It’s hard to overemphasize just what a bombshell this was for the webcomic scene in the late 90s/early 00s. Comics had been using GIF even for non-animated strips, and major comics started spearheading anti-GIF campaigns and teaching people how to switch to PNG.
https://ioc.exchange/@siliconundergro/113708037589718726
Toyota, Ford, GM, Amazon, Meta, and OpenAI* will each donate $1 million to Trump’s inauguration.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/24/toyota-trump-inauguration-donation?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
*('s CEO)
President Musk tells people not to donate to Wikipedia.
So send them money.
https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-takes-aim-wikipedia-fund-raising-editing-political-woke-2005742
OpenOffice has multiple unfixed security issues, over a year old, as this image from the Board report says. And no new committers since 2022, and no major release since 2014. Maybe the FOSS community can ask the Apache Software Foundation to finally put it in the Attic, and stop leaving users vulnerable: https://www.apache.org/foundation/contact
Biden's Covid strategy has been to spread misinformation to minimize Covid, get people back to work & ignore Long Covid. Instead of helping the economy as planned, this strategy has harmed the economy along with harming many people.
#COVID #LongCovid
https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/long-covid-keeps-people-out-of-work-and-hurts-the-economy
Headlights seem a lot brighter these days — because they are
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/headlights-led-driving-safety-night-1.7409099
Man, corporations really want to put a stop to libraries:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-library-e-books-queues-1.7414060?cmp=rss
"Depending on the title, public libraries may pay two or three times more for an e-book than they pay for its print edition. In some cases, the e-book may be up to six times the price, librarians told CBC."
"Those publishers ... will often license copies of e-books for just 12 or 24 months. Once that licence expires, libraries must repurchase access to the same book." #canada #cdnpoli #books
#OtD 22 Dec 1989 Irish author and French resistance activist Samuel Beckett died in Paris aged 83. Living in France during WWII, he joined the resistance, helping as a courier and storing weapons. More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9459/samuel-beckett-dies
"I was told Rockchip no longer considers RK3588 to be an “open source” chip. In practice, that means Rockchip no longer contributes RK3588 code to open-source projects and they also decided not to sell RK3588 directly to SBC vendors." https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/12/21/rockchip-rk3588-mainline-linux-support-current-status-and-future-work-for-2025/
This, paired with Joshua Riek stepping away from ubuntu-rockchip, doesn't bode well for RK3588's SBC futures.
Maybe why Radxa is going with a different vendor for their next flagship board, the Orion 6?