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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-26, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
A review of the Kia EV6.
https://a.wholelottanothing.org/a-review-of-the-kia-ev6/
date: 2024-11-26, from: 404 Media Group
A Hugging Face employee made a huge dataset of Bluesky posts, and it’s already very popular.
date: 2024-11-26, from: Liliputing
The company working on a Linux-based operating system for handheld gaming PCs that’s not as tightly integrated with the Steam game client as Valve’s SteamOS has released a second alpha. And this time it’s not even all that locked to handhelds – there’s keyboard, mouse, and NVIDIA graphics support, which means you can run it […]
The post Lilbits: Handheld gaming roundup, plus Huawei’s first phones with a fully Android-free OS appeared first on Liliputing.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-26, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
The Silver Lining of the Pam Bondi Nomination.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/pam-bondi-versus-leonard-leo/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-26, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
In First Post-Election Interview, Kamala Harris’s Advisors Admit that Democrats Are “Losing the Culture War.” Actually they're not even showing up for it.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/pod-save-america-interview-kamala-harris-2024-election
date: 2024-11-26, from: Liliputing
The ONEXFLY F1 Pro is a handheld gaming PC with a 7 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel OLED display featuring a 144 HZ refresh rate and up to 800 nits brightness. While that alone would be enough to make this little computer unusual, it’s also the first handheld available for pre-order to feature an AMD Strix Point […]
The post First handheld gaming PC with AMD Strix Point and a 144 Hz OLED display is now available appeared first on Liliputing.
date: 2024-11-26, from: Gary Marcus blog
Relevant to the post I sent earlier today, https://www.howtogeek.com/is-microsoft-using-your-word-documents-to-train-ai/says that an unnamed spokesperson at Microsoft claims that “Microsoft does not use customer data from Microsoft 365 consumer and commercial applications to train large language models.
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/update-re-microsoft-and-training
date: 2024-11-26, from: Liliputing
Chinese media and gaming company Tencent has revealed a handheld gaming computer that it says is the first with a glasses-free 3D display that leverages eye-tracking technology to adjust on-screen images to create a stereoscopic 3D effect. At this point, the Tencent 3D One handheld is an experimental product, so it’s unclear whether it will […]
The post This handheld gaming PC has an 11 inch, glasses-free 3D display and Intel Lunar Lake appeared first on Liliputing.
date: 2024-11-26, from: 404 Media Group
“X CORP. OWNS THE X ACCOUNTS.”
date: 2024-11-26, from: Michael Tsai
Jared Sinclair: I ran into some unexpected runtime crashes recently while testing an app on iOS 18 compiled under Swift 6 language mode, and the root causes ended up being the perils of using @unchecked Sendable in combination with some counterintuitive compiler behavior with implicit actor isolation.[…]What occurred to me instead was to find a […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/26/watch-out-for-counterintuitive-implicit-actor-isolation/
date: 2024-11-26, from: Michael Tsai
Jesús A. Álvarez: Mini vMac for iOS won’t be coming to #AltStorePAL, it was just #RejectedByAppReview for notarization after an initial rejection and appeal. You can of course still get it from GitHub and build it with Xcode or sideload the ipa with AltStore Classic. Via Riley Testut: Apple’s complete abuse of Notarization is going […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/26/mini-vmac-for-ios-rejected-via-notarization/
date: 2024-11-26, from: Michael Tsai
Mysk: This is an example of what the App Store app shares with #Apple when you search for an app. Everything you type in the search field is recorded as an event and associated with your Apple ID before it is sent to Apple. When I search for “Google Authenticator,” events are recorded as I […]
date: 2024-11-26, from: Michael Tsai
Mike Fleming Jr.: Jon Watts, the filmmaker who stepped out of the Spider-Man franchise with Tom Holland and Zendaya to script and direct George Clooney and Brad Pitt in the film Wolfs for Apple, created a press dustup yesterday when he let slip that he and they would not be doing a sequel, even though […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/26/apples-movie-theater-beef-with-hollywood/
date: 2024-11-26, from: Liliputing
SoulScircuit’s Pilet line of computers are handheld PCs powered by a Raspberry Pi 5 and featuring retro-inspired designs with beige, orange, black, and grey color schemes. The Pilet 7 is a modular tablet computer with a 7 inch display an add-on slot that lets you connect a keyboard, game controller, or other accessories. And the Pilet […]
The post Raspberry Pi-powered Pilet 5 and Pilet 7 handheld computers coming soon to Kickstarter appeared first on Liliputing.
date: 2024-11-26, from: Infrastructure LA Blog
Funding Internet and Infrastruturec $876 Million Available for Resilient Transportation Projects! The Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-Saving Transportation (PROTECT) Program is offering $876 million in competitive grants to strengthen surface transportation against natural hazards and climate challenges. Funded projects will focus on resilience planning, enhancing community evacuation routes, and […]
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-26, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
2022: Sources Go Direct, explained.
http://scripting.com/2022/04/13/165056.html?title=sourcesGoDirectExplained
date: 2024-11-26, from: Liliputing
Most of the handheld gaming PCs that have launched in the past few years have looked vaguely like a Nintendo Switch or Valve Steam Deck: there’s a display squeezed between a pair of game controllers and no physical keyboard. But there are a handful of portable gaming PCs that do have keyboards for easier text input. […]
The post OneGx 2 is a handheld gaming PC that’s also a mini-laptop with swappable keyboard layouts appeared first on Liliputing.
https://liliputing.com/onegx-2-is-a-handheld-gaming-pc-thats-also-a-mini-laptop/
date: 2024-11-26, from: National Archives, Text Message blog
“Each and every one of my murals contains the expression of my own personality” Diego Rivera [1] The National Archives’ Special Access and FOIA Program recently made the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) case file on Mexican artist Diego Rivera (100-HQ-155423, v. 1 and Sub. A) [1] available online. The FBI compiled case files to document … Continue reading Fragments of a Life: Diego Rivera through the Lens of the FBI
date: 2024-11-26, from: Gary Marcus blog
The Great Data Heist continues.
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/psa-microsoft-may-be-training-on
date: 2024-11-26, from: 404 Media Group
Stake is an online casino and sportsbook that’s using watermarks on viral meme accounts to advertise on social media. But it goes deeper than that.
https://www.404media.co/what-is-stake-gambling-casino-watermark/
date: 2024-11-26, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
Unsure what to buy your favourite Raspberry Pi enthusiast this Christmas? This list should help.
