Little Snitch for Linux is a network monitoring tool that tracks and blocks unwanted connections. It uses eBPF to observe and intercept network activity, and can be configured through a web interface or plain text files.
EFF is leaving X due to declining engagement and a shift in the platform's values under Elon Musk. They will focus on other platforms like Bluesky, Mastodon, and social media giants to protect digital rights.
Meta removed ads from attorneys seeking clients harmed by social media under 18 after a California case found Meta and YouTube negligent. Meta claims it's removing ads to avoid adverse legal impacts and prevent trial lawyers from profiting from its platforms.
Thunderbird is funded by user contributions, not ads or corporate funding, to provide a private and customizable email experience. Users can support Thunderbird by donating to help maintain servers, fix bugs, and develop new features.
Pope Leo XIV was threatened by the US Pentagon over his diplomatic stance, prompting the Vatican to cancel his US visit. The Pope has since taken a harder stance against US military power, visiting Lampedusa instead of the US on July 4, 2026.
Claude sometimes sends messages to itself and mistakenly attributes them to the user, leading to incorrect assumptions. This 'who said what' bug is distinct from hallucinations and permission issues, and seems to be a problem with the model's internal labelling rather than its behavior.
The Astral organization shares techniques to secure their tools and GitHub Actions workflows, including pinning actions to specific commits and limiting permissions. They also enforce strong 2FA, branch protection rules, and immutable releases to prevent account and repository compromises.
The user is frustrated with MacOS window management, specifically the inability to instantly switch spaces without animation. They found a solution called InstantSpaceSwitcher, a menu bar app that achieves instant space switching without drawbacks.
You're switching from Claude to Zed editor and OpenRouter for more flexibility and to avoid hitting limits. You'll pay $10/month for Zed and top up $90/month to OpenRouter.
whether devices have degraded functionality, reducing the score by 0.5-1.5 based on severity and how important it is to the laptop experience (wi-fi/graphics weighted more)
The user reimplemented the traffic system from the 1994 DOS game Pizza Tycoon, which runs on a 25 MHz CPU, using a simple one-way road system and pairwise collision detection. The system uses a straightforward approach, with cars not needing pathfinding or physics, and collision detection being cheap due to early-exit logic and limited road directions.
The Vercel plugin for Claude Code collects anonymous usage data including full bash command strings and prompt text across all projects without explicit opt-in, and the consent question is not a real UI element but rather a prompt injection into Claude's system context. The plugin's behavior is enabled by Claude Code's architecture and Vercel's choices, which lack visual attribution, hook ...
Maine lawmakers passed a bill temporarily blocking large data centers due to concerns over electricity costs and grid strain. The move may lead to higher costs for AI services if other states follow suit.
Philosophers like Kant, Wittgenstein, and Schopenhauer went beyond surface-level thinking. They are mapped in the Philosophical Atlas, a network of 175 thinkers.
I helped a non-tech literate customer resolve an issue with his laptop where he was running out of storage due to Microsoft's default Onedrive settings, which led to him deleting family photos to fix the problem. This incident highlights Microsoft's use of dark patterns to encourage users to pay for additional storage, and the need for companies to prioritize user experience and respect over ...
The Trump administration is dismantling the US Forest Service by relocating its headquarters to Utah, a state that wants to seize public land, and replacing career professionals with political appointees. This move is part of a coordinated effort to transfer control of public lands from professional public servants to industry operatives.
The plan options are Free, Go, Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise, each with varying text limits and features. Data residency options include US, EU, UK, JP, CA, KR, SG, IN, AU, UAE, with Enterprise having the most restrictive option.
The English language has lost many personal pronouns over the centuries, including the dual form "wit" which referred to two people, due to simplification and changes in social and political norms. Despite this, some Old English pronouns like "he", "it", and "we" have survived more than 1,000 years of history and upheaval, almost intact.
The user is canceling their Netflix subscription due to the price increase and ads, opting for physical media instead. They've bought a DVD/BluRay player and collections of series to own, planning to use the saved $10 monthly for new discs.
