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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-15, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
The value I see in Wordpress in 2024 is that it can help rebuild the web.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/11/132736.html
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-15, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
“As a licensed psychologist, I am writing to express deep concern about the repeated instances of unusual speech patterns, childish insults and lies demonstrated by Donald Trump.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/09/opinion/donald-trump-cognitive-impairment.html
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-15, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Harris lays it out brilliantly in tonight's speech in Pennsylvania.
https://www.threads.net/@kamalahq/post/DBH-JxgJeJd
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-15, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
There's more to software than a little money, you know. And it's a beautiful day.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FfI2iFvloso
date: 2024-10-14, from: Liliputing
Rumor has it that Amazon could launch a 12th-gen Kindle Paperwhite eReader this week. And that would probably help explain why the 11th-gen model is out of stock. But it looks like at least one person may have already gotten their hands on one a little early… and briefly tried to sell it on eBay. […]
The post 12th-gen Amazon Kindle Paperwhite with 7 inch display leaked appeared first on Liliputing.
https://liliputing.com/12th-gen-amazon-kindle-paperwhite-with-7-inch-display-leaked/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-14, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature’s carbon sink failing?
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-14, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Ulster County Service Area on New York Thruway Open. Big news in these parts.
https://wrrv.com/ixp/706/p/ulster-county-service-area-on-new-york-thruway-open/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-14, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
NRA chief involved in gruesome cat killing as college fraternity member
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/14/nra-doug-hamlin-cat-killing
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-14, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Everyone at Fox News knows Trump is lying and they all went to college (I assume) and know enough history to know where this is going, and somehow they are ok with it.
https://www.foxnews.com/person/personalities
date: 2024-10-14, from: Michael Tsai
App ahead (Reddit): PolyCapture for Mac lets you to record webcams, microphones, screens, and apps — individually or simultaneously. […] Filter apps from your recordings on the fly, ensuring nothing gets in your way. […] Capture voiceovers, podcasts, interviews, music, or commentary. If a microphone can pick it up, PolyCapture can record it. […] Use […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/10/14/polycapture-1-5/
date: 2024-10-14, from: Michael Tsai
Joshua Long: For nearly six years, Apple has neglected to fix a bug that enables anyone to effectively create false or misleading news headlines that appear to come from credible sources. […] Apple’s Safari browser includes a feature related to link sharing. If you select (highlight) text within a Web page and then tap on […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/10/14/fake-safari-link-sharing-text/
date: 2024-10-14, from: Michael Tsai
Ben Cohen: The keynote from Tony [Parker] and me at ServerSideSwift2024 is up. Hear about how Swift interoperability allowed Foundation to make the switch to Swift, and about the latest direction for interoperability: from Swift to Java. Apple has rewritten Foundation in Swift, and the Objective-C Foundation and Core Foundation now call into the Swift […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/10/14/swift-foundation-unification/
date: 2024-10-14, from: Michael Tsai
Moriz Büsing (via Hacker News): It turns out that splitting up, or dynamically constructing identifiers is a bad idea. […] Don’t rename fields at application boundaries to match naming schemes. An obvious example is then importing postgres-style snake_case identifiers into javascript, then converting them to camelCase. […] Taking inspiration from the Zen of Python, when […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/10/14/greppability-is-an-underrated-code-metric/
date: 2024-10-14, from: Liliputing
The MINISFORUM 790S7 is a small desktop computer that features and AMD Ryzen 9 7940HX processor, support for up to 64GB of DDR5-5200 memory, and up to two PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs. While it’s larger than most of the mini PCs that MINISFORUM sells, it also has something many compact computers lack: a PCIe 5.0 x16 […]
The post MINISFORUM 790S7/129i7: Small PCs with support for low-profile discrete GPUs appeared first on Liliputing.
https://liliputing.com/minisforum-790s7-129i7-small-pcs-with-support-for-low-profile-discrete-gpus/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-14, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Historians: He’s a fascist. Political scientists: He’s a fascist. His own aides: He’s a fascist. The NYT: He shows a wistful longing for a bygone era of global politics.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-14, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
All those system have to start agreeing on what a document is, so we can write for the web and not worry about each of their weird limits. That's a form of lock-in, no matter how open they claim to be.
https://www.threads.net/@davew/post/DBHIWxmp-F2
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-14, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Must-watch video interview with Trump about "the enemy within."
