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Cloudflare blocked access to medium.com, citing a security check you triggered. To resolve, contact the site owner, explain what you were doing, and include the Cloudflare Ray ID (a36eb448a8dbed39) and your IP address.
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A personal meditation on AI's rapid progress and mixed consequences: surprise at neural nets' power; LLMs lack explicit reasoning though emergent planning appears. Fear of doom, skepticism about sandboxing AIs. Disgust at AI companies harming the open web; sadness for artists displaced by cheaper AI content. Anger at political systems failing to curb capital and environmental harm. Yet happiness at living in an age of discovery and the transformative effect on software in 2026. Technological gains seem real; societal impact bleaker.
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Alberta’s United Conservative Party announced a $14-per-panel recycling fee for solar panels, effective Oct 1, plus a ban on landfilling and a push to recycle them at end of life. Critics, including BRC-Canada, call it a punitive tax far above other jurisdictions (139–3500% higher) and lacking supporting analysis. The government frames it as environmental stewardship and long-term cost savings, but the piece portrays it as part of the UCP’s broader “war on renewable energy” to protect oil and gas interests, amid questions about energy costs and red tape.
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A beige.party post labeled "Ritalin Invitees" contains a truncated quote about a copy of QBitt, and the page notes that Mastodon's web app requires JavaScript, recommending native apps instead.
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Asahi Linux now officially supports Apple M3 Macs (except Mac Studio M3 Ultra), bringing M3/M3 Pro/M3 Max closer to M1/M2 readiness but with caveats. GPU acceleration is not yet performant or power-efficient for 3D workloads. Sleep is not supported due to missing DCP, and HDMI output won’t work without DCP. Basic boot support exists in mainline Linux, but full upstreaming requires patches in Linux 7.4+. Details at asahilinux.org.
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A Vercel security checkpoint stating the browser is being verified, with a “Website owner? Click here to fix” option and a prompt to enable JavaScript to continue.
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Kadō is an open-source, privacy-first iOS habit tracker for iPhone and iPad. It uses a non-binary, exponential-moving-average habit score (not a streak), with offline-first storage and optional private CloudKit iCloud sync. No accounts, no analytics, no subscriptions. Features include Today view, calendar, per-day notes, flexible schedules, widgets, Siri/Shortcuts, reminders, JSON/CSV export, and localization (EN/FR). Built with SwiftUI, SwiftData; MIT license. Roadmap and CLAUDE.md discuss architecture; no third-party dependencies.
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A/I (Autistici/Inventati) announces the shutdown of its 25-year, privacy-focused, autonomous infrastructure after being labeled a global terrorist organization. Citing risk to users amid mounting repression, they will discontinue all services to protect the community. They urge supporters to stay human, back up blogs, mailboxes and sites, and warn that autistici.org may become unreachable in coming days. The resistance and ideas continue despite the closure.
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SLED is a Scheme-like Lisp interpreter for DOS (and DOSBox), version 0.4. It is a small, open-source Ur-Lisp with lexical scope, tail-call optimization, trampoline evaluation, and a mark‑and‑sweep GC. It uses S-expressions for data and code, supports symbols, closures, and 8 special forms plus a 21-function standard library with 21 builtins. Numbers are emulated as tallies; data are immutable; supports quoting, lists/pairs, and error handling in a REPL. About 1.1K lines of C89, ~11K executable, 12K heap nodes, 2K symbol chars. DOS-specific file naming, four CLI modes, sled.scm startup; built with MS C or Open Watcom (0BSD).
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fileregister is a plain-text tagging and reference system for files that uses permanent ids and self-documenting binders. It records a per-file entry (id, binder memberships, and YAML fields) in a JSONL index next to optional Markdown notes; the index is the source of truth, while macOS metadata like xattrs, Finder tags, and Spotlight are derived from it. A file can belong to multiple binders (binders are sets, not folders). Commands include add, promote, annotate, remove, refresh, audit, repair, and reindex. Built on the fileanchor engine; macOS-centric with Linux port; PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0.
