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A critical look at NetBSD’s installer
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Installing *BSD in 2025 part 3 – A critical look at NetBSD’s installer
[New to Gemini? Have a look at my Gemini FAQ.] This article was bi-posted to Gemini and the Web; Gemini version is here: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/kraileth/neunix/2025/installing_bsd_…
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Ask HN: Startup getting spammed with PayPal disputes, what should we do?
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Show HN: Hacker News historic upvote and score data
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X's new "encrypted" XChat feature doesn't seem to be any more secure
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X's new 'encrypted' XChat feature seems no more secure than the failure that came before it
: Musk's 'Bitcoin-style encryption' claim has experts scratching their heads
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Cloud Run GPUs, now GA, makes running AI workloads easier for everyone
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Google Cloud Blog
Cloud Run GPUs are now generally available | Google Cloud Blog
Support for GPUs in Cloud Run makes running GPU-accelerated applications simpler, faster, and more cost-effective, as well as enabling new use cases.
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Cockatoos have learned to operate drinking fountains in Australia
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Cockatoos have learned to operate drinking fountains in Australia
The behavior—never before seen in birds—may be a developing cultural tradition among one population
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Why I Wrote the Beam Book
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Happihacking
Why I Wrote the BEAM Book
The story behind writing The BEAM Book—ten years, three publishers, and an open‑source sprint.
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Machine Code Isn't Scary
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Jimmyhmiller
Machine Code Isn't Scary
Machine code isn't scary. If you can make sure your JSON conforms to a JSON schema, you can write machine code.
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Claude Code is now available to Pro plans
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Just how bad are we at treating age-related diseases?
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lada nuzhna
Just how bad are we at treating age-related diseases? — lada nuzhna
This post was last updated in September 2024. I can’t promise this will be up-to-date when you come across it. Whether you believe in preventing damage (the core aim of the aging field - though that's not the focus of this post) or treating damage as it…
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Cord didn't win. What now?
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The Sky's the limit: AI automation on Mac
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Tao of Mac
The Sky's the Limit
I’ve been sitting on this draft for a few days now, partly because I thought it would turn down the bitterness, and partly because I kept as...
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"AI Will Replace All the Jobs " Is Just Tech Execs Doing Marketing
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SparkToro
"AI will replace all the jobs!" Is Just Tech Execs Doing Marketing - SparkToro
Over the weekend, I went digging for evidence that AI can, will, or has replaced a large percent of jobs. It doesn't exist. Worse than that, actually,
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Writing a postmortem: an interview exercise I like (2017)
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The Right to Repair Is Law in Washington State
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Right to Repair Is Law in Washington State
Thanks in part to your support, the right to repair is now law in Washington.Gov. Bob Ferguson signed two bills guaranteeing Washingtonians' right to access tools, parts, and information so they can
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FFmpeg Merges WebRTC Support
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Meta found 'covertly tracking' Android users through Instagram and Facebook
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Sky News
Meta found 'covertly tracking' Android users through Instagram and Facebook
Google says Meta and search engine company Yandex used Android capabilities "in unintended ways that blatantly violate our security and privacy principles".
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AGI Is Not Multimodal
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The Gradient
AGI Is Not Multimodal
"In projecting language back as the model for thought, we lose sight of the tacit embodied understanding that undergirds our intelligence." –Terry Winograd The recent successes of generative AI models have convinced some that AGI is imminent. While these…
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VC money is fueling a global boom in worker surveillance tech
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Rest of World
VC money is fueling a global boom in worker surveillance tech
A funding surge has given rise to technologies to track, analyze and manage workers — often in countries with little regulation.
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We Are No Longer a Serious Country – Paul Krugman
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Substack
We Are No Longer a Serious Country
And the world is starting to notice