Travel Notes, St Petersburg, 3 November: odds and ends to share before departure
I have taken readings and shared my observations on inflation here in Russia compared to my last visit 5 months ago.Gilbert Doctorow (Armageddon Newsletter)
Michel Lasne (before 1590 - 1667), French
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YubiKey Authentication With pam_u2f.so
How to configure YubiKey U2F/FIDO authentication on Linux.Bob's Pages of Travel, Linux, Cybersecurity, and More
Coca-Cola releases upgraded AI-generated ads for 2025 holidays, after finding people didn't know or care about the use of AI, despite criticism for its 2024 ads (Katie Deighton/Wall Street Journal)
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Coca-Cola releases upgraded AI-generated ads for 2025 holidays, after finding people didn't know or care about the use of AI, despite criticism for its 2024 ads
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Devuan 6 “Excalibur” Released with Debian 13 "Trixie" Base
Devuan 6 “Excalibur,” based on Debian 13 “Trixie,” is now out with a mandatory /usr merge and PipeWire audio support.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Netanyahu greenlights death penalty bill for Palestinian prisoners
The bill will require three readings in the Knesset before it can be passed into Israeli lawthecradle.co
New strip found: Bizarro by Wayno & Piraro for Sun, 02 Nov 2025 arcamax.com/thefunnies/bizarro…
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Bizarro for 11/2/2025
Dan Piraro's "Bizarro" is an eccentric and bizarre look at everyday life through the cartoonist's eyes.ArcaMax
Augmented Intelligence, which is building neuro-symbolic AI models, raised $20M in a bridge SAFE round at a $750M valuation, bringing its total funding to ~$60M (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
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Augmented Intelligence, which is building neuro-symbolic AI models, raised $20M in a bridge SAFE round at a $750M valuation, bringing its total funding to ~$60M
By Carl Franzen / VentureBeat. View the full context on Techmeme.Techmeme
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Build Real-time Codebase Indexing
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Build a real-time codebase index for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) using CocoIndex and Tree-sitter. Chunk, embed, and search code with semantic understanding.cocoindex.io
Skyfall-GS – Synthesizing Immersive 3D Urban Scenes from Satellite Imagery
Link: skyfall-gs.jayinnn.dev/
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Skyfall-GS: Synthesizing Immersive 3D Urban Scenes from Satellite Imagery
Skyfall-GS converts satellite images to explorable 3D urban scenes using diffusion models, with real-time rendering performance.Skyfall-GS
Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for November 4
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Crypto.com is hiring Trading Java Developer
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Grundberg emphasizes need to resume Yemen’s peace process
MUSCAT, Nov. 03 (YPA) - The UN Special Envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, concluded a visit to Oman and Bahrain as part of his ongoing efforts to engage the parties to the conflict and regional states in advancing a negotiated political settlement in Yeاحسن (Yemen Press Agency)
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Mars en Venus, anonymous, Jacob Matham, 1590 - 1640
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DeFi protocol Balancer says its V2 Composable Stable Pools suffered an exploit, which security experts estimate resulted in total losses worth about $128M (Ryan S. Gladwin/Decrypt)
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Balancer Exploited for $128 Million Across Ethereum Chains as Berachain Halts Network
Some $128 million in crypto was stolen from Balancer liquidity pools on Ethereum and beyond, with Berachain halting its chain as a result.Ryan S. Gladwin (Decrypt)
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The Vampire State: Feeding on Our Fear, Freedom and Finances
“But these weren’t the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around—they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, …OffGuardian
New Comic found: Dog Eat Doug by Brian Anderson
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Dal 12 novembre scatta lo stop all'accesso libero per i siti per adulti, da YouPorn a OnlyFans
Dal 12 novembre verifica obbligatoria dell’età sui siti porno: come funziona il sistema AgCom e cosa cambia per gli utenti.Gabriele Farina (Quotidiano Piemontese)
The Case Against PGVector
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The Case Against pgvector | Alex Jacobs
What happens when you try to run pgvector in production and discover all the things the blog posts conveniently forgot to mentionAlex Jacobs
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Banqueiros e BC querem manter sabotagem contra o país com juros nas alturas
As instituições financeiras projetam que a Selic (taxa básica de juros) permanecerá nos estratosféricos 15% no final de 2025, conforme o Boletim Focus, divulgado pelo Banco Central (BC), nesta segunda-feira (3).Hora do Povo
Mali’s Potential Fall To Terrorists Could Result In Another French-Led Intervention
The dual pretexts of crushing the world’s latest caliphate and averting another 2015-like migrant crisis could suffice for rallying the public around a French-led mission for restoring Western influence in the region.Andrew Korybko (Andrew Korybko's Newsletter)
Río de Janeiro and the Open Wound Michael Jackson Denounced
In 1996, Michael Jackson was already much more than a global idol: he was a voice that resonated with messages of love, peace, and unity. But with They Don't Care About Us, the King of Pop decided to confront the world's wounds head-on.Cuba Si
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