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Open Notes for Discord is a community-guided moderation tool that surfaces disputed claims (flashpoints) before they escalate. It scans conversations, identifies tensions, and prompts admins to invite the community to add context with AI-assisted drafting. The community reviews and votes; only notes with broad consensus are published and attached to the claim so context persists. The workflow is continuous: detect flashpoints, request notes, AI draft, community decision, context persists. The goal is to reduce moderator burnout, build trust, and enable growth without heavy-handed enforcement.
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An enthusiast demonstrates hosting a website on a 25-year-old Sun Netra X1 SPARC server under OpenBSD 7.8. The setup runs httpd serving static HTML/CSS, pf with default-deny rules, and about 55 MB RAM usage. To expose the garage-hosted site safely, they use Cloudflare Tunnels (via a Proxmox LXC host) to forward to the Netra, avoiding inbound ports. The page is simple, HTML/CSS-only, with a retro aesthetic. They detail hardware tweaks (quieting fans), PXE boot, and security measures; the live site is sparc.rup12.net.
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Off Grid is an on-device, privacy-first AI suite that runs entirely offline. It offers chat, speech, image generation, vision AI, voice transcription, and document analysis, all on your phone with no data sent to the cloud. It supports running various models (Qwen 3, Llama 3.2, Gemma 3, Phi-4) and on-device Stable Diffusion, with NPU acceleration on Snapdragon and Core ML on iOS. Over 20 models, with Whisper-based voice input and attachments. Install via APK or build from source; built on llama.cpp/whisper.cpp; MIT license.
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MOL is the IntraMind cognitive programming language by CruxLabx for AI/RAG. It’s the first language with native pipeline operators and auto-tracing, enabling end-to-end RAG workflows in a single expression. It provides data-flow visibility and safety rails, with domain types (Thought, Memory, Node, Document, Chunk, Embedding) and RAG types. Pipelines use the |> operator to auto-trace steps. It includes 90+ stdlib, transpiles to Python/JavaScript, and supports install via PyPI, Docker, or source, plus LSP/VS Code extension, online playground, tutorials, and tests.
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Colored Petri Nets (CPNs) extend Petri nets by letting tokens carry data, enabling guards and multi-token moves to model concurrent systems. They support verifiable correctness at build time, aiding state synchronization, deadlock avoidance, and coordinated resource use. A key example is a web-scraper scheduler: a join of available proxies, prioritized targets, and domains, with cooldowns and retries, plus a post-scrape result pipeline. Implementation paths include in-memory Rust with optional persistence or Postgres-backed transactions; partitioning strategies are needed. The author proposes building a spider-rs scraper scheduler to compare CPN approaches.
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Robin Sloan's early-2026 pop-up newsletter argues that AI automation is like a flood fill that will invade digital work but cannot cross the 'magic circle' of the physical world. The magic circle, from game theory, frames activities allowed within defined constraints; computation is symbols in, symbols out. While AI can automate many digital tasks, real-world constraints (printer jams, paper, manual labor, hardware) create a firewall; ongoing negotiation redesigns tasks (sewing, olive harvesting). The author urges keeping offline systems and regulating human labor in AI-enabled physical work. The piece invites readers to reconsider work and bridges between digital and physical.
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Vouch Book is a cross-repo reputation index assembled from Mitchell Hashimoto’s Vouch trust files across GitHub. Each vouch adds weight equal to ln(stars+1)+1 for the repository; denouncements subtract 60% of that weight. A user’s total score is the sum of all vouch weights minus denouncement weights, with each repo’s vouches counted separately. Data is refreshed daily from public GitHub repos; users can search and inspect vouch sources.
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Martin Fowler summarizes Thoughtworks’ Future of Software Development Retreat: seniors can steer architecture with LLMs; mid-level developers face the greatest risk, while juniors may benefit from an always-on AI mentor. Cognitive debt, not just code debt, can derail teams when shared understanding erodes. DevEx and agent experience merge; IDEs should integrate LLMs and leverage deterministic refactoring. Two-pizza teams likely persist, with debates on pairing humans to drive multiple agents. Studies warn AI boosts pace but risks workload creep and burnout; managers may endure more context-switching in supervisory programming.
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Newcastle University and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna re-examined a 63‑mm copper‑alloy object from Badari, Upper Egypt, dating to the Predynastic late 4th millennium BCE, and identify it as the earliest identified rotary metal drill from ancient Egypt—likely a bow drill powered by a bow string (six leather thong remnants). Microscopic wear supports drilling action, not manual puncturing. Chemical analysis reveals an arsenic-nickel alloy with lead and silver, implying deliberate alloying and possible wider Eastern Mediterranean links. The study, in Egypt and the Levant, 2025, highlights early advanced metalworking.
