill hex and presto, one more landmark in the same hex. They know about the cairn, too? Then it’s a tower and a cairn. You can even number the sides of a hex: 1 is north, 2 is south-east, 3 is south-west, and so on. Then your notes can say “1: cairn, 4: old tower” and depending on how the party crosses the hexes, you’ll know whether they pass by the thing or wether they can spot it from a distance or whether they’ll have to search for it.

I also like to label geographic features. Label settlements, forests, mountains, swamps, rivers, trails. I feel that adds so much.

Down below is a snapshot of the player map in my German Greyhawk campaign where I run the Elredd region on the Wild Coast. How long does it take to travel from Elredd to Moorwies along the Miesbohlenweg? 1 hex/day in the wilderness, 2 hexes/day on the road: From Elredd to Brackmühl is a day, from Brackmühl to Kreuzdorf is a day, and from Kreuzdorf to Moorwies is half a day, or perhaps the swamp slows things down and the road is shit so it’s a full day. So three days total. If you had horses, then it’s one day from Elredd to Kreuzdorf, and then the shit trackway into the swamp… a second day? Or maybe you can travel right through Moorwies and out of the swamp on the other side. But my players don’t know what lies to the west…

OK, but now I have a different problem. @settembrini says that each hex is 10 km across. Now what? Let’s take those equivalences again and add a rough conversion to kilometers. 3 miles × 1½ km/mi = 4½ km or 5000 years × 9/10 m/yard = 4500 m = 4½ km. Let’s round that to 5 km – or in keeping with this blog post: a 10 km hex takes 2 h to walk through and in 8 h you can walk through 4 hexes, if you’re on a road, 2 hexes cross-country, 8 hexes if you ride on a good road. Speed is sort-of doubled because 12 mi × 1½ km/mi = 18 km which is nearly twice as much as 10 km.

So bow how long does it take to travel from Elredd to Moorwies along the Miesbohlen way? 1 day from Elredd to Kreuzdorf. Plus 2 h on the next day.

1 hour’s walk = 1 league = 3 miles = 3000 double paces = 15 000 feet= 5000 yards = 5 km

My point with all of this: keep in mind how the map relates to events in your hexcrawl procedure. With the “new” ruling handed down to me regarding my map, I keep the idea that there is a single encounter check to be made during the day (and one to be made during the night if the party is camping out in the open).

(Map generated using Text Mapper with the Bright library)

#RPG #Maps #Hex #Sandbox

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Giorgia Lupi makes infographics to help make sense of her illness: 1,374…

date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: Jason Kottke blog

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120th Anniversary of the First Powered, Controlled Flight

date: 2023-12-15, from: NASA breaking news

In this image from Dec. 17, 1903, Orville Wright makes the first powered, controlled flight on Earth as his brother Wilbur looks on. Orville Wright covered 120 feet in 12 seconds during the first flight of the day. The Wright brothers made four flights that day, each longer than the last. The aircraft, Flyer 1, […]

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Let’s Take a Journey Through the Secret Queer History of Studio Ghibli…

date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: Jason Kottke blog

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தோன்றியக் கதைகள்: தோட்டங்கள், கணினிகள் மற்றும் தொழில்துறைக் கட்டுப்பாடு

date: 2023-12-15, from: Care

            <p>A Tamil translation of Meredith Whittaker’s piece.</p>

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words, words, words

date: 2023-12-15, from: Ayjay blog

Many of our arguments are fruitless because we don’t know the meaning of the words we use. And we don’t know the meaning of the words we use because meaning is not a property of language that our culture thinks important. In common usage, especially on social media, words are passwords, shibboleths — they are […]

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One Year Back

date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: Jason Kottke blog

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You’re supposed to know

date: 2023-12-15, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News

Not sure if you all know, I was a math major in college.

It was the weirdest choice for me because, until my first semester of college, not been interested in math. I thought it was boring.

Turns out math wasn’t boring, the teachers were boring.

I had a math professor in freshman year, at Lehman College, in the Bronx, who showed me first that I could do it, and then led me to the discovery that hey this is amazing. So I majored in it.

I didn’t do great, B-minus average. But there was one class I got an A in, a summer class (in New Orleans), and it was the only class I took. I think that made a big difference, I could just focus on this one subject. My mind has always been like that, I like to zoom in on things.

Anyway, I remember one day, almost 50 years ago, the professor was standing in front of the class, fuming, angry. We had all turned in proofs that didn’t work and that included grad students, he pointed out (I was an undergrad).

He said this: “You’re supposed to know when you’ve proven it.”

Might be the most important thing I learned from all the math.

It’s not math if your proof doesn’t work.

Next story

A few years later I’m a grad student in Computer Science, and a teaching assistant for a class in assembly language. First semester I was learning it along with the students, although I had already had a class in assembly, you don’t really learn it until you teach it.

Anyway, I promised to post example code on the door of my office for students to copy if they needed help on an assignment. I did. When I got back, one of my office mates, whose name I remember to this day, was, like my math prof at Tulane, fuming, this time at me.

She said this – you have to run your code before you post it.

There was fire coming out of her eyes.

She was right. I was shamed. And obviously never forgot it.

Same story really. A proof that doesn’t work isn’t math. And code that doesn’t run isn’t software.

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Craig Mod recaps the Thailand walk and talk we did last week….

date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: Jason Kottke blog

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Liz Danzico with a lovely write-up of the walk and talk we…

date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: Jason Kottke blog

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Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser New Station Resupply Spacecraft for NASA

date: 2023-12-15, from: NASA breaking news

NASA and Sierra Space are making progress on the first flight of the company’s Dream Chaser spacecraft to the International Space Station. The uncrewed cargo spaceplane is planned to launch its demonstration mission in 2024 to the orbital complex as part of NASA’s commercial resupply services. Dream Chaser and Shooting Star The Dream Chaser cargo […]

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NASA Geologist Paves the Way for Building on the Moon

date: 2023-12-15, from: NASA breaking news

By Jessica Barnett For many at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, a love – be it for space, science, or something else – drew them to the career they’re in today. For geologist Jennifer Edmunson, there were multiple reasons. Her love for geology dates back to her childhood in Arizona, playing in […]

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Kennedy Space Center’s NASA Causeway Bridge Construction

date: 2023-12-15, from: NASA breaking news

In this aerial view, crews with Orion Marine Construction work to complete the westbound span of the Indian River Bridge, while daily traffic moves along the upgraded eastbound lanes of the bridge leading to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Nov. 27, 2023. The bridge crosses the Indian River Lagoon and connects Kennedy […]

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A Cultural Critique of the Tesla Cybertruck

date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: One Foot Tsunami

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Are global harvests keeping pace in a warming world?

date: 2023-12-15, from: Hannah Richie at Substack

The world will achieve record food production this year, but with a growing El Niño and future climate change – will it be able to keep up?

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Getting Started with the OpenAI SDK for Deno

date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: Deno blog

Learn to use text completions, image generation, image analysis, and more features of OpenAI using their official Deno SDK.

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P&B: Jamie Thingelstad

date: 2023-12-15, from: Manu - I write blog

This is the 16th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Jamie Thingelstad and his blog, thingelstad.com.

Jamie was the first person to become a supporter of the P&B series, even before the first edition was out, something I really appreciate. I really enjoy how his blog is a proper personal blog, with a mix of work related content, things he’s passionate about, family posts, and everything in between. It’s also great how he’s been online with a blog for almost two decades, quite a stark contrast with the current state of the web where things tend to last 12 nanoseconds on average. And lastly, I love that his entire family has blogs. It’s such a neat idea.

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@Tomosino’s Mastodon feed (date: 2023-12-15, from: Tomosino’s Mastodon feed)

The Epidemiologists

Solarpunk Prompts - E02S06

How will a Solarpunk future address community distrust in public health? How will we restore faith in vaccines or heal the long history of abuse of minority and indiginous peoples? Is it hopeless? Today’s episode of Solarpunk Prompts takes a look at difficult themes and finding a better future.

https://podcast.tomasino.org/@SolarpunkPrompts/episodes/the-epidemiologists

#solarpunk #publichealth #future #hope

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More blinkies for your rucksack with NeoPXL8 | HackSpace #74

date: 2023-12-15, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)

Ben Everard shows you how to keep safe while cycling in the dark by adorning your rucksack with a billion blinkies.

