Some notes on starting to use Django
Hello! One of my favourite things is starting to learn an Old Boring Technology that I’ve never tried before but that has been around for 20+...
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Valve’s Proton 10.0-4 Released With More Windows Games Now Running On Linux
Valve and CodeWeavers today released Proton 10.0-4 as their newest update to this downstream of Wine that powers Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux…
Read moreUnofficial AppImage Lets You Run Canva’s Affinity on Ubuntu
Linux lacks native versions of industry-grade creative tools like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, and while open-source options are capable, not everyone is willing to relearn and...
Read moreOpenAI spills technical details about how its AI coding agent works
On Friday, OpenAI engineer Michael Bolin published a detailed technical breakdown of how the company’s Codex CLI coding agent works internally, offering developers insight into AI...
Read moreBellSoft bets Java expertise can beat hardened container wave
The hardened container market has been heating up with venture money and startups, but Java platform provider BellSoft thinks its eight years of building Java runtimes...
Read moreX faces EU investigation over Grok’s sexualized deepfakes
X is facing an investigation from the European Commission over the sexualized deepfakes generated by its Grok AI chatbot. In its announcement, the Commission says it...
Read moreJudge Delays Minnesota ICE Decision While Weighing Whether State Is Being Illegally Punished
A federal judge ordered a new briefing due Wednesday on whether DHS is using armed raids to pressure Minnesota into abandoning its sanctuary policies, leaving ICE...
Read morePalantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one...
Read moreTikTok Data Center Outage Triggers Trust Crisis for New US Owners
The technical failure coincided with TikTok’s ownership transition, leading users to question whether videos criticizing ICE raids in Minnesota were being intentionally censored.
Read moreDoctors face-palm as RFK Jr.’s top vaccine advisor questions need for polio shot
The chair of a federal vaccine advisory panel under anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made his stance clear on vaccines in a podcast last...
Read moreWhy has Microsoft been routing example.com traffic to a company in Japan?
From the Department of Bizarre Anomalies: Microsoft has suppressed an unexplained anomaly on its network that was routing traffic destined to example.com—a domain reserved for testing...
Read moreCreate a Tiny Telephone Exchange with an Analog Telephone Adapter
An analog telephone adapter (ATA), or FXS gateway, is a device that allows traditional analog phones to be connected to a digital voice-over-IP (VoIP) network. In...
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