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A few things to know before stealing my 914

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Dear Thief, Welcome to my Porsche 914. I imagine that at this point (having found the door unlocked) your intention is to steal my car. Don’t be encouraged by this; the tumblers sheared off in 1978. I would have locked it up if I could, so don’t think you’re too clever or that I’m too lazy. However, now that you’re in the car, there are a few things you’re going to need to know. First, the battery is disconnected, so slide-hammering my ignition switch is not your first step. I leave the battery disconnected, not to foil hoodlums such as…

Run Windows Apps on Linux with Seamless Integration

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How does it compare to WinApps? With WinApps you do the bulk of the setup manually, and there's no cohesive interface to bring it all together. There's a basic TUI, a taskbar widget, and some CLI commands for you to play with.WinBoat does all the setup once you have the pre-requisites installed, displays everything worth seeing in a neat interface for you, and acts like a complete experience. No need to mess with configuration files, no need to memorize a dozen CLI commands, it just works. What are the advantages of using this over CrossOver or WINE? You can run…

Literary Hub » How American Tech Cartels Use Apps to Break the Law

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The death of competition spells doom for regulation. Competition is an essential component of effective regulation, for two reasons: First, competition keeps the companies within a sector from all telling the same lie to its regulators. Second, competition erodes companies’ profits and thus starves them of the capital they need to overpower or outmaneuver their regulators.Article continues after advertisement While not all regulation is wise or helpful, a world without regulation is a catastrophe. That’s because, in a highly technological world, your ability to do well (or even to live out the day) requires that you correctly navigate innumerable highly…

GitHub Will Prioritize Migrating to Azure Over Feature Development

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After acquiring GitHub in 2018, Microsoft mostly let the developer platform run autonomously. But in recent months, that’s changed. With GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke leaving the company this August, and GitHub being folded more deeply into Microsoft’s organizational structure, GitHub lost that independence. Now, according to internal GitHub documents The New Stack has seen, the next step of this deeper integration into the Microsoft structure is moving all of GitHub’s infrastructure to Azure, even at the cost of delaying work on new features. In a message to GitHub’s staff, CTO Vladimir Fedorov notes that GitHub is constrained on capacity in…

The weaponization of travel blacklists – Papers, Please!

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[A Federal Air Marshal (FAM) tasked with surveillance of an airline passenger targeted by Quiet Skies lists and/or rules followed the traveler out to the curb and recorded the license plate number of the vehicle in which she left the airport, so that her airline reservations could be integrated with license plate reader data into an uninterrupted multi-modal travel history.]On September 30, 2025, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs held a hearing on Examining the Weaponization of the Quiet Skies Program. Coming just hours before the partial shutdown of Federal government operations, this hearing was sparsely attended,…

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 – Popular information

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Navigate to: Summary- Susumu Kitagawa- Richard Robson- Omar M. Yaghi Prize announcement Press release Popular information Advanced information Popular science background: They have created new rooms for chemistry (pdf)Populärvetenskaplig information: De har skapat nya rum för kemi (pdf) They have created new rooms for chemistry Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi are awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 for the development of a new type of molecular architecture. The constructions they created – metal–organic frameworks – contain large cavities in which molecules can flow in and out. Researchers have used them to harvest water from desert air,…

The Paradoxical Efficient Market Hypothesis

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by John Allen PaulosLouis BachelierElection season has put an increased focus on the stock market, but little attention is ever paid to the Efficient Market Hypothesis (the EMH, for short). As I’ve written in A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market, it is a fundamental and important notion, but it is also a little weird. Its recent formulation derives from the work of Eugene Fama, economist Paul Samuelson, and others in the 1960s. The basic idea, however, dates back more than 100 years when Louis Bachelier, a student of the great French mathematician Henri Poincare, formulated an early version. Roughly, the…

Become Unbannable from Your Email/Gmail

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Clickbait-y title, I know :D but I stand by it! I noticed that many people still treat email like some sort of second-class citizen when it comes to personal information, and the urgency here is real. I think, in today's world where everything is in apps and requires an account, email has become even more important than your home address. Why Your Email Is Your Digital Home Think about it for a moment. What would happen to you if you lost access to your email and needed to change it? Now, compare that to changing your home address. For the…

No account? No Windows 11 for you, says Microsoft • The Register

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Microsoft is closing a popular loophole that allowed users to install Windows 11 without a Microsoft account. The change has appeared in recent Insider builds of Windows 11, indicating it is likely to be included in the production version soon. Microsoft refers to these loopholes as "known mechanisms" and is talking about local commands in this instance. You can learn all about these in our piece for getting Windows 11 installed with a local account, but suffice to say start ms-cxh:localonly is no more. "While these mechanisms were often used to bypass Microsoft account setup, they also inadvertently skip critical…

Transmission Network Unavailability – the Quiet Driving Force Behind Rising Curtailment Costs in Great Britain | UKERC

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By Callum MacIver and Keith Bell. The curtailment of output from wind farms due to lack of network capacity and the associated costs of balancing the system have become a key focal point in the current debate in the electricity sector about the extent to which the system is “broken”. They are also a key driver behind calls being made in some quarters for radical market reform to better align what the market dispatches with the physical realities of the system, i.e. to reduce the need for the system operator to take balancing actions. In this blog, we set out…