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Sortis is a paper-and-pen strategy game on a 256×256 grid where terrain (water, forest, mountain) is generated by XORing two LFSR sequences seeded per game. Mountains reveal ore levels via trailing zeros, and the aim is to raise a workshop to the highest level by managing wood and ore. Buildings (House, Workshop, Extractor, Smelter, Road) and vehicles (Wagon, Boat) are built on cleared land, with production scaling in powers of two. The game emphasizes pen-and-paper procedural generation, automation, and turn-skipping via closed-form calculations; seeds place you on a random starting patch.
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The Sabela Community Gallery curates reactive Haskell notebooks published by the community. Browse or run notebooks in your browser, covering 3D graphics, dataframes, FRP, geometry, and interop with Python and matplotlib. Featured notebooks include: No. 01 What is Constructive Solid Geometry? by Joe Warren; No. 02 A tour of Bluefin by Tom Ellis; No. 03 California Housing: From Exploration to Linear Regression by DataHaskell; No. 04 Functional Reactive Programming in Sabela by DataHaskell; No. 05 Haskell and Python in one notebook by DataHaskell. Sabela is open source and can be run locally from GitHub.
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Apple will issue Sign in with Apple and Hide My Email aliases on the @private.icloud.com domain, making it easier to ban all aliases without affecting non-relay iCloud mail. Critics say this weakens iCloud privacy by reducing plausible deniability, as services may reject these emails like disposable addresses. iCloud+ users can still create more aliases on @icloud.com before the change lands, with a rate limit of at least 30 per hour.
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Access to timescolonist.com is blocked by Cloudflare's security service. The block was triggered by a request that appeared suspicious (e.g., certain words, SQL commands, or malformed data). To resolve, email the site owner with what you were doing and include the Cloudflare Ray ID (a0cc701fad49eb4b).
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During FLIP TABLE, the author built YouDidIt.Bio to store arbitrary data in iNaturalist observations. Using a classic project's observation IDs as an unordered integer set, data is encoded with sequence bits (to order) and value bits (true/false). If IDs are invalid or missing, the sequence counter is skipped and alternative values are tried; there are up to 254 possible value bits. Editing a task flips an 'f' to 't'. Anyone can use it with an API key and a classic project ID. It repurposes observations as a simple biodiverse data store.
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Access to acm.org is blocked by Cloudflare’s security service. The block can be triggered by certain inputs or actions (e.g., specific words, SQL commands, or malformed data). To resolve, email the site owner with details of what you were doing and include the Cloudflare Ray ID and your IP address.
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Tim Ferriss argues AI/LLMs are quickly replacing how-to content, turning guidance into instant, personalized interfaces. He cites 2025–26 data: nonfiction sales fall, with self-help hit hardest; his five-book catalog shows print declines ~46–57%, total formats ~45% in H2 2025. AI could become the primary interface for search, summaries, courses, and more, threatening prescriptive nonfiction, videos, and podcasts. The exception: enduring value in long-form storytelling and transformation. His advice: focus on 1,000 true fans, overdeliver, and build a loyal community—the power of deep work and human connection remains a moat.
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Matthew Morgan traces Bill Watterson’s relentless insistence on artistic integrity in Calvin and Hobbes. From a Kenyon dorm ceiling prank to a self-contained, one-man operation, Watterson fights merchandising and licensing, insisting the comic be art rather than a cash cow. He battles the syndicate over Sunday-format constraints, endures two sabbaticals, and ultimately retires in 1995. The piece portrays him as stubbornly private yet transformative, preserving the strip’s private-world magic while readers keep revisiting Calvin and Hobbes long after its end.
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GPT‑NL: a sovereign Dutch language model built by TNO with SURF and NFI to ensure independent, trustworthy AI aligned with public values. It prioritizes sovereignty (Netherlands/Europe control), openness (documented data choices, open source, controlled license weights), trustworthiness (from-scratch training, privacy and copyright safeguards), and reciprocity (Content Board with data providers and revenue sharing). Data collection excludes personal, confidential, and harmful content and avoids duplication. The project also targets energy efficiency and sustainable computing. Funded with €13.5 million by RVO for the Ministry, GPT‑NL aims to bolster Dutch/European digital autonomy and responsible AI.
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JWTs should not be used to keep users logged in. They’re designed as short-lived tokens and breaking statelessness introduces security risks; a real session store with secure, HTTP-only cookies is typically better. Avoid localStorage for credentials. JWTs may fit SSO or inter-service auth with very short lives (or internal calls); for sessions, prefer cookies (or consider PASETO for limited cases). Google uses cookie-based sessions in the browser.
