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Historically neglected due to medical discipline gaps and male-biased research, the clitoris is now being mapped and understood more fully. Australian urologist Helen O’Connell (1998) produced the first complete depiction of the organ, including internal structures. Ju Young Lee’s Amsterdam UMC team produced 3D nerve maps pinpointing a more extensive neural network than previously thought. Peters’ tissue work found the dorsal nerve carries over 10,000 nerve endings. While mainly linked to pleasure, clitoral activity may aid vaginal arousal and even pain relief in labor. Ongoing work aims to integrate anatomical knowledge with biopsychosocial care.
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Canadian software engineer and YouTuber Anthony Sistilli built an ALPR-based camera to exclusively track police vehicles, posting videos of its real-world use. Two Peel Region police officers visited his Brampton home, expressing privacy worries about such surveillance tools that could reveal officers' locations and shifts. The piece places this against a broader backlash over Flock Safety’s national ALPR network, which critics say enables mass government surveillance without oversight. The article notes past incidents of misuse, encryption claims, and that some cities paused Flock contracts amid privacy concerns.
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Access denied: you don’t have permission to access the NYC.gov page (http://www.nyc.gov/main/click-to-cancel). Reference #18.c794d817.1791743680.a968e21c (errors.edgesuite.net).
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Access to medium.com is blocked by Cloudflare’s security service. The page asks you to enable cookies and explains the block may be triggered by suspicious input (certain words, SQL commands, or malformed data). To resolve, email the site owner with what you were doing and include the Cloudflare Ray ID (and your IP).
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Nanolathe is an independent, MIT-licensed open‑source engine that reimplements Total Annihilation through clean‑room research, allowing study, modification and building on TA with original game data. It offers a browser demo (three-mission, no install) plus a native beta for Windows, Mac and Linux to run full campaigns using your TA files. The engine features a modern GPU renderer with lighting and glow, with a Classic renderer option, and a native 2.5D look. Multiplayer is supported online with your own files. The project is open on GitHub and not affiliated with TA owners.
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Advise configuring a user-agent and respecting the site's robots policy; links to policy pages are provided.
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Access denied (HTTP 403).
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Wealth is what you own, not what you earn. A career can be a wealth engine if you turn salary into assets. Steps: 1) increase your work value and build career capital by solving problems, delivering results, and sharing across functions; document outcomes. 2) learn strategically and move when total opportunity justifies it. 3) create a surplus by controlling lifestyle inflation and reducing debt. 4) automate saving and investing with diversification. 5) build multiple capitals—skill, reputation, relationships, knowledge, financial—and become an owner, not just an employee.
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APSW (A nother Python SQLite Wrapper) exposes SQLite’s full C API to Python, including full-text search, sessions, virtual tables, VFS, JSON, and CArray, with support for all async frameworks. It lets you use SQLite fully with an enhanced developer experience; for interchangeability with sqlite3, use sqlite3 when full features aren’t needed. CPython 3.10+ compatible. Docs at rogerbinns.github.io/apsw; releases on PyPI and GitHub; OSI-approved open-source license. Mailing lists and contact info are provided.
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The piece compares DHH’s Campfire Once rewrites in Rust, Elixir, and Go, showing that prompt specificity drives key design choices like backwards compatibility, latency, and memory. The Rust version drops CSRF protection and Redis in favor of in‑process queues; Elixir stays close to Rails. It explains Rust’s cooperative async scheduler and mixed blocking I/O, plus dangers of tokio::sync::Mutex. Benchmarks are misleading: Rust delivered ~1% of notifications under heavy load, Elixir ~100%, but results depend on test type. Rust’s channel capacity (256) vs Elixir’s unlimited also matters. Conclusion: no silver bullet; think and trade off.
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The article examines polyglot docs sites—projects exposing libraries in multiple languages and publishing API references from Doxygen, rustdoc, Sphinx, etc. It outlines two top-down strategies: transform each generator’s output into the main site, risking loss of generator-specific UX and slower builds; or publish each generator’s output as-is (a turducken), which preserves UX but yields three visually distinct subsites with fragmented navigation and search. Pigweed.dev adopts the turducken approach, unifying with a universal header, shared navigation and breadcrumbs, and a comprehensive search. The header is injected post-build via a Sphinx extension. Pagefind provides cross-subsite indexing and a modal search UI.
