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New article in my blog: Responsible education in computing. I talk about the new computer I'm gifting my daughter on her 7th birthday, and why I believe it's important for everybody to get educated in computing. blog.fidelramos.net/software…
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I'm back.
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If you had invested $1,000 in zcash:native in 2025, you would have $128,789 right now
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My solution is to press all of them at the same time.
While we're fixing everything, I really want to fix consistent boot and bios keys for PCs!!! How did we end up using the entire F-key range AND delete AND escape across the range? THIS IS MADNESS.
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$ZEC breaks above $1,100, surpassing HYPE and DOGE to become the 9th ranked crypto by market cap.
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RT @zooko: ZEC going from $0 to $17bn in less than a decade is important, because Zcash is important for society. A civilization requires t…
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If OpenAI GPT 6 Astra benchmarks are true then NVIDIA's valuation might be underpriced.
Insane Stat: Nvidia’s market cap is now $1 trillion higher than the entire German stock market and the entire Italian stock market… Combined.
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Portugal is the country that had the largest opportunity of the last twenty years: it attracted essentially la crème de la crème of tech. Incredible place. It would have had all the conditions to be the #1 place in Europe for many if only it had been able to offer a reliable system to incorporate and run companies. Unfortunately, it made doing business close to impossible and uncertain. While allowing mass migration to arrive with no prior authorization (tot. 1.5M, 14% of the population), it decided to cut the NHR and replace it with the IFICI regime as implemented today: complex, based on express authorization and, contrary to its original intention, in reality usable only by later-stage entrepreneurs. With a mildly efficient system, or an EU Inc. and/or a less convoluted IFICI, the stretch Lisbon–Cascais would be the European Bay Area, with thousands of new companies building the future from Portugal. This would have meant, among others, allowing thousands of young Portuguese to thrive in their own country instead of leaving for London or anywhere else to make it. Unfortunately it won't be the case. In terms of real estate, I might be completely wrong: but it will keep rising because of very weird supply-demand logic, against all odds and very reasonable predictions. Golden visa has never been the issue behind real estate price spikes. Chances are Portugal is going to be like Ryanair: everyone frustrated, but will keep “selling tickets”.
If you own prime real estate in 🇵🇹Lisbon/Cascais/Estoril 6 years from now, you're not gonna have a good time.
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I wrote my particular love letter to @OmarchyLinux, even if I'm not running it yet. IMO they just need to improve their default security a bit to make it better than the average Linux desktop. I don't know if it'll reach @dhh, I'd love to discuss more. blog.fidelramos.net/software…
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Really looking forward to those new Motorola phones with 1st-party GrapheneOS support. One of them will likely become my new phone once my Pixel 8 Pro dies or shows age.
We have a partial port of GrapheneOS to the Pixel 11 series after a week of work on it. We're unable to complete the port due to lack of support for ARM hardware memory tagging in software, firmware and near certainly hardware. It appears Google cut an important security feature to save money. ARM hardware memory tagging (MTE) is used by GrapheneOS across the entire base OS including the kernel and every standard base OS process. It's only temporarily disabled for a few device-specific processes. It greatly improves protection against nearly all remote exploits and many local exploits. Pixel 8 launched with hardware MTE support in October 2023. We integrated it into our hardened_malloc project and began using it across the OS later that month. Android and the Pixel OS never started using it by default. Android Advanced Protection Mode in Android 16 enables it for a few processes. Apple's Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) is an always enabled feature on the iPhone 17. It's simply a high quality implementation of MTE using the latest standard extensions. It uses MTE in the most secure mode in the kernel and a large portion of userbase. They did a very good job integrating it. Apple's MIE and Android 16+ AAPM don't use MTE for user installed apps unless those explicitly opt in. GrapheneOS enables it for more apps automatically and has a toggle for users to opt-in for every user installed app. There's a per-app toggle to opt-out for incompatible apps which is uncommon. Neither iOS or Android encourage app developers to opt into MTE and other more aggressive security features used in the base OS. Apple's docs warn developers of performance and stability issues. Even Signal doesn't opt-in. Our approach enables forcing using MTE in the standard allocators regardless. Pixel 11 does have security improvements including moving to post-quantum secure verified boot (ML-DSA) and replacing Samsung Shannon IMS with AOSP IMS. Titan M3 should significantly improve protection against data extraction in Before First Unlock state. It's too bad they ruined it by cutting MTE. Pixel 11 series is a lot more expensive