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Formal verification is not inherently “slopless”; proofs can be misleading or wrong, and formal models can diverge from the intended software. The article argues that proof bugs are hard to fix and that changing code often alters the specification. It discusses autoformalization challenges, how to translate software into theorem provers, and semantic gaps between lifting vs reimplementing in a prover’s language. It warns against axiom leaks (e.g., AC) and backdoors (ACL2 defttag), and even true proofs can be false. The path forward lies in spec elicitation, validation, and robust proof cores, not naive trust in formal methods.
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WSI Streamer is a cloud-native tile server for Whole Slide Images stored in S3-compatible storage. It serves JPEG tiles on demand via HTTP range requests, avoiding local downloads. Features: range-based streaming, built-in OpenSeadragon viewer, native support for Aperio SVS and pyramidal TIFF, HMAC-SHA256 signed URLs, and multi-level caching. Install with cargo install wsi-streamer or Docker; run a single command. Endpoints: GET /health, /slides, /slides/{id}, /slides/{id}/thumbnail, /tiles/{id}/{level}/{x}/{y}.jpg; /view/{id} for web viewer. Formats: SVS and TIFF. MIT license.
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Your access was blocked by a network policy. To regain access, log in or create an account; if using a script, sign in with developer credentials. Ensure your User-Agent is non-empty, unique, and descriptive, and revert any alternate User-Agent if blocked. Review Reddit's Terms of Service. If you believe this is an error or want easier data access, file a ticket and include your Reddit account and the reference code 019bcb66-2358-7810-b0b8-8dbef99ff76b.
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ClickHouse has acquired Langfuse. Langfuse’s roadmap stays the same: open source, self-hostable, no licensing changes, with Langfuse Cloud unchanged. The merger adds ClickHouse’s engineering resources to boost performance, reliability, and enterprise-grade compliance and security, while keeping the product familiar. The Langfuse team will join ClickHouse and continue building Langfuse. Focus next: production monitoring/analytics for real agent systems, tracing and experiments workflows, and greater scale and polish. Support channels, hosting, self-hosting, and hiring in Berlin/SF remain as before; roadmap public.
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Finland’s biggest crime: In 2020, hackers breached Vastaamo, a psychotherapy provider, stealing and publishing 33,000 patients' notes and sensitive data, triggering extortion and suicides. The investigation focused on Aleksanteri Kivimäki, a teenage-era hacker linked to Lizard Squad; he was arrested in 2022 and found guilty in 2024 of invasion of privacy and attempted extortion, receiving six years and three months. Vastaamo went bankrupt in 2021; its CEO Ville Tapio was convicted of negligent handling (overturned on appeal in 2025). A second suspect was named in May 2026. The case underscored privacy fragility in the digital age.
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Access denied: the page on www.policyalternatives.ca returns a 403 Forbidden, indicating you don’t have permission to view the requested resource on the Apache server (port 443).
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Geohot argues we’re nearing a neofeudal order where automation and AI marginalize labor, concentrating wealth with billionaires who can pay for tools like GPT$$$ (allegedly $1B/month). Money becomes useless for individuals as advertising, scams, and political lobbying siphon assets. Like feudal peasants displaced by machines, workers at large tech firms help fuel a system that will erase them. The remedy isn’t accumulating wealth or participating in capitalism, but refusing participation in the treadmill, or risk everyone becoming underclass. The singularity is nearer.
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403 Forbidden: access to the resource is denied. The page is served by LiteSpeed Web Server, which states it is not a web hosting company and has no control over content on the site.
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Google blocks access to a YouTube link due to unusual traffic, requiring JavaScript and a CAPTCHA to verify you’re not a bot. The block may result from automated requests, malware, or browser plugins; on a shared network, ask the administrator for help. Includes IP, time, and URL details.
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Neodyme tore down a Potensic Atom 2 drone to dump its NAND firmware via SPI, facing bit flips and a nonstandard ECC layout. The NAND holds four user-data chunks per page (1028 bytes data + 28 bytes ECC each) plus a fragmented BB/CTRL section. After brute-forcing ECC, they concluded the SoC uses BCH with a 14-degree polynomial and 16-bit correction per chunk; ECC polynomial 17475 and pre/post transforms (reverse bits/bytes, nibble swap, invert). With ECC corrections, they restored the full firmware and obtained usable UBIFS images, mounting two file systems. Part 2 covers reverse-engineering the firmware and app vulnerabilities.
