What makes Claude Code so damn good (and how to recreate that magic in your agent)!?
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What makes Claude Code so damn good (and how to recreate that magic in your agent)!?
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Claude Code is the most delightful AI agent/workflow I have used so far. Not only does it make targeted edits or vibe coding throwaway tools less annoying, ...minusx.ai
Study links TikTok scrolling to poor study focus: Just five minutes of scrolling the social app made college students less focused
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Study links TikTok scrolling to poor study focus: Just five minutes of scrolling the social app made college students less focused
SDSU study links TikTok scrolling to poor study focus | News | SDSU
Just five minutes of scrolling the social app made college students less focused while reading long-form news, an SDSU study found.www.sdsu.edu
Study links TikTok scrolling to poor study focus: Just five minutes of scrolling the social app made college students less focused
SDSU study links TikTok scrolling to poor study focus | News | SDSU
Just five minutes of scrolling the social app made college students less focused while reading long-form news, an SDSU study found.www.sdsu.edu
OpenMower: Let's upgrade cheap off-the-shelf robotic mowers to modern, smart RTK GPS based lawn mowing robots!
Let's be honest: The current generation of robotic lawn mowers sucks. Basically all of these bots drive in a random direction until they hit the border of the lawn, rotate for a randomized duration and repeat. I think we can do better!Therefore, we have disassembled the cheapest off-the-shelf robotic mower we could find (YardForce Classic 500) and were surprised that the hardware itself is actually quite decent:
- Geared sensored brushless motors for the wheels
- A sensored brushless motor for the mower motor itself
- The whole construction seems robust, waterproof and all in all thought through
- All components are connected using standard connectors, therefore upgrading the hardware is easily possible.The bottom line is: The bot itself is surprisingly high quality and doesn't need to be changed at all. We just need some better software in there.
GitHub - ClemensElflein/OpenMower: Let's upgrade cheap off-the-shelf robotic mowers to modern, smart RTK GPS based lawn mowing robots!
Let's upgrade cheap off-the-shelf robotic mowers to modern, smart RTK GPS based lawn mowing robots! - ClemensElflein/OpenMowerGitHub
AI winter is in the air! But we think the AI bubble keeps going until 2027
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250823-… - podcast
AI winter is in the air! But we think the AI bubble keeps going until 2027
After two years’ wait, and Sam Altman talking up how scary smart it was, OpenAI finally released GPT-5! And it was … meh. It could program a bit better? It didn’t do anything else much better…Pivot to AI
Data that is stored and not used has a carbon footprint. How companies can manage dark data better
Data that is stored and not used has a carbon footprint. How companies can manage dark data better
Stored data contributes to greenhouse gas emissions by needing power for servers and cooling systems.The Conversation
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Line scan camera image processing
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Line scan camera image processing
I use my line scan camera to take cool pictures of trains and other stuff.daniel.lawrence.lu
What makes Claude Code so damn good (and how to recreate that magic in your agent)!?
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What makes Claude Code so damn good (and how to recreate that magic in your agent)!?
Claude Code is the most delightful AI agent/workflow I have used so far. Not only does it make targeted edits or vibe coding throwaway tools less annoying, ...minusx.ai
Is 4chan the Perfect 'Pirate Bay' Poster Child to Justify Wider UK Site-Blocking?
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In light of increasing pressure on free speech in the UK, new site blocking powers under the Online Safety Act are a cause for concern. The UK may need a Pirate Bay-style poster boy to justify blocking of non-pirate sites, just as the Pirate Bay was used to justify pirate site blocking 15 years ago. After being threatened by Ofcom, the infamous 4chan appeared to swallow the bait this week. A question: who has who on the hook?
Is 4chan the Perfect 'Pirate Bay' Poster Child to Justify Wider UK Site-Blocking? * TorrentFreak
The UK may need a Pirate Bay-style poster child to gain public support for national blocking of non-pirate sites under the Online Safety Act.Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)
Trump Administration Ignores Congressional Directive to Fully Fund HIV/AIDS Program
Trump Administration Ignores Congressional Directive to Fully Fund HIV/AIDS Program
The New York Times reports the Trump administration is ignoring a congressional directive to fully fund PEPFAR, an HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention program credited with saving 26 million lives since President George W.Democracy Now!
