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date: 2024-12-14, from: 404 Media Group
Don’t panic…yet. Also: A baby galaxy with a bedazzled name, tiny poops with big potential, and an ancient ritual compound in a secret cave chamber.
https://www.404media.co/the-data-on-civilization-ending-superflares-3/
date: 2024-12-14, from: The Markup blog
The Markup’s reporting led to federal lawsuits, local government reforms, and much more
https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2024/12/14/our-real-world-impact-in-2024
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-12-14, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Users are now flocking to Bluesky. But every social media platform becomes a wasteland in the end.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/magazine/bluesky-social-media.html
@Robert’s feed at BlueSky (date: 2024-12-14, from: Robert’s feed at BlueSky)
Nice short (11 min.) intro to building and cross compiling a TypeScript command line program. Hit the pause button while viewing and type along. See the embedded YouTube video at https://docs.deno.com/examples/command_line_utility/.
https://bsky.app/profile/rsdoiel.bsky.social/post/3lda45muanc2m
date: 2024-12-13, from: Liliputing
This morning we reported that Evan Blass had leaked pictures of the upcoming Lenovo Legion Go S handheld gaming PC that hinted the budget handheld would ship with Valve’s SteamOS rather than Windows. This afternoon, Blass shared pictures of another upcoming Lenovo handheld with The Verge, giving us a look at an upcoming premium model with […]
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https://liliputing.com/lilbits-nintendo-switch-2-and-lenovo-legion-go-2-designs-leaked/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-12-13, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
ChatGPT projects. I needed this, desperately.
https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10169521-using-projects-in-chatgpt
date: 2024-12-13, from: Stephen Smith’s blog
Introduction The City of Vancouver recently started a committee to look at taking Bitcoin for payments and to hold some of the city’s financial reserves in Bitcoin. It’s been pointed out that this is illegal under current provincial government regulations, but part of the plan is to change these. People are all over the place […]
https://smist08.wordpress.com/2024/12/13/city-of-vancouver-to-use-bitcoin/
date: 2024-12-13, from: Michael Tsai
Apple (downloads): The Command Line Tools package now supports using the swift test command to build and run package tests written with Swift Testing.[…]Sometimes running parallel Tests on macOS run destinations never finishes.[…]macOS projects that use hardened runtime but no sandboxing may run into timeout errors when attempting to preview if the project is complex […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/12/13/xcode-16-2/
date: 2024-12-13, from: Michael Tsai
Juli Clover (iOS/iPadOS release notes, security, no enterprise, no developer): iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2 introduce new Apple Intelligence features, including the first image generation capabilities. Image Playground is a new app for creating images based on text descriptions, and you can add all kinds of costumes, items, backgrounds and more. You can even make […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/12/13/ios-18-2-and-ipados-18-2/
date: 2024-12-13, from: Michael Tsai
Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer): tvOS 18.2 adds a selection of new Snoopy screen savers that are available as an alternative to the aerial, memory, and portrait screen saver options, plus it includes natural language search support for Siri for looking for movies, music, and TV shows.The update also includes an option that lets […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/12/13/tvos-18-2/
date: 2024-12-13, from: Michael Tsai
Juli Clover (no release notes, security, developer): According to Apple’s release notes, watchOS 11.2 lets you pause video that you’re recording on the iPhone using the Camera Remote app on Apple Watch. Previously: watchOS 11.1
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/12/13/watchos-11-2/
date: 2024-12-13, from: Michael Tsai
Juli Clover (release notes, developer, security, enterprise): visionOS 2.2 adds new wide and ultrawide aspect ratios to the Mac Virtual Display feature, so you can have more workspace when using the Vision Pro as a display for your Mac. Apple says that the ultrawide setting is the equivalent of two 5K monitors side by side. […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/12/13/visionos-2-2/