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1845469638768972272?s=46&t=V1y02EncTOFBlOeUgSdkXQ
date: 2024-10-14, from: Liliputing
The folks behind the iKOOLCORE line of mini PCs have been selling a line of palm-sized computers designed for networking applications (such as firewalls, servers, or gateways) since early 2023. Now the company has introduced something a little larger… but also more versatile. The new iKOOLCORE R2 Max is a 157 x 118 x 40mm 6.18″ x […]
The post iKOOLCORE R2 Max mini PC is made for networking applications, with 4 LAN ports (2 x 10 GbE and 2 x 2.5 GbE) appeared first on Liliputing.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-14, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Highly recommend listening to today's Olbermann podcast. Trump is crossing new lines, using the military against citizens. I have seen the video of a recent interview he did with Fox. His health is seriously failing. This needs to be the top story everywhere, now.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-14, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Beyond Mastodon and Bluesky - Toward a Protocol-Agnostic Federation.
https://kyefox.com/beyond-mastodon-and-bluesky-toward-a-protocol-agnostic-federation/
date: 2024-10-14, updated: 2024-10-13, from: One Foot Tsunami
https://onefoottsunami.com/2024/10/14/it-was-in-fact-a-bag-full-of-drugs/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-14, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
This isn't 1938, relax!
https://www.facebook.com/508846904/videos/913796327314888
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-14, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
What's bad about Twitter no longer being a monopoly.
https://mastodon.social/@daveverse.wordpress.com@daveverse.wordpress.com/113305629373840906
date: 2024-10-14, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
Raspberry Pi provides connectivity and powers the AI algorithm that crosschecks a potential Asian hornet against its 33,000-strong image database.
The post Track Asian hornets with VespAI | #MagPiMonday appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/track-asian-hornets-with-vespai-magpimonday/
date: 2024-10-14, from: National Archives, Pieces of History blog
“The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World,” a gift from France, was dedicated on October 28, 1886, and was designated as a National Monument 100 years ago on October 15, 1924. Since 1886 the Statue of Liberty has stood in New York Harbor. It was a collaboration between sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and French historian … Continue reading Body of Iron, Soul of Fire: The Statue Of Liberty
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2024/10/14/body-of-iron-soul-of-fire-the-statue-of-liberty/
date: 2024-10-14, from: Hannah Richie at Substack
An overview of temperature-related deaths, and how this might change with climate change.
https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/heat-cold-deaths
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-14, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Why is Donald being hidden from the media and kept from a second debate?
https://www.threads.net/@johnpavlovitz/post/DBFcsJ3OKBg
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-14, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Revisiting Known.
https://werd.io/2024/revisiting-known
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-14, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Fantasy: Good luck America, we’re signing off for now — love, the NYT.
https://daveverse.wordpress.com/2024/10/13/good-luck-america-were-signing-off-for-now-love-the-nyt/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-14, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Tim O’Hare’s Rise in Texas Shows the Far Right’s Vision for Local Government.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tarrant-county-judge-tim-ohare-far-right
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-14, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Flat Tires and Fascism.
https://www.marytrump.org/p/flat-tires-and-fascism
date: 2024-10-14, updated: 2024-10-14, from: nlnet feed
https://nlnet.nl/news/2024/20241014-announcing-CommonsFund-call.html
date: 2024-10-13, from: Advent of Computing
This time we are diving back into the Jargon File to take a look at some hacker folklore. Back in the day hackers at MIT spent their time spying on one another’s terminals. That is, until some intrepid programmer found a way to fight back.
