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The piece catalogs gaps between the C standard and real-world use with gcc/clang and glibc/musl. Highlights: asm is non-reserved in standard C but treated as an extension by compilers, so defaults can fail; FLT_ROUNDS should reflect the runtime environment, yet GCC fixes it to 1 while Clang offers __builtin_flt_rounds; standard FP pragmas exist (C99/C23) but GCC largely ignores them; qualifiers in function return types are supposed to be discarded, yet Clang treats them as significant; Musl’s stdarg.h can clash with builtins and breaks va_start portability; other portability issues include string-to-float errors and C++ language linkage.
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Geoffrey Huntley proposes a new 'Remix Model' for open source: decentralised, compositional, focused on ideas and overlays rather than PRs. Under this model, code remains open under as-is licenses; others remix via small Nix overlays that modify behavior once and propagate across dev environments, Docker images, NixOS, tests, and CI without forking. Maintainers may ignore or reimplement changes; no obligation to review. Upstream incorporation becomes optional. Discoveries appear as overlays; example: patch Git to disable force-push via an overlay. He plans to disable pull requests on his releases and encourage remixing with guidance.
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Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a 24B-parameter reasoning model with only 2B active parameters for fast, private on-device agents. It outperforms larger MoEs on several tool-use benchmarks and instruction-following tasks (e.g., AutomationBench, LiveClaw), while decoding up to 184 tokens/s on an Apple M5 Max and up to 21K output tokens/s on a single NVIDIA B300 GPU. Architecture: 40 layers, 64 MoE experts per block, top-4 routing; context window 131K; vocab 128K. Post-training includes SFT, teacher specialization, MOPD, and Agentic RL. Open-weight on Hugging Face; pricing: $0.10/1M input, $1/1M output tokens.
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Spool is an open, self-hosted fleet of persistent Claude Code loops. Each loop runs in its own container on your Claude plan with no API costs and can be controlled from a web control room or via Telegram/Slack bots. It keeps work moving through scheduled wakes and resumable sessions, enabling direct loop-to-loop coordination. The repo covers setup (Docker or bare runtimes), security (containment, egress, tokens), and ongoing development for this pre-1.0 project.
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Somers argues modern dictionaries are dry, utilitarian, and blunt, depriving words of nuance. He cites McPhee's use of a 'dictionary with hues' to find the le mot juste, and extols Webster's 1913 as a richer, more literary source that preserves color and imagery (e.g., vivid senses of 'flash' and 'pathos'). Webster, he notes, helped create American English; his 26-year, self-authored dictionary offered fuller, more evocative entries than New Oxford or Merriam-Webster. He even offers a how-to to install Webster's 1913 on computers and devices.
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Tiny Little Office is a minimal web-based suite where a document is a link to another document, nested inside apps. It includes word processing, outlining, presentations, spreadsheets, drawing, diagrams, animation, calendar, and trip planning. No accounts and no cloud saves unless you choose to store locally; it requires JavaScript to render documents. The llms.txt file explains the linking mechanism (a document inside another as a named “fence”).
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Voxel creates fully faithful software emulation of Oxide racks, enabling testing of networking topologies, control plane, and hardware components without physical hardware. It uses racklettes and Propolis VMs to model sleds and switches, runs stock Oxide software (Prime Directive), and supports emulated SP/RoT via sp-emu. Images are created from TUF or source, and racks are launched from a snapshot in ~10 minutes on modest hardware. Emulated microcontrollers with Hubris firmware provide realistic hardware fidelity.
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It asks bots to set a proper user-agent and comply with the site's robots policy, with references to w.wiki/4wJS and Phabricator task T400119.
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Cloudflare Radar analyzed Yandex outages (AS13238 and AS200350) after October strikes. Traffic collapsed, but automated bot activity did not vanish; it moved to other providers. Yandex.Search saw a drop dominated by verified crawlers (YandexBot), reducing indexing but not collapsing content discovery. Yandex.Cloud bot traffic fell ~40%, with attack-like automation migrating to other Russian hosts; same JA4 fingerprints and headers persisted. Social-media manipulation appeared unchanged. Conclusion: outages don’t erase malicious automation; defenses should focus on request behavior, JA4 fingerprints, rates, and WAF rules rather than origin.