The post More blinkies for your rucksack with NeoPXL8 | HackSpace #74 appeared first on Raspberry Pi.

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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-12-15, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)

Not a lotta yadda yadda. Heard in a commercial and I had to write it down. We now return to our regularly scheduled program.

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Do Elephants Have Souls? “However, given their mental and emotional chops and…

date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: Jason Kottke blog

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pgAdmin 4 v8.1 Released

date: 2023-12-15, from: PostgreSQL News

The pgAdmin Development Team is pleased to announce pgAdmin 4 version 8.1. This release of pgAdmin 4 includes 21 bug fixes and new features. For more details please see the release notes.

pgAdmin is the leading Open Source graphical management tool for PostgreSQL. For more information, please see the website.

Notable changes in this release include:

Features:

• Add support for generating ERD for a schema.
• Add support for creating a function with a custom return type.

Bugs/Housekeeping:

• Fixed several accessibility-related issues for enhanced usability.
• Ensure that indexes created by constraints are visible in the object explorer when “Show system objects” is enabled.
• Provide a way to bypass the SSL cert verification for the OAuth2 provider.
• Fixed an issue where reading process logs throws an error when DATA_DIR is moved to a networked drive.
• Remove the ‘Close Window’ submenu specifically for OSX to prevent unintended closure of the entire application.
• Fixed an issue where syntax error was not highlighted in the query tool.
• Reverse engineer serial columns when generating ERD for database/table.
• Fixed an issue where the Schema was not visible in the dropdown for table properties or when creating a new table.
• Ensure that the correct timezone is set for Docker deployments.
• Fixed an issue where all rows and filter rows buttons of the object explorer toolbar were disabled for views and other supported nodes.

Builds for Windows and macOS are available now, along with a Python Wheel, Docker Container, RPM, DEB Package, and source code tarball from the tarball area.

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Popular Dystopian Fiction If It Were Describing 2023. “The Children of Men…

date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: Jason Kottke blog

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Armstrong Flight Research Center: A Year in Review

date: 2023-12-14, from: NASA breaking news

It was an abundant year of innovation, exploration, and inspiration for NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. NASA Armstrong continues to demonstrate America’s leadership in aeronautics, Earth and space science, and aerospace technology. Our researchers, engineers, and mission support teams continually seek to revolutionize aviation, add to mankind’s knowledge of the universe, and […]

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Kumataro Ito’s Illustrations of Nudibranchs from the USS Albatross’ Philippine Expedition (ca….

date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: Jason Kottke blog

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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-12-14, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)

So, with the “Bloggers” category not yet ready for prime time, I’ve replaced it with my All category from FeedLand, changing the title to News. I know it’s confusing. I think there’s going to be a fair amount of this kind of shuffling in the weeks and months ahead, as we try to fit news and blogs together in interesting ways. You can read the Bloggers category on news.scripting.com.

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NASA: Una jugosa historia de tomates en la Estación Espacial Internacional

date: 2023-12-14, from: NASA breaking news

El cultivo de alimentos a bordo de la Estación Espacial Internacional es una de las muchas investigaciones que han alcanzado la madurez para las misiones de vuelos espaciales de larga duración a la Luna y Marte. El astronauta de la NASA Frank Rubio compartió recientemente una jugosa historia de dos tomates rebeldes, a los que […]

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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-12-14, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)

Yesterday I addressed the How Do I Write question, now let me address Why I Write. I write at least partially because I know there are good people who love my writing. Anyway, I love to write because there are people who love to read. And I feel connected to them. My mother was the prototype. We weren’t very close in actual life, but she was a devoted reader of my blog. It gave us a connection. And I assume all daily or nightly readers of this blog have that kind of connection, whether I hear from them or not. And sometimes you do hear from them, and that’s especially lovely.

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Standard Ebooks

date: 2023-12-14, from: Michael Tsai

Standard Ebooks (via Jason Kottke): Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright restrictions, and free of cost.Ebook projects like Project Gutenberg transcribe ebooks and make them available for the widest number of reading devices. Standard Ebooks takes ebooks […]

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Google Reneges on Unlimited Storage and on Read-Only Preservation

date: 2023-12-14, from: Michael Tsai

Mike Masnick (Hacker News): We’ve written a few times about independent journalist Tim Burke. Earlier this year, the FBI raided his house and seized all of his electronic devices after he had obtained and published some leaked video footage from Fox News. As we noted, this seemed like a pretty big 1st Amendment issue. Burke […]

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Proton Drive for Mac

date: 2023-12-14, from: Michael Tsai

Tim Hardwick: Swiss-based privacy startup Proton today announced the availability of its end-to-end encrypted cloud storage service for Mac users with the launch of its macOS app. Proton Drive lets users sync files between Mac and the cloud, access files offline, and free up space on local drives. Unlike iCloud, all data (including metadata) is […]

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iCloud Drive in Sonoma: FileProvider and Eviction

date: 2023-12-14, from: Michael Tsai

Howard Oakley: Prior to Sonoma, one of the features in iCloud Drive that hasn’t behaved as documented is Optimise Mac Storage. This has changed in Sonoma, as it now effectively switches between two different types of file provider: a replicated file provider, which syncs between local and remote copies of all files put in the […]

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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-12-14, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)

BTW, even with News no longer on the home page of scripting.com, it still gets more hits than the home page. There’s something there to look at. I want to do more to integrate the blog and the news. To make some kind of new publication that has a bunch of voices, yet doesn’t spin out of control.

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NASA Awards Turbofan Engine Core Technology Demonstration Contract

date: 2023-12-14, from: NASA breaking news

NASA has selected GE Aerospace of Cincinnati to work with the agency’s Hybrid Thermally Efficient Core (HyTEC) project, which is aiming to develop more fuel efficient engines for single-aisle aircraft. The HyTEC’s Phase 2 Integrated Core Technology Demonstration is a cost-sharing contract with a maximum value of approximately $68.1 million and a five-year performance period […]

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Start of an Era

date: 2023-12-14, from: Doc Searls (at Harvard), New Old Blog

After 17 years and 761 episodes, FLOSS Weekly ended its run on the TWiT network yesterday. I hosted the last 179 of those shows. My career as a professional (meaning paid) advocate of open source also ended with that show. The full span ran from 1996, when I first appeared on the Linux Journal masthead, until […]

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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-12-14, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)

Braintrust query: What if I asked you for a list of your favorite blogs? It could be a podcast, or a tech news site. Something you think every Scripting News reader should see when there’s something new? Just curious to know what news sources people think are the most interesting, valuable.

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Inventor of Air Conditioning Helped Chill NASA Wind Tunnels

date: 2023-12-14, from: NASA breaking news

Global tensions were high in the fall of 1941 as U-boats harassed ships in the Atlantic and German forces pushed deep into the Soviet Union. There was a critical need for the United States to get the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)’s new engine laboratory (today, NASA’s Glenn Research Center) in operation as soon […]

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NASA: Let’s Ketchup on International Space Station Tomato Research

date: 2023-12-14, from: NASA breaking news

Growing food aboard the International Space Station is one of the many research investigations ripe for long duration spaceflight missions to the Moon and Mars. NASA astronaut Frank Rubio recently shared the saucy story of two rogue tomatoes, which he had accidentally lost track of while harvesting for the eXposed Root On-Orbit Test System (XROOTS) […]

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OpenPGP for application developers

date: 2023-12-14, from: Tilde.news

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Linux Kernel of the Beast 6.6.6 exorcised by angelic 6.6.7 update

date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register

The rapture of the black T-shirt brigade was very short indeed

  <p>The kernel 6.6.6 version number delighted many a black-clad open source fan, but not for long. It's already been replaced with a more neighborly 6.6.7.</p>

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NASA Facility Builds on Space Station Legacy at Kennedy

date: 2023-12-14, from: NASA breaking news

Built to be the last stop for components of the International Space Station, the Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, has been given a new name that honors this legacy while embracing its role as a multi-tenant processing facility. Agency officials have updated the name of the 457,000 square […]

