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Add Connect To Individual Overmind Processes Via tmux as a tmux TIL (opens in new tab)
Everything is solved(opens in new tab)
Found on HN: discussion
No AI Fridays(opens in new tab)
A weekly ritual for software teams to unplug from AI coding assistants, prevent skill atrophy, and rediscover the joy of craftsmanship.
Found on HN: discussion
Hacking IKEA Furniture(opens in new tab)
When something you want is not available for purchase, well, you can always build it yourself! I recently moved and have a dedicated office room now. I wanted …
🐧 Is Omarchy safe to use?(opens in new tab)
Found on HN: discussion
Turns out Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private(opens in new tab)
Polling finds two-thirds don
The Sunday Papers(opens in new tab)
Sundays are for resting, so I hear, though by the time you read this I’ll have got up at 5:30am to drive my parents-in-law to Gatwick Airport. As such, I’m probably not the best authority on resting, or, indeed, Sundays. ...
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QSB-118: Dom0 arbitrary code execution in qvm-copy-to-vm error reporting(opens in new tab)
We have published Qubes Security Bulletin (QSB) 118: Dom0 arbitrary code execution in qvm-copy-to-vm error reporting. The text of this QSB and its accompanying cryptographic signatures are reproduced below, followed by a general explanation of this announcement and authentication instru...
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Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth(opens in new tab)
There has been some interest recently in determining the longest distance one can sail for on the earth without hitting land, as well as in the converse problem of determining the longest distance one could drive for on the earth ...
Well This Was Unexpected...(opens in new tab)
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California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt(opens in new tab)
AB 1856 excludes open-source operating systems from the upcoming Digital Age Assurance Act.
Add Output Query Result In Nicely Formatted Table as a SQLite TIL (opens in new tab)
📸 Introducing OuijaRouter(opens in new tab)
Finally figured out a bulletproof system for landing on the best model for the job.
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FreeCORE(opens in new tab)
FreeCORE carries TrueNAS CORE 13.3 forward as an independently maintained operating system on FreeBSD, with in-place upgrades to 15.0.
🔥 Asked Codex and Claude Code to each try their…(opens in new tab)
Asked Codex and Claude Code to each try their hand at a tricky Core Text layout issue for Japanese vertical writing: GPT 5.6 Sol xHigh: 1,581,445 tokens and 2189 lines changed Fable 5 medium: 37,000 tokens and 1 line changed ...
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Bug blindness(opens in new tab)
Turning my sad gaming PC into a media server(opens in new tab)
You have to beat the models at something(opens in new tab)
Introducing Hy4 Preview(opens in new tab)
Introducing Hy4 Preview New open weight text input (no vision) LLM from Chinese company Tencent today: 770B total parameters, 49B active parameters, 1M token context window, 1.56TB on Hugging Face. This is a big size increase from their previous Hy3 ...
Saturday, August 29, 2026(opens in new tab)
Turn One Model Into a Business(opens in new tab)
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Tencent Releases and Open-Sources Tencent Hy4 preview(opens in new tab)
Tencent has released and open-sourced Tencent Hy4 preview, a next-generation large language model with 770B total parameters and 49B active parameters, and a context window exceeding 1M tokens.
Llama Llama(opens in new tab)
The first time I heard a Llama Llama book being read was my wife reading the Ukrainian version to our daughter. Ukrainian is a very melodic language and sounds lovely in verse, which is why I just assumed the book ...
Modern and Opinionated Linux(opens in new tab)
★ Thoughts and Observations on Apple’s First Immersive MLB Broadcast, a Yankees 1-0 Win Over the Red Sox(opens in new tab)
It felt like something new and different. Something at least as different from watching on TV as watching on TV is different from merely listening on radio. It’s profound.
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Creepy crawlies(opens in new tab)
You've probably heard me complain about the "AI crawlers" before, but now I actually have some hard numbers I can put up to show their im...
How to Use OilStick(opens in new tab)
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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope - NASA Science(opens in new tab)
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, exoplanets, and astrophysics.
🔥 /goal is a special command for OpenAI Codex in…(opens in new tab)
/goal is a special command for OpenAI Codex in which it will keep working toward whatever goal you set until it gradually convinces itself that the stated goal is not what you wanted but rather some much easier objective was ...
1968 Predicted Every Modern Tech Problem | TheStandup(opens in new tab)
What are we all playing this weekend?(opens in new tab)
Saturdays are for actually remembering that it's a Bank Holiday weekend, rather than forgetting and coming in on Monday and getting viciously annoyed with Julian and Mark for seeming to ignore your Gchat messages. (They do that anyway, regardless of ...
🔥 Whenever I need to eke out some extra…(opens in new tab)
Whenever I need to eke out some extra intelligence from an LLM, I ask it to speak to me in a British accent.
ISO 9001 / AS9100 Clause 6, Planning: Where Risk-Based Thinking Earns Its Keep(opens in new tab)
Clause 5 asked whether leadership owns the system. Clause 6 asks what leadership plans to do with it. This is the clause where the standard stops describing structure and starts demanding foresight. It has three parts: actions to address risks ...
NVIDIA Just Lost Their Lead(opens in new tab)
Returning to owning things in a streaming world(opens in new tab)
Technical note: transfer files over an ethernet patch cable(opens in new tab)
It's possible to just connect two computers together with Ethernet and do a bit of IP configuration: # On sender... ip address add dev eth0 fd42:dead:beef::1/48 ip link set dev eth0 up # On receiver... ip address add dev eth0 ...
Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days(opens in new tab)
Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days Anil Madhavapeddy is a professor of computer science at Cambridge and a core maintainer of the OCaml compiler. In this somewhat alarming post he reports ...
Apple Announces Price Increase for Apple TV and Apple One Subscriptions(opens in new tab)
‘I’m the Guy Who Destroys Antique Books After We Scan Them Into Our Company’s Insatiable AI Platform’(opens in new tab)
‘How Americans See E.U. Tech’(opens in new tab)
Turn Your 3D Models Into Products(opens in new tab)
Mounting a UFS2 volume on Ubuntu from .raw(opens in new tab)
If you need to mount a UFS2 volume directly on Ubuntu–for example, from a snapshot of a XigmaNAS VM using UFS storage beneath a ZFS pool on the VM host–there are a few extra hurdles along the way. First, you ...
We Certainly Have Made a Hames Out of This(opens in new tab)
Add Register SQLite Adapter To Serialize Datetimes as a Python TIL (opens in new tab)
Kubernetes v1.37: Pod Certificates and Cluster Trust Bundles(opens in new tab)
Pod Certificate / Cluster Trust Bundles Blog PostKubernetes brings a wealth of features that make it easy to run your production workloads securely and reliably. While aspects like scheduling, health checks and resource limits are probably at the front of ...
Real 3D Printed Products Tidy Tool(opens in new tab)
Stop Printing Your Own Orders(opens in new tab)
Ox Alpha Is INSANE(opens in new tab)
‘Not Sure How You Own Canada by Deleting Your Own History’(opens in new tab)