Kurt B. Kaiser
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Kurt B. Kaiser
@KBK
Personally made the C14 detectors for the Mars Viking Landers. Python Fellow and core committer. Physicist. Rewinding emergence. Bottom turtles.
شامل ہوئے Aralık 2007
233 فالونگ164 فالوورز
@LundukeJournal Omarchy is using systemd and i talked to the dev and he would never try to implement an alternative init system
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The number of Open Source Operating Systems refusing to implement Age Verification continues to grow.
github.com/BryanLunduke/D…
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@kicad_pcb Look, I love KiCad, but Dark Mode for Windows tops the list? Give me a break.
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KiCad Version 10.0.0 Released
The KiCad project is proud to announce the latest major stable version 10 release. See the blog post on the KiCad website for more information about this release.
kicad.org/blog/2026/03/V…
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@Reelix They close pull requests that undo the change:
github.com/systemd/system…
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Turns out, the person who did the final approval of a change that would make people hate Linux works at Microsoft.
I'm sure there's no conflict of interest there - No siree!
github.com/systemd/system…
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Ok, I'm apparently not good at writing parables, because nearly everyone interpreted it wrong.
I used a parable because I want to respect others' service records, especially when not all the facts are out yet.
So let's pivot to a much more direct analogy.
In 2016, career intelligence professionals, people who had genuinely spent their lives fighting America's enemies, became convinced that a foreign power had compromised the incoming president. They had data points. Real ones. Trump had business dealings in Moscow. He said nice things about Putin on camera. People in his orbit had meetings with Russian nationals. A dossier appeared with salacious claims. Each data point individually was... a data point.
But they were looking for Russia. So they found Russia. Everywhere.
They were so certain they were right that they leaked to the press. They used classification authority to spy on American citizens. They presented unverified opposition research to a FISA court as intelligence. Peter Strzok texted about "insurance policies." Andrew McCabe authorized leaks.
They were experienced professionals who genuinely believed the republic was in danger. Their service records were real. Their concern was sincere.
And they were wrong.
DataRepublican (small r)@DataRepublican
I'm a Smurf. I've been hired to run counter-intelligence operations at Smurf Village. My role is political; I've personally gone up against the evil wizard Gargamel. But once I'm on the inside, I discover that Smurf Village has a relationship with a goat-riding human boy called Peewit. Peewit isn't a Smurf. He's caused a lot of damage with his antics over the years. Why is he even here? I start digging. I pull up Papa Smurf's history with Peewit. Papa Smurf has been collaborating with this kid for years. Protecting him. Making excuses for him. Why? Peewit is reckless. Peewit makes messes. But Papa Smurf keeps letting him back in. The more I dig, the more Peewit I find. He's everywhere. In every file, behind every favor, connected to every mess. A picture forms in my head: if I'm looking for Peewit everywhere and I keep finding Peewit, the only logical conclusion is that Peewit is the one controlling Papa Smurf. Then a prominent Smurf gets assassinated. They say Gargamel's people did it. Case closed, move along. But I get access to the dead Smurf's private messages. And there's Peewit. Right there in the chats. The same Peewit I've been laser-focused on all year. Pressuring him. Making demands. I bring this to Papa Smurf and his inner circle. I bring it with alarm. Papa Smurf looks at me funny. And then — just like that — I'm kicked out of the investigation. No explanation. Just... out. This is the final proof that Peewit is controlling the Smurf Village. I know what I saw. I have to get the truth out there. So I do the unthinkable. I leak the information.
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@samhenrigold Excellent review - brings back good times. And, I'm writing this on a 2012 Air with 4 GB RAM and a 256 GB SSD (orig. 128 GB). Running Omarchy Linux and using 5 GB, so I have 120 GB left. It's all open and I can read and change anything I like. Meanwhile, my M2 gathers dust.
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@InternalDamn @samhenrigold Byzantine refers to the complex and intricate culture of the Eastern Roman Empire. They were all Caucasians. It has nothing to do with race. And you'll wear out your SSD early if you are constantly swapping.
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@samhenrigold SSD can be used as RAM now because of insane swap speeds, the paradigm has shifted. Also don't use the word Byzantine like that, its racist.
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@Osint613 Obama's not /that/ dumb - he just supported the other side. And Trump knows that - he's making a reasonable offer Iran can't accept. They will refuse, and we all know what happens next.
