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Open Source Magic: Auto Smiley, the Computer Vision Smile Generator

2025-01-04
Open Source Magic: Auto Smiley, the Computer Vision Smile Generator

F.A.T. Lab released Auto Smiley, an open-source application leveraging computer vision to detect smiles. When you smile, it automatically inserts ":)" into your currently active application. Built with openFrameworks and MPT, it's available for Windows and Mac, showcasing F.A.T. Lab's rapid prototyping and creative technology prowess. This speed project highlights their commitment to open source and public domain resources.

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Spotted Hyena Found in Egypt After 5,000 Years!

2025-02-04
Spotted Hyena Found in Egypt After 5,000 Years!

A spotted hyena, the first recorded in Southeastern Egypt in millennia, has been found. The lone hyena was discovered and killed near the Sudanese border. Researchers believe a regional weather cycle leading to increased rainfall and vegetation growth opened a migration corridor, providing sufficient prey. This discovery challenges existing knowledge of spotted hyena distribution and highlights the impact of climate change on animal migration.

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The Vim Community's Heroic Effort After Bram Moolenaar's Passing

2025-02-16
The Vim Community's Heroic Effort After Bram Moolenaar's Passing

Following the passing of Bram Moolenaar, Vim's creator, in August 2023, the open-source community rallied to keep his project alive. Maintainer Christian Brabandt recounted the inspiring story at VimConf 2024, detailing the challenges overcome: inheriting the GitHub account, migrating infrastructure, and onboarding new maintainers. While Vim is now in maintenance mode, focusing on bug fixes and smaller features, the community remains active, improving documentation and processes to ensure Vim's long-term health. Vim 9.1, dedicated to Moolenaar, was released in January 2024.

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10x Database Throughput with io_uring and a Dual WAL

2025-07-20
10x Database Throughput with io_uring and a Dual WAL

Building a complex database, the author experimented with io_uring and a dual WAL design to boost performance. Traditional WAL approaches (write-then-apply) bottleneck performance. By separating "intent to write" and "completion of write" into two WALs, and leveraging io_uring asynchronous I/O, a 10x throughput improvement was achieved. This design asynchronously writes intent, then completion records; recovery only applies operations with both intent and completion, ensuring data consistency. The author used Zig and the Poro project (an experimental key-value database) to validate this approach, highlighting the importance of hardware parallelism, batching, and flexible consistency models.

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Beyond Lithography: Particle Accelerators Could Revolutionize EUV

2025-03-20
Beyond Lithography: Particle Accelerators Could Revolutionize EUV

Manufacturing the world's smallest and most complex objects—semiconductor chips—pushes the boundaries of physics. Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography, using short-wavelength light to etch nanometer-scale patterns onto silicon, is at the forefront. ASML's innovative approach uses lasers to vaporize tin droplets, generating 13.5nm EUV light. However, researchers are exploring particle accelerators to generate even more powerful EUV beams by propelling electrons near light speed, potentially revolutionizing chip manufacturing.

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NIH Rescinds Final Scientific Integrity Policy

2025-03-30

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has rescinded its Final Scientific Integrity Policy (NOT-OD-24-178) to align with the Administration's priorities. The NIH remains committed to scientific integrity and maintains multiple overlapping policies supporting it, including those on research misconduct, authorship, human and animal subject protections, and data management and sharing. This notice only affects the Final Scientific Integrity Policy and not any policies referenced within it. The NIH will also adhere to the HHS Scientific Integrity Policy.

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postmarketOS February 2025 Update: New Name, Audio Support, and More

2025-03-04
postmarketOS February 2025 Update: New Name, Audio Support, and More

February 2025 saw significant progress for the postmarketOS project. A name change is underway, with community input being sought. MSM89x7 audio support improved, and more Xiaomi devices joined community support. Security audits were completed, and infrastructure improvements, including backup and CI systems, were implemented. Numerous kernel updates and package upgrades were released, enhancing stability and performance.

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GitHub Code Suggestion Application Restrictions: Issues You Might Encounter

2025-01-31
GitHub Code Suggestion Application Restrictions: Issues You Might Encounter

This snippet from GitHub documentation lists various restrictions encountered when applying code suggestions, such as no code changes, closed pull requests, viewing a subset of changes, applying only one suggestion per line, applying to deleted lines, invalid suggestions, and other temporary restrictions. These limitations aim to maintain the integrity and consistency of the codebase and ensure the effective application of suggestions.

