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Barman is an open-source Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL, written in Python. It enables remote backups for multiple PostgreSQL servers to support disaster recovery in business-critical environments, helping DBAs during recovery. Maintained by EnterpriseDB and distributed under the GNU GPL v3. It replaces the legacy SourceForge repo. The project provides documentation, downloads, community support, and resources at pgbarman.org, with files like AUTHORS, README, LICENSE, etc. Latest release is 3.18.0 (Mar 12, 2026).
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Vintage LLMs, or Historical Language Models like Talkie-1930, propose a new humanistic field. They are not anchored to a single year; Talkie acts as a broad, mostly 19th-early 20th-century archive, offering chronological slices and an era-specific epistemology. They won’t replace primary sources or let us chat with Lincoln, but can explore the 'mental furniture' of historical periods, probe counterfactual histories, study genre and rhetoric, and power multi-agent simulations from archival records. The author calls for an open-source, cross-disciplinary community to build era- and genre-specific vintage models, with field growth hoped by the 2030s.
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Summary: A 2026 guide evaluating local-LLM mini PCs with AMD Strix Halo (Ryzen AI MAX+ 395), 128GB unified memory, capable of loading ~70B models locally. Prices have surged from ~$1.5–$2k to $3k+. Two caveats: BIOS-imposed 120W cap on external AMD GPUs and ~256 GB/s memory bandwidth, limiting large-context inference. Local inference isn’t cheaper per token than cloud APIs, but offers privacy and a hardware-ownership mindset. Top picks: Tier 1 GMKtec EVO-X2 128GB; Beelink GTR9 Pro 128GB. Tier 2 Beelink SER10 MAX; Tier 3 Beelink SER9; Budget origimagic A3. Lemonade SDK helps use Ryzen NPU.
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Russia uses a coordinated, pro-Kremlin information network to distort Wikipedia and taint AI training data. Studies from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and the French VIGINUM report uncover networks of pro-Russian “information portals” and about 193 sites that push tailored narratives and manipulate Wikipedia edits after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Atlantic Council’s Exposing Pravda shows this content laundering feeds Kremlin propaganda into AI tools and large language models, undermining global knowledge and enabling foreign digital interference across the internet.
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An unknown Sega Saturn disc named Pyramid has emerged after 29 years, likely a tech-demo port of Pyramid: Challenge of the Pharaoh’s Dream, an edutainment PC title. The Saturn build shows basic cursor controls and worker characters but cannot complete the water-pouring sequence because the cistern doesn’t function. The disc includes a 1997 executable and a test archive; credits are missing. Developer Alexander Ehrath confirms in a podcast that a publisher considered a Saturn port of the educational game, but the project stalled. A video on Hidden Palace demonstrates Pyramid in action.
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Pollen is a self-organising, distributed WASM runtime written in Go. It forms a zero-trust, peer-to-peer mesh with no central scheduler; workloads are seeded into the cluster and scale organically using a gossip CRDT as the single source of truth. Artifacts and services are content-addressed and distributed over QUIC with end-to-end mTLS. Nodes negotiate and migrate workloads locally toward demand, enabling Raspberry Pi to run like server farms. Admins bootstrap clusters, invite joiners via tokens, and seed WASM modules to run pipelines and static content across the mesh.
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Open Design is an open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Design. It auto-detects Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, OpenCode, Qwen, Copilot CLI, Hermes, Kimi, Pi, and Kiro on PATH and uses a bundled skill and design-system catalog to generate web, desktop, and mobile prototypes, decks, images, and videos. It runs via a local daemon with a web UI (desktop optional) and stores data in SQLite, exporting artifacts to HTML, PDF, PPTX, or MP4. It supports an OpenAI-compatible BYOK proxy, Claude Design ZIP imports, and a prompt-stack workflow with discovery forms and sandboxed previews.
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WSJ 404 page not found. It advises checking the URL and contacting support, and features popular stories—Spirit Airlines Prepares to Shut Down as Rescue Deal Falls Apart; Four Things to Know About Trump’s New Retirement Plan; GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay—and latest podcasts on AI pricing, new oil rules, and a short-squeeze payback.
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Gate Explorer grants access to SFO’s secure side to meet at gates, view SFO Museum exhibits, and enjoy shopping/dining. Apply online up to 30 days in advance (same-day accepted); provide full legal name, DOB, and sex as on ID; minors must be accompanied by an adult. TSA approves or denies; you’ll receive an email after midnight. On arrival, scan your Gate Explorer (digital or printed) and present TSA‑approved photo ID; without it entry is denied. The program may be adjusted or canceled.
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The article argues that fundamental physics stagnates because it treats quantum mechanics as a mathematical model rather than a theory of reality. Since 1928 physics has expanded within a fixed ontology: spacetime from GR with matter as a spinor field on it, adding gauge fields inside but not replacing the ontology. The measurement problem arises from conflating the calculus with reality. Reconstruction theorems show QM follows from operational axioms, but ontology must come from outside. The author calls for an ontology-first revival—like Einstein and Dirac—to explain gauge groups, generations, and constants, noting many BSM programs fail under this methodology.
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Piruetas is a minimalist private journal that shows one page per day, with image uploads, light/dark themes, and private-by-default entries with no telemetry. You can share a day via a private link, export your data, and take your entries with you. It supports self-hosting via Docker Compose and is free and open source, with donation options. Public links for individual entries are available, and there are GitHub and Ko‑fi pages.
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dotcl is a Common Lisp implementation on the .NET platform. It compiles Lisp to .NET IL and runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux (x86-64 and ARM64) without per-platform ports, broadly conforming to ANSI CL. It can embed Lisp in .NET apps, expose .NET APIs from Lisp, subclass .NET types, and access NuGet/Quicklisp. The system includes a Lisp-to-CIL compiler and a runtime and can self-host after bootstrap. Prereqs: .NET SDK 10+; bootstrap via Roswell/SBCL. Install as a dotnet tool; features REPL and sample demos. MIT license.
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Sim Drive is a multiplayer racing simulator that lets players use their phones as controllers.
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SNEWPapers is an AI-powered American historical newspaper archive and research platform with over 6 million stories from 250 years across 3,000+ titles. It enables meaning-based search across 24 categories and 1,000+ subcategories, builds and explores collections, and features 'The Sleuth'—an AI research assistant with citations. It also offers a daily 'Today in History' timeline sourced from the newspapers.
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shadcn-ui/ui is an open-source collection of beautifully designed, accessible UI components plus a code distribution platform. It works with popular frameworks (React, Next.js, TailwindCSS, etc.) and is meant to be customized to build your own component library. Documentation at ui.shadcn.com/docs; MIT-licensed with active releases and contributions.
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Dac is a Dashboard-as-Code tool for defining, validating, and serving dashboards from YAML and TSX. It supports dynamic TSX features (charts, tabs, loops, conditionals) and uses a built-in semantic layer to define metrics/dimensions once (semantic/) and generate SQL. An AI agent (Codex/Claude) lets you chat with and update dashboards live. It connects to major databases (Postgres, MySQL, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks, etc.) via Bruin. The repo includes starter projects, examples (basic YAML/TSX/semantic), install/quickstart guides, and a modular structure (cmd, pkg, frontend, docs, examples). AGPL-3.0 license.
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