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Iran:
"We're negotiating right now, but they're not getting to the right answer. And we're not going to see people - we're not going to see what's happened for 47 years keep going. For 47 years, we've been doing this with them.
The Obama deal was the worst deal. Nobody ever saw a deal so stupid. Right now, if you did the Obama deal - if that held, if I didn't terminate it - Iran would have a nuclear weapon, and it would be a whole different ballgame.
That Obama deal was one of the worst, one of the dumbest deals I've ever seen. First of all, it was very short-term; it would long be over. You know that. It would be - but I terminated it. But if I didn't, it would be over by now anyway.
The Obama deal - what he did was one of the dumber deals. I've seen a lot of dumb deals, that would be one of the dumber deals."
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This was a flawless upgrade in five minutes. A fresh install from USB is about 10 min - not much more than supply name and password. Congratulations @DHH ! x.com/dhh/status/202…
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Omarchy 3.4 is out! Massive release with 61 contributors, three new themes, tailored Tmux, new screenshot flow, new agent features (claude by default + tmux swarm!), keyboard RGB theme syncing, and a million other things. github.com/basecamp/omarc…
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Omarchy 3.4 is out! Massive release with 61 contributors, three new themes, tailored Tmux, new screenshot flow, new agent features (claude by default + tmux swarm!), keyboard RGB theme syncing, and a million other things. github.com/basecamp/omarc…
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@ponnappa @Shizcrey @antisocial_mdia I thought the article was very well done, and I understood everything but HRMS. Which I'm not bothering to look up.
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When programming languages were released:
1957: Fortran
1958: Lisp
1959: COBOL
1964: BASIC
1970: Pascal
1972: C
1978: SQL
1985: C++
1991: Python
1993: R
1995: PHP, Java, & JavaScript
2001: C#
2009: Go
2012: Julia
2014: Swift
2015: Rust
2016: Kotlin
2017: WebAssembly
2023: Mojo
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@OldStateSaloon @DataRepublican I looked up Old State Saloon. It said it's in Idaho. If so, that's too far away for me. I live in Utah.
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WATCH ONLINE- @DataRepublican’s presentations LIVE from Old State Saloon - 16th & 17th on X or Rumble.
The tickets for sale on our website are for getting inside OSS (you know, like in a real place with real people).
Whether it’s in person or online, we look forward to it!
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@AlexChelan @r0ck3t23 And more importantly, put a vast amount of it on the web as free software to serve as an example for further development by AI. Will that continue?
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@r0ck3t23 Yeah, no. Try to tell AI to create a website in binary directly. AI learned to use what humans used because we generated decades of data it can learn from.
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Elon Musk thinks coding dies this year.
Not evolves. Dies.
By December, AI won’t need programming languages. It generates machine code directly. Binary optimized beyond anything human logic could produce. No translation. No compilation. Just pure execution.
Musk: “You don’t even bother doing coding.”
Code was never the point. It was friction. A tax we paid because machines didn’t speak human. AI just learned fluent human. The tax is gone.
Now plug that into Neuralink. No syntax. No keyboard. No screen.
Musk: “Imagination-to-software.”
Thought becomes executable. You imagine an outcome, the system architects and compiles it into reality instantly.
We’re not automating programming. We’re erasing it from existence.
The entire profession collapses into a thought. Decades of training reduced to irrelevance. The gap between idea and instantiation hits zero.
You don’t build anymore. You imagine, and it materializes.
Not incremental progress. Total phase shift. The way humans have created things for ten thousand years just became obsolete.
Welcome to a world where the limiting factor isn’t skill, resources, or time. It’s whether you can picture what you want clearly enough for a machine to birth it into existence.
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@Kenny_J_Miller @XFreeze And they even edit what you see in the magazines - what on them in the News app differs from what is published.
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@XFreeze I pay zero attention to AppleNews and have done so for a very long time. I only have it as a part of the One subscription, and I only use it for some of the magazines that are a part of it.
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Tim Cook has turned Apple News into a pure left-wing Propaganda Machine...
A new study reveals shocking bias. Out of 620 top stories in January Apple News featured:
🔵 Left-leaning outlets: 440
🔴 Conservative sites: ZERO
That is 96 consecutive days without a single right-leaning story. Not even one
• WaPo: Featured 72 times
• NBC: 50 times
• Fox, NY Post, Daily Wire: Blacklisted 🚫
Hundreds of millions of users are being force-fed one-sided narratives
He is personally turning 100 million iPhone users into a left-wing echo chamber
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First Public Demonstration of the Computer Mouse and Graphical User Interface — 1968
On December 9, 1968, in what would later be called “The Mother of All Demos,” computer scientist Douglas Engelbart gave the world its first glimpse of modern computing. Held at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco, Engelbart’s 90-minute live demonstration introduced revolutionary concepts that now define how we interact with computers.