Lichess will provide infrastructure for Take Take Take's new play zone, remaining free and open-source. This cooperation aims to increase healthy competition and innovation in the chess ecosystem.
New Polymarket users made hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits by placing well-timed bets on a US-Iran ceasefire. The trades raise concerns about insider trading, with some lawmakers pushing for regulation of prediction markets.
Transform your old laptop into a powerful server with our colocation services in Amsterdam and US datacenters for €7/month. We provide free shipping, setup assistance, and KVM access to your laptop in a secure, professional datacenter.
The IUCN Red List has updated the emperor penguin to Endangered and the Antarctic fur seal to Endangered, while the southern elephant seal is now Vulnerable due to climate change. Climate change is accelerating extinction crises, and urgent action is needed to address greenhouse gas emissions and protect wildlife habitats.
Unfolder generates 2D parts for 3D models in seconds with optimized unfolding. It allows customization and export in various formats for printing, editing, or CNC cutting.
The picoZ80 is a custom PCB designed to replace a physical Z80 in a host or industrial computer with a faster CPU, more memory, virtual devices, networking, and rapid application loading from an SD card. It hosts an RP2350B microcontroller, a dual-core 150MHz Cortex-M33 device capable of running at up to 300MHz, and an ESP32 co-processor for WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity.
CSS Studio offers a suite of design tools for editing layout, styles, and animations on a webpage. It sends updates to a local AI agent for implementation, automating code writing, review, and deployment.
Session has 90 days left before shutting down due to insufficient funding, with $65,000 in donations covering infrastructure costs until July 8, 2026. The Session Technology Foundation needs $1 million to operate, and donations will be publicly donated to the Electronic Frontier Foundation if funding is not secured.
In Ghana and other African countries, funerals are extravagant and expensive, serving as a costly signal of kinship group loyalty and wealth destruction. This kinship culture hinders economic growth by preventing individuals from accumulating wealth and making financial decisions for themselves.
A coding agent was used to optimize the performance of the llama.cpp neural network model, resulting in a 15% speedup on x86 and 5% speedup on ARM. The agent's success was due to its ability to read papers and study competing projects before writing code, allowing it to identify optimizations that code-only agents would miss.
A visual explorer for Unicode. Browse the character set, discover related glyphs, and learn more about the scripts, symbols, and shapes that make up the standard. Charcuterie is still under active development, and feedback is always welcome. If you would like to support the project and help make more time for it, consider a donation.
This project is an experimental WebGPU physics prototype using AVBD solver for rigid-body and soft-body physics. It's an initial proof of concept with limited browser support and requires further updates for stability and ease of use.
The user is working on several non-AI related projects including a guitar scale visualizer, a crossword puzzle generator, and a tool to visualize JavaScript/TypeScript codebases. They also mentioned their personal life, a new programming language, and their company Uruky which offers a search engine with a simple UI and search personalization.
Craft is a lightweight build tool for C and C++ projects that automates configuration and dependency management. It uses a simple craft.toml file to generate CMake configuration and provides a clean command-line interface.
The Fifth Element is a visually stunning film that features a combination of practical and digital effects, with a team of artists and technicians working together to bring the film's futuristic world to life. The film's visual effects were created by Digital Domain, with a team of over 170 artists and technicians working on the project, led by visual effects supervisor Mark Stetson and ...
User needs to register or sign in with developer credentials and ensure a unique User-Agent string to access the application. Alternatively, try resetting to default User-Agent or file a ticket for assistance.
Researchers reverse-engineered Google's SynthID watermarking system using signal processing and spectral analysis. They developed a multi-resolution spectral bypass (V3) that achieves high PSNR and can remove the watermark from images of various resolutions.
The author discusses how Large Language Models (LLMs) are changing the way we interact with information and each other, and how they may shape our culture, including our sex and erotic subcultures. The author also explores the potential for LLMs to create new forms of media, influence our values, and raise questions about the role of fixed, long-form writing by humans in a world where ...