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You Run, You Vote for Yourself

date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: One Foot Tsunami

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The Best Podcasts of 2023. I’ve been getting recs for The Big…

date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: Jason Kottke blog

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A year of consolidation in nonprofit news

date: 2023-12-14, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

The year 2024 is likely to witness a significant evolution in the landscape of nonprofit journalism. Despite the maturation in journalistic practices, the business side of nonprofit journalism remains underdeveloped. The over-reliance on philanthropy, which is not a panacea for financial sustainability, continues to pose challenges. Many nonprofit news organizations struggle with limited resources, hindering…

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On Substack Nazis, laissez-faire tech regulation, and mouse-poop-in-cereal-boxes

date: 2023-12-14, from: Dave Karpf’s blog

My advisor in college was named Paul Dawson. Dawson was a legend, a master of his craft. He taught an 8am, 200-person intro to politics course that kept the entire room dialed-in for the full two hours. I’ve been thinking about one of the lessons from his class recently, ever since reading Jonathan Katz’s Atlantic piece, “

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Online-to-real-world terror campaigns will be called out for what they are

date: 2023-12-14, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

As 2024 nears, the world of media needs to get real about the way provocateurs hide behind plausible deniability and a feigned sense of shock when their online exploits affect people in their everyday lives. The “Libs of TikTok” saga stands as a testament to this new reality. Through its stream of misleading videos, this…

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Journalist safety training isn’t limited to war reporters

date: 2023-12-14, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

Today, as we head toward another general election, we see a disturbing decline in journalist safety in the United States. Democracy can only thrive when there is a free press. Members of our community, including newsroom leaders from the International Women’s Media Foundation’s newsroom safety cohort, have already experienced harassment, legal intimidation, and direct threats…

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News avoiders shouldn’t be ignored

date: 2023-12-14, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

The ranks of people who call themselves “news avoiders” will likely grow in the coming year, just as their numbers did in many countries in 2022 and 2023. In an election year in the U.S., many will plead Trump fatigue. Others, fueled by distrust of mainstream news, will turn to alternative sources or no news…

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A brief write-up by Derek Sivers of the walk & talk I…

date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: Jason Kottke blog

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“AI” discourse as misinformation

date: 2023-12-14, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

Talk of artificial intelligence, or “AI,” is seemingly everywhere these days. You may even be tired of seeing another piece on “AI.” In articles, “AI” is linked to diverse topics such as climate change, education, warfare, or journalism. Meanwhile, products are increasingly advertised as being “charged by AI,” and even the stock photos in those…

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Memberships go off-platform

date: 2023-12-14, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

In the past few years, we’ve witnessed two interesting phenomena challenging the status quo of the media industry. On one hand, several publications have tried to move beyond the dichotomy between subscription-based and advertisement-funded ways to make journalism financially sustainable. This small but growing group of news brands opted for membership schemes to fund their…

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Journalism refuses to die in Latin America (despite everything)

date: 2023-12-14, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

In 2022, Latin America was the most dangerous region in the world to practice journalism. According to different NGO data, between 30 and 42 journalists were killed in that year. Although there are still no official figures for 2023, the picture is not very different: UNESCO states that 69 journalists from ten countries were killed…

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Fact-checking needs a reboot

date: 2023-12-14, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

Fact-checking is failing. The old way of publishing fact-checks — putting them on websites and promoting them through social media — isn’t getting them to the people who need them. It’s time to reimagine how fact-checkers publish and broadcast their work. For two decades, fact-checking organizations relied on a dependable model: They published articles on…

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From my friend Adriana X. Jacobs, “I put my doom into a…

date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: Jason Kottke blog

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Free, Well-Designed, Public Domain Ebooks

date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: Jason Kottke blog

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A lovely holiday gift guide from Jodi Ettenberg, which includes this adorable…

date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: Jason Kottke blog

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DirectML: Accelerating AI on Windows, now with NPUs

date: 2023-12-14, from: Windows Developer Blog

We are thrilled to announce our collaboration with Intel®, one of our key partners, to bring the first Neural Processing Unit (NPU) powered by DirectML on Windows. AI is transforming the world, driving innovation and creating value across industries

The post DirectML: Accelerating AI on Windows, now with NPUs appeared first on Windows Developer Blog.

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Deno 1.39: The Return of WebGPU

date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: Deno blog

We’ve re-added WebGPU, added new deno coverage reporters, made substantial Node.js compatibility improvements, and more.

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I’m taking over Minimalissimo…for real this time

date: 2023-12-14, from: Manu - I write blog

Well, it’s happening. The days of a carefully curated Minimalissimo are over. Carl has decided to take a break after 10 years running the site and I’m taking over which means chaos is about to ensue.

Just kidding. I am taking over the site though. Carl has written about the reasons behind his decision on his blog so if you want to know more head over to his blog. He was willing to just leave the site up as an archive and stop posting but I can’t let that happen.

Minimalissimo is such a nice project and has a massive archive so I offered to take over the day-to-day operations. But I had one condition and that was that I must be allowed to experiment with the site because you know I can’t help myself when it comes to play with online side projects.

I plan to write about the whole experience throughout the year and I’m going to be very transparent about it so if you’re interested in some behind-the-scenes keep an eye on this blog.

Minimalissimo ”Manu Edition” starts on January 1st. Gonna be a fun 2024.

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Thanks to YouTube’s algorithmic elves for serving up this mini-GBBO episode with…

date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: Jason Kottke blog

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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-12-14, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)

I’ve been re-bingeing the whole Crown series, anticipating that there was going to be a new and final series of episodes, out today. I started watching the new one, and all of a sudden the two princes, William and Harry, are actual people. I have a lot of trouble with that, because of course I remember when they were born. However I’m pretty sure I’ll go all the way through. There are a lot of hours of entertainment in The Crown and a few scenes that are truly spectacular (like this). I remember the really good ones of course, but there’s an awful lot of schlock. One scene I had not remembered was a pretty good illustration of how fucked up people can be. Princess Diana had just gone on a tour of NYC, her first international tour on her own, and it was (surprising to her) a huge success. Another British invasion. The people of NYC loved Diana (at least in the show, I don’t remember this, I was living in California at the time). So she comes home, and the royal family, instead of cheering her, were angry with her for being so charming. Go figure. Her husband, Prince Charles is yelling at her and he asks her if she ever considered how Camilla, Charles’ one true love, would feel about Diana being so popular. Diana is gobsmacked (as am I). Why would she think of that. How totally fucked up is that. Why should anyone, being themselves, being happy, worry about how anyone else might feel about their happiness? I’ve been in Diana’s position a few times, achieving success, much deserved, and was reminded that this upset people who (apparently) didn’t want me to succeed? I have even been asked that question. If you ever feel that way, that someone else’s happiness is meant to make you feel bad, remember Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot video. Really, no one cares if you are offended by someone else’s happiness. Remember, none of this stuff amounts to anything in the big picture. We’re very small, all of us put together, in the grand scheme of things. So if you’re happy, good for you! And one other question – is re-bingeing actually a word?? 😄

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Psst… I reopened ordering for the Kottke Hypertext Tee for the holidays!…

date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: Jason Kottke blog

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Substackers Against Nazis

date: 2023-12-14, from: Dave Karpf’s blog

Hi folks, below is a letter to the Substack founders that I helped draft as part of a group of publishers seeking answers to questions about the platforming and monetizing of Nazis. We are all publishing the letter on our own individual Substacks today for visibility, and to make our readers aware of our asks and concerns. With any luck you already have, or soon will have, seen this on a large number of other substacks. Thanks for reading.

