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A Year of Mornings
A collection of fifty love poems that follows a young heart as it finds love, finds the strength to be in love and finally, finds the strength to let go.
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I am a platform engineer and a writer based in Finland.
I am the author of A Year of Mornings, a collection of poems for young adults.
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Boox’s new e-reader could replace your Kindle, Kobo, and digital notepad by Andrew Liszewski
Boox has announced a new version of its smallest e-reader that expands the Go 6’s functionality to now include note-taking. The new Go 6 (Gen II) sticks with a 6-inch, 300PPI E Ink screen like its predecessor but gets a bump from 2GB to 3GB of RAM and now supports Boox’s InkSense Plus stylus, which can be used for sketching, annotating documents, or making handwritten notes.
I guess I have made my peace with the fact that I can not make these e-readers (including my Kindle Paperwhite) work. I am mostly reading books borrowed from my library and that does not work with these devices.
It is mentioned as something that could come in the future, but, it is not out yet.
Anyway the places where I do my reading are -
- Listening to audiobooks while driving
- Listening to audiobooks while walking
- Reading ebook on my phone while on my lunch break
- Reading on my iPad during the weekends - perhaps a chapter or two while Savya sleeps
I don’t see a space for an e-reader here. Maybe I could replace my phone with a Palma, but what’s the point. I don’t want to carry another device.
Anthropic cuts off Fable 5 and Mythos 5 access following government order by Terrence O'Brien
On Friday evening, the government ordered Anthropic to block access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nations, both inside and outside the US, due to national security concerns. That order included employees of Anthropic. To meet those demands, the company has completely cut off access to the models for all customers.
Wow.
And, this is why all countries need their own AIs.
BYD to install thousands of 5-minute EV chargers across Europe by Dominic Preston
Chinese EV colossus BYD has announced plans to speed up its conquest of the European auto market with the rollout of superfast Flash Chargers across the continent. BYD has already installed the first new chargers in Germany and the UK, and plans to roll out 3,000 across Europe by the end of next year.
Does it come to Finland? Maybe my next car would be a BYD?
Apple’s best AI idea looks a lot like vibe coding by David Pierce
Apple Shortcuts has always been a good idea in desperate need of a simpler interface. It’s a hugely powerful tool, essentially a way for users to visually create scripts that take actions automatically and across apps. But even creating simple shortcuts can be complex and brittle, and the app itself doesn’t exactly help you along. At WWDC, though, Apple touted AI as the way to make the app easier to use. Cecilia Dantas, a product marketing manager at the company, called the new system “more approachable than ever.”
This is the one feature that I am super excited about, though I’m not sure if it will work on my iPhone.
Though the use cases I have are fairly complicated ones, so I’m not sure if it will work for that.
Apple is using AI to fix Safari’s extension problem by Emma Roth
In a demo shared by Apple, the company showed how you can ask Safari to create an extension by describing it. “Save and track cooking recipes from around the web,” the prompt said. “Click the toolbar button to see your saved recipes and add notes to each.” From there, Safari used Apple Intelligence to generate a “Recipe Keeper” extension that’s supposed to do just that.
This would be an awesome feature if it works.
