Low-tech Magazine: The Ebooks
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Many of you have asked for ebooks, and now you can download both the chronological and thematic books series in epub version. The files work on any type of device, without restrictions. You can find all ebooks in our online bookshop.
[Patrons get free access to all ebooks and PDF arch … ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: ejabberd 24.02
ejabberd 24.02 has just been release and well, this is a huge release with 200 commits and more in the libraries. We’ve packed this update with a plethora of new features, significant improvements, and essential bug fixes, all designed to supercharge your messaging infrastructure.
– ** with Google on Safari for Mac
If you’re a Safari user, as many of us are, you might be interested in actually searching the web with Google and then seeing a list of actual web link results, without seeing any of the new AI junk, video and image recommendations, knowledge panels, related searches, suggested searches, or the other junky clutter that … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2024/05/24/search-web-google-no-ai-junk-clutter-saf … ⌘ Read more
Workshop in Barcelona: How to Build a Low-tech Website
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Website technology is becoming increasingly complex and energy intensive, with big companies like Meta and Google leading the dance. Is this necessary? What does it really take to get our content online?
Low←tec … ⌘ Read more
💻 Issue 417 - Show HN: I made a Mac app to search my images and videos locally with ML ⌘ Read more
Automating Docker Image Builds with Pulumi and Docker Build Cloud
Learn how Pulumi’s new Docker Build provider works with Docker Build Cloud to streamline building, deploying, and managing containerized applications. ⌘ Read more
DietPi May 2024 News (Version 9.4)
DietPi May 2024 News (Version 9.4)
The May, 2024 release of DietPi v9.4 brings several enhancements, new system images, and crucial bug fixes, ensuring a more stable and efficient experience for users of various single-board computers. ⌘ Read more
How to Convert Photos to Videos on iPhone & iPad
One of the more interesting tricks available for the Photos app on iPhone and iPad is an ability to convert a series of selected photos into a video. This can be particularly useful for action photos and burst photos that are a series of similar images, but you can select any number of photos of … Read More ⌘ Read more
How AI ‘Understands’ Images (CLIP) - Computerphile ⌘ Read more
How to Use the Latest GPT 4 & DALL-E 3 Free on iPhone & iPad with Copilot
GPT 4 is an extremely advanced large language model with immense AI capabilities, and DALL-E 3 is a wildly impressive AI image generator that creates pictures from text descriptions. Both of these tools are incredibly powerful and impressive, and while you can access them for a fee through the parent company who developed the models, … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2024/04/19/how-use-gpt-4-dall-e-3-f … ⌘ Read more
How to Bulk Image Edit on iPhone & iPad wth Copy & Paste Edits to Photos
Bulk image editing can be a tedious task, but the Photos app for iPhone and iPad has a fantastic feature that makes editing a series of images a lot easier. Essentially how this works is that you make edits to one photo, and then you copy those edits, and paste them to other photos that … Read More ⌘ Read more
Opinion: Shiny Keys on MacBook Air & Pro Are Ugly and Shouldn’t Happen
One of the worst things about the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro is the shiny key issue. If you’re unfamiliar, the image above demonstrates the beginning stages of the shiny key development on my otherwise beautiful six month old MacBook Air, visible mostly on the shift key, but “A” and “S” are also beginning to … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2024/04/11/opinion-shiny-keys-on-macbook-ai … ⌘ Read more
Get started with the latest updates for Dockerfile syntax (v1.7.0)
Dockerfiles are fundamental tools for developers working with Docker, serving as a blueprint for creating Docker images. Learn about new Dockerfile (v1.7.0) capabilities and how you can can leverage them in your projects to further optimize your Docker workflows. ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter March 2024
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The 50th release of the XMPP Newsletter!This is the 50th release of the XMPP Newsletter since it started in February 2019.
We think it is worth to celebrate this achievement and say thanks to all the contributors as well as all our readers!