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“Link in comments” won’t save democracy

date: 2023-12-14, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

Journalism is a mere memory on Facebook. The platform reminds me of this daily by serving up a historic feed of my life and the internet we once inhabited. In between photos of first days and family vacations, I scroll through headlines prefaced by lengthy anecdotes and diatribes, my “take” attached to facts backing me…

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Actor Andre Braugher has died at the age of 61. Aww man,…

date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: Jason Kottke blog

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Stop ignoring the news that audiences actually care about

date: 2023-12-14, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

Yes, the Israel-Hamas war is important, along with the ongoing coverage of Russia’s war in Ukraine and the U.S. 2024 presidential election and preventing gun violence and defending democracy [and insert other traumatic news or tragedy here]. But the truth is people are tired of the negative news, and they’re avoiding it in droves. And…

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Raising the alarm bell for public media

date: 2023-12-14, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

In 2024, it will be essential for public media to put its best foot forward to secure a future of continued growth and relevance. It may be tempting to think of broadcast radio and the digital on-demand form of podcasting as sister audio products, but digital audio is more like the decades-old Internet. More than…

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Elon Musk’s behavior forces uncomfortable questions for media

date: 2023-12-14, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

Elon Musk revealed his true colors and chased away all of X’s advertisers in 2023. In 2024, maintaining a relationship with the hate-drenched platform that was once a key communications tool used by newsrooms and authorities around the world will become even more untenable. Should the imperiled social media company survive the crippling advertising boycott…

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Legal rigor meets journalistic inquiry to yield groundbreaking investigations

date: 2023-12-14, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

At a dynamic intersection of journalism, OSINT investigations, and legal practice, the future holds a promising trajectory. As witnessed in recent seminars, newsroom initiatives, and insights from figures like Ibrahim Olabi, the concept of mixed-mandate investigations is gaining momentum. This forward momentum is not just buzz; it’s a trend that’s set to reshape the landscape…

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We find out how good (or bad) 21st-century polling really is

date: 2023-12-14, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

In no particular order, here is a cornucopia of predictions for 2024. As in every election year in recent memory, 2024 will improve the market for political news. Audience trend charts look like Charlie Brown’s sweater pattern — up and down and up again, every four years. By now, the savviest news organizations have figured…

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The news industry learns which stories not to write

date: 2023-12-14, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

There’s always a little wishful thinking in these annual forecasts — or a dose of gloom. Here’s what I wish the journalism industry would do in 2024 to tackle some of its underlying problems that are within its power to fix and to create more sustainable journalism businesses. News planning. I have long believed this…

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Weathercasters help us navigate the trust-in-news storm

date: 2023-12-14, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

In 2024, we’ll turn to television meteorologists to better understand how to restore the public’s trust in news. Many of us have a favorite weathercaster — someone with whom you trust your life when the weather may be trying to take it. I grew up watching Bob Ryan in Washington — and when I lived…

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Science journalism has its Defector moment

date: 2023-12-14, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

Ask any working science journalist about the state of the discipline, and they’ll tell you the mood is grim. The industry-wide layoffs of the past year, numbering more than 20,000 media workers, have dealt body blows to the livelihoods of journalists working on science and environment issues. CNBC dismantled its climate desk. Popular Science ended…

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This Amiga is not an Amiga | The MagPi #137

date: 2023-12-14, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)

The name says it all. This project looks like an Amiga. It functions like an Amiga. But there’s a very different computing hidden inside.

The post This Amiga is not an Amiga | The MagPi #137 appeared first on Raspberry Pi.

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2023/12/14 AI Cyber Challenge Opens Registration, Adds $4 Million in Prizes, Shows Scoring Algorithm and Challenge Exemplar

date: 2023-12-14, from: Darpa News

Registration for DARPA’s AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) is now open. The Small Business Track submission deadline is January 15, 2024 and the Open Track submission deadline is April 30, 2024. More details are available below and in the streaming video announcement from DARPA program manager Perri Adams.

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AMD says overclocking blows a hidden fuse on Ryzen Threadripper 7000 to show if you’ve overclocked the chip, but it doesn’t automatically void your CPU’s warranty

date: 2023-12-14, from: OS News

A recent discovery that overclocking AMD’s latest chips blows a fuse to denote the chip has been overclocked has led to slightly misleading claims that it will automatically void the chips’ warranty for any type of failure. However, AMD clarified to Tom’s Hardware that overclocking AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7000 (Storm Peak) and non-Pro lineup, among the best workstation CPUs, doesn’t automatically void the processor’s warranty. ↫ Zhiye Liu at Tom’s Hardware Something about these fuses in processors doesn’t sit right with me.

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Cortex A57, Nintendo Switch’s CPU

date: 2023-12-14, from: OS News

We’re going to cover the Cortex A57 as implemented in the Nintendo Switch’s Nvidia Tegra X1. The Tegra X1 targets a wide range of applications including mobile devices and automobiles. It focuses on providing high GPU performance in a limited power envelope, making it perfect for a portable gaming console like the Switch. Tegra X1 consumes 117,6 mm2 on TSMC’s 20 nm (20 SoC) process and uses a quad core A57 cluster to provide the bulk of its CPU power. Each Cortex A57 core consumes just under 2 mm2 of area, and the quad core A57 cluster takes 13.16 mm2. ↫ Clamchowder at Chips and Cheese An old SoC still doing excellent work in the Switch.

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Frame pointers enabled by default in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

date: 2023-12-14, from: OS News

In collaboration with Polar Signals we have committed that beginning with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, our GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) package will enable frame pointers by default for 64-bit platforms. All packages in Ubuntu, with very few exceptions, will be rebuilt with frame pointers enabled, making them easier to profile and subsequently optimise. “I’ve enabled frame pointers at huge scale for Java and glibc and studied the CPU overhead for this change, which is typically less than 1% and usually so close to zero that it is hard to measure. Frame pointers allow more complete CPU profiling and off-CPU profiling. The performance wins that these can provide far outweigh the comparatively tiny loss in performance. Ubuntu enabling frame pointers by default will be a huge win for performance engineering and the default developer experience”. said Brendan Gregg, computer performance expert and Intel Fellow. ↫ Oliver Smith on the official Ubuntu blog So I guess the very minor performance regression is supposed to be compensated for by optimisations in individual packages that frame pointers will help realise.

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Funnel decomposition

date: 2023-12-14, from: Max Halford Blog

Funnel metrics as products I talked about metric decomposition in a previous article, and how it can be used to explain why metrics change values over time. That article explained how to decompose a sum, as well as a ratio. In this article, I’ll explain how to decompose a product. revenue = impressions * click_rate * conversion_rate * spend The decomposition in this article isn’t limited to funnels. It can be applied to any metric that is expressed as a product of factors.

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I’ve discovered a new word that describes my general approach to life:…

date: 2023-12-13, updated: 2023-12-13, from: Jason Kottke blog

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The National Lyrics or Things My Dad Says While Refusing to Check…

date: 2023-12-13, updated: 2023-12-13, from: Jason Kottke blog

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VMware Transition to Subscriptions

date: 2023-12-13, from: Michael Tsai

VMware (via Hacker News): Broadcom’s close of the VMware acquisition has brought together two engineering-first, innovation-centric teams to help build the world’s leading infrastructure technology company. […] VMware has been on a journey to simplify its portfolio and transition from a perpetual to a subscription model to better serve customers with continuous innovation, faster time […]

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Why Is Bluetooth Sound Quality Bad on My Mac?

date: 2023-12-13, from: Michael Tsai

Daniel Gonzalez Reina (via Hacker News): On the one hand you have that Macs will use a HFP when the microphone is in use, and on the other you have that HFP use audio codecs which prioritizes low latency over audio quality. Therefore,☠️ Using the Bluetooth headset’s microphone will make your Mac sacrifice audio quality […]

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Xcode 15.1

date: 2023-12-13, from: Michael Tsai

Apple (downloads): Xcode 15.1 includes SDKs for iOS 17.2, iPadOS 17.2, tvOS 17.2, watchOS 10.2, and macOS Sonoma 14.2. The Xcode 15.1 release supports on-device debugging in iOS 12 and later, tvOS 12 and later, and watchOS 4 and later. Xcode 15.1 requires a Mac running macOS Ventura 13.5 or later. Robin Kunde: There’s a […]

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Epic Wins Antitrust Case With Google

date: 2023-12-13, from: Michael Tsai

Kyle Orland: The jury unanimously answered “yes” to all 11 questions on the verdict form, indicating that Epic had proven those monopolies existed in every worldwide market except for China. Google “engaged in anticompetitive conduct” to establish or maintain the monopoly and illegally tied the Google Play store to the use of Google Play billing, […]

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What tech writers can learn from video game manuals

date: 2023-12-13, from: Blog by Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti

I’m not only a technical writer and an avid collector of old manuals: I’m also a gamer. One of the bits I always enjoyed about video games were the manuals, from the slim booklets that accompanied arcade games to the hefty guides that helped build virtual worlds in our heads while we waited for a few kilobytes to load in memory. Those manuals still hold valuable lessons for the software documentation we write today.

