News gathered 2024-11-22

(date: 2024-12-02 11:56:46)


ChatGPT, at Age Two

date: 2024-11-28, from: Gary Marcus blog

The bullshit just keeps on coming.


https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/chatgpt-at-age-two


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-28, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Musk accuses Trump whistleblower Vindman of ‘treason,’ says ‘he will pay.’


https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5012743-musk-accuses-trump-whistleblower-vindman-of-treason-says-he-will-pay/


date: 2024-11-28, from: National Archives, Text Message blog

In 1941, a Joint Resolution of Congress established that Thanksgiving be observed on the fourth Thursday of each month.  There are a number of properties on the National Register of Historic Places that are related to the American holiday devoted to turkey, football, and all the trimmings.  In New York City, Thanksgiving starts with the … Continue reading We Gather Together – Thanksgiving Related Properties in the National Register of Historic Places


https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2024/11/28/we-gather-together-thanksgiving-related-properties-in-the-national-register-of-historic-places/


Black Friday Mobile Tech Deals 2024: Laptops, tablets, smartphones, mini PCs, and more

date: 2024-11-28, from: Liliputing

It feels like Black Friday has been with us all month, but the unofficial start to the holiday shopping season officially kicks off on Friday, November 29th… with many of the best deals having already gone live some days before. While some of the “deals” are certainly better than others, you can save money on […]

The post Black Friday Mobile Tech Deals 2024: Laptops, tablets, smartphones, mini PCs, and more appeared first on Liliputing.


https://liliputing.com/black-friday-mobile-tech-deals-2024/


The Redbox Removal Team

date: 2024-11-28, from: 404 Media Group

Redbox left 24,000 abandoned DVD rental kiosks. These are some of the people recovering them.


https://www.404media.co/the-redbox-removal-team/


Waiting for My Asteroid to Come In

date: 2024-11-28, updated: 2024-11-28, from: One Foot Tsunami


https://onefoottsunami.com/2024/11/28/waiting-for-my-asteroid-to-come-in/


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-28, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

A longish post that fits on WordPress.


https://daveverse.wordpress.com/2024/11/28/489/


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-28, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

I’ve always felt that tech was science before it was art and politics.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-28, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

If you want to win, create an internet farm system.


http://scripting.com/2024/11/28/153349.html


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-28, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

The RSS-based podcast industry just hasn’t been moving and if we don’t add features, improve the tech with new features for creators and users, then we deserve what we get.


https://x.com/davewiner/status/1861952003418853659


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-28, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

WeSQL sounds interesting.


https://wesql.io/


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-28, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

The Hidden Risks of YouTube and Spotify That The Suck-Up Podcast Bros on LinkedIn Won't Admit.


https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hidden-risks-youtube-spotify-suck-up-podcast-bros-linkedin-veglio-2wqve/


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-28, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Silo season 2 is pretty great so far, two episodes in.


https://www.metacritic.com/tv/silo/


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-28, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

The Secret Recordings Netanyahu Wants Censored.


https://www.levernews.com/the-secret-recordings-netanyahu-wants-censored/


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-28, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Marc Andreessen goes full MAGA on Joe Rogan's podcast.


https://sfstandard.com/2024/11/27/marc-andreessen-joe-rogan-trump-maga-silicon-valley/


About Me

date: 2024-11-28, from: Specbranch blog

My name is Nima Badizadegan, a software and hardware developer in the Northeastern United States. I am passionate about building computer systems to solve problems, and I like to examine the underlying assumptions of computer systems, from hardware to numerics, to build systems with durable advantages in their field. I am currently working on a startup, Aimcast that connects employees to corporate content when they need it before they know they need it.


https://specbranch.com/about/


GPD G1 Review: Compact AMD Radeon RX 7600M XT GPU gives your PC a graphics boost

date: 2024-11-27, from: Liliputing

The GPD G1 is a small, portable and self-contained external GPU. Comprised of an AMD Radeon RX 7600M XT mobile graphic card together with an inbuilt 240 watt power supply, the GPD G1 offers both OCuLink or USB4 ports for connection to a host computer, allowing you to bring discrete graphics to a handheld, laptop, […]

The post GPD G1 Review: Compact AMD Radeon RX 7600M XT GPU gives your PC a graphics boost appeared first on Liliputing.


https://liliputing.com/gpd-g1-review-compact-amd-radeon-rx-7600m-xt-gpu-gives-your-pc-a-graphics-boost/


