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This is a hoax. Maybe a yes men production? I can't find any actual Amazon pages.

A bit late to the party but check out https://github.com/brewsterkahle/onionpress/ - it's an effort to make self-hosting on Tor hidden services as easy as possible.

Here's a similar project focused on agtech & iot - https://github.com/mitra42/frugal-iot

If anyone else has pointers to low cost sensor network appropriate for small scale farms please share!

This looks pretty interesting, but I don't understand why decompilers are not allowed. If this benchmark was aimed at recreating a SASS/server based product then it might make more sense, but given the fact that decompilers are readily available in practice the "no read" restriction seems to artificially increase the challenge level.

For a similar take see Cory Doctorow's recent "No one wants to read your AI slop" - https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/02/nonconsensual-slopping/#r...

Spotify hires musicians to churn out content that fits certain criteria. see https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machin...

While not 100% exactly what you're looking for, Huberman Labs episode on MDMA is pretty close. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slUCmZJDXrk The "don't lose the magic" supplementation is addressed but it is speculation based on anecdotal evidence and conjecture.

I'm surprised at the investment in an area that's likely to undergo major environmental challenges but it will be fascinating to see how this turns out. Superficially it looks like an American version of Neom.

https://www.neom.com/en-us

It could be Guy McPherson ? - https://guymcpherson.com/

Could this enable embedded as metadata in audio files? Ie: could this be similar to what Spotify might use to fingerprint the music they distribute?

indeed - the presenter (dhh) is Danish, and there was a photo of a container ship near the beginning of the demo video.

I bought my S76 laptop via my work's "choose your own workstation" program. It's a great way to support continued development of the software I use PLUS when you buy via S76 you get lifetime support for the device. The support is not something I've made use of often, but it certainly paid off the one time I needed it. Basically, it depends on your idea of "value" - do you value money (buy cheaper hardware) or time (buy S76 with support)?

fwiw - there are at least two production ready servers that coexist as twitter-like social hubs - https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma and https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon. Additionally, other platforms that support the w3c's ActivityPub protocol can also interact with Mastodon.

another automated scam trolling service called lenny - https://www.reddit.com/r/itslenny/ Listening to some of these makes me laugh so hard my eyes start to water. The script eventually loops and some scammers don't catch on despite being implausibly being interrupted by a flock of ducks.

I wonder if this means they will reconsider their "Encrypted Media Extensions" spec. I lost all respect for the organization when that passed.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/open-letter-w3c-direct...

The 'Queen's consent' is more of a political lever than is typically acknowledged. See https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/08/queen-...

The "it should die" camp take their view literally. At issue for many of us is the rampant consumption of resources to keep web3/cryptomining going. The ends() do not justify the means.

() for any variation of "ends" people have come up with so far.

there's the deepfake visual representation that we're discussing, but what's to say there isn't work being done on the acting side of things? I think there are broad horizons to what can be automated - especially in the world of pure media.

I suspect that acting itself will be reduced to algorithms. Expression of different emotions could be digitized. This could open further avenues of automation - authors could configure various different permutations (e.g. sincerity/sarcasm, surprise), the combination of expressions could be derived from context / sentiment analysis for the character, or perhaps each character could have a preset pack of opinions/values that informs their response. Given the constantly expanding capabilities of synthesis, these seem like natural areas that people will explore.

I agree that there is no need for any of this, but that's never stopped technological / artistic progress.

I don't know if we could get all the required nitrogen to sustain our current agricultural methods, but there are definitely people working towards normalizing the capture and reuse of the nutrients in urine. Our current practice of polluting waterways with our urine is a travesty though, and it behooves us to process our 'waste' in a more regenerative way.

See https://richearthinstitute.org for more.

I'm looking forward to reading this. I listened to this excellent podcast with David Graber's coauthor, David Wengrow about the book and the fascinating discussion really hints that this will be a good read.

https://srslywrong.com/podcast/242-the-dawn-of-the-dawn-of-e...

I totally agree with your second point, but your first won't work. If a PWA has been downloaded it can report back its status - any PWA developer would rely on their own status tracking implementation, not some unreliable flag provided by Safari.

An argument could be made that non-pub goers are still excluded from some kind of reward or compensation. If the buyer was spending their own personal money that might be one thing, but more often than not the funds come out of company expenses.

Animal agriculture is already very heavily subsidized. Moving said subsidies from animal to plant based food production would greatly increase the cost of animal proteins, while allowing plant farming the opportunity to embrace regenerative practices.

https://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/removing-meat-subsidy-our-cogn...

Two players of similar skill would probably get creamed by a team with a large skill disparity.

https://global.strike.me looks to address that use case. See https://jimmymow.medium.com/announcing-strike-global-2392b90... for more context / backstory.

p.s. thanks for your work on Ardour

What do you use to download the music?