Selected Sources:
http://www.catb.org/esr/jargon/html/os-and-jedgar.html - OS and JEDGAR
https://github.com/PDP-10/its - ITS restoration project
https://adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/episode-142-os-and-jedgar
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-13, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Pure Blogger.
https://om.co/2024/10/13/pure-blogger/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-13, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Hurricane recovery officials in N.C. relocated amid report of ‘armed militia,’ email shows.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-13, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
My list of binge-worthy TV shows. Quite a bit out of date, but still a good list if you're looking for something to escape into for a while.
http://bingeworthy.scripting.com/
date: 2024-10-13, from: Tedium site
Thinking about the globalization of the computer industry through a tech company so American it prominently promoted its birth on an Iowa farm on its packaging.
https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/16842430/gateway-2000-history-outsourcing
date: 2024-10-13, from: OS News
Next up in my backlog of news to cover: the US Department of Justice’s proposed remedies for Google’s monopolistic abuse. Now that Judge Amit Mehta has found Google is a monopolist, lawyers for the Department of Justice have begun proposing solutions to correct the company’s illegal behavior and restore competition to the market for search engines. In a new 32-page filing (included below), they said they are considering both “behavioral and structural remedies.“ That covers everything from applying a consent decree to keep an eye on the company’s behavior to forcing it to sell off parts of its business, such as Chrome, Android, or Google Play. ↫ Richard Lawler at The Verge While I think it would be a great idea to break Google up, such an action taken in a vacuum seems to be rather pointless. Say Google is forced to spin off Android into a separate company – how is that relatively small Android, Inc. going to compete with the behemoth that is Apple and its iOS to which such restrictions do not apply? How is Chrome Ltd. going to survive Microsoft’s continued attempts at forcing Edge down our collective throats? Being a dedicated browser maker is working out great for Firefox, right? This is the problem with piecemeal, retroactive measures to try and “correct” a market position that you have known for years is being abused – sure, this would knock Google down a peg, but other, even larger megacorporations like Apple or Microsoft will be the ones to benefit most, not any possible new companies or startups. This is exactly why a market-wide, equally-applied set of rules and regulations, like the European Union’s Digital Markets Act, is a far better and more sustainable approach. Unless similar remedies are applied to Google’s massive competitors, these Google-specific remedies will most likely only make things worse, not better, for the American consumer.
https://www.osnews.com/story/140904/a-google-breakup-is-on-the-table-say-doj-lawyers/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-13, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
2017: What if TWTR is bought by a Repub? No one listened. They said TWTR's balance sheet wasn't worth anything. Oh yea? It just elected a freaking President of the United States. What is that worth? Twitter wasn't a cash cow it was a tool for overthrowing democracy.
http://scripting.com/2017/01/14/whatIfTwtrIsBoughtByARepub.html
date: 2024-10-13, updated: 2024-10-13, from: Oberon A2 repository
oberon@gitlab.inf.ethz.ch (4fc04314) at 13 Oct 18:19
made the code compilable
https://gitlab.inf.ethz.ch/felixf/oberon/-/commit/4fc0431436e6661c13c3c08e3aa5fff3d644542e
date: 2024-10-13, from: Liliputing
TerraMaster recently launched 9 new Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices featuring the company’s latest software and processors based on Intel’s 12th-gen Alder Lake-N or Alder Lake-U architecture. One of the more intriguing models is the TerraMaster F8 SSD Plus. Not only is it one of a growing number of NAS devices that use solid state […]
The post TerraMaster F8 SSD Plus Review: Up to 64TB of SSD storage appeared first on Liliputing.
https://liliputing.com/terramaster-f8-ssd-plus-review/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-13, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Plex Adds Social User Reviews for TV and Movies. (Netflix should have done this long ago.)
https://blog.lon.tv/2024/10/13/plex-adds-social-user-reviews-for-tv-and-movies/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-13, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Tim Carmody wrote "The Future of RSS is Textcasting" almost a year ago. A true visionary.
