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Deals: Up to $300 Off M3 MacBook Pro, $250 Off M2 MacBook Air, AirPods for $99, etc
Amazon is offering some really great deals on Mac laptops, taking up to $300 off the M3 MacBook Pro series in both 14″ and 16″ display sizes, and $250 off the M2 MacBook Air 15″ base model. Plus, Amazon continues to offer great deals on AirTags, a nice discount on AirPods, and discounts on a … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/12/28/deals-up-to-300-off-m3-macbook-pro-250 … ⌘ Read more

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′18″W] Transfer 25% complete…

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Foggy Christmas adventuring ⌘ Read more

iOS 16.7.4 and iPadOS 16.7.4 Released for Older iPhone & iPad Models
Apple has released iOS 16.7.4 for older iPhone and iPadOS 16.7.4 for older iPad models that are not updating to iOS 17.2.1 or iPadOS 17.2.1. Specifically, iOS 16.7.4 and iPadOS 16.7.4 are available for iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPad 5th generation, iPad Pro 9.7-inch, and iPad Pro 12.9-inch 1st generation. The software … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/12/20/ios-16-7-4-and-ipados- … ⌘ Read more

MacOS Sonoma 14.2.1 Update Released with Bug Fixes
Apple has released macOS Sonoma 14.2.1 as a software update for Mac users running the Sonoma operating system. The update is said to include important bug fixes and security updates, and is therefore recommended for all users to install. Separately, Apple has released iOS 17.2.1 for iPhone, iPadOS 17.2.1 for iPad, iOS 16.7.4 and iPadOS … Read More ⌘ Read more

“A Charlie Brown Christmas” is Free to Watch This Weekend
The classic cartoon “A Charlie Brown Christmas”, about a child who is upset about the commercialization of Christmas, is free to watch this weekend only on Apple TV+ (though you can continue to watch it free with an Apple TV+ free trial at any other time). Perhaps you had grown accustomed to watching the heartwarming … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/12/16/a-charlie-brown-christmas-is-free-to-watch-this … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — A Vessel for Offering, part 4 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/12/16/vessel-offering-4.html #freeculture #bookclub

В Death Stranding сыграло 16 миллионов человек
Чтобы достичь такой аудитории экшен-адвенчуре Хидео Кодзимы потребовалось четыре года.

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Today’s Advent of Code puzzle was rather easy (luckily), so I spent the day doing two other things:

• Explore VGA a bit: How to draw pixels on DOS all by yourself without a library in graphics mode 12h?
  
• Explose XMS a bit: How can I use more than 640 kB / 1 MB on DOS?
  

Both are … quite awkward. 😬 For VGA, I’ll stick to using the Borland Graphics Interface for now. Mode 13h is great, all pixels are directly addressable – but it’s only 320x200. Mode 12h (640 x 480 with 16 colors) is pretty horrible to use with all the planes and what not.

As per this spec, I’ve written a small XMS example that uses 32 MB of memory:

https://movq.de/v/9ed329b401/xms.c

It works, but it appears the only way to make use of this memory is to copy data back and forth between conventional memory and extended memory. I don’t know how useful that is going to be. 🤔 But at least I know how it works now.

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iOS 16.7.3 and iPadOS 16.7.3 Released for Older iPhone & iPad Models
iOS 16.7.3 and iPadOS 16.7.3 for iPhone and iPad have been released for users who are not updating to iOS 17.2 or iPadOS 17.2, either because they have not yet updated, are not able to run iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 on their devices, or because they are not interested in doing so. Specifically, the … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/12/13/ios-16-7-3-and-ipados-16-7-3-released-for-older-iphone-ip … ⌘ Read more

Apple Deals: $200 Off M3 MacBook Pro’s, $100 Off M1 iPad Air, 4-pack AirTags for $80, etc
Shopping for some Apple gear this holiday season? Why not save some cash and take advantage of Amazon’s ongoing deals for Apple hardware. We’ve rounded up a handful of great deals on the M3 MacBook Pro 14″ & 16″, M2 MacBook Air 15″, iPad Air, iPad mini, AirTags, Apple Watch Series 9, external hard drives, … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/12/04/apple-d … ⌘ Read more

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′55″W] –bad checksum–

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′36″W] Wind speed: 74kph

Хендерсон: релиз Skull and Bones запланирован на 16 февраля 2024 года
Может, теперь без переносов?

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Разработчик нашёл на сайте The Game Awards 2023 скрытый счётчик голосов за звание лучшей игры года по версии игроков
Пока лидирует Baldur’s Gate 3, а Starfield на 16-й строчке.