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From Alexandra Lange, Mark Lamster, and Carolina A. Miranda, it’s the always…

date: 2023-12-13, updated: 2023-12-13, from: Jason Kottke blog

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Mowing the Lawn: The Genocide Industry

date: 2023-12-13, from: Care

            <p>Finance editor Ed Ongweso on Israel’s strategy to weaken Palestinians’ ability to resist, in particular through the use of technology and water deprivation.</p>

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Hey, just wanted to re-up the 2023 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide —…

date: 2023-12-13, updated: 2023-12-13, from: Jason Kottke blog

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The cable news kayfabe is dead

date: 2023-12-13, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

There is a word I can’t stop thinking about recently, and once you hear it, you won’t be able to stop thinking about it either. That word is “kayfabe,” the carney term popularized by professional wrestlers to describe what is happening within the theatre of the absurd and fantastical world of good guys and bad…

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College media remains the news industry’s younger, cooler aunt

date: 2023-12-13, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

It’s hard to come out of this year without acknowledging the impactful work that independent college media outlets spearheaded: The Stanford Daily dethroning their university president, The Daily Tar Heel capturing the terror of a shooting lockdown, and The Daily Northwestern exposing a football hazing scandal. This work was incredible, and with the help of…

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The homepage is back

date: 2023-12-13, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

As some social media platforms diminish in significance as primary news sources for news junkies — because of their perceived unreliability and chaotic nature — there will be a notable rise in the importance of homepages and newsletters as those readers seek more authoritative and trustworthy sources for news. The reality today is most voracious…

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Scale is a trap

date: 2023-12-13, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

At the tail end of 2023, we’re starting to see the decay or active dismantling of a number of the bastions of scale that shaped the digital news experience throughout the 2010s. Sure, some outlets closely associated with this time period are still holding on effectively, like The Verge and The Daily Beast. But companies…

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Journalists abandon social media, and news audiences follow (eventually)

date: 2023-12-13, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

In 2009, I logged onto Twitter for the first time. My journalism professor required students to join the platform, which he described as a necessary tool for breaking, reporting, and distributing news. Ten years later, I began teaching my own journalism courses, and similarly pushed students to join Twitter so that they could engage with…

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To build trust, news outlets prioritize transparency

date: 2023-12-13, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

Who are you? Who funds your journalism? Who controls your news company? Do you keep community donations in your community? Do you have a political point of view? Why do you cover some things and not others? One of the most actionable steps we can take as news people to counter misinformation and disinformation is…

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Adventure Run Report: Northern Yosemite 50

date: 2023-12-13, updated: 2023-12-13, from: Educated Guesswork blog

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A hard look at Certificate Transparency, Part I: Transparency Systems

date: 2023-12-13, updated: 2023-12-13, from: Educated Guesswork blog

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“So, How Did You Two Meet?”

date: 2023-12-13, updated: 2023-12-14, from: One Foot Tsunami

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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-12-13, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)

I miss Frontier so much. Debugging its database was several orders of magnitude less work than the Node+SQL setup where the runtime and the database are very far apart. In Frontier the database and the language are the same thing. And because Frontier did the rational thing with synchronization, it was handled in the kernel, the code you write doesn’t have to worry about it, you can write reasonably readable code. In Node it’s a real chore to come back to some code you worked on last a while back. Makes my mind tired, but I do it, because it’s where I work now.

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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-12-13, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)

Another time I blog about is when I figure something out that I’ve been trying to understand for a long time, in some cases my whole life. That still happens. The other day I found myself talking with a friend about love, why when someone says “I love you” it doesn’t mean what it seems to. Love comes from understanding someone well enough that you know what they desire, what they ache to have, and you to try to help them get it. See all the qualifications in that. Try. Help. Them. In other words, you can love someone when you know them. And you don’t give them what they want, you help them get it. You can’t love someone who your whole idea of is based on a dream you have about them. That’s different. Anyway, lots more to say about all this. It’s a recurring topic. It might be the only topic. Someday they’ll invent an AI that can analyze my writing and tell me if I’ve ever written for any other purpose than being worthy of love.

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Deno KV vs. Cloudflare Workers KV, Upstash Redis, AWS DynamoDB, and Google Firestore

date: 2023-12-13, updated: 2023-12-13, from: Deno blog

We compare Deno KV to other serverless data stores on performance, price, developer experience, and more.

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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-12-13, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)

I had a long chat yesterday with Guy Kawasaki. Along the way he wondered how I find something to write every day. The answer – I don’t find things to write, it doesn’t work that way. I don’t sit down in the morning and say OK now I have to write 1000 words and it doesn’t matter what it’s about. If I have something to say I say it. And as you can tell, I usually do have something to say, because I’m always thinking and planning, trying to figure out what I want, or if I already know, how to get other people to help me get there. A lot of trial and error, let’s see if this way of putting it works, or that one, etc. There’s a slogan for this – Narrate Your Work – and my work is narratable and creates its own record because I do my work right here, because much of my work involves other people. Actually all of it. And if I can get the people I need to listen to me, ie read my blog, then we can work together (a recurring theme) to make great communication systems out of the web and avoid flushing our future down the toilet, which we always seem to be doing.

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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-12-13, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)

I’m pretty sure federation in social media is the wrong bet. We have to think more broadly. What are the benefits we want from interop in social media. Federation isn’t itself a benefit. It’s an idea hatched by techies who aren’t thinking about how people actually use these systems and which features are valued and which are problematic. Imho, what’s valued is the ability to publish something quickly, and without much fuss, and follow others, again easily without having to have a deep understanding of how these things are architected. No one but us programming plumbers cares. I think the idea of conversation not only is overrated, but it’s where all the problems are, where all the abuse happens. If we focus on the benefits, quick dissemination of news, and the power of the individual to choose their sources and share them with others – that’s where the juice is. Imho of course, ymmv, praise Murphy, I am not a lawyer and my mother loved me, even though at times it was hard to tell. ❤️

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@Tomosino’s Mastodon feed (date: 2023-12-13, from: Tomosino’s Mastodon feed)

Board games with tokens should come with snackstitution rules. Tell me how many snacks of distinct types I’ll need if i want to replace the game pieces with edible things.

Imagine Catan where you can eat the sheep!

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@Tomosino’s Mastodon feed (date: 2023-12-13, from: Tomosino’s Mastodon feed)

I seriously thought this was going to be about Brandon Sanderson

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Press Forward must prove itself to the Black press

date: 2023-12-13, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

All right, I’ll say it: I’m extremely nervous about Press Forward, the national initiative to inject $500 million into local journalism nationwide. Am I hater? A cynical 26-year-old? At the helm of a two-year-old hyperlocal newsroom still waiting on a transformational investment? All of the above? Two years ago, I quit my job in New…

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After the breakup, Canadian news orgs learn to live without Facebook

date: 2023-12-13, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

Author’s note: In June, The Government of Canada passed the Online News Act to “ensure that platforms compensate news businesses fairly.” Meta responded by blocking Canadian news from all its platforms, while Google threatened to do the same when the law came into effect on Dec. 19. As November drew to a close, Google and…

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For more engagement and trust, try this one weird trick

date: 2023-12-13, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

I recently joined the board of Honolulu Civil Beat, and one of the things I’ve always loved is reading their (heavily moderated) comments. The comments can be just as engaging as the pieces themselves. They demonstrate varied perspectives, deep knowledge, and vigorous but respectful debate from readers. This is in large part because a team…

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Peer support will be a critical part of newsroom resilience

date: 2023-12-13, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

We know we need to invest in health benefits, time off, and comprehensive training for our journalists covering the most difficult stories — particularly with the increase of visual content being handled by reporters and editors. But too often, we open our tool kits only after a crisis. In the wake of January 6, several…