The post Raspberry Pi Christmas shopping guide appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-christmas-shopping-guide/
date: 2024-11-26, from: System76 Blog
High Seas, a coding challenge that rewards teens for coding projects with sweet prizes — including 15 System76 Launch Keyboards is happening now!
https://blog.system76.com/post/high-seas-coding-challenge
date: 2024-11-26, updated: 2024-11-26, from: One Foot Tsunami
https://onefoottsunami.com/2024/11/26/take-this-job-and-restaff-it/
date: 2024-11-26, updated: 2024-11-26, from: Oberon A2 repository
oberon@gitlab.inf.ethz.ch (329ba1da) at 26 Nov 15:50
do not use SLCR locking/unlocking mechanism on linux (always unlocked)
https://gitlab.inf.ethz.ch/felixf/oberon/-/commit/329ba1daa16f2554766ceb5815f1e8d4bca7cfbf
date: 2024-11-26, from: 404 Media Group
The creator of a game that allows players to recreate “Operation al-Aqsa Flood” says it’s no different than Call of Duty.
https://www.404media.co/steam-removes-oct-7-game-at-request-of-uk-counter-terrorism-unit/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-26, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Scripting News: There are no more gotchas.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/21/143547.html
date: 2024-11-26, from: O’Reilly Radar
There is a crisis in technical education. The golden road to a career has always been through a college education. However, this “golden road” has developed deep cracks and is badly in need of maintenance. Postsecondary education is rapidly becoming unaffordable, even at public colleges and universities. Tuition has risen at a rate 50% greater […]
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/educating-a-new-generation-of-workers/
date: 2024-11-26, from: mrusme blog
Going off-the-grid with an add-on for the Star Labs StarBook – and pretty much every other laptop – that adds situational awareness through various sensors and removes the need for privacy-invasive cloud services for things like GPS positioning and current temperature.
https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/starshield-situational-awareness-for-the-star-labs-starbook/
date: 2024-11-26, from: Blog by Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti
I recently was a guest on The Stack Overflow’s Podcast today, talking about docs (of course), the Vale prose linter, job titles, automation, LLMs, and much more. You can listen to the entire episode here or in the SO blog, or read the transcript. Getting docs closer to developers was one of my personal goals this year, and I think these kind of appearances might help. We need to be where developers are.
https://passo.uno/posts/podcast-your-docs-are-your-infrastructure/
date: 2024-11-26, from: Greg Egan’s feed
The page “Science Notes / The Finite Fall” has been updated
https://www.gregegan.net/SCIENCE/FiniteFall/FiniteFall.html
date: 2024-11-25, from: Michael Tsai
Holly Borla (via Mastodon, forum): This document lays out several potential paths for improving the usability of Swift 6, especially in simple situations where users aren’t intending to use concurrency at all. […] A key tenet of our thinking in this vision is that we want to drastically reduce the number of explicit concurrency annotations […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/25/swift-vision-improving-the-approachability-of-data-race-safety/
date: 2024-11-25, from: Michael Tsai
John Gruber (Mastodon) has gone through the list of Apple acquisitions: The bottom line is that what we, as users, hope for after a big company acquires a beloved app is for an outcome where the users of that app remain happy. That might mean just keeping the app going, like with Logic. Or it […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/25/apple-tends-to-do-right-by-apps-it-acquires/
date: 2024-11-25, from: Michael Tsai
Wil Shipley: Amazon has shut off the feed that allowed Delicious Library to look up items, unfortunately limiting the app to what users already have (or enter manually). I wasn’t contacted about this. I’ve pulled it from the Mac App Store and shut down the website so nobody accidentally buys a non-functional app. Previously: Amazon […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/25/the-end-of-delicious-library/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-25, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
2023: Twitter never did links anyway.
http://scripting.com/2023/10/04/164437.html
date: 2024-11-25, from: 404 Media Group
A Niantic executive said he could see governments and militaries buying Niantic geospatial AI trained on player data, but the company said it’s still early days.
date: 2024-11-25, from: Liliputing
Black Friday may be the unofficial start to the holiday shopping season, but the day after Thanksgiving is also a day when you might be sitting around the house in food coma looking for something to watch on TV. Aiding and/or complicating your quest are streaming services – which have made a habit in recent […]
The post Black Friday 2024: Streaming & Download deals appeared first on Liliputing.
https://liliputing.com/black-friday-2024-streaming-download-deals/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-25, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
One of the reasons I share posts from different social web services across all the services is to show how users appreciate developers who make it easy for us to use their competitors' products.
https://mastodon.social/@daveverse.wordpress.com@daveverse.wordpress.com/113544778776393606
date: 2024-11-25, from: Liliputing
The Intel N150 processor is expected to be a modest update to the popular Intel N100 chip that’s been used in many budget laptops and mini PCs over the past few years. While Intel hasn’t yet officially launched the new processor, at least four PC makers have already introduced upcoming mini PCs that use the new chip. […]
The post 4 mini PCs with Intel N150 chips appeared first on Liliputing.
https://liliputing.com/at-least-four-mini-pcs-with-intel-n150-chips-are-coming-soon/
date: 2024-11-25, from: Michael Tsai
My apps (DropDMG, EagleFiler, SpamSieve) are on sale for Black Friday, and here are some other good deals that I found: Apps: Adobe Aeon Timeline Affinity Akismet AllTrails Apparent Software Appfigures (BF2450) Astro Backblaze BetterTouchTool Bezel BoltAI Brewer X Browser Deputy Bike CleanClip CleanMyMac CleanShot X CompressX Creaceed CYME Corel Dada Mail Darkroom Dash (BLACKFRIDAY) […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/25/black-friday-2024/
date: 2024-11-25, updated: 2024-11-25, from: Deno blog
Oracle is holding the JavaScript trademark hostage, and we’re pursuing legal means to #FreeJavaScript. Here’s a brief update.
https://deno.com/blog/deno-v-oracle
date: 2024-11-25, from: Liliputing
The Raspberry Pi Pico 2 hit the street this summer as a tiny board designed for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. With a Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller featuring two ARM Cortex-M33 and two Hazard3 RISC-V processor cores, the new model packs more processing power than the original Raspberry Pi Pico that launched in 2021. But it […]
The post Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W is now available for $7 (RP2350 microcontroller plus WiFi 4 and Bluetooth 5.2) appeared first on Liliputing.
