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Day 2 in Oxford for medical trial fun and games. Today was the infusion, 50% chance of ketamine vs placebo. After doing a variety of questionnaires and having blood and urine samples taken it was time to be infused. It was fairly relaxing. Maybe a bit boring. I idly let my mind wander. I think I either didn’t get ketamine or I did and it had nearly no effect on me. I felt maybe slightly lightheaded at one point, and now feel a bit weird, but nothing especially noteworthy.

After that there were more questionnaires and computer tasks. Rather cruelly one of these asked me to remember things from another task, which they hadn’t warned me about. Testing memory when you’ve not been asked to remember stuff is a valuable thing to do.

Tomorrow afternoon is an MRI session where I remember various things while in the machine and they look at what bits of my head light up.

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A story I like telling is how I ran the AV at a place and when I deployed adblock the detections fell off a cliff. I wish more people had this visceral "holy shit" moment. "It was this easy the whole time?" ~2012. I recently deployed uBlock Origin to an F500, on my insistence.
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Horrifying/Fascinating thought:

Antivirus Vendors are already one of the richest sources of aggressive malware.

What if the false dichotomy was simply scrapped?

“Improve your corporate security with Phageware!”
“Self deploying”
“Eradicates all other malware undetectably”
“Attacks and cryptographically detains hostile actors on your network”
“Make the C&C seat YOUR seat for a change!”

DISCLAIMER: This is a fucking awful idea and under no circumstances should it be allowed to happen (as if we had any say in it)

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Bluesky now owned by crypto-grifters.

My "we will not hyperfinancialize the social experience through tokens, crypto trading or NFTs" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt.

jwz.org/b/ykbY

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I propose writing IPv6 addresses as Unicode:
- take each segment
- convert it to a codepoint
- ???
- profit

For example: 2a01:4f8:c012:fb3::1 would become

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Israel's longest running paper, Haaretz, just confirmed that Netanyahu actively blocked every hostage deal since 10/7, Netanyahu meanwhile is openly planning to annex Gaza—& the conversation is still "why won't Hamas agree to a deal?"😐

This is how genocide perpetuates. Horrific.

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Blimey. Even Gruber thinks Apple's gatekeeper nannying "for your comfort and security" has gone too far on MacOS daringfireball.net/linked/2024…

Overriding Gatekeeper Protections in MacOS 15 Sequoia Will Require Clicking Through Panels in System Settings

Link to: https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=saqachfa
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Apple did the research; LLMs cannot do formal reasoning. Results change by as much as 10% if something as basic as the names change.

garymarcus.substack.com/p/llms…

LLMs don’t do formal reasoning - and that is a HUGE problem

Important new study from Apple
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Jeff Grigg

@anderspuck @dalias
LLMs are NOT doing *speech to text* translation -- doing transcripts from audio (podcast). That's a different set of AI technologies.

The industry has been developing "AI" technologies since before I was born. Some are quite useful.

It's the "Generative AI" subset (which includes LLMs, chatbots) that is so misleading, mostly useless, and incredibly wasteful.

@Cassandrich @Anders Puck Nielsen
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Leica’s #aurora photo bomb may just be the best picture I’ll ever take
#aurora
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The payroll calculation service I use for the pub company is closing down at the end of the tax year.

I'm looking for recommendations for a replacement. It needs to have a decent API that isn't gated behind "become a partner and put your app in our store" (so that rules out Xero).

Pricing that's transparent and would work for a company of ~50 people would also be nice! I'm currently paying about £55/month.

SO many companies in this space seem to be "call us for pricing"! Really puts me off...

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Two years ago I painted anthracnose lesions on apples, strawberries and mango. The symptoms are caused by related fungi within the genus Colletotrichum.

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Colletotrichum Fruit — hgpennington art

hgpennington art

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“Non passibus aequis” was my mother’s favourite phrase from Virgil’s Aeneid. Literally “not with equal paces”, it describes Aeneas’ son Iulus as he escapes Troy with his father, and immediately brings the scene to life. Who hasn’t seen a parent hurrying with a small child, after all?

Thought brought to you by a section of Travis Baldree’s “Bookshops and Bonedust” where our protagonist’s dwarf friend is walking “two strides to every one of Viv’s”

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domainincite.com/30406-five-ti… - Five times ICANN deleted a ccTLD, and what it means for .io

Five times ICANN deleted a ccTLD, and what it means for .io - Domain Incite

With the future of .io coming into question this week, with the news that the UK will return sovereignty of the British Indian Ocean Territory to Mauritius, I thought it would be a good time to see how ICANN has treated disappearing countries and ter…
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Kind of reassuring to know my feelings on this aren't as much of an outlier as politicians want me to think.

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈

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But once again "fuck what you peasants think, we're in charge now"

#FreePalestine #Gaza #Israel #UKPOL #Ukpolitics #Labour #Starmer


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Why don't we format Unix timestamps like we do with IPv4 addresses? They are both just 32 bit integers.

"Hey, what time is it?" - "Oh, it's 103.1.0.185."

It even works for time ranges!
"The conference will be held in 103.1.0.0/19"

#unix #time #ipv4

#unix #time #ipv4
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digitalpreservation-blog.lib.c… - Raw flux streams and obscure formats: Further work around imaging 5.25-inch floppy disks.

Raw flux streams and obscure formats: Further work around imaging 5.25-inch floppy disks

This blog is a continuation of our earlier collaboration (which can be found here and here). These posts focused on our first efforts to set up a workflow to image 5.25-inch floppy disks using a…
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