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The web floods

date: 2023-12-13, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

In 2024, more for-profit newsrooms will produce content using AI in an effort to reduce costs and increase pageviews. They will be joined by thousands of other businesses, industries, and marketers who will use AI at scale to try and gain attention and leads by any means necessary. Marketers are already bragging about their ability…

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Journalism outside urban areas thrives

date: 2023-12-13, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

I predict that local news sources will have a robust presence in the American heartland, and that these sources will be founded, run, and staffed by people from the heartland. I predict that these will be journalists committed to facts and the accurate reflection of the communities they serve, and that they’ll be invested in…

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multiple social diseases

date: 2023-12-13, from: Ayjay blog

18 Warning Signs of a Deadly New Lifestyle – by Ted Gioia: — but they’re not all symptoms of the same disorder — or anyhow not in the same way. “Anthropophobia — the fear of other people — is on the rise” is the chief theme, and “Time spent alone is rising for all demographic […]

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Elf on the shelf for grown-ups (make a robot do it)

date: 2023-12-13, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)

YouTuber Kevin McAleer decided Elf on the Shelf shouldn’t be reserved for kids, so he trained a robot to help him get in on the fun.

The post Elf on the shelf for grown-ups (make a robot do it) appeared first on Raspberry Pi.

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Offpunk 2.1

date: 2023-12-13, from: Tilde.news

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Bots, again

date: 2023-12-13, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog

Bots, again

I come home from a friendly meetup and notice that my tiny web-server has a load of 80 instead of the usual 0.5. What the hell is going on? I look at the logs of the last 24 hours and see an IP number with more than 100 000 hits in the last 24h. What are they doing?

Whois tells me it is from the “Alibaba Cloud”. Oh yeah? What are the Chinese trying to do on my site?

I start poking around. More and more IP numbers from all over the net show up. Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud.

All right, so I’m blocking some of them individually as I go, but after a while I realize that I probably have to block them at the network level.

For the moment I’m also taking down one of the wikis that’s overloading my server.

Just looking at the top 10 offenders for two of my domains, and running whois on them to find the entire network they belong to, and checking that it’s Alibaba or Tencent:

# Alibaba Cloud 2023-12-10
RewriteCond "%{REMOTE_ADDR}" "-R '47.76.0.0/14'" [or]
RewriteCond "%{REMOTE_ADDR}" "-R '47.80.0.0/13'" [or]
RewriteCond "%{REMOTE_ADDR}" "-R '47.74.0.0/14'" [or]
RewriteCond "%{REMOTE_ADDR}" "-R '47.235.0.0/16'" [or]
RewriteCond "%{REMOTE_ADDR}" "-R '47.246.0.0/16'" [or]
RewriteCond "%{REMOTE_ADDR}" "-R '47.244.0.0/15'" [or]
RewriteCond "%{REMOTE_ADDR}" "-R '47.240.0.0/14'" [or]
RewriteCond "%{REMOTE_ADDR}" "-R '47.236.0.0/14'" [or]
# Tencent Cloud
RewriteCond "%{REMOTE_ADDR}" "-R '42.192.0.0/15'" [or]
RewriteCond "%{REMOTE_ADDR}" "-R '49.232.0.0/14'" [or]
RewriteCond "%{REMOTE_ADDR}" "-R '101.34.0.0/15'" [or]
RewriteCond "%{REMOTE_ADDR}" "-R '43.142.0.0/16'" [or]
RewriteCond "%{REMOTE_ADDR}" "-R '124.220.0.0/14'"
RewriteRule ^ https://alexschroeder.ch/nobots [redirect=410,last]

If I want this to be for the entire server and not repeat it for each location, I guess I’ll have to use Apache rewrite rules.

While I’m doing this, I notice a new pattern… My wiki software allows you to fetch a feed for every page. Either it contains updates to the page (Oddmuse), or a feed of the pages linked (Oddmu). It’s for humans.

Of course some shit engineer decided that it was a good idea to scan the web for all the feeds that are out there (so rare! so precious!) and to download them all, forever (uncover the darknet! server our customers!) and now I have to block IP number ranges, add robot agents to robots.txt files (not all of them provide one), or block user agents (not all of them provide a useful one) and I block and block and block (for the environment! to avoid +2.0°C and the end of human civilization!) and all this while I know that all these shit requests exist out there, for all the sites, everywhere – a hundred thousand requests or more per day, per site, wasting CO₂ – and what am I going to do, kill the feeds for humans because some shit engineer decided to feed a machine?

I’m on the Butlerian Jihad again.

Oh, and Virgin Media is downloading tons of PDFs I’m hosting? Are they looking for copyright violations? On the blocklist they go.

And what’s this, Feedly is also downloading feeds like crazy, every few minutes? Slow down, idiots. My news is not important. On the blocklist they go. Or are you trying to train your stupid intelligence? Fuck this AI training stuff. I already use “X-Robots-Tag: noimageai” but I guess I should add even more HTTP headers to block even more engineers overstepping boundaries?

Ah, and MonitoRSS going into overdrive, from the Amazon Cloud. Really, I don’t think there are humans in the Amazon Cloud. Onto the blocklist they go. Well, at least this IP range.

And who’s that VelenPublicWebCrawler, zealously collecting pages? Onto the blocklists they go.

Following a lead from StackExchange and looking at the ipset manual I see that the type hash:net supports banning entire networks!

Here’s a fish script:

#! /usr/bin/fish

# Use hash:net because of the CIDR stuff
ipset create banlist hash:net
iptables -I INPUT -m set --match-set banlist src -j DROP
iptables -I FORWARD -m set --match-set banlist src -j DROP

# Alibaba 2023-12-10
set -l networks \
    47.76.0.0/14 \
    47.80.0.0/13 \
    47.74.0.0/14 \
    47.235.0.0/16 \
    47.246.0.0/16 \
    47.244.0.0/15 \
    47.240.0.0/14 \
    47.236.0.0/14

# Tencent 2023-12-10
set -a networks \
    42.192.0.0/15 \
    49.232.0.0/14 \
    101.34.0.0/15 \
    43.142.0.0/16 \
    124.220.0.0/14

# OVH 2023-12-10 (Borked Feed Reader)
set -a networks 141.94.0.0/16

# Bell Canada 2023-12-10 (Borked Feed Reader)
set -a networks 142.177.0.0/16
# Amazon 2023-12-10 (MonitoRSS?)
set -a networks 44.192.0.0/11
# Virgin Media 2023-12-10
set -a networks 81.108.0.0/15
# BSO 2023-12-10 (maybe Feedly?)
set -a networks 8.29.192.0/21
# ASAHI 2023-12-10 (idiot bot getting 1PDC PDF repeatedly)
set -a networks 220.146.0.0/16

for network in $networks
    ipset add banlist $network
end

#Bots #Butlerian Jihad #Administration

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@Jessica Smith’s blog (date: 2023-12-13, from: Jessica Smith’s blog)

The last few days have been really productive for me creatively. I’ve made so much progress on a thorough outline of book 2 of my WIP, with proper through-lines of narrative tension,¹ and I’m feeling really good about how the actual writing of it is going to go. I also did a cold reread of book 1, and was really happy with it, actually! I’d even say it’s about ready to start seeking out feedback from other people 😬

And… what did I have to do to start making progress again? It seems like the solution is simple:

1. get a temporary reprieve from the neverending stress that is renovating a house. (I swear I will have a blog post up about this one day)
2. close all social media apps and browser tabs.
3. close my web browser entirely, or have it open only for worldofsolitaire.com  so I have something to keep my hands busy when I’m thinking.
4. just reread the damn thing! yes, it takes hours, but it’s the only way to reimmerse myself in the story from zero. (also, now that book 1 is relatively polished, I genuinely enjoy it! almost like there’s something to that “write what you want to read” advice.)

So there you have it; that’s what I’ve been up to. In what has otherwise been a bit of a tough year for me, it feels great to be optimistic about something for once 😊

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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-12-13, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)

If Threads supported outbound RSS 2.0 feeds we could avoid the dominance Twitter had over news for so long. There’s nothing hard or magical about it, the technology of RSS is simple, and well understood by thousands of developers.