Amazon S3 Adds Put-If-Match (Compare-and-Swap)

date: 2024-11-27, from: Michael Tsai

AWS (via Hacker News): Amazon S3 can now perform conditional writes that evaluate if an object is unmodified before updating it. This helps you coordinate simultaneous writes to the same object and prevents multiple concurrent writers from unintentionally overwriting the object without knowing the state of its content. You can use this capability by providing […]


https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/27/amazon-s3-adds-put-if-match-compare-and-swap/


Unlisted MindNode Classic

date: 2024-11-27, from: Michael Tsai

Markus Müller-Simhofer (via John Gordon): Despite our best efforts, we encountered difficulties bringing our planned changes to MindNode. Providing seamless sync, live collaboration, and other new features was impossible when storing documents as files on disk. We revised our plans and started to develop a new app, “MindNode Next,” that now manages its documents directly […]


https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/27/unlisted-mindnode-classic/


Brazil Rules Against Apple’s Anti-Steering Rules

date: 2024-11-27, from: Michael Tsai

Reuters: Brazilian antitrust regulator Cade said on Monday that Apple must lift restrictions on payment methods for in-app purchases, among other things, as the watchdog moved to proceed with an investigation into a complaint filed by Latin America e-commerce giant MercadoLibre.[…]MercadoLibre’s complaint, filed in 2022 in Brazil and Mexico, accused Apple of imposing a series […]


https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/27/brazil-rules-against-apples-anti-steering-rules/


Daily Deals (11-27-2024)

date: 2024-11-27, from: Liliputing

Black Friday is still a few days away, but retailers stopped paying attention to the calendar years ago, so a whole bunch of Black Friday sales are already live. Whether you’re looking to score savings on streaming video, handheld gaming PCs, Chromebooks, Windows or Mac laptops, or tablets, there are already a bunch of deals […]

The post Daily Deals (11-27-2024) appeared first on Liliputing.


https://liliputing.com/daily-deals-11-27-2024/


Russian Disinformation Campaign Spreads Lies About Ukraine’s ‘Stalker 2’

date: 2024-11-27, from: 404 Media Group

A Russian disinformation operation has set its sights on Stalker 2, which has become a symbol of Ukrainian perseverance.


https://www.404media.co/stalker2-disinformation/


Cognitive scientist Gary Marcus says AI must be regulated. He has a plan.

date: 2024-11-27, from: Gary Marcus blog

Fantastic writeup of my views today at The Wall Street Journal:


https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/cognitive-scientist-gary-marcus-says


You Don’t See Women Winning the Presidency

date: 2024-11-27, updated: 2024-11-27, from: One Foot Tsunami


https://onefoottsunami.com/2024/11/27/you-dont-see-women-winning-the-presidency/


GPD Pocket 4 is an 8.8 inch mini-laptop with up to AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (crowdfunding)

date: 2024-11-27, from: Liliputing

The GPD Pocket 4 is a mini-laptop with an 8.8 inch, 2560 x 1600 pixel, 144 Hz display, support for up to an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 “Strix Point” processor, and a convertible design that lets you twist the screen 180 degrees and fold it down over the keyboard for use in tablet […]

The post GPD Pocket 4 is an 8.8 inch mini-laptop with up to AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (crowdfunding) appeared first on Liliputing.


https://liliputing.com/gpd-pocket-4-will-be-an-8-8-inch-mini-laptop-with-amd-ryzen-ai-300/


Solve Advent of Code 2024 with Deno and Win Prizes!

date: 2024-11-27, updated: 2024-11-27, from: Deno blog

We’re giving out exclusive prizes for using Deno during the Advent of Code 2024. Here’s what you can win.


https://deno.com/blog/advent-of-code-2024


Raspberry Pi CM5 is now available for $45 and up (BCM2712 and up to 16GB of RAM… eventually)

date: 2024-11-27, from: Liliputing

After showing up at a German trade fare earlier this month, the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 is now official. It’s a 55 x 40mm (2.17″ x 1.57″) computer-on-a-module with the same 2.4 GHz Broadcom BC2712 ARM Cortex-A76 quad-core processor as the Raspberry Pi 5. It’s currently available with up to 64GB of eMMC storage […]

The post Raspberry Pi CM5 is now available for $45 and up (BCM2712 and up to 16GB of RAM… eventually) appeared first on Liliputing.


