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The accidental tyranny of user interfaces

  • May 26, 2024, 2:42 a.m.
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The accidental tyranny of user interfaces The potential of technology to empower is being subverted by tyrannical user interface design, enabled by our data and attention. Oliver Meredith Cox · Follo

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Turn your iPhone into a dumb phone · The Dumbphones Blog

  • May 26, 2024, 2 a.m.
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how to turn your iPhone into a dumb phone. In this article I show you how to turn your iPhone into a dumb phone, using a handful of simple apps and settings. You don’t have to purchase a new device j

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Inside Roman Emperors’ Outrageously Lavish Dinner Parties

  • May 26, 2024, 1:42 a.m.
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Reprinted with permission from Populus: Living and Dying in Ancient Rome by Guy de la Bédoyère, published by the University of Chicago Press. © 2024 by Guy de la Bédoyère. All rights reserved. Ce

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'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech'

  • May 26, 2024, 1:42 a.m.
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Sara needed some chocolate - she had had one of those days - so wandered into a Home Bargains store. "Within less than a minute, I'm approached by a store worker who comes up to me and says, 'You're

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adlumal/GoalChain: GoalChain for goal-orientated LLM conversation flows

  • May 26, 2024, 1:42 a.m.
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GoalChain GoalChain is a simple but effective framework for enabling goal-orientated conversation flows for human-LLM and LLM-LLM interaction. Installation pip install goalchain Getting started L

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Call to Action: Fediverse Media Server – Shlee

  • May 26, 2024, 1:42 a.m.
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By on • Edit: So to put my money where my mouth is.. Right now storage is costing me around $150AUD a month… so if somebody can build a media server we can share/deploy and offer it for all of the Fe

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jawj/mtwist: Concise, tested Mersenne Twister in CoffeeScript/JavaScript

  • May 26, 2024, 12:42 a.m.
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mtwist This is a concise implementation of the Mersenne Twister Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) for JavaScript. The library: Includes initialization improvements to the algorithm that were ma

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Hacking phones is too easy. Time to make it harder

  • May 26, 2024, 12:42 a.m.
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I n the mid -1960 s enterprising hackers realised that if they blew a particular toy whistle down the phone, they could trick the network into routing their call anywhere, free. When phone networks go

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Home Assistant Config by Denys Dovhan

  • May 26, 2024, 12:42 a.m.
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War Safety¶ In 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, waging a genocidal war against my country. Ukraine is being hit by all types of weapons (except nuclear) daily. Home Assistant h

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Talos - An Immutable OS for Kubernetes

  • May 26, 2024, midnight
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Talos - An Immutable OS for Kubernetes For some time now, I have been interested in Talos, an operating system for Kubernetes. I installed my first Talos cluster in November 2023, and my “production”

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The Algorithm Behind Jim Simons's Success

  • May 25, 2024, 11:42 p.m.
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Jim Simons, the legendary quant and founder of hedge fund Renaissance Technologies, passed away this past week. “In every field, there’s only one person whose competitive advantage is 'I’m smarter tha

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Site Reliability Engineering

  • May 25, 2024, 11:42 p.m.
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Simplicity The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. C.A.R. Hoare, Turing Award lecture Software systems are inherently dynamic and unstable.38 A software system can only be

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Hurl, the Exceptional language

  • May 25, 2024, 11:42 p.m.
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Hurl is a language created for one purpose: to explore a language based around exception handling as the only control flow. It was sparked from conversations between Nicole Tietz-Sokolskaya and friend

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Thread by @JeremiahDJohns on Thread Reader App

  • May 25, 2024, 10:42 p.m.
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Scrolly Bookmark Save as PDF Google's new AI search results are having quite the week. Here's a thread with some of my favorite answers: "smoking while pregnant" As long as it's non-toxic "train e

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$899 mini PC puts Snapdragon X Elite into a mini desktop for developers

  • May 25, 2024, 10:42 p.m.
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Microsoft and Qualcomm are both making a concerted effort to make Windows-on-Arm happen after years of slow progress and false starts. One thing the companies have done to get software developers on b

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How to monitor steel alloys with Grafana: the story of a Golden Grot Awards winner

  • May 25, 2024, 10:42 p.m.
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Every great Grafana dashboard seems to have that “aha” moment — when users switch from thinking about the data in the abstract to thinking of it as something tangible and instantly actionable. For Chr

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megoxv/visionGPT: Analyze your image in seconds with AI

  • May 25, 2024, 9:42 p.m.
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VisionGPT - analyze your image with AI Analyze and understand images in seconds. Get AI-driven insights at your fingertips. How it works VisionGPT uses the Gemini Pro Vision model to analyze images

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Nonconsensual AI Porn Maker Accidentally Leaks His Customers' Emails

  • May 25, 2024, 8:42 p.m.
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A popular Patreon account that created nonconsensual AI-generated sexual images of celebrities for his paying subscribers has leaked a list of his clients’ emails to other clients and to 404 Media. I

