News gathered 2024-11-01
(date: 2024-11-01 10:30:34)
Announcing the Microsoft Store Awards 2024 winners
date: 2024-11-01, from: Windows Developer Blog
Windows is an open platform that enables all categories of applications to thrive. From individual developers to distributed projects, open-source initiatives and large companies, the vibrant developer community is building innovative, engaging and p
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Behind the Blog: Posting Nipples and Digging Data
date: 2024-11-01, from: 404 Media Group
This week, we talk about deciding what images to publish, digging through Meta and Snap data, and finding the Secret Service talking about you.
https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-posting-nipples-and-digging-data/
GPD Pocket 4 will be an 8.8 inch mini-laptop with AMD Ryzen AI 300
date: 2024-11-01, from: Liliputing
The GPD Pocket 4 is a mini-laptop that seems like a natural evolution of the GPD Pocket 3 that first launched nearly three years ago. The new model has a similar design that includes a QWERTY keyboard, a hinge that lets you swivel the screen and fold it down over the keyboard for use in tablet […]
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https://liliputing.com/gpd-pocket-4-will-be-an-8-8-inch-mini-laptop-with-amd-ryzen-ai-300/
Damn the Constraints of Our Universe
date: 2024-11-01, updated: 2024-11-01, from: One Foot Tsunami
https://onefoottsunami.com/2024/11/01/damn-the-constraints-of-our-universe/
Chuwi UBox is a $329 mini PC with Ryzen 5 6600H, USB4, and 2.5 GbE LAN
date: 2024-11-01, from: Liliputing
There are a few ways to keep costs down when building a mini PC. One is to opt for an inexpensive, low-power processor like an Intel Alder Lake-N chip. Another is to just use older processors that are no longer state-of-the-art. Chuwi’s new UBox mini PC takes the latter approach. It’s a small desktop computer […]
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https://liliputing.com/chuwi-ubox-is-a-329-mini-pc-with-ryzen-5-6600h-usb4-and-2-5-gbe-lan/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-01, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Rising Trump-style populism threatens democracy but can be beaten. (Did the Post find a way to run their Harris endorsement after all?)
Alpha 3: Tales from the COSMIC Desktop Environment
date: 2024-11-01, from: System76 Blog
Upgrade to Alpha 3 for custom system fonts, testable screen reader support, and more.
https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-3
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-01, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
What explains the big gender gap between supporters of Trump and Harris?
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-01, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Most Americans have only ever lived in a world where democracy was secure, where democracy was assumed. On Tuesday, we’ll decide if we want to stay in that world or leave it behind.
Kong Go CLI
date: 2024-11-01, from: Miek Giebin blog
I’m a fan of Kong the CLI argument parser, I use it to automatically create manual pages, (bash) completion and do a lot of validation inside it. (This guy also has other really interesting packages, and he’s a huge fan of Go’s struct tags). I wanted to do validation inside Kong as well, for this Kong has validation, which is just a method (Validate() error) on a type. Now most types I have are just string or any other builtin type.
https://miek.nl/2024/november/01/kong-go-cli/
Expanding the MC6847: Deciphering Fonts
date: 2024-11-01, from: Retro Innovations blog
Searching for Information As I was trying to decipher how to leverage an external character font ROM with the MC6847, I searched for existing project/products in this space. My web searches first found Ed Snider’s (Zippster of ZippsterZone) reproduction of the Green Mountain Micro (GMM) “lowerkit” product from “back in the day”. Ed shared a … Continue reading Expanding the MC6847: Deciphering Fonts
https://www.go4retro.com/2024/10/31/expanding-the-mc6847-deciphering-fonts/
Dipco’s Easy Reader
date: 2024-11-01, from: Computer ads from the Past
“Sight for Sore Eyes”
https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/dipcos-easy-reader
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-31, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
A Brief History of Trump’s Violent Remarks.
