News gathered 2024-10-23
(date: 2024-10-23 09:37:01)
Onyx BOOX Note Max is a 13.3 inch E Ink tablet for $650 (coming soon)
date: 2024-10-23, from: Liliputing
Onyx has been selling eBook readers with E Ink displays under the Onyx BOOX brand for more than a decade, and in recent years the company has expanded its product lineup to include models with E Ink color displays or pocket-sized design. But most of the company’s recent products are basically ePaper tablets meant for […]
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https://liliputing.com/onyx-boox-note-max-is-a-13-3-inch-e-ink-tablet-for-650-coming-soon/
TouchArcade Is Shutting Down
date: 2024-10-23, from: Michael Tsai
Jared Nelson (Hacker News): Many of you who have followed TouchArcade for a long time are well aware that we’ve had financial troubles for many years now, and to be frank I think it’s a miracle that we’ve been able to last as long as we have. The truth of the matter is that a […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/10/23/toucharcade-is-shutting-down/
The Sad State of Mac Calendar Scripting
date: 2024-10-23, from: Michael Tsai
AppleScript support with popular Mac calendar apps is surprisingly limited. With Apple Mail, it’s easy to write a script that operates on the selected e-mail messages, and I’ve written many such scripts. I’d like to do this same with calendar events. For example, sometimes I want to make the same change to one of the […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/10/23/the-sad-state-of-mac-calendar-scripting/
Qbix Calendar Apps and the Mac App Store
date: 2024-10-23, from: Michael Tsai
A reader shared a story about the confusing and unfortunate situation with Qbix’s calendar apps on the Mac App Store. There are two separate apps: Calendars (which used to be called Calendar 2, previously discussed) and Calendar Plus. Calendar Plus hasn’t been updated in 10 years but is still for sale as a $9.99 up-front […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/10/23/qbix-calendar-apps-and-the-mac-app-store/
Raspberry Pi now sells branded storage (SD cards and SSDs)
date: 2024-10-23, from: Liliputing
The Raspberry Pi line of products are often refereed to as single-board computers because nearly everything you need to run them comes on a credit card-sized board including the processor, memory, storage, and plenty of I/O. One thing that isn’t usually included in the base price though? Storage. For the Raspberry Pi 4 and earlier […]
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https://liliputing.com/raspberry-pi-now-sells-branded-storage-sd-cards-and-ssds/
AMD’s Ryzen Z2 chips could bring Strix Point graphics to handhelds in 2025 (Updated)
date: 2024-10-23, from: Liliputing
AMD’s been making laptop processors for years that have integrated graphics powerful enough to let you play many recent games without a discrete GPU. And in 2023 the company released its first Ryzen Z series processors designed specifically for handheld gaming PCs like the Asus ROG Ally and Lenovo Legion Go. Recently AMD officials confirmed plans to […]
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https://liliputing.com/amds-ryzen-z2-chips-could-bring-strix-point-graphics-to-handhelds-in-2025/
AYN Odin 2 Portal handheld game console with 7 inch, 120 Hz OLED display (crowdfunding)
date: 2024-10-23, 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 back with a new model […]
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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-23, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
ChatGPT vs the Honor Code.
Sergey Durmanov pushed to project branch compiler at Felix Oliver Friedrich / Oberon A2
date: 2024-10-23, updated: 2024-10-23, from: Oberon A2 repository
Sergey Durmanov (3e2f28e7) at 23 Oct 15:00
Revert "fixed issue #148 with set constructor (range order) – s :=…
https://gitlab.inf.ethz.ch/felixf/oberon/-/commit/3e2f28e74197abcc0431e1419bd83bc7be39d753
Sergey Durmanov deleted project branch override at Felix Oliver Friedrich / Oberon A2
date: 2024-10-23, updated: 2024-10-23, from: Oberon A2 repository
Sergey Durmanov (89120988) at 23 Oct 14:50
https://gitlab.inf.ethz.ch/felixf/oberon/-/commits/override
Podcast: How the U.S. Government Tracks Your Phone
date: 2024-10-23, from: 404 Media Group
A massive story on how a U.S. government-bought tool can track phones at abortion clinics; a very special guest drops by to talk about The Abstract; and how we found where a Musk-funded PAC is targeting Snapchat ads.