date: 2024-11-25, updated: 2024-11-25, from: One Foot Tsunami
https://onefoottsunami.com/2024/11/25/operation-bear-claw/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-25, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
The People Who Quit Dating.
date: 2024-11-25, from: 404 Media Group
Tether is being used on a massive scale by large scale drug traffickers, to the point where Tether is sold cheaper in Mexico due to its links to drugs, according to court records reviewed by 404 Media.
date: 2024-11-25, from: National Archives, Pieces of History blog
Long before the President of the United States pardoned a turkey to celebrate Thanksgiving, the President of Congress issued proclamations encouraging its celebration. We at the National Archives have written a lot about the history of Thanksgiving as a federal holiday, often focusing on Thanksgiving proclamations under the U.S. Constitution or the aforementioned Presidential turkey … Continue reading Pre-federal Thanksgivings
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2024/11/25/pre-federal-thanksgivings/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-25, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.
https://www.propublica.org/article/porsha-ngumezi-miscarriage-death-texas-abortion-ban
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-25, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Europe is under attack from Russia. Why isn’t it fighting back?
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-25, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Yesterday I suggested that the Democratic Party run a members-only Bluesky. Next idea is that AWS or Digital Ocean offer a one-click install of a personal Bluesky. For many years I advocated Amazon offer Twitter-as-a-service. Now it’s even easier and more urgent. We need to desiloize this finally.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/24.html#a143646
date: 2024-11-25, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
Introducing the wireless-enabled Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W. Built around our new RP2350 microcontroller, it’s perfect for IoT.
The post Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W on sale now at $7 appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-pico-2-w-on-sale-now/
date: 2024-11-25, from: Advent of Computing
The Z4, completed by Konrad Zuse in 1945, is a computer with a wild story. It was made from scrounged parts, survived years of bombing raids, moved all around Berlin, and eventually took refuge in basements and stables. In this episode we will follow the Z4’s early days, and look at how it fits into the larger picture of Zuse’s work. Along the way there is looting, rumors, and even… IBM!
Selected Sources:
The Computer, My Life - Konrad Zuse’s autobiography
https://web.archive.org/web/20090220012346/http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/370000/361515/p678-bauer.pdf?key1=361515&key2=3342588511&coll=&dl=acm&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618 - Plankalkul, F.L. Bauer and H. Wossner
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9787324 - Architecture of the Z4, Rojas
https://adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/episode-146-the-z4
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-25, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
We’ve seen this before, a newly elected President feels transformational, comes to town, bets big, crashes hard.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-25, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
The Democrats on Twitter.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-25, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Donald Trump Thinks He Won’t Have Enough Power.
date: 2024-11-25, updated: 2024-11-25, from: Bytecode Alliance News
This month’s v27.0 release of Wasmtime—the fast, secure, and standards-compliant WebAssembly (Wasm) runtime—includes enhancements such as completed support for the new Wasm garbage collection proposal, a PyTorch backend for wasi-nn, link-time feature gate configuration for unstable WIT APIs, and more.
https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/wasmtime-27.0
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-24, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Blogtree was a very early website that organized then-existing blogs in a tree of parental lineage. This is an archive of the page for my blog, Scripting News.
date: 2024-11-24, from: Tedium site
Pondering Thanksgiving through an exceedingly corporate lens. Some of the holiday’s most important elements were brought to you by marketing and lobbying.
https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/16896443/thanksgiving-history-corporate-roots
date: 2024-11-24, from: Gary Marcus blog
Scaling laws were supposed to be, well, laws.
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-new-ai-scaling-law-shell-game
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-24, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
The once-great NYT has intuited that Trump might want to wreck our health system. They really went out on a limb there. 😂
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/health/trump-kennedy-health-agencies-vaccines-covid.html
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-24, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
I asked ChatGPT how Republican scholars adjudicate bathroom access for intersex people. A not-too-surprising answer.
https://chatgpt.com/share/67435186-f804-8012-a29c-4d5ecce996f9
date: 2024-11-24, from: Blog by Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti
A reader asked me how they’d become a Documentation Engineer, because they saw I got hired as one and felt curious about what it takes to get there. This inevitably got me thinking about job titles and the evolution of tech writing, two topics that are quite central to this blog. Let me begin with the short answer: As a tech writer you’ll have to wear many hats, but you’ll always be a technical writer. Depending on your preferences, some hats will be more comfortable than others. Docs Engineer is one of those.
https://passo.uno/what-is-a-documentation-engineer/
date: 2024-11-24, from: Liliputing
The Milk-V Megrez is a mini ITX motherboard powered by an ESWIN EIC7700X processor featuring four SiFive P550 RISC-V (RV64CG) processors cores, Imagination AXM-8-256 graphics, and an NPU that delivers up to 20 TOPS of AI performance. First unveiled in August, the board is now available for purchase from ARACE for $199 and up. The starting […]
The post Milk-V Megrez mini ITX board with EIC7700X RISC-V chip now available for $199 appeared first on Liliputing.
https://liliputing.com/milk-v-megrez-mini-itx-board-with-eic7700x-risc-v-chip-now-available-for-199/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-24, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Pam Bondi, Trump’s AG pick, said ‘prosecutors will be prosecuted’.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-24, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03784-6
date: 2024-11-24, from: One Useful Thing
Don’t make this hard
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/getting-started-with-ai-good-enough
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-24, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
WaPo Enthusiastically Joins Trump's Attack on Rule of Law.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/11/23/wapo-enthusiastically-joins-trumps-attack-on-rule-of-law/
date: 2024-11-24, updated: 2024-11-24, from: Oberon A2 repository
In the Oberon subsystem, Clipboard.Cut and Clipboard.Copy have no apparent effect. Clipboard.Paste freezes A2.