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Tig: A Text-Mode Interface for Git

2024-12-17

Tig is an ncurses-based text-mode interface for Git, primarily functioning as a Git repository browser. It also aids in staging changes for commit at the chunk level and acts as a pager for various Git command outputs. Installation instructions, release notes detailing new features and bug fixes, and resources like the homepage, manual, and Q&A section on Stack Overflow are readily available. Bug reports and feature requests can be submitted through the issue tracker or via email.

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Auto-Commit Bot: Automated Git Commits with Gemini AI

2025-02-01
Auto-Commit Bot: Automated Git Commits with Gemini AI

The Auto-Commit Bot is a Python tool automating Git workflows. It monitors a directory for changes, generates descriptive commit messages using Google Gemini's AI, and commits them. This eliminates repetitive tasks and ensures consistent messaging. Features include real-time file monitoring, auto-committing, AI-powered commit messages, and easy customization. Simply install dependencies, set your API key, and run the command.

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Immersion Cooling Could Reshape Data Center Design

2025-01-01
Immersion Cooling Could Reshape Data Center Design

Sandia National Laboratories is testing a novel cooling system that fully submerges computer servers in a non-conductive liquid coolant. This captures 100% of waste heat, resulting in a 70% reduction in energy consumption and significantly less water usage. The technology promises to revolutionize data center design, addressing the growing power and water demands of high-performance computing. Partnering with Submer Technologies, Sandia is conducting comprehensive tests, with a case study expected this fall.

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Tech immersion cooling data centers high-performance computing

NixOS Build Reproducibility: Better Than You Think

2025-02-12

NixOS's build reproducibility has long been a point of contention. While its functional package manager model contributes to build reproducibility, it doesn't guarantee bitwise reproducibility for all builds. A new research paper empirically studies Nixpkgs (NixOS's package collection) over six years, revealing a steadily increasing reproducibility rate—from 69% in 2017 to 91% in April 2023. The study also identifies prevalent causes of non-reproducibility, such as embedded dates, uname outputs, environment variables, and build IDs. These findings demonstrate that while Nixpkgs already achieves high reproducibility rates, there's room for improvement by addressing these low-hanging fruits. This research is crucial for increasing trust in the Nix substitution protocol and driving the development of distributed caching solutions based on build reproducibility.

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Visual Timeline: A Colorful Journey Through Your Life

2025-03-01
Visual Timeline: A Colorful Journey Through Your Life

Visual Timeline is an app that lets you visualize your entire life—past, present, and future—in a colorful, week-by-week view. Color-code life periods (childhood, college, jobs), highlight important events (achievements, trips), and add detailed notes. It automatically adds birthdays and world events, and allows YAML export for backups. Keep it private or share it via a unique link; it's a living, growing representation of your life story, constantly updated.

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Pythagoras: Mathematician, Mystic, or Cult Leader?

2025-02-10
Pythagoras: Mathematician, Mystic, or Cult Leader?

This article delves into the enigmatic life of Pythagoras, the ancient Greek mathematician. Portrayed as a mathematical genius who founded a school of thought, his legacy is also shrouded in mystery and mysticism, particularly surrounding the discovery of irrational numbers. Legends speak of followers punished for revealing secrets, while his teachings influenced figures like Copernicus and Newton, and resonate with modern science's understanding of mathematics' role in nature. However, the true extent of fact versus myth in Pythagoras' life and doctrines remains a captivating enigma.

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EU Orders Apple to Enhance iPhone Interoperability

2024-12-22
EU Orders Apple to Enhance iPhone Interoperability

The European Commission, based on preliminary findings under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), has ordered Apple to take steps to ensure interoperability between its iPhones and devices from other brands. This aims to foster competition and prevent Apple from leveraging its dominant position with iOS to restrict compatibility with third-party products like smartwatches, headphones, and VR headsets. Apple counters that this could compromise user privacy and innovation. The Commission is expected to issue a final decision around March 2025.

