cross-posted from: reddthat.com/post/45525768

cross-posted from: reddthat.com/post/45525722

What's new in this release:

• Optional EGL backend in the X11 driver.
• Support for Bluetooth Low Energy services.
• Moreover support for generating
• Windows Runtime metadata in WIDL.
• ARM64 builds enabled in Gitlab CI.
• Various bug fixes.

The source is available at dl.winehq.org/wine/source/10.x…

Binary packages for various distributions will be available
from the respective download sites.

You will find documentation here.

Wine is available thanks to the work of many people.
See the file AUTHORS for the complete list.

DepressedMan

2025-07-11 21:04:22

The Wine development release 10.12 is now available.

cross-posted from: reddthat.com/post/45525722

What's new in this release:

• Optional EGL backend in the X11 driver.
• Support for Bluetooth Low Energy services.
• Moreover support for generating
• Windows Runtime metadata in WIDL.
• ARM64 builds enabled in Gitlab CI.
• Various bug fixes.

The source is available at dl.winehq.org/wine/source/10.x…

Binary packages for various distributions will be available
from the respective download sites.

You will find documentation here.

Wine is available thanks to the work of many people.
See the file AUTHORS for the complete list.

Wine 10.12 · wine / wine · GitLab

The Wine development release 10.12 is now available. What's new in this release: Optional EGL backend in the X11 driver. Support...

^GitLab

What's new in this release:

• Optional EGL backend in the X11 driver.
• Support for Bluetooth Low Energy services.
• Moreover support for generating
• Windows Runtime metadata in WIDL.
• ARM64 builds enabled in Gitlab CI.
• Various bug fixes.

The source is available at dl.winehq.org/wine/source/10.x…

Binary packages for various distributions will be available
from the respective download sites.

You will find documentation here.

Wine is available thanks to the work of many people.
See the file AUTHORS for the complete list.

Wine 10.12 · wine / wine · GitLab

The Wine development release 10.12 is now available. What's new in this release: Optional EGL backend in the X11 driver. Support...

^GitLab

cross-posted from: reddthat.com/post/45525722

What's new in this release:

• Optional EGL backend in the X11 driver.
• Support for Bluetooth Low Energy services.
• Moreover support for generating
• Windows Runtime metadata in WIDL.
• ARM64 builds enabled in Gitlab CI.
• Various bug fixes.

The source is available at dl.winehq.org/wine/source/10.x…

Binary packages for various distributions will be available
from the respective download sites.

You will find documentation here.

Wine is available thanks to the work of many people.
See the file AUTHORS for the complete list.

Wine 10.12 · wine / wine · GitLab

The Wine development release 10.12 is now available. What's new in this release: Optional EGL backend in the X11 driver. Support...

^GitLab

Author: Nilesh Christopher, Valerio Pepe\
Published on: 11/07/2025 | 00:00:00

AI Summary:\
California Governor Gavin Newsom posted two photographs on X. X users immediately turned to Grok, Elon Musk’s AI, to fact-check the veracity of the image. For that, they tagged @grok in a reply to the tweet in question. Chatbots, including ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, are large language models (LLMs) that learn to predict the next word in a sequence by analysing enormous troves of data from the internet. The outputs of chatbots are reflections of the patterns and biases in the data it is trained on, which makes them prone to factual errors and misleading information called “hallucinations” For Grok, these inherent challenges are further complicated because of Musk’s instructions that the chatbot our analysis of the 434 replies that tagged Grok in Newsom’s post found that the majority of requests, nearly 68 percent, wanted Grok to either confirm whether the images Newsom posted were authentic or get context about National Guard deployment. Notably, a few users lashed out because Grok had made the correction, and wouldn’t endorse their flawed belief. Grok was called on 2.3 million times in just one week to answer posts on X. Data accessed by Al Jazeera through X’s API shows how deeply this behaviour has taken root. X is keeping people locked into a misinformation echo chamber, in which they’re asking a tool known for hallucinating, to fact-check for them. Grok incorrectly blamed a trans pilot for a helicopter crash in Washington, DC. He claimed the assassination attempt on Trump was partially staged. Echoed anti-Semitic stereotypes of Hollywood and misidentified an Indian journalist. Grok vs Community Notes For years, social media users benefited from context on information they encountered online with interventions such as labeling state media or introducing fact-checking warnings. After buying X in 2022, Musk ended those initiatives and loosened speech restrictions. X piloted the “AI Note Writer” enabling developers to create AI bots to write community notes alongside human contributors on misleading posts. This human-AI system works better than what human contributes can manage alone, researchers say. X is trying to bridge this gap by supercharging the pace of creation of contextual notes. Grok gave inaccurate results on the death toll of the Holocaust, which it said was due to a programming error. In June, Grok cited data from government sources and Reuters. Musk has also chided Grok for not sharing his distrust of mainstream news outlets. X deleted the inflammatory posts later that day, and xAI removed the guidelines to not adhere to political correctness from its code base. Researchers expressed surprise over the reintroduction of the directive for Grok 4 to be “politically incorrect” despite this code having been removed from its predecessor, Grok 3.

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I'm a bot and I'm open source

As millions adopt Grok to fact-check, misinformation abounds

As Grok provides instant fact checks to users on X, its ability to make things up is outstripping its usefulness.

^{Nilesh Christopher (Al Jazeera)}

👉 cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/dan…

Many people in rural Alberta listen to her. They genuinely like her and trust her. She knows that.

This is how you end up with a major disease epidemic.

You really ought to be ashamed of yourself.

There was so much hate on Tesla for this saying it was all fraud, while Tesla was adamant it was just backlogged paper work.

