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_blk··on SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation
Looks like you guys are handling it right from a consumer standpoint. Thanks for letting us know and for not playing the fingerpointing game in public. Looks like you're not playing at all and just moving on. Nice.
_blk··on Instagram AI Influencers Are Defaming Celebrities with Sex Scandals
Not excusable in any way or form but an explanation lies clearly in the demand for trash news and the Hollywood people cult.
_blk··on TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875
Yup that'd be very interesting. Notably missing from this project's list is the KJV (1611 was in use at the time.) The first random newspaper that I pulled up from a search for "london newspaper 1950" has sermon references on the front page so it seems like an important missing piece.

Somewhat missing the cutoff of 1875 is the revised NT of the KJV. Work on it started in 1870 but likely wasn't used widely before 1881.

_blk··on Meta taps Dina Powell McCormick as president and vice chairman
Big congrats are in order: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/115882511750475574
_blk··on Dina Powell McCormick Joins Meta as President and Vice Chairman
Meta is still strongly left-biased but this seems to be a decent attempt to balance things out a bit.
_blk··on ASCII-Driven Development
Made my day, thanks. I use this so much. Even before AI. With AsciiFlow it has the feel of a whiteboard, but you can shift stuff around.

I'll draw simple UI prototypes then rearrange and/or document. I can also easily share it with a colleague to comment or modify.

Here's one:

https://asciiflow.com/#/share/eJztXE1v2zYY%2FivvNAxwsDRBlrTA...)

_blk··on Electronic nose for indoor mold detection and identification
Yup, look at anything with temps below the dew point and badly vented areas below (condensation follows gravity)
_blk··on USD share as global reserve currency drops to lowest since 1994
Ooooh that must've struck a nerve. Seems we can't post that here without massive loss of reputation. Progressivism != liberalism. That stuff just doesn't fare well, even as sarcasm.
_blk··on USD share as global reserve currency drops to lowest since 1994
Are you trying to project this unto Trump when the Fed is doing everything it can to oppose his measures?

I'm only the crypto weirdo guy asking.

_blk··on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
Food for thought: "If AI replaces workers but doesn't pay taxes, should we also stop paying taxes?"
_blk··on Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions
Thanks for sharing that. Interesting how there was a solution to a problem that didn't really exist yet.. I mean, I'm sure it was there for a reason, but I assume it was more things like wrongful attribution, missing commas etc. rather than outright invented quotes to fit a narrative or do you have more background on that?

...at least the mandatory automated checking processes are probably not far off at least for the more reputable journals, but it still makes you wonder how much you can trust the last two years of LLM-enhanced science that is now being quoted in current publications and if those hallucinations can be "reverted" after having been re-quoted. A bit like Wikipedia can be abused to establish facts.

_blk··on Homeschooling hits record numbers
I won't pretend to know where you live or what those people's desires are but I definitely started homeschooling after the last US administration took moral volatility to new standards. The principles taught in schools just did not align anymore with what was common sense when I was in school and what I believe in. Now before you judge, I'm not looking for a fight. My wife and I have both master-degree educations in CS and law and our four kids have been to public school in the US and abroad, they've been to an evangelical christian school, and now that we've decided to homeschool for two years, we're not likely to take them back. The traditional school aspects take up 2-3h per day at most, then comes the school of life: raising and caring for animals and plants, fixing the truck or other engineersy activities and of course plenty of fun activities outside of the too-busy-to-be-fun times. My kids have learned of historic events such as Jamestown, Gettysburg or Mount St. Helens at the actual site of the event, they've been to most of the national parks and the fear of being socially-disconnected is not more than a fear before you start. Heck, thanks to Starlink they can even talk to their friends while we're driving through a desert.

Now let me also say that preparing the curriculum, ordering the materials etc. takes a lot of effort and discipline. It's definitely almost a full time job and I'm blessed with an amazing wife that's gifted in all that but the reward is more than worth it. Also, if you're thinking about it, many states have home school support programs and put you in touch with other home schoolers in the area.

_blk··on Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today
Kudos to adguard dns for [planing to] filing a counter-claim against potential abuse of power.
_blk··on Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today
It's a valid way to look for probable cause but it's important differ "you know" and "you assume" - I'm all for accountability but most conspiracy theories thrive exactly because of that sort of framing.

As to Lenin: The mouse died because it didn't understand why the cheese was free

_blk··on Android developer verification: Early access starts
iPhone has always been that way (try installing an .ipa file that's not signed with a valid apple developer certificate). For Google forced app verification is a major change. Xbox I don't know..
_blk··on The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need
Maybe I missed it but I couldn't find where to install it from and autocomplete doesn't resolve to a debian package either...

https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit?tab=readme-ov-file#...