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LACon V (the 2026 Worldcon) announced the 2026 Hugo Awards results on Aug 30, listing winners across categories (e.g., Best Novel: The Everlasting; Best Novella: The River Has Roots; Best Short Story: In My Country; Best Poem: Hex Supply Customer Support Log), plus Lodestar and Astounding, and other awards. Trophy bases were designed by Scott Lefton (Hugo) and H. Emiko Ogasawara (Lodestar). Voting ran May 6–Aug 8, 2026 via NomNom; nominations opened Feb 12–Mar 28, 2026. The page also covers finalists, process details, and contact information.
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Old-person smell comes from 2-nonenal, a byproduct of oxidized skin oils that changes with age. It’s a natural byproduct of aging, not dirt or poor hygiene, though levels vary by skin oil composition, microbiome, hygiene, health, and environment. Research suggests 2-nonenal rises gradually with age (may start around 40), so the scent isn’t a sudden switch. A 2012 blind test found older adults’ odor was less unpleasant than expected. There’s no way to stop it, but regular washing (and laundering) can reduce it; lifestyle choices reducing oxidative stress may help.
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Olimex's Neo6502kbd Open Source Hardware packs a real 6502 CPU into a keyboard, turning it into an all-in-one retro computer that can emulate the Apple II and Oric Atmos on a modern HDMI display. It includes 4 USB ports, UEXT for WiFi, a power switch, and USB-C for power and programming, plus 6502 development tools (CP/M, ProDOS, BASIC, Pascal, C, Assembler, Forth).
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John Quiggin says spam from fake gmail.com addresses has led him to delete all gmail.com messages. To comment, readers should use a throwaway address (e.g., anon.com) and their real name, since email verification is rarely checked. He provides an alternative contact ([email protected]) and hopes for a workaround, ending with the line “Google is Evil.”
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An account of a hobbyist's laser-cutting projects (cable box and napkin holder) using parametric CAD tools. He started with Cuttle to design gen1 keyboard holders, but switched to OpenSCAD for export ownership and parametric sharing. Describes the cable box with a cat-head cutout motif and the napkin holder with whiskers and half-lap joints for stability. Materials: Glowforge Proofgrade maple plywood and cherry plywood; notes on finishing and kerf. Shares OpenSCAD workflow tips (2D/3D modules, using an editor, 3D view for fit, exporting SVG) and recommends BOSL2. Includes references and a source script to generate SVG from OpenSCAD.
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Isabella Saccardi, a PhD candidate, wonders whether academic work can be as creative as a friend’s freelance design job. A walk and childhood pencil-case stories reveal that creativity isn’t freedom from constraints but thrives within them: research agendas, deadlines, and client needs shape the space for ideas. She recalls how inspiration still requires mapping, notes, and printing tests. The piece argues that recognizing creativity in scholarly work means reframing what counts as creative and finding space for it within the bounds of academia.
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Explains 4D chess on a 4×4×2×2 tesseract: two stacked 4×4 boards across Z and W with coordinates X=a–d, Y=1–4, Z,W∈{0,1}. White moves first; in computer mode you choose sides. Movement rules extend standard chess to four axes (rook, bishop, knight, queen, king, pawn) with 4D checks, blocks, and promotion. No castling, en passant, or initial double moves. Draws by stalemate, repetition, or 100-move rule. Includes PGN import/export and 4D notation.
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Ed West reviews James Marriott’s The New Dark Ages, arguing that literacy’s long decline is tied not only to smartphones but to television’s rise, which reshaped leisure, politics, and public discourse. He traces how the printing press, Protestantism, and the Enlightenment spread reading and civic virtue, peaking mid‑century, while TV and later cable and smartphones erode reading and cognitive focus—the Norwegian IQ study linking cable TV to drops in scores is cited. The result is a post‑literate culture where attention dominates, political rhetoric simplifies, and elites are less well read, threatening democracy.
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