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Little Snitch 6's DNS encryption feature is affected by a bug in macOS 15 Sequoia, which causes some DNS requests to bypass the proxy and be sent unencrypted to the system's default name server. This bug affects DNS lookups made via certain low-level legacy APIs, but not those made via higher-level APIs, and has existed since at least macOS 14.5 Sonoma.

The author repaired a broken Elgato Game Capture HD60 S device by replacing the corrupted LED animation data in the SPI flash chip with data from a working device, which fixed the non-functional status lights. The author also discovered that the LED animation data is stored in the Game Capture app's resources folder, and that the software has the capability to load the animations into the ...

Rga is a line-oriented search tool that uses ripgrep to search for regex patterns in various file types, including PDF, docx, sqlite, and more. It comes with adapters for converting binary files to plain text and supports caching and customization options for adapters and caching.

Swift 6 is a major new release that expands the language to more platforms and domains, introducing new features such as data-race safety, typed throws, and non-copyable types, as well as improvements to concurrency, debugging, and interoperability with C++. The release also includes a new testing library, Swift Testing, and updates to the Foundation library, making it more consistent and ...

GraalPy brings the world of Python data science libraries to Java and other languages running on GraalVM. Using GraalVM's polyglot interfaces, it is now easier than ever to embed Python code in Java applications and with good performance to boot! Oracle GraalVM also includes sandboxing option to run Python native extensions like NumPy, SciPy, or Matplotlib in a managed Java application.

Henry Minh Inc., a jewelry wholesale business, is suing the state of Indiana over the seizure of a box containing $43,000 in cash, which was taken through civil forfeiture despite no criminal charges being filed. The company alleges a pattern of unlawful package seizures at the Indianapolis FedEx facility and seeks to return the box and prevent future seizures.

The article discusses the importance of embracing stupidity in scientific research, particularly in mathematics, where it's a natural part of the learning process. It highlights the need for students to understand that feeling stupid is a normal and necessary step in learning math, and for teachers to acknowledge and address this feeling to help students overcome their struggles.

Assembly language is a low-level programming language that maps closely to machine code, used for reverse engineering, hardware programming, and game development. The guide introduces x86-64 assembly, focusing on Intel syntax, and covers basic concepts, such as instructions, registers, and labels, to help readers navigate and write simple assembly programs.

Raymond Chandler used the term "Google" in a 1953 letter to a friend, parodying science fiction writing, and referred to it as a source of information. The term "Google" appeared 45 years before the company Google was founded, and its meaning was unclear, possibly referring to a male human, alien, or personified computing device.

Open Scanner is a free, ad-free, and open-source document scanning app for iPhone that scans and saves documents, syncing them across devices. It's built with SwiftUI, uses Core Data and CloudKit, and supports iOS 16.0+ and visionOS 1.2+.

The paper provides a theoretical understanding of the power of chain of thought (CoT) for decoder-only transformers, showing that it enables serial computation and improves accuracy on tasks like permutation groups, iterated squaring, and circuit value problems. Without CoT, constant-depth transformers can only solve problems in AC0, but with CoT, they can solve any problem solvable by ...

The author argues that writing a book can be a harmful and unfulfilling experience, as it can lead to burnout, stagnation, and a loss of creative output, and that many writers may be better off focusing on their existing work rather than pursuing a book. The author cites several examples of writers who have struggled with the process of writing a book, including Tim Urban, who wrote a book ...

OpenTelemetry is a tracing library that can be intimidating due to its complexity, but it can be broken down into simpler concepts like "fancy logging" and "context propagation". By understanding these concepts and implementing a basic tracing library, developers can gain a better mental model of the tracing process and appreciate the power of standards like OpenTelemetry.

The Double Irish Dutch Sandwich tax evasion scheme, which allowed corporations to minimize tax liabilities, has largely faded due to changes in tax agreements and laws. The scheme's decline is evident in the shift of royalty payments from tax havens to direct payments between companies, resulting in a loss of government revenue and talent diversion from productivity gains.

Rio is a Python-based framework for creating websites and apps without needing HTML, CSS, or JavaScript, offering over 50 built-in components and integration with modern Python tooling. It allows developers to define custom components, build apps, and run them locally or on the web, with a command-line utility and community support for contributing and feedback.

Dental caries, or cavities, are a common chronic disease that affects both children and adults, and a product called Lumina claims to prevent them by painting a genetically engineered bacterium onto teeth. However, the product's safety and effectiveness are questionable, and the understanding of dental caries has advanced beyond the assumption that Streptococcus mutans is the sole cause, ...

