Current Entries --------------- 10/31/2022 ScummVM 2.6.1 is out: https://www.scummvm.org/news/20221031/ 10/29/2022 KeePassXC 2.7.4 is out: https://keepassxc.org/blog/2022-10-29-2.7.4-released/ 10/26/2022 Ventura drops Postscript support: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213250 10/26/2022 Malicious apps could record conversations with Siri or dictation: https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/10/26/malicious-apps-could-have-listened-in-on-siri-conversations It would be nice if we could get local dictation back on MacOSX. 10/26/2022 New type of conductive material: https://phys.org/news/2022-10-scientists-material-plastic-metal.html 10/25/2022 Chemical clues about the special nature of a Strad's coating: https://phys.org/news/2022-10-chemical-clues-mystery-coating-stradivari.html And Two Set (temporarily) has a pair of Strads: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D61mkEwFPmM 10/24/2022 KeePassXC 2.7.3 is out: https://keepassxc.org/blog/2022-10-23-2.7.3-released/ 10/21/2022 SHA3 buffer overflow: https://mouha.be/sha-3-buffer-overflow/ 10/20/2022 Lots of software was released today: MacPorts 2.8.0: https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-users/2022-October/051517.html 'port selfupdate' and 'port upgrade outdated' worked fine for me on M1 OverSight (microphone and camera monitor for OSX) 2.0.2: https://github.com/objective-see/OverSight/releases/tag/v2.0.2 OpenBSD 7.2: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=166627387020774&w=2 https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20221020184115 Ubuntu 22.10: https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-22-10-kinetic-kudu Installed without any problems on a Framework laptop. 10/19/2022 Division notation: https://xkcd.com/2687/ Wow, I fall into the "scientist" category! 10/19/2022 Proton weirdness: https://www.quantamagazine.org/inside-the-proton-the-most-complicated-thing-imaginable-20221019/ https://www.sci.news/physics/proton-electric-polarizability-11307.html https://phys.org/news/2022-10-physicists-hitch-proton.html 10/15/2022 Websites should work without Javascript: https://endtimes.dev/why-your-website-should-work-without-javascript/ Makes sense to me. I usually block javascript with uBlock Origin. 10/12/2022 Jellico returns: https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/star-trek-captain-jellico-prodigy-return 10/12/2022 Rainbow Eucalyptus: https://laughingsquid.com/vivid-colors-rainbow-eucalyptus-tree/ 10/10/2022 VirtualBox 7.0, now with experimental M1/M2 support: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-7.0 "macOS host: Providing a Developer Preview package for systems with an Apple silicon CPU. This is unsupported work in progress, and is known to have very modest performance." Will be interesting to compare this to qemu. 10/05/2022 Domitian II - The Lost Roman Emperor: https://antigonejournal.com/2022/10/domitian-ii-lost-roman-emperor/ Earlier Entries --------------- 09/##/2022 https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2022/09/motd.txt https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2022/09/index.html 08/##/2022 https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2022/08/motd.txt https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2022/08/index.html 07/##/2022 https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2022/07/motd.txt https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2022/07/index.html 06/##/2022 https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2022/06/motd.txt https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2022/06/index.html 05/##/2022 https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2022/05/motd.txt https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2022/05/index.html 04/##/2022 https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2022/04/motd.txt https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2022/04/index.html 03/##/2022 https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2022/03/motd.txt https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2022/03/index.html