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Epic win: jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight

date: 2023-12-13, from: OS News

Three years after Fortnite-maker Epic Games sued Apple and Google for allegedly running illegal app store monopolies, Epic has a win. The jury in Epic v. Google has just delivered its verdict — and it found that Google turned its Google Play app store and Google Play Billing service into an illegal monopoly. After just a few hours of deliberation, the jury unanimously answered yes to every question put before them — that Google has monopoly power in the Android app distribution markets and in-app billing services markets, that Google did anticompetitive things in those markets, and that Epic was injured by that behavior. They decided Google has an illegal tie between its Google Play app store and its Google Play Billing payment services, too, and that its distribution agreement, Project Hug deals with game developers, and deals with OEMs were all anticompetitive. ↫ Sean Hollister for The Verge Good news, of course, but it does make one wonder why a judge in Epic’s case versus Apple ruled the exact opposite as the jury did today. We don’t yet know what this verdict will mean for Google in a practical sense – that’s up to the judge, and Google intends to appeal, for course – so if consumers will actually see any benefit from this remains to be seen.

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Libreboot 10-year anniversary

date: 2023-12-13, from: Tilde.news

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Broadcom stops selling perpetual VMware licenses, subscription-only from now on

date: 2023-12-13, from: OS News

As part of our transition to subscription and a simplified portfolio, beginning today, we will no longer sell perpetual licenses. All offerings will continue to be available as subscriptions going forward. Additionally, we are ending the sale of Support and Subscription (SnS) renewals for perpetual offerings beginning today. ↫ Krish Prasad of VMware This sucks. Every few years, I would buy a cheap VMware license on eBay for like €10 or something, to keep my Windows virtual machine going for the incredibly rare cases where I need one for my job because some popular CAT tools are Windows-only. I really do not wish to buy a subscription for that. I guess it’s time to transition to VirtualBox.

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Google to move location data and Maps history to your device

date: 2023-12-13, from: OS News

The Timeline feature in Maps helps you remember places you’ve been and is powered by a setting called Location History. If you’re among the subset of users who have chosen to turn Location History on (it’s off by default), soon your Timeline will be saved right on your device — giving you even more control over your data. Just like before, you can delete all or part of your information at any time or disable the setting entirely. If you’re getting a new phone or are worried about losing your existing one, you can always choose to back up your data to the cloud so it doesn’t get lost. We’ll automatically encrypt your backed-up data so no one can read it, including Google. ↫ Marlo McGriff, Director of Product, Google Maps, at Google’s official blog All else being equal, moving location data from residing unencrypted in the cloud to on your device is a good thing. That being said, if Google is giving up access to this data, it most likely means they’ve gotten really good at estimating your whereabouts using other data instead.

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Nominate Free Software Projects for the €10.000 BlueHats Prizes

date: 2023-12-13, updated: 2023-12-13, from: nlnet feed

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Meta’s Chief AI Officer is lying about the EU AI Act

date: 2023-12-12, from: Gary Marcus blog

A few days ago it looked like the EU AI Act had finally been negotiated, and resolved. There was much rejoicing. But the big tech executives that would need to deal with it aren’t happy, and are doing their best after the fact to undermine a hard-won compromise that involved years of negotiations and multiple all-nighters.

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GNU Unifont Glyphs

date: 2023-12-12, from: Tilde.news

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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Deciphers Ancient History of Martian Lake

date: 2023-12-12, from: NASA breaking news

Now at 1,000 days on Mars, the mission has traversed an ancient river and lake system, collecting valuable samples along the way. Marking its 1,000th Martian day on the Red Planet, NASA’s Perseverance rover recently completed its exploration of the ancient river delta that holds evidence of a lake that filled Jezero Crater billions of […]

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Thanks, and Bye!

date: 2023-12-12, updated: 2023-12-12, from: Jason Kottke blog

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Webb Sheds Light on an Exploded Star

date: 2023-12-12, from: NASA breaking news

Supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A) shines in a new image from Dec. 10, 2023, from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) view of Cas A displays this stellar explosion at a resolution previously unreachable at these wavelengths, revealing intricate details of the expanding shell of material slamming into the gas shed […]

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Breaking Records, Returning Asteroid Samples Among NASA’s Big 2023

date: 2023-12-12, from: NASA breaking news

In 2023, as NASA pushed the limits of exploration for the benefit of humanity, the agency celebrated astronaut Frank Rubio becoming the first American astronaut to spend more than one year in space; delivered samples from an asteroid to Earth; sent a spacecraft to study a metal-rich asteroid for the first time; launched multiple initiatives […]

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Seeing and Believing: 15 Years of Exoplanet Images

date: 2023-12-12, from: NASA breaking news

Fifteen years ago, astronomers delivered what is now an iconic direct image of an exoplanet, Beta Pictoris b.

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Turtles (Comic)

date: 2023-12-12, updated: 2023-12-12, from: Jason Kottke blog

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macOS 14.2

date: 2023-12-12, from: Michael Tsai

Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer, full installer, IPSW): macOS Sonoma 14.2 introduces an Enhanced AutoFill feature for PDFs, which Apple announced earlier this year. It automatically identifies common fields like name and address, allowing them to be autofilled similar to a website.In the Messages app, stickers can be added directly to chat bubbles with […]

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macOS 13.6.3 and macOS 12.7.2

date: 2023-12-12, from: Michael Tsai

Apple (full installer): This document describes the security content of macOS Ventura 13.6.3. Apple (full installer): This document describes the security content of macOS Monterey 12.7.2. Previously: macOS 14.2 macOS 13.6.2 macOS 13.6.1 and macOS 12.7.1

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Apple Launches Journal App

date: 2023-12-12, from: Michael Tsai

Apple: Journal, a new iPhone app available today, helps users reflect and practice gratitude through journaling, which has been shown to improve wellbeing. With Journal, users can capture and write about everyday moments and special events in their lives, and include photos, videos, audio recordings, locations, and more to create rich memories. On-device machine learning […]

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iOS 17.2 and iPadOS 17.2

date: 2023-12-12, from: Michael Tsai

Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer): The iOS 17.2 update includes the new Journal app, which is designed to allow iOS users to record key moments in their lives. The Journal app includes journaling suggestions, scheduled notifications, and options for adding photos, locations, and more.For the iPhone 15 Pro models, iOS 17.2 adds a Translate […]

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watchOS 10.2

date: 2023-12-12, from: Michael Tsai

Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer): The watchOS 10.2 update adds support for using Siri to access and record data in the Health app on the Apple Watch Series 9 and the Apple Watch Ultra 2. Users can ask Siri questions like “How did I sleep last night?” or “How many steps have I taken […]

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HomePod 17.2

date: 2023-12-12, from: Michael Tsai

Juli Clover: Apple does not specify what’s included in the HomePod 17.2 software, and the generic release notes only say that it includes bug fixes and performance improvements. All I know is that it’s 2.6 GB, took a really long time to install, and doesn’t fix the bug with not being able to play music […]

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tvOS 17.2

date: 2023-12-12, from: Michael Tsai

Apple (MacRumors): Today Apple unveiled a redesigned Apple TV app that makes it even easier for users to watch Apple’s award-winning original series and films, as well as live sports, movies, and television shows across their favorite Apple devices, smart TVs, streaming sticks, gaming consoles, and more. The simplified interface’s new sidebar allows users to […]

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@Tomosino’s Mastodon feed (date: 2023-12-12, from: Tomosino’s Mastodon feed)

Step 1: Think of an animal. Any animal.

Step 2: Imagine that animal drawn as a cartoon. Style is up to you. Disney, Rankin/Bass, whatever. Not 3D, though. 2D. Got it?

Step 3: Is your animal a protagonist or a villain? Base your choice purely on your imagined cartoon character.