So with a newer non-LTS ubuntu you can just apt install lazygit, with 24.04 it's

``` LAZYGIT_VERSION=$(curl -s "https://api.github.com/repos/jesseduffield/lazygit/releases/..." | \grep -Po '"tag_name": "v\K[^"]') curl -Lo lazygit.tar.gz "https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/releases/download/v..." tar xf lazygit.tar.gz lazygit sudo install lazygit -D -t /usr/local/bin/ ```

_blk··on Making Democracy Work: Fixing and Simplifying Egalitarian Paxos
People don't get a say in the people's decision that they didn't elect. I thought it's pretty spot on.
_blk··on Making Democracy Work: Fixing and Simplifying Egalitarian Paxos
Exactly and that's why the US should be called a Constitutional Republic. At state level it's often much more democratic but federally, the US is not a (direct) democracy and shouldn't be called so by the media in matra-like manner. Watching CNN or MSNBC with bourbon shots on "democracy" is a drinking game that typically won't last the evening.
_blk··on US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites
For good reason. That's what being in charge means. Biden had to take the blame while he obviously wasn't capable of being in charge. But it does always seem to be exploited beyond reason by the opposition. I'm very curious on what do non-diehards think on Dems blocking the clean bill and on keeping funds flowing for themselves to stay in session.

Please don't start a flame on this. If you can't stand trump, make it an exercise in self-control and skip the reply on this one.

_blk··on Starlink on the Road
A short review of how well the Gen 3 Starlink Residential Dish works for office use while stationary or in motion, what can be configured on the router and how much power it draws.

TL;DR: It works surprisingly well even while in motion - if the price tag doesn't put you off.

_blk··on Ubios: China's Alternative to UEFI
But can it also run a full IP stack? [Rhetorical]
_blk··on A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool
Background is probably a bit lower depending on where you're at. My counter went through airport security luggage scans 'cause they wouldn't let me wear it through the metal detector. It beeps for a few seconds and then comes out about a days' dose of natural radiation higher. The count was higher than 300 CPM, but obviously only shortly. That poor bloke might stay at 300 (if ingested and he can't scrub it off) for a while but it's still not very discouraging long-term. Pilots have about that at cruising altitude.
_blk··on Who benefits from the MAHA anti-science push?
I see that and I'm not trying to pick a fight but that argument only covers 50%: am I allowed to not question my beliefs when they are held true by my experiments and observations? (Rhetorical)

Beliefs become religion when you have that choice to make and then you should absolutely not publish against your better judgment for any sum of money but work on your belief system. What I'm saying is that it still is not a requirement to science to challenge your beliefs because when you miss or omit that part your experiments and observations are still of scientific nature ergo challenging your beliefs is not a requirement to science [my original claim]. You're free to challenge them down the line with your own experiments and observations for me, giving me a chance to reevaluate my beliefs.

_blk··on Who benefits from the MAHA anti-science push?
How so? Don't get me wrong, I do think it should absolutely be practiced, but where's the requirement?
_blk··on Who benefits from the MAHA anti-science push?
Best thread all day :)
_blk··on Who benefits from the MAHA anti-science push?
Questioning your own beliefs isn't a requirement to science. Just sayin'

You question mine, and I'll question yours completes the cycle but if you don't let me question yours because you already did that, where's the science in that?

_blk··on Who benefits from the MAHA anti-science push?
Honestly the overburden to the health system sounds like lame excuse. We don't have an overburden there because of the massive consumption of raw milk. Try to buy some legally and you'll get the picture of how hard it is to find and how expensive it is. I'll happily wave any rights to be emergency treated for any reason (traffic accidents included) if you grant me the right to live in peace and buy the milk and meat from sources I like because that's what this freedom is worth to me.

Anyone that I know that drinks raw milk, raw uncured meats, untreated water hasn't seen a doctor in over a decade.. not terribly scientific but a good indicator that I won't buy pharma-money backed "scientific" studies that show that low-fat, low-sodium and oats-in-cereal-bars are the solution to health issues. I'm all for science and capitalism but they're both not substitutes for common sense.

_blk··on Who benefits from the MAHA anti-science push?
YES!

The article (no surprise from AP) goes a long way to make sure the negativity vocabulary soup is complete against all conservative voices that advocate self-determination.

Please don't take away my freedom by dictating my health choices, esp. when you live in a concrete jungle and eat fast food at least five days a week.

_blk··on FSF announces Librephone project
Oh, and of course the stock app will refuse to run on rooted (or sometimes even just not widely used) phones.
_blk··on FSF announces Librephone project
UBS bank mandates their "Secure Access" app as second factor even when logging in from a desktop. They used to allow the smart card reader for existing customers that had it as a work around for a few years but they disabled that.

Also many websites are making it remarkably hard to not use the app if they even remotely sense you're not on an actual PC. FB and LinkedIn aren't banks but prime examples.

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