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Fixing my Yamaha Electone ME-50: An FM Synthesizer Home Organ from 1986

  • May 25, 2024, 8:42 p.m.
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The home organ is, at least in my home of North America, a dead market, mostly because synthesizers can do pretty much anything the old beasts could. Nevertheless, because I am that kind of person, I

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Swordfighting is Not What You Think It Is

  • May 25, 2024, 8 p.m.
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Sword Fighting is Not What You Think... So, your sword fighting with Medieval and Renaissance blades ...How to do so effectively? How do you so authentically? Well, what it's about is as much a mat

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'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech'

  • May 25, 2024, 6:42 p.m.
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'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech' 3 hours ago By James Clayton , BBC Newsnight Share BBC Sara needed some chocolate - she had had one of those days - so wandered into a

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Microsoft, Khan Academy Partner to Make Khanmigo Teaching Tool Free -- THE Journal

  • May 25, 2024, 6 p.m.
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Artificial Intelligence Microsoft, Khan Academy Partner to Make Khanmigo Teaching Tool Free At its Build conference this week, Microsoft announced it has inked an AI partnership with education nonpr

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This startup is about to install bladeless rooftop wind turbines on box buildings

  • May 25, 2024, 4:42 p.m.
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Aeromine Technologies just closed a $9 million funding round, and it’s ready to scale up production of its bladeless rooftop wind turbines. Energy research, investing, and strategy firm Veriten is th

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UltraNet: Revisiting ultrasound

  • May 25, 2024, 4:42 p.m.
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Imagine a world where all the intelligent devices around you could seamlessly link together, sharing skills and distributing workloads through ultrasonic waves inaudible to humans. A decentralized clo

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The Route of a Text Message

  • May 25, 2024, 4:42 p.m.
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[Note: Find the more polished, professionally illustrated version of this piece at Motherboard|Vice!] This is the third post in my full-stack dev (f-s d) series on the secret life of data. This insta

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Looking Glass Debuts 16-inch OLED and 32-inch ‘Holographic’ Spatial Displays

  • May 25, 2024, 4:42 p.m.
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Looking Glass today introduced two new, professionally-oriented spatial displays — what the company refers to as “holograms.” The first is a desktop-sized 32-inch model while the second is a smaller 1

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the disenshittification Konami code

  • May 25, 2024, 4:42 p.m.
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If you want to give people easy access to an AI-free Google search, send them to this page. What is "&udm=14"? • TenBlueLinks • FrogFind • Built by Tedium Grab the code: Glitch | Github Versions Re

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Inventing my own writing system for English, VJScript

  • May 25, 2024, 4:42 p.m.
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Inventing my own writing system for English, VJScript By the end of this post, you will be able to read and create your own English sentences in VJScript, a writing system I invented. As a sneak peak

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Helen Keller on Her Life Before Self-Consciousness

  • May 25, 2024, 4:42 p.m.
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From Waiting for God , by Simone Weil The infinity of space and time separates us from God. How are we to seek for him? How are we to go t...

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The Great Proxywall 3000

  • May 25, 2024, 4:42 p.m.
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I’m ChaosInABox, a packet of data with an identity crisis. One minute I’m a harmless harbinger of cat videos, the next, I’m a suspected agent of chaos, hell-bent on destroying the internet as we know

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Mandeep Bhutani

  • May 25, 2024, 4:42 p.m.
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Lessons Learned from My First Roblox Game In February 2024, I released an obstacle course game (obby) called Chill But Not Too Chill Obby on Roblox. The Roblox platform allows game developers to publ

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Making my dumb A/C smart with Elixir and Nerves

  • May 25, 2024, 4:42 p.m.
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As the scorching Japanese summer creeps ever closer with each passing day, I kept thinking about my yesteryear idea of remotely controlling my bedroom A/C over the Internet. With a simple click of a b

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Notes on Diffusion Models

  • May 25, 2024, 4:42 p.m.
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Contents Diffusion Models Notes on the theory behind models like Stable Diffusion and their applications. I spent 2022 learning to draw and was blindsided by the rise of AI art There is lots to say

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Why does x & -x equal to the largest power of 2 that divides x?

  • May 25, 2024, 4:42 p.m.
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Why does x & -x equal to the largest power of 2 that divides x? 25 May 2024 I recently read in a book that x & -x equals to the largest power of 2 that divides x . For example, 13 & -13 is 1 ( 2^0 )

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Why you spend more when prices end in .99

  • May 25, 2024, 4:42 p.m.
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I once worked at a company that priced everything with a .95 ending. The bestselling software package was $999.95. Add-on products were $9.95, or $19.95, or $49.95. Everything ended with a .95. It had

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Tesla Owners Get Only 64% Of EPA Range After Just Three Years: Study (Updated)

  • May 25, 2024, 4 p.m.
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One of the first questions I get asked about my Tesla is, "What happens when you need to replace the battery?" It's easy to brush off because there are plenty of facts regarding failure statistics, wa

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