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GitHub Community discusses a new behavior where issue links open a popup overlay instead of navigating to the issue page. Users ask if rollout is gradual and whether there’s a disable/config option. Feedback is mixed: many find the popup disruptive for workflows (copying URLs, AI agents) and raise accessibility concerns, while others see benefits. The thread calls for an opt-out/opt-in or revert, with some offering workarounds; developers point to changelog/roadmap for updates.
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At FOSDEM 2025, in the Retrocomputing track (UB4.136) on Sunday 15:20–15:35, Michal Pleban presents “Raiders of the lost hard drive” about reviving a Commodore C900 Unix workstation with a Zilog Z8000. The talk covers digital archaeology—disassembling the Z8000 BIOS, reverse-engineering the keyboard interface, and deciphering the hard disk format—and recounts bringing the prototype back to life and helping two other Commodore 900 owners. Video and slides are available.
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An author turns a Nintendo Switch into a network switch using Switchroot Ubuntu. After flashing an SD card and booting with hekate, they attach USB Ethernet dongles. The dongles initially weren’t detected; after applying an update from switchroot’s updates folder, the NICs appeared. They create a bridge (br0), add both dongles to it, bring it up, and test by loading twitter.com, achieving about 90 Mbps (limited by a 100 Mbps dongle). They hint at more plans and share their Twitter handle @bitcynth.
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The House Oversight Committee will investigate the deaths and disappearances of at least 10 scientists tied to sensitive US nuclear and aerospace research. The FBI is leading the inquiry, with the Energy Department, Defense Department and NASA involved, and the White House coordinating. Cases range from unsolved homicides to missing persons; no proven links yet and some family members cite medical or personal factors. Notable figures include NASA/JPL researchers, Los Alamos staff, MIT and Caltech scientists, and a retired general. Officials say a coordinated conspiracy isn’t proven; investigations continue.
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mine is a new all-in-one IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp, built to lower the barriers to trying Coalton by offering a single-download, self-contained toolchain for Windows/macOS/Linux. It provides hot-reloading, on-the-fly debugging, inline diagnostics, a readable debugger, jump-to-definition, package-aware autocomplete, real-time argument lists and function types, syntax highlighting, auto-indentation, structural editing, project setup, Quicklisp, and a native compiler/executable builder. It’s pedagogical, Lisp-first, not extensible, with a single layout, no telemetry or ads, and remains alpha-quality with a plan for v1.0 later.
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Jacob Wiseberg details consolidating his .config into a reproducible setup via a single install script. He moved from three separate repos (tmux, neovim, zsh) to a streamlined workflow using a whitelist-style .gitignore to keep only files he controls. Aims include avoiding lock-in with AI/LLM providers, embracing a provider-agnostic workflow centered on neovim/OpenCode, and a terminal-first environment. He invites others to try the install script (curl -fsSL https://shift1w.com/assets/new-terminal.sh | bash) and notes the setup is personal and may break; a README explains setup.
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Progress report: Linux 7.0; installer automation; manifests in asahi-installer-data; GitHub workflows publish to alx.sh/dev and alx.sh; 0.8.0 adds Mac Pro support and firmware-update mode. UEFI-only installs can refresh firmware post-install; ALS uses AOP and a runtime firmware blob on EFI; idle power reduced (~0.5W) by PMP; Bluetooth/WiFi coexistence fixes; DCP VRR workaround with upstream changes anticipated; audio stack upstreaming; expanded M3 hardware support; Fedora Asahi Remix 44 with Plasma 6.6 and Mesa migration; thanks to sponsors.
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Jumpstart Signal is a US stock screener delivering daily, AI/quant signals for 5,300+ stocks. Signals flow into SPOTLIGHT, OPPORTUNITY, and MONITOR across two baskets: Growth ($5–$20) and Momentum ($20–$100). It blends fundamentals (ROE, EPS, revenue growth) and technicals (MA stack, SMA20/50 crosses, EMA momentum, low D/E) with sentiment analysis and ESG/SRI filters. Based on Minervini/Weinstein criteria, it’s backtested 14 years with +163.2% alpha vs S&P 500 and a 64% win rate. Includes sample watchlists; not financial advice.
