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12 cheap Zigbee temp/humidity sensors from Aqara, Sonoff, Tuya, ThirdReality, Zemismart and Moes under $15 were tested head-to-head against a calibrated reference (BLE Xiaomi MHO-C401 via Zigbee2MQTT). The study covers build, power, form factor, accuracy, resolution, reporting intervals, OTA, and extra data points. Results: all tracked trends; best temperature accuracy by Paulie and Carmela (~0.2°C). Humidity leaders: Tony, Chris, Paulie, Meadow, Carmela. Low-temp fridge test favored Tony, Carmela, Paulie, Junior, Chris. Verdict: accuracy alone isn't enough—battery type, size, and adjustable reporting interval matter. Top picks: Best overall — Paulie; Best runner-up — Moes ZSS-S01-TH; Best AAA sensor — Carmela.
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Researchers extend a piano-MIDI transformer (Aria) with a gated cross-attention mechanism conditioning on a learned pianist embedding, enabling imitation of 12 jazz pianists from PiJAMA. They fine-tune Aria on solo performances and insert cross-attention in the final eight layers, with a gate controlling influence per step. Evaluation uses a pianist classifier on generated continuations; conditioned runs achieve 70% agreement with the intended pianist (vs 37% without), while a classifier trained on generated music detects real recordings at 95% accuracy. The results show the model can embed and reproduce a pianist’s style beyond perplexity measures.
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Christian Szegedy contends that mathematics is graduating from the era of solitary, heroic problem-solvers to a mature, industry-scale field. He contrasts youth competition culture with the real work of ‘pure mathematics’ as jungle exploration: mapping terrain, funding expeditions, and inventing tools; conjectures are rocks to climb, some turning into majestic mountains. AI progress is a rising airplane: current tools seem primitive, but soon flights will reach farther, while public vanity (flag-planting) fades. Ultimately, mathematics will become the infrastructure of science and technology—an enterprise funded, networked, and valued for guiding others—ending the lone-climber myth and opening a continent to map.
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After months with Deno, the author returns to Node v26.10.0, noting modern ECMAScript sugar, no require, and faster builds after migrating a static site generator from Deno to Node (replacing Deno.serve with Hono/node adapter and Deno’s fs/path with node:path). They optimize package management (NVM via curl, PNPM with trust policies, and PNPM aliases) and avoid NPM malware concerns. TypeScript under node_modules remains unsupported; Tsdown helps. Deno declines due to instability and layoffs; Node has caught up and sometimes surpasses it. Brew uninstall deno.
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The page is a Cloudflare security block denying access to niemanlab.org. It states the site uses a security service to protect against online attacks and that certain inputs can trigger the block. To resolve, contact the site owner, describe what you were doing, and include the Cloudflare Ray ID; the page lists the Ray ID and the visitor's IP and notes Cloudflare handles performance and security.
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Repeating HTTP 403 Forbidden error indicating access to the requested resource is denied.
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Colin Armstrong argues that with LLMs, building small, cheap tools for personal annoyances is now feasible and worthwhile. He describes creating heade.rs, a domain-lookup app (DNS, WHOIS, TLS, etc.) in a few prompts using Claude Code, deployed on Cloudflare, focused on speed, aesthetics, and usability rather than monetization. It costs less than a cup of coffee a month and doesn’t need to sell to exist. The economics favor more shipping of cheap tools, even if they don’t rank high or reach wide audiences. Personal projects can be worthwhile whether they solve one person’s problem or spark broader interest.
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Graphical is a one-time-purchase theme builder and design system for creating visual themes (colors, typography, spacing, icons, motion) and Base UI components for interfaces. It offers a visual editor, five customizable styles, theme tokens, light/dark mode, and React components ready to use (works with any framework). You can download resources or install via shadcn, with GUI.md references. It’s designed for designers and developers using coding agents to apply themes to screens. Priced at $49 (formerly $99) with ongoing updates.
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DEDA is an open-source Python toolkit for tracking dots (yellow printer dots) embedded in color laser prints. It decodes embedded printer metadata and enables anonymisation to prevent tracking. It provides CLI commands (deda_parse_print, deda_compare_prints, deda_extract_yd, deda_create_dots, deda_anonmask_apply) and a GUI (deda_gui), with installation via PyPI or source. Use cases include reading tracking data, identifying divergent printers, analyzing unknown patterns, creating custom tracking dots, and anonymising documents by applying a printer-specific mask. See the IH&MMSec 2018 paper; GPL-3.0.
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DebugBear covers example.com’s 2026 redesign, adding multi-language content that cycles English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish every 5 seconds via JavaScript, with a per-character opacity transition and an SVG icon. The piece traces the site’s 20+ year evolution—from its 1999 role as a documentation placeholder, through messaging and infrastructure changes (Apache, EdgeCast/Edgio, Cloudflare)—and warns it’s not a testing service. It concludes with a reminder to measure page speed using DebugBear.
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Bloomberg’s bot-detection prompt informs users that unusual activity was detected and asks them to verify they’re not a robot, ensure JavaScript and cookies are enabled, review Terms and Cookie Policy, contact support with a reference ID, and includes a block reference ID, ending with a subscription pitch.
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Argues for a "Third Way" in Linux: the text user interface (TUI) as the primary UX, sitting between CLI and GUI. TUIs run in a CLI session without X11/Wayland, saving RAM while remaining approachable. Examples: htop, Midnight Commander, archinstall. The piece laments the lack of a unifying TUI desktop and cites modern RAM/lean-app pressures, noting GUIs dominated dev effort. Obvious flaws include A/V work, web browsing, and gaming. Proposes TUI-focused environments (e.g., TUIOS) and a future where TUIs evolve as a native, lightweight Linux UX.
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Holocron outlines a last-resort, decentralized backup idea using Blu-ray/M-Discs stored in rugged cases handed to trusted friends. Plan 2–3 small cases, each with 3–4 discs, padded with foam, labeled, and sealed with tamper-evident seals for periodic handovers every 1–3 years. Data includes digitized documents, music, photo albums, and essentials to reboot from scratch; critical data is zipped and password-protected, with the password as a possible digital legacy. The chosen box is a B&W Outdoor Case Type 500, plus seals, labels, silica gel, and DIY notes.
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Flatten SF computes routes in your browser from about 160,000 street segments using USGS 1 m lidar elevation and OpenStreetMap data to optimize for distance and climbing. A slider explores the trade-off between shortest and flattest walks; climbing is cumulative, and the cost of a foot of climb equals 200 ft of walking. Stairways are allowed on foot, excluded on bikes. Faint lines show alternative routes, and place search is offline with built-in SF data; source and full analysis are provided.
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Dust is a zeroth-order pretraining method for transformers that replaces backprop with activation-space perturbations applied per token, creating a population evaluated in parallel in one forward pass. A reward-weighted estimate of layer gradients provides updates without weight perturbations; attention credits use future-token signals. Dust scales with population: larger models and more perturbations improve alignment with backprop, sometimes beating it at high compute. It is far more efficient than weight-space ES and better than EGGROLL. Under Adam it remains competitive. The results imply larger models expand search space, and high compute may surpass backprop, though practical efficiency is not achieved.
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