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• Post #4500245

  📵 France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls from August 11 ｢ In 2024, 11 consumer organizations issued a joint call for a ban, denouncing "relentless harassment of consumers through countless unwanted telemarketing calls to both landlines and mobile phones – an intrusion that has become a regular part of their daily lives." ｣ https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2026/08/06/france-to-ban-unsolicited-telemarketing-calls-from-august-11_6756208_7.html #france #privacy #surveilla...

• Post #4421715

  ⚡️ Setup a simple web server with bozohttpd on NetBSD https://bozo.httpd.rocks/ #netbsd #bozohttpd #bsd

• Post #4405878

  🧶 Harvard Researchers Turn Ordinary Knitting Into Programmable Technology ｢ A piece of knitted fabric can now do more than stretch and fold. By carefully controlling its yarns and stitch patterns, researchers have made textiles that snap between stable shapes, operate electrical switches, and even track a person’s steps ｣ https://scitechdaily.com/harvard-researchers-turn-ordinary-knitting-into-programmable-technology/ #science #knitting #research #harvard

• Post #4382449

  Tokenomics Foundation For Kids That Can't Vibecode Good

• Post #4356663

  Why do I run FreeBSD for my home servers // Mathieu Aumont https://aumont.fr/posts/FreeBSD-Home-Server/ #freebsd #bsd #selfhosting

• Post #4355508

  🛸 9FRONT "THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FUN" RELEASED https://9front.org/releases/2026/08/02/0/ #plan9 #9front #osdev #opensource

• Post #4297753

  Confluence is the corporate equivalent of "just create a wiki".

• Post #4295982

  ☄️ Billions of people—and multiple spacecraft—may see a ‘once-per-millennium’ asteroid flyby in 2029 ｢ Initial calculations suggested the roughly 340-meter-diameter rock had a one-in-37 chance of impacting Earth in 2029. Careful tracking, however, subsequently dropped those odds to zero. But Apophis’s close approach in 2029 will still offer “a once-per-millennium natural experiment ｣ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacecraft-will-swarm-asteroid-apophis-during-fateful-2029-earth-flyb...

• Post #4293768

  :alice_party: GAMEOVER FOR INFANTINO :alice_party: Not only his proposal has collapsed, but now he knows he doesn't even have the votes for a reelection. The Trump deal was his retirement plan. https://nypost.com/2026/07/31/business/fifa-has-scrapped-20b-world-cup-sell-off-plan-following-european-boycott-global-outrage-sources/ #fifa #corruption #trump #uspol

• Post #4268587

  ｢ we reviewed 22 paper submissions this summer, spread across NeurIPS, WACV, and TerraBytes (a geospatial workshop at ECCV). Fifteen of the 22 (68%) contained entirely fabricated citations, fabricated author lists for existing papers, and/or were clearly LLM-generated (e.g. hallucinated technical jargon, nonsensical writing, irrelevant citations) https://geospatialml.com/posts/reviewing-ai-slop/ #ai #science #research

• Post #4263033

  💥 Nyaa, the world’s largest anime torrent site, has become the target of piracy watchdogs following the arrest of a first uploader (seeder) who shared a copyrighted work on the platform https://www.cbr.com/nyaa-torrent-uploader-arrest-coda-crackdown/ #p2p #anime #filesharing

• Post #4250285

  👉 OpenJDK Interim Policy on Generative AI ｢ Most generative AI tools, however, are trained on copyrighted and licensed content, and their output can include content that infringes those copyrights and licenses, so contributing such content would violate the OCA. Whether a user of a generative AI tool has IP rights in content generated by the tool is the subject of active litigation ｣ https://openjdk.org/legal/ai #java #ai #opensource #openjdk

• Post #4234205

  ｢ The UK will no longer participate in research at the James Clark Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii, which scientists are using to image supermassive black holes at the centre of galaxies. UKRI has also cut funding for the UK's involvement in two instruments on the Extremely Large Telescope which is being built in Chile to search for signs of life on other Earth-like worlds https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y6r9rdxygo #science #uk #research

• Post #4224848

  ｢ Deepfakes and other AI-generated content must be labeled from Sunday in the European Union as sweeping artificial intelligence transparency rules kick in ｣ https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/28/tech/made-by-ai-label-eu/ #ai #deepfakes #eu

• Post #4208671

  🧬 Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini ｢ AlphaFold is an AI program that can accurately predict three-dimensional structures of proteins from their amino acid sequences in minutes instead of years. It's now being used to accelerate drug discovery, develop vaccines and understand the structural changes in proteins associated with neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's ｣ https://www.engadget.com/2225849/google-shuts...

