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🥳 New Kitten Release
• Reduces minimum Bash version requirement for installing Kitten to Bash 3.2 (was previously Bash 5 ). This removes the requirement for people on macOS to upgrade the ancient version of Bash that Apple ships with their desktop operating system. (If you’re on Linux none of this was ever an issue for you.)¹
• Updates runtime to Node 24.12.0, the latest long-term support (LTS) version.

:linux: Yes, I use #Secureblue #Linux

go Tahoe ! https://open.substack.com/pub/earthhope/p/unpaving-paradise-tahoe-tears-up?r=1o5n19&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Unpaving paradise: Tahoe tears up motel to restore floodplain
What 30 X 30 looks like in action. State agency demolishes a motel and restaurant to bring water and life back to a meadow. (Photos best viewed on a desktop).

Brave says it has surpassed 100M monthly active users across desktop and mobile worldwide, with 42M DAUs, and Brave Search handles 1.6B queries each month (Paul Thurrott/Thurrott)
https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/web-browsers/327735/brave-now-has-over-…

Brave Now Has Over 100 Million Users
Brave announced today that it now has over 100 million active users across desktop and mobile worldwide.

I don't know who needs to hear this but if you're in the market for a desktop camera with 1080p video, mic & Windows Hello facial recognition authentication, check this out.
(Also has an automatic shutter which physically blocks the lens when you're not using it. $55.)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BJDVKJB9

🎮 The Gameboy emulator that runs everywhere (Terminal, Web, Desktop)
#games #videogames

GitHub - raphamorim/gameboy: The Gameboy emulator that runs everywhere (Terminal, Web, Desktop)
The Gameboy emulator that runs everywhere (Terminal, Web, Desktop) - raphamorim/gameboy

Adobe launches free ChatGPT-integrated apps for Photoshop, Acrobat, and Express on desktop, the web, and iOS, after OpenAI added app integrations in October (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/841369/chatgpt-apps-adobe-photoshop-acrobat…

ChatGPT can now use Adobe apps to edit your photos and PDFs for free
Adobe is giving ChatGPT users integrated apps for Photoshop, Acrobat, and Express for designing and editing their work without having to switch apps.

TIL my preferred Browser @… actually supports JPEG-XL – and better than Safari, because it animates.
Shame that Firefox defaults to nope & Google/Chrome does evil…
https://caniuse.com/jpegxl

Porteus Kiosk (https://porteus-kiosk.org) nutzen wir schon seit ein paar Jahren für Kiosk-PCs und unser "Fahrgastfernsehen". Es ist auch ok, dass es jetzt ein paar Euronen kosten (20% Discount für Educational).
Nun guck ich gerade noch mal etwas ernsthafter bei Porteus Desktop (

When I attempt to login to elk.mstdn.ca, I get a 502 error. (see screenshot attached). So for the past couple of months, I have been unable to access Elk on my Win 11 Desktop.
However I WAS able to continue to access Elk on my Macbook Pro laptop until a couple of weeks ago, but now I get the same error there.
When I investigate this at cloudflare, I am advised:
There are two possible causes:
 502/504 errors from your origin web server (most common).
I also have noticed that my security program, BitDefender has notified me of this several times:
firefox.exe attempted to establish a connection relying on an unmatching security certificate to cdn.signalayer.com. We blocked the connection to keep your data safe since the used certificate was issued for a different web address than the targeted one
Is this possibly related to my difficulties?
I have attached a screenshot of the CloudFlare error
I would very much appreciate any assistance or advice anyone can provide.

Ferret-UI Lite: Lessons from Building Small On-Device GUI Agents
Zhen Yang, Zi-Yi Dou, Di Feng, Forrest Huang, Anh Nguyen, Keen You, Omar Attia, Yuhao Yang, Michael Feng, Haotian Zhang, Ram Ramrakhya, Chao Jia, Jeffrey Nichols, Alexander Toshev, Yinfei Yang, Zhe Gan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26539…

Ferret-UI Lite: Lessons from Building Small On-Device GUI Agents
Developing autonomous agents that effectively interact with Graphic User Interfaces (GUIs) remains a challenging open problem, especially for small on-device models. In this paper, we present Ferret-UI Lite, a compact, end-to-end GUI agent that operates across diverse platforms, including mobile, web, and desktop. Utilizing techniques optimized for developing small models, we build our 3B Ferret-UI Lite agent through curating a diverse GUI data mixture from real and synthetic sources, strengthe…

I’m an industry dev turned comp sci prof. I’ve been writing code for 40-some years; my first commercial software was for the Apple ][ . I’ve worked on web, mobile, desktop, server, and data plumbing projects for companies ranging from startups to Fortune 100 to arts nonprofits. In short, I’ve been lucky to know a lot of people in a lot of corners of tech.
@…’s opening paragraphs are spot on. If consensus is not 100%, well, it’s 99%.
https://www.anildash.com//2025/10/17/the-majority-ai-view/

Google is testing a Windows desktop app that brings Mac's Spotlight-like search bar to PC users, allowing them to search local files, Google Drive, and the web (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/778940/google-app-windows-launch

Google’s new Windows desktop app brings a Spotlight-like search bar to PC
Google is testing a new app on Windows that you can use to search your files, Drive, and the web.

Try-Mopsa: Relational Static Analysis in Your Pocket
Rapha\"el Monat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13128 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.13128

Try-Mopsa: Relational Static Analysis in Your Pocket
Static analyzers are complex pieces of software with large dependencies. They can be difficult to install, which hinders adoption and creates barriers for students learning static analysis. This work introduces Try-Mopsa: a scaled-down version of the Mopsa static analysis platform, compiled into JavaScript to run purely as a client-side application in web browsers. Try-Mopsa provides a responsive interface that works on both desktop and mobile devices. Try-Mopsa features all the core components…