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Google's Gemini Update Silently Breaks Trauma-Focused Apps

2025-05-10
Google's Gemini Update Silently Breaks Trauma-Focused Apps

A recent update to Google's Gemini 2.5 large language model has inadvertently broken the safety settings controls, blocking content previously allowed, such as sensitive accounts of sexual assault. This has crippled several applications relying on the Gemini API, including VOXHELIX (which helps sexual assault survivors create reports) and InnerPiece (a journaling app for PTSD and abuse survivors). Developers are criticizing Google for silently changing the model, causing app malfunctions and severely impacting user experience and mental health support. Google acknowledged the issue but hasn't offered a clear explanation.

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(www.theregister.com)
AI app breakage

Epochalypse 2038: The Ticking Time Bomb of a 32-bit Timestamp Vulnerability

2025-05-11

On January 19, 2038, millions of embedded and industrial systems worldwide face potential collapse due to a 32-bit timestamp vulnerability. This isn't science fiction; it threatens critical infrastructure, from hospitals to power grids. Unlike Y2K, this is far larger, affecting countless un-updatable embedded systems. The Epochalypse Project, launched by two cybersecurity researchers, aims for global collaboration to mitigate this impending threat through standardized testing, vulnerability documentation, and remediation strategy development. Individuals can contribute by testing personal devices and engaging with tech companies, while professionals must take the lead in avoiding a digital disaster.

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(epochalypse-project.org)
Tech timestamp vulnerability 2038 problem

Pope Leo XIV's Inaugural Address: A Legacy of Renewal

2025-05-10

In his inaugural address, Pope Leo XIV expressed his respect for his predecessor and his determination to carry on his legacy. He emphasized the need to follow the spirit of the Second Vatican Council, continue to reform the Church, focus on social justice and human rights, particularly in the face of new challenges posed by the age of artificial intelligence. He called on Church members to unite and respond to the changes of the times with love and faith, concluding with a quote from Paul VI, hoping that the light of faith will illuminate the world.

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(www.vatican.va)
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The Evolution of the Calculator Keypad: From 9 Keys to the Standard 10

2025-05-11

The layout of the calculator keypad wasn't always as we know it. Early Comptometers used a 9-key layout, driven by mechanical constraints (e.g., lever connections to rotating drums) and user experience considerations (placing frequently used keys within easy reach for efficiency). However, this design required highly trained users for optimal performance. The Dalton revolutionized this with a 10-key layout, including 0 for the first time, and a more compact design for improved usability. Finally, Sundstrand's 3x3 layout, with its ergonomic design, became the standard for calculator keypads, still used over 100 years later.

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(www.doc.cc)
Hardware keypad layout

Four Years of Running a Sustainable SaaS: From $0 to $500 MRR

2025-05-11
Four Years of Running a Sustainable SaaS: From $0 to $500 MRR

This article details the author's four-year journey building OnlineOrNot, a self-funded SaaS. Working just two hours a day, they focused on iterative development, user feedback, and lean marketing to achieve $500 MRR. Key takeaways include prioritizing core features, rapid iteration, concise documentation, mobile-first design, and smart pricing. The author emphasizes avoiding feature bloat, premature optimization, and the importance of listening to user needs over building for hypothetical scenarios.

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(maxrozen.com)
Startup

Trump Admin Eyes Axing Energy Star Program, Sparking Outrage

2025-05-10
Trump Admin Eyes Axing Energy Star Program, Sparking Outrage

The Energy Star program, a voluntary initiative launched in 1992 and recognized for its blue label, has saved US consumers an estimated $500 billion over 33 years. However, the Trump administration is reportedly planning to eliminate it. This move has sparked controversy, with critics arguing it aligns with the administration's broader rollback of environmental regulations and funding, demonstrating disregard for public good. Supporters highlight the program's bipartisan support and significant contribution to energy efficiency, warning its elimination would harm consumers and potentially be replaced by initiatives counter to energy-saving goals.

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(insideclimatenews.org)
Tech Energy Star Energy Efficiency

Choose Optimism: Ditching Complaining and Embracing Positivity

2025-05-03
Choose Optimism: Ditching Complaining and Embracing Positivity

This article explores two contrasting approaches to life: optimism and complaining. Using the example of two passengers on a plane, one constantly complaining about the service, the other enjoying the journey, the author highlights how complaining has become normalized. People often fixate on minor inconveniences, even complaining about things that don't directly affect them. Choosing optimism, the article argues, isn't about ignoring problems, but about proactively tackling challenges and finding the positive in setbacks. It encourages readers to cultivate an optimistic mindset for a more fulfilling life.