Regards, … Peter E.
https://gitlab.inf.ethz.ch/felixf/oberon/-/issues/155
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-24, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Three Ways to Become a Deeper Thinker.
date: 2024-11-23, from: Tedium site
Why hasn’t video completely killed text-based social media, despite social platforms clearly favoring it? Simple: By its very nature, it excludes voices from the discussion.
https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/16895949/video-social-media-weaknesses
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-23, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Why is joining Bluesky like buying an EV?
https://memex.naughtons.org/why-is-joining-bluesky-like-buying-an-ev/40113/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-23, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
2016: Don't feed the troll.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-23, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
AppleScript Fun with Claude.
https://johnjohnston.info/blog/applescript-fun-with-claude/
date: 2024-11-23, from: Gary Marcus blog
A textbook case in how good ideas are often initially throttled
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/satya-nadella-and-the-three-stages
date: 2024-11-23, updated: 2024-11-23, from: Russell Graves, Syonyk’s Project Blog
https://www.sevarg.net/2024/11/23/propane-fired-charcoal/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-23, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Bluesky is ripe for acquisition by a billionaire. You won't like it when that happens.
https://america2.news/without-sky-social-media-and-the-end-of-reality/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-23, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
"If a billionaire could buy RSS, they probably would have by now."
http://scripting.com/2024/11/22/214100.html
date: 2024-11-23, from: 404 Media Group
This week, we’ll travel to ancient Mars, indulge in record-breaking “nanopasta,” check out nature’s version of fiber optic cables, and behold a galactic jellyfish.
https://www.404media.co/nanopasta-is-200-times-smaller-than-human-hair-3/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-23, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Douglas Rushkoff, one of my favorite people in the world, is interviewed on the On The Media podcast this week.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-23, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
I was interviewed by Michael Swaine of Dr Dobbs Journal in 1991, when we were about to ship Frontier. I was in great spirits, ready to take on the world. Quite a document.
https://www.drdobbs.com/calling-apples-bluff/184408623
date: 2024-11-22, from: Liliputing
The Spectra smartwatch features a 1.8 inch, 368 x 448 pixel OLED display, an ESP32-S3 microcontroller, and a custom JavaScript-based operating system called SpectraOS that’s built on the open source Moddable SDK. What makes this watch stand out is that it’s designed to be a hackable and repairable device – you can open the watch […]
The post Pocuter Spectra is a hackable, repairable smartwatch with expandable storage and OLED display (crowdfunding) appeared first on Liliputing.
date: 2024-11-22, from: Liliputing
PC makers have been touting the AI capabilities of PCs for the past year or two, noting that the powerful neural processing units built into the latest Qualcomm, AMD, and Intel processors deliver support for on-device AI capabilities like eye-correction, auto-framing, and enhanced background blur in video calls and the ability to generate text and […]
The post Windows Recall is ready for testing (on select PCs) appeared first on Liliputing.
https://liliputing.com/windows-recall-is-ready-for-testing-on-select-pcs/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-22, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
How lesbian escort agencies became a form of self-care in Japan.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-22, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Why Is Everyone Calling It a Landslide? Because the Democrats went off-the-air on Election Day, as always. They’re on holiday.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/11/22/trump-win-popular-vote-below-50-percent-00190793
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-22, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber says X rival is 'billionaire proof.” #hmmm
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/21/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-says-x-rival-is-billionaire-proof.html
date: 2024-11-22, from: Michael Tsai
Jason Snell (tweet, Macworld, podcast): To a kid growing up in the 1980s, the idea that the maker of your computer would actively stop you from using software it didn’t approve of would have seemed beyond the pale. It certainly would’ve been a deal-breaker. And yet so many of today’s computing devices are locked down—for […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/22/the-app-store-era-must-end/
date: 2024-11-22, from: Michael Tsai
Sara Fischer: Apple has started selling its own advertising inventory for Apple News, two sources familiar with the effort told Axios. It’s pitching new ad units that it hopes will maximize revenue for itself and its publishing partners.[…]Beginning next year, Apple will sell premium sponsorships of editorially curated content for relevant events, such as the […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/22/apple-directly-selling-apple-news-ads/
date: 2024-11-22, from: Michael Tsai
Timothy Geigner: But it just doesn’t have to be like this. Companies could be willing to give up their iron-fisted control over their IP for these older games they aren’t willing to support or preserve themselves and let others do it for them. And if you need a real world example of that, you need […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/22/unreal-on-internet-archive/
date: 2024-11-22, from: Michael Tsai
Tim Hardwick: With the introduction of Apple Intelligence in iOS 18.1, communicating with Siri has become more flexible since you can easily type your requests instead of speaking them. It’s a subtle but powerful change that’s perfect for those moments when you need to be quiet or [discreet].Enabling Type to Siri is straightforward. Head to […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/22/type-to-siri/
date: 2024-11-22, from: Liliputing
The ASRock Mars RPL line of computers are small desktop PCs that measure 194 x 150 x 26mm (7.64″ x 5.91″ x 1.02″) and have an internal volume of 0.7 liters. Available with either a 12th-gen Intel Celeron 7305 Alder Lake or 13th-gen Core i5-1335U Raptor Lake processor, the little computers may not have the latest […]
The post ASRock Mars RPL is a small PC with Thunderbolt 4, support for up to four displays, and up to a Core i5-1355U processor appeared first on Liliputing.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-22, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
How decentralized is Bluesky really?
https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/
@Chris Coyier blog (date: 2024-11-22, from: Chris Coyier blog)
Manuel Moreale: Sometimes I spot posts like Chris’ Media Diet in my RSS feed and I’m always amazed by the fact the people manage to keep up with movies and TV series and the rest of the media landscape. I can totally see how someone posting a post like mine makes it feel like I just bathe […]
https://chriscoyier.net/2024/11/22/11767/
date: 2024-11-22, 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 conjuring gaming memories, AI-generated Birkin bags, and a rejection of a certain type of criticism.
https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-world-of-warcraft-kesha-pokemon-go/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-22, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
BloggerCon: The Rule of Links. (2003)
http://scripting.com/scripting/manila/bloggerCon/ruleoflinks.html
date: 2024-11-22, from: 404 Media Group
The truck thieves also stole trucks hauling electronics from Microsoft and Logitech.
https://www.404media.co/crooks-allegedly-stole-truck-full-of-1-5-million-of-oculus-headsets/
date: 2024-11-22, from: Dave Karpf’s blog
Some early notes on political resistance in Trump’s second term.
https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/charting-the-path-forward-some-things
@Chris Coyier blog (date: 2024-11-22, from: Chris Coyier blog)
The Jaguar rebrand is a head turner. I don’t care enough to weigh in, I just literally cannot see letter-spaced lowercase characters without thinking of Frederic Goudy. Any man who would letterspace lowercase would screw sheep.
https://chriscoyier.net/2024/11/22/11763/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-22, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Anthropic raises an additional $4B from Amazon, makes AWS is 'primary' cloud partner.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-22, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
"Women have fought and killed men in combat throughout history, as customs and technology permitted."
