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  • Newly appointed Hungary government official starts dancing

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  • The new US ambassador, explaining his positions through interpretive dance.

  • Need a new house? Order online from China for less than $25,000

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  • A friend of mine lived in a hillside neighborhood. Wanted a small ADU (standalone unit, usually pre-fab, for office or in-laws). Reasonably priced prefabs. Since it was on an incline, couldn't just plop it on cement blocks. Got an estimate for a poured foundation. Slab was too heavy. It had to be the lighter kind that traced the exterior edge, with anchors into bedrock to comply with code.

    $300K, just for the foundation.

    Noped right out.

  • What are your worst tech purchases?

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  • Haha, yes I actually did get those back then. Didn't work. Turned out the wiring between floors was really old and there was a lot of noise. Place was also a rental, so I couldn't drill big holes into floors and walls to draw ethernet.

    The thing that ultimately solved it was mesh. It's worked pretty well since then and on to the new place where wiring is even worse. With mesh repeaters, we can even reach far corners of basement storage.

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  • Nature is healing.

  • Cloudflare to fire 1,100 staff whose jobs just aren’t AI enough

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  • A bit ironic they offer a service to keep away AI bots from scanning websites, but say AI use is making them so productive they have to lay people off.

    So AI bad or good? Getting whiplashed here.

  • What are your worst tech purchases?

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  • Trying to solve wifi dead spots across my then house. It didn't have wired conduits, so no ethernet between floors. Went through a series of range-extenders, multiple routers, everything from cheapo no-names, to TP-Links, Netgears, and Apple Airports. All sucked. Terrible reception in all the places that people hung out.

    Then mesh routers showed up. Got a 3-pack and never looked back.

    Edit: runner-up was an HP Inkjet printer. Every time someone needed a color print, one color ink was either out or dried out.

  • OpenAI president defends motives in for-profit restructuring as he reveals $30bn stake

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  • What is it like traveling with two passports at the same time?

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  • We have several family friends who do this regularly. What helps is there are no direct flights to their destinations. They leave with their US passport, and if they have to exit the terminal, go through customs with their US passport.

    When it's time to board, they use their other passport. At the destination, they go through customs with their local passport and don't have to stand in long lines.

    The only situation I've heard of is if they stay in the other country and make money while there, those may incur US taxes as foreign earnings.

  • I hear there are women out there who are attracted to disappointment

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  • DeepSeek V4—almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price

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  • Simon may want to randomize his Pelican/Bicycle test.

    There is a long tradition in tech of firms tweaking their outputs to get higher scores on well-known tests. The ultimate example is VW Dieselgate.

    But in AI, it's easy to game benchmarks, by adding the best answers to the training set for the next version.

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  • Simple math error. They counted limbs, then divided by four.

  • Emergency First Responders Say Waymos Are Getting Worse

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  • White, the Austin police official, said Waymos can get stuck when they’re forced to interact with people. “The human element is what’s killing them,” he says. “The moment you introduce the human element, [the vehicles] lack that social awareness of what to do, and they freeze.” Freezing creates “a significant danger to public safety,” he told federal regulators.

    Nothing to see here. Carry on.

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    TIL about Detroit Electric

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  • An even earlier manufacturer was Baker Electric of Cleveland, Ohio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Motor_Vehicle. They werem't the first (EVs had been around since 1880), but by 1906 they were the biggest car maker, running the largest manufacturing plant in the world.

    Main market was for those who made frequent short stops, and didn't want to get their hands dirty hand-cranking the gas or steam motor starters. Their coupe model had a 'boat-tiller' instead of a steering wheel.

    Jay Leno has a restored 1909 Baker Electric he showed on an old car show: https://youtu.be/OhnjMdzGusc

    There was a glut of electric cars, then gas-powered ones with longer range showed up. In 1912, the electric starter was introduced for gas cars, taking away one of the main features of EVs. By 1914, Baker would merge and then shut down.

  • Tinder takes action against AI profiles by making users scan eyes for “proof of humanity”

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  • SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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  • Goddamit. Shouldn't be surprised, but still.

  • This is my happy place

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  • It can go both ways.

    The bin for 3/4" brass nipples are empty, but there's a good chance there are a couple by the Gorilla glue.

  • Fisher-Price Is Pivoting to AI-Powered Autonomous Weapons Manufacturing

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  • Q: What happens to your commitment to child safety?

    Fisher-Price has, for nearly a century, ensured that no toy contained a small part that could be swallowed by a child under three years of age. We are pleased to report that our autonomous weapons systems do not contain small parts.

  • EU Is Rolling Out an Online Age Verification App That Could Become the Global Blueprint

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  • Cloudflare launches private mesh VPN (Tailscale-like) offering

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  • Dare you to try explaining all this to your elderly relatives.

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    New Year's Resolution Ideas: Busytown Edition

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    New Year's Resolution Ideas: Busytown Edition

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
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    Killswitch Engineer

  • Hardware @lemmy.ml
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    You're so poor...

  • Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml
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    You're so poor...

  • Bicycles @lemmy.ca
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    Introducing the TM-B

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Replacement.AI: Humans no longer necessary

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  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
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    Turing Test

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    It's Bigger on the Inside

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    Sí más más

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    AI Bubblesort

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    Schedule I drug

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    RLHF

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    When in Rome...

  • Books @lemmy.ml
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    Chris Ware on Richard Scarry and the Art of Children's Literature

    yalereview.org /article/chris-ware-richard-scarry
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    The Summer of Johann: prompt injections as far as the eye can see

    simonwillison.net /2025/Aug/15/the-summer-of-johann/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Digg’s new app is basic, but a great start

    www.theverge.com /apps/763689/digg-mobile-ios-android-app-relaunch
  • LocalLLaMA @sh.itjust.works
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    I built a private Al mini-cluster with Framework Desktop

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    First try at local openai/gpt-oss-20b

  • Bicycling @lemmy.world
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    Tour de France 2025, Stage 10 | EXTENDED HIGHLIGHTS | 7/14/2025 | Cycling on NBC Sports