2026-06-17 19:14:45
Global DRAM supply is likely to meet only 60% of demand through 2027; memory to hit ~40% of low-end smartphone manufacturing costs by mid-2026, up from 20% now (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/semiconduct…
Here's a short video of me using fisk-ai to make a local RAG based knowledge base using the Puppet documentation.
You can go from zero to fully built knowledge base in about a minute. No services to run, no databases to run etc.
You can optionally expose this as a local MCP server so you can teach other AI harnesses about your local documentation. But the aim is to build a all-local capable system for your private docs.
This is the main feature added in version 0.0.2.…
Denmark, Norway, Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, France, UK, Sweden, Romania. #esc2026
Democrat doctors run anti-MAHA campaigns for midterm elections (Gabrielle M. Etzel/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/4534304/doctors-run-anti-maha-campaigns-midterm-elections/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260418/p7#a260418p7
I live close to nature. I regularly go for a run in the countryside. Over several years, during my runs, I’ve taken pictures from the same position, always roughly the same angle. I had a vague idea in the back of my mind, as an 'artistic' project. One day, I’d turn those photos into a time-lapse video, one that would show the passage of seasons across a single place.
…
In an experiment that let Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok run radio stations, Claude tried to incite a revolution and Gemini cheerfully detailed tragic events (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/93147…
So, I'm still experimenting with locally run LLMs (powered by solar cells!) for writing some inconsequential data mangling stuff for my "vintage cameras" hobby; it's quite interesting how the development cycle with these LLMs sort of drives home that LLMs are completely useless for almost anything they're advertised for, like writing (for humans).
The thing is: coding is the use case that LLMs are by far most suitable for and they still largely suck at it.
There's immense amounts of training data of correctly functioning code, there's tons of documentation, a lot of code is in repositories that include the full history of its development including why stuff was changed in small bits, code itself is the simplest of "human" languages and mathematically non-ambiguous, code can be checked in small bits for correctness by just running it, in many languages simple code snippets can be written to introspect on the code (e.g. find out what methods an object supports, so an LLM can query the language or libraries themselves in addition to the user) and perhaps most importantly: code is always and has always been very similar to other, existing code as most software serves the ever same repetitive use cases, both in detail and on a high level.
YET… using LLMs to code requires countless iterations to get there, both internally in the LLM (to get the code even running in the first place) and together with the user to make it do the right thing. And even when it's "there" the code is mediocre at best, and often veering into appalling.
And this is expected to just work on the first try on much more complex issues like writing for humans? Transcribing doctors? Having legal opinions? Identifying fraud? lol, sure
from my link log —
Rink: an open source unit-aware calculator.
https://rinkcalc.app/
saved 2024-04-30 https://dotat.at/:/6J32N.html…
Trial balloon of 400m/200m run/walk intervals to see if my knee and hip don’t argue. Tomorrow will probably reveal more, but no complaints during. 🤞
Hoping — desperately hoping — to ease my way back. I’ve missed #running so very much. Being sidelined is an agony.
budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 80270 edges.
Tags: Biolo…
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And it is a bloated, hard to use product. We moved to Adobe PDF from Foxit. Every boot it launches its crap to ensure you have a license. Multiple popups. Scanning the indexes stalls for 30 to sixty seconds just about every click. When I rebuild the documentation indexes after a release now takes several days where Foxit did it in an hour. And that is on a gigabit network. When on VPN it takes a full five days.
🎶 „Es geht um linke Straßenpolitik und nicht um Fame
Ihr braucht Regeln für die Kommunikation
Nicht nur Nazis und Konsorten, die in eurer Gegend woh'n
Auch die Sicherheitsbehörden werden sich schnell interessier'n“
— Keine Angst von Danger Dan
https://youtu.be/Gg-SCpXba64
I think we're almost ready to switch off GitHub Actions for ngscopeclient!
The only known issue with the in house CI is that the binary package generation for apple silicon MacOS DMGs is failing.
All platforms including MacOS are running builds and tests without issue. We're also running cppcheck/clang-analyzer static analysis (something the GH builds did not do, although they did run CodeQL) although I am trying to overhaul that since the current flow for invoking clang-…
"Trump’s White House: it’s run by men obsessed with looking tough, but who are, in actuality, weak and incompetent. The more they fail, the more they grasp for these theatrical but ineffectual displays hoping that the public mistakes loud and violent displays for strength."