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Ffreuer Bristow describes a cheating Tetris strategy: force your opponent to play specific pieces and win if they fail within 100,000 blocks. In a simple version with seven tetrominoes and constant speed, alternating S and Z blocks guarantees eventual game over. Key facts: max alternating S/Z blocks before a hole appears is 240; each hole can be filled up to 120 times; up to 50 holes can exist; total blocks before forced loss ≤ 69,600. So alternating S/Z blocks give a win within 100k. The piece also discusses randomness and the monkey analogy, noting real play with increasing speed ends.
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Gaussian splatting can produce photorealistic environments but lacks physics and navmesh. This browser-based PlayCanvas demo converts a SuperSplat scene into a playable game by: downloading a splat (PLY/SOG); exporting streamed SOG with splat-transform for LOD; voxelizing to produce a collision mesh (.collision.glb); baking a lightness grid (lightness.json) for per-mesh lighting; using the PlayCanvas VS Code extension for fast iteration; versioning via PlayCanvas/GitHub; generating a navmesh with recast-navigation; and NPCs driven by behavior trees with personalities. All tools are free/open source; the demo project is public.
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Knight is a minimalistic programming language designed to be easy to implement yet capable of complex tasks. Its design prioritizes easing the implementer’s life by marking many behaviors as undefined (UB) rather than offering heavy abstractions. The project, MIT-licensed, is on GitHub under knight-lang/knight-lang with README and specs, though the page shows loading errors. It promotes a write-once, run-anywhere philosophy, sacrificing high-level abstraction for simplicity.
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Eden AI provides a single API to access hundreds of AI models—LLMs and specialized models for OCR, speech, vision, translation, and more—across providers and regions with full control. It offers smart routing and automatic fallbacks, cost/performance/region-based model selection, and transparent provider management. Benefits: saves time by consolidating integrations, reduces costs by selecting efficient models, and lowers risk with built-in fallbacks. Production-ready with 99.99% uptime, 500+ models, 200k+ developers. Get an API key and start building.
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Statecharts are an enhanced visual formalism for complex systems, building on state machines to tame state explosion. They offer easier reasoning, decoupled behavior, and testability, and serve as a clear communication tool for developers and QA. Downsides include a learning curve, possible code overhead, and perceived overkill. The W3C SCXML standard defines its semantics; tools and libraries exist to read, author, and execute statecharts. Executable statecharts enable a single source of truth for diagrams and runtime behavior, with trade-offs in complexity and tooling. Community resources and glossaries are available.
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Examines how canned tushonka—pork preserved for shelf stability—emerged from WWII Lend-Lease and became a cornerstone of Soviet postwar modernization. It remained, cheap and recognizable, on civilian shelves and in workers’ diets, a symbol of socialist modernity. The article shows tushonka reshaped the food system: farm consolidation, new pig breeding and feed (notably corn silage), redesigned barns, and standardized processing that tied meatpacking to industrial goals. Western ideas inspired the shift, but the state redirected them to maximize pork output and to claim progress in the Soviet food regime.
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Perlis samples his conversion to APL, describing its lyrical expressiveness vs. the plumbing of FORTRAN/ALGOL, and the famous ten-character one-liner that sparked his interest. He notes divergent interpretations of APL among experts: its completeness invites many directions, making a standard path unlikely. He warns against dethroning FORTRAN or belittling BASIC, and argues for ‘spherical harmony’—APL must evolve in multiple directions. He laments education and hardware barriers, urging affordable APL machines and compilers, smarter memory management, and stream-processing hardware to harness future silicon real estate for APL.
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A post notes that web requests should not be measured in Hz; to use the Mastodon web app, enable JavaScript, or try Mastodon’s native apps for your platform.
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An overview of IEEE 754 floating point: numbers are base-2 scientific notation with a limited significand and exponent range. Float has 24-bit significand and exponent range [-126,127], double 53-bit significand and [-1022,1023], half 10-bit significand and [-14,15]. It explains encoding: sign bit, biased exponent, implicit leading 1 in normal numbers; special values: +/-0, +/-inf, NaN; subnormals; rounding effects; conversion between precisions; printing formats including %a for hex; and exact decimal representations exist but can be long. Encourages inspection tools and further reading.
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