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-22, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
I ordered a new 15-inch MacBook Air with M3 chip, arriving on Monday. I'm going to be doing all my work in Electric Drummer on that machine. Wish me luck.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-22, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Most of the people Trump is appointing are actors. When it comes time to make things happen they’ll find there’s a difference between acting and doing.
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/george-c-scott-as-patton-bettmann.html
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-22, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
The great FCUK scene from The Wire with Bunk and McNulty.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PNVEQgXsBgs
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-22, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
It’s snowing at Belleayre, our local ski area.
https://www.belleayre.com/mountain/web-cams/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-22, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
A Good Country’s Bad Choice.
date: 2024-11-22, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
Introducing the second edition of The Official Raspberry Pi Camera Module Guide, authored by Raspberry Pi engineer David Plowman.
The post The Official Raspberry Pi Camera Module Guide out now: build amazing vision-based projects appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-22, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Americans elected Biden in the midst of crisis. Instead of understanding that, Democrats went back to brunch.
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/brunch-interrupted
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-22, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Safely Publish to Web from Google Docs with Pantheon Content Publisher.
https://pantheon.io/blog/introducing-pantheon-content-publisher
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-22, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
An ad giant wants to control your next TV’s OS.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/11/an-ad-giant-wants-to-control-your-next-tvs-operating-system/
date: 2024-11-22, from: Playdate Blog
Hey, friends!! There’s always a lot going on with Playdate here at Panic, but lately it feels like even more than usual… so we’ve put together a little news update for you. Let’s go!
https://news.play.date/news/nov-2024/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-22, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani wins third MVP award, joining AL winner Aaron Judge.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/nov/21/shohei-ohtani-aaron-judge-mvp-awards
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-22, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
2011: The world is socialist.
http://scripting.com/stories/2011/01/01/theWorldIsSocialist.html
date: 2024-11-22, updated: 2024-11-22, from: Tink’s blog
https://tink.uk/slow-cooker-french-onion-soup-with-cheese-toasts/
date: 2024-11-21, from: Liliputing
The US Department of Justice wants to break up Google. After launching to horrible reviews earlier this year, the Rabbit R1 is getting a little more useful through software updates. Pine64 stuck a 2MP camera on the end of a tiny computer with a RISC-V and ARM processor. And Google may be done with tablets… […]
The post Lilbits: Google without Chrome, Rabbit R1 gets (a little) more useful, and Pine64’s new camera appeared first on Liliputing.
date: 2024-11-21, from: Liliputing
Most modern laptops have some sort of volume control buttons. Usually these are a set of Fn keys on the keyboard, but convertible laptops with screens that can flip around for use in tablet mode often have volume buttons on the side. But adjusting audio volume with buttons can be a finnicky experience that requires […]
The post SoundSlide is an open source capacitive volume slider your laptop’s USB-C port appeared first on Liliputing.
date: 2024-11-21, from: Michael Tsai
EagleFiler 1.9.16 is a maintenance release of my Mac files/notes/e-mail manager. This version improves the formatting of community notes and quote tweets when importing from X/Twitter and includes a bunch of other fixes (e.g. for the help viewer) along the lines of what was in SpamSieve 3.1. I had left in support for Growl, even […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/21/eaglefiler-1-9-16/
date: 2024-11-21, from: Michael Tsai
Rich Trouton: SAP has released a new major version of their open source Privileges app. This tool provides macOS standard user accounts with a way to request administrator rights. Privileges 2.x includes a number of new features not available in Privileges 1.x and in particular fulfills two particular long-standing requests from its user community:It provides […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/21/privileges-2-0/
date: 2024-11-21, from: Michael Tsai
Curtis Herbert et al.: As of this season, Slopes is a team of seven full-time employees, two contractors, two interns, and me. 🤯 Everything you’ve seen in Slopes over the past few years around interactive resort maps is the kind of feature only an amazing team can pull off. I thought it’d be cool to […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/21/slopes-interactive-maps/
date: 2024-11-21, from: Michael Tsai
Josh Aas (in 2014, via Hacker News): For many server operators, getting even a basic server certificate is just too much of a hassle. The application process can be confusing. It usually costs money. It’s tricky to install correctly. It’s a pain to update.Let’s Encrypt is a new free certificate authority, built on a foundation […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/21/lets-encrypt-is-10/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-21, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
WordPress.com owner Automattic snaps up grammar checker Harper.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/21/wordpress-com-owner-automattic-snaps-up-grammar-checker-harper/
date: 2024-11-21, from: The Markup blog
President-elect Trump has vowed to rescind an executive order that imposed AI safeguards, and could use tech to enable mass deportations. How far will California go in the other direction?
date: 2024-11-21, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
This handy tutorial will get you started on Python, which comes pre-installed on Raspberry Pi OS.
The post Using Python with virtual environments | The MagPi #148 appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/using-python-with-virtual-environments-the-magpi-148/
@Robert’s feed at BlueSky (date: 2024-11-21, from: Robert’s feed at BlueSky)
@scripting.com hit the nail on the head with this one. http://scripting.com/2024/11/21/143547.html?title=thereAreNoMoreGotchas
https://bsky.app/profile/rsdoiel.bsky.social/post/3lbhx6qizb22a
date: 2024-11-21, from: Computer ads from the Past
Joystick Stabilizer Support & Score Enhancer
https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/the-grand-stand
date: 2024-11-21, from: 404 Media Group
Playlists and “podcast” episode descriptions are hiding malware and piracy sites in plain sight on the streaming platform.
https://www.404media.co/spotify-pirated-software-free-download-license-key-cracks/
date: 2024-11-21, from: Liliputing
Mini PCs may be small computers that don’t take up a lot of space on your desk. But some models ship with rather large power adapters, which kind of ruins the effect by taking up a fair amount of space below your desk (or wherever you run the power cables). A handful of mini PC makers […]
The post Maxtang MAX-N100 is an Intel N100 mini PC with an integrated power supply appeared first on Liliputing.
https://liliputing.com/maxtang-max-n100-is-an-intel-n100-mini-pc-with-an-integrated-power-supply/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-21, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Musk Still Defends Twitter Trademark After Aggressive Rebrand. (Not really surprising but why?)
