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date: 2024-10-18, updated: 2024-10-18, from: One Foot Tsunami
https://onefoottsunami.com/2024/10/18/jimmy-carter-voted/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-18, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
When the Top General in the U.S. Says You’re ‘Fascist to the Core’ even the stoic NY Times has to take note. Hmm maybe they should say something too.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/18/opinion/trump-woodward-milley-mass-deportation.html?smid=tw-share
date: 2024-10-18, updated: 2024-10-18, from: Chaos Computer Club Updates
Das heute im Bundestag beschlossene „Sicherheitspaket“ bringt gefährliche Überwachungsbefugnisse und bricht die Versprechen der Parteien der Ampelkoalition und zugleich den Koalitionsvertrag.
https://www.ccc.de/de/updates/2024/sicherheitspaket
date: 2024-10-18, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
How to attach a Raspberry Pi Pico-series device and start development with the new VSCode extension.
The post Get started with Raspberry Pi Pico-series and VS Code appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/get-started-with-raspberry-pi-pico-series-and-vs-code/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-18, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
New Evidence Against Trump to Be Made Public.
https://politicalwire.com/2024/10/17/new-evidence-against-trump-to-be-made-public/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-17, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
subscriptionListCleanup: A Node app that reads an OPML subscription list, and loops over all the feeds and only passes through the ones that are reachable and parseable. A nice utility to have around.
https://github.com/scripting/reallysimple/tree/main/demos/subscriptionListCleanup
date: 2024-10-17, from: OS News
We’ve pulled together all kinds of resources to create a comprehensive guide to installing and upgrading to Windows 11. This includes advice and some step-by-step instructions for turning on officially required features like your TPM and Secure Boot, as well as official and unofficial ways to skirt the system-requirement checks on “unsupported” PCs, because Microsoft is not your parent and therefore cannot tell you what to do. There are some changes in the 24H2 update that will keep you from running it on every ancient system that could run Windows 10, and there are new hardware requirements for some of the operating system’s new generative AI features. We’ve updated our guide with everything you need to know. ↫ Andrew Cunningham at Ars Technica In the before time, the things you needed to do to make Windows somewhat usable mostly came down to installing applications replicating features other operating systems had been enjoying for decades, but as time went on and Windows 10 came out, users now also had to deal with disabling a ton of telemetry, deleting preinstalled adware, dodge the various dark patterns around Edge, and more. You have wonder if it was all worth it, but alas, Windows 10 at least looked like Windows, if you squinted. With Windows 11, Microsoft really ramped up the steps users have to take to make it usable. There’s all of the above, but now you also have to deal with an ever-increasing number of ads, even more upsells and Edge dark patterns, even more data gathering, and the various hacks you have to employ to install it on perfectly fine and capable hardware. With Windows 10’s support ending next year, a lot of users are in a rough spot, since they can’t install Windows 11 without resorting to hacks, and they can’t keep using Windows 10 if they want to keep getting updates. And here comes 24H2, which makes it all even worse. Not only have various avenues to make Windows 11 installable on capable hardware been closed, it also piles on a whole bunch of “AI” garbage, and accompanying upsells and dark patterns, Windows users are going to have to deal with. Who doesn’t want Copilot regurgitating nonsense in their operating system’s search tool, or have Paint strongly suggest it will “improve” your quick doodle to illustrate something to a friend with that unique AI Style™ we all love and enjoy so much? Stay strong out there, Windows folks. Maybe it’ll get better. We’re rooting for you.
date: 2024-10-17, from: Liliputing
Ploopy has been designing open source trackballs for the past five years, giving potential customers a choice between building their own or buying one that comes fully (or partially) assembled. Now the company has released a Ploopy TrackPad. It’s available for purchase as a DIY kit for $100 Canadian (about $73 USD), or as a […]
The post Lilbits: Ploopy TrackPad is here, Intel Core 3 N350 is coming soon, and Winamp deletes its GitHub appeared first on Liliputing.
date: 2024-10-17, from: OS News
If you read my previous article on DOS memory models, you may have dismissed everything I wrote as “legacy cruft from the 1990s that nobody cares about any longer”. After all, computers have evolved from sporting 8-bit processors to 64-bit processors and, on the way, the amount of memory that these computers can leverage has grown orders of magnitude: the 8086, a 16-bit machine with a 20-bit address space, could only use 1MB of memory while today’s 64-bit machines can theoretically access 16EB. All of this growth has been in service of ever-growing programs. But… even if programs are now more sophisticated than they were before, do they all really require access to a 64-bit address space? Has the growth from 8 to 64 bits been a net positive in performance terms? Let’s try to answer those questions to find some very surprising answers. But first, some theory. ↫ Julio Merino It’s not quite weekend yet, but I’m still calling this some light reading for the weekend.
