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people can argue about whether ai breaks copyright for the individual works that it reproduces in the slurry, but the truth is if it wasn't for the hard work of actual human artists writers coders etc you wouldn't see anything at all after you typed in that prompt

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Today is Bandcamp Friday! :ablobdj: 🎉

Where artists receive 100% of every purchase on Bandcamp! 💚

Instead of sharing your Spotify Wrapped this month, share your recommendations to buy music from a platform that supports artists!

What are your Bandcamp recommendations for the year? 👀

daily.bandcamp.com/features/ba

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day 5: Wrapping up the new ilo implementations, today I did GNU Smalltalk. It's in the repository at fossils.retroforth.org:8000/il With this I now have implemented ilo in 25 programming languages.

This isn't yet good Smalltalk, it's very much like the C original in structure, though I did make some notes on things I need to improve. I might revisit this later this month.

My full logs are at charles.childe.rs/DA2025/

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RE: hachyderm.io/@simontatham/1156

Apple jumps to even more conclusions in Apple Mail. If any of your mail accounts fail to connect to a server, that can only mean one thing: wrong password, and we must immediately show you a password prompt popup!

Same goes for Wi-Fi networks, if the encryption standard isn't supported, or any other issue: it can only be wrong password!

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📦 urllib3 2.6.0 is now available!

It fixes two high-severity security issues related to decompression of response content.

Additionally, the new version:
- switched to the backports.zstd package for the zstd support on Python 3.13 and before
- added explicit support for Python 3.14 and free threading
- removed two deprecated methods
- fixed a few bugs, added new small features, and improved performance

Check details in our release notes github.com/urllib3/urllib3/rel

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📦 urllib3 2.6.0 is now available!

It fixes two high-severity security issues related to decompression of response content.

Additionally, the new version:
- switched to the backports.zstd package for the zstd support on Python 3.13 and before
- added explicit support for Python 3.14 and free threading
- removed two deprecated methods
- fixed a few bugs, added new small features, and improved performance

Check details in our release notes github.com/urllib3/urllib3/rel

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Seeing all of the Flock posts lately got me wondering: is there a privacy-preserving way to accomplish the public benefit of traffic/speed cameras (reducing speeding and red light running) without also turning them into blanket ALPR spies tracking where everyone goes?

The best idea I came up with is a split system architecture that treats the camera as adversarial.

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the timer app on ios has a "recents" list, which is admittedly helpful and good UX, but it's also kind of fundamentally absurd, like "here are some durations that have been of interest to you lately"

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Some great thoughts for pair programming with agents by Nick Radcliffe: checkeagle.com/checklists/njr/

Best set of quotes:
> So it’s tempting to think that Claude’s knowledge is broad but shallow.

> But that’s wrong.

> So Claude’s knowledge is broad and deep.

> But that is wrong too.

> A library “contains” knowledge but knows nothing. There is a sense in which Claude might be said to “know” something.

> Claude “knows” a lot of things but doesn’t really understand what it knows

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