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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-16, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
How Digg helped invent the social internet.
https://www.theverge.com/c/24209615/digg-internet-web-2-homepage-2004-kevin-rose-interview
date: 2024-10-16, from: 404 Media Group
A prototype app called Impact describes “A Volunteer Fire Department For The Digital World,” which would summon real people to copy and paste AI-generated talking points on social media.
https://www.404media.co/ai-powered-social-media-manipulation-app-promises-to-shape-reality-4/
date: 2024-10-16, from: Mozilla Developer Network blog
Discover the latest release of Llamafile 0.8.14, an open-source AI tool by Mozilla Builders. With a new command-line chat interface, enhanced performance, and support for powerful models, Llamafile makes it easy to run large language models (LLMs) on your own hardware. Learn more about the updates and how to get involved with this cutting-edge project.
The post Llamafile v0.8.14: a new UI, performance gains, and more appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2024/10/llamafile-v0-8-14-a-new-ui-performance-gains-and-more/
date: 2024-10-16, updated: 2024-10-16, from: One Foot Tsunami
https://onefoottsunami.com/2024/10/16/2-1-quadillion-years/
date: 2024-10-16, from: 404 Media Group
How the WordPress chaos may impact the web; using AI to apply for jobs; and how the National Archives wants to push its employees to use Google’s AI.
https://www.404media.co/podcast-why-the-wordpress-chaos-matters/
date: 2024-10-16, from: The Markup blog
Inspect batches of websites for user-tracking tech with our new open-source command-line tool
https://themarkup.org/blacklight/2024/10/16/blacklight-query
date: 2024-10-16, from: Authors Union blogs
Sara Silverman is the author of The Bedwetter, a comedy memoir. Richard Kadrey wrote Sandman Slim, a fantasy novel series. Christopher Golden, a supernatural thriller titled Ararat. These authors might not seem to have much in common with an academic author who writes in history, physics, or chemistry. Or a journalist. Or a poet. Or, […]
https://www.authorsalliance.org/2024/10/16/who-represents-you-in-the-ai-copyright-lawsuits/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-16, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Never before has a presidential nominee openly suggested turning the military on Americans simply because they oppose his candidacy. With voting underway, Donald Trump has turned to dark vows of retribution.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/15/us/politics/trump-opponents-enemy-within.html
date: 2024-10-16, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
For his last trick, our summer intern built this Raspberry Pi-packed drone from scratch.
The post Building a Raspberry Pi Pico 2-powered drone from scratch appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/building-a-raspberry-pi-pico-2-powered-drone-from-scratch/
date: 2024-10-16, from: Glasgow Haskell Compiler
The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the availability of the first alpha release of GHC 9.12.1. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at downloads.haskell.org.
We hope to have this release available via ghcup shortly.
GHC 9.12 will bring a number of new features and improvements, including:
The new language extension OrPatterns allowing you to combine multiple pattern clauses into one.
The MultilineStrings language extension to allow you to more easily write strings spanning multiple lines in your source code.
Improvements to the OverloadedRecordDot extension, allowing the built-in
HasField class to be used for records with fields of non
lifted representations.
The
NamedDefaults
language extension has been introduced allowing you to define defaults
for typeclasses other than Num.
More deterministic object code output, controlled by the
-fobject-determinism flag, which improves determinism of
builds a lot (though does not fully do so) at the cost of some compiler
performance (1-2%). See
#12935 for
the details
GHC now accepts type syntax in expressions as part of GHC Proposal #281.
… and many more
A full accounting of changes can be found in the release notes. As always, GHC’s release status, including planned future releases, can be found on the GHC Wiki status.
We would like to thank GitHub, IOG, the Zw3rk stake pool, Well-Typed, Tweag I/O, Serokell, Equinix, SimSpace, the Haskell Foundation, and other anonymous contributors whose on-going financial and in-kind support has facilitated GHC maintenance and release management over the years. Finally, this release would not have been possible without the hundreds of open-source contributors whose work comprise this release.
As always, do give this release a try and open a ticket if you see anything amiss.
http://haskell.org/ghc/blog/20241016-ghc-9.12.1-alpha1-released.html
date: 2024-10-15, from: Michael Tsai
Apple (MacRumors, Hacker News): With a beloved ultraportable design, the new iPad mini is available in four gorgeous finishes, including a new blue and purple, and features the brilliant 8.3-inch Liquid Retina display. A17 Pro delivers a huge performance boost for even the most demanding tasks, with a faster CPU and GPU, a 2x faster […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/10/15/ipad-mini-7th-generation/
date: 2024-10-15, from: Michael Tsai
Benj Edwards (Hacker News): Ward Christensen, co-inventor of the computer bulletin board system (BBS), has died at age 78 in Rolling Meadows, Illinois. He was found deceased at his home on Friday after friends requested a wellness check. Christensen, along with Randy Suess, created the first BBS in Chicago in 1978, leading to an important […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/10/15/ward-christensen-rip/
date: 2024-10-15, from: Michael Tsai
Joe Rossignol: Apple sells two external displays, including the Pro Display XDR and the Studio Display, but neither has received hardware upgrades in years. In fact, the Pro Display XDR is nearly five years old, having been released all the way back in December 2019.[…]In December 2022, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said Apple was working on […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/10/15/apples-stale-mac-displays/
date: 2024-10-15, from: Michael Tsai
Hartley Charlton (Hacker News): The study, published on arXiv, outlines Apple’s evaluation of a range of leading language models, including those from OpenAI, Meta, and other prominent developers, to determine how well these models could handle mathematical reasoning tasks. The findings reveal that even slight changes in the phrasing of questions can cause major discrepancies […]
date: 2024-10-15, from: Liliputing
More than a month after releasing the source code for Android 15, Google is beginning to roll out the latest version of its mobile operating system to Pixel phones and tablets. But many of the new features Google is highlighting aren’t necessarily coming to all Android phones. They’re Pixel-specific apps and services. Here’s a roundup […]
The post Lilbits: Using an eGPU with a Raspberry Pi 5, Android 15 is rolling out for Pixel devices appeared first on Liliputing.
