Viewpoint 2.0 just has been released.
The update includes support for Gemini 3, improved speed, the removal of the deprecated 2.0 models, better PDF support, drag-and-drop support, and more.
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(Please don't assotiate me with the development or lead of the product, I just decided to post it as I saw it.)
Would you be interested in a pre-recorded let's Play of RimWorld? Please vote.Liam Erven (YouTube)
I am in the process of uploading my Christmas album to YouTube. They stopped me after 10 songs. Apparently I have to wait 24 hours. I might as well let you all hear the first 10. I will upload the last five tomorrow.
Django: Going build-free with native JavaScript modules
Everything you love, made even better. OS 8.1 improves the Secure Session and Dock, enhances accessibility, improves support for your devices, and addresses your feedback with over 1,100 issue reports fixed
A system monitor app has been one of the top requested default app additions for quite some time, and we now ship with one!
We’re also now shipping Maps, which currently covers the basics like Explore and Transit maps, showing your current location, searching for locations, and handling `geo://` uri links. Plus Application settings now has a setting to select your default Maps app.
elementary OS 8.1 is available as a pay-what-you-can purchase at elementary.io now! Localized direct downloads and a torrent magnet link are provided.
OS 8.1 will receive additional feature and bug fix updates on a monthly schedule that will be reported on here and on our blog, so stay tuned for even more updates in the future!
The thoughtful, capable, and ethical replacement for Windows and macOSelementary.io
Ah yes. And he's also against supply management. And he's not a big fan of Québec.
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Carney taps business executive Mark Wiseman to serve as Canada's ambassador to the U.S.
Canada's new top diplomat is a longtime friend of Carney's
🇺🇸 as every now and then the question comes up: "when does $foo run?"…
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Sad to hear that Chris Rea passed away today. I haven't heard Driving Home for Christmas yet this year, so I'm dusting off a cover I wrote and recorded a few years ago on a fundraiser album. This version is what might happen if a blind person decided to drive home for Crimbo, with everything you're hearing being done by actual blind people. Well, everything apart from the driving (didn't have the budget for a car or good lawyers).
Credits:
David Eagle did the lead vocal.
My guy Dwight Brady did the angry drivers/traumatic adlibs, was also the tiny child at the end.
@technowitch was the police dispatcher.
Ché Martin was the swat team commander.
Satauna Howery was the news reader near the end.
Dwight again on drums.
Me on bass, all the button-pushy production stuffs and writing stupid lyrics (before AI could do that BTW, mentioning so you know who to blame).
@daygar on piano/keys/strings.
Chris Faelnar on guitar.
All told, the production went to 7 countries.
And all that to say, RIP Chris, you bloody legend.
Enjoy! x
Lyrics:
I'm driving home for Christmas
Oh I can't wait to feel those faces
I'm driving home for Christmas, yeah
Driving even though I'm blind
And it may seem wrong
But I will get there if I push on
It's like the end of days
When I'm borrowing your car
Driving home for Christmas
It's gonna take some time, but I'll get there...
Caused a 10 mile tailback
Oh I hear sirens all around
But this is kinda freeing, yeah
Making people go to ground
So I facetime you
'cos Aira said they can't guide me through
Don't fear, it's just me
Borrowing your car
And driving home for Christmas
Driving home for Christmas, making memories...
I hear the shout of a driver next to me
He's up in flames...
I made it through the tailbacks
There's a police convoy in bound
I'm driving home for Christmas, yeah
Laying waste to every town
Now I'm on the news
There's helicopters, a swat team too
I hope you'll forgive me
Borrowing your car
And driving home for Christmas
Driving home for Christmas, with a thousand casualties...
Say a prayer for the family next to me
They've all been mamed...
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Garmin “Autoland” aka “Safe Return,” has been used for the first time, successfully.
Autoland is an emergency system, where a passenger can hit a big red button if the pilot is in incapacitated, which causes the airplane to make emergency radio calls, navigate to a nearby airport with a long runway and medical facilities, and conduct an instrument approach and landing, followed by a full shutdown when the aircraft comes to a stop on the runway. Large screens and voice announcements keep passengers updated along the way.
The nature of the medical emergency on Saturday, involving a King Air with an unconscious pilot, has not been disclosed.
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Aircraft landed safely at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport near Denver on Saturday afternoon.Russ Niles (AvBrief.com)
Would love to hear more details about what exactly happened, sounds amazing!
"We look forward to sharing additional details at the appropriate time", says Garmin. Well, I hope I don't miss that! :)
The problem with saying "Linux doesn't work" is that it's incorrect.
Folks are always surprised to hear that I've been doing music, videos, and gaming on Linux for decades.