https://www.osnews.com/story/140930/the-costs-of-the-i386-to-x86-64-upgrade/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-17, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Trump v. Washington.
https://www.wnyc.org/story/trump-v-washington/
date: 2024-10-17, from: Liliputing
The Yuzuki Avaota-A1 is a single-board PC that stands out for a few reasons. One is that it’s based on an entirely open source design – the board is now available for purchase for $55, but it was first introduced earlier this year, and you can find schematics and documentation at the Avaota website. Another unusual […]
The post Yuzuki Avaota-A1 is a $55 single-board PC with 8 ARM Cortex-A55 CPU cores and an embedded RISC-V core appeared first on Liliputing.
date: 2024-10-17, from: Michael Tsai
ToothFairy 2.8.5 is a maintenance update of my Bluetooth menu bar utility. It fixes a bug where sometimes ToothFairy wouldn’t auto-launch at login. An interesting bug was: ToothFairy uses SMLoginItemSetEnabled(), which, instead of launching the app directly, launches a helper app that can launch the main app. Originally, it did this using NSWorkspace.launchApplication(_:), but then […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/10/17/toothfairy-2-8-5/
date: 2024-10-17, from: Michael Tsai
Amazon (Hacker News, MacRumors): The all-new Kindle Colorsoft brings color to Kindle without compromise. It has everything customers love about Kindle today—high contrast, fast page turns, an auto-adjusting front light, and weeks of battery life. It adds color that is vibrant yet easy on the eyes. Now, you can browse covers in color in your […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/10/17/kindle-colorsoft-and-2024-updates/
date: 2024-10-17, from: Michael Tsai
Thomas Claburn (Hacker News): Digital River has not paid numerous merchants since midsummer for software and digital products they sold through its MyCommerce platform.[…]“Astonishingly, Digital River continued to take sales from our loyal customers until we removed them from the order system. It now appears they have no intention of making payments and may be […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/10/17/digital-river-not-paying-developers/
date: 2024-10-17, from: Liliputing
The Snapdragon Dev Kit for Windows is a mini PC with a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-001DE) processor that went up for pre-order this summer for $899. Now, just a few months later, Qualcomm has pulled the plug on the little computer. According to Jeff Geerling and xda-developers, customers who ordered one from Arrow Electronics are […]
The post Qualcomm discontinues Snapdragon Dev Kit mini PC, promises to refund orders appeared first on Liliputing.
https://liliputing.com/qualcomm-discontinues-snapdragon-dev-kit-mini-pc-promises-to-refund-orders/
date: 2024-10-17, from: OS News
Android 15 started rolling out to Pixel devices Tuesday and will arrive, through various third-party efforts, on other Android devices at some point. There is always a bunch of little changes to discover in an Android release, whether by reading, poking around, or letting your phone show you 25 new things after it restarts. In Android 15, some of the most notable involve making your device less appealing to snoops and thieves and more secure against the kids to whom you hand your phone to keep them quiet at dinner. There are also smart fixes for screen sharing, OTP codes, and cellular hacking prevention, but details about them are spread across Google’s own docs and blogs and various news site’s reports. ↫ Kevin Purdy at Ars Technica It’s a welcome collection of changes and features to better align Android’ theft and personal privacy protection with how thieves steal phones in this day and age. I’m not sure I understand all of them, though – the Private Space, where you can drop applications to lock them behind an additional pin code, confuses me, since everyone can see it’s there. I assumed Private Space would also give people in vulnerable positions – victims of abuse, journalists, dissidents, etc. – the option to truly hide parts of their life to protect their safety, but it doesn’t seem to work that way. Android 15 will also use “AI” to recognise when a device is yanked out of your hands and lock it instantly, which is a great use case for “AI” that actually benefits people. Of course, it will be even more useful once thieves are aware this feature exists, so that they won’t even try to steal your phone in the first place, but since this is Android, it’ll be a while before Android 15 makes its way to enough users for it to matter.
date: 2024-10-17, from: 404 Media Group
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg made another buyout offer this week, and threatened employees who speak to the press with termination.
https://www.404media.co/automattic-buyout-offer-wordpress-matt-mullenweg/
date: 2024-10-17, from: Liliputing
Chinese mini PC maker GMKtec has begun showing off its first model powered by an AMD Strix Point processor. The upcoming GMKtec EVO-X1 HX370 is a small desktop PC with an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor, LPDDR5x-7500 memory, and support for external graphics cards thanks to an OCuLink port with support for data […]
The post GMKtec EVO-X1 HX370 is an AMD Strix Point mini PC with OCuLink support appeared first on Liliputing.
