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Places to Telnet on telnet.org catalogs interactive telnet destinations, from fun servers to BBS/MUDs and terminal games. Highlights include india.colorado.edu, horizons.jpl.nasa.gov:6775, telehack.com:23, towel.blinkenlights.nl (Star Wars ASCII), doom.w-graj.net, freechess.org, and a bitcoin ticker, plus Telnet Live Wikipedia and an AI-assisted page. It links to directories like Telnet BBS Guide, JumpJet, Mudconnect, and Hytelnet, noting some items offline. Email [email protected] to contribute. Updated 2025-06-04; status connected.
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Heathrow has fully rolled out CT security scanners, allowing liquids up to two litres in hand luggage and laptops to stay in bags, with clear bags no longer required. It’s the largest airport to adopt the tech; Gatwick, Edinburgh and Birmingham have already switched to two litres, and Bristol and Belfast have raised limits too. Some other airports await DfT approval. Which? says scanner sensitivity can increase hand searches. The change applies only to Heathrow departures. Heathrow is the only one among the world’s ten busiest airports to drop the 100ml rule for international flights.
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Viewing Collatz as a phase-transition problem, the author builds a Base-1 lab to separate arithmetic from algebra, revealing a ghost/error map: contrasting the real orbit with an ideal carry-free Galois/LFSR evolution yields a Sierpinski gasket in the noise, suggesting the Collatz driver is a linear fractal generator whose carries cause decay. Experiments with dense bit patterns (Mersenne) show a constant burn velocity and a critical density rho ≈ 0.029, beyond which carry friction dominates and orbits collapse. The work provides a Python engine and GitHub release.
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Heathrow has scrapped its 100ml liquids limit at all terminals as of Jan 23, 2026. Passengers can keep liquids and large electronics in their bags, with containers up to 2 liters, and there’s no mandatory liquids bag. CT scanners enable faster, less hands-on screening, reducing bag deconstruction. Benefits include higher throughput, fewer peak-time delays, and less plastic waste. The move signals matured screening; in the U.S., ending 3-1-1 would require widespread CT deployment, standardized procedures, and phased rollout. Travelers through LHR should pack normally; onward, follow local rules.
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Apple released iOS 12.5.8 for the iPhone 5s and iPhone 6, extending the certificate for iMessage, FaceTime, and activation so these features work after January 2027. The 2013 iPhone 5s and 2014 iPhone 6 last received updates in January 2023. Apple pledges at least five years of security updates, though some devices receive updates for longer.
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Extending Atwood's Law, AI-assisted development will push all code toward system languages. JavaScript spread vanished as it became costly in serverless contexts; Rust/Go now offer far higher throughput per dollar. LLMs lower the learning curve and the compiler enforces correctness, making system languages safer for AI-driven work. For greenfield projects, the orchestration brain may stay in Python, while APIs and data pipelines move to Go or Rust. Avoid rewriting existing apps, but the cost of not adopting these languages grows in AWS bills and carbon footprint.
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Y Combinator has updated its deal terms to invest only in US, Cayman Islands, or Singapore–based corporations, removing Canada from the list. Canadian startups must flip to have a parent in one of those three jurisdictions to join YC. Canada was listed as a target as recently as Nov. 2025 but was removed by year-end. The change could push Canadian founders to base in the U.S.; YC’s influence in Canada has grown, with many Canadian startups in cohorts, including Opennote. BetaKit notes YC declined to comment.
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The piece argues that software engineers must understand how large tech companies work. Using a driving metaphor, it maps goals to strategy: ambitious engineers should ship projects, avoid grinding JIRA tickets, and demonstrate impact up the chain; casual engineers should beware glue work and curate a positive reputation; value‑driven engineers should build a program of accessible work to ride organizational shifts when the company cares. Not knowing how to drive can cause trouble; opting out of big‑company leverage reduces your ability to affect millions.
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Mac User Guide explains how to set up and use a Mac running macOS Tahoe. It covers getting started, switching from Windows, working with other Apple devices (Continuity, AirDrop, Handoff, AirPlay), new Tahoe features, privacy and security, Apple Intelligence, Siri, and managing apps and files. It also covers iCloud and Family Sharing, Screen Time and subscriptions, hardware and connectivity basics, accessibility, and maintenance tasks like backups, updates, and reinstalling macOS.