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Scoperto l'antenato del piccolo canguro di velluto, con muso da levriero e coda di un topo - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Scoperto l'antenato del piccolo canguro di velluto, con muso da levriero e coda di un topo - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Nei Territori Settentrionali dell’Australia, in un’epoca collocata entro i confini del tardo Miocene (6-8 milioni di anni fa) la lotta per la sopravvivenza vedeva coesistere scontrarsi specie dalle proporzioni e capacità singolari.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
WillyMacShow files police report against Destiny for posessing CSAM
WillyMacShow files police report against Destiny for posessing CSAM
WillyMacShow filed a police report against Destiny over alleged retention of materials tied to an underage person. Destiny says he only kept screenshots.Ethan Freemont (Spilled)
WillyMacShow files police report against Destiny for posessing CSAM
WillyMacShow files police report against Destiny for posessing CSAM
WillyMacShow filed a police report against Destiny over alleged retention of materials tied to an underage person. Destiny says he only kept screenshots.Ethan Freemont (Spilled)
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Blu-ray ripping on linux
I recently bought a collector edition boxed set of a 1970s martial arts series I love. I can't even play it in VLC, makemkv beta code situation is borked, and handbrake scans all the titles, then says there are none.
I have a local Plex server I wanted to use, no other devices that can play Blu-ray other than an external USB drive I just bought.
Any advice? The Linux box is on 22.04.
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Librebox: An open source, Roblox-compatible game engine
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GitHub - librebox-devs/librebox-demo: Librebox – An open source, Roblox-compatible game engine
Librebox – An open source, Roblox-compatible game engine - librebox-devs/librebox-demoGitHub
I Hacked Monster Energy and You Won't Believe What They Think You Look Like: The Energy Drink Giant That Forgot to Lock Its Doors
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I Hacked Monster Energy and You Won't Believe What They Think You Look Like: The Energy Drink Giant That Forgot to Lock Its Doors
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Monster Energy's corporate infrastructure exposed: employee training, customer stereotypes, Beast Bux rewards, and a file system API that's STILL wide open.bobdahacker.com
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I Hacked Monster Energy and You Won't Believe What They Think You Look Like: The Energy Drink Giant That Forgot to Lock Its Doors
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36206744
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I Hacked Monster Energy and You Won't Believe What They Think You Look Like: The Energy Drink Giant That Forgot to Lock Its Doors
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Monster Energy's corporate infrastructure exposed: employee training, customer stereotypes, Beast Bux rewards, and a file system API that's STILL wide open.bobdahacker.com
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Violent clashes escalate at anti-government protests in Serbia
Violent clashes escalate at anti-government protests in Serbia
Police accused of brutality against demonstrators as unrest continues across cities for fourth nightJessie Williams (The Guardian)
Search-capable AI agents may cheat on benchmark tests
Search-capable AI agents may cheat on benchmark tests
: Data contamination can make models seem more capable than they really areThomas Claburn (The Register)
New Zealand woman and her six-year-old son released from US detention. They were detained at the Canada-US border and held for weeks.
New Zealand woman and six-year-old son released from US detention
Sarah Shaw was detained by Ice owing to a problem with her ‘combo card’ visa as she tried to re-enter the US from CanadaEva Corlett (The Guardian)
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Exclusive: ICC arrest warrant applications ready for Israel's Ben Gvir and Smotrich on apartheid charges - ...but ICC sources are concerned they will not submit them for fear of sanctions
Exclusive: ICC arrest warrant applications ready for Israel's Ben Gvir and Smotrich on apartheid charges
Arrest warrant applications against two prominent Israeli ministers on charges of apartheid are ready and with two deputy prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC), Middle East Eye can reveal.Sondos Asem (Middle East Eye)
Exclusive: ICC arrest warrant applications ready for Israel's Ben Gvir and Smotrich on apartheid charges
Arrest warrant applications against two prominent Israeli ministers on charges of apartheid are ready and with two deputy prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC), Middle East Eye can reveal.If the warrants for National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich are issued, it will be the first time that the crime of apartheid is charged at an international court.
"Those applications for the arrest warrants are completely done," an ICC source told MEE. "The only thing that didn't happen was submitting them to the court," the source said on condition of anonymity.
Two ICC sources told MEE that the two deputy prosecutors, Nazhat Shameem Khan and Mame Mandiaye Niang, have not filed the applications due to the threat of US sanctions.