https://www.404media.co/podcast-how-the-u-s-government-tracks-your-phone/
Don’t Expect Too Much From Apple Intelligence
date: 2024-10-23, updated: 2024-10-23, from: One Foot Tsunami
https://onefoottsunami.com/2024/10/23/dont-expect-too-much-from-apple-intelligence/
Sergey Durmanov pushed to project branch compiler at Felix Oliver Friedrich / Oberon A2
date: 2024-10-23, updated: 2024-10-23, from: Oberon A2 repository
Sergey Durmanov (28f97529) at 23 Oct 14:14
avoiding a trap when compiling with the –profile option
… and 3 more commits
Sergey Durmanov pushed new project branch compiler at Felix Oliver Friedrich / Oberon A2
date: 2024-10-23, updated: 2024-10-23, from: Oberon A2 repository
Sergey Durmanov (4fc04314) at 23 Oct 14:11
https://gitlab.inf.ethz.ch/felixf/oberon/-/commits/compiler
The American Housing Crisis: A Theft, Not a Shortage
date: 2024-10-23, from: Economics from the Top-Down
I
test if the US housing crisis could be solved by taking money from the
rich and handing it too the poor. Spoilers … it would work.
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https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2024/10/23/the-american-housing-crisis-a-theft-not-a-shortage/
Stereo required
date: 2024-10-23, from: Status-Q blog
I hadn’t come across the singer ‘Madelline’ before, but I’ve been somewhat entranced by her track ‘Dopamine’, not just because it’s a pleasant song, but because of this particular version. To the same backing track, you hear her singing it in both French and English at the same time. If you listen through a single Continue Reading
https://statusq.org/archives/2024/10/23/12196/
The Origins of the Record Group
date: 2024-10-23, from: National Archives, Pieces of History blog
We’re celebrating American Archives Month by looking back on the history of the National Archives. If you have ever researched at the National Archives you are familiar with the concept of a record group. Within the National Archives, a record group is basically a collection of records that belong to the government entity that created or maintained … Continue reading The Origins of the Record Group
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2024/10/23/the-origins-of-the-record-group/
Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics
date: 2024-10-23, from: 404 Media Group
Privacy advocates gained access to a powerful tool bought by U.S. law enforcement agencies that can track smartphone locations around the world. Abortion clinics, places of worship, and individual people can all be monitored without a warrant.
Data management tip of the day
date: 2024-10-23, from: Status-Q blog
“Nobody wants ‘backup’. Everybody wants ‘restore’.” — Heard on the Self-Hosted show, one of my favourite tech podcasts.
https://statusq.org/archives/2024/10/23/12191/
Sergey Durmanov opened issue #154: runtime trap "index out of range" – INCL/EXCL for SET8/SET16 (x86) at Felix Oliver Friedrich / Oberon A2
date: 2024-10-23, updated: 2024-10-23, from: Oberon A2 repository
MODULE TestSet8;
PROCEDURE Do*;
VAR pars: SET8;
BEGIN
INCL(pars, 7);
END Do;
END TestSet8.
TestSet8.Do~
Decoder.Open TestSet8~https://gitlab.inf.ethz.ch/felixf/oberon/-/issues/154
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-23, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
The world of Wordle in a few words.
https://daveverse.wordpress.com/2024/10/23/the-world-of-wordle-in-a-few-words/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-23, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available.
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/
Raspberry Pi SSDs and SSD Kits on sale now
date: 2024-10-23, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
Our new Raspberry Pi SSDs and ready-to-go SSD Kits help you get the best from your Raspberry Pi 5.
