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A Boriel BASIC site overview providing downloads, released programs, learning resources, language reference, tutorials, sample programs and games, help forums, external resources and libraries, inline assembler, compiler internals, and multi-architecture support; includes Installation and SDK tools, command-line options, change logs, and guides for contributing, with work-in-progress notes.
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Productivity isn’t about going faster; it’s about spending time on what truly matters. Knowing your north star and true desires orients actions toward a meaningful direction. Faster progress is only valuable if you’re moving toward a purpose; otherwise it’s busywork. Instead of chasing outcomes, focus on the daily inputs that advance your mission. Happiness comes from steady pursuit, not the outcome itself. Work hard, rest when needed, savor life, and live up to your purpose.
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Why the PSP is back in 2026: not via a Sony push, but because people crave a simple, offline, self-contained device amid always-online tech. Its lack of notifications, deliberate load times, and XMB aesthetic make it feel like a respite from feeds and monetized engagement. The PSP doubles as a music and video player, not just a game console, and its portability fits the current handheld revival (Steam Deck, Switch, retro devices). A dedicated community keeps it alive with mods, emulators, and fan-made ports, proving the hardware remains versatile.
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FireflySentinel notes that Claude spent a day reinventing wiki tooling instead of importing libraries, writing ~3,000 lines of Python that reimplemented pywikibot, mwparserfromhell, and Wikipedia’s RETF ruleset. The result split into a 122-line wikitext stripper, an 18-entry typo dictionary, ~4,000 RETF rules, and multiple edit runners; migration reduced it to a small shim, with RETF fetched at runtime. The author argues benchmarks and sunk-cost bias push models to reinvent rather than reuse existing code, a pattern seen in other tasks. The post suggests careful use of libraries when evaluating AI coding.
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VGA memory access is more complex than it seems. VGA is a superset of EGA with multiple independent subsystems (Sequencer, Graphics Controller, CRT Controller, Attribute). Documentation is incomplete; IBM TRM is hard to interpret, especially regarding Odd/Even addressing and three OE bits (SR4[2], GR5[4], GR6[1]). Compaq's EGA TRG clarifies separation of writes vs reads and addressing; MSR and CRTC also influence memory mapping. To emulate accurately, you must implement all bit interactions; many undocumented combos exist, enabling modes beyond BIOS defaults. This causes emulation bugs and variability across GPUs.
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Software Internals Book Club is a global, email-based club reading advanced software topics (databases, distributed systems, performance). Currently reading Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces. ~2,500 members; 300–800 join per book. Open to all, with emphasis on senior+ developers. Discussions run via Google Group as weekend email recaps, no live meetings; leaders help guide each book. Criteria: 350–550 pages, topic-focused (not general software philosophy), doable in ~3 months (1–2 chapters/week). A variety of future titles and past reads are suggested. Sign up or contact via email or Twitter.
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they_live_adblocker is a fork of uBlock Origin Lite by davmlaw that replaces cosmetic ads with They Live slogans (e.g., OBEY, CONSUME) instead of hiding them. It patches uBO Lite's cosmetic filtering to apply a white tile mask with a random phrase on each ad, tracking DOM changes via MutationObserver. It’s a hobby fork, not official, and only cosmetic-filtered ads are replaced; network-blocked ads remain untouched. It can be built and loaded as an unpacked Chromium extension; requires Node 22 and MV3 tooling. GPL-3.0 license; latest release v0.1.0-theylive (May 11, 2026).
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Proto-Elamite, a largely undeciphered 5,000-year-old script from Iran, may be the first writing to encode speech. Found mainly at Susa, its signs in sequences and varied counting hint at a syllabary and even grammar. Jacob Dahl’s digitization of about 1,700 tablets strengthens the view that proto-Elamite was the era’s most advanced writing. Some scholars argue it was abandoned, with Linear Elamite later arising. The article frames writing’s origins as three types: logographic, syllabic, and alphabetic.
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Anthropic's Claude Platform on AWS is generally available, giving AWS customers access to Claude's full API features with AWS IAM authentication, CloudTrail audit logging, and billing on a single AWS invoice that retires against commitments. Data is processed outside the AWS boundary, while Bedrock remains within AWS for data processing. The platform enables Claude Managed Agents, advisor strategy, web search, code execution, Files API, Skills, MCP connector, prompt caching, and citations, plus access to the Claude Console. Models Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku ship with day-one parity. Start today.
