Redesign of the Edit Mode in Plasma 6.1 ( notmart.org )
OpenAI says Sky voice in ChatGPT will be paused after concerns it sounds too much like Scarlett Johansson ( www.tomsguide.com )
The company says the voices in ChatGPT were from paid voice actors. A final five were selected from an initial pool of 400 and it's purely a coincidence the unnamed actress behind the Sky voice has a similar tone to Johansson....
Finding And Resurrecting Archie: The Internet’s First Search Engine ( hackaday.com )
Archive.today link to the article.
evil-helix: A super fast modal editor with Vim keybindings ( github.com )
Some of you may have come across Helix - a very fast editor/IDE. Unfortunately, Helix has its own set of keybindings, modeled after Kakoune....
Baldur's Gate 3 developer opens Poland studio as work on new projects "ramps up" ( www.eurogamer.net )
How to Create a Simple Debian Package ( www.baeldung.com )
HMD's Nokia Lumia remake with 108 MP PureView camera and Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 processor is in development ( www.notebookcheck.net )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15854044...
All-perovskite tandem PV cell based on carboranes hits 27.2% efficiency ( www.pv-magazine.com )
Winamp will “open up” the source code of its classic Windows player in September 2024 ( alternativeto.net )
If someone like this thing
MX Linux 23.3 “Libretto” released ( mxlinux.org )
Easy Application Deployments with Linux ( lackofimagination.org )
Sony Xperia 1 VI review ( gsmarena.com )
This USB flash drive can only store 8KB of data, but will last you 200 years ( www.tomshardware.com )
RISC-V adoption predicted to get AI boost — forecast shows 50% growth every year until 2030 for the open-standard ISA ( www.tomshardware.com )
RISC-V seems to be gaining more traction and more space in the media.
Winamp is going open source, and it feels like the early 2000s again ( www.xda-developers.com )
Kyrgyzstan Unrest Escalates: Hackers Target Nation Amidst Mob Violence ( thecyberexpress.com )
Amidst the physical violence, Kyrgyzstan's digital infrastructure is under severe attack from various hacktivist groups.
Queen thought Meghan’s wedding dress was ‘too white’ as Sussexes mark 6th anniversary ( www.independent.co.uk )
Multi-boot utility Ventoy updated to 1.0.98 - Fixes for Arch Linux, KAOS, RHEL9 ( github.com )
Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drives for ISO/IMG/VHD(x)/WIM/EFI files. With Ventoy, you don't need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the disk images to the USB drive and boot them directly. You can have multiple images on the disk and Ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them....
HMD introduces Pulse+ Business Edition with extended software support and warranty ( m.gsmarena.com )
Physically, the phone is the same as the consumer version. There is a difference in software and support that makes deploying this phone to employees and helping them out when something goes wrong is easier....
Tribler *arr integration ( github.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15808940...
Wine 9.9 Released ( gitlab.winehq.org )
Release notes...
Trump demands drug test for Biden ahead of first debate ( thehill.com )
Former President Trump said he wants President Biden to be drug-tested before their first debate....
[History] An editor letter by Edsger Dijkstra, titled: "go to statements considered harmful" (march 1968). ( dl.acm.org )
In this letter, Dijkstra talks about readability and maintainability in a time where those topics were rarely talked about (1968). This letter was one of the main causes why modern programmers don't have to trouble themselves with goto statements. Older languages like Java and C# still have a (discouraged) goto statement,...