• Post #4186350

  ｢ JWST quickly exposed the two candidates as Dyson sphere impostors – and the explanation was brilliantly simple. The light from both stars was being boosted by a distant galaxy almost perfectly lined up behind them ｣ https://www.sciencealert.com/jwst-just-examined-two-stars-suspected-of-harboring-dyson-spheres-heres-what-it-found #science #dysonsphere #aliens #jwst

• Post #4178232

  🚜 Scientists Found a Genius Way to Remove 'Forever Chemicals' From Soil ｢ "The application of alkaline rock amendments to soil (or enhanced weathering) elevates soil pH to a target pH of 7, leading to an increase in mobility and bioavailability of key PFAS such as perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)," the authors explain in their published paper. ｣ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-found-a-genius-way-to-remove-forever-chemicals-from-soil...

• Post #4173601

  👾 GOG announces Galaxy app is coming to Linux after hiring a "specialist" | Digital Foundry https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/07/gog-announces-galaxy-app-is-coming-to-linux-after-hiring-a-specialist #linuxgaming #linux #gog

• Post #4167833

  👾 C64 Online - Play classic C64 games online! https://c64online.com/ #c64 #GamePreservation #retrogaming

• Post #4167694

  🎪 Trump administration admits grants for clean energy were canceled based on politics ｢ Russell Vought, the White House budget director, highlighted the cutbacks in a social media post, saying money “to fuel the Left’s climate agenda is being cancelled.” ｣ https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/politics/2026/07/25/trump-administration-admits-grants-for-clean-energy-were-canceled-based-on-politics/ #science #cleanenergy #uspol

• Post #4163382

  ｢ LLMs are averaging machines. Every answer they produce, everything they do, fundamentally comes down to the most likely result. Meaning for every tiny creative decision you cede, however small, the decision will be “made” by the LLM and given the most average possible answer ｣ https://goodnameforablog.com/posts/very-average-prototypes/ #ai #gamedev #vibecoding

• Post #4161107

  ｢ An LLM is a tool for mediocrity. It shines where humans are particularly bad: identifying slight discrepancies or anomalies, spotting missing information, exhaustive search ｣ https://functional.computer/blog/llms-cant-program #ai #vibecoding #llm

• Post #4161055

  ｢ Someone decided to compress the kill chain. Someone decided that deliberation was latency. Someone decided to build a system that produces 1,000 targeting decisions an hour and call them high-quality. Someone decided to start this war. Several hundred people are sitting on Capitol Hill, refusing to stop it. Calling it an “AI problem” gives those decisions, and those people, a place to hide ｣ https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is...

• Post #4159417

  ｢ They set the LLMs prompting themselves in a semi-plausible loop in case someone inspects the token consumption and then they watch Netflix. Not a single one has been caught, even when their own assessment of the output is that it isn’t suitable for deployment ｣ https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/ #ai #bubble #llms

• Post #4156493

  ｢ It reinforces hierarchy and subordination to the vision of the CEO, rather than enabling individual judgment. It grossly simplifies many of the complex and multifaceted activities of management into “measurement” processes that AI can purportedly replace. It subordinates the moral and developmental aspects of business activity to abstract measurements of efficiency ｣ https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/ai-isnt-management-try-explaining #ai #layoffs #automation #management

• Post #4153326

  🙄 Dev accidentally commits Copilot binary to FreeBSD ports repo https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/07/24/dev-accidentally-commits-copilot-binary-to-freebsd-ports-repo/5278458 #freebsd #bsd #copilot #ai #vibecoding

• Post #4148871

  👉️ BoxyBSD Returns to FreeBSD: Migrating from Proxmox VE to Sylve with bhyve // gyptazy https://gyptazy.com/blog/boxybsd-moving-from-proxmox-to-bhyve-with-sylve/ #freebsd #bsd #bhyve #sylve

• Post #4142395

  ⚒️ Minecraft Java Edition raises recommended memory to 16GB ahead of Vulkan transition // VideoCardz ｢ Mojang has updated the system requirements for Minecraft: Java Edition, raising recommended system memory from 4GB to 16GB. The minimum is now 8GB with a dedicated GPU or 12GB with integrated graphics. The recommended GPU tier starts with the GeForce RTX 2060, Radeon RX 5600 XT or Intel Arc A580 ｣ https://videocardz.com/newz/minecraft-java-edition-raises-recommended-memory-to-16gb-ahead-of-vu...

• Post #4137981

  🫠 AI Is Having Its Herbalife Moment "At least when you spunk cash on a starter kit for Herbalife, you know upfront how much it’s going to cost. By contrast, it is impossible how many tokens a LLM will burn when performing a particular coding task" https://www.whatwelo.st/p/generative-ai-is-having-its-herbalife #replit #cursor #vibecoding

• Post #4137508

  ｢ The multi-model median for the event’s peak (measured as detrended sea surface temperature anomalies in the Niño 3.4 region of the tropical Pacific) currently stands at 3.6C, roughly 0.8C hotter than the prior record of 2.75C set in 2015-16. For context, the gap between the strongest and the fifth strongest El Niño of the past 150 years is only about 0.5C. The models are forecasting something outside the envelope of anything we have ever observed ｣ https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-strong...