I heard from a friend of the family that Bob passed away in his sleep early Saturday. Very sad news. Bob, who&#x27;s real name was Mark Stevens, was an early employee of Apple and was best known for his PBS documentaries, especially &quot;Triumph of the Nerds&quot;. He will be missed.

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I&#x27;m plowing through the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, which is not particularly challenging as sci-fi&#x2F;LitRPG goes, but entertaining enough.  I&#x27;m also wrapping up Doctorow&#x27;s _Enshittification_, and I&#x27;m looking for something a little meaty to keep the brain working...

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Chamath&#x27;s argument (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.socialcapital.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;open-vs-closed): companies give away the thing they dont sell for free, so the thing they do sell is worth more.Meta makes money though ads, Google and Microsoft from cloud.The losers are companies whose business is selling access to closed models. But still companies are paying more and mroe for closed models anyway! Does this theory hold up?

Chamath says open AI models are "commoditize your complement." Agree?

I was inspired by the other thread I saw today about books for adults. For those with young children, what are you reading to them these days? Any good science and technology books appropriate for age 5 or 6? Or other non-fiction?I can strongly recommend &quot;Mushrooms and Company&quot; (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;greystonebooks.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;mushrooms-and-company). My five year old daughter and I really enjoyed it, and now I&#x27;m personally very interested in fungi as a result.

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You can&#x27;t use the app without having the permissions &quot;always on&quot; for microphone and nearby divicesI also think they changed the internal language because the terminal app used w3m up until the recent 753 mb forced-update. So after a few months of learning what w3m was, it wasn&#x27;t even installed anymore in the freshly updated terminal appI also can&#x27;t figure out what needs to be turned on&#x2F;off to prevent the terminal app from crashing if I leave it idle for more than a few minutesThe solution is to just use termux, but the pixel was a work horse when combined with the text based web. Now it&#x27;s just a horse I have to prod with cd every few minutes to get back to where I was

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Dear all.Does anybody here build applications for AI in life sciences or bioinformatics? I would love to be mutuals and connected on my github account here: 
https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;JohnkecopsHere are some examples on what I built with my team:Protein domain annotation pipeline from my dissertation: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Johnkecops&#x2F;protein-domainAlzheimer Epigenetics annotation pipeline:
https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Johnkecops&#x2F;Alzheimer_EpigeneticsCamcer Epigenetics annotation pipeline:
https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Johnkecops&#x2F;EpigeneticsPlease don&#x27;t hesitate to ask or discuss anything about this field. 
I also welcome any interest for this field, if you want to know more. Thank you for your attention.

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I am an American who recently visited Europe for a vacation. I visited several countries and ended the trip in Germany. Within a week of getting back home I received an email that was in German to an email address that I have never used in a web form and have only used a few times for emailing someone (back in 2017). The email address has received zero inbound emails except for this one.This is on Fastmail where I have dozens of email addresses that are context based and then to take it even further I almost always use an on-the-fly alias. I have never received an email to the email address in question which I&#x27;ve had for 10 years except for this one instance immediately after visiting Germany.I traveled with a Verizon locked iPhone 17 and had Verizon international add-on. My phone has nearly no apps on it with the exception of the iOS Fastmail app and a few small open source non-bloated apps.I do not believe this is a coincidence. Any thoughts on what took place, how this happened?Additional thoughts and clarification:
1. I checked the raw message and it was indeed sent to an email address that I&#x27;ve never used in a web form and have never received an inbound email to.
2. The email address in question is very unique and isn&#x27;t something that could potentially just be guessed by spammers. 
3. I haven&#x27;t received an email to this email in question since.
4. The email address in question I have never used an on-the-fly alias (&lt;alias&gt;@&lt;user&gt;.&lt;domain&gt;.&lt;tld&gt;)
5. I didn&#x27;t click on the link in the email but it looks to be a transactional email originated with Amazon SES to verify my email address. Subject and body is 100% in German including address information, UID (tax id?) number, etc.

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Using muse.ai to generate marketplace ads and modify existing ads to make them more attractive. Marketplace account suspended with the following message:&quot;You can&#x27;t use Marketplace
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Since October 1 the OVH price increase also applies to running dedicated servers, at next renewal. A Reddit user posted that their two servers went up 54% in 11 months, no grandfathering.OVH&#x27;s own post: an Advance-1 Gen 2024 renews at $114.99 instead of $89.99 (+28%). RAM options on new orders are up 68% to 652%, the Game range up to 87%. The stated reason is DDR5 costing six times what it did a year ago.Hetzner did the same in February and June, both threads had 500+ points here.I run a small PHP hosting company, so I am biased. But I wonder: Who here still runs OVH or Hetzner dedicated boxes?Sources:https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.ovhcloud.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;posts&#x2F;dedicated-servers-pricing-update-h2-2026&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itdaily.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;cloud&#x2F;ovhcloud-price-increase-ram&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;webhosting&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1wvfu5ihttps:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=47120145https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=48540844

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I&#x27;ve been learning about the Pi agent and decided to rewrite it in Rust. Now that I&#x27;ve finished a lot of the work, I&#x27;d like to show how much faster Rust (rpi) is than TypeScript (Pi). Here are the results:| Metric | rpi (Rust) | Pi (TypeScript) | Difference |
|:---|:---|:---|:---|
| `--version` | 17.5 ms | 169.5 ms | 9.7× faster |
| Cold start | 17.7 ms | 189.5 ms | 10.7× faster |
| RSS when ready | 12.0 MiB | 91.5 MiB | 7.6× smaller |
| Install size | 21.8 MiB | ~385 MiB | ~18× smaller |Rust is really cool!