https://liliputing.com/raspberry-pi-cm5-is-now-available-for-45-and-up-bcm2712-and-up-to-16gb-of-ram-eventually/


Are Overemployed ‘Ghost Engineers’ Making Six Figures to Do Nothing?

date: 2024-11-27, from: 404 Media Group

“We have data on the performance of >50k engineers from 100s of companies. ~9.5% of software engineers do virtually nothing: Ghost Engineers.”


https://www.404media.co/are-overemployed-ghost-engineers-making-six-figures-to-do-nothing/


Podcast: Pokémon Go to The Military Industrial Complex

date: 2024-11-27, from: 404 Media Group

Niantic, the company behind Pokémon Go, is building an AI model based on user data; we discuss the rise of AI pimping, and a phone sold the U.S. military is expanding to the public.


https://www.404media.co/podcast-pokemon-go-to-the-military-industrial-complex/


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-27, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Oliver Willis has started Breaking News USA.


https://breakingnewsusa.com/


Compute Module 5 on sale now from $45

date: 2024-11-27, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)

The modular version of Raspberry Pi 5 is available now from just $45: an ideal form factor for embedded products.

The post Compute Module 5 on sale now from $45 appeared first on Raspberry Pi.


https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/compute-module-5-on-sale-now/


Powering industrial innovation: Compute Module 5 meets Revolution Pi

date: 2024-11-27, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)

Revolution Pi’s latest flexible industrial device, RevPi Connect 5, takes advantage of the brand-new Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5.

The post Powering industrial innovation: Compute Module 5 meets Revolution Pi appeared first on Raspberry Pi.


https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/powering-industrial-innovation-compute-module-5-meets-revolution-pi/


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-27, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

2010: “For Twitter, doing good would mean decentralizing, not making every tweet flow through their servers.”


http://scripting.com/stories/2010/03/15/twitterAsAForceForGood.html


Safety and stability

date: 2024-11-27, updated: 2024-11-27, from: Robin Rendle Essays


https://robinrendle.com/notes/safety-and-stability/


@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/


Someone Made a Dataset of One Million Bluesky Posts for ‘Machine Learning Research’

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. 


https://www.404media.co/someone-made-a-dataset-of-one-million-bluesky-posts-for-machine-learning-research/


Lilbits: Handheld gaming roundup, plus Huawei’s first phones with a fully Android-free OS

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.


https://liliputing.com/lilbits-handheld-gaming-roundup-plus-huaweis-first-phones-with-a-fully-android-free-os/


@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


First handheld gaming PC with AMD Strix Point and a 144 Hz OLED display is now available

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.


https://liliputing.com/first-handheld-gaming-pc-with-amd-strix-point-and-a-144-hz-oled-display-goes-up-for-pre-order/


Update re: Microsoft and training data

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


This handheld gaming PC has an 11 inch, glasses-free 3D display and Intel Lunar Lake

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.


https://liliputing.com/this-handheld-gaming-pc-has-an-11-inch-glasses-free-3d-display-and-intel-lunar-lake/


X’s Objection to the Onion Buying InfoWars Is a Reminder You Do Not Own Your Social Media Accounts

date: 2024-11-26, from: 404 Media Group

“X CORP. OWNS THE X ACCOUNTS.”


https://www.404media.co/xs-objection-to-the-onion-buying-infowars-is-a-reminder-you-do-not-own-your-social-media-accounts/


Watch Out for Counterintuitive Implicit Actor-Isolation

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/


Mini vMac for iOS Rejected via Notarization

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/


App Store Search Queries Appear to Violate Data Minimization Practices

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 […]


https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/26/app-store-search-queries-appear-to-violate-data-minimization-practices/


Apple’s Movie Theater Beef With Hollywood

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/


Raspberry Pi-powered Pilet 5 and Pilet 7 handheld computers coming soon to Kickstarter

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.


https://liliputing.com/raspberry-pi-powered-pilet-5-and-pilet-7-handheld-computers-coming-soon-to-kickstarter/


$876 Million Available for Resilient Transportation Projects!

