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Little Snitch feature nobody knows about

lapcatsoftware.com
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Magenta.nvim – an AI coding assistant plugin for Neovim focused on tool use

github.com
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Threlte 8

threlte.xyz
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Could Self-Driving Buses Bring Vehicle Autonomy Home?

ieee.org

In the race to develop autonomous vehicle technology, some companies are steering away from robotaxis to...
In the race to develop autonomous vehicle technology, some companies are steering away from robotaxis to explore a different avenue: driverless buses. With an anticipated shortage of qualified bus drivers looming and concerns growing about the relative inefficiency of robotaxis, companies are opting to equip city bu...

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The color and color-patterns of moths and butterflies (1897)

publicdomainreview.org

Although better known for his study of marine life, Alfred G. Mayer began his career in...
Although better known for his study of marine life, Alfred G. Mayer began his career in the natural sciences researching insects. It was during these years that he created his arresting butterfly wing projections. Each big block of color is an attempt to represent the range of tonal variation on a single butterfly s...
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How I Use Home Assistant in 2025

vpetersson.com

I’ve been using Home Assistant for about seven years now, starting back when I was living...
I’ve been using Home Assistant for about seven years now, starting back when I was living in a small apartment. At the time, my setup was modest: I used the IKEA Smart Hub (when it first launched) to tie together all my apartment’s lights. As I got more comfortable with automations, I also began building custom hard...
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I don't support a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, and neither should you

bitcoinmagazine.com
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The importance of favicons in website OSINT research

osintme.com
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Bluesky's science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform

nature.com

Social-media platform Bluesky has more than 27 million users.Credit: Peter Kováč/AlamySeventy per cent of Nature readers...
Social-media platform Bluesky has more than 27 million users.Credit: Peter Kováč/AlamySeventy per cent of Nature readers who responded to an online poll are using the social-media platform Bluesky, which works a lot like X (formerly Twitter) and whose popularity has soared in recent months, in particular since the N...

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Every System is a Log: Avoiding coordination in distributed applications

restate.dev

Building resilient distributed applications remains a tough challenge.It should be possible to focus almost entirely on...
Building resilient distributed applications remains a tough challenge.It should be possible to focus almost entirely on the business logic and the complexity inherent to the domain. Instead, you need to review line-by-line and check: “what if the service crashes here?”, “what if the API we call here is temporarily u...
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AI Is Creating a Generation of Illiterate Programmers

nmn.gl

A couple of days ago, Cursor went down during the ChatGPT outage. I stared at my...
A couple of days ago, Cursor went down during the ChatGPT outage. I stared at my terminal facing those red error messages that I hate to see. An AWS error glared back at me. I didn’t want to figure it out without AI’s help. After 12 years of coding, I’d somehow become worse at my own craft. And this isn’t hyperbole—...
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Siri Is Super Dumb and Getting Dumber

daringfireball.net

Writing about the current state of Apple Intelligence yesterday, I mentioned how utterly stupid and laughably...
Writing about the current state of Apple Intelligence yesterday, I mentioned how utterly stupid and laughably wrong Siri is when asked the simple question, “Who won Super Bowl 13?”, and mentioned that that particular example came from a friend. That friend was Paul Kafasis, and he took it and pursued it thoroughly, ...
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Plausible Fiction – David Spivak

topos.institute

Abstract Each of us can see problems in our world or our community, cases where something...
Abstract Each of us can see problems in our world or our community, cases where something we care about is in need of attention. At the same time, technology is vastly increasing our ability to spread and collectively consider diverse ideas. In this post, I imagine a future world in which people use new technologica...
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Court rules FBI's warrantless searches violated Fourth Amendment

arstechnica.com

"Certainly, the Court can imagine situations where obtaining a warrant might frustrate the purpose of querying,...
"Certainly, the Court can imagine situations where obtaining a warrant might frustrate the purpose of querying, particularly where exigency requires immediate querying," DeArcy Hall wrote. "This is why the Court does not hold that querying Section 702-acquired information always requires a warrant." Ruling renews ca...
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All federal agencies ordered to terminate remote work–ideally within 30 days

arstechnica.com

Ezell's memo expanded criticism of the Biden administration's approach to remote work, suggesting that it enabled...
Ezell's memo expanded criticism of the Biden administration's approach to remote work, suggesting that it enabled federal unions' alleged attempts "to abuse the collective-bargaining process to guarantee full-time telework into the indefinite future and forestall any requirement to return to the office." Suspecting ...
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Ask HN: Why buy domains and 301 redirect them to me?

ycombinator.com
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Build It Yourself

pocoo.org

written on Friday, January 24, 2025 Another day, another rant about dependencies. from me. This time...
written on Friday, January 24, 2025 Another day, another rant about dependencies. from me. This time I will ask you that we start and support a vibe shift when it comes to dependencies. You're probably familiar with the concept of “dependency churn.” It's that never-ending treadmill of updates, patches, audits, and ...
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Harvard-trained expert: I have anxiety

cnbc.com

I've been studying anxiety all my life, because I have it. I remember being knotted up...
I've been studying anxiety all my life, because I have it. I remember being knotted up with anxiety on the eve of one birthday, worried sick because time was passing so fast and I had yet to accomplish anything significant. I was turning four.All this anxiety was one of the reasons I read widely about mental health ...

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We Need to Talk About Docker Hub

linuxserver.io
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Make your chair rotate in VR

skarredghost.com

On my last day at CES, I tried the Roto VR Explorer chair. It’s been an...
On my last day at CES, I tried the Roto VR Explorer chair. It’s been an interesting experience, not without some flaws, but certainly one worth telling. So keep reading to discover this VR accessory! (Usual reminder: this article is a hands-on impression because I just had a few minutes with the product and it is no...
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Life pro tip: Oracle Linux is the best local VM for MacBooks

xeiaso.net
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Impact of Low Temperatures on the 5nm SRAM Array Size and Performance

semiengineering.com

A new technical paper titled “Novel Trade-offs in 5 nm FinFET SRAM Arrays at Extremely Low...
A new technical paper titled “Novel Trade-offs in 5 nm FinFET SRAM Arrays at Extremely Low Temperatures” was published by researchers at University of Stuttgart, IIT Kanpur, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Khalifa University, and TU Munich. Abstract “Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS)-based com...
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South Korea's Democracy Saved Itself (2024)

carnegieendowment.org

In roughly three hours last week, South Korean democracy faced and overcame an unprecedented political crisis....
In roughly three hours last week, South Korean democracy faced and overcame an unprecedented political crisis. Around 10 p.m. on December 3, President Yoon Suk-yeol declared martial law, citing parliamentary gridlock and politically motivated investigations into his administration. The announcement surprised many in...
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The Nix NGI Team: Advancing Open Source with Nix

nixos.org

Our main mission is to deliver on the promise of Nix: make open source software easy...
Our main mission is to deliver on the promise of Nix: make open source software easy to run, both now and in the long term. For the NixOS Foundation’s collaboration with the NGI Zero consortium, this means getting as many as possible of the more than 1200 NLnet-funded software projects to work smoothly with the Nix ...
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