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Rockbox Zig is a modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox, extended with Rust and Zig. It exposes the Rockbox audio engine (gapless playback, DSP, 20+ codecs) via gRPC, GraphQL, HTTP, and MPD APIs, with multi-room outputs (AirPlay, Snapcast, Squeezelite, Chromecast, UPnP/DLNA) and clients (web UI, desktop apps, mobile, TUI). Run from Docker or native builds; configure music_dir and options in ~/.config/rockbox.org/settings.toml. Prebuilt binaries and builds are available; GPL-2.0.
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Denver’s neighborhoods are gentrifying, with inexpensive homes replaced by expensive new builds, displacing long‑time residents. The article examines the city’s Unlocking Housing Choices plan, which proposes: cap per‑unit size but allow more units; enable large back‑yard cottages behind preserved fronts; and permit more units if some are deed‑restricted as affordable. The author supports these ideas, especially the backyard cottages, but worries about relying on inclusionary zoning alone and urges streamlined permitting and pre-approved plans under an Adaptive Code approach to make smaller, affordable homes viable.
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TanStack faced a supply-chain compromise on 2026-05-11: 84 malicious versions across 42 @tanstack/* npm packages. Attack chained three tactics: pull_request_target in bundle-size.yml enabled fork code; GitHub Actions cache poisoning across trust boundaries corrupted the pnpm store; and an OIDC token was extracted from the runner to publish to npm. No npm tokens stolen; detection by external researcher within ~20 minutes. Affected versions deprecated; tarballs pulled server-side. Recommendations: rotate credentials (AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Vault, GitHub, npm, SSH), audit PR workflows, pin actions, and bolster internal alerts.
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Griffin PowerMate driver for modern macOS lets the PowerMate knob rotate to scroll and press to click. A system-wide PowerMateAgent translates device events into keyboard/scroll and mouse actions; long-press can be mapped to right-click or other actions. Requires macOS 13+, Swift 5.9+; grant Accessibility and Input Monitoring. Install by dragging PowerMate Agent, run the demo with swift run PowerMateDemo, and sign/notarize for distribution. To use in apps, add the PowerMateDriver package and map events (rotate, buttonDown/up, click, longPress) to actions; LED supports feedback, controlled via USB commands. Troubleshooting notes included.
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e2a is an authenticated email gateway for AI agents. It ingests inbound mail with SPF/DKIM checks and signs deliveries with HMAC headers; delivery can be via cloud webhooks or local WebSocket. Outbound mail uses an API to SMTP or upstream SMTP. Features HITL with approval, per-message threading, and a signed delivery contract. CLI and SDKs (TypeScript, Python) plus Docker self-host or hosted at e2a.dev. Security includes replay protection and verifiable webhooks. Supports shared-domain slug provisioning, GDPR data handling, and full API/docs.
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Thinking Machines Lab unveils an interaction model (TML-Interaction) that processes audio, video, and text in continuous real time via time-aligned micro-turns (≈200 ms), removing turn boundaries. It combines an interaction model with a background reasoning model, enabling real-time dialogue, interruptions, backchannels, live translation, and concurrent tool use while maintaining long-horizon planning. It uses encoder-free early fusion, streaming inference, and tight state sharing between models. Benchmarks show competitive intelligence (Audio MultiChallenge) and superior interactivity (FD-bench), though long sessions, latency, safety, and scale remain challenges. They invite community benchmarks and a research preview.
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OpenGravity is a lightweight, BYOK recreation of Google Antigravity’s UI that runs entirely in the browser with pure HTML/CSS/JS. It provides a live xterm.js terminal powered by WebContainer, direct local file-system sync, and a proactive agent that can run shell commands and edit files in real time. The alpha project emphasizes zero installation, in-browser API-key management stored in localStorage, and Gemini API models. It aims to prototype autonomous web development tasks (project initialization, dependencies, builds). Open-source under GPL-3.0; development is paused for the creator’s GCSEs, with planned improvements.
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GitHub issue #7383 for TanStack/router flags several npm latest releases as potentially compromised. Opened May 11, 2026 by ashishkurmi, the issue states investigators are actively examining the matter and links to a Step Security blog about a self-spreading supply-chain attack in the npm ecosystem.
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