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Command & Conquer Source Code Released: A Trip Back in Time

2025-03-04
Command & Conquer Source Code Released: A Trip Back in Time

EA recently open-sourced the code for classic Command & Conquer games (1995-2003), revealing fascinating comments like "HACK ALERT!" and the programmer's lament, "oh shit." This release aids modders, preserves the games for future platforms (complementing projects like OpenRA and OpenSAGE), and offers 35 minutes of newly discovered alpha footage from Generals and Renegade. It's a testament to how classic games can find renewed life with the right community and corporate collaboration.

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(arstechnica.com)
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US DOGE Service's Data Science Director Resigns After Mass Layoffs

2025-02-20
US DOGE Service's Data Science Director Resigns After Mass Layoffs

Anne Marshall, the director of data science and engineering at the US Digital Service (rebranded as US DOGE Service), has resigned. After a decade at Amazon, Marshall joined USDS in September 2023 and was promoted in December, but resigned Wednesday following the layoff of roughly one-third of the staff. Marshall criticized the firings as shortsighted and indiscriminate, stating they will negatively impact the government and American people. Remaining USDS employees met with DOGE representatives, who indicated increased DOGE control and the merging of the two teams. However, DOGE's leadership remains unclear, even to its own employees. The White House did not respond to requests for comment. Marshall concluded that DOGE cannot effectively continue USDS's work, leading to her resignation.

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(www.wired.com)
Tech US Digital Service

Auntie PDF: Your Go-To PDF Helper

2025-03-08
Auntie PDF: Your Go-To PDF Helper

Auntie PDF is a smart PDF processing tool that acts like your all-knowing aunt, helping you easily understand and extract key information from your PDFs. Simply upload your PDF, and Auntie PDF, powered by advanced OCR technology, will extract all important text and organize it for you, allowing for quick comprehension. It supports various PDF types, but it's best to avoid password-protected files and ensure clear text within the document.

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(www.auntiepdf.com)
Misc PDF processing document analysis

Tim Cook's Faustian Bargain: Apple CEO's Dealings with Trump

2025-01-27
Tim Cook's Faustian Bargain: Apple CEO's Dealings with Trump

This article critically examines Apple CEO Tim Cook's relationship with the Trump administration. The author argues that Cook, in pursuit of tax and tariff advantages for Apple, repeatedly ingratiated himself with Trump, including donating to his inauguration and meeting with other CEOs. This, the author contends, directly contradicts Cook's public image as a supporter of the LGBTQ+ community, especially given the Trump administration's anti-LGBTQ+ policies. The author calls for critical reflection on Cook's actions and urges Cook to leverage his influence to protect the rights of his employees and customers, rather than solely pursuing corporate gain.

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(joe-steel.com)
Tech Business Ethics Social Responsibility

Bluesky Improves Performance with 'Lossy Timelines'

2025-02-19

Bluesky tackled database hot spots caused by high-activity users by introducing 'Lossy Timelines'. This mechanism probabilistically drops write operations, limiting the load from heavily followed users and dramatically reducing P99 latency. Write operations that could take minutes now complete in under 10 seconds. This strategy cleverly sacrifices some data consistency for massive gains in system performance and scalability, demonstrating that imperfect system design can lead to a better user experience in specific contexts.

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(jazco.dev)
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Firefox's Downward Spiral: The Decline of a Once-Great Browser

2025-06-17
Firefox's Downward Spiral: The Decline of a Once-Great Browser

The once-dominant browser Firefox is facing a serious crisis. From altering user agreements and abandoning promises of user data privacy, to prioritizing AI in 2025 despite lacking resources; from shutting down useful utilities Pocket and Fakespot, to Firefox itself experiencing increasing technical problems like failing to load mainstream websites, slow speed, excessive memory usage, etc., Firefox is gradually losing users. Mozilla's poor handling of Snap and Flatpak packaging, and the disastrous handling of an expiring root certificate, further exacerbated user loss. Reliant on Google for 90% of its revenue and holding only a 1.9% market share, Firefox's future looks bleak; it may truly be at its end.

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(www.theregister.com)
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Self-Proclaimed 'First AI Software Engineer' Fails Miserably in Real-World Tests

2025-01-26
Self-Proclaimed 'First AI Software Engineer' Fails Miserably in Real-World Tests

Devin, marketed as the first AI software engineer, has fallen short of expectations in recent evaluations. Despite claims of building and deploying apps end-to-end and autonomously fixing bugs, Devin succeeded in only 3 out of 20 tasks. Testers found Devin struggled with straightforward tasks, getting stuck in technical dead-ends and pursuing impossible solutions. While offering a polished user experience, its infrequent success and tendency to waste time on unachievable goals highlight the limitations of current AI technology and raise concerns about the hype surrounding AI tools.

