How the fuck is this still a tight race? I just for the life of me cannot understand (I mean, I can, but… I just can’t).

wasn’t there some research recently that said that like 20% of what your brain does was actually controlled by your gut microbiota?

I love how all of the characters are scowling and have their game faces on… and then there’s Kirby, who’s like “Hi there! I’m gonna eat you and extract your power!”

It would be ideal If the big activitypub platform stacks like mastodon, Lemmy, etc could agree on some standard like a federated OIDC or DID approach for all authx/authn functions. then fediverse users could get cross-platform and even cross-instance logins “for free”

Of the changes made last week to the license, this one stands out:

10. None of the Work may be used in any form as part, or whole, of an integration, plugin or app that integrates with Atlassian’s Confluence or Jira products.

That is a weird carve-out, so I’d guess the license revision (and technically the reason it’s no longer open source) somehow has to do with Atlassian or their plugin marketplace?

Feel like the (totally impractical) fediverse end-game would be for each individual to have their own activitypub service, and federation happening on a person-by-person basis. So you retain some control over anything you publish, and your history is yours to keep.

As others have said, changing UPS batteries is required maintenance, and I agree 18-24 months is the typical service life for even high-end UPSs. However, you may want to look into LiFePO4 based UPSs, which can handle many more charge-discharge cycles and often have 5-year warranties. More expensive and potentially not as recyclable as lead acid batteries, but maybe appropriate for your use case.

Yeah I wish they’d just transcribe their youtube videos and make blog-style posts with some of the screenshots. I’m almost never going to watch a 20-minute video, it’s not like they’d be losing a viewer.

Good suggestion! Though sometimes they’re a little too technical for me.

With AnandTech gone and TomsHardware aside, what’s another great “deep cuts” tech news and reviews site?

This is a good, short read. For those who are unfamiliar with the AGPL license that the author proposes we all start using, the main difference (and I am not a lawyer) is that under the AGPL, the source code including any modifications must also be made available to all users interacting with the software over a network. This prevents companies from making proprietary versions of AGPL software that are only accessible as a web service, which is one of the big ways that corporations are able to profit from GPL source code contributions these days.

When did we get away from saying “X - formerly known as Twitter” ? I liked seeing that gentle nudge in every headline.

It was. It’s meme rotation.

Investors who don’t bother reading past the letters A and I in the prospectus.

How is Worldcoin still a thing?

Maybe true, but even at $3500 the Vision Pro would be about the cheapest thing in the operating theater anyway.

Are you looking for a tool that can diff legal documents line by line or clause by clause? If the latter I’d bet an LLM with a large context size could do a pretty good job, especially if you used a script (or another pass through the LLM) to break them down into like sections so that could just compare e.g. all Controlling Law sections with each other and all IP Indemnification sections with each other.

Now that I think about it, tuning the prompt (and keeping the temperature very low, like 0) you could probably get it to return everything from proper diffs to summaries of conceptual differences. And it could definitely do multiples at once if you were to break them into like pieces ahead of time.

If Ukraine is forced to capitulate It could be 20x this number and the Kremlin would still consider it a massive win.

Mine’s more like an LLM - exposed to a vast quantity of technical terms that they don’t really understand, but can mash them together well enough to make coherent-sounding statements in JIRA

Also because Taiwan is currently the only place to get state-of-the-art microchips