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Project Timestamper cryptographically timestamped Common Crawl’s 339 billion web page snapshots (over 18 years, 10+ PB). By hashing 134 million blocks, they anchored these snapshots to the Bitcoin blockchain, proving each capture’s existence as of 2026-09-26. Verification is fast via a tool (example command). The effort protects the archive against AI fabrication. Thanks to the Common Crawl Foundation and OpenTimestamps; continued timestamping planned.
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A 400 Bad Request indicates the request was blocked by the server’s security policies, and it advises contacting support if the error is believed to be mistaken.
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Antonin argues lobbying is corruption. He recounts George Hotz’s explanation: money from the rich to politicians via campaigns buys influence, with post-political consulting as a reward. He cites Wikipedia’s definition that corruption includes lobbying, even a 'legal corruption' section. From a European view, the act is abuse of entrusted power for private gain, legal or not, differing only in branding. The US trend is to rebrand corruption, while lobbying is essentially corruption dressed in a nicer suit.
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The piece argues that ‘inevitable’ AI is a social-structural claim, not a tech fact. True inevitability requires a technology to outperform alternatives, be socially valuable, dramatically outpace rivals, and resist neutralization. LLMs fail on the last two; they can replace low-value labor but don’t yet rival top human work, and gains aren’t guaranteed. Social opposition, regulation, and neutralization could curb them. The author likens LLMs to a weaker form of chemical weapons—useful for weak actors but not for serious players—and promotes Arca to help maintain human skills.
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An intro-to-C for Rust programmers, highlighting quirks rather than tutorials. Booleans were not primitives until C99 (and C23); strings are null-terminated instead of sized like &str. Integer widths vary by platform; for portability, use fixed-width types. Error handling is manual and permissive; errno exposes errors but there’s no enforced handling. Field access uses . for values and -> for pointers. Arrays decay to pointers when passed to functions, so size information can disappear. There are no borrow-checks or references—only raw pointers—raising safety concerns but underscoring C’s systems usefulness.
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UNIX certification by The Open Group provides a vendor-neutral, global benchmark (Single UNIX Specification) for open operating systems. Certified products guarantee portability, compatibility, and interoperability, helping developers with consistent interfaces and faster development, while users gain investment protection, choice, and reduced vendor lock-in. The Open Brand Register lists certified products—e.g., IBM z/OS and AIX, HP-UX, SCO UnixWare/OpenServer—along with supported versions and conditions. UNIX and the Open logo marks are registered trademarks of The Open Group.
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DatoCMS markets itself as a feature-rich headless CMS with built-in localization (i18n), per-field translations, locale-based workflows, and a GraphQL API. It touts editor and developer UX, modular content, visual editing, cache tagging, plugins, and AI tooling. A related blog post explains localization as a stack (language, script, locale), not just translated text. It chronicles a font-rendering fix for 43 scripts using Google's Noto fonts loaded per script, ensuring no “tofu” and that fonts load only when needed, with core advice on checking frontend font support.
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Talorys is a free, open-source personal AI assistant that runs entirely in your Cloudflare account. Install with npx create-talorys@latest to get chat, memory, tasks, notes, and scheduled reminders, in a single-user, no-telemetry setup. Data is stored in a private SQLite-backed Durable Object; all processing happens in your account with Cloudflare services (Pages frontend, private Worker, Durable Object, Workers AI). No servers or external accounts. Features include streaming chat, memory management, CRUD for tasks/notes, automations, and offline resilience when AI is unavailable. Local development supported; updates via the installer.
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Benchmark compares WSL 2.6.3.0 (kernel 6.6.87) vs WSL 3.0.2.0 (kernel 6.18.40) on Alpine Linux with Go 1.27.1. Memory bandwidth jumps 61% (7.84→12.64 GB/s); scheduler latency falls ~11%; context switches faster; syscall throughput up ~4%; syscall latency down ~3.8%; Hackbench improves ~10%. Real-world GoReleaser compile: wall time −7.5s (≈ −3.9%), kernel time −16%. Takeaway: WSL3 benefits memory‑intensive IPC workloads; compute‑bound builds still limited by CPU frequency and cores.