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https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-ssds-and-ssd-kits/
Solving the mystery of ARM7TDMI multiply carry flag
date: 2024-10-23, from: OS News
The processor in the Game Boy Advance, the ARM7TDMI, has a weird characteristic where the carry flag is set to a “meaningless value” after a multiplication operation. What this means is that software cannot and should not rely on the value of the carry flag after multiplication executes. It can be set to anything. Any value. 0, 1, a horse, whatever. This has been a source of memes in the emulator development community for a few years – people would frequently joke about how the implementation of the carry flag may as well be cpu.flags.c = rand() & 1;. And they had a point – the carry flag seemed to defy all patterns; nobody understood why it behaves the way it does. But the one thing we did know, was that the carry flag seemed to be deterministic. That is, under the same set of inputs to a multiply instruction, the flag would be set to the same value. This was big news, because it meant that understanding the carry flag could give us key insight into how this CPU performs multiplication. And just to get this out of the way, the carry flag’s behavior after multiplication isn’t an important detail to emulate at all. Software doesn’t rely on it. And if software did rely on it, then screw the developers who wrote that software. But the carry flag is a meme, and it’s a really tough puzzle, and that was motivation enough for me to give it a go. Little did I know it’d take 3 years of on and off work. ↫ bean machine Please don’t make me understand any of this.
https://www.osnews.com/story/140979/solving-the-mystery-of-arm7tdmi-multiply-carry-flag/
bhyve on FreeBSD and VM live migration: quo vadis?
date: 2024-10-23, from: OS News
When I think about bhyve Live Migration, it’s something I encounter almost daily in my consulting calls. VMware’s struggles with Broadcom’s licensing issues have been a frequent topic, even as we approach the end of 2024. It’s surprising that many customers still feel uncertain about how to navigate this mess. While VMware has been a mainstay in enterprise environments for years, these ongoing issues make customers nervous. And they should be – it’s hard to rely on something when even the licensing situation feels volatile. Now, as much as I’m a die-hard FreeBSD fan, I have to admit that FreeBSD still falls short when it comes to virtualization – at least from an enterprise perspective. In these environments, it’s not just about running a VM; it’s about having the flexibility and capabilities to manage workloads without interruption. Years ago, open-source solutions like KVM (e.g., Proxmox) and Xen (e.g., XCP-ng) introduced features like live migration, where you can move VMs between hosts with zero downtime. Even more recently, solutions like SUSE Harvester (utilizing KubeVirt for running VMs) have shown that this is now an essential part of any virtualization ecosystem. ↫ gyptazy FreeBSD has bhyve, but the part where it falls short, according to gyptazy, is the tool’s lack of live migration. While competitors and alternatives allow for virtual machines to be migrated without downtime, bhyve users still need to shut down their VMs, interrupt all connections, and thus experience a period of downtime before everything is back up and running again. This is simply not acceptable in most enterprise environments, and as such, bhyve is not an option for most users of that type. Luckily for enterprise FreeBSD users, things are improving. Live migration of bhyve virtual machines is being worked on, and basic live migration is now supported, but with limitations. For instance, only virtual machines with a maximum of 3GB could be migrated live, but that limit has been raised in recent years to 13 to 14GB, which is a lot more palatable. There are also some issues with memory corruption, as well as some other issues. Still, it’s a massive feat to have live migration at all, and it seems to be improving every year. The linked article goes into much greater detail about where things stand, so if you’re interested in keeping up with the latest progress regarding bhyve’s live migration capabilities, it’s a great place to start.
https://www.osnews.com/story/140977/bhyve-on-freebsd-and-vm-live-migration-quo-vadis/
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 8 Elite flagship smartphone SoC
date: 2024-10-23, from: OS News
At the Snapdragon Summit today, Qualcomm is officially announcing the Snapdragon 8 Elite, its flagship SoC for smartphones. The Snapdragon 8 Elite is a major upgrade from its predecessor, with improvements across the board. Qualcomm is also changing its naming scheme for its flagship SoCs from Snapdragon 8 Gen X to Snapdragon X Elite. ↫ Pradeep Viswanathan at Neowin It’s wild – but not entirely unexpected – how we always seem to end up in a situation in technology where crucial components, such as the operating system or processor, are made by one, or at most two, companies. While there are a few other smartphone system-on-a-chip vendors, they’re mostly relegated to low-end devices, and can’t compete on the high end, where the money is, at all. It’s sadness. Speaking of our mobile SoC overlords, they seem to be in a bit of a pickle when it comes to their core business of, well, selling SoCs. In short, Qualcomm bought Nuvia to use its technology to build the current crop of Snapdragon X Elite and Pro laptop chips. According to ARM, Qualcomm does not have an ARM license to do so, and as such, a flurry of lawsuits between the two companies followed. ARM is now cancelling certain Qualcomm ARM licenses, arguing specifically its laptop Snapdragon X chips should be destroyed. What we’re looking at here is two industry giants engaged in very public, and very expensive, contract negotiations, using the legal system as their arbiter. This will eventually fizzle out into a new agreement between the two companies with renewed terms and conditions – and flows of money – but until that dust has settled, be prepared for an endless flurry of doomerist news items about this story. As for us normal people? We don’t have to worry one bit about this legal nonsense. It’s not like we have any choice in smartphone chips anyway.
