Panama’s president and Trump spar over Panama Canal
Eric Bazail-Eimil and Mia McCarthy, Staff Writers - Politico
Stephan: Fascist Trump is giving the world a heads-up on the kind of international crises he is going to create as soon as he is sworn into office. He is making it clear that he isn’t going to address any of the geopolitical problems, he is going to bully little countries that have no means to oppose him. Trump is first and last a coward and a bully.
_Stephan: Day after day, in both the American and international media, I see and read, or watch, horror story after horror story of Israel’s ongoing genocide of Muslims, much of it done with weapons given to fascist Netanyahu by Presidents Trump and Biden. Two men who, in my opinion, are both too old to hold th … ⌘ Read more
Here Are the Three Apple Products You’re Most Likely to Unwrap This Christmas
With such a wide array of products now available, Apple devices will be under the Christmas trees of many families this season. However, there are three that are most likely to be there.
According to [Piper Jaffray](https://www.statista.com/chart/20055/items-brands-most-often-mentioned-as-a-top-item-on-teens-holiday-wi … ⌘ Read more
10 Adaptions of “A Christmas Carol” That Missed the Mark
Since the book’s release in 1843, Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol has been adapted over 300 times. With that many versions to choose from, there’s a tale that suits everyone’s needs. Whether you want your Scrooge to be a duck or a puppet, a cartoon or a human, a woman or a man, the list […]
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10 Social Media Stunts That Ended in Arrests or Worse
Competition among social media influencers to gain subscribers is intense because more subscribers equals more advertisers, which, in turn, equals a bigger income. Partly for this reason, those who operate social media platforms sometimes perform ill-advised, reckless, and dangerous stunts. The ten social media stunts on this list led to arrests on various charges and, […]
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Track Santa’s Journey From the North Pole Using Google’s Santa Tracker
Have you been good this year? If so, you may be interested to know that Google has launched its annual Santa tracking feature, allowing Santa to be tracked in real time on his journey to the North Pole as he prepares to deliver presents to children around the world.
Google’s Santa Tracker continues a two-decad … ⌘ Read more
Navigating Platform Engineering pitfalls with WebAssembly components
Ambassador post by Liam Randall, CNCF Ambassador and CEO, Cosmonic We recently had the opportunity to reflect on the state of platform engineering within large companies—and the role WebAssembly has to play in the discipline’s future…. ⌘ Read more
New MacBook Air Models With M4 Chip Expected to Launch ‘Earlier’ Than iPhone SE 4 and iPad 11
Apple is rumored to have many product announcements planned for the first half of next year, including updated MacBook Air models, an iPad 11, an iPhone SE 4, the AirTag 2, updated iPad Air models, and potentially more.
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On my blog: Developer Diary, Treaty of Ghent https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/12/23/ghent.html #programming #project #devjournal
Editor’s Note – Americans Did it to Themselves
Stephan A. Schwartz, Editor - Schwartzreport
_Stephan: As I watch the chaos of the incoming Trump administration, several trends have stood out for me. The first is how it is possible that such corrupt and incompetent men and women have been elected as the representatives of the districts and states they are supposed to serve. What I think we are seeing is the manifestation of what the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United ma … ⌘ Read more
GOP senator who appeared to urinate on self in DUI test caught double-dipping on expenses
Cassandra Stephenson, Staff Writer - Raw Story | Tennessee Lookout
Stephan: I want to make a point today that most of the media either does not see, or won’t properly address. They do one-off stories like this one, but they don’t report on the trend I described in my editor’s comment.
_Stephan: Thankfully MAGAt Republican Kay Granger, the representative for Texas’s 12th Congressional District, will retire with the close of this Congress. But the question is how long has she suffered from dementia. As the article describes she has been in her office or even having someone an … ⌘ Read more
In Waning Senate Days, Kyrsten Sinema Screwed Workers and Spent Campaign Cash on Stay at French Castle
Matt Sledge, Staff Writer - The Intercept
Stephan: It isn’t just Republicans that are corrupt whores serving the interest of the rich who bought them their seats instead of the poor fools who voted them into office. Kyrsten Sinema is a notable example making this point. Here’s why I say this.
