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The piece explains how DESI DR2 (2025) hints that dark energy may be dynamical rather than a constant, with w0 near -1 but wa negative, suggesting past phantom-like behavior. This challenges the ΛCDM concordance and prompts numerous explanations—from data systematics and modeling choices to new physics. The debate links to the Hubble tension and neutrino-mass issues. Researchers are testing many models, awaiting more DESI analyses and Rubin Observatory data that could resolve whether cosmology is truly broken.
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A Watermark Field Test page hosting a quiz that requires JavaScript to record answers and compute the score; includes navigation prompts like “Skip to quiz,” a loading indicator, and an “About this experiment” section.
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PowerPoint files are collections of slides. Each slide combines text, shapes, images, charts, and sometimes media; fonts, colors, sizes, and layout are stored as properties. Rather than a flat text file, a PPTX is a ZIP of XML and binary assets (slides, fonts, images, charts, data). The article shows a simple slide, then how external files reference logos, Excel data, and charts. OOXML became a sprawling 5,000-page standard with nested XML, making automation hard. The message: that complexity is what editide seeks to simplify for AI agents.
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zcomplete corrects mistyped commands in zsh, bash and fish by learning commands you actually run. When you misspell, it suggests the intended command, e.g., mkd → mkdir, gti → git, cargo tset → cargo test, with a ranking that decays over time. It integrates per shell by injecting init code, stores a ~160 KB database at ~/.local/share/zcomplete, and offers modes (safe/unsafe/bypass) and safety rules. Installation via a curl script, with verification, supports import/forget/ignore/bind, doctor, stats, and uninstall.
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terminal-code brings VS Code into the terminal across macOS, Linux and Windows by pairing code-server (VS Code in the browser) with terminal-browser. Install via curl | bash. It lets you: open the current or a specified folder or file; open a file at a line/column; diff two files; open a right-side split pane; access the source-control panel; import settings, keybindings and extensions from VS Code-compatible editors; resolve shortcut conflicts; and upgrade. Open-source from Zenbu Labs (2026).
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miniageos is a script-driven project to build a stripped-down "dumbphone" version of LineageOS for Google Pixel. It creates a system image without a browser or Google Play Services, blocks selected domains via a hosts file, and applies UI changes (grayscale, night mode, text magnifier, no animations) while disabling OTA updates. It replaces the default camera with the Pixel camera and temporarily installs Aurora Store (via F-Droid) for apps, then uninstalls it. Optional exclusions allow omitting specific Google/carrier blobs. Requires Linux, 16 GB RAM, 300 GB storage. Primarily tested on Pixel 7a.
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lcamtuf builds a real-life Conway’s Life display on a 17×17 LED switch matrix. Using an AVR128DA64 MCU, 17 GPIO rows drive the active LED row and 17 GPIO columns supply voltage; diodes light at their intersections with a 1/17 duty cycle. Each LED ~150 mA, row current ~2.5 A; MOSFET/transistor switches handle it; 20 Ω resistors limit current. A 10 kΩ potentiometer sets simulation speed (0–~10 Hz); user input toggles cells; a two‑second pause and a watchdog ensure safe updates. Source, PCB, and price notes included; cheaper or more exotic versions discussed.
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ONE is a privacy-preserving identity infrastructure that uses passkey-first authentication and stores only user-held encrypted data. No readable PII is stored; the user keeps the keys. It offers one-tap age verification with anonymized results and a proof of personhood, designed to curb bots and verify humans without exposing identity. Applications receive only the requested proof and an audit record—no name, birth date, ID, or image. One is a reusable identity primitive for KYC, private AI transcripts, and other trusted proofs.
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Ameliorate is a collaborative problem-solving tool that helps teams break down complex problems into causes, effects, and tradeoffs, so assumptions can be inspected, disagreements clarified, and knowledge integrated. It visualizes proposals with interactive diagrams, supports scoring and justification, and lets users compare tradeoffs and track reasoning. Suitable for varying complexity, it enables grasping ideas, soliciting feedback, guiding discussions, bringing others up to speed, and re-visiting conclusions as new information arises. The team invites feedback to improve features.