https://www.mandourlaw.com/twitter-trademark-defense-but-his-tweets/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-21, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
The next Timothy Snyder piece about Handmaid's Tale.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-21, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
The Reason Public Bathroom Stalls Have Gaps.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/642735/reason-public-bathroom-stalls-have-gaps
date: 2024-11-21, from: 404 Media Group
A small tech company called Cape has been selling a privacy-focused cellphone service to the U.S. military. Now Cape will be offering its product to high-risk members of the public.
https://www.404media.co/i-dont-own-a-cellphone-can-this-privacy-focused-network-change-that/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-21, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
I have been to places where the bathrooms aren't gender-specific, and somehow we all did our business without freaking out.
https://bsky.app/profile/adamkinzinger.bsky.social/post/3lbhldmmcr22b
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-21, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Three years ago today: "I haven't felt this way about driving since I was a teenager with a new license." The object of my praise was my Tesla Model 3. I have since traded it for a Model Y (more headroom) and I still consider it a privilege to drive such a fine car.
http://scripting.com/2021/11/21.html
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-21, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Speak for America, Democrats.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/speak-for-america-democrats-biden-stand-up-trump-transition
date: 2024-11-21, updated: 2024-11-21, from: Deno blog
Deno 2.1 introduces first-class Wasm imports, built-in tracing with
OpenTelemetry, faster deno compile, and improved package
management.
@Tomosino’s Mastodon feed (date: 2024-11-21, from: Tomosino’s Mastodon feed)
It really doesn’t reflect well on us as a technical society that we have allowed printers to continue to be so aggressively noncompliant for over 71 years
https://tilde.zone/@tomasino/113518451233785373
date: 2024-11-21, updated: 2024-11-21, from: nlnet feed
https://nlnet.nl/news/2024/20241121-CfP-Fosdem.html
date: 2024-11-21, updated: 2024-11-21, from: Tom Kellog blog
A year ago I wrote a post called LLMs Are Interpretable. The gist is that LLMs were the closest thing to “interpretable machine learning” that we’ve seen from ML so far. Today, I think it’s fair to say that LRMs (Large Reasoning Models) are even more interpretable.
http://timkellogg.me/blog/2024/11/21/lrms-are-interpretable
date: 2024-11-21, from: Robert’s Ramblings
A brief discussion of using the Deno emit module to transpile and bundle TypeScript.
https://rsdoiel.github.io/blog/2024/11/21/transpiling-and-bundling-with-emit.html
@Robert’s feed at BlueSky (date: 2024-11-20, from: Robert’s feed at BlueSky)
In 2008 Crockford release “JavaScript the Good Parts”. I wrote JavaScript then.
Today I find myself writing TypeScript using Deno.
I wish their was a “Good Parts” around for today.
Legacy habits are hard to unlearn.
https://bsky.app/profile/rsdoiel.bsky.social/post/3lbg55nzrds2m
date: 2024-11-20, from: Chris Coyier blog
https://chriscoyier.net/2024/11/20/media-diet-4/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-20, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Why doesn't President Biden use the FBI to vet Trump's cabinet nominees?
https://politicalwire.com/2024/11/20/trump-set-to-skip-fbi-vetting-for-cabinet-nominees/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-20, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Whoever ends up owning Chrome, we could use a new browser war.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91231751/google-chrome-sale-department-of-justice-browser-war
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-20, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
The Repubs have Twitter. The Dems need their own. That's impossible, any time soon, but at least let's get started. I did a podcast yesterday about how to bootstrap it. The answer – let's restart kamalahq asap.
https://shownotes.scripting.com/scripting/2024/11/19/weFoundTheKamalahqTeam.html
date: 2024-11-20, from: Michael Tsai
SpamSieve 3.1 improves the accuracy of my Mac e-mail spam filter, amongst many other enhancements. Some interesting issues were: NSHelpManager seems to be broken under Sequoia in that sometimes you have to click a help link multiple times for it to open the right page—until then it just opens the main help book page (FB15763353). […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/20/spamsieve-3-1/
date: 2024-11-20, from: Michael Tsai
Overcast: The price change goes into effect tomorrow (November 21). Premium is going from $9.99 to $14.99, the first price increase since it was introduced 8 years ago. Chance Miller: The new 48-hour listening history feature builds upon the undo seek feature that Overcast introduced earlier this year.48-hour History and Undo: Accidentally seek too far, […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/20/overcast-2024-11-1/
date: 2024-11-20, from: Michael Tsai
Collin Donnell: The only apps I know about that have added them for both macOS and iOS are Reminders and Notes, although I’ve found the implementation of them to be a bit weird. In both of those, you can’t add sub-conditions, so you can say all or any of a list of conditions, but you […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/20/why-cant-ios-have-smart-folders/
date: 2024-11-20, from: Michael Tsai
New Mac app from Bjango (Mastodon): Convert between color formats and color spaces. Automate color contrast testing. Create beautiful gradients and palettes. […] Pinwheel imports Design Tokens JSON, Figma documents, Sketch documents, CSS, asset catalogs, and other file types. Once you’ve finished making adjustments, automated exporting can be set up to simultaneously export in multiple […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/20/pinwheel-1-0/
date: 2024-11-20, from: Liliputing
The first Windows laptops to ship with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Plus and Snapdragon X Elite chips sold for $1,000 and up when they first hit the streets earlier this year. But in September Qualcomm introduced a new a lower-cost (and lower performance) chip designed for laptops with prices starting as low as $700. Now the […]
The post Qualcomm plans to bring Snapdragon chips to $600 laptops appeared first on Liliputing.
https://liliputing.com/qualcomm-plans-to-bring-snapdragon-chips-to-600-laptops/
date: 2024-11-20, from: Liliputing
The ESP32 Rainbow is a small computer with a built-in touch keyboard, an integrated display, and a design that’s inspired by the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, with a keyboard layout and rainbow stripe that should look familiar to fans of the classic computer that was released more than four decades ago. But this is also a modern […]
The post ESP32 Rainbow is an homage to the ZX Spectrum with an integrated display (crowdfunding) appeared first on Liliputing.
date: 2024-11-20, from: Liliputing
The DS Pixel Keyboard is a customizable keyboard that uses a 14 inch, 3840 x 1100 pixel IPS LCD touchscreen display as its input surface. This allows you to use configure custom keyboard layouts, change languages, or use the “keyboard” as a different form of input device for audio or video editing, creating graphics, and […]
The post DS Pixel Keyboard is also a touchscreen display with removable keycaps (crowdfunding) appeared first on Liliputing.
