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GoAccess is an open-source real-time log analyzer and interactive viewer for Unix, usable in a terminal or via a browser. It quickly analyzes web server logs to provide on-the-fly HTTP statistics, suitable for quick SSH-based analysis and security monitoring. It can generate real-time terminal dashboards and self-contained HTML reports, plus JSON and CSV outputs. Key features include fast updates (TUI + Web), C implementation, ncurses dependency, broad log-format support (Apache, Nginx, S3, CloudFront, etc.), and MIT-licensed code with customizable dashboards.
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A solo developer reflects on a 2014 breakout—Shooting Expert 2 racks up 13.56 million lifetime installs, with a peak of 886k active devices, driven by Google’s Top New Free chart and in-app ads, despite Serbia lacking a merchant account until 2021. By 2026, only ~499 active devices remain. Discovery has cratered; a fresh release with ads fails to gain traction. The author moved Shooting Expert titles to a new account, rebuilt them in Godot, and launches REDLINE: Longest Burn, while sharing detailed Play Console exports to illustrate the shift.
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OJCP is an open standard for agent-ready job feeds that lets AI agents discover, evaluate, and apply to jobs. Built on MCP and interoperable with schema.org, it’s governed by an independent steering committee with representation from employers, ATS vendors, job boards, staffing agencies, and agent platforms (no veto). It defines seven core schemas and six MCP tools (search_jobs required; others optional), standardized apply paths, and consent-first privacy with PII minimization. Discovery occurs at /.well-known/ojcp.json; a live playground demonstrates end-to-end flows. Open to contributions under CC BY 4.0 / Apache 2.0.
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0.mk recovered and crawled a 2009–2014 backup of 657,607 links (655,178 crawlable) to destinations pre-2015, tested in Aug 2026. 51.2% could not connect; 25.4% produced HTTP errors; 23.3% loaded, but many were blocked by logs, ads, or login walls. At the unique-URL level, only about 21% loaded; 78.7% did not. Of 133,605 crawlable hostnames, roughly a quarter had at least one URL load. The snapshot shows extensive web decay: giants like YouTube, Wikipedia, and Google properties survive; local and personal sites largely vanished. The relaunch runs on AI-driven edge infrastructure across 300+ cities.
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A hobbyist documents building a home AI server from salvaged parts: four GPUs with 32GB VRAM each on an old X299 rig with an i9-10900X, powered by a 1600W PSU. With no fans, they design a custom 80mm shroud and a DIY Arduino-based controller to cool the GPUs. After installing Ubuntu 24.04, they run llama.cpp (Gemma4) and test Deepseek V4 Flash, finding it slow but functional. BIOS tweaks (Resizable BAR, MMIO) and Ethernet wiring were needed. The system is now stable, with plans to optimize performance in the next chapter and share the build files.
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McKinley advocates “boring technology”: treat innovation as scarce and avoid trendy stacks that add operations and cognitive overhead. Boring tech (MySQL, Postgres, PHP, Memcached, Cron) is valuable because its behavior and failure modes are well understood. Choose tech with global impact, aiming for the least-worst option that covers most problems rather than the absolute best tool. Introducing new tech should follow a process: test with the current stack first, ensure governance, and plan migrations if added. Restraint yields reliability and long-term speed, as Etsy’s experience shows.
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Tocharian comprises two languages, A (East/Turfanian) and B (West/Kuchean). Discovered in Xinjiang along the Silk Road, A is confined to Turfan/Qārāšahr, while B ranges from Turfan to Tumšuq. Texts date to 6th–8th centuries AD and are mainly Buddhist translations; secular Tocharian B texts exist as well, suggesting A may have survived liturgically. They were written in a Brahmi-derived script (some Manichean), with ties to Sanskrit, Old Persian, Uyghur, and Gandhari. The name is a misnomer; Tocharian is the easternmost Indo-European, centum, with a reduced phoneme inventory and agglutinative tendencies, reflecting contact with western/central Asia.
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Browser port of the 1981 IBM PC game DONKEY.BAS for its 45th birthday. The original, by Bill Gates and Neil Konzen, shipped with early DOS as a BASICA demo to showcase color graphics and sound; version 1.10 appeared in 1982. In the game you switch lanes to avoid a donkey. This page recreates the CGA gameplay in JavaScript, with some liberties. For education/preservation; original source at GitHub.
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OCR 4.1 is Mistral AI’s latest OCR service for its Document AI stack, delivering native paragraph-level bounding box extraction, structural block labels, and block-level confidence scores. Public Preview as Premier v4.1 (July 16, 2026). Pricing: €3.5 per 1,000 pages; €4.38 per 1,000 annotated pages. Features include BBox Extraction (/v1/ocr), OCR (/v1/ocr), Annotations - Structured (/v1/ocr), and Batching (/v1/batch). Also notes related models: Z.ai GLM 5.2, Shieldstral 1.0, Mistral Medium 3.5.
