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There is also https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx-swift-lm which is what https://jan.ai uses.

Where does the headline come from? The README metrics say there are no published benchmarks.

This looks perfect! I had been searching around for “feature phones” but the market seems dire. Lots of carrier locked devices or devices that still offer “a little bit of internet”. And then I started thinking about finding a repair shop when my kid inevitably breaks it and an old iPhone keeps looking better and better.

Plus when my kids lose it in a bag somewhere I can use find my instead of wasting an hour digging around.

As I parent I am downvoting this because I am quite tired of others judging parents and their technology choices- particularly when it comes to restrictions.

Parenting is hard. Parenting when everything is changing so quickly is very difficult.

As a parent I want a phone I can find because kids will lose a phone.

So, Find My is invaluable for locating it again.

Do they have wide margins like a printing or tight margins for tablets?

Ha. Thank you! Strange it is only from one store.

Where can the books be found in PDFs for purchase?! First time I have heard of a non paperback novel.

Obviously I know I can probably find them on the high seas.

I have been thinking about the problem of collaborating with AI in spreadsheets a bit. I think I want a few things solved:

- Revision control with attribution so I can double check LLMs edits

- Online collaboration with other humans and LLMs

- Schema and validation of column and row data

- Excel and Gdocs interoperability

One path I think you could go to accomplish this would be DuckDB which creates a programming interface that LLMs could use and interoperability with Excel and Google Docs via plugins.

Not sure if it is better to create from scratch rebuilds of the spreadsheet UX or rely on existing spreadsheet apps for that.

All that being said for any work I do I think I would want my data an LLM is operating on to be more structured and constrained than a text file or even a spreadsheet without cell validation.

This is really neat! I have been thinking about similar problems.

Is there a way to collaborate with multiple agents or people on the same doc? It is unclear to me.

It would be cool to add this as a tool in copyparty! I have had a few friends come over and copy files from my home server they want to use.

Seems like a mobile app is needed for this. My phone has tons of storage that is unused and always with me.

I use nextdns with tailscale.

https://tailscale.com/docs/integrations/nextdns

All of Cory Doctorow books are DRM free.

https://shop.craphound.com/

Sure, fair.

I read your comment can be read as a reconfirmation of the articles thesis that we love lawns because they are always great for people where I am offering a counter-point that kids also love non-lawn yards.

Not creating an argument- just offering a different point.

I recently tore out my lawn and co-designed a native yard with my kids. We designed a map together with very narrow wood chip paths to play on and brought in soil to create berms for height variety. They love running around playing tag or hiding from each other. Once they get older I can imagine friends will enjoy capture the flag or foam dart wars in the space.

We had one small japanese maple tree that they designated as a reading / relaxation area and have been using that too.

I think the biggest thing was the berms + paths around and over them. The topographical variety added a lot of play opportunities.

All that said we kept a small patch of grass- but it just isn't the entire yard as it was when we got our place.

Edit: removed counter point as a phrase

I recently killed my lawn, ordered soil to create berms, and planted 100+ native plants (small ones and a few trees/bushes) all over the yard.

It has brought me so much joy! I observe so many interesting animal behaviors like birds playing on the springy yarrow flowers or bumble bees tumbling around the tiny clarkia blooms.

The three things that motivated me the most was Concrete Botany Audiobook[1], the Kill Your Lawn youtube series[2], and the interesting chats with neighbors who are interested in doing the same or have done the same.

That isn't to say it was easy or that I haven't gotten some strange comments like "your yard produces a lot of seeds that come into my lawn".

[1] https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9798317900410-concrete-botany

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npzXlugEvxM

This is clickbait slop in my opinion. But, now that we are here.

I have found vinegar an excellent weed killing tool when someone put down weed barrier and rocks. You don’t care about the soil in that case.

Otherwise a torch works great if there is no plastic weed barrier to burn.

I am removing all of the weed barrier slowly on my property- it is snake oil no matter where it is used. Nature will slowly build soil on top of the barrier in a few years and it will slowly degrade from wear and heat. Max 3-5 years before it is just a big mess in the PNW.

The most interesting thing to me, personally, is the Glass Lewis ESG policy statement that defines what an independent board member is and then strives to have at least 2/3 of the Board meet that definition.

https://corporate.vanguard.com/content/dam/corp/advocate/inv...

Woah, that is cool! I will check it out.

I think the statement from Bricks and Minifigs is quite incorrect based on the written letter demanding return of inventory and later evidence of buyer purchasing consigned property after demand letter was received: https://youtu.be/14ktgvoH4Mc?t=781

I recently learned of OrbStack and it feels like the only product that actually makes an effort to integrate VMs and Containers correctly and consistently into macOS.

Docker Desktop and Podman Desktop are both a treadmill made of Lego bricks.

The spreadsheet app looks like a really nice boiler plate. I was surprised to learn about this amazing library digging through the docs: https://github.com/handsontable/hyperformula

The key finding of the report is that the https://ndstudio.gov (DOGE-lite created by executive order[1]) has staging domains in the certificate transparency log for sites like https://usa.gov/passport and https://vote.gov. The raw data is here: https://thedreydossier.github.io/NDS_servers_map/

Note the sketchiness of https://passports.gov as it exists today in particular.

My personal take is that the administration has had no problems taking over digital/physical infrastructure in undemocratic and authoritarian ways. And, the fact that this "design studio" is creating staging sites for some of the most sensitive government services like voter information and passports is ominous even when we don't know exactly what the contents are of their redesigns. If you take a straight reading of the executive order there are 1,000 other websites that they could start their work on that are far far worse to use than https://vote.gov and https://usa.gov/passport.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/impr...

https://github.com/iandchasse/de-link

Someone is working on a more DIY device that can run this firmware.

I contributed to this a little bit! The copyparty fileserver with opds enabled is a great companion to easily move books to the device.

In the next release I will fix a bug to enable file search for the copyparty opds as well.

There are a number of studies that show that Grit is either not a thing or there are better measures of success. It has been a long time since I have thought about it so I don't remember which papers in particular.

Also, it can be argued the author was either playing fast and loose or knowingly misleading readers with her statistics: https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/05/25/479172868/angela-...

If you like Podcasts the "If Books Could Kill" Podcast goes into some of this story again too.

Baggini is the source of the quote he just references the concept was from Adams at the end. I copy/pasted this from the book.

Baggini is the source of the quote he just references the concept was from Adams at the end. I copy/pasted this from the book.

I feel that "YouTube makes you an idiot" is a misdiagnosis. And one I hear frequently.

Books can make you an idiot too- I think of "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" or "Grit" or any number of pseudo-science best seller books. These books end up capturing the public imagination in big ways too- Grit caused some government policy in the US around when it was popular.

The difference, I suppose, is that YouTube works faster by having many different people presenting the same bad ideas that the algorithm has helped you to buy into.

On the other hand there are amazing and useful YouTube channels that I use all the time like Practical Engineering, Crafsman, Technology Connections, Park Tools, SciShow, Crash Course, and on and on.