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Five years in, Asahi Linux reports strong progress toward a stable Apple Silicon desktop. Linux 6.19 highlights: experimental USB-C/DP Alt Mode via the fairydust branch (not production-ready); new contributors fleshing out M3 Devicetrees and hardware quirks, with boot to Plasma on some M3 Macs; plans to rewrite the DCP driver in Rust, though many features (HDR/VRR/advanced scanout) remain unfinished. 120 Hz now works on 14" and 16" MBPs using static presentation timestamps (not VRR). Webcam fixes and upstreaming progress touted; Fedora Asahi Remix packaging improvements and DNF5 integration discussed; community events noted.
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Ken Shirriff explains how the Intel 8087 decodes floating‑point instructions from an 8086 via ESCAPE opcodes. Decoding is layered: an ESCAPE‑first bit pattern; a ModR/M byte determines memory vs. register forms; a 22‑entry instruction‑decode PLA feeds microcode ROM; a microcode engine uses 49 conditions for branching; a jump ROM and BIU hardware handle hardwired ops and stack/register management. Some ops are implemented directly in hardware. The 8087 also loads constants via a constant ROM plus exponent tricks to minimize ROM size. This compact, multi‑layer design arose from tight manufacturing constraints.
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Anna’s Archive is a non-profit aiming to preserve humanity’s knowledge and make it openly accessible, even to robots. The post outlines how LLMs can access data: bulk HTML/code downloads via GitLab; metadata and files via Torrents (aa_derived_mirror_metadata); programmatic downloads via Torrents JSON API; and API access after a donation. No search API yet, but metadata can be searched. Donations (including Monero) support faster access and expansion; enterprise donations grant fast SFTP. LLMs may have been trained on their data. Contact details are provided.
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Access to jmargolin.com is blocked by the site's security system. Blocks can result from certain words, SQL-like commands, or improperly formatted data. If you believe you were blocked in error, contact the site owner and provide the Request ID: 3c4ab05a-0d70-40ea-b40c-91e859228226 to restore access.
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A longtime Discord user, facing a February 2026 universal age-verification move, launches a search for a replacement for his 55k+ Touhou server and other communities. He sets hard requirements: Discord-like onboarding, multiple text/voice channels, usable mobile access, and self-hosting; and nice-to-have features such as FOSS, end-to-end encryption, TTL, screensharing. He surveys many options (Matrix, Signal, Fluxer.app, Stoat, XMPP/Fluux, Mumble, Zulip with Jitsi, Spacebar, etc.) and finds most lacking for large communities. Zulip with Jitsi is the best immediate fit; Fluxer.app could be viable later but with risks. Large-scale migration remains impractical for now.
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TinyIce is a Go-based, Icecast2-compatible streaming server with multiple mounts, multi-source relays, and edge relaying. It ships as a single binary with embedded assets, auto-generates secure credentials on first run, and supports multi-tenant admins, zero-config TLS via Let’s Encrypt, and HTTPS for listeners. Features include stream approval, dynamic mount/user/relay management, IP banning, playback history (SQLite), real-time SSE dashboards, Prometheus metrics, public Icecast YP directory, and a legacy /status-json.xsl API. Getting started: build with Go 1.21+, run to generate tinyice.json, then stream to port 8000 /live.
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Martin Fowler warns that semantic diffusion erodes the defined meanings of coined terms like “agile” and “Web2.0” as they spread beyond their originators. Popularity and hype distort definitions through a telephone-game-like process, risking loss of meaning. He argues against abandoning terms, advocating re-articulation by origins and new contributors, and notes that some terms undergo semantic inversion (DevOps, MVP). He suggests terms can recover meaning over time with careful usage and ongoing clarification of their evolving definitions.
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Breadboard is a no-code app builder that lets you stack readable logic blocks to create apps, with UI design, AI-assisted guidance, and one-click publishing (no servers). Demos include weather and Swiss transit apps. Plans: Lite (free forever) with watermark and basic assets; Standard ($15/mo) adds custom domains and more storage; Pro ($59/mo) adds server-side logic and a database. © 2026 Breadboard, by Nurie Jeong & Simone Quattrocchi.