for an incremental improvement to the CPU, the same underpowered GPU and reduced RAM for the Pro base models. They finally caught up to the last generation of Qualcomm cellular radio. It's overpriced, the upgrades aren't impressive and losing MTE is appalling. Compared to the Pixel 11, a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 has ~40% higher single threaded CPU performance, ~80% higher multi threaded performance, over 100% higher GPU performance and a far better cellular radio. It also finally has MTE. The next gen is what will be in the first Motorola with GrapheneOS. Pixel 9a and earlier (including Nexus devices) were the Android Open Source Project reference devices. Pixel support was removed from AOSP with Android 16. It's now harder to support Pixels than many other devices and massive progress towards open source firmware and driver libraries was discarded. Compared to the stock Pixel OS, GrapheneOS ships AOSP patches months earlier and Linux kernel patches many months earlier. However, we rely on them for firmware and most driver updates. We also want to move to new kernel branches earlier. These things can be improved with our Motorola partnership. We strongly recommend against buying Pixel 11 devices. Pixel 8, 9 and 10 have much better overall security for GrapheneOS. Pixel 10 is cheaper with similar hardware and MTE. Pixel 11's Titan M3 should improve BFU security for users without a strong passphrase, but losing MTE craters AFU security. We haven't determined what to do about this situation. It may be best for us to skip the Pixel 11 series devices. We can shift our focus entirely to the upcoming Motorola devices instead. Pixel 10a was really a 9th gen Pixel, so hopefully the Pixel 11a does the same with 10th gen and includes MTE.
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Combine this with crypto payments: users vote for (bet on) the best prompts, Polymarket-style. Winner gets the reward, platform takes a cut to pay for generation and expenses.
Okay I built it! 🍰 Infinite Slop levels.io/infinite-slop An infinite and interactive AI generated live stream of slop that goes on forever and ever Anything that you write in the chat is generated next and AI will try to connect it to the previous video so there's an actual sequence and story line Idea by @marcantoinefon and @rehan_shei's original stream so I made it It'd be very expensive to run this so @fal very generously sponsors this They also fine-tuned the model that makes this possible for the first time, making Minimax H3 50x faster and as "Max" and it can now generate videos faster than you can watch them, very cool! Let me know what you think!!!! 😊
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Hard disagree. Bill Pullman brought the world together to fight back against the alien invasion.
Trump Names Harrison Ford As 2nd-Greatest President In History buff.ly/6Q65o4U
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Already switched to it as my default replacing Deepseek V4 Flash 0731.
GLM 5.3 Flash by @Zai_org is now available on Venice, privately. This is the stealth model previously known as Ox Alpha.
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This is completely true. I was there and it was sad to watch Bitcoin miss its chance to be the payment system for all of us: world-wide, no borders, uncensorable, instant, almost free.
It is so sad. Bitcoin usage was growing exponentially up until 2014ish. And then we collectively told the world we didn't want them using our precious "block space," by keeping the 1 MB limit. We had more demand than we ever hoped for but rather than building out the infrastructure, we pretended that blockchains couldn't scale. Why?
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RT @levelsio: The chart of housing affordability is almost a direct inverse of how many new homes are built It's that simple Build more h…
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My Venice.ai KDE widget is now live in the KDE store. If you use Venice.ai and KDE give it a try! opendesktop.org/p/2368690/
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If governments ever cracked down on open-source/open-weights AI models we would still be able to download them P2P through e.g. BitTorrent. They would of course also eventually try to ban that, but it won't happen in one day.
Quick tip: download the open models you care about from Hugging Face as soon as you can. You never know what the next few years may bring. Keep multiple sizes like: • Gemma 4 12B • Qwen3.8-27B • DeepSeek-V4-Flash • GLM-5.3 once the weights are released For each model, keep a GGUF Q4 copy and, when available, an MLX 4-bit copy for Apple Silicon. If you have Blackwell hardware, grab NVFP4 too. 4-bit is a great sweet spot for preserving quality without wasting storage. Maybe you can’t run the biggest models today. That doesn’t mean you won’t be able to tomorrow. Keep them somewhere safe. There may come a day when you’ll be very glad you did.
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Not all dreams were broken. The privacy P2P electronic cash dream is living on.
Crypto killed so many dreams in 5 years.
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I'm calling a dead cat bounce.
BREAKING: SpaceX, $SPCX, officially rises back above its IPO price, now up +30% in 3 days.
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#Emacs se suele ejecutar con permisos completos, vulnerable a ataques a la cadena de suministro de paquetes. He implementado una revisión de código por IA de todas las actualizaciones usando straight.el, magit y gptel. Todos los detalles en mi blog: blog.fidelramos.net/es/softw…
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