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Kalache argues that AI incident-response tools, while powerful, risk making engineers lose touch with their systems as routine fixes are automated. This reduces practice for handling unusual, high-severity incidents, risking longer resolution times when automation fails. He cites Bainbridge’s paradox and aviation training, urging regular hands-on practice and realistic incident simulations (Rootly/Uptime Labs) plus tabletop and chaos exercises. AI should augment—not replace—human responders to prevent a growing comprehension debt when rare failures occur.
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Pushin.eu presents itself as a 100% EU-only Git hosting platform, keeping all repos in Europe to avoid CLOUD Act exposure and align with GDPR. It bills itself as human‑friendly, always online, and privacy‑first, with a stance against training on user code. Key features include public/private repos, SSH/HTTPS, a REST API similar to GitHub, and an invite‑only signup. Migration can import GitHub histories via the pun CLI or mirror repos (read-only). Hosted on bare-metal Scaleway in Paris. Beta is free; paid plans later. Data export via git clone.
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Uutils coreutils now uses compiler-style diagnostics for parse errors, echoing the failing fragment with a caret and a help line when stderr is a terminal. Starting with 0.11.0, coreutils prints a small source line, a caret pointing at the exact character or token, and a syntax hint; examples cover tr, cut, chmod, sort, env, test, head, numfmt, csplit, among others. In scripts or pipes, the old one-line message and exit codes remain; colors apply only on terminals, with NO_COLOR support and Weblate translations. The feature is opt-out via UUTILS_DIAG; it will spread to findutils, sed, grep, awk.
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European central banks are relocating gold from North America to Europe, notably the Netherlands moving about 86 tonnes from the US/Canada to London for crisis preparedness amid geopolitical tensions. France and Germany have similarly shifted reserves closer to home. London’s Bank of England is a preferred vault due to liquidity and trading efficiency, while domestic storage costs push diversification. Central banks have been buying more gold, helping push prices higher as gold remains a key safe haven.
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GPT-6 Astra improves code review by catching about 4% more labeled bugs than GPT-5.6 Sol and 22% more than Opus 5, with cross-file gains up to 33% for harder reviews. Its strength is connecting dispersed context to support reasoning, though at a premium: $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens. The authors see potential in tasks beyond coding—research synthesis, operational investigations, requirements analysis, and document reviews. Privacy notes: CodeRabbit claims no training on customer data; OpenAI offers zero-data-retention for eligible customers; Anthropic varies. Next: broader, privacy-preserving deployment and dependable reasoning.
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After 25 years at Cisco, the author is laid off in a precise, impersonal process that erodes identity and pride. He grapples with disposability, resentment, and the lack of a “thank you.” He had championed open standards and open source, but the layoff forces a reevaluation of what mattered. A mushroom retreat in the Netherlands helps him reconnect with self-kindness and family, reframing the pain as something to move through. He rebuilt his network across multiple companies, learned to laugh at corporate life, and now advocates love, kindness, and better regulation.
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Codeberg reports changes to its Terms of Use: LLM-generated content restricted and cryptocurrency projects disallowed. The page lists public Nitter/Shitter instances, categorized as Working (with many URLs, including Tor links), Active but rate-limited, and Formerly active / Taken down. It directs readers to posts about obtaining session tokens and evading DMCA/legal complaints, and points to a repo with customizations to improve performance. The page is part of mv12star/shitter on Codeberg and is powered by Forgejo.
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Andrew Nesbitt reframes Git submodules as a fragile package-manager: .gitmodules is the manifest and the gitlink in the superproject is the lockfile entry. A submodule pins an exact commit; updates fetch the configured branch or the pinned commit via git submodule update. Worktrees collide with submodules: removal/movement can require --force, and each worktree can need its own submodule checkout, with storage under $GIT_DIR/modules. Resolution relies on the gitlink and per-submodule URLs; URLs can be rewritten via config. Submodules expose git internals and carry security caveats (several CVEs).
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Val Town envisions connecting all apps without manual OAuth setup by using Dynamic Client Registration (DCR) and Client ID Metadata Documents (CIMD) within MCP. DCR auto-provisions OAuth clients for unknown apps; CIMD lets apps start OAuth via a metadata document. A live demo (oauth-demos.val.run) shows 3,613 connectors, and remixing yields instant, zero-setup connectors with a “Login with Val Town” flow. Challenges remain: not all endpoints are truly dynamic, MCP vs REST API compatibility issues, and the need for public registries and OSS tooling. Still, the dream is closer.
