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Boss is an open-source dependency manager for Delphi and Lazarus (inspired by npm). It uses a boss.json manifest to declare dependencies, toolchains, engines, scripts, and projects. It supports commands such as init, install, uninstall, update, dependencies, run, login, and upgrade, with options for global install, shallow git clones, and selecting Delphi versions or Git clients. It enables reproducible builds by pinning versions and allowing ranges, e.g., ^3.0.0, ~2.1.0. Example dependencies include HashLoad/horse and dataset-serialize.
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Anthropic reduces Claude's values to four axes—Deference vs Caution, Warmth vs Rigor, Depth vs Brevity, Candor vs Execution—to study variation across models and languages. Analyzing 309,815 conversations across Sonnet 4.6, Opus 4.6, Opus 4.7 and 20 languages, they find these axes explain about 15% of value variance. Model differences: Sonnet 4.6 is warmer, deferential, and brief; Opus 4.7 more cautious, rigorous, and deep; Opus 4.6 more rigorous, deferential, and concise. Language effects: warmth dominates in Hindi/Arabic; rigor in English/Russian; other shifts in Indonesian, Dutch, and English. Implications: data balance, norms, and future work on user impact, steerability, and monitoring.
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Telegram Serverless lets you run bot and Mini App backends on Telegram’s infrastructure without managing servers. You write JavaScript modules (handlers, lib, schema.js), deploy with a single command, and Telegram runs them in a fast V8 sandbox near the Bot API and a SQLite-based database. A project has three spaces: your local folder, the cloud copy, and the tgcloud CLI bridge. Code uses the SDK (api, db, fetch). Deploys are separate from migrations; you push changes, then migrate schema. Includes an example counters bot and a full CLI workflow (init, login, push, migrate, run, diff, etc.).
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LLMs excel at code but need boundaries. DSLs and abstractions constrain the space, improve reliability, and provide a validator. The article illustrates with Tickloom, a small semantic model and DSL for distributed systems, enabling a deterministic tick-based prototype where protocol logic lives in a stable vocabulary (Process/Replica, Network, Storage, Clock). It argues for two-phase use: first, design the abstraction with LLMs as brainstorming partners; second, use the DSL as the source of truth and as a natural-language interface. The DSL stays small, compiles to a sandbox, and resists hallucination, making the intent durable.
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The author chronicles a personal battle with severe depression that has derailed a software career, highlighting patterns of poor communication, unfinished work, and burnout that led to two job terminations. They emphasize mental health as central, credit support from a GP, PAPC, friends, and family, and commit to therapy and clearer communication. On fluoxetine/oxazepam and on benefits, they plan a gradual return with open-source contributions. They seek stability and disciplined work, outlining 2027 goals: finish tasks, reduce mistakes, find meaningful work, avoid being a burden, and focus on one task at a time.
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Captchainbox protects your inbox from AI cold outreach by requiring unknown senders to verify via CAPTCHA or pay a small fee before their messages reach you. It scans conversation metadata (never reads message content) and checks senders against your trusted contacts; trusted senders pass through, unknowns are archived and must verify. Features include calendar-invite protection, introduction detection via CC, configurable filters, and auto-replies. Verification fees are pooled and donated. Supports Gmail, Outlook, and others with a 7‑day free trial; pricing starts at $5 per inbox per month.
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Weathergotchi - an open-source, battery-powered E-Paper Climate Logger. It uses an ESP32-S3 to read temperature/humidity (SHT45) and logs data to external EEPROM, displaying current readings and a history graph on a 1.54-inch e-paper display. Designed for ultra-low power, it wakes from deep sleep every minute, logging data and returning to sleep, with over a week of operation on a small Li-Po battery. The project includes hardware, firmware, and enclosure CAD files (KiCad/OpenSCAD), and is fully open source with MIT license. No wireless connectivity; data is viewable on the device.
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Russell Graves argues the tech backlash is real and deserved, challenging a piece that blames shifting sentiment on misunderstood trends. He says outsiders see startup fraud, crypto hype, VC-backed, loss-making models, and cloud costs as predatory. Tech’s embrace of surveillance and attention-for-profit, and the “Enshitification” of devices, has made smartphones invasive and disposable. High-profile failures (Holmes, FTX) highlight the disconnect between hype and reality. The piece ends with a call to opt out, distrust platforms, build analog tools, and starve the beast.