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HTTP 403 Forbidden: access to the requested page is denied.
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CUBE Type is a free tool that generates isometric typography.
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Experiencing Emacs Fatigue, I tried moving my notes from Emacs to Bear. Bear’s simplicity and cross-platform sync tempted me, but I disliked having my notes locked in an app. To avoid Emacs while keeping Markdown, I switched to Denote, which handles Markdown well; with one Emacs tweak and a Claude-assisted script, I exported Bear Markdown and converted filenames, links, and attachments. I briefly quit Emacs only to return. I might build a Denote-Bear sync bridge someday.
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Bradley argues that the term "vegetative electron microscopy" is a misread caused by OCR errors from a two-column 1959 paper, not a real instrument; its appearance in modern papers signals low-quality, possibly fake science and reflects broader issues of AI-generated drivel, predatory journals, and editorial neglect. The phrase has led to retractions or corrections; its persistence undermines trust in science and underlines the need for better editing and editorial scrutiny.
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Virginia Tech researchers found that two meals matched for calories and nutrients but differing in processing elicited different metabolic and brain responses. Ultraprocessed meals caused higher insulin release, greater energy expenditure, and a shift toward non-carbohydrate fuel, plus higher sustained blood glucose, compared with minimally processed meals. fMRI showed different activation in reward-related brain regions (ventral striatum, nucleus accumbens) linked to these metabolic differences. The study, with 32 participants completing both sessions, suggests food processing affects body and brain responses beyond macronutrients and may relate to overconsumption; further research is planned.
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Could not summarize article.
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Nagare is a to-do app that treats calendar events and tasks as a single set of commitments in one list with optional times, enabling interleaved planning (e.g., study before a dentist appointment) without rigid schedules. Its minimalist UI moves times and checkboxes to the right and uses subtle glows on items in priority projects to surface goals. The app tracks plans vs. completions and syncs via iCloud, exposing context to an agent through MCP for proactive reminders and suggestions. Nagare is available for iPhone and Mac on the App Store.
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Kyushu University researchers developed a non-wearable VR system mounted on a chair, using aerial imaging optics and a micromirror array to create a stereoscopic view without a headset. A built-in gyroscope tracks chair rotation, so the view updates as users turn, delivering theater-like VR in a compact space. The approach could reduce VR sickness and allows larger optical components. They seek industry partners for applications from in-car workspaces and museums to disaster-response robots, and aim to let two people share the same immersive scene, akin to an 'Anywhere Door.'
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Next.js 16.4 makes Cache Components the default, enabling cached UI parts for fast client navigations and instant server rendering. It adds cacheComponents and partialPrefetching flags, ensureStatic for static shells, and navigation/prefetch controls to balance static vs dynamic content. New agent features include --agent upgrade and agentFeedback. Other gains: smaller disk cache, lazy server HMR, a shared Turbopack runtime, smaller production bundles, React 19.3, and experimental Rust React Compiler with turbopackRustReactCompiler; plus disk cache cleanup, lazy dynamic imports, worker threads, and enhanced Turbopack Bundle Analyzer. Upgrade via canary and Skills.
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The author argues that POSIX-like OSes waste optimization opportunities because compilers, build systems, and package managers don’t share dependency and resource information. By tightly integrating the compiler, build system, package manager, filesystem, and scheduler, whole-program optimization can be done earlier and across components. Benefits include incremental, function-level compilation, cross-package awareness, and safer atomic upgrades, with potential disk-space savings via deduplication. A speculative architecture (e.g., libfour and four-exe) illustrates cross-boundary optimization and declarative upgrades, inviting further exploration.
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Bloomberg warns of unusual activity and asks users to verify they’re not a robot. It instructs enabling JavaScript and cookies, and to review Terms of Service and Cookie Policy. For help, users can contact support with the block reference ID; the message also promotes subscribing to Bloomberg.com for global markets news.
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