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty features The Manhoff Archives, a four-part visual chronicle drawn from color slides, negatives, and 16mm film shot by Major Martin Manhoff, a U.S. Army attaché in the Soviet Union in the early 1950s. The collection records everyday life across the USSR, including Stalin's funeral. After Manhoff left in 1954 amid espionage accusations, the trove lay forgotten in a Pacific Northwest box until rediscovered by a Seattle historian. The series probes whether he was Spy Or Artist?
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Snap unveils SPECS, standalone AR glasses, at Augmented Expo 2026. SPECS blend AI, work tools, entertainment, and shared experiences without pulling you from the moment. They are lightweight, with two sizes (47mm, 52mm), 132–136 g, TR90 and removable prescription inserts. Features: 51° LCD-on-Silicon display, improved waveguides, electrochromic lenses, 7 ms latency, up to 4 hours mixed-use battery (20 hours with case). Dual Snapdragon chips power computer vision and Lenses; on-device processing with an LED privacy indicator. Developer tools: Lens Studio updates, Native SDK, Migration Agent. Pre-order $2,195 with $200 deposit; ships fall US/UK/France. Campaign with Steven Meisel and celebs.
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Blog post recounts upgrading a home LAN to 10Gb/s using 10GBASE-T SFP+ modules due to overheated Marvell-based copper transceivers. Replaced MikroTik with a Broadcom-based 10Gtek ASF-10G-T80-INT. Installation was tricky but successful; the new module’s temperature wasn’t readable via SNMP, so direct monitoring wasn’t possible. After the swap, network stability improved, and CPU temperature dropped about 5°C over two weeks. Notes quirks: EEPROM can misreport vendor; the module appeared Intel-compatible and even advertised as fibre in some fields. Overall, Broadcom-based SFP+ seems cooler and more stable, at least so far.
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Geoff Goodman's octopus architecture centers a central coordinating brain directing semi-autonomous 'lanes' (appendages) with their own contexts. The foreground lane handles user-facing LLM conversation; all surface activity routes through that same foreground. Lanes—templates, sandbox lanes with VM snapshots—execute tool calls and I/O, while sharing a common filesystem for references. Interaction vs capability tradeoffs push the design: bounded turns, real-time observation, long tasks via delegation, and continuous identity through a single, curated foreground. Curator manages durable memory; compaction keeps context lean. The goal: cross-surface continuity, quick interactions, and emergent intelligence.
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A Pragmatic Engineer piece argues Meta has destroyed its longtime engineering culture by an AI-driven reorg: from two-era culture 'move fast' to a top-down push to train large language models. Measures include mandatory keyboard/mouse tracking, forceful reassignment of 30-50% of core engineers to data labeling for RLHF, looming 10% layoffs, and a performance- and token-based review system that incentivizes AI over real work. An Instagram outage attributed to AI-generated changes highlights the risks. Critics blame Zuckerberg and Scale AI founder Wang; industry warns of 'AI psychosis.'
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Jane Street shifts from skepticism to active work on formal methods, driven by agentic coding. Formal verification is costly (as with seL4), but advances in models and agent-based programming make these methods more practical and widely useful. They see two benefits: easing the verification bottleneck and providing strong feedback to agents via richer type systems that prevent data races and vulnerabilities. The firm is building a formal-methods team, leveraging deep language control and a ready user base, and exploring integration with Lean, Dafny, Rocq, Agda, Iris, with hires in London and New York.
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Kaspersky Securelist warns dozens of malicious "application wallpapers" on Steam Workshop. Since late 2025, attackers exploit Wallpaper Engine to hide malware in wallpaper packages, often as archives or password-protected archives. When applied, the wallpaper drops a DarkKomet backdoor (Synaptics.exe) and a loader that installs a hijacked AggregatorHost.dll to locate Steam credentials, hijack live sessions, and exfiltrate data to hackers, enabling more malware uploads. Primary targets are gamers in China (about 89% of malicious downloads) and Russia (5.5%). Steam has purged many, but users should scan wallpapers; detections include HEUR and PDM alerts.
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Using Bash-only /dev/tcp to make HTTP requests in a container without curl. Open a TCP socket to host:port with exec 3<>/dev/tcp/host/port, send a raw HTTP request via printf, and read the response with cat <&3. /dev/tcp is a Bash feature, not a real device, and Bash handles DNS/connect. It’s not a real HTTP client: no parsing, redirects, TLS, or retries. Include Connection: close; wrap in timeout for reliability. For HTTPS or full features, use openssl/curl; this is for quick checks in tiny containers.
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Claude is experiencing elevated errors across many models. A fix has been implemented and results are being monitored; the issue was under investigation earlier. Affected services include claude.ai, Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. Updates posted Jun 16, 2026 at 17:29 UTC (investigating) and 18:00 UTC (fix implemented).
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