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Sources: Anthropic has initiated early-stage development of a custom AI server chip and held preliminary discussions with Samsung about manufacturing the chip (Qianer Liu/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-talks-samsu…

Anthropic in Talks With Samsung to Manufacture Custom AI Chip
Anthropic has begun early-stage work on its own AI chip and held talks with Samsung Electronics as a potential manufacturing partner, following the lead of rival OpenAI in trying to get more control over the costly computing systems behind its models, according to three people with direct ...

Genealogy is one of those hobbies where one good discovery can keep you motivated for days.
This week I found an 1891 patent by one of my ancestors, uncovered a historic photo I'd never seen before, and ran across some wonderfully odd newspaper stories. I also wrote about digitizing family films, our anniversary, and The Last Ship.

When Genealogy Research Turns Up More Than You Expected – Bob Mueller
Genealogy research uncovered a family patent, historic photos, and surprising stories, plus thoughts on marriage, memories, and The Last Ship.

Ticket, please!
#RIPMichaelByrne

I had a weird dream where I was talking to someone at some kind of ceremony, I think a funeral, where I had timidly painted my face with clay as part of some ritual. This person was talking about how far society has come while our brains have not caught up.
Imagine if your ancient cave dwelling ancestors were dropped into this world of cars, office hours, budgets, climate change, and AI. They would be absolutely freaking out and struggling to understand things all the time... Just like you are now.
Society teaches us to suppress these emotions. You're supposed to be OK with giant metal boxes flying around you in rumbling stampedes, but you feel it in unexplained anxiety. You're supposed to just fit your life into tight little bounds that ignore weather and season, but you feel it in more unexplained anxiety and depression. We are all part of something so big and complicated we can't make sense of it, we cannot possibly comprehend it all, it is simply too much to fully grasp the implications of our individual actions within global capitalism. Should we be surprised by our urge to simply destroy it, by the anger and desire to simply "smash" something far more complex than can be met with simple violence?
Some part of my brain was trying to remind me to be compassionate to myself. Perhaps that reminder can be useful to you as well.

in awe at this sweepstakes form not going through because the server ran out of space

now that the client-server web is clearly failing in extremely predictable ways, can we finally take the idea of a #p2p web seriously? maybe?

Nothing in this article will be a surprise to those working in Scottish Higher Education, but it does make clear the scale of the challenge facing universities. The government crackdown on international students has been particularly hard hitting.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0lr8rp…

Scotland's universities face 'bleak' future as £200m funding gap revealed
A new report paints a 'bleak' picture of falling income from Scottish students and an over-reliance on international tuition fees.

Sources: Meta is testing robots from ABB and others to handle data center tasks such as swapping cables and resetting servers as it seeks to lower labor costs (Paresh Dave/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-metas-experiments-with-data-center-robots/

Inside Meta’s Push to Put Robots to Work in Data Centers
The company is testing robots that can swap cables, reset servers, and take on other tasks performed by technicians, fueling concerns among some workers that their jobs could be at risk.

Who killed Codeberg?
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#codeberg

One click sends a command
from the Home Assistant app
on my mobile phone
via WiFi
to the WiFi Router
to a Satellite
to a ground station in Germany
to my VPN endpoint in Iceland
to London
to Amsterdam
to Frankfurt
to Zurich
to Winterthur
to my router
to my reverse proxy
to my Home Assistant server
to my access point
to the WiFi
to the WiFi-Bridge
to the door lock
*click* *motor whirring* *door…