(date: 2024-12-05 07:10:35)
date: 2024-12-05, from: Liliputing
HP is refreshing its line of entry-level Chromebooks and Windows laptops for the education market with six new models including three new Chromebooks and one Windows laptop with Intel N150 and N250 processor options and two new Chromebooks with MediaTek Kompanio 520 processors. The new HP Fortis G1m series models with MediaTek chips should be available later […]
The post HP’s new Fortis laptops and Chromebooks are budget devices for the education market with MediaTek and Intel processor options appeared first on Liliputing.
date: 2024-12-05, from: Authors Union blogs
Authors Alliance is pleased to announce a new project, supported by the Mellon Foundation, to develop an actionable plan for a public-interest book training commons for artificial intelligence. Northeastern University Library will be supporting this project and helping to coordinate its progress. Access to books will play an essential role in how artificial intelligence develops. […]
https://www.authorsalliance.org/2024/12/05/developing-a-public-interest-training-commons-of-books/
date: 2024-12-05, updated: 2024-12-05, from: One Foot Tsunami
https://onefoottsunami.com/2024/12/05/the-earworm-eraser/
date: 2024-12-05, from: Liliputing
SteamOS is a Linux-based operating system designed for gaming. It’s developed by gaming company Valve, and right now the only device that ships with SteamOS pre-installed is Valve’s Steam Deck handheld gaming PC. But Valve has been saying for years that it plans to work with third-party device makers to include the operating system on […]
The post Valve’s new “Powered by SteamOS” guidelines hint that third-party hardware is on the way appeared first on Liliputing.
date: 2024-12-05, from: mrusme blog
“Tokyo, formerly Edo, historically Tokio, and officially the Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital and largest city of Japan. Its metropolitan area is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 million residents. Its metropolitan area is the largest in size and the most populous, with an area of 13,452 square kilometers and its city proper has a population of 13.99 million people. Located at the head of Tokyo Bay, the prefecture forms part of the Kantō region on the central Pacific coast of Japan’s main island of Honshu. Tokyo is the political and economic center of the country, as well as the seat of the Emperor of Japan and the national government.”
https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/travel/japan/tokyo-2024/
date: 2024-12-05, from: Hannah Richie at Substack
While it has lots of benefits, the economics just don’t work.
https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/vertical-farming
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-12-05, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Tesla is launching an Apple Watch app.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-12-04, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Joshua Kinal has a great idea that’s a riff on the idea I wrote up earlier today. A podcast feed that has single episodes of other podcasts, a sampler. I’m going to think about how it could work from a collection standpoint.
https://mastodon.social/@sealfur@indieweb.social/113597046057627680
date: 2024-12-04, from: Infrastructure LA Blog
ECO ’24 ECO ’24: Driving Innovation for a Sustainable Planet ECO, hosted by Larta Institute, is a dynamic, multidisciplinary gathering designed to drive action and solutions for a sustainable planet. By bringing together 200+ startups, investors, philanthropists, community organizations, and government agencies, this event fosters collaboration and sparks innovations to tackle climate […]
date: 2024-12-04, from: Liliputing
The Topton X4H-XL is a compact computer with support for up to an Intel Core i3-N305 Alder Lake-N processor, up to 32GB of RAM, and up to three storage devices. But what really sets it apart from most mini PCs is that this system is made for networking. It has two 10 GbE SFP+ optical ports and […]
The post This Alder Lake-N mini PC has two 10 GbE and two 2.5 GbE LAN ports appeared first on Liliputing.
https://liliputing.com/this-alder-lake-n-mini-pc-has-two-10-gbe-and-two-2-5-gbe-lan-ports/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-12-04, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Carville says Tucker Carlson is pulling the strings in the Trump nominations.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-12-04, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Threads takes an important baby step toward true fediverse integration.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-12-04, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
David Frum: "It is an ominous sign that Morning Joe felt it had to apologize for something I said on air."
date: 2024-12-04, from: Mozilla Developer Network blog
Mozilla and Filament have introduced Uniffi for React Native, a tool that allows developers to leverage the safety and performance benefits of Rust in cross-platform React Native apps.
The post Introducing Uniffi for React Native: Rust-Powered Turbo Modules appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2024/12/introducing-uniffi-for-react-native-rust-powered-turbo-modules/
date: 2024-12-04, from: Michael Tsai
Barry Schwartz: When you are browsing a web page in the Google App native browser, Google can “extract interesting entities from the webpage and highlight them in line.” When you click on them, Google takes you to more search results.I don’t think this is a new feature, I mean, I’ve heard of this before from […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/12/04/google-page-annotation-links/
date: 2024-12-04, from: Michael Tsai
Balazs Varkonyi: Added Smart Folder Actions, enabling matching items in a smart folder to be marked as read or starred and to be used for advanced content filtering. Enhanced folder/tag selection in relevant management interfaces with powerful search capabilities. Filter folders/tags using a search field for quicker navigation, select matching items directly by pressing Return, […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/12/04/readkit-3-3/
date: 2024-12-04, from: Michael Tsai
Momentarium: Easy Data Inspection: Quickly browse and inspect your CoreData data models with our intuitive interface. Customizable Layout: Tailor the layout to your needs, with adjustable column widths, row heights, and more. Relationship Visualization: Visualize complex relationships between entities with our interactive graph view. Support for Multiple CoreData Versions: Compatible with CoreData versions from iOS […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/12/04/coredata-studio-1-5/
date: 2024-12-04, from: Michael Tsai
Tim Hardwick: In its report, the CMA’s independent inquiry group determined that Apple’s Safari browser policies prevent competing browsers from implementing certain features, such as faster webpage loading technologies. The investigation also revealed that many UK app developers would prefer to offer progressive web apps as an alternative to App Store distribution, but Apple’s current […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/12/04/uk-cma-vs-apples-browser-rules/
date: 2024-12-04, from: Chris Coyier blog
Safari isn’t any better with battery life. I feel like that needs to be shared more as it’s very strong folk tech wisdom that Chrome eats battery and Safari does not, which is apparently not true at all, and might be the opposite. But I don’t care too much about that. I have a first-gen […]
https://chriscoyier.net/2024/12/04/attempting-a-safari-move/
@IIIF Mastodon feed (date: 2024-12-04, from: IIIF Mastodon feed)
Join us for our Community Call on Dec. 11!
