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date: 2024-10-26, from: 404 Media Group
This week, we toast to the saga of the Well-man, tip a hat to the tardigrades, catch a contest of eyestalks, and observe gorilla democracy in action.
https://www.404media.co/whos-this-medieval-dead-guy-at-the-bottom-of-a-castle-well/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-26, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
The NYT must think we're idiots. They're reporting the results of a freaking poll as evidence that the Democrats are slipping in NYC. Oh really. No, I think they are the actual idiots for wasting their readers' time with bullshit like this.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/26/upshot/trump-poll-new-york.html
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-26, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Wondering if there be Nazi flags at Trump's Madison Square Garden rally tomorrow.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-26, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
LA Times Planned ‘Case Against Trump’ Series Alongside Kamala Harris Endorsement Before Owner Quashed It.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/la-times-planned-case-against-215143197.html
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-26, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Finally some insight into how journalism is misdirected to avoid the wrath of fascism, in the United States, probably since 2016. Now that the window is open, keep going. Journalism dies in darkness, as we have seen.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/25/235617.html
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-26, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Israel launches retaliatory attack against Iran. (The unsurprising October surprise.)
https://www.axios.com/2024/10/25/israel-attacks-iran-retaliation
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-25, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Grateful Dead: Pride of Cucamonga.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IFSnOZy955U
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-25, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Post columnists respond to the decision not to endorse.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-25, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Phil Lesh, Grateful Dead Bassist and Co-Founder, Dead at 84.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/phil-lesh-grateful-dead-dead-1234809976/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-25, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
We've relied too much on the Democrats to stick their necks out, when in fact all our necks are on the line here.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/25/142159.html
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-25, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
If you're lookin to relax I recommend this week's Trippi podcast. He knows what the polls are saying and what they aren't.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chill-out-seriously/id1523896927?i=1000674421042
date: 2024-10-25, from: Liliputing
The Banana Pi BPI-M1S is a 92 x 62mm (3.62″ x 2.44″) single-board computer with a Rockchip RK3528 quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 processor, Mali-450 graphics, and support for 4K video output over an HDMI 2.0b port. It also has a pretty decent set of networking features including 2.5 GbE and Gigabit Ethernet ports, support for WiFi […]
The post Banana Pi BPI-M1S is a RK3528 single-board PC with HDMI 2.0 and 2.5 GbE LAN appeared first on Liliputing.
https://liliputing.com/banana-pi-bpi-m1s-is-a-rk3528-single-board-pc-with-hdmi-2-0-and-2-5-gbe-lan/
date: 2024-10-25, from: 404 Media Group
The former candidate for Virginia House of Delegates Susanna Gibson on how she went from full-time nurse, to running for office, to being targeted by non-consensual intimate imagery and harassment—and how her new model legislation and nonprofit are focused on helping other victims of NCII.
https://www.404media.co/podcast-susanna-gibson-myown-image-nonconsensual-imagery/
date: 2024-10-25, from: Authors Union blogs
Earlier today, the Library of Congress, following recommendations from the U.S. Copyright Office, released its final rule adopting exemptions to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act’s prohibition on circumvention of technological protection measures (e.g., DRM). As many of you know, we’ve been working closely with members of the text and data-mining community as well as our […]
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-25, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Editor resigns, subscribers cancel as Washington Post non-endorsement prompts crisis at Bezos paper.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-25, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Kamala Harris for president.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-25, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
“The decision not to publish was made by The Post’s owner — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos — according to the same sources.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/10/25/washington-post-endorsement-president/
date: 2024-10-25, from: Michael Tsai
Apple (tweet, Hacker News, MacRumors): In the weeks after we announced Apple Intelligence and PCC, we provided third-party auditors and select security researchers early access to the resources we created to enable this inspection, including the PCC Virtual Research Environment (VRE). Today we’re making these resources publicly available to invite all security and privacy researchers […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/10/25/security-research-on-private-cloud-compute/
date: 2024-10-25, from: Michael Tsai
Apple: As previewed earlier this year, changes to the browser choice screen, default apps, and app deletion for EU users, as well as support in Safari for exporting user data and for web browsers to import that data, are now available in the beta versions of iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2.[…]Following feedback from the European […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/10/25/testing-eu-ios-features-in-ios-18-2/
date: 2024-10-25, from: Michael Tsai
Juli Clover: The change was noted on Reddit over the weekend, and there are details on the Disney+ and Hulu websites. Both the Disney+ and Hulu websites say that new and returning subscribers cannot sign up for and pay through Apple, but existing Apple-billed subscribers are not affected. […] Eliminating the in-app purchase fees paid […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/10/25/disney-and-hulu-drop-iap/
date: 2024-10-25, from: Dave Karpf’s blog
A study in willful incompetence
https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/a-suggestion-for-the-washington-posts
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-25, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Benjamin Wittes: "As a longtime member of the Washington Post editorial page staff, this genuinely shocks me."