date: 2024-11-20, from: Liliputing
The Beelink EQ14 is a small desktop computer with two Ethernet ports, an integrated power supply, and support for up to two SSDs. It’s also the second mini PC announced to date that will be available with an Intel N150 processor, a follow-up to the popular Intel N100 Alder Lake-N chip that powers many budget laptops […]
The post Beelink EQ14 mini PC is powered by an unannounced Intel N150 processor appeared first on Liliputing.
https://liliputing.com/beelink-eq14-mini-pc-is-powered-by-an-unannounced-intel-n150-processor/
date: 2024-11-20, from: System76 Blog
An interview with System76 Product Manager and Mechanical Engineer
https://blog.system76.com/post/engineering-thelio-astra-arm-powered-desktop
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-20, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Josseli Barnica Died in Texas After Waiting 40 Hours for Miscarriage Care.
https://www.propublica.org/article/josseli-barnica-death-miscarriage-texas-abortion-ban
date: 2024-11-20, from: Liliputing
Amazon’s Echo line of products began with smart speakers and eventually evolved to include smart displays that added a small screen that could present visual information. As Amazon has more features, the lines between smart displays, TVs, and tablets has become a bit blurry. Now it’s blurrier than ever: the new Amazon Echo Show 21 […]
The post Amazon Echo Show 21 blurs the lines between smart displays and TVs appeared first on Liliputing.
https://liliputing.com/amazon-echo-show-21-blurs-the-lines-between-smart-displays-and-tvs/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-20, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
2023: Twitter now requires users to sign in to view tweets. (I did not know this.)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-now-needs-users-sign-view-tweets-2023-06-30/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-20, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
It's noteworthy that we haven't seen many outages as Bluesky scales. On Twitter they had fail whales for years
http://scripting.com/2024/11/20.html#a143612
date: 2024-11-20, from: Kilian Valkhof’s blog
CSS got a new logo! After well over a decade of using the “CSS3” badge, there’s now a new CSS logo that fits nicely next to the JS, TS and friends logo’s. CSS Logo A purple square with rounded corners and the letters CSS inside in white And here it is among friends: Looks pretty […]
The post An outline version of the new CSS logo first appeared on Kilian Valkhof.
https://kilianvalkhof.com/2024/css-html/an-outline-version-of-the-new-css-logo/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-20, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Timothy Snyder on the Handmaid's Tale.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-20, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
2009: RSS has no Fail Whale. (This was an important point, still is.)
http://scripting.com/stories/2009/09/05/rssHasNoFailWhale.html
date: 2024-11-20, updated: 2024-11-20, from: One Foot Tsunami
https://onefoottsunami.com/2024/11/20/where-we-go-from-here-2024/
date: 2024-11-20, from: 404 Media Group
We chat Buzzfeed’s AI-powered ads, a big Graykey leak, and the wave of publishers making deals with AI companies.
https://www.404media.co/podcast-buzzfeeds-ai-ads-are-a-disaster/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-20, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Texas offers border ranch to Trump for mass deportation plan.
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/11/19/texas-border-starr-county-ranch-trump-deportation/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-20, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
2021: “it should be possible to hook your writing tool directly to both WordPress and Substack.”
http://scripting.com/2021/04/06/150554.html?title=copypastetopublish
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-20, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Trump, Musk solidify bond with Texas trip for Starship rocket launch.
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-elon-musk-rocket-launch-3dc51e98b9cc06718839ea4116b59e33
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-20, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
The 17 Best Ski Resorts Near NYC.
https://www.purewow.com/travel/best-ski-resorts-near-nyc
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-20, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Calling your blog a substack seems like a minor thing. What’s really offensive is that Substack makes you use their cheesy editor. Instead they could support inbound RSS and trust their users, and thus be powerful.
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045678-for-the-love-of-god
date: 2024-11-20, from: 404 Media Group
AI-generated influencers that steal content from human models and adult content creators have taken over Instagram.
https://www.404media.co/inside-the-booming-ai-pimping-industry-3/
date: 2024-11-20, updated: 2024-11-20, from: Chaos Computer Club Updates
Überwachungswerbung missachtet die Privatsphäre und die informationelle Selbstbestimmung. Die neue EU-Kommission soll mit dem angekündigten Digital Fairness Act ein Verbot von personalisierter Werbung auf den Weg bringen.
https://www.ccc.de/de/updates/2024/tracking-verbot
date: 2024-11-20, from: Tedium site
Our technology should be good enough to work across operating systems now. The best way to test that is by using literally every platform. Which is what I plan to do.
https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/16891536/operating-system-floater-manifesto
date: 2024-11-20, from: Robert’s Ramblings
Quick notes on some low voltage issues I ran into with my Raspberry Pi 4 and 400 using the stock power supply with thumb drives.
https://rsdoiel.github.io/blog/2024/11/20/power-supply-issues.html
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-19, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Trump nominee for Secretary of Space.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
date: 2024-11-19, from: Liliputing
Casio has been making digital wristwatches for half a century. But one of the company’s newest models is way too small to wear on your wrist – it’s basically a ring that looks (and functions) like a digital watch, complete with a display, stopwatch, and alarm functionality. The Casio CRW-001-1JG will be available in Japan […]
The post Lilbits: Handhelds, single-board PCs, and Casio makes a wristwatch… for your finger appeared first on Liliputing.
date: 2024-11-19, from: Accidentally in Code
Exciting news, the audio book of The Engineering Leader is out! Available on Amazon or wherever you buy audio books.
https://cate.blog/2024/11/19/audio-book-now-available/
date: 2024-11-19, from: Liliputing
Google recently announced plans for two major Android updates in 2025 as part of an effort to better align its big operating system updates with the release schedules favored by phone makers. The first will be a major update that brings new behavior changes as well as new developer APIs, while the second will focus […]
The post Google releases Android 16 Developer Preview 1 as part of an accelerated schedule appeared first on Liliputing.
