News gathered 2024-10-12

(date: 2024-10-12 12:24:49)


Hackers Advertise Stolen Verizon Push-to-Talk ‘Call Logs’

date: 2024-10-12, from: 404 Media Group

The breach does not appear to impact the main consumer Verizon network, and instead involves the company’s push to talk (PTT) product, marketed to public sector agencies and enterprises.


https://www.404media.co/hackers-advertise-stolen-verizon-push-to-talk-call-logs/


@Tomosino’s Mastodon feed (date: 2024-10-12, from: Tomosino’s Mastodon feed)

This thing has been working for over 2 years now. I have no idea how, but it’s very nice.

Anyone else try these things?


https://tilde.zone/@tomasino/113295344099253307


Goldendale, Washington Car Meet

date: 2024-10-12, updated: 2024-10-12, from: Russell Graves, Syonyk’s Project Blog


https://www.sevarg.net/2024/10/12/goldendale-washington/


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-12, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Why does American television and press “both-sides” our politics? Why are such different presidential candidates presented as equally flawed? Why do the outrages of Trump, for example at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, lead to the humiliation of Biden?


https://snyder.substack.com/p/both-sides-audio?publication_id=310897&post_id=150109739&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=w33x&triedRedirect=true


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-12, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

The web I want vs the one we have. (My second day of blogging in Mastodon via WordPress, and I like it even more than I did yesterday.)


https://mastodon.social/@daveverse.wordpress.com@daveverse.wordpress.com/113294648507571898


The Future of Earth Hinges on Sea Snot

date: 2024-10-12, from: 404 Media Group

Plus, time-traveling finches, a breakdancer booboo, man-eating lions, and comb jelly fusion.


https://www.404media.co/the-future-of-earth-hinges-on-sea-snot/


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-12, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Trump's top general calls former president "fascist" and "dangerous" threat. (Not exactly news, but it’s nice to see one pub report it, even if it is just a quote.)


https://www.axios.com/2024/10/11/mark-milley-trump-fascist-bob-woodward-book


@Tomosino’s Mastodon feed (date: 2024-10-12, from: Tomosino’s Mastodon feed)

One of the features of using a custom email address with every service or website is that it’s easy to see when information gets sold to third parties. Today’s inbox let me know it’s time to shut down my Macy’s alias, and also that Macy’s as a company is in some trouble.

Selling off customer data for reasons other than partnering or targeted advertisements is a short term cash grab move. Interestingly their stock price isn’t showing this despiration yet. If I were a market gambler this might be something I’d try to capitalize on.


https://tilde.zone/@tomasino/113293965136962558


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-11, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Scripting News: The web lives in WordPress and Mastodon. I am more excited about the web than I have been in a long time.


http://scripting.com/2024/10/11/132736.html?title=theWebLivesInWordpressAndMastodon


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-11, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Gay Grimace Mets Better Win on Pride Night.


https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/gay-grimace-mets-pride-night.html


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-11, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

The Regime is a shitty HBO series, but I like it anyway. Sometimes crud is fun. And of course Kate Winslet is a treat.


https://www.metacritic.com/tv/the-regime/critic-reviews/


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-11, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Tesla’s value drops $60bn after investors fail to hail self-driving ‘Cybercab.’


https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/11/teslas-value-drops-60bn-after-self-driving-cybercab-fails-to-excite-investors


A Brief History of Defragging

date: 2024-10-11, from: Michael Tsai

Howard Oakley: All storage media, including memory, SSDs and rotating hard disks, can develop fragmentation, but most serious attention has been paid to the problem on hard disks. This is because of their electro-mechanical mechanism for seeking to locations on the spinning platter they use for storage. To read a fragmented file sequentially, the read-write […]


https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/10/11/a-brief-history-of-defragging/


Using NSDockTilePlugIn

date: 2024-10-11, from: Michael Tsai

Mario Guzmán (Mastodon): Customizing an application’s Dock tile when the application itself is not running requires that you write a plug-in. The plug-in’s principal class must implement the NSDockTilePlugIn protocol.The name of the plugin is indicated by a NSDockTilePlugIn key in the application’s Info.plist file.The plugin is loaded in a system process at login time […]


https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/10/11/using-nsdocktileplugin/


Sorting Burst Shots in Apple Photos

date: 2024-10-11, from: Michael Tsai

Kevin Yank: When I import a large batch of shots from my camera into Photos, I usually want them in an album, sorted in the order I shot them. The Keep Sorted By Oldest First option would seem to be what I want, but unfortunately its sorting is only based on the capture time of […]


https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/10/11/sorting-burst-shots-in-apple-photos/