We'll welcome representatives from The National Archives, The University of London & The University of Brighton's Design Archives to discuss a project to improve search of visual collections via IIIF & AI-powered semantic search.
Zoom: iiif.io/community
https://glammr.us/@IIIF/113595996406055008
date: 2024-12-04, from: Liliputing
The GPD Win 4 is a handheld gaming PC with a 6 inch FHD touchscreen display that slides upward to reveal a physical keyboard for thumb typing and a design that makes the handheld look like an oversized PlayStation Portable… if the PSP had a keyboard and support for modern PC games. GPD first launched the […]
The post GPD launches Win 4 handheld gaming PC with Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 appeared first on Liliputing.
https://liliputing.com/gpd-launches-win-4-handheld-gaming-pc-with-ryzen-ai-9-hx-370/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-12-04, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Threads users can now follow profiles from other fediverse servers.
https://www.threads.net/@threads/post/DDKltrOTjJl
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-12-04, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Police Hunt for Gunman After UnitedHealthcare C.E.O. Killed in Midtown Manhattan.
date: 2024-12-04, from: Chris Coyier blog
They broke out of a loosely wired cage door in the basement of the monkey house, but from there it seemed they didn’t have a plan — most hung out in a nearby canopy of trees as mesmerized onlookers watched Madison Magazine Who was in charge of that loosely wired cage door? My grandpa! Lolz. I remember […]
date: 2024-12-04, from: Liliputing
The first laptops featuring Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon X Plus processors began shipping nearly half a year ago. But so far we haven’t seen any desktop computers with the chip except for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Dev Kit – and not only was that model aimed at developers rather than the general public, but it […]
The post GEEKOM QS mini PC with Snapdragon X Elite is coming soon appeared first on Liliputing.
https://liliputing.com/geekom-qs-mini-pc-with-snapdragon-x-elite-is-coming-soon/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-12-04, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Dan Rather interview with Neil Young. What a story, and Rather is a great interviewer.
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-big-interview/the-big-interview-with-neil-DpbhyUsIlWf/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-12-04, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Do you work on an RSS-based podcasting client? Then this is for you. :-)
date: 2024-12-04, from: 404 Media Group
Deepfakes of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Mike Tyson, and Terry Crews are selling erectile dysfunction supplements on YouTube.
https://www.404media.co/deepfake-youtube-ads-of-celebrities-promise-to-get-you-rock-hard/
date: 2024-12-04, from: 404 Media Group
We talk about the big datasets of Bluesky posts being offered to AI; how people are breaking into Redbox systems; and how the U.S. government is clamping down on data brokers.
https://www.404media.co/podcast-your-bluesky-posts-are-probably-training-ai/
date: 2024-12-04, updated: 2024-12-04, from: One Foot Tsunami
https://onefoottsunami.com/2024/12/04/backdoors-are-a-very-bad-idea/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-12-04, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
For an astonishing six hours today, South Korea underwent an attempted self-coup by its unpopular president, Yoon Suk Yeol, only to see the South Korean people force him to back down as they reasserted the strength of their democracy.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-3-2024?r=2236l&triedRedirect=true
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-12-04, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Scripting News: We need a BDG for Bluesky.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/03/162708.html
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-12-04, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Brain rot is personal enshitification.
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/12/behind-the-brain-rot/680866/
date: 2024-12-04, from: System76 Blog
Thelio Astra is set to accelerate Tier IV towards autonomous self-driving.
https://blog.system76.com/post/thelio-astra-tier-iv
date: 2024-12-04, from: System76 Blog
System76 new Thelio Astra brings Ampere processors and arm64 architecture to the Thelio desktop line.
https://blog.system76.com/post/system76-and-ampere-collaborate-on-new-thelio-astra
date: 2024-12-04, from: System76 Blog
System76 Desktop Environment COSMIC Enters Alpha: Stage 2. Building out COSMIC Files, Settings pages, and WM features.
https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-2-press-release
date: 2024-12-04, 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: 2024-12-04, from: System76 Blog
An interview with System76 Product Manager and Mechanical Engineer
https://blog.system76.com/post/engineering-thelio-astra-arm-powered-desktop
date: 2024-12-04, from: System76 Blog
Excitement for Software Freedom Day spanned across the globe!
https://blog.system76.com/post/software-freedom-day-at-system76
date: 2024-12-04, from: System76 Blog
How to install, first impressions, and what makes it ready.
https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-released-heres-what-people-are-saying
date: 2024-12-04, from: System76 Blog
Upgrade to Alpha 3 for custom system fonts, testable screen reader support, and more.
https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-3
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-12-04, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
I don’t think Biden should sacrifice his son in defense of values that most voters don’t respect.
https://www.editorialboard.com/with-pardon-of-son-biden-shows-a-way-forward-for-democrats/