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
Via Mastodon: There is no capturable metric for enjoyment. What products/games can capture is engagement and that is then misinterpreted as enjoyment. There are a lot of products I engage with because I want want they produce, but I am unhappy. Cory Doctorow’s enshittification pr … | Continue reading
Two heavyweights have long stood out in the battle for the world’s preeminent open-source database. That would be Berkeley DB and SQLite. Or is it Vim and Emacs? To select one for a task isn’t to evaluate two systems against your requirements, but to commit your system to The Ord … | Continue reading
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In the 2000s, if you wanted to make interactive or animated visualization for the web, Flash was the main option. When Flash lost support and fell off the internet, a solid decade of great visualiz… | Continue reading
Microsoft has released the Windows 11 KB5034123 cumulative update for versions 23H2 and 22H2 to fix a variety of issues, including a potential Wi-Fi bug that was fixed in a KIR last month. [...] | Continue reading
The year 2023 marks a significant milestone for Windows 11 with the introduction of several new features and improvements. This includes drag and drop for the taskbar, AI, and more. [...] | Continue reading
James of jamesg.blog has a new book on technical writing you can download today, itself an expansion of his Advent of Technical Writers blog post series from last year. From page 6: This book is positioned toward people who want to start writing technical documents, or who are ea … | Continue reading
The Authy desktop apps for Windows, macOS, and Linux will be discontinued in August 2024, with the company recommending users switch to a mobile version of the two-factor authentication (2FA) app. [...] | Continue reading
It’s no secret that embracing cloud technology is no longer a groundbreaking move; it’s just the next logical step in […] The post From Chaos to Clarity: The Power of Cloud Governance appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
A service in BSD land is a rc.d script that can be invoked on boot, or by the root operator after booting. These are table stakes for any online guide, but I often see people making the same mistakes, or not doing things in the most efficient way. I think this might be due to Lin … | Continue reading
The Recent ext4 Data Corruption Bug A few days ago an ext4 filesystem bug in stable kernels was found in stable kernels that can corrupt data. Such a bug in a filesystem is one of the worst one can imagine. Nobody likes losing data. Ext4 is also very widely used; it’s the default … | Continue reading
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Warm-blooded software: Maybe your CI isn’t working because one of the services you depend on got bought or ran out of money. You add a new dependency and find yourself needing to upgrade your compiler. Another package you depend on is deprecated, and doesn’t work with the lates … | Continue reading
I didn’t realize I needed this until I implemented it, and now, oh wow, can’t imagine life without it. Normally, a terminal draws lines of text at fixed intervals. Line 1 starting at pixel 0, then line 2 at 24 pixels, etc. When the text scrolls, line 2 immediately becomes line 1 … | Continue reading
GitHub is warning users that they will soon have limited functionality on the site if they do not enable two-factor authentication (2FA) on their accounts. [...] | Continue reading
Small and medium-sized businesses are the backbone of the supply chain, and small businesses overwhelmingly agree that working toward net zero is a strategic priority. | Continue reading
It’s time to report on code flowing upstream again: Following up on our report for Linux 6.2, 6.3 and 6.4 this summarizes the progress on mainline support for the Librem 5 phone and its development kit during the 6.5, 6.6 and 6.7 development cycles. hardware description updates I … | Continue reading
I make lots of typos so I need computers to correct those for me as much as possible. That especially showed when leaving my laptop at home more only picking the up the Librem 5. Longer texts would just end in a catastrophe. That needed to change and hence I added completion supp … | Continue reading
As I’ve mentioned in recent emails to to the Disquiet Junto music community, I need to move the Junto list to a new service because Tinyletter.com itself is being shut down on the last day of February 2024. I considered Substack, which is where my This Week in Sound newsletter is … | Continue reading
This is a handy little tool for spinning up a local web server when you don’t all the features of something like MAMP. adactio.com/links/20736 | Continue reading
