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Sunday April 13, 2025. 12:52 AM
Over 15 years ago, I wrote about the launch of a Paint.NET clone for Linux, called Pinta, written in GTK. That was merely version 0.1, and over time, it’s become somewhat of a staple for many Linux users. The project just released version 3, which is a major revision, moving...
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Saturday April 12, 2025. 10:34 PM
One thing I love about Python is how it comes with its very own built-in zen. In moments of tribulations, when I am wrestling with crooked code and tangled thoughts, I often find solace in its timeless wisdom. ↫ Susam Pal I can’t program and know nothing about Python, but...
Microsoft has released its third preview of.NET 10, a planned update to the company’s cross-platform, open-source, application development platform. Among the highlights,.NET 10 Preview 3 introduces an AOT-safe constructor for ValidationContext, more powerful C# language...
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TL;DR: You can get a Sam's Club membership half off for the first year right now; just $25. Want to take your fam out to a members only club? Sam's Club is the place to see and be seen and save money. — Read the rest The post The hottest exclusive club: Sam's Club membership...
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In case you missed it, Season 7 of Black Mirror just hit Netflix. Although the last couple seasons have contained far more misses than hits for me (in my opinion, the Season 3 episode 'Shut Up and Dance' is the peak of the series as a whole, and it's almost ten years old!),...
The next time you cook pasta, don't bother with a kitchen timer, just hit play on one of these playlists—each one is precisely timed to match the cook time of a particular variety of pasta. The 'Playlist Timer' tool was created by Publicis Italy and is a collaboration...
I have to admit, as an academic who is frequently frustrated by predatory journals as well as by the inability to extricate myself from some journal and conference mailing lists, I thoroughly resonate with the paper 'Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List,' which I can only...
I've watched this video countless times now, and it still hasn't stopped making me laugh. When two dudes at a gas station try to read a moving digital sign, they first read the words 'cold bee' out loud. One of the guys says 'cold bee!? — Read the rest The post Watch two...
We've all heard of sugar plums, but what are they? I realized I've never actually eaten a sugar plum, and I can't imagine what it is. Are sugar plums an extra-sweet type of plum? This video, What Are Sugar Plums?, will answer all of your sugar plum related questions. — Read...
Imagine you had to finish every sentence in every book ever written -- with just your best guess of the next word. That’s how large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 start learning. LLMs use self-supervised learning, meaning they don’t need someone to label or explain...
Knowing how frequently accessed a page of memory is (its 'hotness') is a key input to many memory-management heuristics. Jonathan Cameron, in a memory-management track at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, pointed out that the number of...
Remember Windows Recall, the Windows feature that would take a screenshot of your desktop every three seconds, stored them in a database, and then let you search through them at later dates? The feature has been hobbled by implementation problems, security issues, and...
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Friday April 11, 2025. 11:21 PM
A baby golden retriever was learning how to jump off his backyard deck down to the grass below, but wasn't so sure about the two-foot drop. That's when he decided to jump into the other, much taller patch of 'grass' — and into the bush he disappeared. — Read the rest The...
In a move that will likely force IT to much more aggressively use web certificate automation services, the Certification Authority Browser Forum (CA/Browser Forum), a gathering of certificate issuers and suppliers of applications that use certificates, voted Friday to...
In celebration of the Jewish holiday of Passover which starts tomorrow night, I suggest watching The Ten Commandments, Cecil B. DeMille's 1923 epic silent film version of the biblical Exodus story. (The full movie also includes a separate modern story that I never bothered...
Yesterday we had SDL2 for the classic Mac OS, today we have modern SSL/TLS for the classic Mac OS. This is a C89/C90 port of MbedTLS for Mac System 7/8/9. It works, and compiles under Metrowerks Codewarrior Pro 4. This is a basic app that performs a GET request on whatever...
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