Among the innovations unveiled were the **computer mouse**, a small wooden device with two perpendicular wheels, designed to navigate on-screen content. Engelbart also showcased **windowed computing**, **hypertext links**, **real-time text editing**, and the **graphical user interface** — decades before these features would appear in mainstream personal computers.
At a time when most computers were still operated with punch cards and command lines, Engelbart’s vision seemed futuristic, even unimaginable. Yet, the demo laid the groundwork for everything from desktop interfaces to the modern internet.
Supported by his team at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), Engelbart’s presentation was not just a technical marvel but a profound reimagining of human-computer interaction. It would take years for the world to catch up to his ideas, but the seeds of the digital revolution were planted that day — and history was quietly, but permanently, changed.
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@robfulton @RWMaloneMD @simonmaechling And that's not counting evidence for aggravation of "gluten intolerance" possibly caused by glyposate application before when harvest. Stay tuned.
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TLDR for those with ADHD! Enjoy
Pick your side:
Regulatory consensus says mostly safe vs. mounting mechanistic + epi studies say concern (especially high-exposure farmers). Debate rages on — not settled. 🚜
Simon says: Glyphosate is super safe, decades of data, no real cancer risk at normal exposures, one of the most studied chemicals ever.
Malone replies: Nope — here's 109 recent studies (2018–2025) showing risks including:
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (cancer) links (e.g. Hardell 2023 pooled analysis OR 2.2 for glyphosate)
Autism-like behaviors in animal offspring from mom exposure Gut microbiome disruption → brain effects (anxiety, depression in models)
Metabolic issues (diabetes risk, insulin resistance, fatty liver signals in NHANES data)
Oxidative stress, neurotoxicity, reproductive harm, epigenetic changes
Bottom line, Simon is underplaying and downright obfuscating.
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The claim that glyphosate is “poison” is one of the most successful disinformation campaigns of our time.
Decades of data. Hundreds of regulatory reviews.
No credible cancer signal at real-world exposure.
One of the most studied chemicals in human history.
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@ZaiFuchigami @SamaHoole Samurai ate animal protein. Commoners did not.
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@SamaHoole This is just wrong. Historically fish was not the main dish. Portions of animal protein in meals was and is comparatively small compared to rice and vegetables. Especially soy products.
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Japan: Longest life expectancy globally (85 years)
Plant-based advocates: "See? Rice and vegetables!"
Japan's actual diet:
- Fish consumption: 53kg per capita annually (highest in developed world)
- Pork: Second most consumed meat
- Chicken: Third most consumed
- Beef: Expensive but eaten regularly
- Eggs: Daily
- Dashi (fish stock): Base of nearly every dish
Percentage of Japanese protein from animal sources: 50%
Their longevity is attributed to rice while ignoring that they eat more fish than almost anyone and put fish stock in literally everything.
The meal is fish. The rice is just there to soak up the dashi.
But acknowledging this would require admitting that eating primarily animal protein leads to longevity.
Can't have that conversation. Better to focus on the rice.
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@JayneHenn66 @Osint613 Yes - it looks like the salt was laid down from a dump truck, and now he's trampling the snow into it to melt. Environmentally toxic! It was better to dump the relatively clean snow into the Hudson.
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😂 It looks like they’re just clowning around or something, but, no, I asked Grok. They just need the sun’s help for it to work, otherwise, black ice in the street.
Those skid steers (small loaders) are spreading the piled-up snow into a thin layer across the road surface. The idea is to expose more of it to sunlight, warmer air, and vehicle traffic so it melts faster naturally, rather than leaving big mounds that could refreeze or block lanes. This works best on milder days after the storm, but yeah, it can come off as clowning around if you’re watching from above.
The red streaks? That’s not blood or paint—it’s beet juice mixed with salt brine, a common eco-friendly de-icer NYC uses. The beet extract helps the mixture stick to the road better, lowers the freezing point (effective down to around -20°F), and prevents ice from bonding as tightly. It often leaves that pinkish-red residue when spread or disturbed.
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