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(quarter--mile.com)
Misc positive living complaining

Prolog Education Crisis: A Stack Overflow User's Plea for Reform

2025-05-10

A Stack Overflow user confesses to violating platform rules by providing excessive Prolog help, realizing it's counterproductive. The root problem? Many Prolog assignments stem from professors who don't understand the language themselves. Students' first encounter is often confusion, not understanding. The user proposes a two-part solution: a small, well-annotated solution database to answer even basic questions, and professor-ready slides for teaching Prolog even with limited expertise. This, combined with a moratorium on solving homework problems directly on Stack Overflow, aims to improve the Prolog learning experience.

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(storytotell.org)
Development

Tesla's Insurance Arm Bleeding Money: High Repair Costs Bite

2025-05-10
Tesla's Insurance Arm Bleeding Money: High Repair Costs Bite

Tesla's insurance business continues to hemorrhage money, with a staggering 103.3% loss ratio in 2024, far exceeding the industry average of 66.1%. The culprit? Exorbitant repair costs for Tesla vehicles, averaging 32% higher than those of internal combustion engine (ICE) cars. Despite leveraging data from its Full Self-Driving system and vehicle telematics to adjust risk profiles, Tesla hasn't managed to effectively control costs. Poor customer satisfaction, marked by lengthy repair times and subpar communication, further exacerbates the problem. Rising premiums haven't solved the issue, leaving Tesla's insurance arm facing a precarious future.

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(insideevs.com)
Tech Repair Costs

Rust Ecosystem Documentation Quality Review: Hits and Misses

2025-05-11
Rust Ecosystem Documentation Quality Review: Hits and Misses

This article provides an in-depth assessment of the documentation quality across numerous popular crates in the Rust ecosystem. It covers various domains, including random number generation, time handling, web frameworks, game engines, and error handling. The author evaluates each crate's documentation based on four quadrants (explanations, how-to guides, tutorials, reference) and highlights excellent examples (like `jiff`'s comprehensive documentation and design rationale) and areas for improvement (incomplete documentation or lack of practical guidance in some crates). This review offers valuable insights for Rust developers and points to directions for improving the Rust ecosystem's documentation.

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(www.harudagondi.space)
Development

GlassFlow: Real-time Streaming ETL for ClickHouse

2025-05-11
GlassFlow: Real-time Streaming ETL for ClickHouse

GlassFlow is a real-time stream processor designed for data engineers to simplify creating and managing data pipelines between Kafka and ClickHouse. It boasts a user-friendly interface for building and managing real-time data pipelines, featuring built-in deduplication and temporal joins. Handling late-arriving events and ensuring exactly-once processing, GlassFlow scales to handle high-throughput data, delivering accurate, low-latency results without sacrificing simplicity or performance. The intuitive web interface simplifies pipeline configuration and monitoring, while its robust architecture guarantees reliable data processing. It supports local development and Docker deployment, and includes a comprehensive demo setup for quick onboarding.

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(github.com)
Development real-time processing

Arduino's Bio-Based PCBs: A Greener Future for Electronics

2025-05-11
Arduino's Bio-Based PCBs: A Greener Future for Electronics

Arduino, in collaboration with the European Innovation Council, has launched the Desire4EU project to develop biodegradable printed circuit boards (PCBs) using PLA-flax. The project has successfully created bio-based versions of the Arduino Nano and UNO, utilizing lower soldering temperatures to reduce energy consumption and e-waste. Future plans include a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to further quantify environmental benefits, with 1,000 beta boards planned for distribution in 2026.

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(blog.arduino.cc)
Hardware Bio-based PCBs

Nintendo Switch 2's EULA Grants Nintendo the Power to Brick Your Console

2025-05-11
Nintendo Switch 2's EULA Grants Nintendo the Power to Brick Your Console

Nintendo's updated user agreement for the upcoming Switch 2 grants the company the power to remotely brick users' consoles. If users violate the agreement, such as by modifying system software or bypassing security measures, Nintendo can permanently disable the console. This clause is controversial as it grants Nintendo significant control over hardware that users own. While likely targeting piracy and modding, the vague wording raises concerns, with Nintendo possessing ultimate interpretation power. This isn't just about online play restrictions; it could disable offline functionality, rendering the console worthless.

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(betanews.com)
Game Remote Disable

The Friction Economy: A Tale of Two Worlds

2025-05-11
The Friction Economy: A Tale of Two Worlds

This essay explores the redistribution of 'friction' in today's economy. The digital world is nearly frictionless, with AI and other technologies eliminating cognitive resistance, but this comes at the cost of shifting friction onto the physical world and the workforce. The author points to the prevalence of AI cheating in college education and the decay of American infrastructure as reflections of this friction shift. The wealthy can use money to circumvent the friction of the physical world, creating 'curated worlds,' while the average person faces deteriorating infrastructure and working conditions. The essay concludes with a call to rethink economic models, directing effort toward sustainable systems rather than simply eliminating friction.

