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I hope the success of Starship allows 100x increase in the number of space telescopes.
Yep it was really easy. I actually modified the NLE server so is now hosted on thermostat.local on my home network.
Eby was a lot further left than Mark Carney...
Agreed, why should serbia get a thread and not BC's massive flip from far left to conservatives with last night landslide win.
What about data centers... or Europe is just going to live in an non-AI world or just outsource it to Kazakhstan (https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/23/nvidia-huang-investment-kaza...) just like the Germans outsourced their energy production to Russia?
The quality of Hollywood movies has gone down substantially.

I can barely watch anything on Netflix due to issues like this:

"Matt Damon Says Netflix Wants Movies to Restate the ‘Plot Three or Four Times in the Dialogue’ Because Viewers are on ‘Their Phones While They’re Watching’"

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/matt-damon-netflix-movies...

Could do something like oauth to gmail + OTP (or passkeys) on cloudflare workers with long lived sessions or I could vibe code an iOS app even and side load it. That would be very secure as well. I haven't decided yet.

I have a personal password manager secured like that I vibe coded to replace 1password and so far it is working great.

What a coincidence, I am working on deploying the https://nolongerevil.com/ on my 2nd Gen Nest Thermostat, my wife has bugging me for weeks to either fix it or buy a new one.

I am actually going to self-host and vibe code my own cloud service on Cloudflare.

Europe is going to have to build more electricity generation...
Re:Why are we even doing all this? on Thursday October 15, 2026 @05:24PM (#50110499)
He forgot one, "creating AI slop games that no one will ever play".

guilty

On Napa Valley I had 1 character that was best buds with a famous PKer and another character who was his arch-nemesis. Fun times...
The meta game experience from UO is still unmatched.
Re:Sharing AI progress in mathematics on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @01:07AM (#49988467)
Opus 5 is ancient history now. Move on.
I am as well and hopefully Starship allows even larger telescopes!
Re:The US state replacing power plants with home batteries on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @11:00AM (#49909926)
What happens if you have a local power outage but they have drained your battery down?
Re:Alberta (Canada) slaps punitive tax on solar panels on Sunday September 06, 2026 @12:33PM (#49588166)
There is a very underfunded https://www.orphanwell.ca/ program but I agree with your point.
Re:The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations on Sunday August 30, 2026 @10:31AM (#49498996)
Why wasn't the traffic in/out of the boxes that the agents were running on monitored?
Re:The New MCP Roadmap on Saturday August 22, 2026 @10:19AM (#49400011)
I am very curious how many MCP servers will actually implement all of this:

"MCP authorization today is built around a person approving access in a browser. That works well for interactive clients, but more and more of the callers are agents running as cloud workloads with their own identity, acting on behalf of a user who isn’t present, or delegating narrower authority to sub-agents. We want MCP servers to have a standardized way to recognize and trust those agent identities, built on existing standards rather than pasted API keys and long-lived tokens.

The work here covers finalizing Demonstrating Proof of Possession (DPoP) and driving its adoption, and defining an opinionated path for agent identity and delegation through Workload Identity Federation, the ID-JAG grant behind Enterprise-Managed Authorization, and standard token exchange. We will also continue to grow our engagement with the OAuth standards bodies, including the IETF OAuth and WIMSE working groups, to help the underlying standards evolve with the building blocks that agent identity needs."

The strongest El Niño ever caused a massive famine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1877%E2%80%931878_El_Ni%C3%B1o...

Look at the M2 supply growth, it can't collapse with that growth but inflation will run quite high.
I have been very critical of the Federal gov (less so under Carney) and I will admit this job report actually was very good as it wasn't just majority public sector hirings which was very common under Trudeau:

Private-sector jobs: +58,000 jobs [wealthprof...ssional.ca], [retail-insider.com]

Government/public-sector jobs:-27,000 jobs (a decline) [wealthprof...ssional.ca], [retail-insider.com]

Self-employed: +44,000 jobs [wealthprof...ssional.ca], [retail-insider.com]

Part-time jobs: +36,600 jobs [money.usnews.com], [ca.finance.yahoo.com]

It hasn't completely but she was watching TikTok style mindrot youtube videos so that least that is blocked now.

We blocked a bunch of domains on her laptop so it is just very painful for her now.

Are you a parent?

I have personally used the parental controls on Android, iOS and ChromeOS and to be honest they are terrible. Issues with syncing changes, the terrible UX for parental access control (iOS...), issues around audit/access logs, issues around prompting the parent for access.

I am honestly shocked that Apple known for its polished experience hasn't been forced by angry parents.

My daughter's school actually advised parents to not enable parental controls on her ChromeBook because it would interfere with the school's education websites but my daughter was caught playing web games in class so we decided to lock her down anyways.

LHS 1140 b has about 5.6 times Earth’s mass
Re:DOGE is done. What happened to its records? on Monday July 13, 2026 @12:25PM (#48895009)
Why did Bill Clinton execute the largest Federal cuts in the 90s and everyone said they were needed?
Re:Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @07:42PM (#48825532)
Look at the official party stance, he is spreading misinformation.
Re:The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @01:56PM (#48648725)
Vehicles accelerate a LOT faster on average than years ago, EVs and Turbo Engines...
Re:Canada in Technical Recession on Friday May 29, 2026 @05:38PM (#48329659)
There is very little opportunity right now in Canada so I am not surprised the GDP growth has come in negative. It will probably be positive next quarter due to the oil price spike.
Another amazing series is the Master of Rome series starting with the First Man of Rome book:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Man_in_Rome

Re:Building for the Future on Thursday May 07, 2026 @10:10PM (#48057655)
Prince is claiming they laid off very few SWEs, I know at least an entire team of SWEs.

https://x.com/eastdakota/status/2052560831909433554?s=20

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