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OpenBSD/sgi chronicles two decades of SGI/MIPS support, from early pmax/ARC efforts and NetBSD cross-pollination to 64-bit MIPS ports across SGI gear (Indy, Indigo2, Octane, Origin, Fuel). It highlights key developers (Per Fogelström, Miod Vallat, Theo de Raadt), toolchain woes (gcc/binutils), ABI shifts (o32, n32, n64), and architectural hurdles (ARC/ARCS boot, IOC bridges, DMA, caches, interrupts). By 2009–2012, OpenBSD/sgi matured across IP27/IP30/IP32/IP35, but the project was eventually dropped in 2019; patches and knowledge persist in other ports.
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ESA, Airbus Defence and Space, TNO and TESAT demonstrated a laser link between an aircraft and a geostationary satellite, using Airbus’ UltraAir terminal. In tests over Nimes, France, the system ran error-free at 2.6 Gbps for minutes, with data transferred to the Alphasat TDP‑1 36,000 km away. Laser comms offer higher speed, security, and less spectrum congestion than RF. The project, under ESA’s ScyLight/ARTES, aims to enable high‑speed internet on planes, ships and remote areas, and strengthen Europe’s secure connectivity.
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Autorius pristato DIY „Vargšo žmogaus Polaroido“ fotoaparatą: Raspberry Pi Zero su kamera, mažas termalinis spausdintuvas ir powerbankas. Dėžė – 3D spausdinta su LED indikatoriais ir mygtukais. Nuotraukas fiksuoja mygtuko paspaudimu, o vaizdai apdorojami Python (PIL/OpenCV) – šviesos korekcijos, histogram equalization, gamma, CLAHE ir kontrasto tempimas – prieš spausdinimą. Ritininis popierius leidžia nuotrauką išspausdinti už mažiau nei 1 centą. Spausdintuvą galima prijungti per USB/Bluetooth; pateikiamas ir dalis kodo.
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The DHS awarded Safe America Media—an eight-day-old firm with minimal public footprint—a $143 million no-bid contract to produce anti-immigrant ads for ICE during the 2025 shutdown. Noem can’t explain the company’s headquarters or why it was selected; the money reportedly flows to her allies at the Strategy Group, with subcontractors obscured. Critics call the arrangement opaque and suggest dark-money routing. The piece also covers related stories on Pam Bondi’s subpoena and Iran-war messaging.
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Jails for NetBSD is an experimental, kernel-enforced isolation prototype that fills the gap between chroot and full virtualization. It enables multiple workloads on a single NetBSD host with strong process isolation, security profiles, supervised execution, unified lifecycle management, and centralized logging, all implemented in the NetBSD kernel (secmodel_jail) via jailctl and jailmgr. It provides snapshot telemetry, optional Prometheus metrics, and host-driven in-jail supervision without a container runtime. The project is in tech preview, NetBSD-11-based, with an evaluation ISO and active development.
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The text reports that the request was blocked by security policies after too many requests (429) and a bad request (400), and it advises contacting support if this is an error.
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Mark Pilgrim, original author of chardet, argues that the 7.0.0 release’s claim to relicense the project is invalid and violates the LGPL. Licensed code, when modified, must be released under the same LGPL; a “complete rewrite” is irrelevant since they were exposed to the original code, and adding a code generator does not grant new rights. He demands reverting to the original LGPL license.
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Smalltalk’s four-pane System Browser is superb for context, but the real issue is the IDE’s lack of cohesive tool composition. The browser isn’t broken; the surrounding workflow is fragmented across senders/implementors, playgrounds, inspectors, and debuggers. Frustrations include accumulated features (the 'Frankenstein tool'), standalone tools ('hermit' and 'alien' tools), and a saturated image with thousands of classes. The author argues progress won’t come from a better browser, but from representing work as a navigable graph or scene that links the thread of investigation across tools, preserving context and flow rather than replacing the browser.
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dbslice extracts a minimal, referentially intact subset of a production database to reproduce bugs locally. From a seed record, it follows foreign keys to gather related records and outputs a portable subset in SQL (default), JSON, or CSV. Key features: zero-configuration schema introspection, single-command extraction, safe by default with automatic anonymization, streaming for large datasets, virtual foreign keys, and YAML config for repeatable extractions, plus referential-integrity validation. Supports PostgreSQL (fully); MySQL/SQLite planned. Install with uv or pip. Usage: extract an order and its related data from PostgreSQL.