Biggest thing is that I *only* buy hardware that works on Linux, and I *only* use software that works on Linux.
What you mean when you say "Linux doesn't work" is that "Linux doesn't work for me." But that's not rage-baity enough to attract attention.
A problem I have with every "I tried Linux for two weeks and could never make it work" video thing is that folks position themselves as the default, everyday computer user.
But they're not! Jeeze folks! They're already knee deep in Windows/Mac software if they have a YouTube channel where they make videos on Windows/Mac!
These folks have production workflows that they don't want to change. If that's not you, you can disregard their rage-bait!
I don't "make Linux and FOSS work for me." Years ago, I *chose* to work with Linux and FOSS.
I just switched, and if things required Windows or a Mac, I didn't do those things. I did other things instead.
My priorities welcomed that choice. Yours might not. That's OK! But it doesn't mean Linux can't do it.
It'd be like saying "my bicycle can't haul a tractor, therefore bicycles are worthless." You'd sound absurd. That's what they do. Because rage sells.
The TL;DR: Between a specific TalkBack 16.2 update that breaks essential Braille navigation and the system-wide clutter introduced by Android 16, Google isDevin Prater (Accessible Android)
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VHSky.cz vzniklo jako PeerTube instance pro komunitní videoobsah. Rok 2025 byl prvním rokem, kdy se ukázalo, že má smysl projekt dělat dál. Proč vlastně PeerTube? 🤔 YouTube se stal faktickým monopolem na video hosting.archos (Oscloud News)
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On the first day of christmas, my true love sent to me:
A large list of email addresses of everybody working in my department
Because they forgot to use BCC.
LITTLE LAMB: do you hear what i hear
SHEPHERD BOY: holy shit a talking lamb
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Po krátké nemoci zemřel britský kytarista a zpěvák Chris Rea. Hudebníkovi s charakteristickým chraplavým hlasem, který se proslavil mimo jiné písněmi The Road to Hell, Julia či Driving Home For Christmas, bylo 74 let. https://www.irozhlas.iROZHLAS.cz (Český rozhlas)
If you use Twitch for any kind of streaming, this resource by Liz Wait can help you make your Twitch channel more accessible to people with disabilities.
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Visiting this post is the first step in creating an accessible Twitch channel! Thank you! I've becom...Liz Wait (DEV Community)
SCOOP: Flock left at least 60 of its AI-powered, people-tracking surveillance cameras exposed and livestreaming to the open internet. We tracked ourselves. The exposure highlights the power of these cameras and types of things they're tracking. Not just cars.
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Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
SCOOP: Flock left at least 60 of its AI-powered, people-tracking surveillance cameras exposed and livestreaming to the open internet. We tracked ourselves. The exposure highlights the power of these cameras and types of things they're tracking. Not just cars. www.404media.co/flock-expose...
Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered C...
Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
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A late and final Very Special Episode of Other People's Music is here. This FINAL installment of 2025 (yeah, I'm taking Xmas off) is a look back at what it was like to review 250 independent music releases this year, including a look at a few I kept coming back to
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#music #MusicDiscovery #OPM #OtherPeoplesMusic #YearEnd #musodon
The other day I took a massive step into the kitchen over a doorstep that's no longer there, and just now I turned on the wrong light because that gang switch used to have a different order.
As these both of these things changed in spring 2024, I can only assume my mind is refusing to believe it's nearly 2026 and is trying to return to a time when things were marginally less awful.
Ich möchte bitte ein Korollar zum Dunning-Kruger-Effekt einführen:
Je weniger Ahnung man von etwas hat, desto kompetenter erscheinen die KI-Antworten zum Thema.
When the European Commission approached us about funding a bug bounty for BIND 9, we were impressed with the proposal. We have a policy against bug bounties (because we were frustrated with people wasting our time), but under this proposal, the YesWeHack team would do initial triage, and use their expertise to minimize the 'slop' reports. This is a game-changer for a small development team.
The bounty program is active, and we are looking for our first valid report.
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BIND 9 Bug Bounty Program bug bounty program detailsYesWeHack #1 Bug Bounty Platform in Europe
I just gave Codex an explicit instruction to perform a web search, without actually enabling the web search feature itself (I have it configured with full network access enabled).
It just started hitting random search engine APIs via Curl (it gave up with DuckDuckGo, but tried Jina.ai and that worked).
The times we live in.
Apple is significantly increasing its reliance on Samsung for iPhone memory as component prices surge, according to The Korea Economic Daily. ...Hartley Charlton (MacRumors.com)
Broadband ISP and mobile operator EE (BT) has recently begun to inform existing customers on their Pay As You Go (PAYG) mobile plans that both they andMark Jackson (ISPreview.co.uk)
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