Virtualizing iOS on Apple Silicon

date: 2024-10-11, from: Michael Tsai

Nick Botticelli (via Hacker News): Now, to get started, a strategy for approaching the daunting task of running iOS on vma2 is needed. I found the most success with reusing a fully macOS 12.0.1 bootchain and simply replacing the system (OS) image, along with its associated mtree, root_hash, and trustcache files, with that of the […]


https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/10/11/virtualizing-ios-on-apple-silicon/


Supernote A5 X2 is a 10.65 inch E Ink writing tablet with a modular design

date: 2024-10-11, from: Liliputing

The Supernote A5 X2 is an upcoming tablet designed to offer a paper-like writing experience. It has a 10.65 inch E Ink display with 300 pixels per inch, support for digital pen input, and an Android-based operating system that features handwriting recognition and optimizations for the tablet’s E Ink display. As the name suggests, this […]

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https://liliputing.com/supernote-a5-x2-is-a-10-65-inch-e-ink-writing-tablet-with-a-modular-design/


Introducing Torre, a new way to translate

date: 2024-10-11, from: Peter Warden

I’m excited to announce Torre, a new product that translates instantly between Spanish and English. A lot of native English speakers I talk to don’t understand why a better approach to translation is needed, since there have been phone apps around for years. The best way I’ve found to explain is “Can you imagine watching […]


https://petewarden.com/2024/10/11/introducing-torre-a-new-way-to-translate/


Lenovo ThinkBook 14+ (2024) launches in China (14.5 inch laptop with AMD Strix Point and a 3K, 120 Hz display)

date: 2024-10-11, from: Liliputing

The Lenovo ThinkBook 14+ (2025) is a thin, light, and powerful laptop that features support for up to a 14.5 inch, 3072 x 1920 x pixel display with a 120 Hz refresh rate, an AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 Strix Point processor, and up to 32GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. While Lenovo hasn’t announced […]

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https://liliputing.com/lenovo-thinkbook-14-2024-launches-in-china-14-5-inch-laptop-with-amd-strix-point-and-a-3k-120-hz-display/


LLMs don’t do formal reasoning - and that is a HUGE problem

date: 2024-10-11, from: Gary Marcus blog

Important new study from Apple


https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/llms-dont-do-formal-reasoning-and


Daily Deals (10-11-2024)

date: 2024-10-11, from: Liliputing

With Halloween coming up in a few months, Amazon is making a few spooky games free for Prime members for a limited time, including Doom Eternal, BioShock Remastered, and Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed. Prime members can also stream Alien:Isolation and Mortal Shell for free on Luna this month. Here are some of the day’s best deals. […]

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https://liliputing.com/daily-deals-10-11-2024/


Behind the Blog: Sensitive Sourcing and Job Application Hell

date: 2024-10-11, from: 404 Media Group

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss a sensitive data breach, the terrible process of sorting and sending job applications, and how Wikipedia is battling AI slop.


https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-sensitive-sourcing-and-job-application-hell/


Happy Birthday, You’re Dumped

date: 2024-10-11, updated: 2024-10-11, from: One Foot Tsunami


https://onefoottsunami.com/2024/10/11/happy-birthday-youre-dumped/


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-11, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Vice President Kamala Harris on Her Race to the Finish.


https://www.vogue.com/article/kamala-harris-digital-cover-october-2024-interview


date: 2024-10-11, from: Authors Union blogs

The final outcome of the case: the plaintiff was ordered to cover $102,404 in fees and $165.72 in costs for the defendant. This should serve as a cautionary tale for would-be plaintiffs: copyright lawsuits, like any other type of litigation, are primarily meant to address the damages plaintiffs actually suffered, and the final settlement should make plaintiffs whole again—that is, as if no infringement has ever occurred. Copyright lawsuits (or the threat to sue) should not be undertaken as a way to create brand new income streams. 


https://www.authorsalliance.org/2024/10/11/artist-left-with-heavy-fees-by-copyright-troll-law-firm/


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-11, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

“A young woman looking ahead to her future doesn’t have to be brainwashed to decide that she wants the right to decide when and whether to have a child.”


https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/11/opinion/republicans-indoctrination-college-young-voters.html?unlocked_article_code=1.RU4.7SIg.2y6JQ7mgFb8p&smid=url-share


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-11, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

I would switch to any podcatcher that let me edit my subscription list outside their app, because I use that list in different contexts, also because I’d like to share my list with others, also because there are lots of others, aka influencers who’d like to too. You’d own the market if you did this.


https://mastodon.social/@marcoarment/113286280727138677


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-11, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Cynicism isn’t always the right explanation. Sometimes people just want to share something good with you, that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re stupid, maybe they just like you. 😀


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynicism_(contemporary)


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-11, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Zero to internet: your first website.


https://htmlforpeople.com/zero-to-internet-your-first-website/


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-11, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

2022: Markdown is just enough HTML.


http://scripting.com/2022/08/25/210902.html