🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
Gary, Indiana is the murder capital of the U.S. - probably the world.
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The Motherland Calls (depicted in coat of arms), a colossal statue in Volgograd, Russia, which commemorates the casualties of the Battle of Stalingrad, was dedicated, becoming the then-tallest statue in the world.
Read more on Wikipedia
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High-speed video shows honey bee stingers keep injecting venom after detaching because two flexible lancet valves act like collapsible pistons, pumping continuously with minimal backflow. The discovery may inspire tiny medical pumps, microneedles, and microfluidic devices.
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Topgolf ditched VMware after Broadcom’s licensing changes threatened a 400% cost hike. Migrating 12,000 VMs to VergeIO saved over $11.3 million, cut hardware/software costs, and improved multi-site management, though some third-party integration gaps remain.
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A US Senate report says Match Group dating apps failed to keep pace with romance scammers, exposing users to major losses. Match says it has improved safety tools, but lawmakers argue stronger, faster protections are needed as AI boosts fraud.
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🕵️ Corporate Sabotage 101
Tip #74:
Send "5 min?" that consumes the afternoon.
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⭐ 2020, 🖖 264
Nix packages for AI coding agents and development tools. Automatically updated daily.
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⭐ 39578, 🖖 3739
An open-source engine that turns continuous content streams into search and monitoring. Durable ingestion, hybrid search, alerts, and plugins for formats, models and business rules.
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⭐ 2094, 🖖 104
❄️ My nix config for both desktops(NixOS+macOS) and homelab servers(NixOS).
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⭐ 829, 🖖 38
A desktop image editor, faithful to classic Adobe Photoshop, with native PSD/PSB compatibility
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⭐ 98, 🖖 3
Fast, free voice assistant for your Mac. No API key: runs on your Claude Pro or Max plan. Remembers you and learns your shortcuts. Hold ⌃⌥Space and talk.
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Android 17 September builds introduced a libc regression in `wcscspn()`/`wcspbrk()`: ASCII delimiter scans falsely stop at any wide character ≥ U+0100. This breaks Unicode-containing text parsing. June sources were correct; shipped libc optimization likely mishandles non-ASCII fallback logic.
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