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Man kann nicht Äpfel mit Birnen vergleichen? Doch, zumindest beim @… #schach

If computers with touch screens are so hot, why are there hardly any Windows laptops with touch displays?
MacBook Pro with Touch: A Mac for the iPad Generation https://www.macstories.net/stories/macbook-pro-with-touch-a-mac-for-the-ipad-generation/

Umstellung auf Touch ID beim iPhone Duo: Apple erwägt Face ID für Generation 2
Nutzer aktueller iPhones erwartet bei Apples Foldable eine große Umstellung. Die Integration von Face ID könnte Apple später gelingen.
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Canva launches Craft, its first image generation model, trained on human-designed templates, available to all users, with plans to support third-party chatbots (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/canva-releases-its-first-image-generati…

Canva releases its first image generation model | TechCrunch
Canva is making its new image model available to all users, promising better, more customizable performance at lower costs.

I am at loss for words.
Sir Patrick Stewart will always have a place in my heart, even if his voice has gone quiet.
Watch Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 5, Episode 25, 'The Inner Light', and Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 2, Episode 9, 'The Measure of a man', and think of him. Look at the brilliance he brought to the series.
The dignity.
One of my absolute favourite actors of all time has left us, and the world is poorer for it.
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🚀 Chronivaro 0.3.0 has been released!
Chronivaro is an open-source working time, absence tracking, and monthly period closing system.
📦 Release notes & downloads:
https://github.com/eitch/Chronivaro/releases/tag/v0.3.0

Dungeon generation in the gnomish mines of NetHack #NetHack

At this point, I started to look deeper at performance. Compute instance startup was taking over 30 seconds, and each generation propagation was about 55-75 seconds
I worked this from a few angles:
- parallelize actions (health checks, integrity checks, propagation initiation, and terminating ancestors) [30% gain]
- rebuild and reduce the AMI below Ubuntu minimal to fit in 2GiB EBS volumes (reduced cost and increased speed by also bundling the glider daemon and boto3 SDK in the AMI) [30% gain]
- switched from AWS CLI to boto3 SDK [5-10% gain]
- switched from CloudFormation creation stacks to using EC2 API directly with LaunchTemplate [under 5% gain total, surprisingly, but the time to initial instance startup is faster so I might be able to do better somewhere here]
- WIP: further refactoring of the daemon propagation steps especially around initial health/integrity checks
I still think I'm missing something major that's extending propagation times, despite benchmarking phases through several trials
I also optimized for cost (reduced DDB calls, abandoned KMS, reduced log & audit retention to the latest run, etc), and it's about a penny for a 10 generation run (and it scales sublinearly, mostly, since the instances are terminated afterwards)

heise | Frischer Anstrich für mehr Geld: Der HomePod mini 2 im Test
Endlich gibt's eine zweite Generation des HomePod mini. Im Test schauen – nein, hören – wir, ob Apple mehr als nur die Farbe verändert hat.

Google says its Suncatcher prototype data center satellite is online after an October 1 launch, with Gemma 4 generating a haiku about being in space (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/30/googles-first-data-center-satel…

Google's first data center satellite is online and writing poetry | TechCrunch
The first TPU in space is running a Google DeepMind Gemma 4 model and writing cheesy poetry.