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_Stephan: The christofascist Supreme Court majority engineered by Leonard Leo, Mitch McConnell and Trump, has produced the most corrupt court in the history of the United States. Not only corrupt but incredibly arrogant. They have no ethic standards they are required to … ⌘ Read more
Pause hivernale
C’est bientôt Noël, et en enfilade, une nouvelle année et c’est donc aussi le moment de faire une pause dans la parution des billets, quelques jours de repos étant clairement nécessaires pour repartir sur de bonnes bases (et réapprovisionner mon stock de chatons communistes). Traditionnellement avec la fin de l’année vient généralement les bilans. Cette […] ⌘ Read more
10 Reasons Dickens Would Love “The Muppet Christmas Carol” Adaptation
Since it was published in 1843, there have been dozens of adaptions of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. Many of these try to stay true to the original story, but others take a bit more creative liberty. One of the most popular and entertaining versions of the story came out in 1993 and features a […]
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The 10 Largest Moons of Our Solar System
The night sky holds countless celestial wonders, but few are as captivating as the moons of our solar system. While Earth boasts just one moon, other planets have entire families of moons, each unique in its size, composition, and history. These natural satellites range from small, rocky chunks to massive, planet-like bodies with complex surfaces […]
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Apple Rumored to Launch Smart Home Doorbell With Face ID and More
Apple is in the early stages of developing a smart home doorbell and lock system with Face ID, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
In his Power On newsletter today, Gurman said the doorbell would wirelessly connect to a … ⌘ Read more
New ‘HomePod’ With 7-Inch Display, A18 Chip, and More Reportedly Launching Next Year
Apple plans to release a new “HomePod” with a 7-inch LCD display, an A18 chip, and Apple Intelligence support in 2025, according to DigiTimes.
It is unclear how much the screen-equipped HomePod would cost, but Apple is seemingl … ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Speciare Lunar Research Facility https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/12/21/speciare.html #freeculture #bookclub
Bernie Sanders Says Defeating Oligarchy Now Most Urgent Issue
Jon Queally, Managing Editor - Common Dreams
_Stephan: Senator Bernie Sanders is one of the few people in Congress who tells the truth about what has happened not only in the UNited States, but around the world. Most of the world’s economy is controlled by a handful of uber-rich, and they don’t give a damn about you or your family. You are the equivalent of cattle, to be herded in the direction th … ⌘ Read more
Here’s what happens when the world’s richest man buys the presidency
Sabrina Haake, Contributing Writer - Raw Story
_Stephan: Here are the four things I think citizens should be demanding, with tens of millions going into the streets across the nation to demonstrate for them. First, the Supreme Court Citizens United decision has to be rendered meaningless by the Congress passing legislation that can overcome Trump’s veto. Second, Congress should pass le … ⌘ Read more
For Gen Alpha, learning to read is becoming a privilege
Jane Ridley and Ayelet Sheffey, - msn
_Stephan: Literacy is essential to maintain a healthy democracy, and literacy is declining. Consider this: 54% of Americans can’t read and comprehend anything above 6th grade reading, and 43% can’t read and comprehend about 5th grade level. Even more alarming, as this report lays out, Gen Alpha, kids 2 to 12, aren’t even very interested in learning to read anything more com … ⌘ Read more
‘World’s first’ grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant announced in the US
Laura Paddison, - CNN
Stephan: Here is a first report on a new fusion technology that may become a very significant power technology to help us leave the carbon era.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems’s tokamak, a donut-shaped machine used to create nuclear fusion, in Devens, Massachusetts. Credit: Steven … ⌘ Read moreTop Stories: iPhone 17 Designs, Foldable iPad or MacBook, and More
2024 is rapidly drawing to a close, but the Apple news and rumor mill remains busy. On the software side, users are still exploring the new features in iOS 18.2 such as expanded Apple Intelligence capabilities, while Apple is moving ahead with beta testing of iOS 18.3 and related updates.