https://liliputing.com/gmktec-evo-x1-hx370-is-an-amd-strix-point-mini-pc-with-oculink-support/
date: 2024-10-17, from: Infrastructure LA Blog
Impacting Home and Travel Fuel your future with these game-changing federal grants! Unlock big funding opportunities with the EPA’s latest grants and supercharge your community’s recycling and sustainability efforts. The Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) program offers $78 million across two categories: $58 million for States and Territories, and $20 million […]
date: 2024-10-17, from: Liliputing
German device maker Volla has been shipping smartphones and tablets that run a custom version of Android called Volla OS for a few years. And up until now one of the main reasons I’ve paid attention to his relatively small company is because they’ve also supported installing Ubuntu Touch as an alternate operating system sine […]
The post Volla Phone Quintus is a smartphone that’s also part of a distributed cloud, supports Android or Ubuntu Touch appeared first on Liliputing.
date: 2024-10-17, from: Gary Marcus blog
Two new examples that are quite disconcerting
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/when-it-comes-to-security-llms-are
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-17, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
2003: What makes a weblog a weblog?
https://archive.blogs.harvard.edu/whatmakesaweblogaweblog/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-17, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Bloggers, here's an idea. When you write a piece you're proud of, end it with a sentence like this: "And that's why I have a blog." It plants a seed, which through repetition and appearing in many places, might help people appreciate the purpose of a blog. We've had a lot of mud slung at us, let's start undoing it.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/17.html#a145140
date: 2024-10-17, updated: 2024-10-17, from: One Foot Tsunami
https://onefoottsunami.com/2024/10/17/how-serendipitous/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-17, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
The organization that safeguards the internet’s history is under attack.
date: 2024-10-17, from: The Markup blog
The awards honor the accomplishments of news and legal leaders whose work embodies the values of the First Amendment
https://themarkup.org/inside-the-markup/2024/10/17/sisi-wei-rcfp-rising-star-2024
date: 2024-10-17, from: Tedium site
A presidential get-out-the-vote campaign learns the hard way that rural areas have pretty terrible internet access.
https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/16856839/trump-campaign-app-internet-consumption
date: 2024-10-17, from: Innessential (Brint Simmons’ blog)
This Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024, is the 20th anniversary of the Seattle Xcoders! We’d love to see you there, at 7 pm at Bale Breaker and Yonder Cider taproom in Ballard.
Everyone is welcome! It’s not just for people who write code — it’s for designers, testers, support folks, and everyone who helps make Apple-ecosystem apps. Even if you just like those kinds of apps and like talking about them, come join us!
We’re usually outside by these propane fire things, but I’m not sure this time — we might have a room or some area or something. We should be easy to find, at any rate.
It’s not actually a meeting with presentations — it’s just hanging out and talking. Which we do every first, third, and fifth Thursday (you can subscribe to our calendar). One of these days we’ll get back to presentations — but the social part is valuable, and so we keep it up.
PS Looks like the food truck is Impeckable Chicken, which I’ve heard good things about. :)
PPS I’m usually easy to spot: quite well into middle age, with nothing like the amount of hair I once had. Black jeans, usually a black sweatshirt. Glasses. Doc Martens. Not tall.
https://inessential.com/2024/10/16/seattle_xcoders_20th_anniversary_meetup.html
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-17, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Kamala Harris Arrived for a Fox Interview. She Got a Debate.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/16/business/media/kamala-harris-bret-baier-fox.html
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-17, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Love to have Cory’s support. RSS is patient. Only 22 years since it took off. It’s always ready to “deshitify” the corporate Silicon Valley disneyfied web.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/
date: 2024-10-17, updated: 2024-10-17, from: Inlets.dev, cloud tunneling
When you’re away from home it’s not only convenient, but often necessary to connect back to your machines. This could be to connect to a remote VSCode instance, run a backup, check on a process, or to debug a problem. SSH can also be used to port-forward services, or to copy files with scp or rsync.
https://inlets.dev/blog/2024/10/17/ssh-with-inlets-cloud.html
date: 2024-10-17, from: Lean Rada’s blog
tl;dr: use place-content: center on a grid
container.
.container {
display: grid;
place-content: center;
}Here’s how that looks like:
div childThat’s it. Two CSS rules.
Yes, four years late according to caniuse. But this is apparently still not well-known today.
Based on
recent
developments🡵, looks like we just need a few more years
before we can finally get rid of the extra display rule so
we can have the one CSS rule to center them all.