Welcome to the weekend reading list, edition #214. If you want to see your article here, reach out to me on Twitter/X or the blog.Você tem sugestão de artigos em Português? Gostaria de ver seu artigo divulgado aqui no blog? Envie sua sugestão pelo Twitter ou pelo blog. NYJavaSIG … | Continue reading
Removing little-used features also improved responsiveness and shrank the size. | Continue reading
The Bitwarden open-source password management service has introduced a new inline auto-fill menu that addresses the risk of user credentials being stolen through malicious form fields. [...] | Continue reading
Ever since an infantile fascist billionaire (hereafter, the IFB) decided to turn Twitter over to the racially hostile anti-science set, folks who previously used that network daily to discuss and amplify topics they cared about have either given up on the very premise of a shared … | Continue reading
End-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal finally allows users to pick custom usernames to connect with others while hiding their phone numbers and protecting their privacy. [...] | Continue reading
General Motors (GM) faltered in 3 important areas in 2023: manufacturing electric vehicles (EVs), making sense of its self-driving division ... [continued] The post GM’s Electric Vehicle Transition Needed “More Time In Planning & Risk Assessment” appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
My latest post generated a few emails from people suggesting alternatives to my semi-manual Instapaper solution. The back-and-forth convinced me to describe how I use read later services. I knew about the suggested solutions already, so why didn’t I choose either of the … | Continue reading
AI in the wild, posted on a cat subreddit. The community is torn if these are cats, slow-mo, or fakes. I don’t know how I feel about it. Leave the cat videos alone? LOL? Didn’t imagine Skynet like that. | Continue reading
Spent all day at a 6 hour band practice today. First of the year. The post Band Practice appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
In today’s installment of 8-bit Software Fun, we’re starting from absolute first principles on a Commodore machine. Most online guides and videos also assume a modicum of familiarity, but what if you were someone like me who grew up in the 16-bit era and are starting from scratch … | Continue reading
Rich Loveland dropped some hard facts on his blog last December: An extreme antipattern for a programming book is “download the author’s idiosyncratic library code from some random URL and figure out how to load it on your system”. No, all code used in the book should be printed … | Continue reading
It is time to be honest, and say "I will not finish it". Come on, it is the middle of February. | Continue reading
Google is testing a new feature to prevent malicious public websites from pivoting through a user's browser to attack devices and services on internal, private networks. [...] | Continue reading
I do this manually at the end of each week: collating (and sometimes lightly editing) most of the recent little comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. Some end up on Disquiet.com earlier, sometimes in expanded form. These days I mostly hang … | Continue reading
Welcome to the weekend reading list, edition #213. If you want to see your article here, reach out to me on Twitter/X or the blog.Você tem sugestão de artigos em Português? Gostaria de ver seu artigo divulgado aqui no blog? Envie sua sugestão pelo Twitter ou pelo blog. NYJavaSIG … | Continue reading
The Zoom desktop and VDI clients and the Meeting SDK for Windows are vulnerable to an improper input validation flaw that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to conduct privilege escalation on the target system over the network. [...] | Continue reading
Javascript seems to have taken over the web in recent years, and if you run self-hosted software on your Linux server, there's a good chance that at some point you're doing to have to deal with node.js and node package manager (npm). A lot of node.js software projects were writte … | Continue reading
The DuckDuckGo browser has unveiled a new end-to-end encrypted Sync & Backup feature that lets users privately and securely synchronize their bookmarks, passwords, and Email Protection settings across multiple devices. [...] | Continue reading
Once again, whenever I favour convenience over substance, my experience does not improve. Erasing my Pocket account a few weeks ago was an easy choice. Ever since Mozilla morphed it into yet another algorithmic-based attention seeker, I couldn’t stand the product. Went … | Continue reading
Microsoft has released the KB5034765 cumulative update for Windows versions 23H2 and 22H2 to fix several bugs in the OS, including an issue that causes problems with the Start menu. [...] | Continue reading
Every complex software system tends to have sub-systems that are in the process of being rewritten but stuck in limbo. I call this myself the Hydra, although it’s a term that doesn’t exist outside of my head. The subject of second systems deserves a full essay but while I sit on … | Continue reading
ExpressVPN has removed the split tunneling feature from the latest version of its software after finding that a bug exposed the domains users were visiting to configured DNS servers. [...] | Continue reading
Welcome to the weekend reading list, edition #212. If you want to see your article here, reach out to me on Twitter/X or the blog.Você tem sugestão de artigos em Português? Gostaria de ver seu artigo divulgado aqui no blog? Envie sua sugestão pelo Twitter ou pelo blog. NYJavaSIG … | Continue reading
Google is on the brink of refreshing its sign-in pages, including Gmail, with a sleek, modern makeover. [...] | Continue reading
Now that there is more urgency than ever for businesses to implement sustainable product development practices, they’re turning to technology solutions to help jump-start their initiatives. The post 9 Ways Manufacturers Can Develop More Sustainable Products appeared first on Clea … | Continue reading
