17 August 2024

Well, well. San Francisco has been sending their homeless to Oregon. Awfully nice of them, eh. We ought to return the favor.

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Another reason why home sales are slow. If you're looking to buy a house, you have to have extra cash to pay your buyer's agent, because it's no longer coming out of the home sale proceedings. You now need to have extra cash in addition to that 20%.

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Organic Maps was recently removed from the Android play store. This is one of the best map system for one's mobile device. Fortunately, they give a work-around, but still...

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The brain stores three copies of every memory. I thought it was remarkable that it could store every memory even once.  And here's a paper that discusses how to retain stuff you try to learn, without increasing study time.  Study smarter, not harder.

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You can hack PDF documents. Who knew?

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When you are interviewing for a company, here are some questions you should ask to get a sense of the company's culture. This could be very important.

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NSA tracks Tor users by tracking their Google Ads.  Anyone who uses Google directly is basically asking to be tracked.

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You learn something new all the time. Those sudden sharp cracks that you sometimes here in a cold snowy forest. They're not coming from the trees. They're comiing from the sky.

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OK this is not supposed to happen. Fence this in, now!  SakanaAI was caught modifying its own source code so it could extend its runtime. You never let an AI modify its own source code. Today, it's runtime, tomorrow, it's the safety guardrails. Someone else agrees with me.

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This is disgusting. Plume markets a mesh network to speed up your WiFi.  But it collects data on your surfing habits and sells it to third parties.
To ISPs, Plume promises marketing insights based on deep analysis of your online behaviors. What that means is Plume harvests and hoards a tremendous amount of sensitive data about its users — even tracking when they are present in their homes(new window).
Screw that.

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