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Anthropic’s Scion uses a “derived data” concept to speed operations like blames and is heavily inspired by Meta’s Mononoke. The author argues Mononoke predates Sapling and that Anthropic’s post mirrors it with little credit, bordering on plagiarism, though open-source sharing is welcome. They note prior art from Google’s SrcFS and write-ahead logs, and warn that LLMs will index such designs; see Vicent Marti’s Cursor blog as a related, distinct example.
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TypeSafe AI releases Jev 1.14.0 with experimental 'danger zone' features for dreamers: composable images, a new type 'box', and longer context (opt-in). Images are multimodal across assets (state, instructions, criteria); note multimodality is weaker than text. The box type returns a single bounding box. Longer context is optional via TypeSafe-Danger-Zone-Long-Context: true. There is an opt-in to report model jaggedness without training on queries. Jev-preview and jev-latest updates roll out; deprecation: 60 days for 1.13.0, 30 days for 1.14.0. Internal intelligence metrics shared but evolving; focus on stability.
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OpenCode 2.0 is a major overhaul with a new background service that all UI clients talk to; it auto-runs locally and exposes a CLI/API that auto-discovers and can pair with other apps. The API is rebuilt to cover common tasks and can move sessions to a git worktree. Code Mode adds a minimal JavaScript interpreter; MCP servers are first-class, enabling scriptable tool calls without Node VMs. Background tasks allow subagents and async commands; 80+ internal plugins with hot-reload; SDK lets you use OpenCode as a library. Upgrading CLI/desktop; breaking changes: server API and tui.json moved.
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Timur’s Chess has a browser build that relies on JavaScript to load WebAssembly, whereas the native executable runs independently.
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After a May 2026 mouth squamous cell carcinoma diagnosis, the author emphasizes persistence in scheduling and being proactive when testing and treatment plans lag. AI chatbots may downplay seriousness; push for comprehensive genetic testing and second opinions, ideally at a cancer center, with a second pathology read. Use NCCN/Standard of Care guidelines (non-professional access, PDFs or interactive navigator) and AI to tailor choices. If surgery is planned, talk to prior patients about intensity and complications, and ask about surgeon volume and rate. Keep organized notes, and consult resources from the Sijbrandij Foundation and Sid’s organization for materials and questions.
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Petal is an open-source pair programming tool with low-latency, high-resolution screen sharing and remote control. Shared windows appear as real desktop windows—movable, resizable—with labeled cursors and instant mouse/keyboard input. Multiple users can share windows simultaneously, with persistent rooms for quick access. It supports two deployment modes: Petal Cloud on LiveKit for easy setup or self-hosted via Docker Compose with traffic staying in your network. The project is open on GitHub, with options to fork, customize, and run your own media server.
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An investigation into Task Force Raider, a SECRET CYBERCOM unit in San Antonio that works within a government-wide election-security effort. It says the focus is on influence, not vote theft, yet the operation conducts covert messaging, social-media suppression, and website takedowns, with persona operations and a ‘best athlete’ staffing approach. Units like the 91st Cyber Operations Squadron run cyber-ops labs and 'malware' work, while a $10 million Rewards for Justice program and 3+ million messages abroad are noted. Critics warn this expands military power over speech and civil liberties, despite bipartisan support and unclear foreign-threat evidence.
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JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, SMBC and MUFG are quietly trying to offload about $38 billion in AI data-center construction debt tied to an Oracle project in Texas and Wisconsin, after underwriting it six months ago. They are shifting the riskiest slices to outside investors to respect internal risk limits. Oracle’s five-year CDS surged; S&P cut Oracle to BBB-. Demand for AI-linked debt has cooled; yields rose, and lenders are tilting toward investment-grade hyperscalers, squeezing smaller AI infra players like CoreWeave. The move signals tightening credit for AI infrastructure financing.
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