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Certo is an open-source platform to issue, manage, and verify verifiable digital credentials (Open Badges 3.0, W3C VC). Issuers define badge templates, issue credentials (bulk via CSV), and recipients view them in a dashboard; credentials can be verified publicly and shared to LinkedIn. Features include cryptographic verification, revocation, endorsements, evidence attachments, and a verification page. The project uses Strapi 5.x backend + Nuxt 3 frontend, PostgreSQL, Docker Compose, and provides Open Badges 3.0 API endpoints for credentials, achievements, profiles, revocations, endorsements and evidence.
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TypeStax is a desktop-only type scale generator with a vintage audio hardware vibe. Created by Rahulmax, it offers harmonious Type Stacks around Inter, with configurable base sizes, scale ratios, and per-element overrides for headings, body, and small text. It exposes h1–h6, p, eyebrow, and small scale presets, plus color/contrast, background options, and mobile settings. A larger display is recommended to access the full interface.
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Scalzi argues that generative AI is not a substitute for real creativity. Using AI is like playing Guitar Hero: you learn to press prompts, not to create or master a craft. Prompting yields outputs controlled by the AI’s designers and doesn’t build transferable skills (writing, music, art). Ownership of AI-generated content is murky; much training data is pirated. For many, prompts are entertainment, not genuine artistry. If you want to create meaningful work, you must practice, learn, and develop portable skills—relying on AI risks dependence and exploitation. Choose your path accordingly.
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Adam McKay warns of a gargantuan lie—that we have time on climate change and that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us—pushed by elites, media, and industry. Warming is already dangerous: a 2°C rise by 2050 could kill billions and threaten civilization, with 3°C risking up to 4 billion. The 1.5°C threshold is breached; current pledges would cut emissions only ~12–15% by 2035. Urgent, deep emissions cuts now are needed, not later.
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An overview of Bridgetris, a Tetris-like game for the BBC Bridge Companion, a 1985 BBC console teaching bridge. The author reverse-engineers the BIOS to boot a self-written Z80 game by masquerading as a cartridge. It covers the hardware (Z80 CPU, TMS9129 VDP with 16KB VRAM) and cartridge packaging, learning Z80 assembly, debugging, and porting from Rust. He also mods the unit: fixing the cartridge slot and adding a composite video mod for better TV output. The series will dive deeper and release ROM/source later; notes Heber and Richard Horne; ongoing with future posts.
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German energy company RWE will abandon its offshore wind projects in the US after a $1.2 billion payout to the Interior Department, relinquishing leases off California, Louisiana and the New York Bight. RWE will reinvest the funds into conventional gas projects, including an LNG export terminal in Louisiana, and plans about €17 billion in U.S. investment over six years. The deal underscores the Trump administration’s push to slow offshore wind in favor of fossil fuels.
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Describes IGN Error 403 (IFW-U01): the request is flagged as suspicious and blocked, making the page unavailable, with a 'Back to IGN' link and a placeholder quote.
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US researchers used AI to design whole bacteriophage genomes that can infect bacteria. Of 302 AI-designed phages, 16 effectively killed E. coli in the lab, marking the first time generative AI designed a complete viral genome. The work aims to advance phage therapy and synthetic biology, but raises urgent biosafety and biosecurity concerns about misuse to create new pathogens. Safeguards included excluding human-infecting viruses and confining experiments to phages in secure labs. Experts call it a major turning point for biology and medicine, demanding careful governance.
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Branimir Karadžić argues parsers don’t have to be complicated and presents bx::Scanner, a zero-copy, non-owning scanner with a StringView result and a single cursor, using simple operations (accept, acceptUntil, peek, seek). It avoids generators, PEGs, and heavy dependencies while staying readable in a debugger. The article demonstrates LineReader, INI parsing with sub-scanners, URL parsing, file-path normalization, and stack-trace symbolication built from this primitive. Using Scanner eliminates ad-hoc code and dependencies, reducing bugs and improving error reporting.
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Tiquatira Linear Park in São Paulo’s East Zone transformed from an abandoned, garbage-strewn area along the Tiquatira stream into an urban forest and leisure space. In the 2000s, resident Hélio Silva planted native Atlantic Forest saplings; after repeated setbacks, the city established the park in 2007. Now 320,000 m², it houses about 32,000 trees across 160 species and offers sports courts, trails, playgrounds, and kiosks. It’s on Avenida Governador Carvalho Pinto, near Vila Matilde metro.
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New Mexico court ordered Meta to pay $567 million into a fund to address youths’ mental-health harms from its platforms, totaling $942 million after a $375 million March fine. About $420 million funds treatment for NM youths; the rest covers awareness, screening and prevention over five years. The ruling requires stronger age-assurance—AI-based age estimation, an under-13 prediction model, and age proofs for NM users—plus banners about protections, a school-linked reporting portal, and data deletion for under-13s, with biannual progress reports. Meta plans to appeal amid other state and federal lawsuits.
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Helio da Silva, a 73-year-old São Paulo retiree, planted more than 40,000 trees over two decades to transform the degraded Tiquatira Linear Park (3.2 km by 100 m) in the Penha district. Starting with 200 Atlantic Forest saplings and a single jequitibá seed, he faced vandalism and mockery but persisted, creating a biodiversity-rich urban forest of 160 species, hosting 45 bird species, with 88% survival by 2007 and a goal of 50,000 trees. The park cools the area, reduces flood risk, improves air quality, and inspires community engagement, showing urban greening as climate and health solution.
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The piece argues that AI-made prototypes are easy but rarely become real products. Many demos and clones flood online content, but they lack real users, markets, and problem-solving value. A true product is defined by its users and market impact, not just features or flashy demonstrations. Despite powerful AI, there remains no true competitor to major platforms because real products require more than code; they require user adoption and tangible problem solving.
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Reddit is a social news and discussion platform made up of user-created communities called subreddits. Users submit text, links, and images, vote on posts, and participate in threaded discussions and AMAs.
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Jevons paradox: when prices fall, total spending can rise because cheaper resources enable more usage (e.g., gas, or software builds/tests boosting CI costs). The author coins “Reverse Jevons paradox”: when costs rise, spending can fall—or drop to zero. Example: heavy review processes make small changes not worthwhile, slowing incremental improvements and harming a codebase.
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Forum discussion on Framework data breach: incident reportedly leaked some customer data, but not payment details. Members praised Framework's rapid, transparent notification—Metabase notified partners within 3 days; Framework informed customers within 6 hours of Metabase’s notice. Some questioned whether credit card info was accessed, noting payments are processed via Stripe and no payment data exposed. Debates about sharing data with third-party BI platforms and whether earlier messaging used 'limited breach' accurately. Concerns raised about phishing risks from breach emails. Overall appreciation for transparency but dissatisfaction with data-sharing practices.
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Edge shows a 'Too Many Requests' (429) error, indicating the server is rate-limiting requests.
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Atomic clocks keep time by tapping the resonant frequencies of atoms. Isolated atoms are illuminated with finely tuned light; when the light matches an atom’s resonant frequency, atoms absorb energy and undergo quantum jumps. Counting the resulting light cycles yields ticks of time. For cesium, one second is defined as 9,192,631,770 cycles. Atomic clocks are far more stable than pendulums or quartz, powering GPS, networks, finance timestamps, and scientific research. Modern clocks include beam, fountain and optical clocks.
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