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RELAX NG is a simple XML schema language with XML and compact syntaxes, designed to be easy to learn and not alter the document information set. It supports namespaces, treats attributes like elements, supports unordered and mixed content, and can partner with a separate datatype language. It is ISO/IEC 19757-2 Part 2 and developed within OASIS. The site lists tutorials, specifications, books, validators, conversion and code-generation tools, editors, and related software, including several open-source implementations. Maintained by MURATA Makoto. Last updated 2014-02-25.
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Tim Ferriss argues that long-running self-help can become a trap: perpetual self-optimization often leaves people unhappier. He outlines three tectonic plates shaping growth: Intention (prioritize real-life relationships over solitary improvement), Audience (beware performative self-help and fame), and Assumption (the belief that fixing “what’s wrong” eliminates suffering). He revises Maslow into a “Hamburger of Needs” with relationships at the center and self-transcendence on top. The core message: focus on relationships and let self-help serve life, not the ego.
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Packy McCormick reimagines the internet as an infinite Great Online Game played as yourself across Twitter, YouTube, Discord, work, and investments. Crypto and NFTs serve as in-game money and signals, rewarding participation, collaboration, and building public reputation. The piece shows real players—Elon Musk, Alex Danco, Megan Leeds, Lil Nas X, Francis Suarez—turning online activity into ventures and influence. Four design levers drive success: frequent feedback loops, variable outcomes, sense of control, and a strong link to the meta-game of life and career. Start small, be curious, give value, and don’t be an asshole.
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Steven Wittens argues that LLM hype masks a core flaw: AI tools mainly imitate, enabling fast forgeries of outputs and eroding authenticity in art, writing, and code. He draws parallels to forged paintings, protected-origin foods, and “vibe-coding”—sloppy code passed off as clever. The piece critiques AI-driven workflows in software, gaming, and publishing, showing attribution and provenance are often missing and user agency suffers. His solution: require robust source attribution and verifiability for AI outputs, treating AI-generated content as forgery until properly sourced.
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AMD unveiled its first Ryzen AI desktop CPUs for AM5: the Ryzen AI 400-series, laptop‑style chips repackaged for desktop use and direct replacements for Ryzen 8000G. They pair Zen 5 CPUs, RDNA 3.5 GPUs, and an NPU (~50 TOPS), and qualify for Microsoft Copilot+ PC features in Windows 11. The six SKUs include three 65W models (Ryzen AI 7 Pro 450G, Ryzen AI 5 Pro 440G, 435G) and three 35W GE variants, all under the Ryzen Pro banner for IT. No boxed consumer versions; targets business desktops with up to 8 cores and 860M iGPU, limited gaming appeal.
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Design CLIs for AI agents from day one, not retrofitted for humans. Provide two interfaces in one binary: human-friendly flags and a machine-ready raw-payload path (MCP/JSON-RPC) via --json/--params, with optional OUTPUT_FORMAT=json. Make the CLI its own documentation through runtime schema introspection (Discovery Documents) so agents learn current capabilities. Enforce context-window discipline with field masks and NDJSON paging. Harden inputs to deter hallucinations: validate paths, IDs, encodings; assume adversarial input. Ship agent skills and expose multi-surface support (MCP, Gemini extensions, env vars). Safety rails: --dry-run, --sanitize. Start incrementally: add --output json, add validation, then schema introspection and skills.
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The post analyzes chardet’s move from LGPL to MIT via an AI-assisted rewrite, arguing it may violate LGPL because the AI was trained on the original code, potentially creating a derivative work. Traditional clean-room methods require independent development from a specification; using the original LGPL material with AI bypasses that wall. The U.S. Supreme Court’s March 2, 2026 decision to not hear AI-generated material appeals reinforces a human-authorship baseline, complicating whether AI output can be copyrighted or licensed. If AI rewrites are allowed, Copyleft could be weakened or endanger GPL/MIT licensing dynamics.
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Poppy is a free iOS app that treats your contacts as a living garden, sending gentle nudges to stay in touch without guilt. Import 5–10 important people, set a custom rhythm (weekly, monthly, etc.), and log how each hangout felt with mood tracking. Features include a color-coded Garden view, Fuzzy Scheduling, Mood & Vibe Logging, and Custom Groups. It’s offline-first with data stored locally on-device (JSON export available), no ads or premium tiers, and privacy at the foundation. Android is coming soon; join the waitlist. Harvard study links close relationships to happiness.
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Dylan Araps recounts receiving an unsolicited Vodafone SMS offering “free unlimited data and 999,999 minutes” for five days. He actually had 7,200 minutes to spend, one minute at a time. He questions whether the gift was a system glitch, a human operator, or something else, and wonders why it was sent to him and whether others experienced it. For five days he was the “minute millionaire.”
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