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Jonathan Vogel explains that deleting AWS resources may still incur charges due to final snapshots, orphaned EBS volumes, unattached Elastic IPs, and NAT Gateways. His cleanup checklist: start with the Billing Dashboard to see current charges; use Resource Explorer to view all resources across regions; check Snapshots, Unattached Volumes, Elastic IPs, NAT Gateways. Set a Billing Alarm. Choose Free Tier (up to $200 in credits, no charges, account closes after credits or six months) or a paid plan with the same credits but ongoing billing. Bookmark the checklist and reuse after each project.
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JEPA-v0 is Pinch Research’s self-supervised audio encoder for real-time speech-to-speech translation that preserves voice, emotion, and rhythm. It adopts Joint‑Embedding Predictive Architecture: a context ViT masks parts of a log-mel spectrogram, a target encoder (an EMA of the context encoder) provides stable representations, and a predictor matches the masked targets. This setup avoids collapse with stop-gradient, slow EMA targets, and a 384‑dimensional bottleneck. Trained on unlabeled multilingual audio, evaluated on XARES. It captures timbre and emotion well but struggles to map to linguistic content; future work: higher temporal resolution and linking to a translator decoder.
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NanoClaw creator Gavriel Cohen's six-week whirlwind: after posting NanoClaw as a secure OpenClaw alternative on Hacker News, it went viral, boosted by Andrej Karpathy’s praise, garnering 22k GitHub stars, thousands of forks, and hundreds of contributors. Security concerns around OpenClaw (unencrypted data, sprawling 800k+ lines) led Cohen to build a lean 500-line container-based agent, later switching to Docker Sandboxes. Docker's Oleg Šelajev helped integrate Sandboxes, and Cohen pivoted NanoClaw into NanoCo with plans for commercial, service-oriented offerings while keeping the project open source. VC interest is rising as the community grows.
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UNSW Sydney and Monash researchers have developed negative luminescence, a thermoradiative communication method that hides data transfers in natural infrared heat. Signals blend into background heat and are invisible to ordinary observers; only a receiver with specialized equipment can read them, making interception unlikely. In lab tests, data reached ~100 KB/s, with potential to reach gigabytes per second as tech improves. The system uses thermoradiative diodes and mid‑IR LEDs; future work includes graphene and less toxic semiconductors to boost speeds. Could enable secure, covert communications for defense and finance.
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Mouser is a lightweight, open-source, local-only remapper for the MX Master 3S that replaces Logitech Options+. It remaps all six buttons, offers per-app profiles, DPI control (200–8000), vertical/horizontal scroll inversion, and gesture button actions, with auto-reconnection and a live status badge. The GUI runs in Qt Quick, with a system tray and local JSON config. Prereqs: Windows 10/11 or macOS 12+, Python 3.10+, HID++ access; Bluetooth recommended; Options+ must be closed. Linux not supported; MX Master 3S only. No telemetry or cloud.
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Rubenerd embraces using Thunderbird to read RSS feeds again, praising its local operation and integration with his existing Thunderbird setup (email, news, calendars, notes). He prefers the river of news approach, and uses email-style filters to mark items as read. By creating a "Feeds" account and folders, he can organize feeds effectively. He notes NetNewsWire is best on Mac, but Thunderbird serves as a solid cross-platform option for him.
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Joost Boer explains how Google dominated his Start24 business until a core update nuked its rankings, shattering the belief that quality alone would win. He rebuilt Start24 with honest reviews, interactive tools, a free WordPress course, and a custom theme. Traffic fell as Google downgraded him, but new channels—paid ads, direct visits, email, and social—grew. He stopped writing for crawlers and focused on readers, and the site improved even as rankings dropped. The lesson: diversify traffic and not let Google control your life.
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The text communicates that JavaScript is disabled, causing parts of the site to fail to load. It suggests enabling JavaScript, checking the connection, disabling ad blockers, and trying a different browser, as issues may stem from extensions or browser settings.
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Hammerspoon is a macOS desktop automation tool that acts as a bridge between the OS and a Lua scripting engine. Its extensions expose system functionality so you can write Lua scripts to automate many aspects of macOS. Install by downloading and running the app or via Homebrew; after install, you must create ~/.hammerspoon/init.lua with your config. It’s a fork of Mjolnir, aiming for broader API coverage and tighter extension integration. The project provides getting started guides, API docs, and community resources, and is actively maintained with a large contributors base.
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Starlink's satellite internet is reshaping warfare by providing reliable, hard-to-jam data links for drones and troops, but private ownership and Musk's control risk sovereignty. Nations are rushing to build their own constellations: EU's IRIS², China's Guowang and Qianfan, Russia's Sfera (delayed), plus European efforts like Germany and OpenCosmos/UK links. Launch capability and dependence on others worry Europe and the UK. While Starlink offers cost and ground-equipment advantages, many states seek autonomous networks to avoid being cut off in future conflicts.
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svglib is a Windows SVG file parser and renderer library using Direct2D for GPU rendering and XMLLite for XML parsing. It targets Win32 apps and games and requires no external libs to distribute. Build with Visual Studio Community (C++), clone the repo, open svglib.sln, link with svglib.lib and Direct2D/DirectWrite, and enable C++17. Example: create a SVGDevice, load SVGImage via SVG::load, and render in WM_PAINT. Supported features align with a subset of SVG; textPath and clipPath are not supported currently. Security notes warn about untrusted SVGs and lack of depth/coordinate overflow protections.
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Providence Place Mall's construction left an 'accidental room' between two nearly-touching walls. Artist Michael Townsend and friends found it and turned it into a secret apartment, living there for about four years as a refuge amid redevelopment. They cleared debris, brought in water and lights, and even built a cinder-block wall to isolate the space. When security eventually confronted them after a daytime breach, Townsend was charged with trespassing, given a misdemeanor, and banned from the mall. The story highlights how redevelopment can create hidden spaces that residents reclaim.
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Context Gateway by Compresr is an agentic proxy that sits between an AI agent (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) and the LLM API to perform instant history compaction and context optimization. It compresses long conversations in the background so context limits are never waited on; pre-computed summaries enable immediate continuation. Quick Start provides a binary install and an interactive TUI to choose an agent (claude_code, cursor, openclaw, or custom) and configure a summarizer model and threshold (default 75%).
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The author argues smartphones are full computers and critiques Apple’s restrictions (App Store control, sandboxing, locked bootloaders) as profit-driven. They note the MacBook Neo and iPhone share the same SOC and could run similar OSs; the Neo can run Linux and software freely, while iPhone remains sandboxed. They advocate for the right to root access and to load any software on devices you own, connecting to broader right to repair. They envision repurposing an iPhone as a web server or running macOS on it, emphasizing freedom to choose software.
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Issue #64584 reports HTTP 522 errors loading the Pandas documentation site (https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/). Opened Mar 13, 2026 by kylebarron; the docs page fails to load. Suggests a possible configuration change on Pandas’ side and asks for investigation/fix. No assignee yet; labeled Docs.
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Senator Ron Wyden warns of a secret Section 702 interpretation that will 'stun' Americans when declassified, as Congress nears renewal of the program. He cites a pattern of cryptic warnings later borne out by abuses, and last-minute reforms that weakened oversight. In a floor speech linked to NSA head nominee Joshua Rudd, Wyden argues there is a secret reading of 702 harming privacy that must be debated before reauthorization. He criticizes reforms that gave sensitive-search approvals to a partisan FBI deputy director who won’t keep a record and warns of a broadened catch-all that could force people to spy.
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Channel Surfer lets you watch YouTube as if it were cable TV; press to start. Made by RDU.
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