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Starlink's satellite internet is reshaping warfare by providing reliable, hard-to-jam data links for drones and troops, but private ownership and Musk's control risk sovereignty. Nations are rushing to build their own constellations: EU's IRIS², China's Guowang and Qianfan, Russia's Sfera (delayed), plus European efforts like Germany and OpenCosmos/UK links. Launch capability and dependence on others worry Europe and the UK. While Starlink offers cost and ground-equipment advantages, many states seek autonomous networks to avoid being cut off in future conflicts.
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svglib is a Windows SVG file parser and renderer library using Direct2D for GPU rendering and XMLLite for XML parsing. It targets Win32 apps and games and requires no external libs to distribute. Build with Visual Studio Community (C++), clone the repo, open svglib.sln, link with svglib.lib and Direct2D/DirectWrite, and enable C++17. Example: create a SVGDevice, load SVGImage via SVG::load, and render in WM_PAINT. Supported features align with a subset of SVG; textPath and clipPath are not supported currently. Security notes warn about untrusted SVGs and lack of depth/coordinate overflow protections.
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Providence Place Mall's construction left an 'accidental room' between two nearly-touching walls. Artist Michael Townsend and friends found it and turned it into a secret apartment, living there for about four years as a refuge amid redevelopment. They cleared debris, brought in water and lights, and even built a cinder-block wall to isolate the space. When security eventually confronted them after a daytime breach, Townsend was charged with trespassing, given a misdemeanor, and banned from the mall. The story highlights how redevelopment can create hidden spaces that residents reclaim.
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Context Gateway by Compresr is an agentic proxy that sits between an AI agent (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) and the LLM API to perform instant history compaction and context optimization. It compresses long conversations in the background so context limits are never waited on; pre-computed summaries enable immediate continuation. Quick Start provides a binary install and an interactive TUI to choose an agent (claude_code, cursor, openclaw, or custom) and configure a summarizer model and threshold (default 75%).
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The author argues smartphones are full computers and critiques Apple’s restrictions (App Store control, sandboxing, locked bootloaders) as profit-driven. They note the MacBook Neo and iPhone share the same SOC and could run similar OSs; the Neo can run Linux and software freely, while iPhone remains sandboxed. They advocate for the right to root access and to load any software on devices you own, connecting to broader right to repair. They envision repurposing an iPhone as a web server or running macOS on it, emphasizing freedom to choose software.
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Access denied; 403 Forbidden—the page could not be loaded.
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Issue #64584 reports HTTP 522 errors loading the Pandas documentation site (https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/). Opened Mar 13, 2026 by kylebarron; the docs page fails to load. Suggests a possible configuration change on Pandas’ side and asks for investigation/fix. No assignee yet; labeled Docs.
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Senator Ron Wyden warns of a secret Section 702 interpretation that will 'stun' Americans when declassified, as Congress nears renewal of the program. He cites a pattern of cryptic warnings later borne out by abuses, and last-minute reforms that weakened oversight. In a floor speech linked to NSA head nominee Joshua Rudd, Wyden argues there is a secret reading of 702 harming privacy that must be debated before reauthorization. He criticizes reforms that gave sensitive-search approvals to a partisan FBI deputy director who won’t keep a record and warns of a broadened catch-all that could force people to spy.
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Channel Surfer lets you watch YouTube as if it were cable TV; press to start. Made by RDU.
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Art Crimes’ March 2026 update features new works by Sebel (Germany), Fresco (Canada), and Bero (Greece), plus US freights photos by American Benchers. The site covers graffiti worldwide with sections on trains, murals, war, news, interviews, and resources. Newest pages include Athens Fresco, Canada Sebel, Hamburg Trains 399 – US Freights Blek Le Rat, SF IC, and various archival pieces from 2002–2011. Contact [email protected]. © 1994–2026 Art Crimes; site built March 2026.
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Two long-lost 1960s Doctor Who episodes have been found and restored by BBC archivists. The black-and-white episodes “The Nightmare Begins” and “Devil’s Planet” from 1965 were discovered in film cans among a deceased collector’s possessions and will be released on the BBC’s streaming service next month. The find—the first since 2013—highlights the era when the BBC wiped tapes; 95 episodes remain missing. The episodes feature William Hartnell and Peter Purves, with praise from Justin Smith of Film is Fabulous!.
