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🙈 Useless Fact of the Day

In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated.
📅 This Day in History
🚬 On June 11, 1920...
During their national convention in Chicago, Republican Party leaders gathered in negotiations at The Blackstone Hotel (pictured) to select their presidential candidate, leading to the phrase "smoke-filled room".
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📰 News
BYD plans 3,000 ultra-fast EV chargers across Europe by 2027, costing about $2 billion. Its 1,500kW stations could outperform Tesla’s, but only select BYD models currently benefit from five-minute charging speeds.
Meta is using weatherproof “rapid deployment” tents in Ohio to house AI chips, cutting data-center construction time amid surging AI demand. The move mirrors Tesla-style temporary factories and xAI’s off-grid turbines, but underscores costly, frantic AI infrastructure expansion.
Anthropic’s public Fable model is drawing criticism for overly broad cybersecurity guardrails that block even benign tasks like code reviews or blog reading. Researchers say safety is important, but keyword-like restrictions may limit usefulness for legitimate security work.
👨‍💻 Repositories
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A FOSS WireGuard & AmneziaWG Android client with auto-tunneling, lockdown & proxying.
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The agent that grows with you
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A Living Library You Can Talk To. Open-source educational platform with 30 historical figures from philosophy, science, art, mysticism, and activism. Stories, dialogues, AI conversation, multi-figure councils. Nonprofit, BYOK, self-hostable, no behavioral tracking.
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AI IDE for hardware development, support Arduino, MicroPython, ESP32, STM32, RP2040, Nrf5x...
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⚙️🦀 Build modular and scalable LLM Applications in Rust
🐙 GitHub Pulse
Apple’s `container machine` offers persistent, lightweight Linux environments on macOS using OCI images. It maps your Mac user and home directory, supports system services, multiple distros, resource resizing, and custom init-based images for seamless Mac editing and Linux building.
Claude Desktop on Windows allegedly launches a 1.8GB Hyper-V VM on every startup, even for chat-only use. The report urges Anthropic to make Cowork/agent infrastructure on-demand, clean stale sessions, and avoid unnecessary memory drain.
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