British-Israeli ICC defence lawyer Nicholas Kaufman told Israel's Kan public broadcaster in June that the US sanctions on four ICC judges were "meant to be designed to encourage the dropping of the arrest warrants for Prime Minister Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Gallant". Raji Sourani, a lawyer representing Palestine at the ICC and ICJ, criticised the deputy prosecutors for their delay in applying for the warrants.
Raji Sourani, a lawyer representing Palestine at the ICC and ICJ, criticised the deputy prosecutors for their delay in applying for the warrants.
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I Hacked Monster Energy and You Won't Believe What They Think You Look Like: The Energy Drink Giant That Forgot to Lock Its Doors
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I Hacked Monster Energy and You Won't Believe What They Think You Look Like
Monster Energy's corporate infrastructure exposed: employee training, customer stereotypes, Beast Bux rewards, and a file system API that's STILL wide open.bobdahacker.com
Government documents show police disabling AI oversight tools
Government documents show police disabling AI oversight tools
Departments aren't reviewing or disclosing AI-written police reports—which are now being used in plea deals.Mother Jones
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does this mean robocop was doubly evil?
edit: it occurs to me that the original comment may have walked up to the line for inciting violence and as such I have changed it because I don't want to make the mods lives more difficult
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Deal to get ChatGPT Plus for whole of UK discussed by Open AI boss and minister: Deal that could have cost £2bn was floated at meeting between technology secretary Peter Kyle and Sam Altman
The boss of the firm behind ChatGPT and the UK technology secretary discussed a multibillion-pound deal to give the entire country premium access to the AI tool, the Guardian has learned.Sam Altman, a co-founder of OpenAI, talked to Peter Kyle about a potential agreement to give UK residents access to its advanced product.
Deal to get ChatGPT Plus for whole of UK discussed by Open AI boss and minister
Exclusive: Deal that could have cost £2bn was floated at meeting between technology secretary Peter Kyle and Sam AltmanEleni Courea (The Guardian)
Europeans ponying up to fund US weapons shipments to Ukraine - Euractiv
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/46451542
Several NATO powers have pledged a total of $1.5 billion to cover the cost of US weapons packages
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India buys 2 million bpd Russian oil in August
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(bpd) barrels per day
Imports from Russia at 2 million bpd were up from 1.6 million bpd in July. The increase in Russian flow was at the cost of purchases from Iraq, which declined to 730,000 bpd in August, and Saudi Arabia which fell to 526,000 bpd from 700,000 bpd last month.
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Why the fuck not just write that in the headline?
Fuck 3 letter acronyms that are used before the actual meaning in articles.
Brazil is open for business, Lula says at Chinese factory opening
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The leftist leader noted that in the past automakers Ford and Mercedes have decided to scale back their operations in Brazil, but celebrated the arrival of other companies, like China's GWM . Brazil is always open to negotiating business, he stressed.
Brazil is open for business, Lula says at Chinese factory opening
SAO PAULO - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Friday that foreign companies that want to do business in Brazil are welcome, speaking at the opening ceremony for a factory for Chinese automaker GWM in the state of Sao Paulo.ST
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Trump is the best thing that happened to genocidal authoritarian regimes in China, Iran and russia in a long time.
I have a feeling Trump is going to go down in history as a sort of modern, American Nicholas II.
Air Canada suspends flights after cabin staff go on strike
Air Canada: Govt forces striking cabin crew back to work
More than 100,000 passengers were left stranded after Air Canada's flight attendants went on strike. Canada's government says it is stepping in to avoid lasting economic damage.Karl Sexton (Deutsche Welle)
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That’s the standard for ALL flight attendants, changing that will be a huge blow to the industry.
When AirCanada was started the rate for flight attendants was 4 times the minimum wage per hours, it was way above the national average.
The flight attendants union said to AirCanada pay us the same rate adjust to inflation and they will accept. AirCanada declined their offer
Trump says Ukraine needs to make a deal after summit with Putin ends without ceasefire
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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday Ukraine should agree a deal to end the war with Russia because "Russia is a very big power, and they're not"
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"It was determined by all* that the best way to end the horrific war between Russia and Ukraine is to go directly to a Peace Agreement…
*EXCEPT ONE OF THE PARTIES DIRECTLY INVOLVED
That’s kind of important, Donny.
Inside Chrome’s Semantic Engine: A Technical Analysis of History Embeddings
Inside Chrome’s Semantic Engine: A Technical Analysis of History Embeddings
I decoded Chrome’s internal semantic search, found the exact chunking mechanism, embedding logic and am now able to browse, search and cluster my own search history through decoded vector embeddings.dejan.ai
DiveDB, a fediverse enabled scuba dive log
Found it to be quite cool and largely unkown.
