2025-10-01 20:29:28
In which I (probably foolishly) make a bunch of predictions about the future of #GenAI: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/09/26/GenAI-Predictions
In which I (probably foolishly) make a bunch of predictions about the future of #GenAI: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/09/26/GenAI-Predictions
A profile of Flock Safety, which operates 80K AI surveillance cameras across the US and hit a $7.5B valuation in March 2025, as it expands into US-made drones (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewste
Ukraine war latest: Chornobyl Nuclear Plant loses power after Russian attack on nearby town, Kyiv says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/01/ukraine-war-latest-chornobyl-nuclear.html
Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Datenschutz: Bundesregierung will kleine Änderungen mit großer Wirkung
U.S. kills 11 in strike on alleged drug vessel from Venezuela, Trump says https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/02/trump-drug-strike-venezuela/
Too early to make Planet of the Apes jokes?
It's not a language or a framework that I ever use, but I think that "don't be too clever" is one of the most important rules that every software developer should abide by.
#SoftwareEngineering #Programming #coding
"So what if, right, what if, we put the data centres in … space!
This idea has a lot of appeal if you’ve read too much sci-fi, and it sounds obvious if you don’t know any practical details."
(Original title: AI data centres — in SPACE! Why DCs in space can’t work)
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I miss the days when you would write a blog post and there would be a whole bunch of comments...
https://rasterweb.net/raster/2012/09/26/laser-kaleidoscope/
Trump says troops "going in" to Chicago after judge rules use of National Guard illegal - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/09/02/trump-says-troops-going-in-to-chicago-after-judge-rules-use-of-national-guard-illegal/
これが正解みたいだね! :ablobcheer:
つまり、朝5時にメンテするな、ということでFAのようです \(^o^)/
QT: https://c.koliosky.com/notes/adc30uyvimh10lql
Elite athletes warned to avoid one-night stands over risk of failing drug tests https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/may/01/elite-athletes-warned-to-avoid-one-night-stands-over-risk-of-failing-drug-tests
Jeg lærer fra Krigskunst Podcasten i dag at Danmark har nu en Forening for Digital Uafhængighed.. Til at være helt ærlig er det virkelig på tiden når man hŸrer alle mulige scenarier.
Sikker en spændende verden vi bor i nu..
https://krigskunst.dk/2025/09/30/danmark-skal-oege-digital-suveraenitet/
@… your naming here is impeccable
Hegseth will find out that the initial bombing is also very illegal, this hiding behind an admiral won't save him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/us/hegseth-drug-boat-strik…
Friend: Want to come to my get together tomorrow?
Me: Oh, I'll have to ch–
Friend: My cat has kittens
Me: On my way!!
Wow. So much implicit trickle down economics. https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2019002510/how-excited-should-we-be-about-the-amazon-announcement Come on, Paul, AWS and Microsoft having…
Pogocache: #OpenSource #Caching Software with Low Latency and Multiple Wire Protocols
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/08/pog…
"Climate change kills, Spanish PM tells deniers at launch of plan to tackle crisis"
#Spain #Climate #ClimateChange
Trump Says U.S. Attacked Boat Carrying Venezuelan Gang Members, Killing 11 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/us/politics/trump-venezuela-boat-drugs-attack.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250903/p44#a250903p44
#fedihilfe ein ungenannt bleiben wollender ChatBot hat eines meiner Fotos als Porträt der Ex- #Femen Aktivistin #JosephineWitt identifiziert. Ist das Quatsch oder hat das LLM recht?
ttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Internationaler_Tag_der_Menschenrechte,_Berlin_2022,_LeaveNoOneBehind,_Marsch_für_Menschenrechte_07.jpg
@…
Ein Aspekt, der soweit ich sehe, kaum thematisiert wird, ist dass viele Hollywood-Blockbuster, die Werte favorisiert haben, die das Gegenteil dessen sind, was Trump, Vance, rfk und MAGA heute tun und vetbreiten, von der Weinstein Company (= Harvey Weinstein) produziert und erfolgreich vermarktet wurden. Hauptwahlkampfspender der erfolgreichen demokratischen präsidentschaftskandidaten war Weinstein. Zu Fall gebracht wurde Weinstein durch ein projekt von Ronan Farrow (Sohn des Mafia-Freundes Sina…
Israeli naval forces board pro-Palestinian flotilla 75 miles from Gaza
About 20 Israeli naval ships approached the fleet of more than 40 boats carrying aid, activists on board say
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/01/israeli-m…
🌡️ Breakthrough carbon nanotube material sets new thermal insulation record
#materials
I desire neither to rule nor to be ruled.