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 […]


https://infrastructurela.org/876-million-available-for-resilient-transportation-projects-intel29/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=876-million-available-for-resilient-transportation-projects-intel29


@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


OneGx 2 is a handheld gaming PC that’s also a mini-laptop with swappable keyboard layouts

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/


Fragments of a Life: Diego Rivera through the Lens of the FBI

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


https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2024/11/26/fragments-of-a-life-diego-rivera-through-the-lens-of-the-fbi/


PSA: Microsoft may be training on your private data without your knowledge

date: 2024-11-26, from: Gary Marcus blog

The Great Data Heist continues.


https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/psa-microsoft-may-be-training-on


WTF Is Stake, the Online Casino Using Viral Posts to Advertise Its Gambling Site

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/


Raspberry Pi Christmas shopping guide

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/


Teen-Driven Hack Club launches High Seas Coding Challenge

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


Take This Job and Restaff It

date: 2024-11-26, updated: 2024-11-26, from: One Foot Tsunami


https://onefoottsunami.com/2024/11/26/take-this-job-and-restaff-it/


oberon@gitlab.inf.ethz.ch pushed to project branch main at Felix Oliver Friedrich / Oberon A2

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


Steam Removes Oct 7 Game at Request of UK Counter-Terrorism Unit

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


Educating a New Generation of Workers

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/


Starshield: Situational Awareness for the Star Labs StarBook

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/


[Podcast] Your docs are your infrastructure

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/


Science Notes / The Finite Fall

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


Swift Vision: Improving the Approachability of Data-Race Safety

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/


Apple Tends to Do Right by Apps It Acquires

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/


The End of Delicious Library

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


Pokémon Go Data ‘Adding Amplitude to War Is Obviously an Issue,’ Niantic Exec Says

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.


https://www.404media.co/pokemon-go-data-adding-amplitude-to-war-is-obviously-an-issue-niantic-exec-says/


Black Friday 2024: Streaming & Download deals

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


4 mini PCs with Intel N150 chips

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/


Black Friday 2024

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/


Deno v. Oracle: Canceling the JavaScript Trademark

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


Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W is now available for $7 (RP2350 microcontroller plus WiFi 4 and Bluetooth 5.2)

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.


https://liliputing.com/raspberry-pi-pico-2-w-is-now-available-for-7-rp2350-microcontroller-plus-wifi-4-and-bluetooth-5-2/


Operation Bear Claw

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.


https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2024/08/single-quitting-dating-relationships/679460/?gift=f35zZN0v_gDFE8xNwlQAHTGYKS2cQ9yTVAwS9GIZCjg


Tether Has Become a Massive Money Laundering Tool for Mexican Drug Traffickers, Feds Say

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.


https://www.404media.co/tether-has-become-a-massive-money-laundering-tool-for-mexican-drug-traffickers-feds-say/


Pre-federal Thanksgivings

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?


https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-russia-hybrid-war-vladimir-putin-germany-cyberattacks-election-interference/


@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


Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W on sale now at $7

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/


Episode 146 - The Z4

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

download audio/mpeg

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.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/11/24/musk-ramaswamy-doge-trump/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzMyNDI0NDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzMzODA2Nzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MzI0MjQ0MDAsImp0aSI6IjQ3ZmY1ZDBhLWIwMjEtNGUxMC04YzEzLTIyZTNiZDUxNmY2OCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9idXNpbmVzcy8yMDI0LzExLzI0L211c2stcmFtYXN3YW15LWRvZ2UtdHJ1bXAvIn0.Yk_jKsBmM9JFSb4fps1EMuYfb9cxaGDtUIixqEzJnKg


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-25, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

The Democrats on Twitter.


https://x.com/TheDemocrats


@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-25, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Donald Trump Thinks He Won’t Have Enough Power.


https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/opinion/trump-recess-appointments-constitution.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ck4.IXbb.OEuzJH8nQ0CO&smid=url-share


Wasmtime 27.0: Complete Wasm GC support, PyTorch backend, and more

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.


https://web.archive.org/web/20061013230110/http://www.blogtree.com/blogtree.php?blogid=140&PHPSESSID=ad33caee01b59ed780ad0e356100bb75


Corporate Casserole

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


A new AI scaling law shell game?