The dev is interested in others testing to self-host it:
github.com/cetra3/divedb
GitHub - cetra3/divedb: This is the source repository for the DiveDB site
This is the source repository for the DiveDB site. Contribute to cetra3/divedb development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Not a mystery beast, just a dog
Why have so many people seemingly lost all critical faculties when seeing animals?
I’ve seen two examples this week of people capturing imagery of dogs and then creating absurdly dramatic context to indicate that they aren’t dogs. What’s going on here? I get it if it’s an unusual animal. But these are just regular dogs that have been turned into mysterious monsters in the minds of the viewer.
The Black Dog on the side of the road
The first example is a video of a family driving down a road at night and encountering an older black dog (with a graying muzzle) along the grass. The accompanying video reveals their excitement and confusion about what they are seeing:
While the image is a bit blurry, the video itself is clear enough to show this not the “robust” and “enigmatic animal” that was reported by the news.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiOu1x–y2c
Have these people never seen a dog?
I think a few things are going on here. First, it’s night and maybe the camera on the phone is enhancing the light so that, to us looking at the video, it’s obvious. But to the witnesses at the time, maybe they were freaked out because they couldn’t see enough. Still, the video should never have gotten news coverage. With clickbait as lucrative as it is these days, even ridiculous videos get attention even just so an audience can complain about them.
Secondly, the headline of the news story gives us a clue about why people might be on edge: Mysterious animal surprises in Puebla after unexplained cattle deaths.
This sighting adds to a series of unexplained cattle deaths in the region, where the animals showed signs of violence, which has alarmed the local community.
So, people are concerned about recent mysterious livestock deaths. Feral dogs are suspect. With countless historical examples to draw from, we know that people look for a culprit when they are afraid. It’s not clear if the family knew about the story. Or if the original story was sensationalized.
Finally, even if the witnesses knew this was a dog, they still may have posted it on socials to try to tell a story for attention. Social media is the real reason why we see so many more silly shares like this. Even when the cause is obvious, if imagination is applied, people see a bipedal animal. Or the black color breaks up the typical outline we would expect to form a dog. The dog’s sad face breaks my heart, as does the crazy speculation about it.
The dog in the woods
The next example showed up in my Pop Cryptid Facebook feed from the Rocky Mountain Sasquatch Organization, a very active page that will post marginal content in order to keep the followers constantly engaged. In this case, they posted a pic of a dog and asked if people had thoughts….
They certainly did. They thought it was a dog.
Yeah, some said it was a wolf. But there is no location indicated so it’s baseless to jump to that conclusion. There is no sense in making any judgment on what’s in a photo with no context.
Maybe it’s “mysterious” because it looks like it doesn’t have a head (an artifact from the camera, perhaps). People also assumed it was very large, but you can’t tell that from the image.
Some are going to gravitate to these kinds of images to support their supernatural beliefs in werewolves or dogmen. Clearly, this is not viable evidence of that.
Social silos
It’s disturbing that online audiences get so comfortable existing in their belief silos that everything becomes evidence for that thing they deeply believe in. The rest of us, who aren’t in that frame of mind, just don’t see what they do. This is why you need to 1. get out of those silos, 2. be the voice of reason when necessary.
It would be really great if reason prevailed, and if this kind of goofiness wasn’t so popular. Unfortunately, we aren’t getting out of these strange times anytime soon. The streams of weird content (framed as weird, even when it’s not) encourages further social slides into irrational ideas about the world and more of the same content. It seems like we aren’t going to be taking a rational turn any time soon. We’re on edge, and extreme things really are happening.
The online environment provides a means to dispute the claim, but more often, it provides a platform for more bunkum, and worse.
#cryptids #DogInMexico #dogs #mysteriousCreature
Not a mystery beast, just a dog
Recent examples of people who see a monster when it’s really just a dog.Sharon A. Hill
South Africa row over army chief's pro-Iran comments
General Rudzani Maphwanya's Iran comments spark South Africa row
President Cyril Ramaphosa says Gen Rudzani Maphwanya's recent visit to Iran "was ill-advised".Khanyisile Ngcobo & Nomsa Maseko (BBC News)
They are pro-russian too (would be good to give pro-russia SA blacks a first hand taste of russian racism).
It's the timing. The don't want even more issues with the US oligarch regime.
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