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Klaus BreyerTexttile, a multiplayer blog engine for people who write together – Klaus BreyerMy wife and I have blogged about every trip since our honeymoon 10 years ago. For the people at home, for ourselves later, and by now for our children. We took turns writing, but both had photos and videos on their phones. The text was never the hard part. The photos and videos were: every day one of us sent them from the phone to the other, who had to upload them and sort them into the entry in the right order.

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Hillel WayneA Crash Course in Predicate LogicI started writing Logic for Programmers because there weren’t any good resources on logic for, uh, programmers. Now that the book’s out, the new problem is that there aren’t any good free resources on logic for programmers. So, to solve that problem (and maybe hype the book a little), I converted the second chapter of LfP into a blog post. All footnotes are editorial comments not present in the book.

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Terence Eden’s Blog"iT woRKs BeTter in THe aPp!!"The monkey-punchers at Google never quite seem to finish any of their apps. There's always some useful bit of work left undone, or showstopping bug which remains unfixed, a thousand jagged edges as yet unsolved by the greatest minds of their generation. I wanted to subscribe to an events calendar. I had a URl. I had my Google™ Pixel® phone running the latest Android© 17 with an updated calendar a…

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zuzai.orgZuzai, a new word, indicates the absence of AIAbout the word zuzai, coined to denote things made or done without artificial intelligence.

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dbushell.comFine, I’ll build my own text editor!The one where I build my own text editor (until I get bored).

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TumblrBreaking down Amazon's mega dropdownThe hover effects on Amazon's big 'ole "Shop by Department" mega dropdown are super fast. Look'it how quick each submenu fills in as your mouse moves down the list: It's instant. I got nerd sniped by...

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GitHubRelease Janet 1.42.0 · janet-lang/janetThis is a long-coming release, with lots of bug fixes and documentation improvements! Still more to come, but it's best to get these changes out to people where they can be used! Happy hacking, and...

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Haskell CommunityV0.1.0.0 of ghcup-gtk releasedFirst release of ghcup-gtk, a GTK wrapper around the ghcup toolchain manager designed to appeal to newcomers to the language (and possibly newcomers to computer programming). Packages for various operating systems are distributed on the release page, and signed with the Minisign tool. Enjoy, and please report bugs at Issues · Kleidukos/ghcup-gtk · GitHub. Now on more personal notes: You might reasonably ask “But Hécate, how was your experience with programming a GTK application in Haske...

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LobstersI attended a conference recently and AI use by academics was absurd12 comments

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LobstersWhat are you doing this week?7 comments

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vesto.meAny user process can escalate to root

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Read the Tea LeavesOn not becoming a cyborgI was a voracious reader as a kid, and I noticed a funny phenomenon: whatever writer I had most recently read, my next paper for English class would sound like them. If I read a bunch of Stephen Ki…

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GistVibeCoded AI-Slop License v1.0VibeCoded AI-Slop License v1.0. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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ServoJuly in Servo: more platforms, faster canvas, web fonts in SVG, and more! - Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.Plus real world compat improvements on the DuckDuckGo and Gumroad websites.

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daniel.haxx.sea CVE disputeA few years years ago the curl project signed up and became a CNA. This means that we are masters of and can allocate our own CVE identifiers. For any security problems within our territory, it is we who decides if the issue should get a CVE or not. No more bogus CVEs. 57 CVEs … Continue reading a CVE dispute →

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TumblrThe U.S. is more than just the US (according to the ISO)This has happened to me more than once in my career in the video streaming business. The business folks sign a deal that lets people watch video, but only in the U.S. This is what we call geofencing....

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Nemin.huRepeating Ourselves Less with M4A short guide to how I made my httpd.conf file shorter using macros.

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Ken MuseRootless Docker and Its Hidden Security Trade-Offs - Ken MuseExplore how rootless Docker uses user namespaces, why kernel developers have concerns about the attack surface, and what unconfined flags really disable.

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GitHubGitHub - sorvi-platform/dekoodaaja: Providers fast decoders for various image formats. (Currently only QOI)Providers fast decoders for various image formats. (Currently only QOI) - sorvi-platform/dekoodaaja

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blog.rust-lang.orgRust Function Overloading - Call for Experimentation | Inside Rust BlogWant to follow along with Rust development? Curious how you might get involved? Take a look!

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www.phoronix.comCalifornia Passes AB-1856 For Open-Source Relief Over Age VerificationAs an update to the May story about California's age verification law may end up exempting most Linux distributions, that AB-1856 bill has finally passed!

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deadSimpleTechThere's no such thing as Just a Tool | deadSimpleTechHeidegger thinks about tools like so: a tool is something (a thing that has being in the Heideggerian sense, not necessarily an object) that represents an extension of human capabilities in some way. A tool is thus any kind of thing that *lets you do something you wouldn't otherwise have been able to*. The important (for us) conceptual leap here is that when a tool works well, or isn't broken, it develops what Heidegger describes as a "ready-to-hand" quality: the tool fades into the background as a kind of human-tool gestalt of a human with the additional capability afforded by a tool forms. As a simple example of this, consider eating with a fork. When the fork is well-designed and not broken, *you don't explicitly have "I am using a fork" in your conscious mind while eating dinner*.

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Martin AldersonWhat GLM-5.3 Flash running on Chinese hardware actually meansZ.AI ran a full model release on domestically manufactured Chinese chips. Impressive, but EUV lithography is a hard wall and the gap with Western inference hardware is more likely to widen than close.

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reactos.orgIntroducing ReactOS 0.4.16

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Quanta MagazineDoes Computer Science Need Computers? | Quanta MagazineThe theoretical side of the field doesn’t require computing machines. But many questions would never have been posed without them.

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Konstantin RyabitsevCreepy crawliesYou've probably heard me complain about the "AI crawlers" before, but now I actually have some hard numbers I can put up to show their im...

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Jacky Alciné's digital place to post, post, post!Being kicked out of the tech industry - Jacky AlcinéAfter 250 job applications in four months, I'm giving up.

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www.phoronix.comDebian Votes To Allow "Responsible Use Of Generative AI"The voting is over and there is a winner now known in the much-debated Debian General Resolution voting over an AI policy for the Linux distribution.

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www.dampfkraft.comParsing the Infamous Japanese Postal CSVLate last year I released posuto, a package presenting Japanese postal code data in an easy-to-use format. It's based on data released by Japan Post, which is infamous for being widely used but hard to parse.

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arbustoemchamas.substack.comI naively tried vibe-coding a memory tool for agents and stared into the abyss of unsolved problems in philosophyor, cheap code does not translate into systems design prowess

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Anil MadhavapeddyJust a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these daysThinking through how the conventional OSS security embargoes no longer buy us time, and what open source maintainers might do instead to respond