Back at the Summit in Brussels, JC Brand, Nicolas Vérité (Nyco) and Severino Ferrer (S0ul) prop … ⌘ Read more
Debian’s Dedication to Security: A Robust Foundation for Docker Developers
We outline how and why Debian operates as a secure basis for development and makes a good choice for Docker Official Images. ⌘ Read more
From Misconceptions to Mastery: Enhancing Security and Transparency with Docker Official Images
Docker Official Images are an important component of Docker’s commitment to the security of both the software supply chain and open source software. We address three common misconceptions about Docker Official Images and outline seven ways they help secure the software supply chain. ⌘ Read more
Can You Stop Mirroring Camera on MacBook? Yes… Sometimes
You may have noticed while on a video call or teleconference that your video is mirrored, or flipped, by default on the Mac. Mirrored video means the image on screen is what you see when looking in a mirror, not your regular orientation from an observers perspective, thus the name. This is the case with … Read More ⌘ Read more
Is Your Container Image Really Distroless?
Find out what makes an image distroless, tools that make the creation of distroless images practical, and security benefits of this approach. ⌘ Read more
How to Escape From the Iron Age?
Image: Steel rebar construction for the concrete foundation of a wind turbine in Gilliam County, US. Image by Goose Chap, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Trapped in the … ⌘ Read more
2 Easy Ways to Compress Images on Mac
Compressing images can be a necessary task for many Mac users, whether they’re getting ready to post an image to the web, share a photo through email or messages, or they’re simply trying to compress and reduce the file size of an image for any other purpose. There are several ways to compress images on … Read More ⌘ Read more
Azure Container Registry and Docker Hub: Connecting the Dots with Seamless Authentication and Artifact Cache
See best practices for using public images and ensuring the security and reliability of your Docker containers. ⌘ Read more
Status 2024-02-25
Status report again!
Sitting in front of the wood stove in my country cottage. It’s nice
and quiet. Meanwhile it seems NordicFuzzCon is going on in Malmö.
4,000 furries. I had no idea! That seems fun!
On the other hand I just read that at least 10,000 were protesting in
Malmö today against the Israel-Palestine conflict. I’ve seen the much
smaller protest … ⌘ Read more
TRIM on Btrfs on LUKS on a sparse disk image served with NBD actually works. I love free software.
Keyboard layouts
I’ve updated my article about keyboard layouts with XKB after 13
years!
https://hack.org/mc/writings/xkb.html
I’ve edited it so the focus is on the layouts if you just want to grab
them and don’t need any handholding. Also added Thinkpad layouts along
with the original HHKB layouts.
It now also includes instructions for use with the River and Sway
Wayland compositors as well as X11.
I will probably update it soon with some images of different Thinkpad
keyboards. ⌘ Read more
How to Batch Convert Images to WebP on Mac
As WebP grows in popularity as a compressed image format for the web, many web workers need to convert batches of images to WebP format from their Mac. Bulk converting images like JPG and PNG to WebP is not currently a native feature, but with a little tinkering on the Mac, you can gain functionality … Read More ⌘ Read more
Build Multimodal GenAI Apps with OctoAI and Docker
Learn how to compose an open source foundational model into a streamlined image transformation pipeline with OctoAI and Docker. ⌘ Read more
PANZER-PLUS Offers BSP and Ready-to-Run Images for Linux/Android OSes
MayQueen Technologies has unveiled the PANZER-PLUS, a fanless computing device powered by the NXP i.MX8M-Plus processor with AI capabilities. Some key features of this modular solution include two GbE ports with TSN support, 4K display resolution and wireless capabilities. Unlike their Panzer box PC released in 2018, which is built around the NXP i.MX6 UL […] ⌘ Read more
How to Convert Images to Webp on Mac from Command Line
Do you need to convert images to webp format from the Mac? Converting images to WebP offers tremendous file size savings, often compressing an image up to 70% without losing image quality, so it’s understandable why many Mac users and web developers, designers, and workers would wish to convert and compress images into WebP format. … Read More ⌘ Read more
@eapl.me@eapl.me kinda like the format for markdown images?  ?
How to Convert Images to Webp on Mac from Command Line
Do you need to convert images to webp format from the Mac? Converting images to WebP offers tremendous file size savings, often compressing an image up to 70% without losing image quality, so it’s understandable why many Mac users and web developers, designers, and workers would wish to convert and compress images into WebP format. … Read More ⌘ Read more
Laptop stand
We have a decent 3D printer (Prusa MK4) at dayjob so we printed some
foldable(!) laptop stands. Here they are:
Here’s my laptop on the stands:
It’s printed in PLA and printed in one piece! ⌘ Read more
** 📸 Photo **
It’s been very damp. It was, however, recently sunny for a bit. Here is the proof of the sun’s continued existence. ⌘ Read more