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Chuwi’s Unibook is a budget Wildcat Lake laptop-at-$449 with 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD. It has an unusually rich port selection, easy SSD upgrade, and a decent keyboard, but a terrible trackpad, mediocre 13” 1920x1200 screen (not 100% sRGB, ~300 nits), and dull webcam/speakers. Software/driver support is a mess; preinstalled bloatware and problematic driver site complicate clean Windows/Linux installs. It delivers excellent battery life (~15 hours) and decent general performance, but RAM, limited GPU, and inconsistent software make it hard to recommend as a primary machine, despite its $449 price.
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TurboKV is an async, embedded Rust key-value store with atomic write batches, ordered range scans, and configurable durability, compression, and background compaction. It uses a persisted Bloom-filter format with hardware AES and supports fast, durable, and paranoid durability presets. Install via cargo add turbokv and tokio (features enabled). Key APIs cover Db operations (open, insert, get, remove), WriteBatch, range/scan iterators, and maintenance (flush, compact, stats, close). Scans provide coherent point-in-time views; batches are atomic. Benchmarks compare TurboKV to fjall and redb. Apache-2.0 licensed.
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Kumander Linux es una distribución Debian/XFCE ligera y estable, diseñada para facilitar la transición desde Windows 7 con una interfaz similar. Incluye miles de aplicaciones gratuitas, un Centro de Software con apps y Flatpaks, y Google Chrome como navegador predeterminado. Soporta Steam, LibreOffice compatible con Microsoft Office, y herramientas de edición de video Kdenlive y Ardour 7. Se puede probar sin instalar mediante arranque en vivo o ejecutarlo en VirtualBox; ISO trae Live boot. Foro de soporte disponible. Versión 2.1 Bulalo (2025).
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Monzo Stand-in is an independent backup banking layer on Google Cloud that can take over from Monzo’s Primary Platform (on AWS) during major outages to keep core functions running: card payments, cash withdrawals, transfers, balances, and card freezing. It uses a separate, immutable data set with real-time event syncing to stay as up‑to‑date as possible, offering occasional eventual consistency. The Primary remains the system of record; Stand-in outcomes are authoritative only while enabled. Enabling/disabling and routing decisions are configuration-driven. Cost is about 1% of the Primary, and it was exercised during the August 2024 outage.
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StemDeck is a free, open-source, local stem-separation tool that runs on your computer to extract up to six stems (vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano, other) from uploaded audio or YouTube URLs you’re authorized to process. It uses Demucs htdemucs_6s, offers a DAW-like mixer (mute/solo/volume, loop, zoom, per-stem controls, export), and processes entirely on-device with no uploads. It ships with prebuilt binaries, downloads model weights on first run, and supports macOS, Windows, and Linux via Python/uvicorn, FFmpeg, and yt-dlp. Apache-2.0.
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A personal, iterative exploration of generative plotter art using an Ender 3 outfitted with a pen. The author uses Inkscape (GcodeTools) to produce G-code and Hershey fonts for legible outlines, plus the Simple Inkscape Scripting extension with Python (Pillow/NumPy) to manipulate a hand-drawn base shape by copying, rotating, scaling, and translating it to create flowing abstract patterns.
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Memory isn’t enough; keep what we currently know. Lemmalog uses a Datalog engine to maintain facts, rules, derived conclusions, with retractions, provenance, and temporal validity. The LLM handles fuzzy input; the engine re-evaluates only affected conclusions when observations change. Combined with retrieval, this yields an agent memory system. In LongMemEval and LoCoMo, Lemmalog is competitive with PropMem/OpenClaw and excels at knowledge updates, temporal reasoning, and adversarial questions, while using far less context—about 38x smaller on LongMemEval and ~6x on LoCoMo. It’s not a universal win, but demonstrates maintained state benefits.
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Rascal reports that Europe’s new PPWR and its EPR add heavy, varied compliance costs for small tabletop RPG publishers. Since August 12, 2026, rules differ by member state, forcing fees, registrations, and complex labeling across 27 countries. Indie publishers like Black Armada, Genesis of Legend, and By Odin’s Beard have paused EU shipping or restricted markets, citing time, cost, and risk of fines. Ambiguities about what counts as packaging, exemptions for micro‑enterprises, and GPSR interactions complicate matters. Distributors’ prices rise, crowdfunding backlogs persist, and overall EU sales threaten profitability.
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Autistici/Inventati (A/I) is a decades‑old Italian volunteer collective building censorship‑resistant digital infrastructure (Paranoia, Noblogs, encrypted mail) for antifascist, anti‑capitalist causes. Emerging from Milan’s LOA and Florence’s Inventati, it grew through Genoa’s G8 and later Plan R*, a distributed, multi‑country architecture that survives seizures and shutdowns. On Aug 26, 2026, the U.S. designated A/I as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, with a wind‑down by Sept 25, 2026, threatening banks, hosting, domains and other services. The piece urges solidarity, archival preservation and independent defense, arguing that infrastructure for dissent should not be criminalized; A/I denies terrorism.