https://www.osnews.com/story/140975/qualcomm-announces-snapdragon-8-elite-flagship-smartphone-soc/
Onyx BOOX Palma 2 pocket-sized eReader has a faster processor, quicker page refresh, and a fingerprint sensor
date: 2024-10-23, from: Liliputing
The Onyx BOOX Palma 2 is an eBook reader that looks like a smartphones. It has a 6.13 inch, 824 x 1648 pixel capacitive touch display with 300 pixels per inch. But this isn’t a phone – it’s a pocket-sized eBook reader with a black and white E ink Carta 1200 screen covered with a […]
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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-23, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
As Election Nears, Kelly Warns Trump Would Rule Like a Dictator
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/us/politics/john-kelly-trump-fitness-character.html
/tmp should not exist
date: 2024-10-22, from: OS News
I commented on Lobsters that /tmp is usually a bad idea, which caused some surprise. I suppose /tmp security bugs were common in the 1990s when I was learning Unix, but they are pretty rare now so I can see why less grizzled hackers might not be familiar with the problems. I guess that’s some kind of success, but sadly the fixes have left behind a lot of scar tissue because they didn’t address the underlying problem: /tmp should not exist. ↫ Tony Finch Not only is this an excellent, cohesive, and convincing argument against the existence of /tmp, it also contains some nice historical context as to why things are the way they are. Even without the arguments against /tmp, though, it just seems entirely more logical, cleaner, and sensible to have /tmp directories per user in per user locations. While I never would’ve been able to so eloquently explain the problem as Finch does, it just feels wrong to have every user resort to the exact same directory for temporary files, like a complex confluence of bad decisions you just know is going to cause problems, even if you don’t quite understand the intricate interplay.
https://www.osnews.com/story/140968/tmp-should-not-exist/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-22, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had.’
Bigme B1051C is a 10.3 inch E Ink Color tablet with Android 14
date: 2024-10-22, from: Liliputing
The Bigme B1051C is an Android 14 tablet with a MediaTek Dimensity 900 processor, 6GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, and a microSD card with support for up to 1TB of removable storage. But unlike most Android tablets, the B1051C has an E Ink Color display, which means it’s primarily designed for reading and writing rather […]
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https://liliputing.com/bigme-b1051c-is-a-10-3-inch-e-ink-color-tablet-with-android-14/
RIP RSA AES: The Immediate Need of Quantum-Resistant Cryptography
date: 2024-10-22, from: Purism News and Events
The recent announcement from Chinese scientists about their successful use of a quantum computer to crack military-grade encryption has sent shockwaves through the cybersecurity community. This breakthrough, utilizing a D-Wave Advantage quantum computer, marks a significant milestone in the field of quantum computing. The implications of this development are profound, particularly for industries reliant on classical cryptographic systems like RSA and AES.
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https://puri.sm/posts/rip-rsa-aes-the-immediate-need-of-quantum-resistant-cryptography/
System76 and Ampere® pioneer custom-built Thelio Astra arm64 developer desktop
date: 2024-10-22, from: System76 Blog
System76 Thelio Astra arm64 developer desktop for autonomous driving and software-defined vehicle developers.
https://blog.system76.com/post/system76-and-ampere-pioneer-arm64-developer-desktop
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-22, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Springsteen to headline two Harris rallies in swing states.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-22, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Rudy Giuliani must give control of luxury items and Manhattan apartment to Georgia election workers he defamed, judge rules.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-22, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Textcasting: "Interop between social media apps based on the features writers need."
