Oh cool! Humble Bundle featuring 21 books by @scalzi@mastodon.social! DRM-free!Announcing the John Scalzi Humble Book Bundl…

Oh cool! Humble Bundle featuring 21 books by @scalzi! DRM-free!

Announcing the John Scalzi Humble Book Bundle, Benefiting First Book

I have several of these already, but they’re scattered across 3 different ebook stores (and therefore apps) and a couple of print editions. It’ll be nice to be able to bring them up on any e-reader I want.

The charity this bundle contributes to is First Book, “which provides books to and champions literacy for children all around the United States.”

#books #scifi #HumbleBundle #FirstBook #literacy #reading

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sigh – I had several links in that post, but apparently they didn’t make it through, probably Elk disagreeing with GoToSocial on Markdown. (GTS has full support for markdown including inline links, but Elk tries to parse Markdown itself. I need to look up that fork of Pinafore I saw a while back.)

Direct link to the bundle:
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/john-scalzis-interdependency-old-mans-war-and-more-tor-books

todo: delete after the bundle ends

So, Vivaldi *does* have arm64 packages for Linux! Both RPM and Deb. Unfortunately the arm device I want to install it on is r…

So, Vivaldi does have arm64 packages for Linux! Both RPM and Deb. Unfortunately the arm device I want to install it on is running Arch, and the Arch packages only know about x86_64.

But it looks like the Arch packages download the RPM and repackage it, which means I can probably download the PKG BUILD file, swap in the relevant architecture, and install however many prerequisites I need, and it should build an Arch package with the arm64 version of Vivaldi. (I did something similar with a Network Manager app, though that was building from source.)

It’s like the bad old days of Linux when even getting stuff to run on x86 hardware was kinda dicey.

I don’t miss it.

#linux #archlinux #vivaldi #arm64

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“Bard can now watch YouTube videos for you” I’m reminded of the description of the Electric Monk in one of the Dirk Gently b…

“Bard can now watch YouTube videos for you”

I’m reminded of the description of the Electric Monk in one of the Dirk Gently books, and how it was created as a labor-saving device to believe things for you, much as VCRs were created to watch tedious television for you.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/22/23972636/bard-youtube-extension-update-search-video-content

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James Burke is doing a third volume of his classic science-history series, Connections, looking at more ways that seemingly u…

James Burke is doing a third volume of his classic science-history series, Connections, looking at more ways that seemingly unrelated discoveries and inventions cross-pollinated to lead to things you wouldn’t have expected.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/11/fans-of-connections-rejoice-rebooted-classic-sci-doc-series-returns-with-original-host/

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