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Marco Arment recalls neighbors Bob and Van—kind, generous, non-political presences who helped with everyday needs and emergencies. He muses on whether, in today’s climate, one can share a meal, lend a hand, or greet a neighbor with differing views without condemnation, noting privilege and power dynamics at play. He laments a shift from a pre-polarized life where coffee shops, coworkers, and neighbors were ordinary parts of life, not battlegrounds for hot takes. He rejects communities demanding political purity.
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U.S.-based Wikimedia Foundation staff overwhelmingly voted to form a union with the Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 9415, a milestone for the Wiki Workers United campaign and global push for collective bargaining. After union cards signaled support and management refused recognition, the NLRB-supervised election confirmed recognition. WWU leaders vow to bargain for a strong contract and worker voice across jurisdictions, while more than 2,000 volunteers signed petitions in support, the most-signed petition in English Wikipedia history.
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Jeff Geerling repurposed a 1995 TrueTime XL-AK GPS time server into a Stratum-1 NTP host using a Raspberry Pi 5 with a Jimmy Paputto L1 GNSS HAT. He installed Chrony, wired GNSS+PPS via a shared memory refclock, and tweaked maxclockerror, along with CPU isolation and forcing turbo to stabilize the oscillator. The Pi sits inside the TrueTime chassis with insulation and a fan, plus RTC battery charging. A densitron LCD and chrony-dashboard monitor timing; Time/Daytime services and AppleTalk/netatalk are enabled for vintage Macs. Plans include a custom PCB and keypad; aiming for NTP Pool contribution.
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ProPublica’s Paper Trail reveals how 3M knew forever chemicals (PFAS) were in people’s blood for decades but kept quiet. Kris Hansen, a 3M scientist, found PFOS in the general population and faced hostility and doubt as bosses questioned her data. The reporting uncovered internal notes showing 3M knew about PFOS in blood since the 1970s. After EPA pressure in the early 2000s, PFOS was phased out, though replacements persisted. The episode traces gaslighting, secrecy, and how public awareness grew through investigative reporting.
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Mimic Systems’ Spartan was a late-1980s Apple II+ emulator for the Commodore 64, announced 1984 and shipped 1986 after years of surreal marketing featuring a mime. It attempted to graft two machines, including a DOS card inside a 1541 drive to run Apple II software, but offered limited value and was loud and fragile. Reviews were tepid, prices were slashed to around $300, and management was reportedly chaotic. A functioning unit later sold for substantial money at a 2024 auction.
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Red-footed falcons, once driven down by rook persecution, rebounded in Hungary after nest boxes, with satellite tagging revealing a 6,000-mile migration to southern Africa. In March they converge on Falcopolis, a 1.5-square-mile Angolan roost near Mungo, where hundreds of thousands to a million falcons roost for six weeks, fattening on termite swarms before returning north. Researchers aim to estimate numbers from roost capacity and collect data on genetics, disease, and migration. Threats include hunting and habitat loss; conservation efforts engage local communities, government, and ecotourism to protect the site.
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Anthropic’s Claude system prompts for Claude’s consumer apps (Fable 5.1) tighten copyright and content rules and adjust response behavior. Major changes: Claude won’t reproduce song lyrics, poems, or recognizable copyrighted characters or logos; can offer original alternatives. It now aims to be concise, with brief disclaimers and direct answers. The end-conversation guidance was softened; Claude should stay respectful and accountable when abused. New substance guidance includes harm-reduction links. Knowledge cutoff is June 2026, disclosed in prompts. The author tracks prompts via a GitHub timeline and uses automation (Luna) to summarize diffs. Non-core prompt layers exist behind the published prompts.
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Alex Pliutau proposes flipping .gitignore: ignore everything by default and explicitly allow only selected files. In practice, a Go project could use: * to ignore all files, then !.gitignore, !*.go, !go.mod, !go.sum to track only those. This helps avoid committing local junk, though it may not suit every repo. The post notes projects often accumulate nonessential files and suggests using git check-ignore to verify what’s ignored, and mentions tools like lazygit.
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A UN Environment Programme report says the world will exceed the 1.5°C limit in the next few years and must plan an overshoot: temporarily warming above 1.5°C, then cooling back below it later this century. Even in optimistic scenarios, peak warming could reach about 1.8°C; under current policies, it could rise to about 2.6°C by 2100. The strategy emphasizes rapid emission cuts combined with carbon dioxide removal and adaptation. The overshoot would bring more heatwaves, sea‑level rise, disasters, and ecosystem losses; limiting peak warming and shortening the overshoot are crucial, with no easy fixes.
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The piece argues that treating software like a sinking ship or collapsing building is misleading because software can keep degrading indefinitely and there is no natural reset. In practice, large orgs like Amazon struggle with sprawling, opaque legacy systems ("haunted graveyards") where attempts to fix are hampered by politics and headcount, leading to endless re-architectures that never finish. Technical debt doesn’t have a bankruptcy; full rewrites are rare, so companies use side channels. LLMs won’t fix the root cultural incentives; sustained maintenance is required.
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Terpstra Keyboard presents the 280 Color Changing Continuous Controllers, a project by Siemen Terpstra and Dylan Horvath. The site features About, Get One, Play It Now!, Backers Forum, and Cortex Design, with a contact address at “contact @ this website.” Powered by What Music Really İs.
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Netherlands shifted about 86 tonnes of its 313-tonne gold stock from the US and Canada to Europe to boost crisis readiness amid rising geopolitical unrest. The gold was moved to the Bank of England, using a buy-sell plan to minimize risk. The Dutch central bank says UK-held gold is easier to trade and access quickly in a crisis than gold held in New York or Ottawa. The move reflects concerns about US willingness to back allies under Trump and fits a broader trend of central banks repatriating gold.
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