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(kyla.substack.com)
Tech friction economy

Flutter Local-First Architecture: A Guide to Building Offline-First Apps

2025-05-10
Flutter Local-First Architecture: A Guide to Building Offline-First Apps

This article explores Flutter's local-first application architecture, prioritizing local data storage and synchronization for superior user experiences. Unlike traditional online-first approaches, local-first architecture designates the local database as the primary data source, ensuring app functionality even offline. The article details the advantages of local-first architecture, the challenges of building a sync engine (including change tracking, conflict resolution, edge cases and error handling, and performance optimization), and demonstrates building a Todo app with Riverpod, Drift, and PowerSync connected to a Supabase backend. These tools simplify building robust offline-capable apps, enhancing user experience.

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(dinkomarinac.dev)
Development Offline App

Lazarus IDE 4.0 Released!

2025-05-11

The Lazarus team is thrilled to announce the release of Lazarus 4.0! Built with FPC 3.2.2, this release includes numerous improvements and bug fixes. Downloads are available on SourceForge (and mirrors) for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Minimum system requirements have been updated; check the official website for details. The source code is also available on Gitlab for community contributions.

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(forum.lazarus.freepascal.org)
Development

Is Cursor Really That Great? A Veteran Programmer's Honest Review

2025-05-10

The author provides an in-depth comparison of the popular code completion tool Cursor with other options. They find that Cursor's core technology is not fundamentally different from Copilot, both relying on Claude or GPT models. Cursor excels in actively searching and referencing other files within a project, but it can sometimes be overly 'smart,' even creating new files without permission. The author prefers the o1 model for its more precise and reliable debugging capabilities. The article concludes that those excessively praising Cursor might lack programming experience, confusing the power of AI with the tool itself. The author stresses that choosing an editor should be based on personal preference rather than blind following of trends.

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(en.smallyu.net)
Development AI tools

The Wedding Painter's Guide to Human Nature

2025-05-11
The Wedding Painter's Guide to Human Nature

A wedding painter, after years of observing strangers, has developed a keen ability to read people. By analyzing body language, conversational rhythm, and attention, he discerns levels of self-acceptance, emotional states, and interpersonal dynamics, distinguishing genuine joy from polite formality. He finds that open and accepting individuals tend to experience greater happiness and fulfilling relationships, while those who are closed off and self-absorbed often fall into misery and loneliness.

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(skincontact.substack.com)
Misc

20-Year-Old Botnet Taking Down Thousands of Routers Crushed

2025-05-10
20-Year-Old Botnet Taking Down Thousands of Routers Crushed

Law enforcement agencies have dismantled a massive botnet that operated for two decades, infecting thousands of routers worldwide and creating two residential proxy networks: Anyproxy and 5socks. Four individuals from Russia and Kazakhstan were indicted for their roles in operating and profiting from these illegal services, raking in over $46 million. The botnet exploited vulnerabilities in outdated routers, providing anonymity for various cybercrimes including ad fraud and DDoS attacks. The takedown, a joint operation involving the US, Netherlands, Thailand and others, highlights the growing global cooperation in combating cybercrime.

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(www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Tech

GTA 6 Delayed Until May 2026: A Year-Long Postponement

2025-05-02
GTA 6 Delayed Until May 2026: A Year-Long Postponement

Rockstar Games has announced a significant delay for Grand Theft Auto 6 (GTA 6), pushing the release date from Fall 2025 to May 26, 2026. The company apologized for the postponement, citing the need for extra time to deliver the high-quality experience players expect. This delay creates more breathing room for competing titles in the latter half of 2025, but also presents challenges for games initially slated for release around the same time next year. Platform details remain scarce, leaving the possibility of a PC release alongside PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S open for speculation.

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(www.ign.com)
Game delay

Speed Up SQLite Database Copying: The Text Dump Trick

2025-05-01
Speed Up SQLite Database Copying: The Text Dump Trick

The author encountered a speed bottleneck when copying large SQLite databases due to the large size of index files. They discovered that dumping the database as a text file (using the `.dump` command) and then compressing it with gzip significantly reduces file size, thereby speeding up the copy process. Compared to directly copying a 3.4GB database, this method compressed the file to 240MB, resulting in a 14x speed improvement. Additionally, this method avoids database corruption issues that can arise from updates during the copy process, improving reliability.

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(alexwlchan.net)
Development database copying

Woz Explains Why the Original Apple II Didn't Have Lowercase Letters

2025-05-10

Steve Wozniak reveals the surprisingly simple reason behind the original Apple II's lack of lowercase letters: a tight budget. The cost of a full keyboard was prohibitive in the early 1970s, leading Wozniak to utilize a cheaper uppercase-only teletype keyboard. Coupled with hand-coding the entire system and a lack of funds for a timeshare assembler, adding lowercase would have been a massive undertaking, making the decision economically and practically impossible.