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Lake Suwa’s御神渡り ridge, seen as the god crossing the lake, has a 583-winter archive kept by 八剱神社 since 1443. Each winter records whether the lake froze and whether a crossing occurred (three ridges needed: 一の御渡り, 二の御渡り, 佐久の御渡り). Meiji-era decree halted observation 1871–1892; ceremony restored in 1893. By Feb 2026 eight winters have lacked a certified crossing, though the lake fully froze on 2026-01-26 without a ridge, so 明けの海 was declared for the eighth time. The record mixes shrine ledger and NSIDC data, which disagree on several winters.
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An exploratory statistical test examines whether the eight antediluvian Sumerian King List reign lengths (totaling 241.2 ka) align with Quaternary paleoclimate events. Reign lengths are rescaled to 241.2 ka and anchored at 11.6 ka BP; a Gaussian kernel proximity score measures matches with climate-event dates across multiple catalogs. Exhaustive permutation tests and multiple-comparison corrections show no significant alignment: primary p=0.35 (q=0.62); wide catalog p=0.15 (q=0.43); best exploratory p=0.021 (q=0.22). The study concludes no evidence that the reign order encodes paleoclimate timing; results are exploratory.
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Charles Leifer chronicles an experimental attempt to build a 'mid-century country-club-core' todo-list app in PySide6, haunted by a gremlin, spiders, and a designer’s ghost. Through escalating prompts, he envisions two 1000-word essays, a design bible, and a single 2000–8000 line module, testing how subculture prompts shape AI output. The piece runs through betrayals with a contractor, mock-epic dreams, and homage to Sally Cruikshank and Cadence, only to find that LLMs converge on safe, minimal kernels rather than bizarre, transcendent weirdness. A playful critique of AI-assisted design limits.
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ArtQrCode by Elkoy Artist Collective is a customizable QR code that goes beyond black-and-white: static, animated (video or GIF), printed, or displayed on screens, packaging, textiles, or even 3D. Inspired by Bauhaus, it blends art and tech to brand and tell stories, bridging offline and online experiences. Brands can commission branded Art QR Codes to fit any form or color. To get one, contact Elkoy at 514 271 4445 or via their site.
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William H. Grover’s lab tested AI (Google Gemini) to detect counterfeit cosmetics from photos. Analyzing three Rhode Peptide Lip Tint packages (A fake, B fake, C authentic), Gemini surfaced red flags like typos, inconsistent regulatory data, and postal-code issues, but also misread photo artifacts. The study found AI can uncover packaging discrepancies faster than a human, yet glare and authentic typos can mislead, so AI alone isn’t reliable. The author advocates combining AI with other anti-counterfeiting methods (e.g., CandyCodes) and is cautiously optimistic about AI helping consumers verify authenticity.
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vphone-cli is a tool to boot a virtual iPhone via Apple’s Virtualization.framework using PCC research VM infrastructure. It runs on Apple Silicon macOS 15+, requires Xcode/iOS SDK and SIP/AMFI relaxation to run unsigned binaries, plus a set of Brew dependencies. The repo provides scripts to build and manage VMs (vm create/launch/list/info/new/clone/export/import/rename/delete) and to patch/DFU-boot/install CFW, enabling first boot. It stores per-VM data in ~/.vphone, offers SSH/VNC access, and exposes a host control socket for automation. It documents variants, troubleshooting, and MCP integration.
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CSV is simple but parsing becomes messy when fields contain quotes or commas. CCSV—Control Character Separated Values—uses three non-printable ASCII characters as delimiters (ASCII 30 for rows, ASCII 31 for columns, ASCII 4 as end-of-transmission) to avoid data collisions. Example: name␟age␟favorite food␞; Beto␟48␟hummus␞ Martim␟11␟hamburger, fries, and soda␄. Parsing means splitting by 30, then 31, with 4 at end. Drawbacks: the delimiters aren’t visible in text editors, making manual editing hard. The author likes the EOF marker and explains uses on a blog.
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Person quits GitHub, moves private repos to a self-hosted Forgejo homelab, and cancels Copilot and subscriptions. They criticize GitHub’s instability, corporate use of code to train AI, and broader privacy/security concerns with big tech. They’ve kept some public repos on GitHub but not exposed publicly from the homelab, and plan to expand the self-hosted setup. The takeaway: don’t overly trust tech companies with privacy; rely on independent writers for security guidance. Fuck you GitHub!
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Samsung's LPDDR5X-PIM places 16 PIM blocks next to DRAM banks in a 16 GB package, delivering 614 GB/s of internal bandwidth for local LLM inference—about eight times the external 76.8 GB/s link. The silicon works, but software lags: K-quants don’t map to the small PIM MACs; data must be bank-contiguous; near-bank PIM favors GEMV, limiting performance for GEMM-heavy or multi-token/batched decoding. A bank-aware allocator and a PIM-friendly runtime/re-quantization path are missing; adoption will rely on vendor-backed runtimes. Measured silicon result shows ~3x throughput vs LPDDR5X in a single benchmark.
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