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Maxar has cut off satellite imagery access to Ukraine, undoubtedly due to pressure from the U.S. government.

This means that not just classified, but commercially available unclassified intelligence products are being cut off.

I now fully expect Starlink to be next.

TIL how to run Intel-based virtual machines on Apple silicon Macs using UTM emulation - mac.getutm.app

Why We’re Bringing Pebble Back Eight years later, you still can’t beat a Pebble

Oh wow. Google open sourced PebbleOS and @ericmigi.com is now looking to bring back Pebble.

Pebble was my first (and 2nd) smartwatch.

ericmigi.com/blog/why-wer...

Facebook post asking: "Anyone here use Pixelfed?"

Facebook message saying: "We removed your post"

Why this happened message from Facebook, claiming: "This post may use misleading links or content to trick people to visit, or stay on, a website"

Meta claims Pixelfed is spam.

CONFIRMED: Facebook has *banned* anyone from linking to Pixelfed. #MetaBlockingPixelfed

I just tried posting a message on Facebook that reads: "Anyone here using Pixelfed?" with a link to Pixelfed.Social

Within *seconds* I got a post saying my post was banned.

Screenshots below.

‘Flow’ Director Gints Zilbalodis Shouts Out “Small, Young But Passionate Team” For First Golden Globe Win For Latvia: “This Is Huge For Us” Director Gints Zilbalodis shouts out small but passionate team for Latvia's first Golden Globes win for animated feature 'Flow'.

An amazing win for Latvia! The country may be small, the team of FLOW may be small, but winning Golden Globe is HUGE!

Board game "Terraforming Mars"

Terraforming Mars

HTML attribute: rel - HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDN The rel attribute defines the relationship between a linked resource and the current document. Valid on <link>, <a>, <area>, and <form>, the supported values depend on the element on which the attribu...

Could you point to them using the <link rel="alternate" HTML tags (similar to how it's used for pointing to RSS feeds)? - developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

OK, users viewing the page can already find the RSS feed and the MP3 version. What about computer programs retrieving the page? Could they also automatically find these links (to the mp3 version, the transcript, ...)?

Just put the fries in the bag bro News and announcements from the Python community for the week of Dec 23rd, 2024

Just updated @talkpython.fm and @pythonbytes.fm's websites to be more content type aware. If you're on an episode page such as

/episodes/show/415/just-put-the-fries-in-the-bag-bro

You can just append .jpg, .vtt, and .mp3 to get that content instead.

Try it yourself! pythonbytes.fm/episodes/sho...

But how does someone visiting the site know that they can get those other representations (by appending mp3, ...)?

That's a nice feature. Very geeky too 😀

a Christmas tree with decorations and presents

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, everyone! 🎄😄

Photo by flickr.com/photos/wwarby/

Ek, es vēl tikai līdz 8 dienai esmu ticis

Thanks, I'll have to work on that. I have not fully moved to Bluesky but thought I'll try it out, too.

FLOW - Official US Trailer YouTube video by Janus Films

Latvian animated feature FLOW by Gints Zilbalodis @gintszilbalodis.bsky.social wins Best European Animated Feature Film Award at the European Film Awards! Check out the film's trailer here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgZc...

Yey, let's try Bluesky! 😄