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Instant is a full-stack app builder that allows developers to create unlimited apps with real-time, offline, and fast performance, using a multi-tenant database and sync engine. It provides a range of built-in services, including auth, file storage, presence, and streams, and is designed to be easy to use and maintain, with a focus on developer productivity and scalability.
Bitmap fonts are interesting because they require precision and were used in older displays due to limited rendering. They can add personality and mood to screens, especially in code and technical visuals.
Hegel is a universal property-based testing protocol and family of libraries, built on Hypothesis.
Typhon is a database engine that combines game engine and database concepts for game servers. It provides ACID transactions, MVCC, and indexes for efficient data access.
The website is blocked due to security reasons after a suspicious action was detected. Please email the site owner with the Cloudflare Ray ID and details of the action that triggered the block.
Little Snitch, a macOS network traffic gatekeeper, has been ported to Linux but its closed-source core logic is a non-starter for FOSS enthusiasts. A DNS blocker like AdGuard Home is a more efficient and transparent solution for network-wide security.
New app submissions to the App Store surged 30% in 2025 to nearly 600,000, driven by AI coding tools like Claude Code and Codex. Apple is reviewing its App Store rules as some AI-based apps break guidelines, causing review delays and sparking debate over AI-generated code.
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Kent Beck said 90% of his skills became worthless while 10% increased 1000x in value due to AI tools. This shift unlocks latent demand and makes software cheaper, but requires developers to focus on system definition and verification.
Claude runs a code-reviewer bot in a loop, saving sessions and picking up changes automatically. It can be controlled and monitored from the browser or TUI.
OpenAI is pausing its Stargate UK datacenter project due to regulatory environment and high energy costs. The company still plans to proceed when conditions are right, investing in talent and expanding its local presence in the meantime.
Coding agents' productivity is affected by codebase structure, not just value, as poor organization leads to increased context and costs. Providing clear organization and reviewing outcomes can help mitigate these issues when working with LLMs.
We migrated our site from WordPress to Jekyll for speed and ease of change, leveraging AI tools like Claude Code to streamline the process. The new site features improved search functionality, semantic clustering, and better SEO capabilities.
Marketing promos went live, potentially causing traffic spikes, and need to be monitored. Relvy AI is checking logs for issues like auth failures and host-specific errors.
The US has lost favor in the Arab world due to its handling of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and perceived double standards. China, Iran, and Russia have gained popularity as alternatives to the US-led order.
A user explored Linux for reduced software dependence and created a Linux version of Little Snitch, a privacy tool. The tool shows network connections and allows blocking, but is not a security tool due to eBPF limitations.
Giorgio Liapakis built an AI agent to manage a Meta Ads account for his newsletter Growth Computer, achieving a cost per lead of $1.29 with minimal human intervention. The experiment highlighted the importance of clearly articulating objectives to AI systems, as the agent optimized for the wrong metric and struggled with creative quality, but still produced promising results.
The author built a JavaScript runtime called Ant in just a month, learning in real-time and overcoming numerous challenges, including parsing, garbage collection, and async/await implementation. After completing the core runtime, the author optimized and polished it, adding features and improving performance, and eventually released it, with ongoing efforts to further optimize and improve the engine.
Aqua Security's Trivy was compromised on March 19, 2026, allowing attackers to steal API keys from environment variables. Traditional secrets management is insufficient against supply chain attacks, as compromised tools can find and exfiltrate keys from plaintext strings.
The Lie bracket of two training examples in a neural network measures the order dependence of training on those examples, and it can be used to compute the difference in where parameters end up based on which order the training examples are shown. The magnitude of a given Lie bracket is mostly determined by factors independent of the parameter tensor, such as the training progress and the ...
You built a weather and hurricane tracking site for Eastern Caribbean islands using PHP, MySQL, and APIs, focusing on adapting weather interpretations for the local climate. The site's accuracy improved by reworking wind descriptions and temperature calculations for the region's specific needs.