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


Why I became a Documentation Engineer (and what that even means)

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/


Milk-V Megrez mini ITX board with EIC7700X RISC-V chip now available for $199

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’.


https://wapo.st/3OmQTrN


@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


Getting started with AI: Good enough prompting

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/


Peter Easthope opened issue #155: In Oberon subsystem, Clipboard operations fail. at Felix Oliver Friedrich / Oberon A2

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.


https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/11/sound-of-one-hand-clapping/680699/?gift=f35zZN0v_gDFE8xNwlQAHe0H_bjmS8MJSxlX5OGiN6A&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share


Not Ready For The Camera

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.


https://this.how/trolls/


@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/


Satya Nadella and the three stages of scientific truth

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


Charcoal Experiments #2: Propane Fired Charcoal

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


An Ancient Crystal from the Sahara Reveals a Lost World of Martian Water

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.


https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-hank-green-makes-the-truth-go-viral-plus-the/id73330715?i=1000677963564


@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


Pocuter Spectra is a hackable, repairable smartwatch with expandable storage and OLED display (crowdfunding)

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.


https://liliputing.com/pocuter-spectra-is-a-hackable-repairable-smartwatch-with-expandable-storage-and-oled-display-crowdfunding/


Windows Recall is ready for testing (on select PCs)

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.


https://theconversation.com/for-the-very-first-time-i-really-enjoyed-sex-how-lesbian-escort-agencies-became-a-form-of-self-care-in-japan-242840


@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


The App Store Era Must End

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/


Apple Directly Selling Apple News Ads

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/


Unreal on Internet Archive

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/


Type to Siri

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/


ASRock Mars RPL is a small PC with Thunderbolt 4, support for up to four displays, and up to a Core i5-1355U processor

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.


https://liliputing.com/asrock-mars-rpl-is-a-small-pc-with-thunderbolt-4-support-for-up-to-four-displays-and-up-to-a-core-i5-1355u-processor/


@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/


Behind the Blog: ‘I Reject It!’

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


Crooks Allegedly Stole Truck Full of $1.5 Million of Oculus Headsets

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/


Charting the path forward: Some things that won’t work anymore, and a few that might.

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.


https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/22/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."


https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-crusade-against-america?publication_id=310897&post_id=152008134&isFreemail=true&r=w33x&triedRedirect=true


@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.


https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-air/15-inch-midnight-apple-m3-chip-with-8-core-cpu-and-10-core-gpu-24gb-memory-512gb


@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.


https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/good-country-bad-choice/680743/?gift=f35zZN0v_gDFE8xNwlQAHYBfJ_kuIQW1jXdJTUHp7T0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share


The Official Raspberry Pi Camera Module Guide out now: build amazing vision-based projects

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.


https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/the-official-raspberry-pi-camera-module-guide-out-now-build-amazing-vision-based-projects/


@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/


The Mystery of the Lost Playdates, Some New Merch, and More!

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


Slow cooker french onion soup with cheese toasts

date: 2024-11-22, updated: 2024-11-22, from: Tink’s blog


https://tink.uk/slow-cooker-french-onion-soup-with-cheese-toasts/


Lilbits: Google without Chrome, Rabbit R1 gets (a little) more useful, and Pine64’s new camera

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.


https://liliputing.com/lilbits-google-without-chrome-rabbit-r1-gets-a-little-more-useful-and-pine64s-new-camera/


SoundSlide is an open source capacitive volume slider your laptop’s USB-C port

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.


https://liliputing.com/soundslide-is-an-open-source-capacitive-volume-slider-your-laptops-usb-c-port/


EagleFiler 1.9.16

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/


Privileges 2.0

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/


Slopes Interactive Maps

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/


Let’s Encrypt Is 10

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/


Trump Wants Even Looser AI Guardrails. Why California, Despite Passing Over 20 AI Bills This Year, Might Not Push Back

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?


https://themarkup.org/artificial-intelligence/2024/11/21/trump-wants-even-looser-ai-guardrails-why-california-despite-passing-over-20-ai-bills-this-year-might-not-push-back


Using Python with virtual environments | The MagPi #148

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


The Grand Stand

date: 2024-11-21, from: Computer ads from the Past

Joystick Stabilizer Support & Score Enhancer


https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/the-grand-stand


Spotify Has A Pirated Software Problem

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/


Maxtang MAX-N100 is an Intel N100 mini PC with an integrated power supply

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.


https://snyder.substack.com/p/casting-the-first-stone?publication_id=310897&post_id=151972256&isFreemail=true&r=w33x&triedRedirect=true


@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


I Don’t Own a Cellphone. Can This Privacy-Focused Network Change That?

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


Deno 2.1: Wasm Imports and other enhancements

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.


https://deno.com/blog/v2.1


@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


Call for Participation: Devroom on FOSS Funding at FOSDEM

date: 2024-11-21, updated: 2024-11-21, from: nlnet feed


https://nlnet.nl/news/2024/20241121-CfP-Fosdem.html


LRMs Are Interpretable

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


Transpiling & Bundling with Emit

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