Elon Musk wants to create a new super-app called “X” after buying Twitter
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/05/tech/everything-app-x-musk-china-wechat-learnings-intl-hnk/index.html
Awesome Diagramming: Curated collection of diagramming tools
Nix Language Tutorial
Google’s newest AI generator creates HD Video from Text prompts
"Hundreds of Microsoft SQL servers backdoored with new Malware" (Extended Stored Proc DLL)
Cheekmate: "Wireless Haptic Communication System"
https://learn.adafruit.com/cheekmate-wireless-haptic-communication?view=all
"What makes the #ZigLang programming language unique?" (comptime)
https://erikexplores.substack.com/p/what-makes-the-zig-programming-language
Former #Uber Security Chief found guilty of covering up massive 2016 Data Breach
#ZigLang Driver for #PinePhone MIPI Display Serial Interface ... Now building a Quick Prototype on Apache #NuttX RTOS
https://github.com/lupyuen/pinephone-nuttx#zig-driver-for-pinephone-mipi-dsi
Intel Arc A770 GPU: "delivers a compelling midrange option for anyone willing to take a chance on continued driver support"
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-arc-a770-limited-edition-review
Async UI: #RustLang UI Library where Everything is a Future
#Ubuntu Pro (Beta): "expands our famous ten-year security coverage to an additional 23,000 packages beyond the main operating system"
Imagen Video: "text-conditional Video Generation system based on a cascade of video diffusion models"
@lupyuen I think this soured a lot of developers on UML. The use cases IBM was selling were drastically different than Rational's past focus for Rose. We were constantly asked by customers if Rose was going EOL and we were told to lie about it for some time.
Their UML user base shifted away from software devs towards MBAs, people interested in expert knowledge capture & modeling workflows.
I found it all disconcerting and no one seemed to like or want to evangelize the new rubric.
@lupyuen I was there when IBM acquired Rational c2002, which followed a Rational courtship with Microsoft. #lookingforbuyers
Rose was something of a legend, but Rational wanted to sell themselves using their paramour's IDE as the vehicle (or bait). So in quick succession we got XDE (for Visual Studio) and RAD (for WSAD/Eclipse).
XDE and RAD remained hot messes for years, and the IBM acquisition meant both XDE & Rose got sidelined.
Wireshark 4.0.0 released
https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-4.0.0.html
New web-based Python editor for BBC micro:bit
https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/10/05/bbc-web-based-python-editor-microbit-board/
@lupyuen "This meant that one would regularly be in a room of 20 people arguing over definitions, with at most 1 or 2 people realistically capable of translating the outcome of the discussion into rigorous (or, perhaps more accurately, semi-rigorous) semantics — and probably only the same 1 or 2 people capable of fully understanding the results."
Having been involved with several standards, that sounds painfully familiar. If you're unlucky, the room is dominated by one of the other 18.
Morning Walk at the Airport ... Driest place in Singapore right now 🌧️
IoT Techie and Educator / Apache NuttX PMC