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There is also a good Behind the Bastards episode about this case. Truly bizarre obsession on the part of the CEO and a completely off the rails security org doing his bidding.

Bay-area folk may be familiar with Roaring Camp Railroads up in Felton, which has a Shay engine pulling the train along the scenic tour. Fun stuff if you have any kids who like tra…

I can run qwen3.6-27b on a four year-old Macbook Pro that dominates ChatGPT-4o (the frontier model from 2 years ago) and is competetitve against early ChatGPT-5 versions. We are al…

Sure you did. We can't see the project, of course, because she lives in Canada...

I am amused that you think IT is going to respond to an unmanaged LLM tool that operates outside of the LLM policies all serious enterprises have set up by now and say 'wow, that i…

Phone jammers are illegal because they are broadcasting into regulated spectrum. There is no such spectrum regulation around audio transmissions. I will not say one way or another …

Gelatine melts at a lower temperature and has a much better mouthfeel for most of these traditional recipes. It is creamy and adds body to a stock or sauce. Agar is brittle and req…

Sherman, set the wayback machine.... Definitely a blast from the past. One of the things that made PipeNet very interesting compared to its contemporary peers (e.g. onion routing) …

That 'ugly' required indentation and whitespace also made Python easier to read, especially for newbies and casual coders. A standard visual structure and a syntax that is pretty c…

For simple yes/no questions ("Is over 18?", "Is US resident?") then you should look back to David Chaum's blind signatures and the work that came out of that back in the 90s. The m…

I loved my Ricochet modems so damn much. Sitting in a coffeeshop in Palo Alto with an Apple Powerbook and a second generation Ricochet modem rocking web browsing and ssh sessions a…

This dataset disappeared. Did it move or get pulled for some reason? (glanced at it when you noted this and went back today to check it out and found a 404...)

Pretty close, but the musical takes place in the fictional town of River City, Iowa and Henry Hill claims to be an alumnus of the Gary Conservatory (class of '05), which is the hoo…

> Uber and Lyft are sitting pretty for the moment. The two completely replaceable components of this project are 'sitting pretty'? They should be scared to death because this is in…

OpenWebUI seems to be the standard. Easy to spin it up in a docker container pointed to 127.0.0.1:1234/v1 and away you go.

> I've never understood what people mean when they say public transportation is "dirty". They are forced to share air with obviously poor and non-white people and that is simply in…

The article text explicitly refutes the bullshit title. Governments can get access to metadata, not the contents of comms. They can demands whatever they want from Meta, but it app…

There was never any requirement for sharing anything between the two vehicles and they were made by completely different contractors. Grumman made the LEM and North American Aviati…

> I want them to know it was their lack of care and their negligence, I want them to take personal responsibility for that and for future work they do. But I also would want such a…

This is one of those subtle clues that the LLM does not actually 'know' anything. It is providing you the best consensus answer to your prompt using the data upon which the weights…

Can you provide an example of this? There are a few inventions-via-serendipity (e.g. Teflon) where someone got lucky, but few that i can think of where the specific person who got …

A significant part of the economy perhaps, but 'national security threat' is a somewhat higher bar IMHO. LHR has a role of convenience, but not necessity. If JFK was shut down for …

Few people actually include necessary infrastructure into their threat model and almost no one is willing to pay the cost of building effective redundancy into the system. I could …

> it's disconcerting that places like Canada and the UK allow people to own such creatures Just for reference, the 1991 Dangerous Dogs Act in the UK imposes strict liability (inclu…