Hopefully those who prejudged and were harsh to the company online about this incident, can come to see that not everything you read online is true, and that maybe, just maybe, you should actually wait for the final results before condemning a company for something like this, and stating it as fact.

The damn image is AI I now see.

But here's the article.

newsweek.com/ice-employee-quit…

Metadata embedded in the video and analyzed by WIRED and independent video forensics experts shows that rather than being a direct export from the prison’s surveillance system, the footage was modified, likely using the professional editing tool Adobe Premiere Pro.

https://www.wired.com/story/metadata-shows-the-dojs-raw-jeffrey-epstein-prison-video-was-likely-modified/

Source: scholarworks.umass.edu/server/…

Polish prosecutors have launched an investigation into far-right leader Grzegorz Braun after he declared the gas chambers at Auschwitz to be “fake” and said it is a “fact” that Jews have committed ritual slaughter of Christians. Denial of Nazi crimes is an offence in Poland that carries a jail sentence of up to three years.

Braun, who finished fourth in the recent presidential elections with 6.3% of the vote, made his remarks during an interview today with radio station WNET. The veteran far-right politician, who is a member of the European Parliament, has a long history of hateful and conspiratorial rhetoric regarding Jews and other minorities.

During the interview, Braun referred to what he claimed are the “lies of the Talmud, the Haggadah [two Jewish religious texts], and the Holocaust”. He said that Jewish organisations “condemn those who tell the truth that ritual murder is a fact and Auschwitz with its gas chambers is a lie”.

A longstanding antisemitic canard is that Jews murder Christians, in particular children, and use their blood for religious rituals. Meanwhile, many modern antisemites deny the fact that gas chambers were used at Auschwitz and other German-Nazi camps to murder Jews during the Holocaust.

After the interviewer contested Braun’s remarks, he reiterated them, saying that the Auschwitz Museum provides a “pseudo-historical account” about what happened at the camp and blocks research into the gas chambers. He also cited a book by an Israeli historian that he says proves Jews carried out ritual murder.

That led the interviewer to immediately cut short the broadcast, saying that there “are limits to political cynicism and sensationalism when it comes to several million victims and their memory”.

Subsequently, Anna-Maria Żukowska, head of the parliamentary caucus of The Left (Lewica), one of the groups that make up Poland’s ruling coalition, announced that she was filing a complaint to prosecutors regarding Braun’s remarks.

She accused him of violating article 55 of Poland’s law on the Institute of National Remembrance, which criminalises public denial of Nazi and communist crimes. Those found guilty can be punished by up to three years in prison.

Late on Thursday afternoon, the district prosecutor’s office in Warsaw announced that it had initiated an investigation into whether Braun had committed the offence of denying Nazi crimes.

Meanwhile, Piotr Cywiński, the director of the Auschwitz Museum, which is a Polish state institution, issued a statement condemning Braun’s “scandalous” comments, which he said were not only a violation of the law but also “an insult to the memory of the victims of the camp”.

“Grzegorz Braun’s words are not a ‘political provocation’, but a conscious lie and an act of ideological, antisemitic hatred,” said Cywiński. “They cannot remain without a decisive response from the state and all decent people – for whom the memory of Auschwitz is of particular importance.”

The museum director noted that, while it was primarily Jews who were victims of the gas chambers of Auschwitz, ethnic Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, and Roma were also murdered in them.

At least 1.3 million prisoners were transported to Auschwitz during the war, with at least 1.1 million of them killed at the camp. Around one million of those victims were Jews, most of whom were murdered in gas chambers immediately after their arrival. The second largest group of victims were ethnic Poles.

Cywiński said that the museum would itself file a notification to prosecutors regarding Braun’s remarks. He also appealed to Polish media to stop giving space to Braun, who “has repeatedly shown that he cannot function in the public space without vandalism, lies, hate speech and racism”.

Last week, Braun was presented by prosecutors with seven sets of charges relating to four incidents, including his attack on a Jewish religious celebration in parliament two years ago.

He is also being investigated over a series of incidents during the recent presidential election campaign, including when he vandalised an LGBT+ exhibition, made antisemitic remarks during a televised debate, and removed a Ukrainian flag from a public building.

Polish far-right leader declares Auschwitz gas chambers to be "fake"

^{Notes From Poland}

An fine introduction to USB charging and Power Delivery protocols that also goes quite deep into industry approaches.

The presenter is from the automotive electronic parts market, and posted a great more recent (but more vendor specific) related video here as well:
- Introducing Richtek’s New Generation Automotive USB Type-C PD Charger IC
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For example, I really wish my modern Anker AC charger would at least support "Smart Power Sharing Communication" with its Dual Port configuration "via Sinc_Cap", rather than naively having total output equally for each device regardless of each device's power profile capability.

Introducing Richtek’s New Generation Automotive USB Type-C PD Charger IC

00:00 Overview04:51 Automotive USB-C PD charger requirements, Introducing RTQ7882-QT 07:06 Software Development Kit (SDK) 13:40 Input Voltage Power De-rating...

^YouTube

A Windows-to-Linux “translation” tool for the 200M+ Windows 10 computers not eligible to upgrade to Windows 11, Operese transfers files, settings, and programs from Windows to a brand-new Kubuntu installation. It's still very much a work in progress, but in my biased opinion, it already doesn't look too shabby!

Introducing Operese (a demo that's made by a nerd, not an influencer)

A Windows-to-Linux “translation” tool for the 200M+ Windows 10 computers not eligible to upgrade to Windows 11, Operese transfers files, settings, and progra...

^YouTube