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The standard answer to managing dotfiles on NixOS is home-manager. I've never used it, due to two aesthetic and one practical objection:

We’re working on an adventure game, Leonardo’s Moon Ship. The player character, Leo, has the usual pile of animations: idle left and right, walk in four directions, a couple of stair anims. Since implementing the basics of the character, Leo has had this slightly cursed behaviour where he’d grow about 3% taller the moment he started walking, then shrink back when he stopped. His feet would also lift off the ground by up to 27 pixels depending on which way he was facing. Not enough to be obviously broken in a screenshot. Exactly enough to make the game feel wrong.

We have the ability to use compute resources to support our proprietary AI applications (such as Grok 5, which is currently being trained at COLOSSUS II), while also providing access to select compute capacity to third-party customers. For example, in May 2026, we entered into Cloud Services Agreements with Anthropic PBC (“Anthropic”), an AI research and development public benefit corporation, with respect to access to compute capacity across COLOSSUS and COLOSSUS II. Pursuant to these agreements, the customer has agreed to pay us $1.25 billion per month through May 2029, with capacity ramping in May and June 2026 at a reduced fee. The agreements may be terminated by either party upon 90 days’ notice.

— SpaceX S-1, highlights mine

Tags: anthropic, grok, generative-ai, ai, llms

In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-45584 for the project Microsoft Windows, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix a memory safety vulnerability resulting in arbitrary code ex...

I just finished reading Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance, by my friend Cindy Cohn. It's excellent and you should buy a copy.

Cindy is the Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and this memoir/legal history goes over three major legal

People assume all sorts of wild stock market returns when they make their financial calculations. Here are some numbers that show up on web searches:

6 %

8.4 %

10 %

10.1 %

11.3 %

11.5 %

13.6 %

16 %

These are all correctly computed under their respective assumptions, but they are very misleading because whatever those assumptions were, they’re not relevant for most calculations. You should assume 4 % in your calculations. Here’s one way to arrive at that:

(Continue reading the full article on the web.)

How fast is 10 tokens per second really?

Neat little HTML app by Mike Veerman (source code here) which simulates LLM token output speeds from 5/second to 800/second.

Useful if you see a model advertised as "30 tokens/second" and want to get a feel for what that actually looks like.

Via Hacker News

Tags: ai, generative-ai, llms

It's hard to find much to write about Google I/O this year because I have a policy of not writing about anything that I can't try out myself, and a lot of the big announcements are "coming soon". I actually prefer to write about things that are in general availability, becau...

I thought about posting this paper but rebranding it as the Claude Mythos technical report. As far as I can tell, there’s no secret tricks the US frontier labs have, and that basically describes how Mythos was trained. What’s in that paper just works, and for verifiable domains, it’s only a matter of fixing bugs and scaling up. That’s why Anthropic is so desperate for regulatory capture, AI has no moat.

Release: llm-gemini 0.32

• New model gemini-3.5-flash for Gemini 3.5 Flash.

See also my notes on Gemini 3.5 Flash, and the pelican I drew using this upgrade to the plugin.

Tags: gemini, llm

Release: datasette-llm-accountant 0.1a4

• Fixed bug tracking chains of responses. Refs datasette-llm#7

Tags: llm, datasette

Release: llm-gemini 0.32a0

• Compatible with llm>=0.32a0 alpha - adds the ability to stream reasoning tokens.

Tags: gemini, llm

Release: datasette-llm 0.1a8

• Fix for bug where llm_prompt_context() hook did not fully collect chains of responses. #7

It’s common and correct to say that “all code is technical debt”. Adding code is a necessary evil for developing new features: you almost always have to do it, but each line of code adds to the complexity and maintenance burden of the system. All future changes to the system...

Today at Google I/O, Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash. This one skipped the -preview modifier and went straight to general availability, and Google appear to be using it for a whole lot of their key products: 3.5 Flash is available today to billions of people globally: For...

At NAB, I found a demo of Wi-Wi STAMP, a wireless time synchronization protocol that came out of Japan's NICT.

Wi-Wi stands for Wireless 2Way interferometry, and it uses the 900 MHz band for picosecond-level time sync, and mm-level distance accuracy, in a tiny box, currently the size of a smartphone.

The system is still in development, but existing prototypes have 20ps of phase synchronization jitter, and time synchronization down to 30ns. The next generation will have time down to 5ns in real-world use.

How your dependencies became Bernies

Today's links There's no such thing as "age verification": The foreseeable and foreseen consequences of "something must be done"/"there, I've done something." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Apple Stores exist; Responsible spam; Australia loves Hol...