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How Shamir’s Secret Sharing Works

How Shamir’s Secret Sharing Works

๐Ÿš€ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Some secrets are too important to trust to one person, and too important to lose if that person disappears.A company wants three officers present before the master key is used. A family wants account recovery to need more than one envelope. A team wants a backup that survives a missing member without handing anyone the whole thing.Adi Shamir (the S in RSA), published a way to do this in 1979. Split a secret into pieces so that some number of them can recover it, and…
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A battery-powered Starlink Mini is likely on the way

A battery-powered Starlink Mini is likely on the way

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this trending post from The Verge ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Science,Space,SpaceX,Tech ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Code in Starlink's latest firmware suggests SpaceX may soon launch a version of its smallest Internet dish with a built-in battery. The battery-powered Starlink Mini will provide unrestricted portability to truck crews, emergency responders and anyone who wants fast, low-latency internet from virtually anywhere on the planet.University researcher Jinwei Zhao spotted a number of strings pointing to the built-in battery in the May firmware release, according to engadget. PCMag. The "DishBatteryStats Message" line suggests code designed to return specific fields from a built-in battery,…
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andreoliwa/logseq-doctor: Heal your Markdown files: convert to outline, list tasks and more tools to come ยท GitHub

andreoliwa/logseq-doctor: Heal your Markdown files: convert to outline, list tasks and more tools to come ยท GitHub

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Logseq Doctor: heal your flat old Markdown files before importing them to Logseq. ๐Ÿ“š Read the full documentation NoteThis project is still alpha, so it's very rough on the edges (documentation and feature-wise). At the moment, it has both a Python and Go CLI. The long-term plan is to convert it to Go and slowly remove Python. New features will be added to the Go CLI only. Logseq Doctor is a command-line tool with commands to manipulate your Logseq Markdown files. It provides utilities to:…
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Citing Gandalf, Pope Leo says we must “disarm” artificial intelligence

Citing Gandalf, Pope Leo says we must “disarm” artificial intelligence

๐Ÿš€ Check out this must-read post from Ars Technica ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Policy,AI,Anthropic,Catholic Church,morality ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: With Anthropic's co-founder at his side today in Rome, Pope Leo It calls for the "demilitarization" of artificial intelligence to serve the greater good. Liu admits that โ€œthe word is powerful,โ€ but he deliberately chose the language of โ€œdisarmamentโ€ because โ€œthis moment needs words capable of attracting attention, awakening consciences, and pointing to paths forward for humanity.โ€ Today, artificial intelligence must be freed from the logic that turns it into a tool for control, exclusion, and death. The 40,000-word encyclical contains relentless…
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Using AI to write better code more slowly

Using AI to write better code more slowly

๐Ÿ’ฅ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: A lot of people seem convinced that the point of AI coding is to write low-quality code as fast as possible. Spew out barely-passable slop, open massive PRs, and merge them unvetted. Ship it! But the thing is, LLMs are very flexible. And you can use them just as effectively to write high-quality code more slowly. This statement seems completely obvious to me at this point, and I almost didnโ€™t want to write this post for that reason. But there seem to be enough…
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Here are our favorite last-minute deals from REI’s Giant Anniversary Sale

Here are our favorite last-minute deals from REI’s Giant Anniversary Sale

โœจ Explore this must-read post from The Verge ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Deals,Gadgets,Tech,Verge Shopping ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: REI's Anniversary Sale โ€” the retailer's biggest of the year โ€” is still going strong, letting you save on all kinds of outdoor essentials. If you have a camping trip coming up, now is a good time to stock up on the essentials, whether it's a tent, sleeping pad or stove. If your summer plans include hiking or heading into the backcountry, there are also savings on everything from Garmin watches to water filters, some of which are also discounted at retailers like…
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Designing for and Against the Manufactured Normalcy Field

Designing for and Against the Manufactured Normalcy Field

๐Ÿ’ฅ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: This post tells the story of the session at FOO camp this year that I co-ran with Matt Webb on the Manufactured Normalcy Field. It explains the background of the idea, describes the structure of the brainstorming session, outlines its results, and then tracks some of the uptake of the idea since FOO, specifically in a recent episode of A Show with Ze Frank. A few months back, Nick Pinkston turned me on to Ribbonfarm, the blog of Venkatesh Rao, a researcher and entrepreneur.…
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Pope Leo warns of the dangers of artificial intelligence in a major papal document

Pope Leo warns of the dangers of artificial intelligence in a major papal document

๐Ÿš€ Explore this trending post from The Verge ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,Anthropic,Law,News,Policy,Politics โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Pope Leo XIV warned of the dangers of artificial intelligence and unfettered technological power in his first major papal document released Monday. Magnifica Humanitas It is the Pope's statement on โ€œHuman Protection in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,โ€ in which he discusses the dangers of AI-driven warfare, the effects of AI on labor, and the need for new legal and ethical frameworks governing the technology.In his encyclical โ€“ an open letter from the Catholic Church โ€“ Pope Leo stressed the economic and social disruptions…
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Earthion – Earthion

Earthion – Earthion

๐Ÿš€ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Return to the genesis of 16-bit gaming with Ancientโ€™s brand new shoot โ€™em up, Earthion!With Earthโ€™s resources depleted and its environment in ruin, most of humanity has fled to Mars. But when hostile invaders launch an attack on Earth, mankind has no choice but to fight back. As environmental researcher Azusa Takanashi, youโ€™ll pilot the state-of-the-art space fighter YK-IIA and mount the most important counterattack in human history. Losing is not an option!Featuring eight action-packed stages full of stunning visuals, frenetic gameplay, and amazing special…
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Cox Media has been fined after it bragged about spying on users on their phones

Cox Media has been fined after it bragged about spying on users on their phones

๐Ÿš€ Discover this awesome post from The Verge ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: News,Policy,Privacy,Tech ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: An exceptionally bizarre controversy has come back to haunt Cox Media and two marketing companies, which claimed they were secretly listening to users via phones and smart devices - despite little evidence they could do so. The Federal Trade Commission announced Thursday that Cox, MindSift and 1010 Digital Works will pay a total of $930,000 to settle allegations that they were actually lying about spying on people to target ads.As he narrated it I was upset Two years ago, Cox publicly boasted of a…
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