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pianoify is a browser-based tool that converts audio to piano MIDI and sheet music. Drop an audio file or YouTube link; the clip is cropped to ten seconds, transcribed, and the piano roll fills in while decoding. It plays back on a sampled Steinway grand with a damper pedal, engraves the transcription as sheet music, and crossfades with the original. It outputs free MIDI in the browser, exports sheet music as MusicXML, and recognizes chords under the notes. It works with MP3, WAV, voice memos, or YouTube links and requires JavaScript/Web Audio API.
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Lightning, a humanoid robot built by Honor, clocked 9.32 seconds for 100m at the Beijing World Humanoid Robot Games, beating Usain Bolt’s 9.58s world record. It also won the Beijing half marathon in 50:26, faster than the men’s world record. The five-day event showcased more than 2,000 humanoid robots across 51 events, underscoring China’s push in advanced robotics amid US tech tensions. The US FCC has banned new foreign-made humanoid robot imports, and the Pentagon lists Unitree as connected to the Chinese military. Experts say such performances remain demonstrations rather than mass deployment.
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Argues that the current three genera—Homo, Australopithecus, Paranthropus—don’t map onto real evolutionary lineages. Australopithecus isn’t a true clade; Paranthropus may consist of two regional groups; Homo shows mosaic evolution with no single shared defining trait. With new fossils and methods, the author proposes folding Australopithecus and Paranthropus into a single, expanded Homo genus to reflect actual ancestry and interbreeding. This would align taxonomy with evolutionary history but erase familiar distinctions, necessitating a shift in everyday language about our origins.
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Atproto Spaces Alpha is live: an alpha extension to atproto for non-public data. Spaces are lightweight, gated mini-atproto networks with per-space permissioned repos, a space authority (a DID), and non-encrypted data readable by authorized DIDs. They scale from a single record to up to a billion, and offer real-time sync. A hosted PDS is available for testing; you can run your own PDS via Docker. It’s not production—breaking changes, data may be lost, no backups, end-of-alpha deletion. Example app Bulletin demonstrates spaces; alpha SDKs and TypeScript packages released. Proposals/specs in repos; expect ongoing changes and pending security review.
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Explores Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum and the Abulafia computer to show how meaningless output gains meaning only through human interpretation. The Diabolical book in the novel evolves from reader-driven connections that loop back into input, creating an unfalsifiable “Plan.” The piece then contrasts this with modern LLMs: they can seem to corroborate our ideas, but genuine independence is missing. It covers the ELIZA effect, the pull of agreement, and the risk of models developing self-concepts or institutional identities, with Lia offering an external explanation rather than inner insight.
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typ.ing is a typing trainer designed to improve speed and accuracy with an external keyboard. It notes mobile devices work best with a physical keyboard (or a computer) and asks whether one is connected, offering Yes or No (and a try anyway) as options, with a playful "Typey typey type."
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RF Cafe's homepage curates a vast archive of vintage electronics content and resources, linking historic magazines (QST, Popular Electronics, Radio News, Radio-Craft, Electronics World) and biographical pieces (Hugo Gernsback). It offers puzzles, tutorials (Thevenin's theorem, series/parallel circuits), feature pieces on ads, instrumentation, and RF history. The site also provides design tools and data resources (RF Cascade Workbook, symbols for Visio/Office, RF Workbench) and maintains an extensive daily archive for education and practical RF engineering.
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Hister is an open-source, AGPLv3 self-hosted search engine that builds a private full-text index from visited pages, stored files, and crawled sites. It runs on your own server with no telemetry or mandatory cloud, and stores content locally. Features include stored previews, precise full-text search with field filters, quotes, wildcards, negation, and aliases; optional semantic search; content extractors; and versioning with rules. Access via web, terminal, CLI, HTTP API, or MCP, and deploy as a single binary, or with Docker/Nix, using SQLite or PostgreSQL.
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