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Salt Lake City, UT
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Trying out Apple's Foundation Model LLM (via 'fm chat' in macOS 27).
It's sure that the AE in 'Cortex-A76AE' means 'Application'. And it claims the Cortex-A78 is a 32-bit core.
I’m actually impressed by the list of things Amazon has on its ‘About You’ page for me. 😂
Video explaining how to find and update/remove it: youtube.com/shorts/lAC2gy4AU…
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A plan to develop 19 acres of space above an active railroad yard in San Francisco would house thousands of people.
If only there were a similar plan for Salt Lake City! One that would repurpose 75 acres of land, eliminate crossing delays, and restore a historic train station...
One of San Francisco's largest redevelopment projects could completely transform nearly 19 acres of land near Downtown.
Plans are moving forward for the redevelopment of the Caltrain Railyards at 4th and King in SoMa.
The project could include:
• Up to 5,834 apartments
• Up to 5.6 million SF of commercial space
• 160,000+ SF of retail
• A completely rebuilt Caltrain station
• More than 4 acres of public open space
• Multiple skyscrapers reaching 350 to 600 feet
• A potential 850-foot tower
This land is currently occupied by railroad tracks, platforms, maintenance facilities and the existing Caltrain station.
The proposal would modernize the transit infrastructure, relocate train storage and maintenance, and create an entirely new mixed-use neighborhood above and around the station.
Thousands of people could be living, working, shopping and spending time in what is currently a massive rail yard.
And all directly connected to one of the Bay Area's most important transit corridors.
The project is now entering environmental review, with construction potentially starting in 2029 and taking 15 to 20 years to complete....
There's obviously a long road ahead, but I love seeing developers think this big about underutilized urban land.
This could completely reshape SF.
📍San Francisco
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In addition to this - for those that are on the receiving end of screenshots and want to copy out the error code, in Windows 11 you can press WIN + Shift + T to extract text on screen
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But Owain, why do you think @BBCNews is ignorant unintelligent garbage?
I couldn't possibly imagine.
Someone’s been posting AI-generated server lab images to a group. The best way to tell it’s AI is to look at the numbering on the switches. Though I’m sure that’s something that’ll get fixed soon enough.
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It looks like Hanno Böck from badkeys.info/ is doing this. There was a GH issue to scan weak EC keys but was never really actioned: github.com/badkeys/badkeys/i…
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Did you know most dolmens were never meant to be seen?
What's standing today is the skeleton. Most dolmens were burial chambers covered by a mound of earth or stones, and the mound has washed away over 5,000 years and left the big stones bare.
In 1979 at Bougon in western France, archaeologist Jean-Pierre Mohen tested how they were built using a 32-tonne replica capstone. About 200 people dragged it with ropes over log rollers, then raised it with wooden levers. No crane, no wheel, no metal. And at Karnak in Egypt, one ramp never got removed. A mound of mudbrick still leans against the inside of the First Pylon, because that gateway was never finished and nobody cleared it away.
What other ramps do you know were cleared away without leaving a trace?
#dolmen #megalith #karnak #archaeology #ancientengineering
Today’s news reminds me that 16 years later systems were still vulnerable to CVE-2008-0166 (Debian’s broken OpenSSL PRNG).
“By scanning DKIM keys with my tool badkeys, I discovered a surprisingly large number of hosts vulnerable to the 2008 Debian OpenSSL bug. This trivially allowed sending emails with forged DKIM signatures for those hosts and thereby also passing DMARC checks.”
16years.secvuln.info
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FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
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UUUUUCK NO
Was recently at a bar where drinks were dynamically priced,
i.e. the more people bought a particular drink, the more expensive it became (price would then decayed over time towards a floor).
Fascinating to watch a few market mechanisms play out in a bar:
People ventured outside their usual orders in search of cheaper alternatives, often discovering new favorites in the process.
Others treated rising prices as signals of quality, happily paying premiums to try expensive drinks they’d never had before.
More experienced drinkers behaved like value investors, picking up underpriced drinks they already knew were good while everyone else chased the popular ones.
Price discovery, information leakage, herding, and utility trades all unfolded over rounds of drinks.
More bars should try this.
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Believe it or not, there is some precedence to the fan for downforce thing. Recently the McMurtry Spéirling has hit the streets with absolutely insane 0-60 times and track performance, and can also drive upside down! Let’s consider this the most feasible part 😂
I wonder how it compares to the McMurtry Spéirling (youtu.be/HPZxcfglU2Q?is=SyIK…).
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No. The opposite: make all firmware images public. They can be dumped anyway. Your best bet is getting more eyes on them.
Open source everything, the code is not a moat. Obfuscation is even dumber today.
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"The kind of expectations *I* have is that people do their best and I expect people to understand what they are doing."
This is why Linux is such a prolific project, and Linus is such an effective leader.
lkml.org/lkml/2026/10/13/324…
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Quite a few people have sent me the "Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them." post on Substack.
The post recommends people abandon passkeys and stick to passwords + TOTP, citing what appears to be concerns with attestation as the primary reason.
I’ve written a rebuttal as this is really dangerous advice and it's based on some incorrect technical claims.
scotthelme.co.uk/passkeys-ar…