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Gimlet Labs announced a $300M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participants including Sapphire Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Arm, Samsung Ventures and others. The funding supports rapid growth as token demand and datacenter capacity surge, while power constraints push for higher throughput per kW. Gimlet claims a multisilicon, heterogeneous inference cloud that disaggregates workloads across GPUs, near-memory compute, dataflow accelerators and CPUs, routing model parts to the optimal silicon. They report 5–10x speedups for frontier workloads at the same power, and are hiring and inviting access to low-latency inference.
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MikroTik RouterOS 7.23.4/7.24.2/6.49.21 released with security fixes; details were withheld. Nick Pratley analyzes three bugs and two chains: (1) a low-exponent RSA signature forgery enabling SSH bypass to forge signatures; (2) an SSH -2 username exploit that lets an authenticated user elevate to full admin via a trusted login path; (3) a post-auth mtget TFTP pathname overflow leading to memory corruption; 7.23.4 patches include SSH username validation, RSA digest checks, and safer mtget handling; guidance: patch, audit for ops users, RADIUS/User Manager config, restrict MAC-Telnet, rotate keys, and monitor for indicators like specific domains and autosupout; Mac-Telnet not fully resolved.
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ExactTeX is a gradually-typed superset of LaTeX. Every .tex remains valid LaTeX, and adding annotations buys checked references, safe renames, and in-name error checks before PDF creation. You can rename a .tex to .xtex and annotate progressively; the core promise is a transport guarantee: untouched LaTeX bytes are preserved and emitted byte-identically. It offers three access points: xtex-cli (parsing/checking/emitting LaTeX), xtex-lsp (editor diagnostics), and a WebAssembly build (browser/Vitela editor) with identical core and a parity CI suite. Not a replacement for LaTeX, but stronger tooling and verification. MIT-licensed; see docs.
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Spotify’s Portal with AiKA modes cuts Claude Code token use by routing IO-heavy tasks to cheaper worker models. Two modes: bulk-reader (reads multiple files for analysis) and code-writer (generates code from a spec with exact patterns), running on ephemeral runtimes via Portal CLI/API with no infra. In a Java monorepo, bulk-reading saved ~90% of tokens; code output is written directly to disk without Claude seeing it. Limitations: editing and deep reasoning can’t be delegated; latency ~10–30s per call. Setup: install plugins and run portal setup; modes are public and shareable.
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Moadim is an open-source loop engine for AI agents. A loop combines a prompt, schedule, and agent (Claude, Codex, Hermes, NanoClaw, Pi); each tick runs the agent in an isolated workbench with a watchdog and is reaped on completion. It runs locally via a portable in-process scheduler (no cloud or queue) and can install as a launchd/systemd service to survive reboots. Every loop is an HTTP/MCP endpoint with Swagger UI and an iCal feed. It ships REST/UI/MCP tooling, supports macOS/Linux, tmux, and self-hosts under the MIT license.
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Artificial Analysis announces Intelligence Index v4.2, an interim update toward v5 with more complex tasks and private held-out test sets to curb gaming. New evaluations AA-Briefcase (multi-week agentic knowledge-work with private data) and GDP.pdf (4,592 pages across 100 PDFs in 10 domains) are added. Held-out weighting rises to 40%, with grading infrastructure upgrades for robustness. Leading results: Anthropic Claude Fable 5.1 tops the Index; GPT-6 Astra posts substantial gains and strong token efficiency; Meta Muse Spark 1.3 and Gemini 3.8 Flash remain competitive. Further incremental releases toward v5 are planned.
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Access to www.charlespetzold.com is blocked by the site's security system. The message explains blocks can be triggered by certain requests or actions (e.g., specific words, SQL commands, improperly formatted data). To resolve, contact the site owner and provide the Request ID: 76384680-0588-4ce2-9aee-bd2644173678.
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Gallup reports record-high 89% of U.S. adults say government corruption is widespread in 2026, up 10 points from 2025 and the highest in two decades. Democrats’ concern surged to 91%, independents 90%, Republicans 83%. Perceptions of government corruption are higher than business corruption (89% vs 71%). The gap between U.S. and OECD nations widening; U.S. tops OECD in perceived government corruption. Survey conducted May 1–June 10, 2026, with 1,000 adults; margin ±4.1 points.
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Through the Ark of the Covenant as a case study, the piece argues that religious images become powerful, often misunderstood symbols that spark iconoclasm across cultures. It traces debates from the Second Commandment to Islamic tawhid, Byzantine Iconoclasm, and Jewish/Christian thinkers like Calvin and Maimonides, illustrating how 'images' can become idolatrous or dangerous representations. The essay then links these threads to contemporary 'Icons as a Service'—AI image generation that externalizes thought and accelerates hyperreality and deterritorialization, drawing on Deleuze, Baudrillard, and myth-making (e.g., Wyatt Earp).
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