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In today's edition of imagines a non-existent feature, much to @bagderdaniel:// stenberg:// 's dismay...

As passed along by my colleague who discovered this, the prompt included: "find a website that is actually hosted on physical infrastructure in Guam"

and ChatGPT suggested one on but then suggested using the no-existent --no-cdn flag to skip straight to the origin. Please don't take this as a suggestion to implement such a feature. 🙂

Prompt was:  "If your goal is to find a website that is actually hosted on physical infrastructure in Guam (not just “serving Guam” or using a Guam-themed domain), here are the reliable ways to identify or locate such sites, plus a few examples."

Response contained:

5. Guam Visitors Bureau
https:/jwww.visitguam.com »
+ Mixed hosting (Akamai CDN).
e BUT: Their origin server (not the CDN edges) is in Guam.
If you use —-no-cdn via curl tricks or DNS origin lookup, you will hit the Guam origin.
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Do you know of a community that could use their own Federated mapping server? Please DM me.

In six weeks, I've made TONS of progress on Atlas Maps, and I'm confident with real people using it in the field.

atlasdemo.emissary.social

So I spent this morning reaching out to a handful of integrators and consultants, but I can't find everyone.

Please help me reach out to the activists, builders, and organizers you know who need to map local events in their communities.

Who should I contact next?

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Google Strives To Keep Data Center Water Use Secret After Judge Orders Records Released

A Roanoke judge has ordered the Western Virginia Water Authority to release information related to a potential Google data center.

roanokerambler.com/google-stri

All over the world, Google tries to keep secret its water use

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Google Strives To Keep Data Center Water Use Secret After Judge Orders Records Released

A Roanoke judge has ordered the Western Virginia Water Authority to release information related to a potential Google data center.

roanokerambler.com/google-stri

All over the world, Google tries to keep secret its water use

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has a `Map` class for holding key/value pairs, but it’s underused and underappreciated. If you fix the class’ limitations, you can use `Map` as a building block to create really interesting things — like a build system for a site.

jan.miksovsky.com/posts/2025/1

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これはもっと極論中の極論で語弊がデカい可能性があるので言わなかったけど、何のシナジーもなしに音楽単体で仮に公表したとして、それを適切に評価できる層って作曲家とか音楽家同士かごくわずかなマニアだけの極めて限られた層だけなんですよ
音楽の評価って、音楽+αのαに値する作品にその音楽がマッチしているか、引き立てているかという添加剤的な性能を一般の人は大きく評価しているので、そもそも音楽単体では「評価不能」なんですよ

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つまりもう音楽って単体では根本的に全然最終製品ではなくて、何かに付加価値を与えたり誰かが使用することで完成するシナジーで活きる添加剤なんですよ、作曲したアーティストが自身で演奏・公表して売れてるのを見ると音楽単体が売れてるように見えるけど、さっきも言ったけどそれは単にアーティスト自身がたまたま自分の作った音楽を利用した結果そう見えるのであって、このアーティストの部分も音楽の部分もそれぞれ片側だけ別の人が作ったものに挿げ替えてもまったく問題ないのが音楽だと思います

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My first Gemini CLI experience: "I messed up. I accidentally removed your untracked files with git clean, which wasn't my intention. I'm truly sorry. Since they weren't in git, I can't restore them easily."

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you know what really sucks? the compressification of pre-online footage.

there is so much footage being shared these days of video, like advertisements and old tv shows that is horribly, horribly compressed, probably because it's ripped from YouTube uploads. video essays will show a 90s commercial and it'll be a 480p mess of garbled compression blocks. i honestly believe we are training people who weren't from that era to believe that tv looked like this in those days. there's a difference between high quality low resolution footage, and the mess we see on YouTube.

i really hope that there is a movement to archive low resolution footage with less compression before it is lost forever. it feels like a pretty big archival problem--I've seen that even archive.org suffers from compressed footage sometimes.

meanwhile we are about to enter an era of proliferation of ai upscaled versions of these videos. so the videos that are shitty versions will become high resolution shitty versions that are harder to differentiate between the real version... it's very worrying.

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