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date: 2024-12-16, updated: 2024-12-16, from: One Foot Tsunami
https://onefoottsunami.com/2024/12/16/not-as-exciting-as-a-calf-roping-contest/
date: 2024-12-16, from: O’Reilly Radar
Like just about everyone, we were impressed by the ability of NotebookLM to generate podcasts: Two virtual people holding a discussion. You can give it some links, and it will generate a podcast based on the links. The podcasts were interesting and engaging. But they also had some limitations. The problem with NotebookLM is that, […]
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/summarizing-books-as-podcasts/
date: 2024-12-16, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
We made our own WOPR to delight and entertain visitors to the Maker Lab at Pi Towers.
The post We made our own WOPR for Pi Towers appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/we-made-our-own-wopr-for-pi-towers/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-12-16, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
What It's Like to Sleep in Prison: Moldy Mattresses, Bright Lights and Non-Stop Noise.
date: 2024-12-16, from: Status-Q blog
This might be a little technical for some readers, but don’t worry, it’s not actually the technical detail that’s important… On my home server, I run about half a dozen services that I need to access via a web browser, so they’re all behind a Caddy reverse proxy which connects me to the right one, Continue Reading
https://statusq.org/archives/2024/12/16/12305/
date: 2024-12-16, from: 404 Media Group
A new report from Amnesty International reveals multiple cases where Serbian authorities used Cellebrite devices to access targets’ mobile phones before loading them with spyware.
date: 2024-12-16, from: Tedium site
Tedium’s annual last-minute gift guide is here to buy you a little extra time around the holidays—plus it gives us an excuse to highlight our year.
https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/16921934/tedium-2024-holiday-gift-guide
date: 2024-12-16, from: Tedium site
When a synthesizer takes on the traits of a guitar, are you opening up new soundscapes or making musical compromises? Here’s what I’ve learned.
https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/16921943/synthesized-guitar-history
date: 2024-12-16, from: Glasgow Haskell Compiler
The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the release of GHC 9.12.1. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at downloads.haskell.org.
We hope to have this release available via ghcup shortly.
GHC 9.12 will bring a number of new features and improvements, including:
The new language extension OrPatterns allowing you to combine multiple pattern clauses into one.
The MultilineStrings language extension to allow you to more easily write strings spanning multiple lines in your source code.
Improvements to the OverloadedRecordDot extension, allowing the built-in
HasField class to be used for records with fields of non
lifted representations.
The
NamedDefaults
language extension has been introduced allowing you to define defaults
for typeclasses other than Num.
More deterministic object code output, controlled by the
-fobject-determinism flag, which improves determinism of
builds a lot (though does not fully do so) at the cost of some compiler
performance (1-2%). See
#12935 for
the details
GHC now accepts type syntax in expressions as part of GHC Proposal #281.
The WASM backend now has support for TemplateHaskell.
Experimental support for the RISC-V platform with the native code generator.
… and many more
A full accounting of changes can be found in the release notes. As always, GHC’s release status, including planned future releases, can be found on the GHC Wiki status.
We would like to thank GitHub, IOG, the Zw3rk stake pool, Well-Typed, Tweag I/O, Serokell, Equinix, SimSpace, the Haskell Foundation, and other anonymous contributors whose on-going financial and in-kind support has facilitated GHC maintenance and release management over the years. Finally, this release would not have been possible without the hundreds of open-source contributors whose work comprise this release.
As always, do give this release a try and open a ticket if you see anything amiss.
http://haskell.org/ghc/blog/20241216-ghc-9.12.1-released.html
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-12-15, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Martin Luther King Jr Day, a day of service, is on January 20.
https://www.dodea.edu/news/observance-calendar/martin-luther-king-jr-day
date: 2024-12-15, from: Liliputing
I’ve been writing about small computers since the original Asus Eee PC launched in the United States in 2007, showing that it was possible to make computers that were both ultraportable and affordable. But over the years I’ve also come to find that while there’s certainly a place for small-screen devices like netbooks, tablets, and smartphones, […]
The post Report: Apple is working on a foldable device the size of two iPad Pros appeared first on Liliputing.
https://liliputing.com/report-apple-is-working-on-a-foldable-device-the-size-of-two-ipad-pros/
date: 2024-12-15, from: Blog by Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti
I’m a terrible user of documentation. I tend to consume docs in a hurry, reading diagonally, Control+Fing my way to things. I generally mistreat the interface of docs until I obtain something resembling an answer. I do this because I’ve little time and I need to fix issues fast. I love examples I can copy and paste. I’ve little patience for verbose documentation and even less for docs that look like they were written without care or skill. I’m not only bothered by inaccuracy, but also by bad style. In a way, as a user of documentation, I’m the worst nightmare of a technical writer.
https://passo.uno/my-favorite-tech-docs/
date: 2024-12-15, from: Status-Q blog
Spotted this nice xkcd item on Bluesky today. It’s tempting to think it’s significant, but it is, of course, a coincidence. (People who like this might also like this elderly post and its comments.)
https://statusq.org/archives/2024/12/15/12303/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-12-15, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
The 13 Best TV Shows of 2024.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-12-15, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
His Family Voted to Support Trump’s Deportation Plan. That Includes Him.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-12-15, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
I asked ChatGPT to “roast me and don’t hold back” and omg that really hurts. Seems it has been remembering all the hoops I make it jump through, who knew it could harbor so much resentment. Not kidding.
https://chatgpt.com/share/675ea664-3680-8012-9b78-064bbe4f5200
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-12-15, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
AOC #1 kickass Dem.
https://daveverse.wordpress.com/2024/12/15/aoc-1-kickass-dem/
date: 2024-12-15, from: Tedium site
This week’s preliminary injunction in the WordPress/WP Engine saga clears a lot of air for the CMS space. But does it clear enough?
https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/16921569/wordpress-wp-engine-reaction