Welcome to the weekend reading list, edition #211. If you want to see your article here, reach out to me on Twitter/X or the blog.Você tem sugestão de artigos em Português? Gostaria de ver seu artigo divulgado aqui no blog? Envie sua sugestão pelo Twitter ou pelo blog. NYJavaSIG … | Continue reading
Google has shared a temporary fix for owners of Google Pixel devices that were rendered unusable after installing the January 2024 Google Play system update. [...] | Continue reading
January 30th, 2024. From reforestation to direct air capture, BlueLayer’s end-to-end software streamlines the processes of carbon removal projects. Under the Climate Action Programme 2030, the German government made a binding undertaking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 55% … | Continue reading
I’ve been trying out various apps and services that facilitate the collection of browser-based documents. I don’t need much in terms of long-term collation, mostly items on a week-by-week basis, mostly for my This Week in Sound newsletter. Instaper is a leading such option. There … | Continue reading
Another year, another platform goes down. I’ve just completed the process to delete my 14-years-old Soundcloud account. Not much to add here, the platform has been quite pointless to me for a long time. Without going deep into the quality of their audio codec, my issue … | Continue reading
Happy Holidays and welcome to the weekend reading list, edition #210. If you want to see your article here, reach out to me on Twitter/X or the blog.Você tem sugestão de artigos em Português? Gostaria de ver seu artigo divulgado aqui no blog? Envie sua sugestão pelo Twitter ou pe … | Continue reading
I'm attending FOSDEM 2024. Perhaps I'll see you there! For the first time, I'm giving some talks, both in the Free Java Devroom (UB5.132) on Saturday 3rd. They are A beginner's guide to Backports Bespoke containers with Jlink and OpenShift | Continue reading
Last February I noticed LibreOffice 7 had switched to the Skia rendering engine, which coincided with a steep increase in stability issues. I’ve since moved from an Intel MacBook Pro to an M1 MacBook Air, and while the stability issues have been resolved, performance is still ext … | Continue reading
Meant to be comprehensive more than a curated collection, the Journalist’s Toolbox AI provides many links to tools that might help you data more efficiently. Or at least use more AI-ish thing… | Continue reading
Unlike an Android or IOS phone, the Librem 5 and Liberty Phones are easily scriptable. You can bend your phone software to your will in a variety of programming languages. In this Easy App Development blog, we’ll cover making a text-forwarding system. Elements covered here can be … | Continue reading
It’s not just the Librem 5’s or The Liberty Phone hardware that’s modular. The OS itself is incredibly modular and fully editable to your will. Our defaults and preinstalled apps are well thought out and secure, but it’s just our suggestion of software to use, not a requirement b … | Continue reading
Brave Software has announced plans to deprecate the 'Strict' fingerprinting protection mode in its privacy-focused Brave Browser because it causes many sites to function incorrectly. [...] | Continue reading
This is a short and silly post, and one that should probably have just gone on Mastodon. But if you’re the kind of person who reads a blog like this, you owe it to yourself to run a little services box somewhere. My recent consolidation of a few different VMs into the one with ja … | Continue reading
YouTube and Spotify will not be launching a dedicated app for the new Apple Vision Pro mixed-reality headset, joining Netflix […] The post Apple Vision Pro: YouTube, Spotify and Netflix take stance on headset appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
Happy Holidays and welcome to the weekend reading list, edition #209. If you want to see your article here, reach out to me on Twitter/X or the blog.Você tem sugestão de artigos em Português? Gostaria de ver seu artigo divulgado aqui no blog? Envie sua sugestão pelo Twitter ou pe … | Continue reading
My post about colour schemes mentioned that I’m writing in Vim and Emacs concurrently again. It’s even worse than that; I still also use the excellent Kate editor from the KDE project. A few of you messaged happy to see Emacs specifically being called out, though asked how I’m ru … | Continue reading
Indian IT giants HCL, Infosys, TCS and Wipro reported strong financial results in their latest quarterly earnings, fueled largely by […] The post Indian IT giants HCL, Infosys, TCS and Wipro prosper on demand for AI appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
It’s been a while since I’ve shared these! I spend a disproportionate amount of my life staring into either terminals or text editors, so I like them to be nice. I also tend to use different themes for different times of day. My primary scheme is still Pencil Light, which Matthew … | Continue reading
Adblock and Adblock Plus users report performance issues on YouTube, initially blamed on Google but later determined to be an issue in the popular ad-blocking extension. [...] | Continue reading
Windows 11 is gearing up to introduce an array of exciting new features in 2024 aimed at enhancing user experience across various aspects of the operating system. [...] | Continue reading
Martin Yam Møller asks people more or less the same nine questions about music equipment for a running series of informative interviews on his website. These have included the musicians Sofie Birch, Emily Hopkins, Colleen, and Takeyuki Hakozaki, among many others. Møller asked me … | Continue reading
I’ve re-added the One-liners section on my Omake page, after a few people asked where they went, incluing Clara (cough). I didn’t realise people found them useful. Originally I was going to rewrite these as individual scripts for my Lunchbox, but it does make it easier seeing the … | Continue reading
Happy Holidays and welcome to the weekend reading list, edition #208. If you want to see your article here, reach out to me on Twitter/X or the blog.Você tem sugestão de artigos em Português? Gostaria de ver seu artigo divulgado aqui no blog? Envie sua sugestão pelo Twitter ou pe … | Continue reading