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  • Servo 0.0.1 released!

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  • Servo is a web browser rendering engine written in Rust, with WebGL and WebGPU support, and adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded applications.

    Essentially it is an alternative to chromium based web browser engines. The other (major) web browser engines are WebKit for iOS and Gecko for Firefox. You can see a list at Wikipedia.

  • U.S. consumers bearing more than half the cost of tariffs so far, Goldman Sachs says

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  • Their percent margin might drop, but there is no way they just eat say a 100 dollar extra tariff charge. They would charge 100 dollars more on the item(s). They make the same profit, consumer pays more. The only time this isn’t true, is if the consumer will not or cannot pay the extra 100 dollars for the product and the sale is lost. In such a case they may try to pay part of the tariff and not raise their costs to account for margin.

    In practice I think many companies will actually charge more than the tariff to maintain percent margin.

    So definitely affects US consumers and companies, but may not affect foreign companies really at all.

  • Naked mole rats reveal genetic secret to long life

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  • When a cell senses the damage, one of the substances it produces is a protein called c-GAS. That plays several roles, but what was of interest to these scientists is that in humans, it interferes with and hampers the process by which DNA is knitted back together.

    Scientists think that this interference could promote cancer and shorten our lifespan.

    In naked mole rats though, the researchers found that the exact same protein does the opposite. It helps the body mend strands of DNA and keeps the genetic code in each cell intact.

    They don’t know why or how yet for the mole rat using the same pathway in a different way.

  • Over-sanitizing could be disrupting your microbiome and your mind.

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  • Yeah this is mostly fud. People read how folks on farms have fewer infections and have better health outcomes and take things way too far.

    People on farms have greater and more diverse gut microflora (commensals as they’re called sometimes). This is in part because of exposure to animals and nature, and also possibly in part due to lower levels of pro inflammatory things you might find in cities (think, air pollution, microplastics [they of course have them too now]).

    Good bacteria is good for you. Bad bacteria is bad for you. Viruses will mess you up and the best protection is not infection but vaccines. People truly believe that infections make their immune system stronger. That’s almost surely not true. The only thing that really makes you stronger are vaccines and getting a huge amount and diversity of good microflora.

    If we can solve the probiotic space really well (which is difficult, really fecal transfer seems to be the only reliable method at this point), then really there is zero concern about over sanitation. Even as it is. There shouldn’t be that much concern about it.

  • 2016 study suggests the human eye is sensitive enough to see a single photon

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  • I’m not sure. Either they’re unable to completely remove all noise (meaning the rest wasn’t done in absolute 0 photon space, only that when we pulse a photon a person can detect that there was a photon in an otherwise very low photon environment; that is, there may be some 10s of photons, but when the researchers release their control photon from the crystal, it is perceptible above that background), or perhaps they’re talking about neurological noise in the biological circuits that fire. My guess is the former.

  • AI Poised to Gut Your Retirement Fund, Analysts Warn

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  • I did the same. I just wish I could move my money to international bank accounts held in Euro or something.

  • AI Poised to Gut Your Retirement Fund, Analysts Warn

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  • What is the best way for US residents to divest?

  • White House freezes funds for Democratic states in shutdown slap

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  • Blue states should direct companies doing business within their borders to withhold federal taxes on any economic activity within their state and block outgoing transfers to the IRS at the bank level.

  • Strike called in Italy, protests flare over interception of Gaza aid ships

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  • This. More of this action.

  • Apple Releases iOS 26.0.1 (macOS, watchOS, tvOS, & visionOS too!)

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  • My work mac got upgraded to Tahoe and I must say — it overall sucks. Inconsistent borders (and the new borders are way too large, it’s idiotic — stay with how it was) and the liquid glass is visual clutter that decreases legibility in general. I tried increase contrast but the overall effect is less than desired. The new tiling is okay, but I largely got by with rectangle anyways so I’m really not seeing much there either.

  • Hyundai's new EV plant was just raided by ICE, 'hundreds' taken into custody

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  • More likely they’ll just stop investing in making plants and hiring here and move their stuff back off shore, because the cost of doing business here would be too high. So once again, shooting us all in the foot with our foot guns and diminishing US manufacturing and investment with stupid shortsighted decisions.

  • Apache OpenOffice vs LibreOffice (2025): Which One Actually Delivers?

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  • I think they just don’t know. They just search for OpenOffice perhaps and it comes up. I think I had actually looked before installing libreoffice. At this point Apache should just archive OpenOffice and redirect to libreoffice.

  • Apache OpenOffice vs LibreOffice (2025): Which One Actually Delivers?

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  • TL;DW: Apache OpenOffice is not actively maintained. LibreOffice is. Both have heritage in the same original (non Apache) OpenOffice.

  • Lumo: the least open 'open' AI assistant

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  • It supports the thesis that Lumo is not open source in many common sense ways that most people would expect when a model claims it is open source. So in that sense, it does though.

  • Lumo: the least open 'open' AI assistant

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  • Over 450 Diablo developers at Blizzard have unionized

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  • They’ll be required to pay their employees appropriately and provide benefits, as their talent pool will now collectively bargain for these things. Hundreds of people negotiating as one instead of everyone for themselves.

    Fairly paid talent will produce better games.

  • Thinking of switching my gaming desktop to linux. Should I?

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  • Open TV, the fast, simple and open-source IPTV app, launches on iOS today

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  • It’s a way to watch content you may have otherwise needed a tv antenna or cable box for

  • Wayland GUI in an Unpriviliged LXC container (proxmox)

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  • Oh interesting. I’ll give gdm a try and see if that gives any joy. Thanks for this tip, will return tomorrow with update on this particular change

    Update: alas, no dice for this change.