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Moving Between Devices

coker.com.au

I previously wrote about the possibility of transferring work between devices as an alternative to “convergence”...
I previously wrote about the possibility of transferring work between devices as an alternative to “convergence” (using a phone or tablet as a desktop) [1]. This idea has been implemented in some commercial products already. MrWhosTheBoss made a good YouTube video reviewing recent Huawei products [2]. At 2:50 in tha...
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What is a Workstation?

coker.com.au

I recently had someone describe a Mac Mini as a “workstation”, which I strongly disagree with....
I recently had someone describe a Mac Mini as a “workstation”, which I strongly disagree with. The Wikipedia page for Workstation [1] says that it’s a type of computer designed for scientific or technical use, for a single user, and would commonly run a multi-user OS. The Mac Mini runs a multi-user OS and is designe...
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Free software activity in October 2024

greenend.org.uk
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Review: Overdue and Returns by Mark Lawrence

eyrie.org

Overdue is a stand-alone novelette in the Library Trilogy universe. Returns is a collection of two...
Overdue is a stand-alone novelette in the Library Trilogy universe. Returns is a collection of two stories, the novelette "Returns" and the short story "About Pain." All of them together are about the length of a novella, so I'm combining them into a single review. These are ancillary stories in the same universe as...
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FLOSS Activities October 2024

bonedaddy.net
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Custom domains on the Wikimedia Cloud VPS web proxy

taavi.wtf

project wikimedia
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Gunnar Wolf• Do you have a minute..?

gwolf.org
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Links October 2024

coker.com.au

Dacid Brin wrote an interesting article about AI ecosystems and how humans might work with machines...
Dacid Brin wrote an interesting article about AI ecosystems and how humans might work with machines on creative projects [1]. Also he’s right about “influencers” being like funghi. Cory Doctorow wrote an interesting post about DRM, coalitions, and cheating [2]. It seems that people like me who want “trusted computin...
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Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com

Another pure maintenance release 0.2.7 of the gcbd package is now on CRAN. The gcbd proposes...
Another pure maintenance release 0.2.7 of the gcbd package is now on CRAN. The gcbd proposes a benchmarking framework for LAPACK and BLAS operations (as the library can exchanged in a plug-and-play sense on suitable OSs) and records result in local database. Its original motivation was to also compare to GPU-based o...
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GKE version 1.31.1-gke.1678000+ is a baddy

stormbind.net
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30.000 FAIme jobs created in 7 years

fai-project.org
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Typing decorators for class members with optional arguments

enricozini.org

This looks straightforward and is far from it. I expect tool support will improve in the...
This looks straightforward and is far from it. I expect tool support will improve in the future. Meanwhile, this blog post serves as a step by step explanation for what is going on in code that I'm about to push to my team. Let's take this relatively straightforward python code. It has a function printing an int, an...

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Steve's blog

einval.com
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The CUPS Vulnerability

coker.com.au

Late last month there was an announcement of a “severity 9.9 vulnerability” allowing remote code execution...
Late last month there was an announcement of a “severity 9.9 vulnerability” allowing remote code execution that affects “all GNU/Linux systems (plus others)” [1]. For something to affect all Linux systems that would have to be either a kernel issue or a sshd issue. The announcement included complaints about the lack...
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jmtd → log → synths → Behringer Model-D (synths I didn't buy)

jmtd.net
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diffoscope 282 released

diffoscope.org
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back to blogging and running a feed reader as a containerized systemd service

wordpress.com

After reading about Jonathan McDowell feed reader install and the back to blogging initiative, I decided...
After reading about Jonathan McDowell feed reader install and the back to blogging initiative, I decided to install a feed reader to follow all those nice blog posts. With a feed reader you can compose your own feed of news based on blog posts, websites, mastodon toots. And then you are independant from ad oriented ...
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jmtd → log → synths → Why hardware synths?

jmtd.net
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qmpbackup 0.33

abbbi.github.io
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Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com

A new minor release of the drat package arrived on CRAN today, which is just over...
A new minor release of the drat package arrived on CRAN today, which is just over a year since the previous release. drat stands for drat R Archive Template, and helps with easy-to-create and easy-to-use repositories for R packages. Since its inception in early 2015 it has found reasonably widespread adoption among ...
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Free Software Mirrors in India

sahilister.in
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Terraform: Making Use of Precondition Checks

stormbind.net

I'm in the unlucky position to have to deal with GitHub. Thus I've a terraform module...
I'm in the unlucky position to have to deal with GitHub. Thus I've a terraform module in a project which deals with populating organization secrets in our GitHub organization, and assigning repositories access to those secrets. Since the GitHub terraform provider internally works mostly with repository IDs, not slug...
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Eagle's Path: California general election (2024-10-20)

eyrie.org
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MG4 Review

coker.com.au

In the past I haven’t had a high opinion of MG cars, decades ago they were...
In the past I haven’t had a high opinion of MG cars, decades ago they were small and expensive and didn’t seem to offer anything I wanted. As there’s a conveniently located MG dealer I decided to try out an MG electric car and see if they are any good. I brought two friends along who are also interested in new techn...
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