Shriram KrishnamurthiScheme, the ur programming language, is 50 years old, as Jason Hemann just reminded me.
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Sebastian WickBlender is getting HDR on Linux via Wayland before Windows! This isn't by accident, but shows how creating a system with a different design creates better results for users and application developers.
https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/blender-hdr-reference-white/
Blender HDR and the reference white issue
The latest alpha of the upcoming Blender 5.0 release comes with High Dynamic Range (HDR) support for Linux on Wayland which will, if everything works out, make it into the final Blender 5.0 release on October 1, 2025. The post on the developer forum comes with instructions on how to enable the experimental support and how to test it. If you are using Fedora Workstation 42, which ships GNOME version 48, everything is already included to run Blender with HDR. All that is required is an HDR compatible display and graphics driver, and turning on HDR in the Display Settings.
talithinking about this racket idiom:
#`'#,x
Ariadne Conill 🐰
Two weeks of wayback: https://ariadne.space/2025/07/07/two-weeks-of-wayback.html
Two weeks of wayback
A poorly kept secret is that the X11 graphics stack is under-maintained as resources shift towards the maintenance of Wayland’s graphics stack instead. To some extent, technical steering committees in major distributions have been watching this situation develop for the past few years with increasing concern, as limited maintenance becomes a security risk: bugs accumulate and already burdened distribution security teams have to carry the security maintenance load in an absence of new releases.
Molly WhitePainter's tweet does not call Senator Gillibrand a "crook", as Senator Kennedy claims, but expresses concern about crypto influence on Congress and notes the crypto money GENIUS Act co-sponsor Gillibrand accepted.
Kennedy's doesn't dispute she took the money, but demands Painter apologize for tweeting about it.
This is why I'm so focused on tracking crypto campaign spending at https://www.followthecrypto.org/ and https://citationneeded.news/. The industry and Congress don't want people to so much as mention crypto's hundreds of millions of dollars in political influence.
ProPublicaHow Hotels, Once a Last Resort, Became New York’s Default Answer to Homelessness
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Statewide spending on hotels has more than tripled in recent years. The shift away from shelters has prevented families from accessing services like child care and help finding housing.
https://www.propublica.org/article/new-york-homelessness-hotels?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #NY #NewYork #Homelessness #Homeless #Hotel #Housing #Shelter
Picard TipsPicard engineering tip: Even if computers can talk now, remember how deeply stupid they are.
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