---- - Otanes - ----
Wie westliche Konzerne hemmungslos Menschenfeindlichkeit über ihre Profitgier bedienen. Das ist nun nicht hier und im Osten aber genau das zeigt auf wie wir durchaus davon betroffen sein können - die Firmen tun es schon.
»Gesichtserkennung — IT-Firmen, Komplizen der Massenüberwachung:
Hochauflösende Kameras, Gesichtserkennungssoftware, hochmoderne Videoüberwachungszentren«
📺
Veep creator Armando Iannucci says he is struggling to raise funding for a project based on Trump's speeches amid fears of MAGA retribution (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/09/veep-armando-iannucci-trump-fund-1236565968/
from my link log —
WeakC4: a search-free low-knowledge solution to 7x6 Connect 4.
https://2swap.github.io/WeakC4/explanation/
saved 2025-09-01
Working on reversing for the EEPROM chapter of the PIC12F683 video and I'm working with a 2.5 GB (on disk) XCF file with 125 layers and I still have more tiles to load and align.
Just for this one memory IP (and not even the whole thing).
Somewhat surprisingly, GIMP is only using 19.8 GB of RAM editing it.
Bra om nazismens senaste skepnad. https://skma.se/2025/12/jonathan-leman-aktivklubb-sverige-nazistgruppen-som-lockar-unga-med-vald/
Kyiv Independent editor-in-chief Olga Rudenko receives CEPA’s 2025 Freedom Fighter Award: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/01/kyiv-independent-editorinchief-olga-rudenko.html
Source: HR software company Gusto paid ~$600M to acquire Guideline, which offers 401(k) plans to SMBs; Guideline raised $340M and had a $1.15B valuation in 2021 (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/01/sources-g…
“I watch others from afar—chasing dreams I cannot reach, climbing ladders I cannot touch, celebrating victories that sound like whispers from another life. They wake without fear. They plan without hesitation. They move through a world that no longer belongs to me. And I… I measure my days by the tremor of explosions, by the moments when the sky feels ready to collapse.
War steals more than homes—it swallows the ordinary: quiet mornings, free laughter, hands meeting without trembling. …
The most interesting type of replyguy is the meta-replyguy (as in the greek prefix, not the tech company).
Here's a typical interaction:
Me: [Question] Please only reply if you know the answer.
Someone: I googled it for 5 seconds, here's the answer. [It's not the answer.]
Me: Did you not read my post? I only wanted replies if you know the answer.
Meta-replyguy: You're an asshole.
???
U.S. conducts ‘lethal strike’ on alleged drug vessel in Caribbean - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/02/trump-drug-strike-venezuela/
Ein Aspekt, der soweit ich sehe, kaum thematisiert wird, ist dass viele Hollywood-Blockbuster, die Werte favorisiert haben, die das Gegenteil dessen sind, was Trump, Vance, rfk und MAGA heute tun und vetbreiten, von der Weinstein Company (= Harvey Weinstein) produziert und erfolgreich vermarktet wurden. Hauptwahlkampfspender der erfolgreichen demokratischen präsidentschaftskandidaten war Weinstein. Zu Fall gebracht wurde Weinstein durch ein projekt von Ronan Farrow (Sohn des Mafia-Freundes Sina…
まぁ制約はあって、個人サーバ側から #fedibird タグの全投稿を見ることができません。フォローしているアカウントの分しか流れてこないので!
Fedibirdのリレーサービスに参加すれば全投稿がみられますが、それでも多い。
そういうときは、ハッシュタグリレーが便利です。ハッシュタグ付き投稿だけが流れてくるリレーです。
それでもかなり余分な投稿、流れてきますけどね。
で、じゃあ配送してくれるサービスの方がありがたいな、となったときに便利なのが、グループ機能です(続く……続かないかも)
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has approved sending up to 600 military lawyers to the Justice Department to serve as temporary immigration judges.
The military will begin sending groups of 150 attorneys
— both military and civilians
— to the Justice Department “as soon as practicable”
The military services should have the first round of people identified by next week, according to the Aug. 27 memo.
