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The Bluesky firehose viewed in the style of a Windows XP screensaver

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James Gleick's Chaos: The Software

github.com
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Convolutional Differentiable Logic Gate Networks

arxiv.org
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Thomas E. Kurtz, a Creator of Basic Computer Language, Dies at 96

nytimes.com

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.At Dartmouth, long before the days of laptops and smartphones, he worked to give more students access to computers. That work helped propel generations into a...
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SmoothLLM: Defending Large Language Models Against Jailbreaking Attacks

arxiv.org
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Teach Yourself to Echolocate

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Meteorite 200 times larger than one that killed dinosaurs reset early life

chemistryworld.com

A giant meteorite that slammed into Earth over 3 billion years ago devastated early microbial life...
A giant meteorite that slammed into Earth over 3 billion years ago devastated early microbial life in the oceans, but also freed up a nutrient bonanza. This meteorite was far larger than the infamous Cretaceous era ending one. ‘We’re looking at a bolide that was 500 to 200 times bigger than the one that killed off t...
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Stop Making Me Memorize the Borrow Checker

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Twitter is the worst global social network except for all the others

cfenollosa.com

November 16, 2024 — Carlos Fenollosa It seems "bashing Twitter" is the new countercultural trend. I...
November 16, 2024 — Carlos Fenollosa It seems "bashing Twitter" is the new countercultural trend. I grew up in Spain in the 90s, and many people either don't remember or nostalgically idealize the credibility of traditional media. Like many 90s kids, I discovered role-playing games, heavy metal, Japanese anime, and ...
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Eau de Nil, the Light-Green Color of Egypt-Obsessed Europe (2018)

theparisreview.org
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Microsoft and My Tinfoil Journey

bobbytables.io

I’ve been on my couch for four hours today (and several more in the past) trying...
I’ve been on my couch for four hours today (and several more in the past) trying to unearth why I’ve been charged ~$21 by Microsoft consistently for the past year, because I’d really like someone to actually investigate this journey I’m on. Because there are two outcomes:There’s large scale fraud occurring and nobod...
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X's algorithm was changed in mid-July 2024 to boost right-leaning accounts

mastodon.social
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Are A.I. Clones the Future of Dating? I Tried Them for Myself

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Delivering 15TB of 4K video with Cloudflare R2 for $2.18

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We serve a lot of video. In fact, just last month, our viewers watched over 15...
We serve a lot of video. In fact, just last month, our viewers watched over 15 terabytes of it—and with several new courses planned, our monthly bandwidth will more than double next year. Aside from making a rather large portion of our courses completely free to view, a big part of the reason our bandwidth is so hig...
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How to Redirect a Cloudflare Domain to Another URL

johnys.io

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Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

jazco.dev
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Daisy, the 'AI Granny' Outwitting Scammers

forbes.com

Daisy the AI grandma has all the time in the world to chat with scammers. 02...
Daisy the AI grandma has all the time in the world to chat with scammers. 02 screenshot by Leslie Katz Amid heated debates about the potential pitfills of artificial intelligence, the technology has finally taken a form we can probably all get behind — an “AI granny” created expressly to waste scammers’ time. Britis...
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Bluesky is receiving about 3k reports/hour

bsky.app
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The Difference Between a Standard DIMM and a Cudimm or Csodimm

servethehome.com

Crucial DDR5 6400 CUDIMM 1 We probably need to have one of these. Recently, memory makers...
Crucial DDR5 6400 CUDIMM 1 We probably need to have one of these. Recently, memory makers started to take a technology that we have seen for years on the server side, and bring it to the desktop and mobile platforms. The CUDIMM or CSODIMM adds a “C” for clocked, and with it comes some new hardware. The big differenc...
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Give Up GitHub

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On Wednesday 29 June 2022, we began calling on all FOSS developers to give up on...
On Wednesday 29 June 2022, we began calling on all FOSS developers to give up on GitHub. We realize this is not an easy task; GitHub is ubiquitous. Through their effective marketing, GitHub has convinced Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) developers that GitHub is the best (and even the only) place for FOSS develo...

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Where Does the Magic Go as We Grow Older? (2020)

medium.com
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New haptic patch transmits complexity of touch to the skin

techxplore.com

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AI isn't unleashing imaginations, it's outsourcing them. The purpose is profit

theguardian.com

Back in 2022, when ChatGPT arrived, I was part of the first wave of users. Delighted...
Back in 2022, when ChatGPT arrived, I was part of the first wave of users. Delighted but also a little uncertain what to do with it, I asked the system to generate all kinds of random things. A song about George Floyd in the style of Bob Dylan. A menu for a vegetarian dinner party. A briefing paper about alternative...
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Virtual Shoe Museum

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