This is one of the dialogs you encounter when getting started with Bluesky. It's easy to see how new users might be led believe that Bluesky is federated, as Mastodon is. I'm a developer and I was confused by what it was saying. Is Bluesky is federated? | Continue reading
On the way to Berlin for the Eno premiere with Gary Huswit, Brendan Dawes and also looking forward to seeing Keir Whitaker. 🙌 #firsttripin25 Reply via Email | Continue reading
Yumeko is a half-human half-fox teenage girl, gifted with the magic of illusion and trickery. She has the mission to bring a powerful scroll to safety. The scroll grants its owner a single wish, granted by the almighty dragon god, who can only be summoned once every 1,000 years. … | Continue reading
What new e-readers will come out in 2025? Several brands will release new devices like clockwork, such as Pocketbook, Onyx Boox, Meebook, iFlytek, iReader, Hyread, and others. These guys, on average, issue 3-4 new devices each and tend to mix traditional black-and-white e-paper w … | Continue reading
Enshittification is a work coined by Cory Doctorow in 2022. It seems to perfectly capture the mood of the United States today. The post Greenlash And The Enshittification Of America appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Montana Renewables is planning to expand their sustainable aviation fuel footprint with an assist from the US Department of Energy. The post Your Questions About Montana Renewables, (Partly) Answered appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Palmetto State Park. San Marcos River, trail, and old CCC building. | Continue reading
Kim Jong-un’s bizarre new ban for North Koreans:The hermit kingdom has outlawed popular items in recent months as part of a massive crackdown on Western cultural influences.Heath Parkes-Hupton, news.com.au (1/6/25) "Weird", as some attendees at the American Dialect Society's Word … | Continue reading
Even after it became obvious that Facebook was an invasive cancer on not just the Internet, but all society, I kept my account. There were too many ways it was ingrained into my life. It was the way my cycling club announced rides and planned events. Friends who moved away years … | Continue reading
The building electrification movement is getting another shot of adrenaline from new energy-efficient heat pump water heater technology. The post More Headaches For Natural Gas: Next-Gen Heat Pump Water Heaters Are Here appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
My brother Tom came to me, and he and I to Mr. Turner the Draper's, and paid 15l. to him for cloth owing to him by my father for his mourning for my uncle, and so to his house, and there invited all the Honiwood's to dinner on Monday next. So to the... | Continue reading
Die Wintersaison ist gut angelaufen, der Schneesport in Österreich ein Milliardengeschäft. Wir müssen trotzdem (ernsthaft) reden. Derzeit führen wir zu oft Scheindebatten, was der volkswirtschaftlichen und sozialen Bedeutung des Skilaufs nicht gerecht wird. Wir müssen auch als To … | Continue reading
Asus has launched a new NUC which is unique in that it comes with an always-on E Ink display on top. Asus is also claiming the NUC 14 Pro AI+ is the world’s first Copilot+ Mini PC that comes powered by Intel Core Ultra processors (Series 2) having multiple CPU, GPU, and NPU archi … | Continue reading
Good piece and great headline by Charlie Warzel at The Atlantic: The social-media hall monitors have been so restrictive on “topics of immigration and gender that they’re out of touch with mainstream discourse,” Zuckerberg said with the zeal of an activist. He spoke about “a cult … | Continue reading
Click here to go see the bonus panel!Hovertext:The problem with college students these days is [insert any topic you wish to talk about]Today's News: | Continue reading
My wife and I work for the same private university. She's been there several years longer than I have, and she's the associate VP for finance and controller in charge of the finance department and some other stuff like the book store and the post office. She goes to meetings, has … | Continue reading
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge ‘We view what we are doing as a public service,’ says the cofounder of the nonprofit that millions of people are relying on to stay safe. If you live in Los Angeles, you are probably already intimately familiar with Watch Duty, the free app that s … | Continue reading
Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears. | Continue reading
There were several interesting announcements made at Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s Keynote at CES 2025, including a new RTX 50 generation of gaming GPUs and an upcoming $3,000 Mac-Mini-sized “personal AI supercomputer” called Project Digits. But most interesting to me was the scale o … | Continue reading
A Google Travel app would act as a central hub for the company's various services and products, making it easy for travelers to take stock. | Continue reading
I've based several past posts on passages from Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography. Recently I happened to notice some large differences among different editions, and so I took a look at the Library of Congress page "Finding Benjamin Franklin: A Resource Guide", which lists 16 "sig … | Continue reading
Something out of the way is happening at the Amazon camp as far as Kindle books are concerned. Many have reported being unable to download e-books they purchased earlier from Amazon. Download and transferring to Kindle happens to be one of the ways of adding content to the Kindle … | Continue reading
While Southern California experienced a historically dry rainy season, Pacific Palisades’ emergency water supply was bare. | Continue reading
