Scientists are making headway on orexin research, perhaps hoping to get insights into why we get sleepy and perhaps allow us to feel more awake and alert on demand. I'm all for that.
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A lot of people are posting about how Claude's watermarking works, and maybe how to remove it. Some are skeptical.
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Subscribers to the automatic pet feeder service, Petlibro, found out that their pets are missing meals now that the service is offline. This the nightmare that prevents me from trusting tech from new startups.
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Apple Skipping iPhone 18 Launch This Year. Wow, for the first time that I can remember. No wonder their stock went down today. Supply chain issues.
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After almost two decades of searching, a team of physicists in China says it has observed strong evidence of a mysterious particle called a glueball that is made entirely of force-carrying particles.
Well, we'll see if this is replicated before I get too excited.
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A user in the thread described trying to use uBlock's element picker to block the word "Sponsored" on ads, only to find Facebook splits the word into individual letters, each wrapped in its own line of code. A member of the uBO development team confirmed this isn't new, and that the technique has been in use for roughly five years. They also added that Facebook has at times gone further by randomizing letter order and inserting fake characters to throw off pattern-matching filters.
So uBlock Origin has thrown in the towel. Facebook is the scourge of the Internet. I use multiple blockers, not relying on just one. And many Facebook domains are blocked in my /etc/hosts file.
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curl: Nobody wants to work with Windows. Such a difference from the world of 1999, when Windows and Microsoft ruled the world. Now we have alternatives.
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University of Michigan Drops First-Semester Grades to ‘Curb Mental Health Crisis’. What in the world is the matter with today's young adults? So many are infantilized now. And yet, they seem to want to tell the rest of us how to run our lives.
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Evidence of what we already knew. Dogs can interpret human facial expressions. Dog owners already know this.
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Remember James Damore? I'd put quotes around the term "thought criminal". He was prescient and just told the honest truth. Now we see that he was right. But poor guy sounds like he's recovering from PTSD. It must have been hard, thinking that for a short period in time you were the most gated guy in Silicon Valley. This article is from The Free Press, but it reads like it's The Daily Beast. I'm glad Damore eventually landed on his feet, but man, it must have been hard. Now do Brendan Eich.
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Tina Kotek took $400,000 from the IBEW, but the IBEW wants to build datacenters. So what's Tina going to do? It's interesting that they know who can be bought and who can't. They wouldn't give money to Drazan.
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Oregon ranks among worst states for public education, Washington earns top marks. In some ways, Washington and Oregon are similar. But when it comes to education, the two states are completely different. Washington students excel. Oregon students skip school, because no one cares anymore.
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The closing of Lloyd Center is another manifestation that Portland can't have nice things anymore. One less reason to go into the city. Little by little, the city decays further.
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