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(www.vintagecomputing.com)
Tech Steve Wozniak

Oregon's $1.5 Trillion Lithium Deposit: Boom or Bust?

2025-05-10
Oregon's $1.5 Trillion Lithium Deposit: Boom or Bust?

A massive lithium deposit in Oregon's McDermitt Caldera, estimated at $1.5 trillion, promises a boost to domestic battery production but sparks concerns about environmental damage and cultural impacts. While proponents highlight the potential for economic development and reduced reliance on foreign lithium, opponents worry about the effects on sensitive wildlife habitats and sacred Indigenous sites. The debate mirrors similar controversies in Nevada, focusing on water resources and the long-term ecological consequences of large-scale extraction. The question remains whether the economic benefits outweigh the potential environmental and cultural costs.

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(www.earth.com)
Tech lithium mining

QueryLeaf: Effortlessly Translate SQL Queries to MongoDB Commands

2025-05-10
QueryLeaf: Effortlessly Translate SQL Queries to MongoDB Commands

QueryLeaf is a Node.js library that translates SQL queries into MongoDB commands. It parses SQL using node-sql-parser, transforms it into an abstract command set, and then executes those commands against the MongoDB Node.js driver. QueryLeaf supports basic SQL operations (SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE) and advanced querying features such as nested field access, array element access, GROUP BY with aggregation functions, and JOINs. It offers multiple interfaces: a library, CLI, and web server. For testing and debugging without a real database, use DummyQueryLeaf.

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(github.com)
Development SQL to MongoDB

Drawing the Sierpinski Triangle with Bitwise Operations: A Stunning Bit Twiddling Hack

2025-05-10
Drawing the Sierpinski Triangle with Bitwise Operations: A Stunning Bit Twiddling Hack

This article unveils a stunning bit manipulation trick: generating the famous Sierpinski triangle fractal using only a simple bitwise AND operation (&). The author meticulously breaks down the bitwise operation, revealing the underlying mathematical principles. It shows how the inherent fractal nature of binary counting and iterative block removal, achieved through bitwise manipulation, generates the classic Sierpinski triangle. This technique cleverly leverages the binary operation capabilities of computers, simplifying the seemingly complex process of generating graphics into concise code, resulting in an astonishingly elegant solution.

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(lcamtuf.substack.com)
Development

Legendary Amateur Press Association Magazine Ceases Publication After Nearly 50 Years

2025-05-10
Legendary Amateur Press Association Magazine Ceases Publication After Nearly 50 Years

Alarums & Excursions, an amateur press association (APA) magazine founded in 1975, has ceased publication after nearly 50 years and over 590 issues. This long-running publication served as a platform for many prominent game designers and writers, including Greg Stafford, and won numerous 'best amateur magazine' awards. Its editor, Lee Gold, a legend in the field, was also a prolific RPG writer and novelist. While its closure is sad news, PDFs of all back issues are available for purchase.

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(www.chaosium.com)
Game amateur press legendary figure

Turkish Doctoral Student Released After Arrest for Criticizing Israel

2025-05-11
Turkish Doctoral Student Released After Arrest for Criticizing Israel

Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University, was released from ICE custody after being detained for over six weeks. Her arrest stemmed from an op-ed she wrote criticizing her university's response to the Israel-Hamas war. A judge ruled her arrest was retaliatory and a violation of her free speech, ordering her immediate release. While released, she still faces potential deportation, sparking debate on the government's power to arrest and deport non-citizens deemed threats to US foreign policy.

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(www.npr.org)
Misc political persecution

Radxa Orion O6: Promising Arm ITX Motherboard, But Needs More Time in the Oven

2025-05-10

The Radxa Orion O6 is a budget-friendly Arm ITX motherboard boasting 12 cores, up to 64GB of RAM, and Armv9.2 support. Its SystemReady SR certification allows native Windows on Arm and numerous Linux arm64 distributions. However, current firmware issues plague the experience, including subpar multi-core application performance, high power consumption, and incomplete driver support. While its PCIe expansion and Windows 11 Arm support are appealing, the overall experience needs refinement. For average users, waiting for firmware maturity is advised.

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(www.jeffgeerling.com)
Hardware Arm ITX motherboard

Giant Bomb Acquired by Longtime Staff: A New Chapter Begins

2025-05-11
Giant Bomb Acquired by Longtime Staff: A New Chapter Begins

Gaming media brand Giant Bomb has been acquired by its longtime staff members, Jeff Bakalar and Jeff Grubb. Fandom, the previous owner, is handing over operations to the veteran duo, marking a new chapter for the brand. Financial details of the deal remain undisclosed, but Giant Bomb's programming will resume as soon as possible. The new owners stated that Giant Bomb's future rests with its supportive community, and all support will directly benefit the team.

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(about.fandom.com)
Game gaming media
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