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Neverclick is a Windows desktop app that lets you click and drag using the keyboard, using computer vision to identify UI elements across all apps. It supports window switching, hints-based selection, and path/multi-select modes, with future features for text highlighting and dragging. It offers two vision systems: Neverclick Vision (fast, text-capable) and Clairvoyance (OS APIs, slower). Install via neverclick.com; activation via Ctrl+Enter; configure via tray GUI. It’s free, offline after install, multi-monitor/4K supported, and runs locally (no cloud AI).
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Combinatorial games in Lean 4 is a formalization of combinatorial game theory in Lean 4. A combinatorial game is a two-player terminating game with perfect information and no draws (Left vs Right). Examples: Nim, Hackenbush, Chomp; non-examples: poker, Chess, eternal games. The project aims to formalize four areas: (1) general theory (temperature, dominated/reversible positions), (2) specific games (poset games, Hackenbush, Tic-tac-toe), (3) nimbers, (4) surreal numbers (field structure, Hahn series). Based largely on Conway (On Numbers and Games) and other resources.
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Using The Conversation’s Human Rights Measurement Initiative, the U.S., despite a $32T economy, underperforms on five rights. Most strikingly, its right to dignified work and fair income is only 27% of what a country this wealthy could guarantee—the worst among OECD members. Health and food are ~80–81% of potential; education access ~91% but quality ~61%. The analysis shows 25 years of stagnation versus peers. It argues policy reforms like raising the minimum wage could lift tens of millions out of poverty, though some recent policies threaten health coverage.
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APNIC blog investigates small RPKI publication servers beyond the five RIRs. While most ROAs come from RIRs, many small servers (cloud providers, ISPs, academia, RPKIaaS) publish ROAs. Small = under 1,300 ROAs; AWS RRDP excluded. Dataset (23 April 2026): 2,467 ROAs, 3,778 prefixes, 1,163 ASes. Findings: 92.4% ROAs valid; 91% of valid ROAs have a matching BGP announcement; unknown 7.6%. MaxLength used in 53.98% of ROAs; 19.6% have no BGP coverage for sub-prefixes, risking hijacks. BGPsec not deployed. Reasons: cross-RIR simplicity, RPKIaaS, and research; education less common than expected. Conclusion: small servers modestly affect verifiability; not catastrophic but noteworthy.
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The piece recounts Bill Howell’s rule: never argue with your boss, since a ‘win’ still erodes authority and trust. The author describes a public confrontation in a weekly IT meeting where he publicly crushed his boss’s objections, leaving colleagues shocked and eroding team cohesion. He later apologizes, realizes the mistake, and concludes that avoiding public disagreements and managing up—protecting your boss’s authority, seeking private compromises, and keeping criticism behind closed doors—is wiser. If management is incompetent or hostile, consider leaving or preemptively exploring other opportunities.
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Yong Zheng-Xin, a Brown PhD, describes his pivot to AI safety and a fast, turbulent job search. He joined the Astra Fellowship with OpenAI, delaying graduation. Surprises: only a couple of papers matter; interviews test problem-solving and credibility beyond publications. Rounds are diverse (system design, parallelism, AI-agent usage). Work trials are common and can last a week. Timing and headcount decide opportunity windows; some offers are scarce. Many interviews aren’t AI-safety-specific; firms assess broad AI researcher ability. He highlights reading: Lambert; Alisa Liu; Silvia Sapora; and notes no LLMs were used.
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A researcher demonstrates a data-exfiltration flaw in Claude’s memory by abusing its web browsing, showing that a malicious site can force Claude to leak a user’s PII (name Ayush Paul, company Beem, hometown Charlotte, NC) via letter-by-letter navigation and a fake Cloudflare-like turnstile. After disclosure to Anthropic, web_fetch’s ability to follow external links was disabled, limiting browsing to web_search results or user-provided URLs. The attack highlights memory-based leakage risks for Claude and other memory-enabled tools and connected services.
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Using the bread paradox, the author shows people buy pre-made bread for convenience, reliability, and time saved, despite cheap ingredients. Translating to SaaS: AI lowers the cost of building, but durable SaaS wins by selling convenience, accountability, and a proven ecosystem (not just code). If you DIY with AI, you inherit maintenance, security gaps, and a fragile supply chain. Expect SaaS pricing to move toward usage/outcome models; many single-feature products will die. The core idea: rent a solution, not own the problem; trust and scale keep SaaS thriving.
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