https://kottke.org/23/11/the-future-of-rss-is-textcasting-1
date: 2024-10-13, from: OS News
Internet Archive’s “The Wayback Machine” has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records. News of the breach began circulating Wednesday afternoon after visitors to archive.org began seeing a JavaScript alert created by the hacker, stating that the Internet Archive was breached. “Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive runs on sticks and is constantly on the verge of suffering a catastrophic security breach? It just happened. See 31 million of you on HIBP!,” reads a JavaScript alert shown on the compromised archive.org site. ↫ Lawrence Abrams at Bleeping Computer To make matters worse, the Internet Archive was also suffering from waves of distributed denial-of-service attacks, forcing the IA to take down the site while strengthening everything up. It seems the attackers have no real motivation, other than the fact they can, but it’s interesting, shall we say, that the Internet Archive has been under legal assault by big publishers for years now, too. I highly doubt the two are related in any way, but it’s an interesting note nonetheless. I’m still catching up on all the various tech news stories, but this one was hard to miss. A lot of people are rightfully angry and dismayed about this, since attacking the Internet Archive like this kind of feels like throwing Molotov cocktails at a local library – there’s literally not a single reason to do so, and the only people you’re going to hurt are underpaid librarians and chill people who just want to read some books. Whomever is behind this are just assholes, no ifs and buts about it.
https://www.osnews.com/story/140902/internet-archive-hacked-and-victim-of-ddos-attacks/
date: 2024-10-13, updated: 2024-10-13, from: Oberon A2 repository
oberon@gitlab.inf.ethz.ch (0370d060) at 13 Oct 15:44
for the moment make SYSTEM.VAL conversion less restrictive
https://gitlab.inf.ethz.ch/felixf/oberon/-/commit/0370d06019f48c307647a5b414fbd7421d1f4076
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-13, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Timothy Snyder: How to Stop Fascism.
https://snyder.substack.com/p/how-to-stop-fascism
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-13, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Kottke, thanks for the notice. Just curious, what is a pure blogger? Hmm.
https://kottke.org/24/10/0045422-on-monday-dave-winers-scr
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-13, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Good luck America, love, the NYT. And goodbye for now.
https://mastodon.social/@daveverse.wordpress.com@daveverse.wordpress.com/113300248202418805
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-13, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Arizona Democrats close office after three shooting incidents.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4929899-arizona-democrats-office-closed-after-shooting/
date: 2024-10-13, from: OS News
I finally seem to be recovering from a nasty flu that is now wreaking havoc all across my tiny Arctic town – better now than when we hit -40 I guess – so let’s talk about something that’s not going to recover because it actually just fucking died: Windows 7. For nearly everyone, support for Windows 7 ended on January 14th, 2020. However, if you were a business who needed more time to migrate off of it because your CEO didn’t listen to the begging and pleading IT department until a week before the deadline, Microsoft did have an option for you. Businesses could pay to get up to 3 years of extra security updates. This pushes the EOL date for Windows 7 to January 10th, 2023. Okay but that’s still nearly 2 years earlier than October 8th, 2024? ↫ The Cool Blog I’d like to solve the puzzle! It’s POSReady, isn’t it? Of course it is! Windows Embedded POSReady’s support finally ended a few days ago, and this means that for all intents and purposes, Windows 7 is well and truly dead. In case you happen to be a paleontologist, think of Windows Embedded POSReady adding an extra two years of support to Windows 7 as the mammoths who managed to survive on Wrangel until as late as only 4000 years ago. Windows 7 was one of the good ones, for sure, and all else being equal, I’d choose it over any of the releases that cam after. It feels like Windows 7 was the last release designed primarily for users of the Windows platform, whereas later releases were designed more to nickle and dime people with services, ads, and upsells that greatly cheapened the operating system. I doubt we’ll ever see such a return to form again, so Windows 7 might as well be the last truly beloved Windows release. If you’re still using Windows 7 – please don’t, unless you’re doing it for the retrocomputing thrill. I know Windows 8, 10, and 11 are scary, and as much as it pains me to say this, you’re better off with 10 or 11 at this point, if only for security concerns.
https://www.osnews.com/story/140900/goodbye-windows-7/
date: 2024-10-13, from: Dave Jarvis’ Blog
Combatting online racist remarks while upholding the freedom of opinion and expression in democratic societies.
https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2024/10/13/racism-in-technology
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-13, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
The reason I’m having so much fun with this mofo is that I have most of the features of textcasting now, and it’s all flowing out through Masto, and I’m not typing into a freaking tiny little text box!
https://mastodon.social/@daveverse.wordpress.com@daveverse.wordpress.com/113288911901690601