CarPlay Is Additive

Cowboys, Frontiersmen, Settlers, Townspeople, Cityfolk

“What got you here won’t get you there” applies not only to founders, but to the organizations they build. An underappreciated aspect of this is risk and chaos, and how it appeals to discrete personalities. I consider most of these archteype to respond mostly to certain levels of organizational chaos - and as such, there are areas where they thrive, and areas where they are out of their depth. I’ll hearken back partially to Wardley’s Pioneers, Settlers, Town Planners as part of this.

Right to Local Intelligence

Protect your right to run local AI. Sign in ten seconds, call your state office in two minutes.

Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)

The Safari MCP server for web developers

Virginia bans sale of geolocation data

Exapunks (2018)

Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory

So. For the past few days I've been deep in a fun and very rewarding, but also extremely scary debugging saga. To cut a long git-bisecting story short: Since Linux 6.9 (May 2024), the tool that locks the laptop's drive on suspend had been silently failing. Like many of my friends, I use full-disk encryption (LUKS) to protect my data if my laptop is lost, seized or stolen. Highly recommended to everyone; in combination with tested and automated backups, it contributes greatly to peace of mind. (Under Windows, the canonical software to do that is VeraCrypt.) Except that, for more than two years, the encryption key remained resident in memory across suspend, leaving it there for the taking by anyone who seized the still-powered laptop. (It

Podman v6.0.0

The short leash AI coding method for beating Fable

How working with a blind client revealed invisible accessibility gaps

How working with a blind client on a Power Automate project revealed the invisible accessibility gaps baked into the platforms we build on every day.

14× faster embeddings: how we rebuilt the ONNX path in Manticore

Released in Manticore Search 27.1.5, the new ONNX Runtime backend makes auto-embeddings ~14× faster on average than the previous SentenceTransformers/Candle path on the same hardware, same model, same weights — and the margin holds whether you run 1 client thread or 32.

An American Privacy Emergency

Scott's foreword: Cynthia Dwork is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, and a pioneer in the fields of differential privacy and algorithmic fairness. On my recent travels to the SigmaWest science camp and then STOC, there was much talk about a recent Trump administration action that would ban not only differential privacy, but…

Postgres transactions are a distributed systems superpower

When workflow metadata and application data live in the same Postgres database, they can be updated in the same database transaction, which simplifies tough problems like workflow task idempotency and atomicity.

A Special Wireless-Free Nikon Camera Is Publicly Available for the First Time

Nikon has released a Nikon Z6 III variant without any wireless connectivity. It is built for security-conscious customers.

crustc: entirety of `rustc`, translated to C

Entirety of `rustc`, translated to C. . Contribute to FractalFir/crustc development by creating an account on GitHub.

Claude-real-video － any LLM can watch a video

Let Claude (or any LLM) actually watch a video — scene-aware, deduplicated frames + transcript, from a URL or local file. Runs locally, MIT. - HUANGCHIHHUNGLeo/claude-real-video

Mystery identity of 'Green Boots' climber is finally solved after DNA test

For almost 30 years, the body of the climber became a macabre landmark for thousands attempting to reach the summit.

Immich 3.0

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Underwater Suit-Wearing Cyborg Insect Capable of Diving and Terra-Aqua Travel

The fundamental operational range of cyborg insects, which are hybrid robots that combine a living insect with an electronic controller, is inherently restricted to the host’s natural environment. To extend their operational range, we developed a wearable diving suit for terrestrial insects. The suit integrates a miniaturised oxygen generation module with a flexible waterproof shell, enabling continuous oxygen supply and isolation from surrounding water. By fitting a cockroach, which is a terrestrial species, into this diving suit, we allowed it to survive and operate in oxygen-deprived environments such as underwater, transforming it into an amphibious cyborg robot capable of operation across land and water. The suit sustained respiration