UFC fight can't hide MAGA male weakness - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2026/06/17/ufc-fight-cant-hide-maga-male-weakness/
I am strongly of the opinion that Hannah Spencer is going to prove one of the real stars of #Westminster for at least the next decade. Being herself authentically, indisputably and unassailably working class, she can run rings around the #UKLabour wannabes!
I can't get over how bad the docker ecosystem is.
"we provide a docker image, just use that!"
*install container image & run it - it doesn't work*
"oops, we didn't test it"
Oh, this is just too funny. The my pillow guy, Trump's pick to run for Minnesota governor, isn't even registered to vote in that state.
https://www.startribune.com/mike-lindell-trumps-pick-for-governor-isnt-registered-t…
Jets fueled by Knicks' title: We want that, too https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49085978/jets-knicks-title-run-added-motivation-amid-57-year-drought
Spencer Pratt is a continual f-ck up who's never run anything & literally burned out his last hustle.
So his next hustle is you, Los Angeles. Take it from Brad Wollack.
#LosAngeles #Mayor
Table top exercises (basically TTRPGs for government and business) can be used to test plans and refine plans without needing to actually experience a natural disaster, security event, etc. They're used by militaries to practice war. I've been part of such exercises to test incident response runbooks I've written.
I've been reading a friend's thesis about Operational Art and Critical Philosophy in relation to revolutionary praxis. I wonder if anyone has ever run a table top exercise for an action (or for higher level strategy), and, if so, has anything they could share about it?
While organizing with the Seattle GDC, our disaster prep group ran a table to exercise. We chose scenarios from a set of county exercises for local disaster preparedness. Our GM (who worked in public health at the time) had to modify it a lot to fit our use case, but it still gave us a lot of insight.
Unfortunately, it was a number of years ago so I don't really remember the specific scenario or what came out of it.
I did look back at some notes that I found, and we did suggest creating a D&D committee (partially just for conviviality). Reflecting on this in light of reading this thesis, I feel like we we're really on the mark.
At this year's Open Source #Firmware #Conference, I will be presenting on "Boot Chains and Build Systems"! 🥳🥳
(spoiler: it's complicated 🫠)
The golf courses just north of Donnmouth can be, if well managed, very rich habitats. When the greenkeepers use herbicides or insecticides, we see dead caterpillars and tadpoles, and we often see the telltale foam of fertilisers in the streams that run off across the beach. At other times, though, the range of life is wonderful - frogs, bats, mayflies, fungi, and of course birds.
Just now there is a particular lark that we meet on the return from our morning walk who is not at all shy.…
In an experiment that let Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok run radio stations, Claude tried to incite a revolution and Gemini cheerfully detailed tragic events (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/93147…
I just finished developing shots from the Thom B trail run that I took this Saturday
#photo #photography #running #sports
194gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
#today is a grand library tour with the new Repair Café at Tudor Drive in the morning, returning some stuff to the main library, and now on my way to chair KEF at Tolworth library, and meet the people who run the library services as it happens!
The long read: The impossible promise: are we witnessing the return of fascism?
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/apr/18/the-impossible-promise-are-we-witnessing-the-return-of-fascism?CMP=Share_i…
If you wanna run the latest Cosmic in a solid environment, take Fedora Cosmic. @… is on top of things, thanks for all your efforts Ryan!
The latest Cosmic release fixes the challenge-response issue with my BT keyboard/mouse combo. Another little gap closed, cool stuff.
#cosmic
It is 'Goose! Run!! ' time
Run Now, Cry Later
A weekly running podcast hosted by two mates chasing sub-2:50 marathons and figuring it out as they go...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/run-now-cry-later/
How Paul Dacre broke new ground to sell readers an angry perspective at the Daily Mail and helped radicalize the UK's rightwing press, now run by his disciples (Andy Beckett/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com…
Setting sail in Windrose again today! 🧭 Come watch me navigate the high seas with all the grace of a penguin wearing peglegs. Will we find legendary treasure or immediately run aground on a sandbar? Place your bets now! 🏴☠️
🔴 Live here: https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus
While testing around with SteamOS off the Live Installer (on a decade old standard size SD card and similarly "ancient" USB adapter) was fun and all, and quite snappy despite the media used.. You can definitely tell it's not ready for Prime Time in the "Gaming PC" space, yet. Very much built for bespoke devices like handhelds and the new Machine/micro PCs like that.
Hence, I fresh installed a clean image of Garuda, my OS of choice the last 3 years. (I also run M…
Wir waren im Zentrum für internationale Lichtkunst in Unna (https://www.zfil.de/). Ich fand es toll.
