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The css is ".prose-invert" and there's a ".prose" that looks better, I wonder if something threw a switch to make it "invert" when it should be ".prose" because you're right, this is unreadable as-is. Interesting read though.
There's a video of the entire session here:
https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k14/k14ej1ucqu?kalturaStartTim...
(if that link doesn't work, it starts about 12 minutes into the start)
I just started using Claude Code for my work as a sysadmin. For my work, it's great. I don't need to wrestle with MySQL joins, claude gets even the most complex ones right WAY faster than I would. Same with new Terraform stuff. Things that would have taken me a day are cut to less than an hour.
So for my work, it's made me much better at my job. Much faster and more accurate.
Are there any defenses I can put in front of my websites that are good for stopping these things? The amount of traffic I see from residential proxies is just killing me. In particular defense against residential proxies.
That link it throwing me:
"Scan this QR code with your mobile device to verify you are human. reCAPTCHA protects your privacy and does not share your details with this website or app."
Planet Money just did an episode on this. The answer is, at least according to this, yes, pretty accurate. At least in the past https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5815308
I'm glad they had the "Brands That Still Make Their Own Stuff" list, that was my first thought. What other brands are still decent?
John McPhee had a great New Yorker article (which I think was also in the collection Irons in the Fire), where he wrote about how U.S. geologists used sand found in the Japanese "Fu-Go" bombs that made it to the NW US to figure out their launch sites from specific beaches near Tokyo.
It starts on the 9th page here
You're right, those tags are GREAT! Worth clicking through and having a look.
"Most of the private credit loans were floating rate and tied to the federal funds rate, which has persisted at a high level over the past three years. Fitch pointed to this as a catalyst for last year's defaults."
I guess it is fair to say the federal funds rate has persisted at a high level over the past three years now isn't it?
https://www.macrotrends.net/2015/fed-funds-rate-historical-c...
Also interesting to note, "Fitch recorded NO defaults in the software sector last year. The rating agency noted it categorizes software issuers into their main target market sectors when applicable."
Reminds me of when kids were doing the same on MySpace
https://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20070917/SUB/709170352...
Meta aims to introduce facial recognition to its smart glasses while its biggest critics are distracted, according to a report from The New York Times. In an internal document reviewed by The Times, Meta says it will launch the feature “during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
I'll just add another vote for OrbStack. I found it way faster on M1 and M5 and never found any compatibility issues.
That's handy! I just started using oh-my-zsh and I feel like I know about 4% of useful things it can do so far.
Alex Stamos talked about this a bit on TWiT late last year:
"It's getting hard to not be conspiracy minded here. They closed CSRB, destroyed CISA. CISA has no confirmed director. This just adds to kind of a complete surrender at least on the cyber side. We are spectacularly poorly prepared right now for a cyber attack."
It also reminded me of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti-tree_hoax
One of those things that seem POSSIBLE, but then again...
Of course, why are the good ones always in mice?
A study led by Stanford Medicine researchers has found that an injection blocking a protein linked to aging can reverse the natural loss of knee cartilage in older mice.This closes on a bit of a downer:
"As the Internet continues to evolve, it is no longer the technically innovative challenger pitted against venerable incumbents in the forms of the traditional industries of telephony, print newspapers, television entertainment and social interaction. The Internet is now the established norm. The days when the Internet was touted as a poster child of disruption in a deregulated space are long since over, and these days we appear to be increasingly looking further afield for a regulatory and governance framework that can challenge the increasing complacency of the very small number of massive digital incumbents.
It is unclear how successful we will be in this search for responses to this oppressive level of centrality in many aspects of the digital environment. We can but wait and see." "It’s hard to quantify just how widespread the phenomenon is, but certain notably offline hobbies are exploding in popularity."
That does seem like a really big assumption though.
"It is a DDOS attack involving tens of thousands of addresses"
I guess the hypothesis makes sense. They say it's probably Drugs, Alcohol, Obesity and Fourth, some of the increase may be due to changes in reporting. As people have become more aware of the danger of falls, falls that used to not be recorded as a cause of death may increasingly be reported as a cause.
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification...
Cory Doctorow's talk is quite strong.
I'm really interested in seeing how much these types of smart glasses are going to help visually impaired people. I don't see that mentioned in this article, I'm hopeful these things are another step for better accessibility.
These are interesting, but certainly not at the same level:
https://www.theverge.com/news/802905/eye-implant-smart-glass...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard
It was pretty cool, lonnnng time ago!
They wrote...
"Turns out it was Lyme disease (yes, the real one, not the fake one) and it (nearly) progressed to meningitis"
This was an interesting, very long, read! They say of those 25,000 daily trips, most shifted to cycling, walking and public transport, and some moved to other bridges. And then another 9,000 or so were replaced by alternatives that were just better... people tried new transport modes and often found they were better. They do say the closure has created genuine hardship for specific groups.
There's also a follow up that has full data in a spreadsheet like thing:
https://leobenedictus.substack.com/p/that-hospital-admission...
“We think that, by modulating cerebrospinal fluid pressure and reducing intracranial venous sinuses compression, these drugs produce a decrease in the release of calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), a key migraine-promoting peptide”, Dr Braca explained. “That would pose intracranial pressure control as a brand-new, pharmacologically targetable pathway.”
I was wondering what the definition of "niche" was going to be:
Kottke is one of the better known blogs that does not have a specific speciality.
Wondering the same thing, like is DeleteMe better? Or at least not like this thing?