date: 2024-10-15, from: Liliputing
A couple of unannounced Amazon products passed through the FCC recently, and they sure looked like they could be next-gen Amazon Kindle eReaders. Now there’s growing evidence that Amazon is preparing to refresh at least one of its Kindle devices: Spanish and UK retailers have posted product pages for a new 12th-gen Amazon Kindle, providing […]
The post Amazon Kindle 2024 leaked by Spanish and UK retailers appeared first on Liliputing.
https://liliputing.com/amazon-kindle-2024-leaked-by-spanish-retailer/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-15, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78.
date: 2024-10-15, from: Liliputing
Earlier this year AYN launched two handheld game consoles under the Odin 2 brand. While both are Android-powered handhelds with Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processors, the Odin 2 has a 6 inch IPS LCD display, while the Odin 2 Mini has a 5 inch mini LED screen. Now the company is preparing to launch a third […]
The post AYN Odin 2 Portal handheld game console with 7 inch, 120 Hz OLED display coming soon appeared first on Liliputing.
date: 2024-10-15, from: National Archives, Text Message blog
It’s the American Dream to own a little white house with a picket fence, maybe a dog (or a cat) in the yard, with your 2 and a half kids on the swings in the back yard, in the American Suburbs. There are more than sixteen hundred references to “suburb” in the Records of the … Continue reading A nice house, with a yard, and a dog – Suburbs in the National Register of Historic Places
date: 2024-10-15, from: Liliputing
The new Dynabook Portégé X30L-M is a laptop with a 13.3 inch, 1920 x 1200 pixel display, support for up to an Intel Core i7 Meteor Lake processor (with 15 watt U-series and 28 watt H-series processor options available), and a sturdy but lightweight body. The laptop has a magnesium alloy chassis and has a […]
The post Dynabook Portégé X30L-M is a 1.9 pound laptop with up to an Intel Core Ultra 7 165H Meteor Lake processor appeared first on Liliputing.
date: 2024-10-15, from: Liliputing
Apple is giving its smallest iPad a big update. The new 7th-gen iPad mini looks nearly identical to the 6th-gen version that first launched in 2021. But the new model features an updated processor which brings a 30 percent boost in CPU performance, 25 percent faster graphics performance, and twice the AI performance. Apple says […]
The post The new iPad mini has an 8.3 inch display, A17 Pro processor, and WiFi 6E appeared first on Liliputing.
https://liliputing.com/the-new-ipad-mini-has-an-8-3-inch-display-a17-pro-processor-and-wifi-6e/
date: 2024-10-15, from: 404 Media Group
The National Archives is launching a public-facing AI chatbot called “Archie.” Employees have concerns.
date: 2024-10-15, from: Computer ads from the Past
Welcome to the 1990s.
https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/intels-inboard-386pc
date: 2024-10-15, updated: 2024-10-15, from: Chaos Computer Club Updates
Die Zivilgesellschaft kritisiert die angepassten Maßnahmen des sogenannten Sicherheitspakets, das am Mittwoch, den 16. Oktober 2024, im Innenausschuss des Bundestages beraten und noch diese Woche vom Parlament beschlossen werden soll. Das kosmetisch angepasste „Sicherheitspaket“ der Bundesregierung beinhaltet weiterhin gefährliche Überwachungsvorhaben.
https://www.ccc.de/de/updates/2024/die-groesste-enttauschung-seit-beginn-der-ampel-regierung
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-15, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
2009: Where is Twitter's WordPress?
http://scripting.com/stories/2009/02/17/whereIsTwittersWordpress.html
date: 2024-10-15, updated: 2024-10-15, from: One Foot Tsunami
https://onefoottsunami.com/2024/10/15/too-many-raccoons/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-15, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
There's something on Hacker News about textcasting. Can you help me find it?
date: 2024-10-15, from: Accidentally in Code
I did a webinar with Suzan Bond for LeadDev/BookMarked talking about the ideas from my book and some bonus ideas on how to be seen as strategic.
date: 2024-10-15, from: O’Reilly Radar
Back in August, I cavalierly said that AI couldn’t design a car if it hadn’t seen one first, and I alluded to Henry Ford’s apocryphal statement “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” I’m not backing down on any of that, but the history of technology is always […]
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/henry-ford-does-ai/
date: 2024-10-15, from: Tedium site
Thoughts on a bruise to the ol’ ego that hurt a little more than I thought it would. But hey, it gives me a chance to talk about gatekeeping.
https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/16843965/journalism-gatekeeping-writing-criticism
@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: 2024-10-15, updated: 2024-10-15, from: nlnet feed