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Autistici/inventati: Manifesto – who we are and what do we want (2002)

Autistici.org's manifesto seeks to reclaim space for free, universal internet communication and social projects by running independent servers. They provide services (web, email, lists, chats, blogs) to support groups with their aims, free from commercial influence and censorship. They advocate free distribution of cultural material, oppose copyright, and support open-source software. Governance is self-managed and collective—no coordinator or spokesperson, decisions made through mediated mailing-list discussions and accessible to all participants. Finances rely on voluntary donations; no member profits.

Europe's last regular standard-gauge steam passenger service

Parowozownia Wolsztyn publikuje rozkład jazdy z informacją, że od 20–28 sierpnia 2026 ruch parowozem Pt47-65 będzie zastępowany przez lokomotywę SM42 6D. Pociąg z parowozem kursuje w dni robocze Wolsztyn–Zbąszynek–Wolsztyn (77385) i Zbąszynek–Wolsztyn (77256); w soboty – Wolsztyn–Poznań Główny–Wolsztyn (77217/77246). Niedziele i święta – brak ruchu planowego. Bilety online, w kasie lub u kierownika pociągu. Organizatorzy: Parowozownia Wolsztyn, Województwo Wielkopolskie, Miasto Wolsztyn, Powiat Wolsztyński.

e is a customizable self-aware Emacs-like editor written in Chez Scheme

A tiny console text editor written in Chez Scheme, Emacs-like in spirit but not a clone. It runs in a Unix-like terminal with buffers, windows, a kill ring, incremental search, and an M-x style command system. The editor is a self-contained Scheme system: a minimal core plus extension libraries (.e) that reload on demand; modules can be vendored inside a project and reloaded with reload-module!. It requires only Chez Scheme, has no build step, starts fast after the first load, and uses a config.e for customization.

Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM)

Samsung at Hot Chips 2026 unveils LPDDR5X-PIM: a 16-bank LPDDR5X-9600 DRAM where each bank has a PIM MAC array and registers. Internal bandwidth is 614 GB/s, far higher than the external 76.8 GB/s. PIM uses special per-bank rows to switch between single-bank and multi-bank modes, enabling cross-bank MAC computations with results stored in PIM vector registers and written back to DRAM. Weights are loaded into DRAM; the PIM block delivers about 2.4 TOPS per package (INT8/FP8). Software must isolate a PIM memory region, facing cache/coherence and multitasking challenges, requiring substantial hardware/software changes for practical use.

Queen Caroline turned King Arthur into an 18C royal PR strategy

Queen Caroline used Arthurian myth to bolster the Hanoverian claim and foster a British identity amid political tension. In 1735 she commissioned Merlin’s Cave in Richmond, a gothic folly with wax Merlin figures, to place Merlin at the center of Britain’s past and future. The tactic linked the German Hanoverians to ancient English royalty, framed legitimacy as national myth rather than inheritance, and sought dynastic reconciliation between George II and Frederick. While ridiculed by some, the cave reveals early royal PR and myth-making as a political tool.

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Box of 300 Love Letters Showed Up, What Whimsical WWII Soldier Who Wrote Them?

Speedy Weber’s box of 300 WWII love letters, donated anonymously to a USO office in 2022, has been traced to relatives after a long mystery. Smithsonian and a Washington Post report reveal the letters—written to his wife Frances from 1942–1945 in Europe and North Africa—show an everyday, affectionate soldier who dubbed her "Meatball" and signed "You are always in my heart." Speedy and Frances later lived in New York, then Florida; they’re buried together. An amateur sleuth and relatives helped identify Speedy’s nephew Arthur Serota and niece Karen Figilis; the donor remains unknown, and the search continues.

Flyway for freeloaders, rollback implemented in Python

Explains a no-license rollback trick for Flyway Community Edition by turning rollback into a forward migration. Core idea: instead of ‘undo’, add higher-versioned migrations whose bodies are the reverse of the originals, and stage them alongside the real migrations. Two dirs: migrations/ and rollbacks/ with V<version>__<name>.down.sql; when migrating, determine the applied batch, then create staged undo scripts like V3__undo_V2.sql, V4__undo_V1.sql (versions always rise). Use afterMigrate.sql to delete history entries so the DB appears unchanged. Run all in one transaction with -group=true. Limitations: data loss risk, state tied to container, manual down scripts, and flyway_schema_history edits.

Review: Chuwi's $449 Unibook laptop is a funhouse-mirror MacBook Neo

Chuwi’s Unibook is a budget Wildcat Lake laptop-at-$449 with 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD. It has an unusually rich port selection, easy SSD upgrade, and a decent keyboard, but a terrible trackpad, mediocre 13” 1920x1200 screen (not 100% sRGB, ~300 nits), and dull webcam/speakers. Software/driver support is a mess; preinstalled bloatware and problematic driver site complicate clean Windows/Linux installs. It delivers excellent battery life (~15 hours) and decent general performance, but RAM, limited GPU, and inconsistent software make it hard to recommend as a primary machine, despite its $449 price.

TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store

TurboKV is an async, embedded Rust key-value store with atomic write batches, ordered range scans, and configurable durability, compression, and background compaction. It uses a persisted Bloom-filter format with hardware AES and supports fast, durable, and paranoid durability presets. Install via cargo add turbokv and tokio (features enabled). Key APIs cover Db operations (open, insert, get, remove), WriteBatch, range/scan iterators, and maintenance (flush, compact, stats, close). Scans provide coherent point-in-time views; batches are atomic. Benchmarks compare TurboKV to fjall and redb. Apache-2.0 licensed.

Kumander Linux – A Linux Distro with a Windows 7 Desktop

Kumander Linux es una distribución Debian/XFCE ligera y estable, diseñada para facilitar la transición desde Windows 7 con una interfaz similar. Incluye miles de aplicaciones gratuitas, un Centro de Software con apps y Flatpaks, y Google Chrome como navegador predeterminado. Soporta Steam, LibreOffice compatible con Microsoft Office, y herramientas de edición de video Kdenlive y Ardour 7. Se puede probar sin instalar mediante arranque en vivo o ejecutarlo en VirtualBox; ISO trae Live boot. Foro de soporte disponible. Versión 2.1 Bulalo (2025).

Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

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Monzo Stand-In

Monzo Stand-in is an independent backup banking layer on Google Cloud that can take over from Monzo’s Primary Platform (on AWS) during major outages to keep core functions running: card payments, cash withdrawals, transfers, balances, and card freezing. It uses a separate, immutable data set with real-time event syncing to stay as up‑to‑date as possible, offering occasional eventual consistency. The Primary remains the system of record; Stand-in outcomes are authoritative only while enabled. Enabling/disabling and routing decisions are configuration-driven. Cost is about 1% of the Primary, and it was exercised during the August 2024 outage.

StemDeck, a free, open-source and local AI stem separator

StemDeck is a free, open-source, local stem-separation tool that runs on your computer to extract up to six stems (vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano, other) from uploaded audio or YouTube URLs you’re authorized to process. It uses Demucs htdemucs_6s, offers a DAW-like mixer (mute/solo/volume, loop, zoom, per-stem controls, export), and processes entirely on-device with no uploads. It ships with prebuilt binaries, downloads model weights on first run, and supports macOS, Windows, and Linux via Python/uvicorn, FFmpeg, and yt-dlp. Apache-2.0.

Experiments with Plotter Art

A personal, iterative exploration of generative plotter art using an Ender 3 outfitted with a pen. The author uses Inkscape (GcodeTools) to produce G-code and Hershey fonts for legible outlines, plus the Simple Inkscape Scripting extension with Python (Pillow/NumPy) to manipulate a hand-drawn base shape by copying, rotating, scaling, and translating it to create flowing abstract patterns.

I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis

Memory isn’t enough; keep what we currently know. Lemmalog uses a Datalog engine to maintain facts, rules, derived conclusions, with retractions, provenance, and temporal validity. The LLM handles fuzzy input; the engine re-evaluates only affected conclusions when observations change. Combined with retrieval, this yields an agent memory system. In LongMemEval and LoCoMo, Lemmalog is competitive with PropMem/OpenClaw and excels at knowledge updates, temporal reasoning, and adversarial questions, while using far less context—about 38x smaller on LongMemEval and ~6x on LoCoMo. It’s not a universal win, but demonstrates maintained state benefits.

PPWR lands another blow to an precarious tabletop industry

Rascal reports that Europe’s new PPWR and its EPR add heavy, varied compliance costs for small tabletop RPG publishers. Since August 12, 2026, rules differ by member state, forcing fees, registrations, and complex labeling across 27 countries. Indie publishers like Black Armada, Genesis of Legend, and By Odin’s Beard have paused EU shipping or restricted markets, citing time, cost, and risk of fines. Ambiguities about what counts as packaging, exemptions for micro‑enterprises, and GPSR interactions complicate matters. Distributors’ prices rise, crowdfunding backlogs persist, and overall EU sales threaten profitability.

9th Circuit sides with states in Kalshi gambling fight

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The Server Called Paranoia: Defend Autistici/Inventati Before Sept25 Sabot Media

Autistici/Inventati (A/I) is a decades‑old Italian volunteer collective building censorship‑resistant digital infrastructure (Paranoia, Noblogs, encrypted mail) for antifascist, anti‑capitalist causes. Emerging from Milan’s LOA and Florence’s Inventati, it grew through Genoa’s G8 and later Plan R*, a distributed, multi‑country architecture that survives seizures and shutdowns. On Aug 26, 2026, the U.S. designated A/I as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, with a wind‑down by Sept 25, 2026, threatening banks, hosting, domains and other services. The piece urges solidarity, archival preservation and independent defense, arguing that infrastructure for dissent should not be criminalized; A/I denies terrorism.

A Japanese shrine has recorded one lake's ice for 583 years, as a divination

Lake Suwa’s御神渡り ridge, seen as the god crossing the lake, has a 583-winter archive kept by 八剱神社 since 1443. Each winter records whether the lake froze and whether a crossing occurred (three ridges needed: 一の御渡り, 二の御渡り, 佐久の御渡り). Meiji-era decree halted observation 1871–1892; ceremony restored in 1893. By Feb 2026 eight winters have lacked a certified crossing, though the lake fully froze on 2026-01-26 without a ridge, so 明けの海 was declared for the eighth time. The record mixes shrine ledger and NSIDC data, which disagree on several winters.

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