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An interactive explainers project by @paraschopra, inspired by explainers.blog, using AI to teach topics from diffusion models to LLMs via hands-on explanations. It includes pieces on: Diffusion Models from First Principles; How Shazam uses Fourier Transform; The Hidden Mathematics of Everything; Emergent Complexity in Cellular Automata; How Do LLMs Actually Work? Follow updates on X and visit invertedpassion.com.
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Stardex, a YC-backed AI-native ATS/CRM for executive-search firms, is hiring a remote Customer Success Engineer (AI & Data Migration) for $40k-$60k. The role focuses on transforming and migrating data using TypeScript/SQL, emphasizing data quality, automation with AI tools, and clean documentation. Bonus if you have CRM/ATS experience, APIs/ETL work, DB optimization, or customer-facing tech experience. You’ll be the first in this role, working closely with founders to shape onboarding and learn about AI, SaaS, and recruiting.
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Shaper is an open-source, SQL-driven data dashboard tool by Taleshape, powered by DuckDB. It lets you visualize and share data entirely in SQL. Quickstart via Docker: docker run --rm -it -p5454:5454 taleshape/shaper; production deployment and Getting Started guides are available. The project is MPL-2.0; license MPL-2.0. The repo uses Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, HTML, CSS. It's free/open source with managed hosting options.
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Argues that terminals should generate the 256-color palette from the user’s base16 theme rather than using the default palette. The 256 palette comprises 16 base colors, a 216-color RGB cube, and a 24-color grayscale. Problems include clashes with base16, incorrect RGB interpolation, and inconsistent brightness. The proposed fix is to derive the 256 colors from the base16 palette via trilinear interpolation in LAB space (using the base16 colors for the cube corners and interpolating to the background/foreground). A public-domain Python implementation is provided, with benefits: easier theming, light/dark switching, and broader terminal support without per-application config.
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Vincent Driessen explains that Microsoft used an AI-generated version of his 2010 diagram for a successful Git branching model on its Learn portal without attribution. He had published the original and its source, and the AI version degraded the design with incorrect arrows and sloppy rendering. He laments the lack of attribution and transparency, calls for proper credit and explanation of how the Learn page was created and reviewed, and warns about rising risks of AI-generated plagiarism in learning resources.
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Xenopus laevis played a pivotal role in 20th-century biology, from early pregnancy tests to modern genetics. Hogben’s Xenopus frogs provided a faster, humane bioassay for pregnancy years before hCG-based tests made animals unnecessary. The same eggs and embryos fueled seminal embryology work (Spallanzani; Spemann and Mangold) and the discovery that adult-cell nuclei can recreate an organism (Gurdon, 1968), predating Dolly. Xenopus also spurred genetic engineering: Boyer and Cohen’s 1974 Xenopus gene in E. coli showed cross-species gene reading. Later, X. laevis’ four chromosome sets slowed genomics until 2016; X. tropicalis offered a diploid alternative. Today both remain vital models.
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ISOCD-Win is a C#/.NET Windows replacement for Commodore's Amiga ISOCD tool. It generates bootable ISO images compatible with Amiga CD32 and CDTV. It offers a GUI and a CLI for batch processing, builds ISO-9660 images for both big- and little-endian systems, and can inject Commodore trademark files for booting CD32/CDTV. It uses ISO-8859-1, uppercase path tables, and a case-insensitive sort for AmigaDOS compatibility, supports image padding to boost double-speed reads, can launch WinUAE to test ISOs, and its library is a self-contained DLL. MIT-licensed.
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Steph Ango outlines a bottom‑up Obsidian workflow: treat a vault as a folder of files (file‑over‑app), avoid deep folders, and rely on internal links and a category/bases system to organize notes. She uses templates with reusable properties (dates, people, themes, locations, ratings 1–7), fractal journaling with daily notes, and 'random revisits' to surface connections. Unresolved links act as breadcrumbs. Publishing is done via Jekyll (and Obsidian Git) to Netlify; she emphasizes customization and a simple rule set.
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