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An RKRM-style reference of AmigaDOS/dos.library

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Longwriter – Increase llama3.1 output to 10k words

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What's New in Ruby on Rails 8

appsignal.com

The first Rails 8 beta has officially been released, bringing an exciting set of features, bug...
The first Rails 8 beta has officially been released, bringing an exciting set of features, bug fixes, and improvements. This version builds on the foundation of Rails 7.2, while introducing new features and optimizations to make Rails development even more productive and enjoyable. Key highlights include an integrat...
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In MySQL, never use "UTF8". Use "utf8mb4"

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Today’s bug: I tried to store a UTF-8 string in a MariaDB “utf8”-encoded database, and Rails...
Today’s bug: I tried to store a UTF-8 string in a MariaDB “utf8”-encoded database, and Rails raised a bizarre error:Incorrect string value: ‘\xF0\x9F\x98\x83 <…’ for column ‘summary’ at row 1This is a UTF-8 client and a UTF-8 server, in a UTF-8 database with a UTF-8 collation. The string, “😃 <…”, is valid UTF-8.But ...

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RPM 4.20 Released

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The rpmkeys(8) command learned the --list and --delete options. The rpmsign(8) command learned to sign packages...
The rpmkeys(8) command learned the --list and --delete options. The rpmsign(8) command learned to sign packages with ECDSA keys. The rpm2archive(8) utility now supports cpio file format, replacing the implementation of rpm2cpio(8) which is now installed as a symlink to the former. It’s now possible to ask rpm(8) for...
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Homemade AI Drone Software Finds People When Search and Rescue Teams Can't

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When Charlie Kelly first messaged saying he wouldn’t make it home that night, his partner wasn’t...
When Charlie Kelly first messaged saying he wouldn’t make it home that night, his partner wasn’t happy. It was September 6, 2023, a Wednesday, and the 56-year-old, a keen hillwalker, had left the house that he shared with Emer Kennedy in Tillicoultry, near the Scottish city of Stirling, before she went to work. His ...
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Abacus Machines [pdf]

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Silicon Valley, the New Lobbying Monster

newyorker.com

After the defeat of Proposition F, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors eventually agreed to many of...
After the defeat of Proposition F, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors eventually agreed to many of Airbnb’s suggestions. By then, Lehane had moved on to other locations. He began similar Airbnb campaigns in dozens of other cities, including Barcelona, Berlin, New York, and Mexico City. When the U.S. Conference of ...
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The Rise of Worse Is Better

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Rust (the language) is rolling off the Volvo assembly line

tweedegolf.nl

A while back, I had the fortune to talk with Julius Gustavsson from Sweden and he...
A while back, I had the fortune to talk with Julius Gustavsson from Sweden and he squarely falls in the last category of people. From 2019 onwards, he has been the main software architect for the low-power processor ECU (electronic control unit) at Volvo.This ECU is responsible for the (low) power management of the ...
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Worn down by privacy options? Let users eat code

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Opinion The people are defeated. Worn out, deflated, and apathetic about the barrage of banners and...
Opinion The people are defeated. Worn out, deflated, and apathetic about the barrage of banners and pop-ups about cookies and permissions. READ MORE Admittedly, the people here are the 40 percent of Brits who have never said no to a cookie in their lives. The rest of us can only feel smug if we've never clicked "All...
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Another OpenAI founder moves to arch-rival Anthropic

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Anthropic has hired yet another of OpenAI's founders, this time bringing on Durk Kingma in an...
Anthropic has hired yet another of OpenAI's founders, this time bringing on Durk Kingma in an unspecified role. This comes after fellow OpenAI co-founder John Schulman left the super lab in August to join Anthropic to "return to hands-on technical work." Kingma revealed his news in a post on X on Tuesday, saying he ...
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California Bans Sell-By Dates

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On September 28, California became the first state to ban “sell-by” dates, as Governor Gavin Newsom...
On September 28, California became the first state to ban “sell-by” dates, as Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation aimed at combating food waste. The law prohibits the use of consumer-facing sell-by dates, and also requires standardized language for date labels. Here's everything you need to know. The changes wi...
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New Italian Law Threatens ISPs with Prison over Piracy Reporting Failures

torrentfreak.com

Fresh amendments to Italian law were passed by Senators this week and their effects will soon...
Fresh amendments to Italian law were passed by Senators this week and their effects will soon be felt on the IPTV piracy battlefield. Covered in detail in our earlier report, this advanced legal weaponry is incapable of dealing with distant pirate IPTV services. Instead, it mainly targets communications infrastructu...
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NASA Made the Hubble Telescope to Be Remade

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Show HN: ServerlessAI – Build, scale, and monetize AI apps without back end

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Can You Get Root with Only a Cigarette Lighter?

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By David Buchanan, 7th October 2024 Spoiler alert: Yes. the elite hacking tool they don't want...
By David Buchanan, 7th October 2024 Spoiler alert: Yes. the elite hacking tool they don't want you to know you already own Before you can write an exploit, you need a bug. When there are no bugs, we have to get creative—that's where Fault Injection comes in. Fault injection can take many forms, including software-co...
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Raspberry Pi releases faster class A2 micro SD cards and bumper case for Pi 5

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(Image credit: Raspberry Pi Ltd / Pexels) Raspberry Pi has another surprise announcement just a week...
(Image credit: Raspberry Pi Ltd / Pexels) Raspberry Pi has another surprise announcement just a week after releasing the Raspberry Pi AI Camera Kit but this time we get two new products at once! Raspberry Pi has announced its "own range of high-quality, low-cost Raspberry Pi SD Cards" and a Raspberry Pi Bumper, a si...
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The new CSS property that boosts your rendering performance (2020)

web.dev

Improve initial load time by skipping the rendering of offscreen content. The content-visibility property, launching in...
Improve initial load time by skipping the rendering of offscreen content. The content-visibility property, launching in Chromium 85, might be one of the most impactful new CSS properties for improving page load performance. content-visibility enables the user agent to skip an element's rendering work, including layo...
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Artist appeals copyright denial for prize-winning AI-generated work

arstechnica.com

"Théâtre D'opéra Spatial" is a wholly original image expressing his idea, Allen said, and to produce...
"Théâtre D'opéra Spatial" is a wholly original image expressing his idea, Allen said, and to produce that human expression, he dedicated more than 100 hours to refining Midjourney text prompts through an iterative process that he estimates took more than 600 prompts. Allen told Ars that through this process, he c...
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Photos of an e-waste dumping ground

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When he was just 18 years old, Emmanuel Akatire traveled about 500 miles from his home...
When he was just 18 years old, Emmanuel Akatire traveled about 500 miles from his home in Zorko, Ghana, to Accra, the nation’s capital, to find the only work he could — sifting through vast piles of discarded electronics to find valuable scrap metal. A week’s worth of painstaking, often dangerous work, earns him the...
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PermitFlow (YC W22) Is Hiring Senior/Staff Engineers in NYC

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Hetzner Object Storage

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New Rootkit Targeting Arch Distros

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