Rainfrog is under active development and has breaking changes, not recommended for production use. It requires manual installation, specific binary selection, and certain dependencies, with some keybindings and features still in development or with limitations.

SDEs considering leaving Amazon over the 5-day RTO announcement should explore WFH flexible companies with interesting projects, quality colleagues, and salary, and consider applying to local startups or joining a union to negotiate better work arrangements.

WonderWorld is a framework for interactive 3D scene generation that enables users to specify scene contents and layout in low latency. It uses the FLAGS scene representation and guided depth diffusion to generate connected and diverse 3D scenes in under 10 seconds on a single GPU.

The article discusses the challenges of handling user input in Windows, particularly with high-end mice and gamepads, and presents a solution that involves using batched raw input and disabling legacy input, but notes that this is an unsatisfactory solution and asks for better alternatives. The article also touches on other issues with Windows input, including the limitations of the XInput ...

Y Combinator focuses on startups requiring low capitalization, leveraging existing tech. However, post-2015, most "tech seed corn" was used up, leaving only deep-tech startups needing high capitalization and focus on developing hard technology.

NASA engineers successfully fired up Voyager 1's unused thrusters to solve a clogging issue that could have prevented communication with Earth. The spacecraft, 47 years old and 15 billion miles away, has had to switch thrusters several times due to aging parts and is expected to use its current thruster set for another two to three years.

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has announced the availability of FreeBSD 13.4-RELEASE, a stable release with a focus on maintenance, featuring bug fixes, driver updates, and new versions of externally-maintained software. The release is available in various formats, including ISO images, memstick images, and mini-memstick images, for multiple architectures, including amd64, i386, ...

Finic is a cloud platform for deploying and managing browser-based automation agents, focusing on fault-tolerant execution and secure credential management. It offers features like cloud deployment, session impersonation, self-healing selectors, and custom timeouts for efficient and reliable automation.

Raleigh McCool, a writer from Nashville, finds solace and a sense of belonging in a spin class at Full Ride Cycling, where he connects with other women and learns to let go of his competitive nature and shame. Through his journey, he discovers the power of vulnerability and community, and finds hope that he can build meaningful friendships outside of the gym.

Pixtral is a multimodal AI model that surpasses larger models in tasks such as chart and figure understanding, document question answering, and multimodal reasoning, while maintaining strong text capabilities. It can process images at their natural resolution and aspect ratio, and is available for use through a conversational chat interface, API calls, or local installation.

Marblism is a platform that uses LLMs to generate and iterate on full-stack web apps, combining boilerplate code with AI customization. The platform allows users to describe their app, generate a data model, and then test and deploy it, with plans to expand to more tech stacks and customization options.

Get the full transcription of any Youtube video, fast. Studies suggest that reading leads to better retention of complex information compared to video watching. Only English videos currently.

John Logie Baird is credited with the first public demonstration of television in 1926, using an electromechanical transmitter and receiver with Nipkow disks, but he didn't invent television, which was developed by many contributors, including Philo Farnsworth and Vladimir Zworykin.

Amazon employees are protesting the company's new return-to-office policy, which requires a 5-day workweek, and some are even planning to quit or search for new jobs with more flexible arrangements. The policy has been met with criticism, with some employees calling it a "layoff in disguise" and others expressing frustration with the lack of flexibility and potential impact on work-life balance.

Researchers have explored the possibility of "gravitational atoms" forming around black holes, where bosons interact with the black hole, creating a cloud that can affect the binary's evolution. The study found that the presence of these bosons can leave a legacy on the binary's orbital parameters, potentially allowing for the identification of their nature through gravitational-wave detection.

Rustpad is a self-hosted, open-source collaborative text editor that allows real-time coding in the browser, using the operational transformation algorithm and WebAssembly. It can be run locally with a single 6 MB Docker image, and configuration options include setting the number of days for inactive document retention and enabling persistence with SQLite.

Russia's IT organization Social Design Agency (SDA) has been involved in a well-coordinated campaign to support far-right parties in European Parliament elections and spread disinformation across social media platforms to undermine Ukraine. The leaked documents reveal the scale of the disinformation production, including the creation of fake comments, memes, and videos, as well as the ...

The user shares a puzzle about writing a three-fold composition function in terms of a two-fold composition function, using lambda calculus, Haskell, Scheme, and JavaScript. They provide a solution and discuss the problem's unintuitive nature, also posing two additional puzzles: generalizing to n-fold composition and writing a reverse composition function purely in terms of c.