Lilbits: Pixel 9a and Android 16 are coming in early 2025, ChatGPT is now a search engine, and Thunderbird comes to Android
date: 2024-10-31, from: Liliputing
Google is shifting its Android release schedule, with the next major update coming in the first half of 2025 rather than the second half. That means net-gen flagship phones from companies like Samsung are more likely to ship with an operating system that isn’t nearly a year old. In other recent tech news from around […]
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Humane recalls Charge Case accessory for the Ai Pin due to fire risk
date: 2024-10-31, from: Liliputing
The Humane Ai Pin is a wearable wearable gadget that launched earlier this year to a chorus or reviews that largely amounted to “this thing is overpriced, doesn’t work very well, and could probably have just been an app.” As if that wasn’t bad enough, this summer the company told customers to stop using the […]
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https://liliputing.com/humane-recalls-charge-case-accessory-for-the-ai-pin-due-to-fire-risk/
Topton D13 is one of the smallest, cheapest mini PCs with an OcuLink port
date: 2024-10-31, from: Liliputing
The Topton D13 is a compact desktop computer that measures 108 x 108 x 60mm (4.25″ x 4.25″ x 2.36″) and features an AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS processor, 32GB of LPDDR5-6400 onboard memory and three M.2 2280 slots for PCIe 4.0 x4 storage. It’s also the smallest, cheapest mini PC I’ve seen that features an OCuLink […]
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https://liliputing.com/topton-d13-is-one-of-the-smallest-cheapest-mini-pcs-with-an-oculink-port/
Harris for President
date: 2024-10-31, from: Innessential (Brint Simmons’ blog)
Donald Trump is a gross villain and a traitor to our country. He’s a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and head of a criminal organization; he works with criminals and he pardons criminals; he’s a narcissist and violent insurrectionist, racist and misogynist; he’s the master of lies and corruption and self-serving.
He plans to rule as a fascist dictator, and this time has the backing to do so, for the benefit of him and his ultra-wealthy friends. Not for you.
For everybody else, the various enemies within — everybody who isn’t a straight white male who goes along with the program — there will be concentration camps, deportation, prison, and rumors and threats of each. There will be more deaths in hospital parking lots.
I have voted for Kamala Harris. I ask you to vote for her too.
I happen to think Harris would be very good, possibly even great, as president. But it hardly matters!
Voting for her is how we stop this. And we have to stop this.
https://inessential.com/2024/10/31/harris_for_president.html
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-31, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
So "richest man in the world" doesn't begin to cover Musk's ambition. He wants "all the money in the world."
http://scripting.com/2024/10/31.html#a140612
GitHub Copilot for Xcode
date: 2024-10-31, from: Michael Tsai
Frederic Lardinois (MacRumors, Hacker News): Microsoft-owned GitHub is bringing Copilot to Apple’s Xcode environment for the first time. Now in public preview, this will allow developers who build apps in Apple’s IDE with the assistance of Copilot. For now, the focus here is on code completion, but Copilot Chat and its other features will likely […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/10/31/github-copilot-for-xcode/
Xcode 16.1
date: 2024-10-31, from: Michael Tsai
Apple (downloads): Xcode 16.1 includes SDKs for iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, tvOS 18.1, watchOS 11.1, macOS Sequoia 15.1, and visionOS 2.1. The Xcode 16.1 release supports on-device debugging in iOS 15 and later, tvOS 15 and later, watchOS 7 and later, and visionOS. Xcode 16.1 requires a Mac running macOS Sonoma 14.5 or later. I’m […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/10/31/xcode-16-1/
iOS Apple Intelligence in EU in April 2025
date: 2024-10-31, from: Michael Tsai
Romain Dillet (Hacker News, MacRumors): Remember when Apple blamed EU tech rules — and more specifically the Digital Markets Act — to justify the fact that Apple Intelligence wouldn’t be available in the European Union? Maybe that was just an attempt to turn EU users against their regulators as Apple Intelligence is coming to the […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/10/31/ios-apple-intelligence-in-eu-in-april-2025/
Zuckerberg: The AI Slop Will Continue Until Morale Improves
date: 2024-10-31, from: 404 Media Group
“I think we’re going to add a whole new category of content, which is AI generated.”
https://www.404media.co/zuckerberg-the-ai-slop-will-continue-until-morale-improves/
The Mysteries Contained in a Donated Record Group at NARA
date: 2024-10-31, from: National Archives, Text Message blog
Today’s post is by John C. Harris, Archives Specialist at National Archives at Philadelphia “Calmed by the motionless air the surface of Lake Drummond is like a vast mirror reflecting the shoreline with such absolute definition that the world seems fissioned into twin dimensions each of which beckons my approach. The metallic brown surface of … Continue reading The Mysteries Contained in a Donated Record Group at NARA
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-31, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
When we vote we are governing, not expressing ourselves or protesting. It's not just the first amendment, it's the whole thing.