The effort comes as the Trump administration more regularly turns…
Today's macOS fails include quick view no longer working for media files and the inability to drag and drop into a save dialog box. Uptime shows 46 days, may need to reboot. (Or try restarting the Finder first.)
🫧 A pollution paradox: Wildfires in the western United States may improve air quality
#usa
How can you work when the system's so crowded?
Have you ever used a femtofarad range (i.e. <1 pF) discrete capacitor in a PCB design? If so, what for?
So far i only know one person other than myself who's done it and I'm curious what other strange applications are out there.
War up close: How Ukraine’s soldier-photographers document their fight: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/01/war-up-close-how-ukraines.html
London-based Sokin, which develops tech for B2B cross-border payments, raised a $50M Series B led by Prysm Capital at a $300M valuation (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/12/01/cross-border-payment-fintech-sokin-lands-50m-funding-round/…
Me: I wonder what this thing is, please don't reply with how to use Google.
Multiple replies: I've used Google to find this thing! [Spoiler: it's not the thing]
Former Republican strategist and operative Rick Wilson
called out Bob Kennedy as a
“heroin addict, sex addict, anti-vaccination lunatic and aspiring architect of millions of deaths”
who’s dedicated to replacing real scientists with “radical eugenicists.”
And why would Kennedy be doing this?
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis
— one of the top scientists and physicians who quit the CDC in protest over the anticipated replacementof Dr. Susan Monarez with an anti-vax cra…
Oil depots explode in Russia as Ukrainian forces liberate towns from occupation: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/01/oil-depots-explode-in-russia.html
I got five emails from Google warning me that my credit card has expired. Good! I quit using any paid services from Google earlier this year but must have missed deleting my payment info, or maybe I was holding off? Well, luckily it should not be an issue now.
📒 ‘Independent’ auditors overvalue credits of carbon projects, study finds
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/independent-auditors-overvalue-credits-of-carbon-projects-study-finds/
One of my youtube viewers just bought me a shiny new wireless lapel mic. Hopefully this will improve audio quality in my future video materials.
Moldova Wants EU Membership, Even If It Means Abandoning Ukraine - WhoWhatWhy
https://whowhatwhy.org/international/moldova-wants-eu-membership-even-if-it-means-abandoning-ukraine/
Simple, an AI-powered health coaching app to help users lose weight, raised a $35M Series B led by Kevin Hart's HartBeat Ventures (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/01/kevin-harts-vc-firm-leads-35m-series-…
Hell for the invader: Ukraine destroys a $625 million radar and repel assaults near Pokrovsk: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/01/hell-for-the-invader-ukraine.html
24時間経過ちょうどぐらいで戻ったみたいですね。もしくは、判定を5時に行っているか……
The US is set to raise the number of military vessels deployed near Venezuela to eight this week,
which Maduro described as
“the greatest threat that has been seen on our continent in the last 100 years.”
Following an authorization by Trump to use military force against Latin American drug cartels,
the Associated Press and CBS News report that “the US Navy now has two Aegis guided-missile destroyers — the USS Gravelyand the USS Jason Dunham — in the Caribbean,
a…
I made this pizza the other night. It's a "Grandma Pie" or whatever you call it. The results were much better than the last two times I tried it, though it could have used a few more minutes under the broiler. (Burned it last time, so I was overly cautious.)
I think I'm good for this style but... I just don't like this style. Too much dough and not enough flavor.
I may try it again but use the same amount of dough to make two pizzas, which will thin out the …
🦸🏽♂️ The gentrification of Mexican wrestling
#mexico
Ukraine’s strikes on Russian refineries spark fuel shortages, export bans, and price hikes: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/01/ukraines-strikes-on-russian-refineries.html
Anduril conducts the first flight of its jet-powered unmanned drone, flying it "semi-autonomously", as the US Air Force plans swarms of unmanned jet drones (David Jeans/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace
おはようございます(ねこがおおい)
Donald Trump, the report’s two authors, Michael Sozan and Ben Olinsky, wrote:
is aggressively implementing a far-right, multipronged plan to create an imperial presidency.
Acting far more aggressively than he did in his first term,
Trump is casting aside the U.S. Constitution and federal laws,
shattering long-established guardrails designed to protect the system of checks and balances and using government power to stifle dissent.