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Gemini 3.7 Flash, Google's most capable Flash-series model for coding and agents, improves accuracy and multi-step reasoning, generating production-ready code faster. It outperforms 3.6 Flash across coding, web UI generation, and knowledge tasks (FrontierCode 1.1 Main and DeepSWE benchmarks; WebDev Arena Elo). Demonstrations include real-time 3D content with Nano Banana, interactive landing pages, and robotic learning via multimodal agent graphs. Spark enables 24/7 personal AI agents for Google Workspace. Intro price: $0.75/1M input, $3.75/1M output tokens through 12/31/2026; higher from 2027. Safety upgrades for CBRN and cyber.
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An interactive Indo-European Language Tree visualizes how languages such as English, Hindi, Latin and Persian descend from Proto-Indo-European, a now-unrecorded language spoken around 4500 BCE. The circular/linear map lets you label nodes by language name and click highlighted words to hear pronunciations, generated by neural text-to-speech (not real recordings). Includes reconstruction notes and a timeline from today back to 4500 BCE.
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Source Library is an open-access repository of AI-translated ancient and early modern texts, aiming to recover lost knowledge and make translated primary sources freely available. It hosts thousands of books, translations, artworks, and illustrations across disciplines (alchemy, Hermeticism, mysticism, philosophy, science), with AI-assisted OCR and translation. The project, run by the Embassy of the Free Mind in Amsterdam, invites scholars and the public to explore, translate, and contribute. It highlights ongoing deep-dives, curated collections, and a goal of digitizing and licensing texts for broad access.
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An evocative tour of everyday abundance, showing how technologies once unimaginable—music on demand, electric light, museums without walls, photography, printing, clean water, ice, refrigeration, indoor plumbing, sewing machines, affordable warmth, mobility, anesthesia, and flight—transformed daily life. Through a room-by-room vignette and historical quotes, the piece argues we live in a gallery of past breakthroughs and urges rekindling awe while acknowledging the heroic efforts that made modern comforts possible.
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OpenAI's Codex is now in preview in the ChatGPT desktop app for Linux. The native app combines ChatGPT, Work, and Codex in one workspace. It supports Ubuntu 24.04/26.04, Debian 13, and Fedora 43–44 on x64 and ARM64, with .deb and .rpm packages. The desktop app is designed for project/file management, browser workflows, and running Codex alongside ChatGPT. Downloads and official documentation are available, and users are invited to share feedback.
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DeepSeek Harness is a developer preview where every agent capability—models, tools, skills, sessions, sandboxes, storage, loops, scheduling, UI—is a swap-in plugin powered by the Cordis kernel. Capabilities are composable via configuration without changing source code; runs are fully traceable with an append-only session log and a trajectory view for replay. Multiple runtime modes (Standard, Code, Minimal, Creator) let you build, test, and code agents. Get started with quick start: npx @deepseek-ai/dsh web or clone from GitHub; MIT open source.
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EU's AI Act becomes enforceable August 2026, requiring AI outputs to be detectable as AI-generated via watermarks (Article 50). Text watermarking is hard, but Google’s SynthID (token-score based) and subtle Unicode homoglyph tricks are discussed. Watermarks can be trivially removed by paraphrase or replacing homoglyphs; C2PA metadata is not a substitute for text. Expect providers to deploy SynthID-like watermarks with public verification tools; interoperability may push standardization. Unicode watermarks are unlikely to meet compliance. Existing systems have December deadline; nontechnical users can strip watermarks.
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Part 1 chronicles building a GPS-disciplined Stratum-1 PTP grandmaster from a Raspberry Pi CM4 and SR1723U10 GPS module, totaling about $103 in parts. It uses SatPulse + ptp4l + chrony on Ubuntu 24.04, with fixes for a SYNC_OUT pin bug and an enabled RTC. Results: grandmaster within ~18 ns of GPS truth; CM4 client ~66 ns, RK1 ~291 ns. Topology matters: direct switch yields ~2.6 µs path delay and ±130 ns offsets vs ~480 µs delay and hundreds of µs offsets via a consumer router. Holdover ~15 ms over 10 hours. Monitoring via Prometheus/Grafana.
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WIRED’s Reece Rogers requested his McDonald’s loyalty data and got a 515-page file detailing every purchase, scan, and Monopoly entry. The dossier shows predictive analytics: expected visits (2.16 in six weeks), average order ($13.49), total six-week spend ($29.15), top product (Large Diet Coke), and an attrition score of zero. Experts warn this is standard but invasive loyalty-program surveillance; it reveals a power imbalance. McDonald’s says data is used to personalize offers and that privacy choices exist. Rogers planned to delete the data and quit McDonald’s to test the algorithm.
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An access restriction page from Cloudflare blocks access to medium.com, citing a security service detecting unusual activity. The block can be triggered by certain input or malformed data. To resolve, contact the site owner with details of what you were doing and include the Cloudflare Ray ID and your IP address shown on the page.
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Flock updates privacy, accountability, security, and transparency: 7-day default ALPR retention with 'Evidence Mode' for investigations; offense filtering for controlled data sharing; mandatory Audit Assistance and proactive lockouts; required case codes for all searches; customers own their data; plain-English contract explainer forthcoming; security strengthened via Bishop Fox review, Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure, and mandatory MFA; Transparency Portal widely used; reads include confidence scoring and human verification to minimize errors.
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