https://feedland.org/?item=17273107
VAIO launches a pair of 2.2 pound Intel Meteor Lake laptops with 14 inch displays
date: 2024-10-31, from: Liliputing
Japanese PC maker VAIO is launching its first laptops with Intel Core Ultra processors. Unfortunately the new VAIO SX14-R laptop for consumers and VAIO Pro PK-R business laptops are featuring Intel Core Ultra Series 1 processors based on last year’s Intel Meteor Lake architecture rather than the new Series 2 “Lunar Lake” chips. Still, these […]
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AI influencer hype gone wild
date: 2024-10-31, from: Gary Marcus blog
Reality is quite the opposite
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/ai-influencer-hype-gone-wild
The Tomato Aurora
date: 2024-10-31, updated: 2024-10-31, from: One Foot Tsunami
https://onefoottsunami.com/2024/10/31/the-tomato-aurora/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-31, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
There should be a prize for developers who create the most interop.
http://scripting.com/2021/12/16/153331.html?title=myProductIsInterop
Microsoft Provided Gender Detection AI on Accident
date: 2024-10-31, from: 404 Media Group
Microsoft said it would retire its AI-powered gender classifier in 2022. Now it says some users still had access to it because of an error.
https://www.404media.co/microsoft-provided-gender-detection-ai-on-accident/
When Does Instagram Decide a Nipple Becomes Female?
date: 2024-10-31, from: 404 Media Group
By documenting her transition every week on Instagram this artist shows the absurdity in how Instagram and AI classify gender and the human body.
https://www.404media.co/when-does-instagram-decide-a-nipple-becomes-female/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-10-31, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Donald Trump’s cognitive decline becoming a troubling concern.
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2024/oct/30/trumps-decline-has-been-alarming/
Summary of changes for October 2024
date: 2024-10-31, from: Hundred Rabbits blog
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we’ve done to our projects during the month of October.
Summary Of Changes
- 100r.co, added Rabbit Waves and Logbooks. Updated woodstove installation, no windlass with 1 photo, mini dodger and Victoria to Sitka logbook with Week 3 and 4.
Pino is back in Victoria. Being back in a city also means that we are shipping sticker sheets again! Devine found a spirograph set at a thrift store for 5$, we now make patterns on every letter we ship.
We are happy to announce the official release of Rabbit Waves! The idea for the project came after discussing the disappearance of certain traditional seasteading skills and maritime communication knowledge that we believe are valuable when electronics misbehave, but that are also just generally fun to learn and use. The world of the micro-site will grow as we think of new ideas to expand it.
Devine participated in Drawtober again this year and completed a zine that teaches the basics of multiset rewriting with examples, it also includes the source for a tiny Fractran interpreter. Since its release, many people have printed their own. Avanier went a step further and re-drew the zine on black paper! Devine also released an interactive version, and CapitalEx created with it a beautiful little world to explore! Handmade Seattle 2024 is coming up, Devine will be there to talk about weird computer stuff, and will hand out copies of the zine too.
This year, we carved a Calcifer pumpkin (see our other Halloween pumpkins).
Book Club: This month we read The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle.
https://100r.co/site/log.html#oct2024
Caught In The Middle
date: 2024-10-31, from: Tedium site
The mess with Bezos and The Washington Post is reflective of a trend that keeps popping up this year: The powerful entity stepping in it without considering the collateral damage.
https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/16871041/amazon-bezos-washington-post-collateral-damage
Playdate Update, October 2024
date: 2024-10-31, from: Playdate Blog
It’s a big day for Playdate news. We have three exciting things to share. The first is a new Playdate Update video, featuring some wonderful upcoming games and news. Give it a watch!
https://news.play.date/news/playdate-update-oct-2024/
Limit and offset for row pruning
date: 2024-10-31, from: Robert’s Ramblings
Noted are how to combine a select statement with limit and offset clauses with a delete statement to prune rows.
https://rsdoiel.github.io/blog/2024/10/31/limit_and_offset_for_row_pruning.html
SQLite3 json_patch is a jewel
date: 2024-10-31, from: Robert’s Ramblings
Quick note about json_path function in SQLite3
https://rsdoiel.github.io/blog/2024/10/31/sqlite3_json_patch.html