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My son's M1 Air CPU died suddenly. Maybe it was a thermal death from overheating. Not sure. But all the data on it was lost because the storage is soldered on. PSA to make sure devices with non-removable storage are backed up!

(We replaced it with a Framework... with removable storage.)

It will be used for more realistic and effective frauds and scams.

O'Bollard.

“We believe AI is for everyone” *who can afford two M5 Studios with a total of 1 terabyte of memory.

Thunderbird for Android is based on the 15+ year old K-9 Mail app while Thunderbird for iOS is a greenfield project.

Are you asking if people intend to use pervert glasses for evil?

Does Meta have a reputation about being honest about what it's doing? This is the company that just lost a $17 billion lawsuit for endangering children.

Because it's intentionally a camera that blends into normal clothing so it's less obvious you are being filmed.

But then, some people specialize in taking photos that others would not because they have in mind stock photos, art or something else. They see the world differently.

Agents are still a bit to eager to please, so they are still missing cases when the better answer is to push back, change course or refactor.

But when the human suggests changing the course, the LLMs will often agree the new direction is better and start heading there...

I have a small drawer of cables. If cable+1 doesn't fit, I have too many cables.

The history of Chrome and Safari traces back to KTML, the renderer for Konqueror, a niche browser on Linux with so little market share there weren't real conversations about it ever seriously competing with Firefox or IE.

Then something unexpected happened: Apple adopted KHTML for Safari's WebKit. WebKit was then adopted as the render for Chrome

Could a niche browser still become mainstream /today/? I think so.

A distro should be secure-by-default. Omarchy’s design here was insecure by default while the docs have the impression that Docker might be running rootless. Pairing insecure defaults with docs that claim better security is bad.

Apparently the Omarchy plugin ecosystem is also a free for all like the Arch AUR, except the audience includes people who are new to Linux and less likely to understand the risks.

I went from `vi` to `vim` to `neovim` to a spiritual successor `helix`, and here's Emacs at release 31 still the dominant fork of the emacs family of editors. Impressive.

I see that my old M1 Mac Mini with 16 GB memory and 1 TB drive has held value over time, selling for $600 to $700.

A new Mac Mini with that much ram and storage costs about double now.

I wonder how much they tested on non-English languages with fewer synonyms.

To be fair: a year ago the editor was in the center and the AI chat was in the sidebar-- Cursor.

Here they've moved the AI chat to the center and code editor has been pushed to the side.

Right, the value is not so clear of having multiple people wade through lengthy LLM responses. Part of the value that a human in the loop adds is figuring out what's correct and important in the response and passing on a more polished result.

Perhaps more broadly AI will hollow out "middle intelligence".

We could end up with a gulf between those who use AI for cognitive inquiry vs passive delegation. Those who accelerate learning by asking "help me understand this" vs those who relinquish understanding and analytical thinking to AI to complete their work.

Zuck's "I believe everyone should have access to superintelligence" quote echoes back to Meta's "Internet.org" effort to provide Facebook for "free" in emerging markets:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet.org

Where I can learn more about the genetic need of people of Sámi heritage to eat animal food?

When I tried to search for the details, I found only that it was a traditionally meat heavy diet.

Link?

Animal agriculture is a key driver of climate change: https://sentientmedia.org/how-does-livestock-affect-climate-...

Along with the high price, that's one more reason to not buy it.

For certain amount of fast growth: yes. Then there's continued "growth-hacking" and enshittification to keep fast revenue growing after the pain point has been solved with dark patterns and questionable tactics.

Why? Because investors poured a bunch of money in to support fast growth and now they want their money back. And incremental growth won't do. Since 9 out of 10 of the investments fail, the surviving one has to continue to growth-hacking revenues.

From this I learned LLMs are complex and compute-intensive.

I found some kind weather sensor like this in a creek in a sealed clear film canister-sized container.

I took it home and looked up the part number. Looks like it was probably part of a network of sensors monitoring the forest health, but some ziptie broke on this one and ended up starting to get washed away. It ran on a big watch battery. I didn't try to get the data off it.. don't recall how data access worked for it.

What's planned for upcoming versions of Thunderbird are in public roadmaps:

https://roadmaps.thunderbird.net/en-US/

Polymarket is currently taking bets on whether Snailman appears in the DC or Marvel universe first.

The book Sentient is not about AI but abount the most amazing physical senses some other animals have.

The theme of the scientific findings is that while humans excel with none of our physical sensors, we do very well across the board in making use of them thanks to our relatively huge brains.

And fantastical amounts of compute power is exactly what are handing over to AI. The fact that their training data isn't perfect may matter less.