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How Blu-ray's 'unbreakable' copy protection was broken
BD+ was the most sophisticated optical-disc DRM ever deployed. SlySoft broke it anyway.
Everything I (never)
posted to Beli.
Figure out my headspace?
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New therapies for hearing loss — what do they mean for the Deaf community and its languages?
Gene therapy can now restore hearing in children born deaf — what does this mean for Deaf identity and the languages we pass on or lose?
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Why do BUCS students think like that?
from a conversation over hotpot about why some people are so corporate-pilled...
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735 songs, 38 months, in charts
The last 3 years of my Spotify listening, visualized
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Planning for the end of the world
Mapping my uncertainties (March 2025)
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Census Noise and Reconstruction
Banning noise will be a disaster for statistical data products - Ted is writing things
Sadly, taking away valuable disclosure avoidance tools doesn't make fundamental trade-offs go away.
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Every Frame Perfect
Every Frame Perfect @ tonsky.me
How imprecise UI animations erode trust in product
tonsky.me ↗ weblog
Making Food Out of Thin Air
Is Bacteria The Future Of Farming?
On the outskirts of Helsinki, a pioneering factory is harvesting natural, scalable proteins without the need for fair weather or animals.
www.noemamag.com ↗ 
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An Interactive Introduction to Arabic Typography
An interactive introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt | La Vita Nouva
lr0.org ↗ weblog
Opensource AI Must Win
Opensource AI Must Win
Civilizational intelligence infrastructure must remain free to study, build, deploy, and run, not rented from closed institutions.
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Banning Noise Will Be a Disaster for Statistical Data Products
Banning noise will be a disaster for statistical data products - Ted is writing things
Sadly, taking away valuable disclosure avoidance tools doesn't make fundamental trade-offs go away.
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erm: A Local CLI That Strips Ums, Uhs, and Erms From Speech
erm: A Local CLI That Strips Ums, Uhs, and Erms From Speech | doug.sh
A tour of erm, a local CLI that removes disfluencies from English speech recordings using faster-whisper, a few detectors that look at the audio directly, and ffmpeg.
doug.sh ↗ weblog
How the Squamish Struck Gold in Vancouver
How the Squamish built Senakw
Just beyond central Vancouver, the Squamish Nation is building one of the most ambitious and unusual housing developments in the world, and getting rich in the process. How they did it has lessons for
www.worksinprogress.news ↗ weblog
Frontier Code
Introducing FrontierCode | Cognition
Today’s coding benchmarks have established that models can write correct code, but the question we should really be asking is: can models actually write good code?
cognition.ai ↗ weblog
Will It Mythos?
Will It Mythos? - I've done some things
OK, so Mythos finds really challenging security bugs, right? That’s why it’s cordoned off from the hoi polloi, to protect the world from such a powerful finder of exploits. I am skeptical of the reasons given publicly, I suspect it’s really just so much more expensive to operate than their current models that they don’t want to offer it broadly, yet, given the difficulty they’ve had growing capacity to keep up with use.
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Mimo Tilert: 1,000 TPS
mimo.xiaomi.com
MiMo, in collaboration with TileRT, releases the UltraSpeed mode of Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5-Pro — breaking 1000 tokens/s generation speed on a 1T-parameter model for the first time on commodity GPUs through extreme model-system codesign.
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xAI's New Rental Business
xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab - Martin Alderson
xAI is renting huge amounts of GPU capacity to Anthropic and Google. Financial engineering ahead of the SpaceX IPO, a real compute shortage, or a genuine datacentre advantage? Probably all three.
martinalderson.com ↗ weblog
ThinkPad X61
Porting the ThinkPad x61 to coreboot | Arthur's blog
An introduction to my IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad addiction Over 10 years ago I got my first ThinkPad x60. I got interested in free software by reading the about GNU …
blog.aheymans.xyz ↗ weblog
China's Unitree Will Dominate Global Humanoid Robotics
How China's Unitree Will Dominate Global Robotics
The Fastest Iteration Cycle In Next-Gen Robotics Should See Unprecedented Acceleration
newsletter.semianalysis.com ↗ weblog
A Few Interesting Modern Pixel Fonts
A few interesting modern pixel fonts – Unsung
A blog about software craft and quality
unsung.aresluna.org ↗ weblog
What Jack Kerouac Left Behind
What Jack Kerouac Left Behind | The New Yorker
Joyce Johnson writes about her affair with Jack Kerouac, whom she met on a blind date in New York before he published “On the Road.”
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The SpaceX IPO Will Be the Theft of the Century
The SpaceX IPO Will Be the Theft of the Century
An S-1 full of fantasies, insiders who will pocket millions, index companies that have changed the rules: it's all a recipe for regular people to have their pockets picked.
montanaskeptic.substack.com ↗ weblog
Demand Is Booming for Ursa AG's New No-Tech, Repairable Tractor
Demand Is Booming for New No Tech, Repairable Tractor
"There is consumer pressure to back away from technology that is unnecessary to perform everyday tasks."
www.404media.co ↗ weblog
GitHub Token Stealing
1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug – Ammar's Blog
My blog, mostly about programming