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NASA targets April 1 for Artemis II, a 10-day crewed lunar flyby from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, within a six-day launch window (April 1–6). The four-astronaut crew: Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch (NASA), and Jeremy Hansen (Canadian Space Agency). After a fueling-test helium-system issue delayed rollout, engineers replaced a seal and prepared to return to the pad. The crew will quarantine March 18 and travel to Florida March 27, making Artemis II the first crewed Moon mission since Apollo 17 in 1972.
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CanIRun.ai provides a searchable tier list showing which AI models can run locally on consumer hardware. The page ranks dozens of models (e.g., Llama 3.1 8B, Qwen 3.5 9B, Gemma 3 27B, Llama 4 Scout 17B, GPT-OSS 20B, etc.) by performance and VRAM needs across tasks (chat, code, reasoning, vision). It lists model specs (size, memory, context length, architecture) and release dates, grouping by runability (S/A/B/C/D/F). Data from llama.cpp, Ollama, and LM Studio; serves as a comprehensive local-run model catalog.
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Captain is an enterprise RAG/search platform for agentic search on your data or Captain’s. It enables fast deployment, private datasets, and a managed vector store with auto OCR/VLM, preprocessing, and embedding models. It integrates with cloud storage (S3, GCS, Azure, SharePoint, Google Drive, Dropbox) and offers 1,000+ customization options, RBAC, SOC 2 security, and governance. API v2 supports query, streaming, rerank, and top_k. Accuracy ranges from ~78% to ~95%. It promises zero-maintenance deployment and rapid production RAG, with upcoming determinism features.
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Channel Surfer lets you watch YouTube like cable TV; press to start. Made by RDU.
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An open-source OSINT investigation into Meta Platforms' coordinated, multi-channel effort to push age-verification/ App Store Accountability Act-style legislation that would shift regulatory burden to Apple/Google. The repo documents 47 proven findings and 9 plausible but unproven hypotheses, with 2025 federal lobbying of $26.3M and state-level activity across 45 states, plus covert funding of the Digital Childhood Alliance (DCA) and more than $2B in Arabella Advisors network grants. Five confirmed channels: direct lobbying, astroturf DCA, super PACs funding, Arabella network transfers, and state legislative campaigns. The work maps funding flows, donor networks, overlaps among firms, and provides interactive reports.
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Parallels Desktop can run on the new MacBook Neo; initial testing shows installs and Windows VMs operate stably, with full validation ongoing. The A18 Pro ARM chip means CPU architecture isn’t the issue, but RAM is: Neo has 8GB, and Windows 11 needs at least 4GB, leaving 4GB for macOS. Parallels says light Windows use may be acceptable, but CPU/GPU‑intensive tasks won’t be ideal. For better performance, consider a MacBook Air with M5 and 16GB RAM (or a refurbished M4 Air with 16GB).
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Overview of the MRS fractal: a simple iterative system using Mirror, Rotate, and Scale. Beginning with p0 in 3D, repeatedly compute p_{n+1} = s · R(M(p_n)) − o, where M mirrors across planes, R rotates around a fixed axis, s>1 scales, and o is an offset. This folding then expansion creates self-similar structure at multiple scales. A reference shader shows parameters (uPalette, uIterations, uZoom, uRotSpeed, uMirrorStart, uScaleDecay) and a loop applying M, then R, then growth to color pixels.
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Ben Reinhard reviews The Bovadium Fragments (2025) by J.R.R. Tolkien, published by William Morrow, presenting Tolkien's satirical tale against machine-worship set in a future Oxford after an automotive apocalypse. The book comprises Christopher Tolkien's editor’s introduction, a 60-page Richard Ovenden essay, and Tolkien’s satire (Bovadium) framed as a future academic study with the English read backwards. The central theme is the danger of the motor-car and 'machine-worship,' though the volume's commentary largely softens this message. Reinhard situates Bovadium within Tolkien's broader motif of 'Fall, Mortality, and the Machine' and notes its timely relevance, despite some missteps in analysis.
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