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(www.theregister.com)
AI AI software engineer testing results

AI Visualization: Similar City Road Networks

2024-12-15
AI Visualization: Similar City Road Networks

The website similar-cities uses AI to visualize the relationships between cities by comparing the similarities of their road networks. It employs a unique 'drunkard's walk' algorithm, calculating the similarity of random paths within the road networks to assess structural similarity. Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, encompassing roughly 2500 cities. The project is open-source, providing detailed algorithm explanations and code, and welcomes more city data for improved accuracy.

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(github.com)
AI Visualization Road Networks

Severance Season 2: From Corporate Satire to Cult Investigation

2025-02-01
Severance Season 2: From Corporate Satire to Cult Investigation

Season one of *Severance* captivated audiences with its unique premise of memory severance between work and home life. Season two delves deeper, transcending corporate satire to explore social control mechanisms, particularly those mirroring cult dynamics. The showrunner and actors confirmed research into numerous cult documentaries, cleverly weaving parallels between cults and corporations to expose the darker sides of power structures and information control. This elevates *Severance* Season 2 beyond a simple corporate critique, transforming it into a profound exploration of social control and the nature of power.

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(arstechnica.com)
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Building OTP Authentication from Scratch: Unraveling HOTP and TOTP

2025-04-15
Building OTP Authentication from Scratch: Unraveling HOTP and TOTP

This post dives deep into the inner workings of One-Time Password (OTP) algorithms, HOTP and TOTP. Starting with the author's experience implementing authentication at work, it explains the security benefits of OTPs and details the HMAC-based OTP generation process, including key hashing, timestamp calculations, and final code generation. A demo app built by the author is also provided for readers to learn and test.

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(blog.dogac.dev)
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Website Cookie Policy Explained

2025-03-20
Website Cookie Policy Explained

This website uses cookies to optimize its website and service. Technical storage or access is necessary to enable the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the user, or solely for transmitting communication over an electronic communications network. Cookies are also used to store preferences not requested by the user, for statistical purposes (including anonymous statistics), and to create user profiles for advertising or tracking user activity across websites for similar marketing purposes.

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(9to5linux.com)
Misc

Saying Goodbye to K-9 Mail: A 15-Year Open Source Journey

2025-02-27
Saying Goodbye to K-9 Mail: A 15-Year Open Source Journey

From contributing code in 2009 to leaving Mozilla in 2025, the author reflects on their 15-year journey with K-9 Mail and Thunderbird for Android. Starting with personal contributions, they became a core maintainer, even crowdfunding to support full-time development. After successfully releasing Thunderbird for Android, the author chose to leave, embarking on a new chapter, but expressing a potential return as a volunteer contributor.

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(cketti.de)
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RTABench: A New Benchmark for Real-Time Analytics Applications

2025-03-29
RTABench: A New Benchmark for Real-Time Analytics Applications

Traditional analytics benchmarks often overlook the needs of real-time applications, such as generating fast, targeted insights for specific users, devices, or transactions. RTABench addresses this gap by providing a benchmark that accurately reflects real-time analytics within applications, using a normalized schema, realistic dataset sizes, and queries that match real-world usage patterns. It includes 33 queries covering raw event queries, selective filtering, multi-table joins, and pre-aggregated queries to assess database performance on normalized schemas, selective filtering, and incremental materialized views. RTABench supports multiple databases and welcomes community contributions to expand its database support and optimizations.

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(github.com)
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llmpeg: Generate FFmpeg Commands with an LLM

2025-01-18
llmpeg: Generate FFmpeg Commands with an LLM

llmpeg simplifies using FFmpeg commands via a large language model (LLM). Simply describe your desired video manipulation, and llmpeg generates the corresponding FFmpeg command. For instance, you can easily remove audio from a video. Requires FFmpeg and an OpenAI API key. This project provides a convenient AI-powered tool for video processing.

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(github.com)
Development Video Processing

Revolutionizing Fine-Grained Authorization: Feldera's Incremental Compute Engine

2025-01-20
Revolutionizing Fine-Grained Authorization: Feldera's Incremental Compute Engine

Feldera introduces a revolutionary approach to Fine-Grained Authorization (FGA). Traditional FGA systems evaluate authorization requests in real-time, leading to inefficiency. Feldera precomputes all authorization decisions and uses its incremental compute engine (based on SQL) to update results, turning authorization requests into simple key-value lookups. Even with large object graphs, Feldera processes changes in milliseconds, dramatically improving performance. The article details FGA principles and demonstrates building a high-performance FGA engine using SQL, showcasing its superiority in handling large datasets.