Apple’s AirPods Pro hearing health features are as good as they sound
date: 2024-10-22, from: OS News
Apple announced a trio of major new hearing health features for the AirPods Pro 2 in September, including clinical-grade hearing aid functionality, a hearing test, and more robust hearing protection. All three will roll out next week with the release of iOS 18.1, and they could mark a watershed moment for hearing health awareness. Apple is about to instantly turn the world’s most popular earbuds into an over-the-counter hearing aid. ↫ Chris Welch at The Verge Rightfully so, most of us here have a lot of issues with the major technology companies and the way they do business, but every now and then, even they accidentally stumble into doing something good for the world. AirPods are already a success story, and gaining access to hearing aid-level features at their price point is an absolute game changer for a lot of people with hearing issues – and for a lot of people who don’t even yet know they have hearing issues in the first place. If you have people in your life with hearing issues, or whom you suspect may have hearing issues, gifting them AirPods this Christmas season may just be a perfect gift. Yes, I too think hearing aids should be a thing nobody has to pay for and which should just be part of your country’s universal healthcare coverage – assuming you have such a thing – but this is not a bad option as a replacement.
Vote for the October 2024 + Post Topic
date: 2024-10-22, from: Computer ads from the Past
Your options are a couple of games, an Apple clone and a memory expander
https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/vote-for-the-october-2024-post-topic
System76 unveils ARM Ampere Altra workstation
date: 2024-10-22, from: OS News
System76, purveyor of Linux computers, distributions, and now also desktop environments, has just unveiled its latest top-end workstation, but this time, it’s not an x86 machine. They’ve been working together with Ampere to build a workstation based around Ampere’s Altra ARM processors: the Thelio Astra. Phoronix, fine purveyor of Linux-focused benchmarks, were lucky enough to benchmark one, and has more information on the new workstation. System76 designed the Thelio Astra in collaboration with Ampere Computing. The System76 Thelio Astra makes use of Ampere Altra processors up to the Ampere Altra Max 128-core ARMv8 processor that in turn supports 8-channel DDR4 ECC memory. The Thelio Astra can be configured with up to 512GB of system memory, choice of Ampere Altra processors, up to NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation graphics, dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet, and up to 16TB of PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD storage. System76 designed the Thelio Astra ARM64 workstation to be complemented by NVIDIA graphics given the pervasiveness of NVIDIA GPUs/accelerators for artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads. The Astra is contained within System76’s custom-designed, in-house-manufactured Thelio chassis. Pricing on the System76 Thelio Astra will start out at $3,299 USD with the 64-core Ampere Altra Q64-22 processor, 2 x 32GB of ECC DDR4-3200 memory, 500GB NVMe SSD, and NVIDIA A402 graphics card. ↫ Michael Larabel This pricing is actually remarkably favourable considering the hardware you’re getting. System76 and its employees have been dropping hints for a while now they were working on an ARM variant of their Thelio workstation, and knowing some of the prices others are asking, I definitely expected the base price to hit $5000, so this is a pleasant surprise. With the Altra processors getting a tiny bit long in the tooth, you do notice some oddities here, specifically the DDR4 RAM instead of the modern DDR5, as well as the lack of PCIe 5.0. The problem is that while the Altra has a successor in the AmpereOne processor, its availability is quite limited, and most of them probably end up in datacentres and expensive servers for big tech companies. This newer variant does come with DDR5 and PCIe 5.0 support, but doesn’t yet have a lower core count version, so even if it were readily available it might simply push the price too far up. Regardless, the Altra is still a ridiculously powerful processor, and at anywhere between 64 and 128 cores, it’s got power to spare. The Thelio Astra will be available come 12 November, and while I would perform a considerable number of eyebrow-raising acts to get my hands on one, it’s unlikely System76 will ship one over for a review. Edit: here’s an excellent and detailed reply to our Mastodon account from an owner of an Ampere Altra workstation, highlighting some of the challenges related to your choice of GPU. Required reading if you’re interested in a machine like this.