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NTDEV argues Windows 11 has deteriorated in quality over the last three years. The January 2026 update introduced show-stopping bugs (shutdown failures on Meteor Lake/Arrow Lake, Outlook PST access with KB5074109; fixes KB5077797 and KB5078132). Other issues include apps not loading, 0x803f8001, unbootable volumes, RDP failures, and peripheral problems. Windows has become bloated; updates are huge; Windows Explorer heavy; Copilot/AI features proliferate (Edge, Notepad, Paint, Settings, etc.), and Recall was pulled due to security concerns. Local accounts are being phased out. Overall, Windows sits on 30+ years of technical debt; needs reliability over AI innovation.
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The author argues AI content—audio, video, text—thrives by optimizing for engagement, sacrificing craft, dignity, and meaning. He contrasts Bandcamp’s curate-then-ship approach with Spotify’s algorithmic plays, showing metrics-driven models shape culture; AI produces large volumes of “good enough” output, sometimes to the detriment of art, and some platforms resist or ban it. In software, large firms tend to bloated, poorly designed systems that erode craft. AI can automate rote tasks but won’t replace human critical thinking or true craft. He urges a modern Arts-and-Crafts revival in software, exploring non-mainstream histories and human-scale practice, while remaining AI-aware.
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GitHub user pageman’s sutskever-30-implementations provide 30 complete, NumPy-only educational implementations of Ilya Sutskever’s recommended papers. The repository includes 30 Jupyter notebooks (01_complexity_dynamics.ipynb through 30_lost_in_middle.ipynb), plus PROGRESS.md, IMPLEMENTATION_TRACKS.md, and a quick-start guide. Each notebook demonstrates core concepts (RNNs, LSTMs, CNNs, attention, transformers, memory, MDL, RAG, etc.) with synthetic data, extensive visualizations, and no deep-learning frameworks. It’s structured into Foundations, Architectures & Mechanisms, Advanced Topics, with beginner-to-advanced learning paths; 100% complete as of Dec 2025.
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403 error: The request could not be satisfied; CloudFront blocked access to the app/website, likely due to traffic or configuration issues. Check back later or contact the site owner. CloudFront troubleshooting steps are available in the documentation. Request ID: CiZ3k0w3Vtw2KCIBkb7Pe8--B5gNPYiGN4vjmDPnOQ6S_w3ArWtofA==.
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OpenFGA reduced P99 latency in the Check API by using a self-tuning strategy planner that picks the best graph-traversal strategy per subgraph via Thompson Sampling (Bayesian multi-armed bandit). Each strategy has independent Normal-Gamma priors updated in real time from production latency, balancing exploitation of fast methods with exploration of alternatives as data evolves. The planner is decoupled from strategy definitions, enabling easy addition of new heuristics. Results show some workloads hitting under 50 ms P99 (about 98% reduction); others still prefer the legacy path in production.
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WSJ 404 page: the requested page cannot be found; verify the URL or email support. It also lists popular articles—such as China’s top general accused of giving nuclear secrets to the U.S.; Trump says the administration is “reviewing everything”; and Minneapolis shooting videos contradicting the U.S. account by federal agents—and latest podcasts on stocks rising despite Canada tariff threats, EU oversight of WhatsApp Channels, and Tom Homan being sent to Minnesota.
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AI-enabled coding undermines low-code ROI, as shipping code becomes cheap and internal tooling built in-house can be faster and safer. Cloud Capital replaced Retool with custom tooling, delivering richer dashboards and workflows; migration happened in a few sprints and Retool was sunsetted. Incumbent low-code players must adapt or lose share to AI-first tools. Build-vs-buy boils down to speed, cost, maintenance, and ownership; six months in, the authors see building as advantageous and haven't looked back.
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Simon Willison reports a major upgrade to ChatGPT's Code Interpreter/Advanced Data Analysis, now rebranded as 'ChatGPT Containers'. The feature set has expanded to run Bash and JavaScript (Node.js) directly in the container, execute code in multiple languages (Python, Ruby, Perl, PHP, Go, Java, Swift, Kotlin, C/C++; no Rust yet), and install packages via pip and npm through a custom proxy. It can locate and download files into the sandbox via container.download, and test code within the session with visible logs. The author cautions about safety but deems it largely safe, and calls for official documentation.
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