On the hardware side, we’re hearing lots of rumors about what’s co … ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 12/16 to 12/20 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/12/20/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week
It’s not a winter wonderland out here, but with Christmas and winter coming soon, maybe a little snow on my blog isn’t a bad idea. I’ve just programmed a snow animation for another project and thought I could reuse the code in the form of a simple GoBlog plugin. ❄❄❄ ⌘ Read more
Use ChatGPT by Phone by Calling 1-800-ChatGPT for AI Voice Answers & Communication
OpenAI, the company behind the popular ChatGPT artificial intelligence tool, has introduced a new phone-based ChatGPT client experience. By calling 1-800-ChatGPT (1-800-242-8478), you are able to have a phone conversation with ChatGPT to get AI answers by phone. Essentially the phone line for ChatGPT means that you can access and use ChatGPT entirely by voice, … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2024/12/20/use-cha … ⌘ Read more
Cloud native solutions for SMBs: unlocking scalability and resilience
Ambassador post by Angel Ramirez, CEO of Cuemby and CNCF ambassador. As the technology landscape evolves, businesses must embrace innovations that enable them to adapt and thrive. Cloud-native technologies, championed by the CNCF community, have emerged… ⌘ Read more
OpenTelemetry.io 2024 review
Project post originally published on the OpenTelemetry blog by Severin Neumann (Cisco), Patrice Chalin (CNCF), Tiffany Hrabusa (Grafana Labs) As 2024 draws to a close, we reflect on the year and share some insights and accomplishments from SIG Communications, the team responsible for… ⌘ Read more
Announcing 1000 Kubestronauts
CNCF is excited to share that since launching the Kubestronauts program less than a year ago, over 1000 Kubestronauts have joined the program. A special welcome to our 1,000th Kubestronaut, Remy Mollandin! Each of these 1000+ Kubestronauts… ⌘ Read more
Top 5 Apple Products to Look Forward to in 2025
It’s looking like 2025 is going to be an important year for Apple, with the company planning to revamp the iPhone, push further into smart home products, and improve Apple Intelligence. There are tons of new products rumored for 2025, including new iPhones, M4 Macs, a smart home command center, and much more.
 by implementing a new text generation technique that offers substantial speed improvements for AI applications.
Apple earlier this year [published](https://mac … ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Schisms https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/12/19/schisms.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
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How to Disable Mail Sender Icons on iPhone in iOS 18.2
Apple recently introduced a completely new redesign for Mail app on iPhone including a Mail Categories feature that many users have strong opinions about, and along with that design change are new large prominent sender profile icons, which sit next to every item in the inbox. These large prominent mail sender icons squeeze the Mail … Read More ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: ejabberd 24.12
Here comes ejabberd 24.12, including a few improvements and bug fixes. This release comes a month and half after 24.10, with around 60 commits to the core repository alongside a few updates in dependencies.
Release Highlights:
- XEP-0484: Fast Authentication Streamlining Tokens: Reduce the time it takes for authentication. This helps with a faster start for cl … ⌘ Read more
The Node Resource Interface says “hi” to WebAssembly
Community blog post by Sascha Grunert, CRI-O maintainer The Node Resource Interface (NRI) allows users to write plugins for Open Container Initiative (OCI) compatible runtimes like CRI-O and containerd. These plugins are capable of making controlled changes to containers at dedicated points in… ⌘ Read more
A new addition to my domain collection
My list of domains is constantly changing. Sometimes it grows, and sometimes it shrinks as I let go of a domain I no longer need. The good thing is that letting go of a domain makes room for new ones. Just yesterday I made a spontaneous purchase of another .de domain: jan-lukas.de, to go along with janlukas.de, which I already own and sometimes use for emails. ⌘ Read more
iCloud Backups No Longer Available for iPhones and iPads Running iOS 8 or Earlier
Making a device backup over iCloud now requires iOS 9 or later, which means iPhones and iPads that are running iOS 8 or earlier are no longer able to be backed up using iCloud.
