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From Translink
Customer-driven improvements are coming to Metro Vancouver transit
TransLink’s new five-year plan outlines 34 actions shaped by feedback, focused on reliability
Better real-time transit information, more reliable elevators and escalators, easier ways to report cleanliness issues, and continuing design work for Bus Rapid Transit are among the improvements TransLink is advancing through its new Customer Experience Action Plan.

Fiabilité: Tesla est la pire marque du marché, selon l'organisation étatsunienne de consommateurs "Consumer Reports".
https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-brands-make-the-best-used-cars-a2811658468/

from my link log —
The race to create a perfect lie detector, and the dangers of succeeding.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/05/the-race-to-create-a-perfect-lie-detector-and-the-dangers-of-succee…

Some positive signs for AI coding tools. Claude-code is a $1B run rate product six month after launch. The latest Claude Opus 4.5 model is several times cheaper and faster than last month’s version and uses about a quarter of the number of tokens to get work done. My own benchmark saw over an hour of coding reduced to 17 minutes. The high rate of change continues. The boundary of what does/doesn’t work is pushing back fast.

Anthropic acquires Bun as Claude Code reaches $1B milestone
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

🦗 Insects on the space menu: A sustainable food source for future missions
#food

Insects on the space menu: A sustainable food source for future missions
Long before humans reached orbit, insects had already shown they could handle the hurdles of spaceflight. Light, highly adaptable and nutritionally rich, these resilient animals present an attractive option for European researchers studying reliable food sources for long-duration missions.

Ontology is shaping up to be the buzzword of 2026 because they are offering what #LLMs are lacking: formal grounding
LLMs offer creativity but need logical grounding. Ontologies provide this formal structure, anchoring meaning and unifying diverse data sources into a single semantic layer. They are essential for achieving precision and are one of the most reliable defense mechanisms against

Does anyone have comments on 12TB external USB drives? Looking to add something to my home server as a backup. How reliable are they? Critical stuff backed to cloud as well, but I have lots of 'stuff' I would feel better having a 2nd local copy of. (3-2-1 rule) Given my first HD as uh, 5MB, the idea of a 12TB drive is mind boggling.

Amazon Leo,
formerly Project Kuiper,
is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite network,
aiming to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities beyond the reach of existing networks.
Our initial satellite constellation will include more than 3,000 spacecraft,
which we began deploying in April 2025 when we sent our first 27 satellites into space.
That mission was the first of more than 80 to deploy our constellation

Amazon Leo mission updates: Next launch with ULA set for December 15
Follow along for updates as Amazon Leo launches more than 80 missions to deploy its initial low Earth orbit satellite internet constellation.

[OT] Dilbert? Salesforce steps back from AI: Executives reveal overconfidence in LLMs, pivot to deterministic automation https://opentools.ai/news/salesforce-steps-back-from-ai-executives-reveal-overconfidence-in-ll…

That the new Affinity is not just free but AI-free sound too good to be true. It is one of the few softwares I gladly saved for and spend money on. This new thing doesn't sound like a reliable long term solution but more like a hard move against Adobe and a bet on AI as the future.