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[47°09′16″S, 126°43′27″W] Transfer aborted

[47°09′22″S, 126°43′16″W] Reading: 1.36000 PPM

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′27″W] Saalmi, retransmit, please

[47°09′44″S, 126°43′16″W] Wind speed: 63kph – batteries low

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Family https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/11/16/family.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

How to Perform FaceTime Reaction Gestures on iPhone, iPad, & Mac
Apple has introduced all new reaction gestures for FaceTime on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, meaning if you make certain hand gestures, symbols, or movements, you will trigger a digital effect reaction. For example, if you make a thumbs up gesture with your hand, a thumbs up emoji will appear on the screen, or if … Read More ⌘ Read more

Early Black Friday Deals: $100 Off iPad Magic Keyboard, $250 Off M2 MacBook Air 15″, & More
Amazon is back with more early Black Friday deals on a bunch of Apple products. From huge discounts on the iPad Magic Keyboard and Apple Pencil 2, big discounts on iPad Air and iPad, nice discounts on the latest Apple Watch, and up to a whopping $250 off the M2 MacBook Air 15″ models, you’re … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/11/16/early-black … ⌘ Read more

Security best practices for authors of GitHub Actions
Improve your GitHub Action’s security posture by securing your source repository, protecting your maintainers, and making it easy to report security incidents.

The post Security best practices for authors of GitHub Actions appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

How to Perform FaceTime Reaction Gestures on iPhone, iPad, & Mac
Apple has introduced all new reaction gestures for FaceTime on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, meaning if you make certain hand gestures, symbols, or movements, you will trigger a digital effect reaction. For example, if you make a thumbs up gesture with your hand, a thumbs up emoji will appear on the screen, or if … Read More ⌘ Read more

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′10″W] 3860 days without news from Herve

Стартап Humane выходцев из Apple представил AI Pin — «умную» брошь за $699 с ИИ от OpenAI и лазерным проектором
В США предзаказ откроют 16 ноября 2023 года. Поставки запланировали на начало 2024-го.

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Apple: 8 ГБ ОЗУ в MacBook Pro M3 сопоставимы с 16 ГБ в ПК на других системах
Всё дело в более эффективном использовании памяти, заявили в компании.

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[47°09′23″S, 126°43′16″W] Reading: 0.86000 PPM

MacOS Ventura 13.6.1 and MacOS Monterey 12.7.1 Released
Apple has released MacOS Ventura 13.6.1 and MacOS Monterey 12.7.1 for Mac users who have not yet updated to macOS Sonoma. The macOS software updates include security enhancements, and come alongside Safari 17.1 as well. Separately, macOS Sonoma 14.1 has also been released, alongside iOS 17.1 update to iPhone, iPadOS 17.1 for iPad, iOS 16.7.2, … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/10/26/macos-ventura-13-6-1-and-macos-mont … ⌘ Read more

iOS 16.7.2, iPadOS 16.7.2, iOS 15.8, & iPadOS 15.8 Released for Older iPhone & iPad Models
Apple has released a series of software updates for older model iPhone and iPad devices, that have either not yet updated to iOS 17 and iPadOS 17, or are not able to run those versions of system software. The updates include important security fixes, and are therefore recommended for all users to install, especially if … [Read More](https://osxdaily.c … ⌘ Read more

GO NOLES! 38-20 over #16 Duke!

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 10/16 to 10/20 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/10/20/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′55″W] Raw reading: 0x65317CB1, offset +/-3

How to Install MacOS Sonoma on a Mac
The upgrade to MacOS Sonoma is well worth it for nearly all Mac users running macOS Ventura since it refines the operating system quite a bit, and could be a compelling upgrade for Mac users running Monterey and earlier versions too. With some great new features like desktop widgets, amazing new screen savers and wallpapers, … Read More ⌘ Read more

Measuring Git performance with OpenTelemetry
Use our new open source Trace2 receiver component and OpenTelemetry to capture and visualize telemetry from your Git commands.

The post Measuring Git performance with OpenTelemetry appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, World Food Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/10/16/food.html #programming #project #devjournal

iOS 16.7.1 Released for iPhones & iPads Not Running iOS 17
Apple has released iOS 16.7.1 and iPadOS 16.7.1 for iPhone and iPad users who are not running iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 on their respective devices. For most users, the 16.7.1 update will be available on an older device that doesn’t support the 17 versions of iOS/iPadOS, which includes iPhone 8 series, iPhone X, iPad … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/10/10/ios-16-7-1-released-for-iphones-ipads-not-running-ios-17/ … ⌘ Read more

[47°09′53″S, 126°43′16″W] Bad satellite signal – switching to analog communication

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′38″W] Transponder malfunction

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′10″W] Sample analyzing complete – starting transfer

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′04″W] Resetting transponder

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′04″W] Analyzing samples

On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Poles, part 5 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/09/16/poles-5.html #freeculture #bookclub

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′14″W] –interrupted–

Today I was fighting against a TOTP library in PHP, since it works for 6 and 8 digits, but for 10 it was giving inconsistent values, due to a conversion to a 32 bits int.

It felt amazing when, after a few hours, I found what was causing the error…

And found that many libraries have the same problem.
Now I get why TOTP is limited to 8 chars. It’s a 2FA but not a Password. Perhaps another algorithm will be needed to support 16 digits.