Apple [announced the change in November](https://www.macrumors.com/2024/11/18/apple-icloud-backup-ios-9-min … ⌘ Read more
Ferries, Planes Line up to Purchase ‘Solar Diesel’ a Cutting-Edge Low-Carbon Fuel from Swiss Start-up
Andy Corbley, Staff Writer - Good News Network
Stephan: I spent several hours of my afternoon looking for good news trends, because I wanted to do at least one edition this week that was positive. It wasn’t easy because this is not a happy time in human history. But I was able to find these.
Hi all, here at PiNodeXMR we’ve been following along with the MRL ban list discussion and have re-added the function to pull-in a ban list of IPs. In the name of decentralisation/anti-censorship, the ban lists are optional for PiNodeXMR users. You can find the new options in your terminal setup menu under “Extra Network tools”.
Links:
How to Check Battery Life of iPhone
The iPhone has pretty great battery life, especially when they’re brand new devices, but like all electronic devices that are battery powered, over time and with usage the battery on iPhone will drain down. If you are new to iPhone, you may be wondering how you can check the remaining battery life of iPhone, and … Read More ⌘ Read more
That’s it for work in 2024. Vacation! And next year will (probably) start with an AWS training course. ⌘ Read more
What is Inference Parallelism and how it works
Member post originally published on the InfraCloud blog by Aman Juneja, Principal Solutions Engineer at InfraCloud Technologies In recent years, we’ve witnessed two recurring trends: the release of increasingly powerful GPUs and the introduction of Large… ⌘ Read more
Apple Drops Plans for iPhone Hardware Subscription Service
Apple is no longer planning to launch a hardware subscription service that would let customers “subscribe” to get a new iPhone each year, reports Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
_Stephan: ”Americans spend more time living with diseases than people from other countries, according to a new study.” What more needs to be said? To quote from the JAMA paper: “Gains in life expectancy across global populations are recognized as a societal achievement.[1](https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/ful … ⌘ Read more
UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With Autism
Annie Waldman, Staff Writer - ProPublica | G
_Stephan: Another horror story about the American illness profit system and the UnitedHealthcare/Optum conglomerate. I understand why Congress does nothing to remedy this abuse; they are mostly whores owned by illness-profit corporations. What I don’t understand is why millions of Americans voted for … ⌘ Read more
La Haute Autorité de Santé veut vous faire payer les transitions de genre d’une minorité bruyante
Ah, enfin : voilà que la Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS) nous offre un nouvel exemple de progrès flamboyant de la société occidentale « pour une totale liberté de pensées cosmiques vers un nouvel âge réminiscent » : cet indispensable organisme administratif envisage dans un projet de recommandations (qu’on pourra ici) un accès gratuit à la t … ⌘ Read more
iOS 18.2: Bring Volume Slider Back to iPhone Lock Screen
Apple in iOS 18.2 has reinstated a Lock Screen feature that was unceremoniously nixed from its iPhone OS two years ago, leaving many users wondering why it was taken away in the first place.
The feature in question is the on-screen volume control slider in the Lock Screen media player interface. Prior to 2022, the volume slider was a familiar pr … ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Devils, in Detail https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/12/15/devils-detail.html #ethics #harm #media #rant
Here’s what happens when the world’s richest man buys the presidency
Sabrina Haake, Contributing Writer - Raw Story
_Stephan: Here is what I think is a very insightful commentary on what is going to happen starting 21 January when the United STates becomes an authoritarian oligarchy instead of a democracy. All the weak-minded Trump voters are about to discover what they have done to themselves as they, and the rest of us, experience the worst and most bia … ⌘ Read more
‘Unprecedented risk’ to life on Earth: Scientists call for halt on ‘mirror life’ microbe research
Ian Sample , Science Editor - The Guardian (U.K.)
Stephan: You’ve probably never heard of “mirror life” microbes. I had heard of them, and read a paper on on this research, but had not understood the threat to all life on Earth they represented. We are about to see if greed trumps the safety of life on this planet.
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I dreamt about Dial House last night. I’ve never been there, but it
was like I belonged, like I was meant to be th … ⌘ Read more