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I have GPT-6 Astra!
You know what that means? It’s live streaming time.
I’m going live today at 3:30 PM Central to put OpenAI’s new model to work on one of my iOS apps that I haven’t worked on in a long time.
No prepared demo. We’re opening the real project and seeing what Astra can actually do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVS8rrIWBro
#GPT6Astra #OpenAI #Swift #iOSDevelopment
if you can successfully make use of less powerful cryptography and/or randomness without compromising the semantic guarantees of your cryptosystem, then in general that's a really good sign you may have identified some sort of deeper truth expressed in the mathematical structure (and you can and indeed should think of these kinds of observations as an opportunity to optimize in some way.
you found some slack in the system, so imho you should try to patch it up! for example, my checksums for files in my fractal zip format are explicitly not seeking to achieve the "indifferentiability" guarantees against differential cryptanalysis necessary for so-called "cryptographic" checksums (and indeed, since indifferentiability is a property of the cryptosystem as a whole and not just the checksum, we note that using a "cryptographic" checksum alone is a necessary but still insufficent condition)
@regehr somebody should really generate a jitted emulator from it 😜
"Vivian Jenna Wilson knows what's at stake for the LGBTQ+ community. With the fast-approaching midterms, the famous transgender model is using her platform to showcase her unapologetic queerness at a pivotal moment in history"
A special interest affiliate of ACB called ACB Diabetics in Action was in need of a tool to help with transcription, podcasting, id3 tagging and more. So, podHarvest is in the process of final testing. It is robust, code comes from much of the magic from QUILL Audio Studio and supports offline and online transcription with many providers being supported. Issues with vendor limitations have also been addressed with file sizes.
“Low T” is actually my nickname for Trump these days as he dozes off incessantly.
Video: https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/post/3mulf4jkqrs2a
I’ve been using SwiftUI long before it was made public.
I consider myself an “expert” with it. And I still don’t know how to gracefully lay out some things with it in ways that were obvious and common sense with auto-layout
I’m still discovering new SwiftUI layout API.
Auto layout you needed to learn one core concept and a few leaf concepts.
SwiftUI you need to learn 30 different modifiers and views spread all over the place
Saw this photo on LinkedIn.
It's quite a clever idea! Rather than having to press potentially dirty buttons in a toilet to record your feedback, you can use a gesture instead. Nifty!
Except… Here's how they describe it on their website.
> No specialist hardware. No complex setup. Just plug in a camera-enabled device and you're live.
Oh. Good. A 24/7 video stream live from the loos. What could possibly go wrong with that?
@Edent Sadly I don't have a photo, but I've also seen some units where the buttons are spaced out a bit more and they had a distance sensor for each button, allowing you to press a button by holding your hand in front of them.
RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/117214499604564335
y'all need to understand that this is the ultimate purpose of "AI" as currently being peddled.
The real numbers are the friends we made along the way
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@wlaatje very interesting that Israelis, who started the war and are in the vicinity, are not willing to put boots on the ground themselves.
“The Iran war does not end at the point that a ceasefire is signed. It ends when Iranian institutional coherence is broken. Six months of airstrikes did not do that. Three quiet moves in Washington might.”
The useful idiots approach…
@reb old sysops used to say that no one needed anything faster than 1200 baud, because that's reading speed.
@ajroach42 this made me realise in a really visceral way that despite never being a proper professional sysop, I am rapidly becoming a new generation of old-school sysop...
"impressive, full of big ideas and lots of heart"
"one of Trek's best debuts"
"a highlight of Trek's 60th anniversary"
"high-idea concepts that fire up the imagination"
I love Screenrant's review of Star Trek: Zero Point so much!
https://screenrant.com/star-trek-zero-point-review/
Please request your copy by Monday!
@charliejane Oh, I thought it was about a bike ;P
Clear now, RFK Jr?
“The child contracted measles, and measles caused the death of the child”
Infant died of measles in Penn...
Employer #Healthcare Costs Are Expected to Spike in 2027
A new #US survey anticipates an average increase of 11% unless benefits are cut, the highest rate in decades. Other findings also predict a sharp rise.
#Trump #Republicans #Congress #health #law #policy #HealthInsurance #insurance #AffordableCareAct #ACA #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #affordability #CostOfLiving #CostOfDying
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/business/health-insurance-increases.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-lA.YgIg.mG7uLlTgrcbD&smid=nytcore-ios-share
Polish people:
The local Polish shop has a large range of Cheetos. Another shop with a large range of Polish food has a moderately large range of Cheetos. The local Tesco put Cheetos in the fridge in the Polish section. Few other shops here sell Cheetos and the few that do have one, maybe two varieties. So, I have two questions:
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