https://www.osnews.com/story/140961/system76-unveils-arm-ampere-altra-workstation/
When you give a Claude a mouse
date: 2024-10-22, from: One Useful Thing
Some quick impressions of an actual agent
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/when-you-give-a-claude-a-mouse
iPhone 16 Adds JPEG XL
date: 2024-10-22, from: Michael Tsai
Jeremy Gray (Hacker News, Reddit): Apple and its various software iterations have supported JPEG XL for at least a year, including in Finder, Preview, Final Cut Pro, Pages, Photos, Mail, Safari, and more. Adobe has also supported the format for a while, including in Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom Classic.Despite JPEG XL supporting reversible JPEG […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/10/22/iphone-16-adds-jpeg-xl/
Lightroom Classic 14
date: 2024-10-22, from: Michael Tsai
Agen Schmitz (release notes): Adobe has issued Lightroom Classic 14.0, a big update with several new features. The release enhances the Generative Remove feature with improved selection and object detection for easier removal of unwanted objects and distractions; introduces Content Credentials to help secure digital assets by attaching credentials like digital signature, editing information, and […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/10/22/lightroom-classic-14/
Time Machine in Sequoia
date: 2024-10-22, from: Michael Tsai
Der Teilweise: Backing up to a NAS currently says 3 days (!) left, after having backed up ~160GB. Was using WiFi with TX rate 133MBit. Now I connected using Gigabit Ethernet, does not seem to be faster. Plus: CPU usage is ridiculously high, fans spinning up to medium/max speed several times per hour. […] I […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/10/22/time-machine-in-sequoia/
No Smoking Forever
date: 2024-10-22, updated: 2024-10-22, from: One Foot Tsunami
https://onefoottsunami.com/2024/10/22/no-smoking-forever/
Anbernic RG CubeXX is a $60 gaming handheld with a 4 inch, 720 x 720 pixel display and a Linux-based OS
date: 2024-10-22, from: Liliputing
The Anbernic RG CubeXX is a new handheld game system with the same compact body and 3.95 inch, 720 x 720 pixel square display as the RG Cube that launched earlier this year. But that’s where the similarities end. While the RG Cube is an Android-based device that sells for $170 and up, the new RG […]
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Around the World in 175 Days, 1924: Department of State Contributions to the U.S. Army Flight Around the World: Part X: Congratulations and Thank You
date: 2024-10-22, from: National Archives, Text Message blog
This is the tenth, and final, in a series of blog posts. When we last left our pilots they had returned to North America at Icy Tickle in Labrador. From there, they flew to Hawkes Bay, Pictou Harbor, and returned to U.S. soil with an unscheduled stop at Mere Point, Maine, on September 5. Their … Continue reading Around the World in 175 Days, 1924: Department of State Contributions to the U.S. Army Flight Around the World: Part X: Congratulations and Thank You
AYANEO AM02 game console-like mini PC gets a Ryzen 7 8845HS spec bump
date: 2024-10-22, from: Liliputing
The AYANEO AM02 is a small desktop computer with a design that’s heavily inspired by vintage Nintendo game consoles. But under the hood it’s a fully modern computer – Ian was impressed with the performance of the model he reviewed earlier this year, if a bit underwhelmed by the door flap that covers the front […]
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https://liliputing.com/ayaneo-am02-game-console-like-mini-pc-gets-a-ryzen-7-8845hs-spec-bump/
How to get started with your Raspberry Pi AI Camera
date: 2024-10-22, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
Get started with object detection and pose estimation on our new Raspberry Pi AI Camera, using our pre-packaged demos.
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https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/how-to-get-started-with-your-raspberry-pi-ai-camera/
Blended Worlds: Art x JPL
date: 2024-10-22, from: The California Tech (Caltech student paper)
“Blended Worlds: Experi- ments In Interplanetary Imag- ination,” an exhibit at the Brand Library & Art Center in Glendale, seeks to elucidate the universe through collaborative works by artists and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory sci- entists and engineers.
https://tech.caltech.edu/2024/10/22/blended-worlds-jpl/
Caltech Hall Pond Bridge: Art or Annoyance?