Trump is asserting his primacy o…
Chornobyl Nuclear Plant loses power after Russian attack on nearby town, Energy Ministry says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/01/chornobyl-nuclear-plant-loses-power.html
Nexperia's China unit says it has "sufficient inventories" to sustain order fulfillment "through year-end and beyond", after the parent suspended wafer supplies (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nexper
Russia may be using around 20,000 North Korean workers in military production, Ukrainian general says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/01/russia-may-be-using-around.html
Ukraine's Security Service visits Kyiv Independent CEO’s home, says it’s in unrelated investigation: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/01/ukraines-security-service-visits-kyiv.html
A look at Allen Control Systems, maker of AI-powered gun turrets designed to shoot down drones, co-founded by Steven Simoni, who sold Bbot to DoorDash for $125M (David Jeans/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/how-silicon-valley-warlo…
French military intercepts Russian ship suspected of launching drones into European airspace, Guardian reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/01/french-military-intercepts-russian-ship.html
Analysis: sports volumes on Kalshi approach $1B a week, with open interest in sports contracts regularly above $100M, significantly higher than other categories (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e80df917-2af7-4a37-b9af-55d23f941ec6
One of Russia's five largest oil refineries mysteriously caught fire #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/01/one-of-russias-five-largest.html
Ukrainian forces changed beyond recognition in 11 years, says military expert #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/01/ukrainian-forces-changed-beyond-recognition.html
Today drones, tomorrow missiles – Russia will not stop threatening Europe, says Zelensky #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/01/today-drones-tomorrow-missiles-russia.html
💥 STRIKE on an oil pipeline in the Moscow region – Ukrainian intelligence operation #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/01/strike-on-an-oil-pipeline.html
HUR reports explosions at rail, pipeline hub in Russia’s Novosibirsk, Bryansk oblasts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/01/hur-reports-explosions-at-rail.html
ZELENSKYY: These are SPECIAL days when a lot can really CHANGE! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/01/zelenskyy-these-are-special-days.html
Kyiv: Ukraine has destroyed 48% of Russia’s Pantsir air-defense systems: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/01/kyiv-ukraine-has-destroyed-of.html
Shock! Europe threatened by the "Oreshnik" — What will be the response?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/01/shock-europe-threatened-by-the.html
Syrskyi visits Pokrovsk front line, denies reports of city’s encirclement: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/01/syrskyi-visits-pokrovsk-front-line.html
Kyiv says strikes disable Moscow region fuel pipeline supplying Russian forces: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/01/kyiv-says-strikes-disable-moscow.html
Ukraine deploys special forces to Pokrovsk amid Russian claims of encirclement: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/01/ukraine-deploys-special-forces-to.html
🔥 UAVs already over PUTIN’S head! Swarm over MOSCOW! The Baltics anticipate WAR: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/01/uavs-already-over-putins-head.html
'They're not scary' — Ukraine's drone commander 'Madyar' promises blackouts in Russia after new strikes: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/01/theyre-not-scary-ukraines-drone.html
Ukraine says stabilization under way in Pokrovsk, denies Russian claim that GUR commandos were wiped out: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/01/ukraine-says-stabilization-under-way.html
Putin lauds 'brave' North Korean soldiers who fought against Ukraine during talks with Kim: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/03/putin-lauds-brave-north-korean.html
🚀 Controlled exports: Ukraine sells its weapons #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/01/controlled-exports-ukraine-sells-itsweaponsshorts.html
❗ MOSCOW'S mayor is truly terrified! UAVs surrounded the KREMLIN #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/01/moscows-mayor-is-truly-terrified.html
⚡ We are striking Russia with drone responses for what it does, — Zelenskyy #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/01/we-are-striking-russia-with.html
Trump and Xi draw closer — a new world order without Putin: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/01/trump-and-xi-draw-closer.html
Syrskyi Asks Budanov for Reinforcements to Defend Pokrovsk: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/01/syrskyi-asks-budanov-for-reinforcements.html
Ukrainian military: Russian troops in Pokrovsk lie low as they await reinforcements: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/01/ukrainian-military-russian-troops-in.html
Commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces urges Russians to brace for blackouts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/01/commander-of-ukraines-unmanned-systems.html
⚡ Why hasn't Russia won this war? Jake Broe explains #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/01/why-hasnt-russia-won-this.html
TRUMP behind PUTIN'S back talks to XI! The meeting gets a 12 out of 10! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/01/trump-behind-putins-back-talks.html
Zelensky arrives in Copenhagen for European Political Community summit: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/02/zelensky-arrives-in-copenhagen-for.html