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userdb: add birthDate field to JSON user records by dylanmtaylor · Pull Request #40954 · systemd/systemd Stores the user's birth date for age verification, as required by recent laws in California (AB-1043), Colorado (SB26-051), Brazil (Lei 15.211/2025), etc. The xdg-desktop-portal project is addi...

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systemd gets ready for Os level age verification:

"Stores the user's birth date for age verification, as required by recent laws in California (AB-1043), Colorado (SB26-051), Brazil (Lei 15.211/2025), etc."

#systemd

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Digg Thanks for being part of our beta. Stay tuned for what comes next.

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The internet is dead

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Crossing over
Technology sector, worker flows, '000
12-month moving average
From Europe to US
From US to Europe
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Crossing over Technology sector, worker flows, '000 12-month moving average From Europe to US From US to Europe TTT 2023 Source: Revelio Labs 24 25 3 2.0 1.8 1.6 1.4 1.2

More tech workers now moving from the US to Europe than in the other direction.

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I am in this picture and i don't like it

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So Anthropics Claude solved one of Donald Knuth's conjectures
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Sam Altman (OpenAI) and Dario Amodie (Anthropic) don't want to hold hands #Openai #anthropic #ai

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AI agents are about to bring us a 2000s-style malware renaissance.

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Relevant: arxiv.org/pdf/2601.15494

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Open Source isn't dying, but the "social" part is mutating. We're moving from a town square to a digital supply chain.

You can either adapt your repo for the agents, or get buried by requests and react forever.

#OpenSource #VibeCoding #DevTalk

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As the ecosystem floods with hallucinated packages and AI-generated spaghetti, trust becomes the scarcity.

A "Human Audited" badge - proof that a real person actually ran this code and it works - is going to be worth more than a thousand stars.

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I keep thinking we need a standard AGENT.md in every repo.

Forget the "Why use this?" sales pitch. Give the bot what it actually needs: rigid type definitions, explicit usage patterns, and a list of known hallucinations to avoid. You have to teach the tool how to use your tool.

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We spent twenty years fighting for GitHub stars and SEO. That's over. The new "user" is a context window.

If your library is hard for an LLM to parse, it doesn't exist. We need to stop writing marketing fluff in our docs and start writing for the machine.

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How Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Does vibe coding risk destroying the Open Source ecosystem? According to a pre-print paper by a number of high-profile researchers, this might indeed be the case based on observed patterns and some…

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Everyone is doom-posting about how "vibe coding" kills open source. If an agent writes the code, nobody visits your repo, nobody stars the project.
But getting mad at the rain doesn't stop you from getting wet. If the "Readme" era is dead, what actually comes next? 🧵👇

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This is codex way of loading an .env into a script.

Some call it vibecoding, I call it art.

#vibecoding #codex #horrorcode

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Takeaway: If your random number generator starts spitting out Shakespeare, don't assume it's "Global Consciousness."
Check the sky for three suns.
#Skepticism #CixinLiu #HighStrangeness

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The Global Consciousness Project The Global Consciousness Project, home page, scientific research network studying global consciousness

The website itself is a relic of the 90s web, which adds to the creepypasta vibe.
Charts that look like seismographs of reality breaking.
Is it pseudoscience? Probably.
Is it the Trisolarian fleet arrival signal? I’m not ruling it out.
noosphere.princeton.edu

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It brings up the "Turkey Farmer" hypothesis from the book.
The turkeys think the farmer feeding them at 11 AM is a Universal Law of Physics.
We think these RNGs are random... until something higher up the food chain decides to change the feed time.

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The GCP says the odds of their data happening by chance are "one in a trillion."
In the book, this is the moment Wang Miao starts seeing a countdown in his eyes.
Maybe it’s not our "collective joy" organizing the data. Maybe the universe is just flickering at us.

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If you’ve read The Three-Body Problem, this is terrifyingly familiar.
In the book, Trisolarans send "Sophons" to Earth to mess with particle accelerators.
Scientists start seeing non-random results in random experiments.
That is LITERALLY what this project claims is happening.

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The official theory: "Human consciousness" forms a "Noosphere" that physically organizes matter when we all focus on the same thing (like 9/11 or NYE).
The theory: This is classic data-dredging. If you stare at noise long enough, you'll find a face.
The Cixin Liu theory: Physics is broken.

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he setup: A global network of "EGGs" (hardware random number generators) runs 24/7. Their only job is to produce pure, unadulterated entropy (0s and 1s).
Ideally, they should be totally unpredictable.
But the researchers claim that during major global events, the machines... stop being random.

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I just went down the rabbit hole of the "Global Consciousness Project" at Princeton, and I’m convinced this is the prequel to The Three-Body Problem.
This looks exactly like Sophons messing with our physics.
Let’s discuss the "Shooter and Farmer" hypothesis. 🧵👇
#ThreeBodyProblem #SciFi #WeirdWeb

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cURL removes bug bounties Nyheter för dig som är verksam i den svenska elektronikbranschen som exempelvis tillverkare, konsult, distributör, finansiär, investerare, konstruktör eller tekniker.

"It gets worse before it gets better" they say. I hope we can get into the "get better phase"...
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Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments Soon enough, you might not even be able to buy a calculator.

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The genie might be out of the bottle. Settlement on ECB/digital Euro is just one of many possibilities. They will have to face competition…

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The future of money: a central bank perspective The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purch...

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If you are building infra bridging TradFi and crypto, this is a green light. They admit they need the private sector to build the user layers. Good signal. Now we just have to wait and see how fast they can actually ship. (6/6)

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