NASA's Artemis program aims to return humans to the moon by 2025, but the mission has faced numerous delays, cost overruns, and technical issues, making it a challenging and expensive endeavor. The program's difficulties are attributed to a combination of factors, including the complexity of the technology, the need for international cooperation, and the changed societal attitudes towards ...

The author discusses the challenges of debugging GPU workloads and proposes a solution using RAII patterns to attach diagnostic data to command buffers and objects, allowing for easier debugging and profiling. The author also provides examples of how to implement this solution in C++, C#, and Rust, and discusses the benefits of using Vulkan's VK_EXT_debug_utils extension to attach names and ...

Hundreds of people were injured in Beirut and the Beqaa valley after pager devices exploded, with Iran's ambassador among the injured. The Lebanese Ministry of Health urged citizens to discard pagers and warned hospitals to be on high alert, with health workers asked to report urgently to work.

Opik is an open-source platform for evaluating, testing, and monitoring LLM applications, allowing users to annotate calls, use LLM as a judge metric, and monitor production. The platform is available as a hosted solution on Comet.com or can be self-hosted using Docker Compose, with integrations available for various frameworks and a Python SDK for logging traces and evaluating LLM applications.

A vulnerability in the Linux kernel's perf_events subsystem allows for a race condition that can be exploited to create a writable page reuse primitive, enabling control over kernel objects. The exploit works by creating an orphaned aux buffer vma and racing against the freeing of pages, allowing for the reuse of pages that have already been returned to the page allocator.

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IBM acquires Kubecost, a leading Kubernetes cost monitoring and optimization software company, to strengthen its FinOps solutions and provide real-time cost visibility and insights for cloud practitioners. The acquisition adds best-in-class container cost management to IBM's FinOps Suite, enabling teams to optimize cloud investments and prevent resource-based outages.

Core64 is an interactive kit that combines authentic Core Memory with LEDs, allowing users to interact with the magnetic memory technology through a stylus with a magnet tip. The kit enables experimentation and creative learning, offering a unique way to explore the fundamental traits of Core Memory, which was used in Apollo Guidance Computers and other applications.

The article discusses the various translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of each translation, including those by Alexander Pope, Richmond Lattimore, Robert Fitzgerald, Robert Fagles, Stanley Lombardo, and Emily Wilson. The article concludes that the best translation for a reader depends on their personal preferences and goals, and provides ...

Lucas Berrigan, a wildlife tracking expert, uses the Motus system to study the behavior of birds, bats, and insects, which has led to discoveries about their migration patterns and habitats. Motus, a global research network, aims to conserve small flying animals by providing critical information on their movement and behavior, and is expanding its network to fill gaps in coverage and develop ...

Gumlet, a SaaS for image and video processing, switched from cloud-based GPUs to self-hosted servers to reduce costs, building custom machines with commodity hardware and a specific graphics card. The company now hosts its servers in its co-working space, WeWork, which provides a cheaper and more efficient solution, with plans to expand and move to a data center in the future.

The Roaring Lion, a valuable photograph of Winston Churchill taken by Yousuf Karsh in 1941, was stolen from the Château Laurier hotel in Ottawa, Canada, and was later found in Italy, where it had been sold at an auction house. The thief, identified as Jeffrey Wood, was arrested and charged with various crimes, and the portrait was returned to the hotel, where it will be remounted with ...

Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison envisions a future where AI-powered surveillance systems monitor citizens through cameras and drones, ensuring everyone behaves and police are supervised. Ellison's prediction raises concerns about privacy and civil liberties, echoing George Orwell's 1984, where AI systems would replace human watchers.

Trichloroethylene (TCE), a widely used industrial solvent, has been linked to an increased risk of Parkinson's disease (PD) through various studies and case reports. The authors of this article argue that TCE is a likely contributor to the rising incidence of PD and call for further research, site remediation, and a ban on the chemical to prevent its continued harm to human health.

JDK 23, the reference implementation of Java 23, is now Generally Available with build 37, featuring 12 JEPs and hundreds of enhancements and bug fixes. Oracle provides GPL-licensed OpenJDK builds, and other vendors will soon offer their own builds.

Haiku is a free operating system developed by volunteers and contractors, and users can download and try it out without installation. The project relies on donations and support to continue development, and users can verify the integrity of their downloads using SHA256 checksums and cryptographic signatures.

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The user created a remote "Ignite" talk using OBS, Lua, and After Effects, which involved setting up a complex technical setup to record and stream video and audio, and practiced for 56 times before the final presentation. The user encountered various challenges, including poorly documented OBS settings, issues with audio and video synchronization, and difficulties in setting up the virtual ...