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Texas data centers face a massive grid interconnection backlog, with ERCOT pausing large-load approvals as it revises upgrades. The queue ballooned from 63 GW to 474 GW—largely data centers and speculative projects. Key frictions: low-quality submissions, community concerns, and the strain of upgrading a near-full grid. ERCOT rolled out Batch Zero to study 75 MW+ batches, plus deposits; progress slowed. To deploy faster, developers pursue on-site generation with backup and storage, forming private islands or hybrids tied to the grid. Long-term growth hinges on policy, transmission upgrades, and smarter incentives; startups can win with integration or new tech.
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Reverse engineering a Linux spatial-audio effect by system identification rather than internal parameters. Initial attempts using HRTFs (MIT KEMAR, SADIE) and psychoacoustics proved inadequate. A re-attempt treated the device as a linear time-invariant stereo filter and identified its behavior via impulse responses, sine sweeps, steady tones, multitone sweeps, and noise. By treating the path as a 2x2 impulse-response matrix, they measured h_LL, h_LR, h_RL, h_RR, matched delays, and used regularized H(f) to cope with small X(f). The four channel responses were loaded into Saq to reproduce the surround; code is available.
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APNIC explains the DNS root KSK roll scheduled for Oct 11, 2026. Because the root has no parent, validation uses the old KSK to sign the new one, with a 30‑day hold‑down per RFC 5011. The new KSK-2024 was published by IANA in 2024 and added to the root zone in 2025. Adoption is measured with RFC 8145 (trust anchor signaling) and RFC 8509 (Root Key TA Sentinel). Early data show about 90% of reporting resolvers have loaded KSK-2024, and ~70% of RFC 8509 tests indicate trust, with ISP variation. It’s a key change, not a new algorithm.
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BetterWispr is a free, open-source macOS dictation tool that runs completely offline on-device. It uses built‑in Apple speech, Parakeet, Whisper, and optional APIs to transcribe speech in any app via Hold ⌥ Space, with no cloud fallback. Users can choose models, languages, and writing styles per app, enable filler-cleanup, and add vocabulary for future accuracy. Notetaker transcribes both you and other apps; Apple Intelligence or Ollama can generate summaries, decisions and action items locally. It supports macOS 14+, Apple Silicon recommended. No account needed; data stays on your Mac.
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Brandon Thomas, creator of the ArtCraft open-source suite that clones Adobe apps, has released Office clones GridCraft (Excel), DeckCraft (PowerPoint), and WordCraft (Word) built with Claude. Available on ArtCraft GitHub, they aim to run identically on Mac, Windows, and Linux, challenging the subscription model. The project follows ArtCraft, responding to critiques of vibecoded AI and advocating ownership and offline use over cloud-only tools. A growing community (including CADcraft) is exploring these prototypes, though they’re not yet on par with Office, and Autodesk tools or other subscriptions may follow.
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go-dev-auth is a framework for Go offering a comprehensive authentication library with a single Config struct. It provides email/password (scrypt) plus social sign-on (OAuth2/OIDC), SSO, account linking, two-factor and WebAuthn passkeys, magic links, organizations, admin tooling, API keys and JWT. It is framework-agnostic, with zero external dependencies, and includes built-in adapters (memory and sql) plus a MongoDB module. Features plugins (admin, jwt, magiclink, organization, passkey, sso, twofactor). Security: rate limiting, CSRF, cookie-based sessions, encrypted secrets with rotation, audit events, and thorough migrations/schema checks. Production-readiness noted; pre-1.0, SemVer.
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Alina Pereverzieva notes that bot traffic from the Yandex network collapsed to near zero after a strike on Yandex's Vladimir data center, eliminating automated requests from crawlers and similar services. She adds that Twitter must be a ghost town by now.
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