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Local-only integration of a 5.12 kWh Marstek Venus E battery with a 30 kWp PV system, using Modbus TCP via a Waveshare RS485 bridge and Home Assistant to enforce zero-export. The author mounts the unit on a TV bracket, uses RS485 (no Wi‑Fi) and HA Modbus sensors/switches, plus a P‑like regulation loop with a 400 W charge threshold, ~50 W grid import buffer, and 800 W max, with safety on startup/shutdown. Includes manual dashboard and optional InfluxDB/Grafana monitoring. Results: ~10 s latency, self-consumption up to ~78%, offline operation, ROI ~6 years.
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Beebo is an interactive wave simulator written in C using SDL2. Waves are simulated with a discretized Laplace operator to resemble a still pond. It features eight shaders to render the wavefield and supports circular or hexagonal boundaries for varied patterns. The project, around v1.3.0-alpha (pre-release) with latest stable v1.2.4-alpha patch notes, offers installation via Linux binaries (builds.sr.ht), or building from source (dependencies: libsdl2-dev, libsdl2-ttf-dev) with config at ~/.config/beebo/. It also mentions an outdated itch.io release and a potential Windows port.
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Open-source AI innovations Ralph Wiggum loop and Gas Town are being used as bait in a crypto airdrop pump-and-dump scheme. A trader minted $GAS (via Bags) to pay Steve Yegge to promote it as funding for open-source work, prompting Huntley to join. In reality, neither $GAS nor $RALPH unlocks Gas Town or Ralph code; the coins are independent, and buying them mainly enriches insiders. Bags lets a crypto creator appoint a celebrity Twitter account as a fee earner, prompting paid posts. The scheme preys on open-source AI developers and fans; celebrities profit little; most gains go to manipulators.
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Germany’s decision to shut down all nuclear power plants was a 'huge mistake', says Chancellor Friedrich Merz, arguing it left the country with insufficient energy capacity and pushed up costs. He warned that stabilising prices would require permanent subsidies from the federal budget, which is unsustainable. The phase-out culminated in April 2023, ending about six decades of nuclear electricity; restarting would face technical, safety, and regulatory barriers and high retrofit costs. Merz advocates at least retaining some capacity during the transition. The Greens oppose reactivation; CDU/CSU considers possibly reviving some reactors; AfD pushes for more nuclear.
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Bloomberg presents a CAPTCHA-style notice: unusual activity detected from the user’s network, requiring confirmation they’re not a robot to proceed. It instructs enabling JavaScript and cookies, links to Terms of Service and Cookie Policy, and provides a block reference ID. A Bloomberg subscription pitch follows.
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Tommaso Girotto argues that software remains artisanal and bottom-to-top, and proposes an 'IKEA of software'—top-to-bottom, preconfigured, shareable cloud-packages that can be deployed with a single command. He notes his own solar mini-grid platform required heavy work (auth, RBAC, timeseries, ledger) and suggests ready-made templates or marketplaces for deployable, customizable packages. Current options (closed systems, low-code, database wrappers, AI) either lock in users or solve only part of the problem. A top-down approach could speed delivery, standardize foundations, and create passive income for developers.
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CTV News reports that experts warn of a growing parrot crisis in Canada, and eastern Ontario’s largest parrot rescue is launching a pilot project to address it.
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Keifu is a Rust-based terminal UI that visualizes Git commit graphs with per-branch color coding. It presents a Unicode commit graph, a commit list with metadata, and a detail panel with changed-file stats, plus basic Git operations (checkout, create/delete branch, fetch). Designed for narrow terminals and split panes, it prioritizes readability over full Git functionality. Requirements: run inside a Git repo, a Unicode-capable terminal, Git in PATH; install via cargo install keifu or from source. Limitations include loading up to 500 commits and up to 50 changed files.
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Low-level programming is not a fetish but a method to improve software. The author argues that starting with the right frame—the tech stack—determines software quality, as shown by New Reddit’s sluggish React+Redux vs. Old Reddit’s speed. Low-level knowledge expands the pool of innovators and enables better engineering choices, but tools for low-level work are poor. Handmade Hero showed how approachable low-level work can be. The goal is a new high-level tooling built from lower layers, driven by low-level experts.
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