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(www.euronews.com)
Tech EU

Disturbing Revelation: Former Israeli Special Forces Building AI Systems at Global Tech Giants

2025-01-20
Disturbing Revelation: Former Israeli Special Forces Building AI Systems at Global Tech Giants

An investigative report reveals that dozens of former members of Israel's Unit 8200—a secretive cyber warfare unit accused of building the AI systems used in the Gaza conflict—are now building AI systems for the world's largest tech and AI companies. These former spies hold key positions at Meta, Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Nvidia, working on AI, machine learning, and big data. The article highlights that many expressed support for Israel's actions in Gaza on their LinkedIn profiles, yet showed no sympathy for the plight of Palestinians. This raises serious ethical concerns, as individuals who helped create AI for generating kill lists are now shaping the future of AI infrastructure.

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(www.donotpanic.news)
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BreezeWiki: Say Goodbye to Fandom Ads

2025-03-31

Tired of annoying ads and videos on Fandom wikis? BreezeWiki offers a clean and refreshing reading experience. Simply replace "fandom.com" with "breezewiki.com" in the URL to say goodbye to slow loading and data consumption. BreezeWiki is supported by multiple independently run mirror websites, ensuring availability even if one mirror is down. While BreezeWiki doesn't allow editing or creating new pages, it provides readers with a content-focused reading environment and has been well-received by many users.

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Muon g-2 Mystery: Standard Model Showdown or New Physics?

2025-02-27
Muon g-2 Mystery: Standard Model Showdown or New Physics?

The 2021 Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab revealed a significant discrepancy between the measured anomalous magnetic moment of the muon and the Standard Model prediction, hinting at new physics. However, a recent alternative Standard Model prediction suggests the Fermilab result is consistent with the Standard Model. This has sparked a heated debate in the particle physics community: does the Standard Model need revision, or have we discovered new physics? The next few years will be crucial, with the release of Fermilab's final Muon g-2 results and more precise calculations of strong interaction contributions offering a definitive answer—a landmark event in particle physics.

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From Aegospotami Meteorite to Socrates' Death: A Millennial Clash Between Science and Superstition

2025-09-01
From Aegospotami Meteorite to Socrates' Death: A Millennial Clash Between Science and Superstition

This article recounts the story of a meteorite that fell in Greece in the 5th century BCE, validating the philosopher Anaxagoras' theory about the composition of celestial bodies. This event, similar in impact to the confirmation of Einstein's theory of relativity, shook the world view of the time. The article traces the development of early scientists from Thales to Anaxagoras, who challenged creation myths and pioneered scientific inquiry. It explores Parmenides' discovery of the moon's reflection of sunlight, and Anaxagoras' scientific explanation of solar eclipses. However, this scientific progress sparked religious and political backlash, leading to Anaxagoras' exile and ultimately Socrates' execution. The article explores the conflict between scientific advancement and societal conservatism, and its impact on the development of human thought and belief, ultimately highlighting the complex relationship between scientific progress and belief in supernatural forces.

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Open-Source High-Performance 3D-Printed 6-Axis Robotic Arm: PAROL6

2025-02-15
Open-Source High-Performance 3D-Printed 6-Axis Robotic Arm: PAROL6

PAROL6 is a high-performance 3D-printed desktop 6-axis robotic arm designed to mimic industrial robots in mechanical design, control software, and usability. Its control software, GUI, and robot STL files are open-source, allowing users to build their own PAROL6 using instructions found on Github. This project aims to provide a practical tool for educational institutions, robotics enthusiasts, and small-scale automation applications for learning, exploration, and robotics implementation.

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(source-robotics.github.io)
Hardware robotic arm

AI-Powered Lease Analysis: Negotiate Your Rental Agreement Like a Pro

2025-03-17

This AI-powered platform empowers you to master your rental agreement. It analyzes your lease, uncovering potential problems, unfavorable terms, and negotiation opportunities. Gain a clear understanding of your tenant rights, receive expert negotiation advice, and easily decipher complex legal jargon. The platform also provides jurisdiction-specific insights, ensuring your lease analysis is tailored to your local laws and regulations. Rent smarter, not harder.