JDK 23, the Reference Implementation of Java SE Platform version 23, reached General Availability on March 19, 2024. Production-ready binaries are available from Oracle under the GPL, with other vendors to follow shortly.

ITCMA-S is a generative agent architecture that enables agents to identify and filter out detrimental behaviors, guiding them to choose favorable actions in social interactions. The architecture performed well in a sandbox environment, demonstrating its ability to explore, recognize new agents, and acquire new information through continuous actions and dialogue.

The internet has changed significantly, with over-commercialization, dominance of tech giants, and bad actors contributing to a chaotic online environment. To preserve the "good internet", users can vote with their feet by choosing alternative platforms and exercising healthy scepticism to protect their privacy and knowledge.

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TCL QLED TVs may not have quantum dots, according to a Korean study, but TCL disputes the findings, citing its own analysis that shows the presence of quantum dots. The controversy raises questions about TCL's quality control and may lead to skepticism among buyers, potentially impacting the sales of QLED TVs.

Researchers found that knocking out the Astrotactin 2 (ASTN2) gene in mice leads to behaviors characteristic of autism, including social and communication deficits, hyperactivity, and repetitive movements. The study also found structural and physiological changes in the cerebellum, suggesting that ASTN2 plays a crucial role in brain development and function, and may be a key factor in the ...

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Systemd is a flawed init system that attempts to do too much, ignoring Unix and Linux standards, and is backed by companies rather than the community. The author believes that quality software requires a clear vision, small teams, and limited scope, and that systemd's approach is unsustainable and proprietary.

Double-entry bookkeeping is a system used to track the finances of an organization, where every transaction affects two accounts, one increasing and one decreasing, and the sum of all accounts is always zero. The system includes accounts for assets, liabilities, income, expenses, and owner equity, and uses a general ledger to record all transactions, with closing entries made at the end of ...

Handheld pagers used by Hezbollah members exploded across Lebanon, killing 9 people, including a child, and wounding 2,800 others, with Iran's ambassador among the injured. Hezbollah blamed Israel for the blasts, vowing retaliation, while Israel denied involvement and the US urged Iran not to heighten tensions.

The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum entanglement is incomplete due to relativity, while the Many Worlds Interpretation is also flawed. A multiverse of parallel block universes, with a finite number of universes, can retain MWI benefits and explain quantum probability and unitary evolution.

At least nine people were killed and 2,750 wounded in Lebanon after pagers used by Hezbollah exploded, with the movement and Lebanese government blaming Israel. The attack is believed to have been carried out by Israel, which penetrated Hezbollah's pagers to provoke a war, according to a Lebanese official.

Instagram introduces Teen Accounts, a new experience for teens aged 13-17, with built-in protections to limit who can contact them and the content they see, and provide new ways for teens to explore their interests. Parents can supervise their teens' accounts, set time limits, and approve changes to settings, with the goal of providing a safer and more age-appropriate online experience for teens.

The FAA proposes $633,009 in civil penalties against SpaceX for allegedly failing to follow license requirements during two launches in 2023. The agency is citing two violations, one for using an unapproved launch control room and another for using an unapproved rocket propellant farm.

Rick Beato, a music YouTuber, argues that the ease of music production and consumption has led to a lack of innovation and diversity in music, with too much formulaic trend-following and not enough value placed on music. He suggests that listeners should "vote with their attention" by deliberately listening to music without distractions, and that producers should focus on creating ...

Sndkit is a collection of audio DSP algorithms written in ANSI C with literate programming, providing a core C API and LIL scripting language for connecting algorithms and building patches. The codebase is self-contained, requiring only a standard POSIX C compilation environment, and is licensed under the Creative Commons Zero license.

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Taxes on consumption and labor in the EU generate 13 times more revenue than taxes on wealth, which are mainly paid by the super-rich, according to Oxfam. The organization is calling for a European wealth tax to address growing inequality, citing that the richest individuals and corporations have been paying less taxes while ordinary people shoulder most of the tax burden.

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The user initially focused on writing code, but learned that people are more important for a software project's success. Code is a tool created for people and their purposes, and its value lies in solving real-world problems, not just being well-written or efficient.

IPTState is a utility that displays the states held by a stateful firewall in a top-like manner, and it can be installed on most Linux distributions using the package manager. The program can be used to sort the state table by various criteria, including source IP, destination IP, and protocol, and it also has a "single run" mode for printing out the state table at a specific moment.