date: 2024-11-19, from: Michael Tsai
Juli Clover (Hacker News, 9To5Google): The United States Department of Justice wants Google to sell off its Chrome browser as part of an ongoing antitrust lawsuit, reports Bloomberg. Earlier this year, Google was found to have a search monopoly, and antitrust regulators have since been deciding on the actions that should be taken to address […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/19/doj-wants-google-to-sell-chrome-and-de-google-android/
date: 2024-11-19, from: Michael Tsai
Ron Elemans (Mastodon): Sidebar filters, or ‘Smart folders’ as Apple likes to call them, are now fully customizable. You can add as many filters as you like, and they are all synced across all your devices. […] Article comments are automatically downloaded and displayed in the Inspector panel when the article has a comment feed, […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/19/news-explorer-2-0/
date: 2024-11-19, from: Michael Tsai
Juli Clover (release notes, security, no enterprise, no developer, full installer, IPSW): According to Apple’s release notes, macOS Sequoia 15.1.1 includes security fixes. Juli Clover: With the JavaScriptCore vulnerability, processing maliciously crafted web content could lead to arbitrary code execution. The WebKit vulnerability had the same issue with maliciously crafted web content, and it could […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/19/macos-15-1-1/
date: 2024-11-19, from: Michael Tsai
Juli Clover (no iOS/iPadOS release notes, security, no enterprise, no developer): According to Apple’s release notes, the iOS 18.1.1 update provides important security fixes. Previously: iOS 18.1 and iPadOS 18.1
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/19/ios-18-1-1-and-ipados-18-1-1/
date: 2024-11-19, from: Michael Tsai
Juli Clover (no release notes, no developer, security, no enterprise): Today’s update focuses on security fixes rather than new features, and it is recommended for all Vision Pro users. Previously: visionOS 2.1
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/19/visionos-2-1-1/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-19, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Lauren Kapp was one of the creative geniuses behind @kamalahq. We need to get her back on the air, with her team, fully funded and supported. We need leadership on the social web.
https://www.tiktok.com/@laurenavakapp/video/7438709769982004522?_r=1&_t=8rX2KTUWMdL
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-19, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
US justice department plans to push Google to sell off Chrome browser. I like this a lot. And make sure the browser company understands that all they do is make a browser, one of many.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/19/us-doj-sell-chrome-browser-ai-android
date: 2024-11-19, from: Liliputing
Chinese mini PC maker AOOSTAR has launched a tiny computer that measures just 89 x 89 x 41.5mm (3.5″ x 3.5″ x 1.63″), but which packs a lot of functionality into its compact body. The computer features an Intel N100 quad-core processor, 12GB of LPDDR5 memory, and user replaceable storage. It also has a decent […]
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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-19, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Truth Social investors hoped to get ‘very rich’ after Trump’s win.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-19, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
"…a layer cake of corruption and it’s taking place in broad daylight"
https://politicalwire.com/2024/11/19/america-is-a-banana-republic-now/
@IIIF Mastodon feed (date: 2024-11-19, from: IIIF Mastodon feed)
The Call for Proposals for the 2025 #IIIF Annual Conference is now OPEN!
Read the full call, including themes and submitting guidance, here: https://iiif.io/event/2025/leeds/cfp/
https://glammr.us/@IIIF/113511177780827164
date: 2024-11-19, from: National Archives, Text Message blog
In the early 1970s, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) undertook a covert operation, code-named AZORIAN, to raise a sunken Soviet submarine 16,500 feet from the floor of the Pacific Ocean using a commercial vessel known as the Glomar Explorer. The effort was only partially successful. When word of the mission eventually leaked out, the CIA … Continue reading “Neither Confirm Nor Deny” Before the Glomar Explorer
date: 2024-11-19, from: Gary Marcus blog
A new AI study is making the rounds, claiming that ChatGPT can write poetry that is “indistinguishable” from William Shakespeare.
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/on-hype-and-the-unbearable-banality
date: 2024-11-19, from: 404 Media Group
The non-profit, university press asked its authors for input on how they’d prefer to see any hypothetical AI training deals handled, and plans to base future decisions on what they say, MIT Press told 404 Media.
https://www.404media.co/mit-press-ai-training-on-books/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-19, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Trump’s Coalition Is Not Politically Stable.
https://politicalwire.com/2024/11/19/trumps-coalition-is-not-politically-stable/
date: 2024-11-19, from: Liliputing
Nearly a decade after launching the first UP Board single-board computer with a Raspberry Pi-like form factor and an Intel x86 processor, AAEON has expanded the UP Board lineup with a number of different boards in different sizes, shapes, and performance capacities. The new UP 710S is a return to roots in some ways: like the original […]
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date: 2024-11-19, from: 404 Media Group
Niantic says it is using data generated by Pokémon Go players to create a “Large Geospatial Model” that can navigate the real world and power robots.
https://www.404media.co/pokemon-go-players-have-unwittingly-trained-ai-to-navigate-the-world/
date: 2024-11-19, from: 404 Media Group
“The text on the top needs effects as well … shining … blood spots or a line surrounding it, etc.”
https://www.404media.co/graphic-design-for-isis-is-his-passion-fbi-alleges-in-filing/
date: 2024-11-19, from: 404 Media Group
The documents provide never-been-seen insight into the current cat-and-mouse game between forensics companies and phone manufacturers Apple and Google.
https://www.404media.co/leaked-documents-show-what-phones-secretive-tech-graykey-can-unlock-2/
date: 2024-11-19, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
Explore different models and AI capabilities in order to build applications on top of the Raspberry Pi AI Camera.
The post Bringing real-time edge AI applications to developers appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/bringing-real-time-edge-ai-applications-to-developers/
date: 2024-11-19, updated: 2024-11-19, from: Deno blog
Learn how to build a typesafe API with tRPC and Deno.
https://deno.com/blog/build-typesafe-apis-trpc
date: 2024-11-19, from: O’Reilly Radar
One popular term encountered in generative AI practice is retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Reasons for using RAG are clear: large language models (LLMs), which are effectively syntax engines, tend to “hallucinate” by inventing answers from pieces of their training data. The haphazard results may be entertaining, although not quite based in fact. RAG provides a way […]
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/unbundling-the-graph-in-graphrag/
date: 2024-11-19, from: Liliputing
Asus has been selling smartphones for gamers under the ROG Phone brand since 2018. But the new ROG Phone 9 isn’t just the most powerful to date, it also plays with the idea of gaming phones in a new way. The new ROG Phone 9 and ROG Phone 9 Pro are both phones with Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite processors […]
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date: 2024-11-19, updated: 2024-11-19, from: Anil Dash