A year after fame found him in Paris, Stephen Nedoroscik, aka 'Pommel Horse Guy,' is back for more
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Debounce
Link: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Debouncing, in the context of programming, means to discard operations that occur too close together during a specific interval, and consolidate them into a single invocation.MDN Web Docs
Recently I've been finding ChatGPT is INCREDIBLY useful as a research assistant for spitballing invention ideas.
Obviously it makes hard to spot yet critical mistakes, but generally it can give you an idea about material behavior, processes currently used in industry, costs of things, etc.
So far I have a queue of about 5 or 6 novel ideas that need to be tried in practice to see if they actually work, but could be very interesting little low cost DIY friendly devices that could replicate processes that are generally very costly.
Also I've eliminated probably 50 bad ideas already because GPT pointed out likely problems with them that I had not thought of...
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Americans get more than half their calories from ultra-processed foods, CDC report says
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looks like Wayne Allen Root is proposing this, among other things, to solve the illegal problem:
" A) Enforce E-Verify, so no illegal alien can work.
B) Require Real ID to ensure non-citizens cannot function in America anymore."
---thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/w…
Does this mean we will be required to have more ID and be more surveilled?
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OpenFlexure is an open source laboratory-grade microscope used to diagnose malaria and cancer. In this interview Julian Stirling, one of the core developers, tells us how the project evolved from its academic roots to a diverse community of people who use it, build it, sell it, teach it & develop it.
OpenFlexure is manufactured in many places to build local capacity. The next step is medical device certification, a slow but worthwhile process.
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#NGI #NGI0 #openhardware
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Here's what you need to know about ESPN's new steaming service and its deals with the NFL and WWE
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Different tee, same scruff. This is the recent shirt from @DomainTools Volunteer Day - when the entire company is given time off and encouraged to find a place to help in whatever community we’re part of.
Everything’s an ecosystem, and the more we each do to make things better, however small, the greater emergent phenonema those goods may become.
As always, if you see me and are feelin’ it, come say hi.
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Compiling GCC and Binutils Toolchain for a new OS is fine but the rest programs, oh god, a true psico-somatic headache for sure.
I am learning alot more trying to build a UNIX Operating System from scratch btw, a Micro Kernel with GNU Userland but I know it will be for a long time and alot of patience ofcourse.
Keeping Open Source projects is fun 😀
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AI Ethics is being narrowed on purpose, like privacy was
Link: nimishg.substack.com/p/ai-ethi…
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A few days ago, OpenAI released an open-source language model for the first time in a very long time. It had been promised for a while, but the deadline kept being pushed for “safety” concerns.Nimish Gåtam (Society, Technology and Culture)
I've seen enough Black Mirror to wonder how likely it would be that they'd start contaminating prole spaces with cancer mist.
Not only do they claim every advancement is a reward to the efforts of science, they make us pay for it.
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#geopolitics #Israel #genocide
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NEW DELHI, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened toen.people.cn
Hiroshima: Into a City of Death | History Traveler Episode 454
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August 6, 1945 is a day that served as a marker in human history. At 8:15 AM, the B-29 Enola Gay dropped the world's first atomic bomb to be used in combat on the city of Hiroshima. There are thousands of stories that could be told of that day but one woman who survived described it best when she said that she emerged from her shelter into "a city of death."
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The Gettysburg Museum of History is like no other civil war museum! Best things to do in Gettysburg: Civil War relics to JFK, Marilyn Monroe, mummy heads.Gettysburg Museum of History
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A team of astronomers has taken the sharpest-ever picture of the unexpected interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, using the crisp vision of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
ESA's Planetary Defence Office responded promptly to the discovery of the comet, and has been tracking it since the beginning of July.
Now, Hubble's observations from space are allowing astronomers to more accurately estimate the size of the comet’s solid icy nucleus. The upper limit on the diameter of the nucleus is 5.6 km, but it could be as small as 320 m across, researchers report.
Though the Hubble images put tighter constraints on the nucleus size compared to previous ground-based estimates, the solid heart of the comet presently cannot be directly seen, even by Hubble. Further observations, including by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, will help refine our knowledge about the comet, including its chemical makeup.
Hubble also captured a dust plume ejected from the Sun-warmed side of the comet, and the hint of a dust tail streaming away from the nucleus. Hubble’s data show that the comet is losing dust in a similar manner to that from previously seen Sun-bound comets originating within our Solar System.
