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Canonical's New AI Tool Wants You to Talk to Ubuntu Instead of Type

Myna runs entirely on local hardware and is set to debut with Ubuntu 26.10.

How I'm Solving Local Inference

How I bridged my MacBook Air and Framework 13 using LM Studio's LM Link to run powerful local models, avoid token costs, and gain portability.

Ambient Irony on Amodei vs Altman

I look forward to reading Pixy Misa’s Daily News Stuff posts (seven days a week), which feature links to tech and political news with irreverent commentary. Pixy Misa is a pseudonymous Australian s...

My 1992 view of the problems of computer programming in 1992

While cleaning out my office today, I found this, which I wrote in 1992: In the middle 1970's, the IBM corporation did (and perhaps still does) most of their in-house programming in a computer lang...

The Only Thing I Can Do

I was at a baseball game with my folks yesterday, and it was a good time. I didn't really spend much time watching the game, but it was cool to see those guys playing; it was a visceral experience ...

AI crawlers: search, training, and access.

Choose crawler access by purpose, then test the policy you actually deployed.

Side Effect

Proton Mail launches Easy Switch for Business to help companies move away from Google

Proton Mail has introduced Easy Switch for Business, a migration tool for companies moving from Google Workspace to Proton Mail. The tool transfers business emails, calendars, and contacts from Gma...

The Case Against Share Buttons

Back in The New Leaf Journal’s early days, I had share buttons on my articles. I eventually removed them in part because I did not think they added anything useful to my site and in part because of...

Happy Juneteenth! — See Also

Is Your Firm Observing The Holiday?: Be sure to let us know! Trump Nominates His Own Lawyer To Be A Top Federal Prosecutor: The Sullivan & Cromwell partner's cozying up with Trump is paying off. SC...

Cossacks Continue International and Domestic Resurgence

Richard Arnold

Building A Panel Mount OLED Display

There are a million and one cheap OLED display modules out there. Only, the problem is, they’re all assembled on bare PCBs and they’re all slightly different, and that frustrates …read more

The Rye Is A Lie

Read The Rye Is A Lie Customer: "This isn't real rye bread." Me: "I'm sorry?" Customer: "I've been eating this for three days." Me: "Okay..." Customer: "And I still haven't been able to take a s***...

Palladian Rhapsody: The Return of Léo Taxil

As an onboard medic with a major French merchant shipping company, Doctor Bataille had the opportunity to see the world and meet a range of fascinating people. One regular passenger of his was an I...

Plaintiff Can't Litigate Claim That "Security Clearance Process" Was Used "as a Pretextual Weapon to Execute an Ideological Purge"

From Judge Kyle Dudek (M.D. Fla.) today in Reilly v. U.S. Att'y Gen.: This case presents a conflict between individual… The post Plaintiff Can't Litigate Claim That "Security Clearance Process" Was...

Bahnhoroskop

Warum ist der Zug zu spät? Es steht in den Sternen.

Epic Games Built Its Own Git Alternative For Handling Large Files

Written in Rust and released under the MIT license, Lore is a version control system for handling large, complex data.

That time when we fowled out while fighting our feathered friends

Our writer’s scheme to keep the birds off his balcony backfires in a spectacularly birdbrained way. As one might expect from someone with the kanji for “bird” (鳥) in his name, our Japanese-language...

Exceptional Mosaic of the River God Eurymedon from the 3rd Century A.D. Found in Ancient Aspendos

The archaeological excavations carried out by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism in the ancient city of Aspendos, located in the province of Antalya, have yielded a discovery of exceptiona...

Thank you for attending Back to Basics: Build Your Own LLM from Scratch

I sent this email to all workshop attendees. It made sense to publish it as a post as well. Thank you for attending the “Back to Basics: Build Your Own LLM from Scratch” session. It was great to se...