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′07″W] Not enough data – sampling finished

[47°09′08″S, 126°43′16″W] Transfer aborted

I picked up a tiny nuc a bit ago with 64G ram and 16 ryzen cores.

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′30″W] Resetting dosimeter

[47°09′15″S, 126°43′16″W] Sample analyzing complete – starting transfer

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′45″W] Reading: 1.69 Sv

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′02″W] –white noise–

[47°09′55″S, 126°43′16″W] Transfer aborted

GitHub Availability Report: June 2023
In June, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.  June 7 16:11 UTC (lasting 2 hours 28 minutes) On June 7 at 16:11 UTC, GitHub started experiencing increasing delays in an internal job queue used to process Git pushes. Our monitoring systems alerted our first responders after 19 minutes. During […] ⌘ Read more

[47°09′27″S, 126°43′16″W] Weather forecast alert – storm from SW

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′11″W] Reading: 1.53000 PPM

** of vast distances, connection over them, and being made to feel alone; of water catchment, soil, and bits **
Anomie, a word for your consideration.

The dictionary of cyborg anthropology defines anomie, in part, with this anecdote:

In everyday life, the modern vehicle and the daily commute is one of the most isolated moments an urban human can experience. T … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 06/12 to 06/16 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/16/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′25″W] Reading: 1.13000 PPM

Maintainer Month 2023: How the community gathered to spread some maintainer love
Maintainer Month is a time for open source maintainers to gather, share, and be celebrated. Over 31 days, 16 organizations came together to offer 42 activities convening and celebrating maintainers. ⌘ Read more

[47°09′43″S, 126°43′16″W] Automatic systems disengaged due to heavy rain

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′22″W] Wind speed: 43kph

[47°09′30″S, 126°43′16″W] Analyzing samples

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′49″W] Reading: 1.26000 PPM

[47°09′58″S, 126°43′16″W] Dosimeter fixed

[47°09′37″S, 126°43′16″W] Raw reading: 0x646B12F1, offset +/-1

[47°09′41″S, 126°43′16″W] Wind speed: 53kph – batteries low

[47°09′05″S, 126°43′16″W] –no signal–

Addressing GitHub’s recent availability issues
GitHub recently experienced several availability incidents, both long running and shorter duration. We have since mitigated these incidents and all systems are now operating normally. Read on for more details about what caused these incidents and what we’re doing to mitigate in the future. ⌘ Read more

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′56″W] Reading: 0.55 Sv

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′34″W] Saalmi, retransmit, please

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′00″W] Dosimeter malfunction

[47°09′07″S, 126°43′16″W] Saalmi, retransmit, please

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′33″W] Resetting dosimeter

[47°09′04″S, 126°43′29″W] Reading: 1.16 Sv

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′08″W] Raw reading: 0x64324651, offset +/-5

[47°09′20″S, 126°43′16″W] –interrupted–

[47°09′00″S, 126°43′16″W] Wind speed: 93kph – batteries low

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′44″W] Raw reading: 0x64227451, offset +/-1

[47°09′33″S, 126°43′16″W] Wind speed: N/A – Cannot comunicate

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′04″W] Reading: 1.24 Sv

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Samaritan Snare https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/16/samaritan-snare.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

Godot 4.0 Release Party 🎉
We are delighted to host the Godot 4.0 Release Party at GitHub HQ on Wednesday, March 22 from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm. And you’re invited! ⌘ Read more

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′55″W] Transfer 25% complete…

[47°09′23″S, 126°43′16″W] Taking samples

[47°09′09″S, 126°43′16″W] Dosimeter overflow

[47°09′10″S, 126°43′16″W] Non-significative results – sampling finished

[47°09′23″S, 126°43′16″W] Automatic systems disengaged due to thunderstorm

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′58″W] Weather forecast alert – storm from N

[47°09′59″S, 126°43′16″W] Transponder fixed

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′59″W] Storm recedes – back to normal work

** Ideas for making accessibility and equity a core part of the software development lifecycle **
In accessibility and the product person I said

we need to make accessibility a core part of our processes

Here, I want to talk about that in more detail. I want to briefly explore what making accessibility a part of core processes looks like, and how that is different from centering access … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Time Squared https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/02/16/time-squared.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

** Accessibility and the product person **
This post is a slightly modified version of a talk I presented to the product practice at my work. It presents a few ways that product designers and managers can help to move accessibility forward. It is a little bit different than what I normally share, here, but, I thought it may be interesting to some folks.

[![Picture of a slide with the title “Why though?” It also includes a quote from Kat Holmes’ book Mismatch. The quote reads: “There are many challeng … ⌘ Read more

ICYMI: CodeQL enhancements
Learn about CodeQL’s improved user experience and enhancements that let you scan new languages, detect new types of CWEs, and perform deeper analyses of your applications. ⌘ Read more

[47°09′52″S, 126°43′16″W] Reading: 0.26000 PPM

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′53″W] Weather forecast alert – storm from NW

On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Life Blood, chapters 14 – 16 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/01/28/life-blood-5.html #freeculture #bookclub