date: 2024-12-13, from: Michael Tsai
Apple: Siri on HomePod is now integrated with Apple Music natural language search so you can describe what you want to hear using any combination of categories like genre, mood, decade or activity. Enhance Dialogue on HomePod (2nd generation) when paired with Apple TV 4K gives you the option to hear speech more clearly over […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/12/13/audioos-18-2/
date: 2024-12-13, updated: 2024-12-13, from: One Foot Tsunami
https://onefoottsunami.com/2024/12/13/save-taxpayers-money/
date: 2024-12-13, from: Liliputing
The ACEMAGIC V1 is desktop computer that measures just 3.9″ x 3.9″ x 1.2″. But it’s a versatile little computer with a single SODIMM slot with support for up to 16GB of DDR4-3200 memory, an M.2 2280 slot with support for PCIe 3.0 NVMe storage. It’s also one of the latest in a growing number […]
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https://liliputing.com/acemagic-v1-is-a-3-9-inch-mini-pc-with-intel-n150/
date: 2024-12-13, from: Liliputing
The MINISFORUM MS-A1 is a compact desktop computer that measures 189.5 x 186 x 48mm (7.46″ x 7.32″ x 1.89″), features a robust set of ports that includes USB4, OCuLink, and dual 2.5 Gb Ethernet connectors. Unlike most smaller mini PCs, the MS-A1 also has an AMD A5 socket that allows you to bring your own […]
The post MINISFORUM MS-A1 mini PC is now available with a Ryzen 9 9950X processor appeared first on Liliputing.
https://liliputing.com/minisforum-ms-a1-mini-pc-is-now-available-with-a-ryzen-9-9950x-processor/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-12-13, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
On January 20, 2025, we will face a barrage of chaotic assaults including potential US debt default, damaging new tariffs, mass firings of federal employees, and catastrophic budget cuts. Their primary target, the dollar, will be assaulted from every angle.
https://washingtonspectator.org/project-russia-reveals-putins-playbook/?ref=america2.news
date: 2024-12-13, from: Liliputing
The Lenovo Legion Go handheld gaming PC has been around for about a year at this point, and it’s proven to be a relatively popular handheld gaming PC due to a high-quality display, speedy hardware, and a versatile design that includes a pair of detachable controllers. Now it looks like Lenovo is planning to expand its handheld […]
The post Lenovo Legion Go S leaks suggest it’ll be a budget SteamOS handheld appeared first on Liliputing.
https://liliputing.com/lenovo-legion-go-s-leaks-suggest-itll-be-a-budget-steamos-handheld/
date: 2024-12-13, 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 discuss archiving nostalgia, newsworthiness, and plans for 2025.
https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-nostalgia-and-newsworthiness/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-12-13, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Americans are living longer—but most of the extra time is spent being sick.
A quick look at OS/2’s builtin virtualization
date: 2024-12-13, updated: 2024-12-13, from: Uninformative blog
https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2024-12-13/0/POSTING-en.html
date: 2024-12-13, from: Status-Q blog
Back in about 1996, I was attending a conference in San Francisco. As we walked into the Moscone centre to register, we were all given not only the usual branded bag and bits of paper, but something much more exciting: a box containing what was to become my first true pocket-sized mobile device, the recently-released Continue Reading
https://statusq.org/archives/2024/12/13/12299/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-12-13, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
I wanted Matt to start a Mastodon instance for WordPress users, then one day I realized he had done just that, and the software I had been working on could post to it.
https://mastodon.social/@daveverse.wordpress.com@daveverse.wordpress.com/113644817289884129
date: 2024-12-13, from: Tedium site
My recent Linux experience has been pretty awesome thanks to Bazzite. It may represent the frontier of OS experiences.
https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/16919721/bazzite-atomic-desktop-linux-review
date: 2024-12-13, from: Robert’s Ramblings
Notes on setting up a Debian flavored Linux boxes, macOS and Windows
to install Deno via cargo install deno,
curl -fsSL https://deno.land/install.sh | sh or
iwr https://deno.land/install.ps1 -useb | iex
https://rsdoiel.github.io/blog/2024/12/13/installing-via-cargo-etc.html