Sigh… so stock for most american companies will drop by around 2%, Reddit’s front page will be dominated by that mural picture of every red stock for two days, Forbes will pump out a LLM generated article explaining what DeepSeek is again.

Then Sam Altman and Anthropic will issue statements with a mix of “it’s not more advanced than our current models”, “they stole our models” and “actually they still use a thousand Nvidia GPUs just like us” which will then make the stock go back to normal in a week.

Rinse and repeat next year, I guess. I wish this bubble would pop already.

I profoundly hate this timeline

Many Latin American countries always add bay leaves when cooking any type of bean. There are beans in a burrito.

In Brazil’s version of the Shark Tank TV show, they sometimes call for guest “sharks” to show up besides the regular hosts. Once, the founder of China in Box, Brazil’s largest Chinese fast food chain (and one of the first in general) was there.

So the participant shows up and his pitch was a device he invented for peeling garlic faster at home. It’s basically a blender motor, but with attachments to vibrate the garlic against the container rather than cut through it, so the skin peels off and the garlic is ready for usage. After the pitch, of course, they ask the hosts if they want to invest into their company.

So the Chinese food guy says “oh no, no way I’m investing into that, it’s a kitchen appliance - in ten years, nobody will have a kitchen in their homes, they’ll use delivery apps for every meal, they won’t ever need any cooking apparatus”

And honestly his comments still fill me with rage every single time.

Brazil went with Huawei for large parts of it’s networking and telecom infrastructure and it’s been fantastic, I’m really happy with this decision

Likely a Chromium fork made by two teenagers larping as security experts, or a guy trying to sell you NFTs in a very brave manner.

I have a visceral “AI” sensor that triggers when I see these:

“Rust Implementation (v2)”

“Performance Benchmarks (Validated)”

Human beings don’t self-validate explicitly like that. AI loves doing it.

You generate code, there’s a bug, you ask for a fix, your AI of choice will always output with:

*** Fix build issue ***

*** End fix ***

and then call it “Version 2 (Validated)”.

Sometimes it’s more subtle, but you can feel it, it loves adding “confirmed”, “working”, “validated”.

Friendly reminder that the so called “Amazon flying rivers”, which are extremely large and interconnected networks of insanely humid air generated by Amazon’s incredible density of forest and actual rivers, are so great they’re not a part of the “microclimate” (the local climate usually associated by being near a forest) and instead heavily influence the climate of the entirety of South America and quite a large portion of North America through atmospheric effects - a simulation showed that without the Amazon, California loses 50% of it’s main clean water source. There are regions in the US that would dry up without the Amazon.

So what seems like a small local win is actually internationally relevant.

Depends on the functionality you expect from each, and if you work alone or integrated into a company relying on Adobe products. But yes, in general, you could replace every single Adobe product with an alternative, either libre or proprietary.

Worth noting that the UK, US, Germany and even Brazil can easily (and do constantly) mass de-anonymize Tor users, and that they have been looking or attempting to ban VPNs for quite a while.

YouTube Music is filled with AI generated songs with straight up hentai album covers

I don’t see the appeal of cars in general, but this is particularly ugly.

It looks like what you see on a PlayStation 2 game if you’re far away enough from the objects to trigger the low poly LOD version.

I was never excited for FPGAs, they were lauded as the biggest innovation in emulation and they’re just… meh.

Now decompilation? I’m finally excited again, amazing work so far

The version featured in Windows 7 Starter was also made by Chuck Anderson and Erik Attkisson, but features a heavily simplified appearance compared to the original; it features fewer blades of grass and lines, while the Windows logo is simply a white-light blue radial gradient as opposed to being colorful.

It also served as Starter’s only wallpaper, and unlike previous Starter SKUs of Windows, it cannot be changed due to internal product policy restrictions.

Imagine using an operating system that treats you as a hostage on your own PC because you gave the company money, but not enough money

Sure, but that’s a lot of work and worry to keep all those backups going and syncd

I think it took me 15 minutes to first install SyncThing and Vorta? I literally haven’t worried about this for the last two years

Now, you’re probably an IT admin or programmer

I’m a biologist :) (though to be fair, mastering in bioinformatics, but this setup came first!)

And in the end, you have a computer hooked to your stereo, the one place I’m trying to escape the constant computing.

My stereo is a Gradiente from the 70s, no computers there. My portable player does connect to a computer to sync sometimes… but I do this when charging, so out of mind.

But… those other storage mediums can also get damaged, burn, rot, etc

Sure can. You know what else they can do? Instantly and cleanly copy their data to any other storage device, they can even do so automatically every day!

Your hard drive can be erased in many ways.

I’m willing to bet my main SSD, my backup HDD, my FLAC player’s SD card, and my laptop SSD all carrying the same file are going to be more durable than a piece of plastic.

I’m curious as to why?

Physical media scratches, rots, burns down, etc. They also require a lot of space, and you can’t have it all with you easily.

My FLAC library is got the same or better audio quality, I can backup and copy in seconds for myself or friends, I can carry everything, or just curated playlists, with the toggle of a button, and I can preserve them on any medium I find - mechanical HDs, SD cards, SSDs, etc.

Though I am very curious about vinyl…

I prefer dedicated digital players over physical media, for instance, a FLAC player with a digital library over CDs, but I’m glad to see this trend catching up. Anything that gets people building their own collections, escaping algorithms and escaping DRM/streaming is a huge win in my book.

I never understood why in the US (North America? Europe?) children do this experiment with potatoes. Use a citric fruit instead, much better at moving ions around.