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Zvec is an open-source, in-process vector database designed to embed directly into applications. Built on Alibaba’s Proxima, it offers ultra-fast, low-latency similarity search at scale, supporting dense and sparse vectors, multi-vector queries, and hybrid search with filters. Runs anywhere as an in-process library (no servers). Easy setup (Python 3.10–3.12, pip; Node.js). Includes a quickstart, benchmarks, and build-from-source guidance. Apache-2.0 licensed with an active community.
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Discord demonstrates how to scale real-time chat to billions of messages by architecting with the Actor Model: every server, WebSocket, and session is an actor, with per-guild Elixir processes and fan-out to clients. When bottlenecks hit, they split work (relay), optimize the data layer (Mongo→Cassandra→ScyllaDB), implement request coalescing in Rust, and use a 'Super-Disk' for fast, reliable storage. They also optimize queries, routing, IDs (Snowflake), indexing, WebRTC, and passive sessions. Key takeaways: start simple, evolve the stack, learn fundamentals, and foster an engineering culture that relentlessly targets latency over perceived complexity.
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Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding argues that AI-generated code, often not meant for human reading, creates a seductive but misleading sense of productivity. The piece compares vibe coding to gambling-induced flow: it can feel absorbing without real progress, lacks clear feedback, and may hide bugs (junk/dark flow). Examples include Armin Ronacher’s “agent psychosis” and a METR study showing perceived vs actual speed, plus overhyped forecasts from AI luminaries. The author cautions against gambling your career: AI can assist but cannot replace human software engineering or core thinking and skill development.
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Unicorn Jelly, by Jennifer Diane Reitz, is a philosophical sci‑fi manga strip run weekdays from 2000 to 2003, with a completed story as of April 14, 2003. It expands into parallel‑universe tales (notably To Save Her) in the Tryslmaistan setting, and hosts a rich fan community with encyclopedias, maps, games, and downloadable art and trinkets. The saga spawned related works such as Pastel Defender Heliotrope, and epilogues like Save Her. A Unicorn Jelly book collection (hardcover and paperback) is published via Lulu. All content remains © 2000 Jennifer D. Reitz; global availability and mirrors exist.
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Amazon's Rufus shows embeddable AI agents can generate billions, but most sites can't match that scale. Google's WebMCP would route interactions via Chrome, sidelining your site. The solution: own your agent with Rover—DOM-native, deployed in one script, understands your page and acts for users (clicks, forms, tours) without exposing APIs or RAG pipelines. Rover outperforms screenshot- or API-based approaches (81.39% WebBench, 21k+ users, 1.5M+ workflows). Potential gains: higher conversions, better onboarding, lower cart abandonment. Live now; launching Feb 25, 2026; one-line deployment.
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How to isolate LLM agents by running them in Libvirt/KVM-based VMs on Linux, reducing security risks from broad permissions ('yolo mode') and enabling persistent, mobile access. The guide covers: why Libvirt/ Virsh; installing QEMU/KVM and libvirt; downloading and resizing an Ubuntu cloud image; creating a VM with cloud-init; accessing via SSH or Tailscale; inside the VM: basic tooling, tmux persistence, bash utilities; installing Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex; exposing services with tunnels; VM management with virsh (start, stop, snapshot, clone); cloud-init customization, snapshots, cloning, networking; quick-reference commands; and a brief Libvirt vs Lima comparison.
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Bubble Sort on a Turing Machine: sorts tape input using bubble sort, provided as YAML compatible with turingmachine.io. Two variants: decimal (bubble_sort.yaml) using digits 1–7 (25 states) and unary (bubble_sort_unary.yaml) with 0-delimited unary encoding (~30 states). Includes a Python emulator (emulator.py), a generator, and a ~135-test suite. Paste YAML into turingmachine.io to watch the sort; e.g., 327154 → 123457. MIT license.
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IBM says it will triple Gen Z entry-level hiring, reshaping roles for AI fluency. Software engineers will do less routine coding and more customer interaction; HR will handle more via chatbots. IBM argues investing in junior talent creates durable skills and avoids future leadership shortages, even as AI pressures rise. CEO Arvind Krishna had vowed to hire more graduates, though IBM later cut thousands of workers—a net near-flat U.S. headcount. Dropbox and Cognizant also embrace Gen Z and AI skills. AI literacy is now the fastest-growing U.S. skill.
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