date: 2024-10-22, from: The California Tech (Caltech student paper)
For the astute eyes on cam- pus, you may have noticed something different about Caltech Hall, specifically the bridge across the pond. But for those who may not know, the bridge going across Caltech Hall Pond has been complete- ly covered in gold leaf, or so it seems.
https://tech.caltech.edu/2024/10/22/caltech-hall-pond/
The Growing Legacy of Caltech’s Trees: A Technological and Sustainable Environmental Revolution.
date: 2024-10-22, from: The California Tech (Caltech student paper)
In the heart of Pasadena, nestled between the evergreen dotted hills and the sprawling cityscape, stands a campus symbolizing human ingenuity and environmental harmony: Caltech. Remarkably, what was once a patch- work of open chaparral and agricultural land has transformed into a living laboratory where science meets sustainability.
https://tech.caltech.edu/2024/10/22/the-growing-legacy-of-caltech-trees/
Amazon Says It Has a First Amendment Right to Union Bust
date: 2024-10-22, from: 404 Media Group
In response to an NLRB complaint, Amazon argues that preventing it from holding captive-audience meetings violates the U.S. Constitution.
https://www.404media.co/amazon-says-it-has-a-first-amendment-right-to-union-bust/
Eyeballs
date: 2024-10-22, from: Rachel Kwon blog
I recently got contact lenses, for the first time in 34 years, as someone who has required corrective eyewear since the age of 6. I have attributed the decision mostly to my ongoing midlife/existential crisis — as a way to prove to myself that I’m NOT set in my ways and I CAN do new things — and for whatever reason I had increasingly been thinking that my eyeglasses are my whole personality and I was interested in experimenting with a different look.
https://kwon.nyc/notes/eyeballs/
Encrypted Chat App ‘Session’ Leaves Australia After Visit From Police
date: 2024-10-22, from: 404 Media Group
After federal police came to an employee’s house to ask questions, encrypted messaging company Session has decided to leave Australia and switch to a foundation model based in Switzerland.
https://www.404media.co/encrypted-chat-app-session-leaves-australia-after-visit-from-police-2/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-22, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
One million Americans dead is far too many, let's not try to top that. #dumptrump
http://scripting.com/2024/10/22.html#a121804
How can you be a good leader in a bad market?
date: 2024-10-22, from: Accidentally in Code
A few weeks ago everyone was arguing about “founder mode”, but before it came the idea of “Peace time CEO/War time CEO”. The removal of the unnecessary violence in the metaphor is an improvement, but the content of peacetime/wartime is actually better. It’s more specific, and more about operating with focus and efficiency. Founder mode […]
https://cate.blog/2024/10/22/how-can-you-be-a-good-leader-in-a-bad-market/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-22, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Claude Artifacts examples.
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/21/claude-artifacts/#extract-urls
Rift Between Junior and Senior Developers
date: 2024-10-22, from: O’Reilly Radar
I’m worried about AI. I’m not worried about it taking my job. I believe AI is a genuine productivity tool. By which I mean it can make developers produce more. The question is whether those developers are producing something good or not. The difference between an experienced developer and a junior is that an experienced […]
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/rift-between-junior-and-senior-developers/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-22, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
This is the kind of story I was hoping the Washington Post would run months ago, and have it serve as background for every other story on the election. Now it’s probably too late, it’s almost a postmortem on the election.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-22, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Today’s Heather Cox Richardson is a must-read.
Withdraw support from UN Cybercrime Convention!
date: 2024-10-22, updated: 2024-10-22, from: Chaos Computer Club Updates
In a joint letter concerning the United Nations Cybercrime Convention the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) and dozens of signees urge all EU member states to reject the proposal for the UN General Assembly to adopt the draft Convention.
https://www.ccc.de/de/updates/2024/un-cybercrime
RISC-V on the Raspberry Pi Pico 2
date: 2024-10-22, from: Stephen Smith’s blog
Introduction One of the more interesting features added to the RP2350 chip at the heart of the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 is that it contains two 32-bit RISC-V CPU cores. Sadly, you can’t run both the ARM and RISC-V CPU cores at the same time, you have to choose one or the other. In this […]
https://smist08.wordpress.com/2024/10/21/risc-v-on-the-raspberry-pi-pico-2/