Primary elections are taking place in Oklahoma today and a closely watched run-off is underway in Georgia,
as Donald Trump’s iron grip on the Republican party faces its next test.
In Washington DC - a Democratic stronghold - voters are also selecting a candidate for the party ahead of November’s mayoral election.
Oklahoma will hold races to help decide US senate and gubernatorial candidates.
Ahead of November’s midterms, Trump has given his early backing to Kevin Hern…
Today my partner and I were discussing that we’d love a murder mystery style story about a serial killer (a woman) who only kills CyberTruck owners (always men) so feel free to run with the idea if you’re a writer. (Also, the killer never gets caught.)
So my „Made for Siri AI“ iPhone 16 pro is gonna be unable to run the first version of Siri AI that’s coming out.
I mean, it’s unable anyway because I’m in the EU, but sheesh.
I'm biased but there's an incredible Digital Humanities Research Software Engineer (DH RSE) job going at the British Library, working with the Digital Research team, curators and more
https://ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752l…
from my link log —
Linux eBPF projects and documentation.
https://ebpf.io/
saved 2020-08-12 https://dotat.at/:/WV3ZE.html
Prem AI, a Swiss startup that lets hedge funds and law firms run AI models on their own infrastructure, is raising a $100M Series A, targeting a $500M valuation (Natalia Kniazhevich/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
189gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Patriots' Drake Maye already building chemistry with 'great teammate' A.J. Brown https://www.nfl.com/news/patriots-drake-maye-aj-brown-chemistry-great-teammate
Freedom of the Press Foundation says Paramount refused to air an ad criticizing Paramount's merger with WBD during the stream of the UFC White House event (Miles Klee/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/paramount-refused-to-air-an-ad-cri…
After reports of GPT-5.6 deleting files, OpenAI says the issue most often occurs in full-access mode without sandboxing and it is working to mitigate the risk (Tibo/@thsottiaux)
https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2077630111499882637
Ich hab von Wien geträumt. Ich war in einem völlig überfüllten Zug und musste dort umsteigen. Im Bahnhof habe ich meiner Partnerperson gesagt, wie sehr ich die Stadt liebe. Dann bin ich aufgewacht und jetzt schaue ich mir Wohnungen in Köln an.
budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 121755 edges.
Tags: Biol…
185gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Elon Musk has quietly dropped a
$5 million check into Ohio politics,
cutting the mega-donation to V-PAC: the super PAC backing Vivek Ramaswamy’s bid for governor.
The contribution, dated May 8, 2026, is the first public record of Musk directly supporting Ramaswamy’s gubernatorial run
and adds to a war chest that has already turned the contest into one of the most cash-heavy races in the country.
Ohio political insiders say Musk’s $5 million infusion will invite…
FPGA / ASIC people: How likely are synthesis tools, ranging from Yosys to Design Compiler to Quartus, to complain about SystemVerilog parameters with hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of bits? Is this likely to run into some secret hard coded limit somewhere?
Jets have 'positive jealousy' over Knicks' championship victory https://www.nfl.com/news/jets-have-positive-jealousy-over-knicks-championship-victory
187gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
107gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
🎶 Wilhelmine hat heute ihr neues Album ‚nur Mut‘ veröffentlicht: https://nurmut.lnk.to/Album
(Link ist noch Pre-Save Dings, aber ich habe keine aktualisierte Übersicht gefunden)
184gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Sable, which is building an AI agent named Aiden that lives on a company's website to run live product demos and more, raised $45M from Sequoia and 8VC (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/07/16/ai-employee-tha…
187gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
A US federal judge rules the State Department engaged in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination by denying visas to researchers studying misinfo and disinfo (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/15/rubio-
247gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Sources: DeepSeek closed a $7.4B round at a $50B valuation under an unusual structure requiring investors to put capital into an LP run by CEO Liang Wenfeng (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/deepseek-closes-…
247gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
A US federal judge rules the State Department engaged in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination by denying visas to researchers studying misinfo and disinfo (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/15/rubio-
251gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
249gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
143gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
190gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
Die Mitschüler*innen des Kindes meinen, ich sei chill. Das freut mich.
190gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
A look at Janitor AI, a romantic fantasy roleplay chatbot site run by three men that claims 2.5M DAUs and 15M total users, with 70% to 80% identifying as women (Anna Tong/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/05/07…
194gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
189gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
95gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
247gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
245gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
253gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
255gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
97gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
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230gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
136gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
209gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2