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GitHub CLI Adds Repeatable --attach Flag for Images and Videos

GitHub CLI v2.99.0 introduces a repeatable --attach flag to embed images and videos directly in issues, pull requests, and comments.

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GitHub CLI version 2.99.0 introduces a new repeatable --attach flag that allows users to upload local images or videos and reference them inline in issue, pull request, or comment bodies. [1] GitHub has made the capability to set an optional expiration date on an individual user budget generally available. [2] GitHub has extended its in-context blocking controls to discussion comments in repositories owned by personal accounts. [3] Neural audio codecs optimized for mel-spectrogram reconstruction often fail to preserve speech intelligibility. [4] On the LibriSpeech test-clean dataset, JHCodec achieves the best Word Error Rate (WER) and Character Error Rate (CER) among the evaluated codecs while maintaining zero lookahead and low end-to-end latency. [5] SSRR enables high intelligibility without additional lookahead in streaming Transformer-based codecs, allowing a zero-lookahead architecture for real-time deployment. [6] The authors demonstrate that self-supervised representation reconstruction (SSRR) loss fundamentally improves codec training and performance. [7] The --attach flag is generally available to all users on GitHub across all plans, requiring only an update to version 2.99.0. [8] Lowell Wood launched the Coil Whine Database to collect user reports on coil whine severity across PC hardware components like GPUs, power supplies, and cooling pumps. [9] The database scores each part on a scale where 0 indicates inaudibility in a quiet room, 2 means audible at a desk under load, and 4 means audible even when idle. [10] The database will only publish a device's report publicly once it receives at least 5 user reports. [11] Garrett361 tagged version v0.9.1.dev31 of a software repository on September 2. [12]
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  1. GitHub CLI version 2.99.0 introduces a new repeatable --attach flag that allows users to upload local images or videos and reference them inline in issue, pull request, or comment bodies. · The GitHub Blog
  2. GitHub has made the capability to set an optional expiration date on an individual user budget generally available. · The GitHub Blog
  3. GitHub has extended its in-context blocking controls to discussion comments in repositories owned by personal accounts. · The GitHub Blog
  4. Neural audio codecs optimized for mel-spectrogram reconstruction often fail to preserve speech intelligibility. · arXiv.org
  5. On the LibriSpeech test-clean dataset, JHCodec achieves the best Word Error Rate (WER) and Character Error Rate (CER) among the evaluated codecs while maintaining zero lookahead and low end-to-end latency. · arXiv.org
  6. SSRR enables high intelligibility without additional lookahead in streaming Transformer-based codecs, allowing a zero-lookahead architecture for real-time deployment. · arXiv.org
  7. The authors demonstrate that self-supervised representation reconstruction (SSRR) loss fundamentally improves codec training and performance. · arXiv.org
  8. The --attach flag is generally available to all users on GitHub across all plans, requiring only an update to version 2.99.0. · The GitHub Blog
  9. Lowell Wood launched the Coil Whine Database to collect user reports on coil whine severity across PC hardware components like GPUs, power supplies, and cooling pumps. · Hackaday
  10. The database scores each part on a scale where 0 indicates inaudibility in a quiet room, 2 means audible at a desk under load, and 4 means audible even when idle. · Hackaday
  11. The database will only publish a device's report publicly once it receives at least 5 user reports. · Hackaday
  12. Garrett361 tagged version v0.9.1.dev31 of a software repository on September 2. · GitHub
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