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(occupry.com)
Misc Lease Negotiation Tenant Rights

Skies-ADSB v2.0: Real-time 3D Air Traffic in Your Browser

2025-02-12
Skies-ADSB v2.0: Real-time 3D Air Traffic in Your Browser

Skies-ADSB transforms your browser into a real-time 3D air traffic display. Leveraging ADS-B data from an RTL-SDR receiver, it allows exploration of local air traffic, surrounding airspace, and geography with customizable 3D maps. Built with JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, Python 3, and WebGL (Three.js), it runs on major modern browsers. Version 2.0 includes breaking changes from 1.x, requiring a fresh install. Users can report bugs, request features, and suggest improvements via the issue tracker. The project thanks Andre Thais CFI and Frank E. Hernandez for their contributions and utilizes public domain map data from Natural Earth and OpenStreetMap.

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Delphi Turns 30: A Retrospective

2025-02-14

February 14th marks the 30th anniversary of the launch of the Delphi programming language. Marco Cantù reflects on attending the product launch at the Moscone Center in San Francisco 30 years ago and shares links to his blog posts and a YouTube video commemorating the event, including a piece on the 10th anniversary. The post offers a nostalgic look back at Delphi's three decades of impact on programming.

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(blog.marcocantu.com)
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Automating Customer Workflows: From Onboarding to Compliance

2025-01-30

This article outlines three automated customer workflows: customer onboarding (document collection, identity verification, account setup, welcome calls, and automated welcome materials), KYC (verifying client identity, assessing risk, collecting documentation, background checks, and maintaining compliance records), and contract review (initial draft review, legal team approval, stakeholder feedback, revision tracking, electronic signature collection, and final document storage). Automating these processes significantly improves efficiency, reduces risks, and enhances the customer experience.

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(www.workflow86.com)
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BleachBit: Reclaim Disk Space and Enhance Privacy

2025-02-19

Running out of disk space? BleachBit quickly frees up disk space and safeguards your privacy. It cleans cache, deletes cookies, clears browsing history, shreds temporary files, removes logs, and discards junk you didn't know existed. Supporting Linux and Windows, it works with thousands of applications including Firefox, Adobe Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, and more. Advanced features include secure file shredding, wiping free disk space, and Firefox optimization for speed. Better than free, BleachBit is open source.

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Plex Announces Price Hikes and Paid Remote Playback

2025-03-19
Plex Announces Price Hikes and Paid Remote Playback

Plex is increasing Plex Pass subscription prices and introducing a fee for remote playback of personal media, effective April 29, 2025. Lifetime subscribers are unaffected, but existing and new monthly/yearly subscribers will see price increases. Remote playback will require either a Plex Pass or a new, cheaper Remote Watch Pass subscription. These changes aim to fund future development and improvements, including a planned integration with Common Sense Media for parental controls. The mobile app activation fee is being removed.

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PPP Loan Map: Visualizing the Flow of COVID Relief Funds

2025-02-07

Ever wondered where the massive PPP loan money went? Now you can explore it interactively! This map visualizes public data on Paycheck Protection Program loans, letting you search by ZIP code, business type, or age. See the big picture of loan distribution across the US, explore your local area to see which businesses received funding, all without wading through spreadsheets. Simply click, zoom, and discover the stories the data tells.

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Dormant Volcanoes Hiding Giant Magma Chambers: A Surprising Discovery

2025-02-13
Dormant Volcanoes Hiding Giant Magma Chambers: A Surprising Discovery

Cornell University research challenges the long-held belief that active volcanoes' magma bodies dissipate after eruptions. Using seismic waves, researchers found persistent, large magma chambers beneath six Cascade Range volcanoes, including dormant ones like Crater Lake. This suggests magma bodies exist throughout a volcano's lifespan, not just during active periods. The discovery has significant implications for volcanic monitoring and prediction, highlighting the need for improved monitoring networks.

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(phys.org)
Tech volcanoes magma chambers seismic waves

Massive Jazz Archive Launches at UNT Music Library

2025-06-11

Thanks to a grant from The Recording Academy’s GRAMMY Museum Grants Program, the UNT Music Library has launched a massive collection of jazz history: the Tim Owens Jazz and Broadcast Collection. This digitized archive boasts over 150 hours of interviews and performance masters from NPR's jazz programs, including interviews by Owens from the Peabody Award-winning *Jazz Profiles*. This adds significantly to UNT's contribution to global music research and preservation.

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(library.unt.edu)
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