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Joined December 2007
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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En France, on a inventé le Concorde. En 1969, il décollait et atteignait Mach 2 symbole de la grandeur gaullienne, conçu pour défier les Américains. En 1972, le TGV 001 battait le record mondial à turbine (318 km/h). En 1981, le TGV électrique reliait Paris à Lyon à 260 km/h. En 2007, il pulvérisait encore le record mondial sur rail : 574,8 km/h. Dans les années 70, le plan Messmer lançait le plus grand programme nucléaire civil de l’Histoire : 58 réacteurs, jusqu’à 70-80 % de notre électricité, une indépendance énergétique que le monde entier nous enviait. Dassault, Sud-Aviation, EDF, Framatome, la SNCF : nos ingénieurs étaient les meilleurs. On avait dix à vingt ans d’avance sur presque tout le monde. Puis 1981, Mitterrand. Nationalisations massives (banques, acier, chimie, électronique, aéronautique). Semaine de 39 heures. Lois Auroux. Charges sociales qui explosent. Syndicats tout-puissants. Fiscalité punitive. Droit du travail rigidifié. En moins de cinquante ans, le socialisme a transformé un pays d’ingénieurs conquérants en un pays de grèves, de délocalisations et de stagnation relative. L’industrie est passée d’environ 28 % du PIB à 11 %. Le Concorde a été abandonné. Notre nucléaire a été presque démantelé pendant des décennies faute de choix politique mortifère. Ce n’est pas le destin, c’est le prix d’une idéologie qui a préféré redistribuer et réglementer plutôt que construire et innover. A bon entendeur.
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Quick, somebody create a plugin for @omarchy.
Someone on Reddit made a searching app that runs on EmbeddingGemma 2 🤯 Much better than MacOS's default Spotlight 🔥
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I was 13, 1995, a hipermarket had set up 2 computers with Internet access. I searched for docs and tutorials on graphics programming in x86 assembler. I was obsessed with demoscene at the time and couldn't find any books about it.
how was it the first time you ever went online.
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I pushed my father for Internet access at home. 14.4kbps modem and 10-hour per month at first. It was connect, quickly search, browse, download and disconnect.
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Prices progressively went down. 20-hour/month. 30 hours. A 55.6kbps modem made downloading MP3s a possibility. At 5 KB/s. Then they announced *unlimited* connections. The modem blocked incoming phone calls to the home, but that was a small price to pay. I was *ONLINE*.
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When did Deepseek V4.1 Flash started hmm-ing so much?
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I'm finally giving pi agent a try and not sure I like it better than opencode.
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Soylent Green Meadows
What’s the worst possible name for a retirement home?
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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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ZEC going from $0 to $17bn in less than a decade is important, because Zcash is important for society. A civilization requires three coordination primitives to survive and prosper: communication, computation, and money. Zcash is money. Money for an infinite civilization.
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If OpenAI GPT 6 Astra benchmarks are true then NVIDIA's valuation might be underpriced. xitter.cf/scaling01/status/20955…
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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