The big difference is that this interstellar visitor originated in some other stellar systems, elsewhere in our Milky Way galaxy.
3I/ATLAS is traveling through our Solar System at roughly 210 000 km per hour, the highest speed ever recorded for a Solar System visitor. This breathtaking sprint is evidence that the comet has been drifting through interstellar space for many billions of years. The gravitational slingshot effect from innumerable stars and nebulae the comet passed added momentum, ratcheting up its speed. The longer 3I/ATLAS was out in space, the higher its speed grew.
This comet was discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on 1 July 2025 at a distance of 675 million km from the Sun. 3I/ATLAS should remain visible to ground-based telescopes until September, after which it will pass too close to the Sun to observe. It is expected to reappear on the other side of the Sun by early December.
Icy wanderers such as 3I/ATLAS offer a rare, tangible connection to the broader galaxy. To actually visit one would connect humankind with the Universe on a far greater scale. To this end, ESA is preparing the Comet Interceptor mission. The spacecraft will be launched in 2029 into a parking orbit, lying in wait for a suitable target – a pristine comet from the distant Oort Cloud that surrounds our Solar System, or, unlikely but highly appealing, an interstellar object.
While it is improbable that we will discover an interstellar object that is reachable for Comet Interceptor, as a first demonstration of a rapid response mission that waits in space for its target, it will be a pathfinder for possible future missions to intercept these mysterious visitors.
The research paper based on Hubble observations will be published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
#space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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We present high angular resolution observations of the third known interstellar interloper, 3I/ATLAS, from the Hubble Space Telescope. The object is clearly active at 3.arXiv.org
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I do see a move away from any RealSecurity™ and a move towards check-mark compliance potentially even accelerated by all the regulatory compliance requirements - While said requirements COULD have been used to improve security posture they are effectively starving effective measures (and thereby current best practices) further increasing security poverty.
"Compliance-sizing: the act of replacing highly skilled and educated cyber security professionals with auditors.
…Or just overwhelming said professionals with sheer amounts of useless “controls” developed by people with no real understanding of how Threat Actors operate"
@itisiboller I think Martin has mostly nailed it here.
The OP is by someone busy trying to convince themselves of an effective move to functional compliance.
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By September 30, the White House plans to reclassify 50,000 federal workers and assign allies to key roles. This widespread expansion of Trump’s de facto political army will have brutal effects on the crackdown against Palestine in higher education.
Assigning friendlies to key posts is what politicians do @mondoweiss
You need to try harder. Your analysis is skewed to a single politician. Iow, you sound like Democrats desperately trying to dis THE PERFECT REPRESENTATIVE of Merica. You know? Psychopathic creeps.
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ah hell did they do something new? or is this just for all the previous bullshit?
been busy sweatin in the desert.
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New AI Coding Teammate: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions
Link: blog.google/technology/develop…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Today, we’re introducing Gemini CLI GitHub Actions. It’s a no-cost, powerful AI coding teammate for your repository.Jerop Kipruto (Google)
Turkey: Revolutionary Prisoner Turns Hunger Strike into Fast until Death abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/207…
Turkey: Revolutionary Prisoner Turns Hunger Strike into Fast until Death
On July 31, Serkan Onur Yilmaz announced that he was transforming his hunger strike that began on November 10, 2024 into a fast until death while his health condition is critical. Started 270 days ago, this struggle aims to denounce the “well” type prisons in Turkey which are infamous for their particularly inhumane conditions of detention and their very strict solitary confinement regime. Alongside him, eight other revolutionary prisoners went on hunger strike with the same demands: Mithat Öztürk, Ali Aracı, Ayberk Demirdöğen, Fikret Akar, Ümit Çobanoğlu, Fırat Kaya, Tahsin Sağaltıcı and Gürkan Türkoğlu.
Source: secoursrouge.org/turquie-un-pr…
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#hungerStrike #PoliticalPrisoners #turkey #westAsia
Turquie : Un prisonnier révolutionnaire transforme sa grève de la faim en jeûne jusqu’à la mort
Le 31 juillet dernier, Serkan Onur Yilmaz a annoncé transformer sa grève de la faim débutée le 10 novembre 2024 en jeûne jusqu’à la mort alors que son état de santé est critique.secoursrouge.org
I think I know how modern counter-propaganda works. Propaganda is so sophisticated it doesn't even boil the frog. It just keeps it warm enough to make the frog uncomfortable. So counter-propaganda just needs to tip the balance in this highly fragile state.
