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but first they have to demo it to the higher ups https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYsulVXpgYg

Long-time xfce fan here, I trust the team to make the right decisions of what to do with their copious spare time and insane amounts of funding </s>

(Instead of seeing this as "xfce jumps on bandwagon", I'm seeing it more as "bandwagon finally stable enough for xfce".)

There is a music player called Gapless that might help :) https://github.com/neithern/g4music

Also https://github.com/vicrodh/qbz for Qobuz supports gapless playback

I read that after seeing it was a forgotten inspiration for Piranesi: https://www.betterreading.com.au/news/author-related/susanna...

(And probably House of Leaves)

> legit better

Than ... Microsoft Teams? You're saying Microsoft Teams won because it is better than the competition?

For strings, just add string-conversions to your .cabal and `import Data.String.Conversions` and you can use `cs` to convert between the five, it'll typically figure out from context what type you need. E.g.

    import Data.String.Conversions
    import Data.Text qualified as T
    
    main = do
      url <- readLine
      thing <- fetchFromInterwebs (cs url)
      T.putStrLn (cs thing)

I don't think you need to really understand monad transformers to use them, just know that sometimes you're in "SomethingThatBuildsOnIO" and so you need to liftIO when using IO things.

I can't find it now, but someone made an ultra-realistic D-Day simulator where you basically portray one of the guys who never made it to the beach in Saving Private Ryan.

my first thought! fond memories, I remember it as being really hard

- A Bit of Fry and Laurie

with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry

It's a podcast, it goes back and forth between high and low density content. I tried listening to it while working and sometimes had to pause it because it got deep into e.g. explaining EEG, and then it's back to laughing at random stuff.

This looks very nice, I love that you're making a real solution to avoid the dark patterns of companies like Spotify. I used Subsonic for a while as a simple way to curate music for kids and keep them off Spotify, but eventually my oldest got past the "listen to the same album over and over again" stage, and adding everything to Subsonic became a chore, so we succumbed to giving her an account. Yet I really don't like how Spotify has been adding direct messaging, Wrapped, Jams, discovery etc. – stuff that on the face of it looks fun (for adults), but when you see the addictive effect it has on the tweens it's just horrible. Technically I guess Spotify is now illegal for <16yo's in Australia.

For my youngest, I installed Qobuz, which has all the music, but much fewer features. They reportedly pay artists more per stream than any of the other apps (I guess because they don't have so many expenses for social media app development). Your app UI looks much cleaner though :)

They should change the name while they still can https://lix.systems/

would love to see the graph comparing science spending vs DHS spending

> edge framing

is this a term of art? I interpreted it as "people only show off the best of the best or the worst of the worst, while the averages don't post online", though I've never heard the term "edge framing" before

maybe talking about https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...

Yes.

Is there a difference in EU vs US regulation?

Wow. I would love to have had this teacher :-) Everything about this setup seems so thoughtful. Giving students both agency / freedom of choice and responsibility. And if they choose more power (llms), they automatically have more responsibility (having to explain the mistakes of llms). And this:

> It took me 20 years after university to learn what I know today about computers. And I’ve only one reason to be there in front of you: be sure you are faster than me. Be sure that you do it better and deeper than I did. If you don’t manage to outsmart me, I will have failed.

Depends. If you're outside at night and tilt your head up, the Default Mode Network of your brain may be temporarily suppressed, while dopamine may increase.

Disconnect your telegraph batteries and run on aurora power only

Aha, you probably witnessed a glimpse of Cittàgazze. You can capture it in photograms with a special emulsion: https://hisdarkmaterials.fandom.com/wiki/Aurora?file=Citt%C3...

The constant barrage of free speech-stifling actions fits nicely with his https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_the_zone _with_shit strategy.

https://qalculator.xyz/ is my favourite

Since confer.to was recently posted here – is this a likely attack?

while the führer of the US is doing all he can to stop offshore wind projects

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/us-cou...

That's the main selling point of TEE though, isn't it? That what your hypothetical team could do, can't be done?

In most of modern life we trust to experts to some degree. I couldn't off the top of my head explain DH key exchange, I don't know if I'll ever understand elliptic curves, but I see that most of the cryptographic community understands them as good methods for many problems and if lots of experts who otherwise argue about anything will agree "what yes, of course DH is good for key exchange but that's beside the point and djb is still wrong about florbnitz keys" then it's likely DH is indeed good for key exchange.

If everyone had to understand every detail to trust in tech we would not have nuclear plants or coast around on huge flammable piles of charged lithium

> you're still exposing your data to Confer

They use a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_execution_environment and iiuc claim that your client can confirm (attest) that the code they run doesn't leak your data, see https://confer.to/blog/2026/01/private-inference/

So you should be able to run https://github.com/conferlabs/confer-image yourself and get a hash of that and then confer.to will send you that same hash, but now it's been signed by Intel I guess? to tell you that yes not only did confer.to send you that hash, but that hash is indeed a hash of what's running inside the Trusted Execution Environment.

I feel like this needs diagrams.

Firefox does offline translation and offline tts. It is quite amazing. Unfortunately half the tech crowd is like "BURN anything that has been in the same room as AI" and the other half is yoloing agentic browsers and uploading all their pron history to the datalakes

> Community + ecosystem friction is the bottleneck. “Time to first plot” and “time to first successful notebook” matter more than any single library.

so true! no one will care about how diffable and optimizable your models are if they can't do the first part of developing them, ie. eyeballing data