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(www.feldera.com)
Development Fine-Grained Authorization Incremental Computation

NY's $15 Broadband Law Takes Effect After ISP Defeat

2025-01-13
NY's $15 Broadband Law Takes Effect After ISP Defeat

New York's Affordable Broadband Act, requiring ISPs to offer low-cost plans to low-income residents, is now in effect after a lengthy legal battle. Following a Supreme Court decision against industry challenges, the law mandates $15 or $20 monthly plans with varying speeds. The law aims to bridge the digital divide, particularly after a federal program expired, leaving millions without subsidized internet. Small ISPs may seek exemptions, while larger providers face penalties for non-compliance.

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(arstechnica.com)
Tech broadband low-income

Web Origami: A New Programming Language for Simplified Website Building

2024-12-13

Web Origami is a new programming language designed to simplify the creation of small- to medium-sized websites. Using a concise syntax that complements HTML and CSS, users can describe website structure using formulas similar to spreadsheets, transforming data and files into HTML and other website resources through simple programs. Even without JavaScript knowledge, features like full-text search and RSS feeds can be created. Origami provides a command-line interface, built-in functions, and an async-tree library, with support for JavaScript extensions. Its core concept is to abstract website building as data transformation, making site creation and deployment efficient, low-cost, and easy to understand.

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(weborigami.org)
Development programming language website development

Silent Builders: Real Stories from Federal Employees

2025-02-21

This blog post shares real stories from federal employees who work tirelessly behind the scenes, simplifying tax filing, veterans' benefits, and financial aid applications. They aided refugees, vaccine distribution, and baby formula access during crises. They strive to improve government websites while protecting personal information. However, they're largely ignored while facing the threat of government technology dismantling. The blog highlights their contributions and warns of the dangerous consequences of undermining government technology.

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(www.wethebuilders.org)
Misc government employees public service technological disruption

ITXPlus: A Mini-ITX Macintosh Plus Clone

2025-05-21

ITXPlus is a Mini-ITX sized Macintosh Plus logic board clone built entirely from modern components. It uses a Pico-based VGA converter, a standard 24-pin ATX power supply, an onboard 50-pin internal SCSI header, and 4MB of soldered RAM. Leveraging open-source solutions like DosFox's sound chip replacement and an ATTiny-based RTC, ITXPlus aims for a fully functional, build-it-yourself experience. While floppy drive support isn't included by default, an expansion header allows for the addition of a real IWM. The board is almost entirely surface mount, using a traditional 68000 for easier assembly. The complete design will be open-source on GitHub.

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(68kmla.org)
Hardware

SheepShaver: Open-Source PowerPC Mac Emulator

2025-03-18

SheepShaver is an open-source PowerPC Apple Macintosh emulator capable of running Mac OS 7.5.2 through 9.0.4. Originally a commercial product for BeOS (1998), it was open-sourced in 2002 and ported to Windows, Linux, and macOS. While primary development ceased in 2008, community contributions continue, making it a valuable tool for running older Mac OS versions, especially as the Classic Environment is absent in newer macOS releases. Users need to supply their own ROM image and Mac OS copy.

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(www.emaculation.com)
Hardware

Edge AI Inference: A Deep Dive from Software to Hardware Acceleration

2025-07-04
Edge AI Inference: A Deep Dive from Software to Hardware Acceleration

This article delves into the challenges and opportunities of running AI inference on resource-constrained microcontrollers. Starting with the mechanics of TensorFlow Lite Micro, the author analyzes the software implementation and hardware acceleration schemes based on ARM architecture extensions for the addition operator. The article also covers utilizing Arm's Ethos-U NPU for model acceleration. It reveals how different hardware architectures impact AI inference performance and how software and hardware optimizations can be combined to improve efficiency.

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(danielmangum.com)
AI Microcontrollers

Unlocking Extreme Productivity with Claude Code and Background Agents

2025-07-18

This post details the author's experience using Claude Code and their tool, Terragon, for AI-assisted programming. Terragon manages multiple background Claude Code agents, running them in the cloud and automatically creating pull requests, dramatically boosting productivity. The author's workflow involves assigning tasks to Terragon's agents and then locally reviewing and testing. This hybrid approach allows for parallel task management, significantly increasing output, especially for repetitive tasks, code cleanup, and debugging. The post also shares lessons learned, including understanding the model's strengths and weaknesses, knowing when to abandon unsuccessful attempts, and effective time management.