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon will be winding down its Prime Try Before You Buy program, which let Prime members try on clothes before paying for them, reports The Information. It will shutter on January 31st, according to a banner at the top of the service’s lan … | Continue reading
Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears. | Continue reading
Anker’s latest GaN offering sports four USB ports on the bottom, which isn’t where they’re typically relocated. | Image: Anker The inventive gadgets and gizmos at CES can often define the year, but most everything that appears on the showroom floor isn’t going to be available unt … | Continue reading
"Landing our booster offshore is ambitious—but we’re going for it." | Continue reading
YouTube channels have feeds. Here's the feed for my YouTube channel. And a canonical JSONification of the feed (this is how FeedLand gets the data from any type of feed, RSS, Atom or RDF, the YouTube feed is Atom). I did not know they had feeds, in fact I thought I heard they spe … | Continue reading
South Africa is one of the largest markets for sales of brand new vehicles in Africa. Just over half a million new vehicles are sold in South Africa each year. South Africa is the biggest economy on the continent. However, what really makes a big difference is the country’s well … | Continue reading
The disaster can teach California how to rebuild, if the state will listen. | Continue reading
Tesla seemed as if it was on a smooth road trip looking ahead to the next four years. CEO Elon Musk single-handedly rallied voters in November’s win for the right-wing entourage of Donald J. Trump. Sure, the allegiance came at a cost of $238 million from a fundraising arm that .. … | Continue reading
Get lost in a tiny detail. Memorize. Find the one flaw. Here’s how to truly enjoy every experience. | Continue reading
A new mega-database of half a million mutations may flag new ways of treating genetic disease, scientists say. | Continue reading
Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Leaks and rumors supported by multiple third-party manufactures make up the bulk of info out there about the new Switch. Nintendo’s announcement of the Switch successor is imminent. Just how imminent is anyone’s guess with the company … | Continue reading
Archaeologists have discovered 321 silver coins still wrapped in a cloth and lead pouch from a time in English history marked by upheaval due to the coronation of a new Anglo-Saxon king. | Continue reading
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There are a bunch of interesting new smart glasses at CES — see this post by Victoria Song at The Verge — but I’m still looking for something simpler. Looks like normal glasses, can take photos, no screen, optionally you can talk to it, not made by Meta. | Continue reading
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge New renders of the Samsung Galaxy S25 series have appeared in a leak from Android Headlines ahead of Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event later this month. The most obvious change here is that Samsung has tweaked the design of the S25 Ultra, rou … | Continue reading
Meanwhile, some of the president-elect’s most controversial Cabinet picks are set to appear before the Senate. | Continue reading
SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 2025 Trap of Timpf stays shut: The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin once said. At long last, we can finally say that he seems to have had it wrong. It's true! A nation's cities can be devoured by flames. But a nation's capacity for intelligent discourse can be … | Continue reading
Image: Blue Origin Blue Origin is preparing for one of its biggest launches yet. On Monday, the Jeff Bezos-owned commercial space company will attempt to send its 320-foot-tall New Glenn rocket into space for the first time. The launch comes after almost a decade of development, … | Continue reading
This is my experience dual-yielding a midrange NAS and a cheap Google One subscription to achieve perfect harmony between backups and convenience. | Continue reading
I have a laundry list of favorite Android icon packs, but these are the packs I'd happy pay for all over again (along with a free option). | Continue reading
Elon Musk and Bernie Sanders agree on how to reform the suddenly controversial immigration program. But the real conflict here is within the parties, not between them. | Continue reading
I recently lost my Apple TV remote (the latest model) and despite apparently being somewhere in the couch according to Find My, my wife and I can not find it. We were using our phones as remotes for a couple days, which was annoying, but got the job done. But | Continue reading
A couple weeks ago, news broke that Shell Recharge is getting out of the software market. Normally, getting out of software means not sending out installation files to customers anymore, allowing competing software companies to take care of people’s needs. But, in the case of EV … | Continue reading
Recently, when I saw a video about pulling a travel trailer that brings its own power to the game. And, after seeing too many memes about making undesired modifications to rifles, I immediately thought to myself, “You know what? Screw you! *Turns your truck into a hybrid*” Why wo … | Continue reading
Los Angeles has a long way to go before city and state officials can start looking for lessons to take away from these fires. Likely topics of discussion will include building resilient structures, vegetation management, and community preparedness. But there are also some more ou … | Continue reading