https://mastodon.social/@benjaminwittes@thecooltable.wtf/113369070101962713
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-25, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Washington Post won't endorse any presidential candidate. (They should shut down now until further notice.)
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/25/nx-s1-5165353/washington-post-presidential-endorsement-trump-harris
date: 2024-10-25, 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 talk about going viral, what we’re watching lately, and a trip to Best Buy.
https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-perverse-virality/
date: 2024-10-25, from: 404 Media Group
A new federal rule makes it legal to bypass software locks on commercial food equipment for the purposes of repair.
https://www.404media.co/it-is-now-legal-to-hack-mcflurry-machines-and-medical-devices-to-fix-them/
date: 2024-10-25, from: Liliputing
AAEON’s new UP Squared Pro 710H is a 102 x 102mm (4″ x 4″) single-board computer with an Intel Alder Lake-N processor, up to 16GB of onboard LPDDR5 memory, and up to 128GB of eMMC storage. While the board is similar in a lot of ways to the UP Squared 7100 that launched earlier this […]
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date: 2024-10-25, from: 404 Media Group
Twister was one of the first DVDs ever released. Now it’s stuck in still-functioning Redbox machines.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-25, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Any Decent WordPress Alternatives Out There?
https://tedium.co/2024/10/20/wordpress-cms-alternatives-content-strategy-advice/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-25, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Scripting News: Let's bust some new norms.
http://scripting.com/2024/10/25/142159.html?title=normBusting4Good
date: 2024-10-25, from: Liliputing
There are a growing number of graphics docks that allow you to add a discrete GPU to a laptop, handheld, or mini PC by connecting to a Thunderbolt, USB4, or OCuLink port. But Chinese mini PC maker Beelink has taken a different approach with its Beelink Ex Docking Station. First unveiled earlier this year, the […]
The post Beelink open sources the design of the Beelink EX GPU dock appeared first on Liliputing.
https://liliputing.com/beelink-open-sources-the-design-of-the-beelink-ex-gpu-dock/
date: 2024-10-25, updated: 2024-10-25, from: One Foot Tsunami
https://onefoottsunami.com/2024/10/25/inspiring-words-2/
date: 2024-10-25, from: Liliputing
The new Onyx BOOX Note Air4 C is a 10.3 inch tablet with a 10.3 inch E Ink Kaleido 3 color display capable of showing 4096 colors, support for touchscreen and pressure-sensitive pen input, and an Android-based operating system. Designed primarily for reading and writing, the tablet is a pretty modest update over the previous-gen Onyx […]
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date: 2024-10-25, updated: 2024-10-25, from: Bytecode Alliance News
Wasmtime is a fast, secure, and standards-compliant WebAssembly runtime. The latest v26.0 release includes enhancements such as implementation of the “table64” extension, a new wasmtime completion subcommand, ARM64 Windows support, and more.
https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/wasmtime-26.0
date: 2024-10-25, updated: 2024-10-25, from: Tom Kellog blog
Yay! Cursor is fun. All the way up until you accept some large multi-file change only to realize it was a mistake, but there’s no simple way to rollback.