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(ymichael.com)
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ReelControl: Reclaim Your Video Playback Control

2025-04-02
ReelControl: Reclaim Your Video Playback Control

Tired of the annoying lack of native progress bars on Instagram, YouTube Shorts, and Facebook Reels? ReelControl is here to help! This browser extension adds progress bars and playback controls to videos on these platforms, letting you easily see video length, rewind, fast-forward, and skip unwanted parts. The developer reports not only an improved viewing experience but also a significant reduction in time spent on these platforms. The project is open-source, and contributions are welcome!

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(chromewebstore.google.com)
Development video playback control

Frankfurt Silver Amulet Rewrites Early Christian History

2024-12-18
Frankfurt Silver Amulet Rewrites Early Christian History

Archaeologists unearthed a groundbreaking artifact in a 3rd-century Roman grave near Frankfurt, Germany: a silver amulet, the "Frankfurt Silver Inscription." Dating back to 230-270 CE, this amulet predates previously known Christian artifacts in the region by almost 50 years. Its inscription, deciphered using advanced technology, contains exclusively Christian content, including invocations to Jesus Christ and biblical quotations. This discovery significantly pushes back the timeline of Christianity's presence north of the Alps, shedding light on its early spread and influence in Roman Germania. The find has major implications for archaeology, theology, and Roman history.

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(archaeologymag.com)
Misc Christianity Archaeological Discovery Roman Empire

Microsoft Unveils Phi-4: A Small Language Model Excelling in Complex Reasoning

2024-12-15
Microsoft Unveils Phi-4: A Small Language Model Excelling in Complex Reasoning

Microsoft has introduced Phi-4, a new 14-billion parameter small language model (SLM) that outperforms larger models in complex reasoning tasks, particularly in mathematics, surpassing even Gemini Pro 1.5 on math competition problems. This achievement is attributed to high-quality synthetic and organic datasets and post-training innovations. Currently available on Azure AI Foundry under an MSRLA, Phi-4 will launch on Hugging Face next week. Microsoft emphasizes its commitment to responsible AI development, integrating robust safety features into Phi-4's design and deployment.

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(techcommunity.microsoft.com)
AI small language model complex reasoning

Mirascope MCP Server: Securely Integrating LLMs with Local Services

2025-02-01
Mirascope MCP Server: Securely Integrating LLMs with Local Services

Mirascope's MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server lets you expose resources, tools, and prompts to LLM clients via a standardized protocol. This article demonstrates building a simple book recommendation server using MCP, showing how to register tools, resources, and prompts. It details two definition styles: decorator and function-first. MCP Server supports various features, including synchronous and asynchronous functions, flexible configuration options, and compatibility with standard Mirascope tools and prompts, enabling secure and reliable integration between LLM clients and local services.

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(mirascope.com)
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OSI Board Election Controversy: A Time Zone Snafu

2025-02-22

A controversy has arisen in the Open Source Initiative (OSI) board of directors election. Luke's candidacy was rejected due to a missed deadline, allegedly past 11:59 PM PT on February 17th. However, the OSI website didn't specify UTC as the time zone for the deadline, and OSI's contact address is in California, leading to questions of fairness. Luke argues OSI should consider different time zones and allow his candidacy. The incident highlights the importance of clear time zone specifications and deadlines for global open-source organizations.

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(blog.luke.wf)
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Clojure Error Handling: No Silver Bullet, Only Choices

2024-12-14

Clojure offers a diverse range of error-handling approaches, with no single best practice. The article explores several methods: throwing native exceptions, using `ex-info` for data-carrying exceptions, returning error maps, and utilizing various libraries for more sophisticated error handling flows, such as the `anomalies` library or options like `pact` and `failjure`. The author emphasizes that the choice depends on the specific context and that a mix of approaches can coexist within a single project. Developers are empowered to select the most appropriate solution for their needs; Clojure embraces this freedom.

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(www.daveliepmann.com)
Development error handling

The Zero-Productivity Programmer Who Saved the Team

2025-03-23

A software consultancy introduced individual performance metrics, and one programmer, Tim, consistently scored zero. The manager wanted to fire him, but his team lead refused. Tim, while delivering no individual code, paired with teammates, boosting their skills and code quality, ultimately increasing the team's overall efficiency and output. This story highlights the limitations of measuring individual contributions in complex systems, emphasizing team collaboration and overall effectiveness.

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(dannorth.net)
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