I often notice when the West says X as propaganda, the Chinese just say 2X. They don't try to debunk X. So if the west suddenly says it hates goblins, the Chinese say we hate goblins twice as much as the West.
How to use LLM video graphics and story generation:
Creatively. Not deceptively.
Thought occurs listening to Graham Lineham and Joe Rogan:
#creativity #llm #ai
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i was with him, until the genocide denial and party line and evasive deflecting about it.
... struggled on listening to him for only another 20 minutes or so.
who knows, maybe llm being used deceptively.
... like has been seen in other JRE episodes. (... disbelieve? check out the christmas episode with duncan trussell, see how sick you get from its uncanny valley.)
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ANTI-TRUMP PROTEST: An article with photos in the Cape May County Herald about the "Rage Against The Regime" protest on 2 August 2025 in Cape May Courthouse, New Jersey, USA. My husband, daughter, son-in-law and I participated.
Peaceful Protesters Again Take Sharp Issue With Trump capemaycountyherald.com/articl…
#USPol #USPolitics #RageAgainstTheRegime #Protest #Protests #Rally #Democracy #50501Movement #NewJersey #USA #Solidarity #NoTrump #AntiTrump #Peace #Peaceful #Pax #NoNazis #AntiFascism #Indivisible
COURT HOUSE – The crowd was smaller than the one at the recent No Kings Day rally, but an unofficially estimated 75 to 100 people gathered for several hours on Saturday, Aug.Christopher South (Cape May County Herald)
In July 2025, a meme accurately claimed that, since U.S. President Ronald Reagan, the deficit deepened under every Republican president while it decreased under Democratic presidents.Anna Rascouët-Paz (Snopes.com)
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July was Earth's third-warmest on record, EU scientists say
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Chinese scientists have developed a new high-strength cryogenic steel, CHSN01, to solve a major challenge in nuclear fusion: finding a material that can withstand both extreme cold (near absolute zero) and immense magnetic forces. After a decade of research, this new steel has been deployed in the construction of the world's first fusion power reactor, positioning China as a leader in materials science for fusion technology.
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Chinese scientists detail how they created high-strength, low-temperature steel for world’s first fusion nuclear power reactor in action.Shi Huang (South China Morning Post)
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US reportedly forcing TSMC to buy 49% stake in Intel to secure tariff relief for Taiwan 😆
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A new report out of Taiwan has revealed that the current US administration is tying the reduction on trade of trade tariffs on Taiwan to significant TSMC investment in the US. This investment includes a 49% stake in Intel.Fawad Murtaza (Notebookcheck)
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The Ministry of Interior in Gaza announced on Wednesday that airdrops of aid to the Strip have resulted in civilian deaths and injuries, as well as the destruction of tents and the property of displaced people.The ministry accused Israel of exploitiDAILY YEMEN
A candidate giant planet imaged in the habitable zone of α Cen A
Link: arxiv.org/abs/2508.03814
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
We report on coronagraphic observations of the nearest solar-type star, $α$ Cen A, using the MIRI instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope.arXiv.org
US applications for jobless benefits up modestly but remain at a healthy level
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made myself breakfast again
I tried cooking my eggs in a way that wasn't scrambled but the yolk split as I cracked open my egg 
still turned out pretty good
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DHS and ICE are not law enforcement. They do not respect or obey binding legal directives.
DHS and ICE are criminal cartels. It is inaccurate to refer to DHS/ ICE as law enforcement. If they wanted to enforce the law, the best thing for them to do would be start following it.
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Border Patrol agents used a Penske moving truck to storm a Home Depot, despite a court order barring ICE raids at workplaces.Jonah Valdez (The Intercept)
Stand 4. August hat #Israel mindestens 18.430 #Kinder in #Gaza getötet.
Die Reaktion der #EU, insbesondere der @EUCommission ist: NULL.
NICHTS. Keine Sanktionen, nichts außer den immer gleichen, billigen Phrasen, man sei ach so "besorgt" – ohne jedwede Konsequenz.
Die Lieferungen von Waffen und Material aus der EU an Israel gehen weiter. Die Förderung israelischer Forschung an "dual-use" Technik, wie Drohnen, geht weiter.
Bis. Zum. Heutigen. Tag.
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Following 22 months of hostilities, UN agencies urge immediate action to flood Gaza with aid and commercial cargo to address catastrophic humanitarian conditions, including starvation and deaths from malnutrition.United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Occupied Palestinian Territory
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