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Playing the SpiderHarp

date: 2023-12-12, updated: 2023-12-12, from: Jason Kottke blog

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New NASA Satellite To Unravel Mysteries About Clouds, Aerosols

date: 2023-12-12, from: NASA breaking news

Some of the same properties of light and optics that make the sky blue and cause rainbows can also help scientists unlock mysteries about cloud formation and the effects of tiny particles in our air. NASA’s upcoming PACE mission will offer important insights on airborne particles of sea salt, smoke, human-made pollutants, and dust – […]

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Journalism intermediaries start to coordinate

date: 2023-12-12, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

People in our industry love the word ecosystem. We especially love to talk about healthy news ecosystems. The thinking goes that when publications champion each others’ work, collaborate on big news stories, and even fundraise together, their impact becomes greater than the sum of their parts. Journalism support organizations herald that kind of networked systems…

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Publishers will finally be influenced by influencers

date: 2023-12-12, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

For a long time, legacy publishers have looked down on social media influencers and Patreon-style creators, if indeed they think of them at all. Meanwhile, thousands of successful influencers and content creators have been building real and valuable relationships with their communities, who now trust them more than traditional journalism — and sometimes pay for…

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In a year of polarized elections, media will be a target

date: 2023-12-12, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

More than half the world’s population will get to vote for their government in 2024, making it the biggest election year in history, according to The Economist. It should be a high point for the press. Even countries where elections are not free or fair may see a bump in people’s demand for news. Unfortunately,…

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Trust good, crap bad

date: 2023-12-12, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

Generative AI makes it easier than ever to crank out commoditized content. Local newsrooms are understaffed, fighting to keep their heads above water, and often owned by private equity firms who worship volume and scale. What could possibly go wrong? I see two short-term futures for generative AI in local news: The first is one…

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The algorithm will be the message

date: 2023-12-12, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

A significant portion of designing a text on future scenarios in the media industry involves a retrospective process — not as an exercise in intellectual nostalgia, but as a way to contextualize the relationship between technologies, media, and societies to identify emerging paradigms. As a journalist, communications professor, and digital media consultant, I’ve strived to…

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More open source AI

date: 2023-12-12, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

It is truly magical to speak to a machine using the same language you’d use to talk to a human. And that initial awe at the technology commonly known as generative AI caught a lot of us in the hype over artificial intelligence this past year. We also learned that while the large language models…

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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-12-12, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)

My idea of a friend is someone who laughs at my jokes.

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Full Moon Haiku Cards

date: 2023-12-12, updated: 2023-12-12, from: Jason Kottke blog

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TV reporters become TikTok influencers

date: 2023-12-12, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

Television journalists have long been encouraged to have a social media presence to build their brands and provide additional outlets for network content. Journalists have always been influencers for their stations — but in 2024, we’ll see them start to be additionally compensated for this labor, and financially benefit from their own social media presence….

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Publishers keep trying to extract revenue from Google

date: 2023-12-12, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

The next year will see alliances of news publishers around the world trying again to get payments from Google, and possibly Meta, influenced by the successes of Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code. These alliances will be useful for the negotiations that need to happen with AI companies using news content in their large language models….

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NASA’s Commercial Partners Continue Progress on New Space Stations

date: 2023-12-12, from: NASA breaking news

Three NASA-funded commercial space station partners are on track for the design and development of their orbital destinations and the transition of agency’s low Earth orbit needs from the International Space Station. “We are ending the year on a high note with multiple important milestones being completed by our partners,” said Angela Hart, manager of […]

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Linux Mint 21.3 and Zorin 17 are beta buddies

date: 2023-12-12, updated: 2023-12-12, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register

Irish software projects gear up for latest iterations

  <p>Devs at well-loved distros Mint and Zorin are hard at work, with Mint 21.3 expected before the holidays, although Zorin OS 17 may take a little longer. Their respective betas show both are shaping up nicely and boast attractive desktops.</p>

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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-12-12, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)

Working my way through loose-ends. The feed-only editor built into FeedLand has now been converted to mobile.

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Puppeteer Support for the Cross-Browser WebDriver BiDi Standard

date: 2023-12-12, from: Mozilla Developer Network blog

Puppeteer now supports the next-generation, cross-browser WebDriver BiDi standard. This new protocol makes it easy for web developers to write automated tests that work across multiple browser engines.

The post Puppeteer Support for the Cross-Browser WebDriver BiDi Standard appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.

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Diary Comics, Nov. 13-15

date: 2023-12-12, updated: 2023-12-12, from: Jason Kottke blog

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“Five sweaters to knit for a little girl.” My faves are Nos….

date: 2023-12-12, updated: 2023-12-12, from: Jason Kottke blog

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Forget spaceships; I just want my music

date: 2023-12-12, from: Jeff Geerling blog

Forget spaceships; I just want my music

        <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>A couple weeks ago, as my kids settled into the car, I asked like I always do, "what songs do you want me to play?"</p>

They have a range of favored earworms, from Baby Shark to Babaloo, and usually the songs are tolerable, at least.

But a few albums, like Bluey’s soundtrack, transcend the children’s genre. They’re genuinely fun to listen to, for everyone in the car.

Well, that fine day, the kids chose Ladybug Music. And let me tell you, besides a few duds, Ladybug Music slaps. And the songs incorporate diverse styles, too, it’s not just the same nursery rhymes regurgitated in a bubbly voice.

So I found the album on my phone and noticed the songs were all greyed out.

I tapped one, and nothing. Just this notice:

Not available in my region? Well, that’s weird. I pay for Apple Music. And I know the artist is in the US, and I’m in the US…

  <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Jeff Geerling</span></span>

  <p>The Debian maintainers have identified a problem in kernel 6.1 that can cause corruption on ext4 volumes. As a result, the planned 12.3 release won't happen.</p>

            <p>Sam Altman arrives as a mythological hero in the self-help-saturated capital city of South Korea. However, there’s more than meets the eye, including a radical art space that deconstructs the AI hype cycle for a Korean audience.</p>

* QMK Toolbox 0.2.2+0fcc8d2be51846956c2fc4edad6362c194d6b2ca (https://qmk.fm/toolbox)
* Supported bootloaders:
*  - ARM DFU (APM32, Kiibohd, STM32, STM32duino) and RISC-V DFU (GD32V) via dfu-util (http://dfu-util.sourceforge.net/)
*  - Atmel/LUFA/QMK DFU via dfu-programmer (http://dfu-programmer.github.io/)
*  - Atmel SAM-BA (Massdrop) via Massdrop Loader (https://github.com/massdrop/mdloader)
*  - BootloadHID (Atmel, PS2AVRGB) via bootloadHID (https://www.obdev.at/products/vusb/bootloadhid.html)
*  - Caterina (Arduino, Pro Micro) via avrdude (http://nongnu.org/avrdude/)
*  - HalfKay (Teensy, Ergodox EZ) via Teensy Loader (https://pjrc.com/teensy/loader_cli.html)
*  - LUFA/QMK HID via hid_bootloader_cli (https://github.com/abcminiuser/lufa)
*  - WB32 DFU via wb32-dfu-updater_cli (https://github.com/WestberryTech/wb32-dfu-updater)
*  - LUFA Mass Storage
* Supported ISP flashers:
*  - AVRISP (Arduino ISP)
*  - USBasp (AVR ISP)
*  - USBTiny (AVR Pocket)
* Auto-flash enabled
* Auto-flash disabled
WB32 DFU device connected (WinUSB): (Undefined Vendor) WB Device in DFU Mode (342D:DFA0:0100)
Attempting to flash, please don't remove device
> wb32-dfu-updater_cli.exe --toolbox-mode --dfuse-address 0x08000000 --download "C:\Users\asc\Downloads\monsgeek_m6_via.bin"
> ----------------------------------------
> C:\Users\asc\Downloads\monsgeek_m6_via.bin file opened
> ----------------------------------------
> Found DFU
> Opening DFU capable USB device ...
> Device ID 342d:dfa0
> ----------------------------------------
> The device bootloader version: 0.4
> Chip id: 0x3A50E980
> Flash size: 256 KBytes
> Sram size: 36 KBytes
> ----------------------------------------
> Start Download ...
> Download block start address: 0x08000000
> Download block size: 39884 Bytes
> Writing ...
> OK
> Download completed!
Flash complete
WB32 DFU device disconnected (WinUSB): (Undefined Vendor) WB Device in DFU Mode (342D:DFA0:0100)