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AI-driven cognitive offloading reshapes work: firms thrive by rethinking old methods as a bridge to the new. Coding becomes collaboration with machines; AI drafts emails and maps who to contact, while humans oversee money, production, and critical steps. The author argues this doesn’t erode thinking but increases cognitive bandwidth by solving bureaucratic complexity—like James Haydon’s Haskell approach to the British Passport process—by linking current official pages and updates. For him, he wants the game over so he can focus on life, journaling, reading, and relationships.
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Triggered by LLM-assisted vulnerability reports, the piece contrasts triage challenges for maintainers and operators. It surveys SBOM-based scanning and reachability analysis (govulncheck) to filter irrelevant CVEs. It argues that many CVEs only affect specific imports or paths, making automatic VEX challenging. The solution: in NixOS, codify conditional VEX statements via nixos-vex, so VEX is generated only when conditions hold (e.g., certain PAM settings). A SSHD example shows how to mark CVE as not affected, dramatically reducing work on re-checks. The author open-sources nixos-vex and seeks feedback.
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An opinion piece arguing frontier AI isn’t true intelligence but a powerful stochastic parrot; AI hype is exaggerated and used to justify regulatory capture and a data/code theft-based business model. Outputs are often derivative and not truly novel. The author contends AI accelerates existing social dangers—authoritarianism, climate risk, and labor displacement—within a capitalist system that inflates claims and suppresses open models. He warns of a future where white-collar jobs vanish and urges awareness of the real dynamics behind the AI boom, while resisting the hype.
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After years sticking to JPEG/PNG/SVG, the author has embraced WebP, noting how slow browser support and tooling were: Chrome 2011, Edge 2018, Firefox 2019, Safari 2020; Photoshop native support only arrived in 2022. Lighthouse nags added to the annoyance. Now, with Pixelmator Pro, WebP often yields smaller files at similar quality, and he’s curious about broader use. He’s watching JPEG XL and AVIF as next steps, noting Google’s findings and that JPEG XL support is being shipped and AVIF looks promising. Baseline browser support is the goal, plus easy adoption (including Opera).
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An email from The Onion’s Membership Team asking readers to help recover missing archival issues. It lists specific missing volumes and issues (Vol. 14–49, 1988–2013) and invites owners to sell or provide copies so they can be archived; a form and detailed instructions are provided, with unsubscribe details at the end.
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Playgrnd is a browser-based collection of tiny tools for making weird, beautiful things. Tools run entirely in the browser with no uploads or storage, and exports are yours. The catalog offers an index with filters (kind, year 2026, price Free) and sorting options (Newest, Oldest, A–Z). Shortcuts: Enter opens the first tool; Esc clears.
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Seeing precedes words; images are man-made and reflect the maker’s way of seeing. Berger argues that photography and painting are not neutral records but shaped by the viewer’s and artist’s gaze. The Renaissance perspective centralized the viewer; the camera and film dissolved a single center, making time and space relative and multiplying meanings. Reproduction detaches images from their original setting, shifts authority to context and audience, and substitutes aura with market value and pseudo-religious reverence. Consequently, the past becomes a political issue: who owns, uses, and interprets it?
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Historically neglected due to medical discipline gaps and male-biased research, the clitoris is now being mapped and understood more fully. Australian urologist Helen O’Connell (1998) produced the first complete depiction of the organ, including internal structures. Ju Young Lee’s Amsterdam UMC team produced 3D nerve maps pinpointing a more extensive neural network than previously thought. Peters’ tissue work found the dorsal nerve carries over 10,000 nerve endings. While mainly linked to pleasure, clitoral activity may aid vaginal arousal and even pain relief in labor. Ongoing work aims to integrate anatomical knowledge with biopsychosocial care.
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Canadian software engineer and YouTuber Anthony Sistilli built an ALPR-based camera to exclusively track police vehicles, posting videos of its real-world use. Two Peel Region police officers visited his Brampton home, expressing privacy worries about such surveillance tools that could reveal officers' locations and shifts. The piece places this against a broader backlash over Flock Safety’s national ALPR network, which critics say enables mass government surveillance without oversight. The article notes past incidents of misuse, encryption claims, and that some cities paused Flock contracts amid privacy concerns.
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Access denied: you don’t have permission to access the NYC.gov page (http://www.nyc.gov/main/click-to-cancel). Reference #18.c794d817.1791743680.a968e21c (errors.edgesuite.net).
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Access to medium.com is blocked by Cloudflare’s security service. The page asks you to enable cookies and explains the block may be triggered by suspicious input (certain words, SQL commands, or malformed data). To resolve, email the site owner with what you were doing and include the Cloudflare Ray ID (and your IP).
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Nanolathe is an independent, MIT-licensed open‑source engine that reimplements Total Annihilation through clean‑room research, allowing study, modification and building on TA with original game data. It offers a browser demo (three-mission, no install) plus a native beta for Windows, Mac and Linux to run full campaigns using your TA files. The engine features a modern GPU renderer with lighting and glow, with a Classic renderer option, and a native 2.5D look. Multiplayer is supported online with your own files. The project is open on GitHub and not affiliated with TA owners.
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Advise configuring a user-agent and respecting the site's robots policy; links to policy pages are provided.
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Access denied (HTTP 403).
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Wealth is what you own, not what you earn. A career can be a wealth engine if you turn salary into assets. Steps: 1) increase your work value and build career capital by solving problems, delivering results, and sharing across functions; document outcomes. 2) learn strategically and move when total opportunity justifies it. 3) create a surplus by controlling lifestyle inflation and reducing debt. 4) automate saving and investing with diversification. 5) build multiple capitals—skill, reputation, relationships, knowledge, financial—and become an owner, not just an employee.
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APSW (A nother Python SQLite Wrapper) exposes SQLite’s full C API to Python, including full-text search, sessions, virtual tables, VFS, JSON, and CArray, with support for all async frameworks. It lets you use SQLite fully with an enhanced developer experience; for interchangeability with sqlite3, use sqlite3 when full features aren’t needed. CPython 3.10+ compatible. Docs at rogerbinns.github.io/apsw; releases on PyPI and GitHub; OSI-approved open-source license. Mailing lists and contact info are provided.
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The piece compares DHH’s Campfire Once rewrites in Rust, Elixir, and Go, showing that prompt specificity drives key design choices like backwards compatibility, latency, and memory. The Rust version drops CSRF protection and Redis in favor of in‑process queues; Elixir stays close to Rails. It explains Rust’s cooperative async scheduler and mixed blocking I/O, plus dangers of tokio::sync::Mutex. Benchmarks are misleading: Rust delivered ~1% of notifications under heavy load, Elixir ~100%, but results depend on test type. Rust’s channel capacity (256) vs Elixir’s unlimited also matters. Conclusion: no silver bullet; think and trade off.
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The article examines polyglot docs sites—projects exposing libraries in multiple languages and publishing API references from Doxygen, rustdoc, Sphinx, etc. It outlines two top-down strategies: transform each generator’s output into the main site, risking loss of generator-specific UX and slower builds; or publish each generator’s output as-is (a turducken), which preserves UX but yields three visually distinct subsites with fragmented navigation and search. Pigweed.dev adopts the turducken approach, unifying with a universal header, shared navigation and breadcrumbs, and a comprehensive search. The header is injected post-build via a Sphinx extension. Pagefind provides cross-subsite indexing and a modal search UI.
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