For Retool, Glenn Fleishman looks back to a time when data on the internet flowed more freely and you were able to direct the streams with a click-and-drag tool called Pipes for Yahoo! With Pipes, … | Continue reading
Although primarily used for revision control of source code, git repos are also often used to store a wide array of other things. For example, I use it for notes, a wiki, my website and even an audit-able means to share my public keys. When troubleshooting, having a revision log … | Continue reading
The Microsoft Excel World Championship 2023 wrapped a couple weeks ago, and the three-hour final that was streamed is available for your viewing pleasure. I know I should be focused on the clicking… | Continue reading
Alteryx, a prominent player in the data analytics sector, has announced its acquisition by private-equity firms Clearlake Capital Group and […] The post Data analytics firm Alteryx agrees to $4.4B buyout deal appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
Phones aren’t built to protect the end user, though it might they should be because they are part of everyday life. Most modern phones are actually built with the idea of exploiting the end user by analyzing and categorizing you and then selling who you are to others. This is cal … | Continue reading
Google Maps announced changes to its Location History feature to allow data to be saved directly to a user’s device […] The post Google Maps app update gives users control of location data appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
Figma CEO Dylan Field: Figma and Adobe have reached a joint decision to end our pending acquisition. It’s not the outcome we had hoped for, but despite thousands of hours spent with regulators around the world detailing differences between our businesses, our products, and the ma … | Continue reading
After a 15-month regulatory review process, Figma and Adobe announced today (Dec. 18) they will be abandoning their proposed merger. […] The post Figma and Adobe abandon merger amidst regulatory red tape appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
A few thoughts on the iOS Journal app that debuted with the latest update of the software, 17.2: 1: Limited Tool Kit: It’s nice to see a sound recording option in there right from day one (so to speak). That said, it will be nicer still when there are helpful additional audio too … | Continue reading
Discord has made security key multi-factor authentication (MFA) available for all accounts on the platform, bringing significant security and anti-phishing benefits to its 500+ million registered users. [...] | Continue reading
Jeff Johnson: It’s a momentous year for my Safari extension StopTheMadness. The fifth anniversary of StopTheMadness was back in April. And today is the zeroth anniversary of StopTheMadness Pro! Actually, Tuesday was the zeroth anniversary, but that’s a story for another day. The … | Continue reading
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Microsoft has released the KB5033375 update for Windows 11 versions 23H2 and 22H2 to fix security vulnerabilities, upgrade Copilot for Windows, and make 36 changes and fixes [...] | Continue reading
The Speranza system enhances software repository security by using zero-knowledge identity co-commitments and automated certificate authorities, ensuring software authenticity while maintaining developer anonymity. Its practical implementation, efficient operation, and minimal in … | Continue reading
A terrific piece from Aaron Sankin that goes from Waldsterben to software development via firefighting and the RAND corporation. Bureaucracies use measurements to optimize and rearrange the world around them. For those measurements to be effective, they have to be conducted in … | Continue reading
David Pierce, of the Verge, obtained a statement from Nadine Haija at Apple acknowledging it was responsible for shutting down Beeper Mini’s reverse-engineered iMessage app: At Apple, we build our products and services with industry-leading privacy and security technologies desig … | Continue reading
Thanks to Rok Kralj for this tip: convert $SOURCE -background white \ -alpha remove \ -alpha off $TARGET I’ve also added it to the lunchbox. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2023-12-06. | Continue reading
When my Feedbin annual renewal approached I decided to look at it objectively, and check if a cheaper alternative existed. Turns out I had it already. The $50 fee for the service wasn’t dramatic — however, since I’ve been on a path to cut any non-necessary expenses and … | Continue reading
Jumping on the bandwagon of the default apps for 2023 blog trend. What a time to be alive. -- Read More | Continue reading
smcdow writes software that connects to crypto exchange APIs, and speaks on the nuts and bolts of "the always-amateur-hour that is the crypto world" in the Bond villain compliance strategy thread | Continue reading