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Sources: > Dec 16 - [Hillan Klein Named New Namecheap CEO](https://domaininvesting.com/hillan-klein-named-new-namecheap-ceo/) Full thread exposing Zionist links of the new CEO: https://xcancel.com/Archivepaletc/status/2007161924937552128
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Thoughts on the solid project decentralized initiative?
I hadn't heard of this before, but thought it looked interesting, I was wondering if anyone else had seen it or had thoughts about it? It was initially envisioned by Sir Tim Berners-Lee who created the WWW in 1989 and "urges a decentralized web to counter AI exploitation and ad-driven abuse" More info here about Bernes-Lee's thoughts: https://www.techspot.com/news/109661-tim-breners-lee-urges-decentralized-web-counter-ai.html From the website: Imagine having your own online storage, which you control. You store information once and decide who can access what, when you need services like mortgage applications or medical care. This is what Solid can do. It’s a bit like carrying all your data in a rucksack (backpack) with lots of pockets. To access the data, different apps can only open the pocket you allow them to open, rather than taking the whole rucksack. The rest stays private. Solid lets people take control of their data and combine it to achieve new results. It gives creators new collaborative tools while passing power back to users. It’s technology that returns the web to its original vision of serving people.
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This paper basically shows that treating the prompt as an external variable is a surprisingly effective way to handle massive contexts. The authors argue that instead of shoving ten million tokens directly into the model and hoping for the best, we should put the text into a Python REPL environment where the model can interact with it programmatically. This setup allows the LLM to write code that slices the text into manageable chunks and recursively calls new instances of itself to process those pieces individually. It is essentially the same logic as out-of-core algorithms which process datasets far larger than the available memory by fetching only what is needed at any given moment. One of the most interesting parts of the study is how it exposes the reality of context rot in frontier models like GPT-5. The results show that while base models handle simple needle-in-a-haystack tasks just fine, they fall apart completely on information dense tasks that require aggregating data across the entire input. For example, on the OOLONG-Pairs benchmark which has quadratic complexity, the base GPT-5 model scores less than 0.1 percent accuracy once the context gets long enough. Meanwhile, the recursive language model manages to hold steady even up to a million tokens and achieves a 58% score on that same difficult task. Turns out that for retrieval tasks like CodeQA, simply having the REPL to grep through files was enough to beat the base model because the model could filter data before reading it. Having the recursive capability turned out to be essential for reasoning tasks like OOLONG where the model needs to process every line. The version of the system that could not make subcalls performed significantly worse because it could not offload the thinking process to fresh contexts and prevent its own window from getting polluted. Since the model writes code to filter the text using tools like regex before it actually reads anything, it processes fewer tokens on average than a summary agent that is forced to read everything to compress it. The only downside is that the variance can be pretty wild since the model sometimes gets stuck in a loop or decides to verify its own answer multiple times in a row which blows up the compute cost for that specific run. We are clearly seeing a shift where inference time compute and smart context management are becoming more important than just having a massive raw context window. The fact that this method beats retrieval-based agents on deep research tasks suggests that giving the model a loop to think and code is the future for tasks that need a large persistent context.
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The Post-American Internet
From the article: >Rich, powerful people are, at root, solipsists. The only way to amass a billion dollars is to inflict misery and privation on whole populations. The only way to look yourself in the mirror after you've done that, is to convince yourself that those people don't matter, that, in some important sense, they aren't real.
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A tape-based piece of unique Unix history may have been lying quietly in storage at the University of Utah for 50+ years. The question is whether researchers will be able to take this piece of middle-aged media and rewind it back to the 1970s to get the data off. See also https://archive.org/details/utah_unix_v4_raw TAR file http://squoze.net/UNIX/v4/
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tl;dr: they successfully reached orbit, but failed to land
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Europe faces a critical dependency on US cloud infrastructure, with 90% of its digital infrastructure controlled by American companies, according to competition expert Cristina Caffarra[^1]. This vulnerability has spurred concrete action, with public institutions in Austria, Germany, France and the International Criminal Court moving away from US providers. The core issue stems from the US CLOUD Act of 2018, which allows American authorities to access data held by US companies regardless of location, conflicting directly with EU privacy laws[^1]. This creates an "irreconcilable legal conflict" since any contract between European customers and US cloud providers is subordinate to US federal law. Several key developments highlight this shift: - Austria's Federal Ministry for Economy completed migration of 1,200 employees to European open-source platform Nextcloud[^1] - The International Criminal Court is replacing Microsoft office software with OpenDesk after its chief prosecutor was locked out of Outlook[^1] - Germany's Schleswig-Holstein state has moved 24,000 civil servants to open-source alternatives[^1] However, challenges remain. The acquisition of Dutch cloud provider Solvinity by US-based Kyndryl demonstrates how European alternatives can be undermined through foreign acquisition[^1]. Critics also warn about "sovereignty washing," where US hyperscalers market 'sovereign cloud' solutions that don't resolve the fundamental legal conflicts[^1]. [^1]: [The Register - Europe gets serious about cutting digital umbilical cord](https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/22/europe_gets_serious_about_cutting/)
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Here's the corresponding youtube video by Benn Jordan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-uiUlHTo
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Discover a Great Tech Forum!
Hello everyone! I wanted to share an amazing tech forum that I recently discovered, specifically tailored for users in India: [**TechEnclave**](https://techenclave.com/)! This forum is packed with **fantastic tech topics** and features a **marketplace** that is an absolute banger! I've been a member for a few months now, and I can honestly say that the community is incredibly engaging and helpful. One of the best parts? There are **no spammers or bots** cluttering the discussions, which makes for a much more enjoyable experience. If you're looking to connect with others, share knowledge, or solve your tech queries, this is definitely the right place for you! > Here’s the my invite link to join: [Join the forum](https://techenclave.com/invites/r3mxf4Qc8W) **A quick note:** The marketplace is specifically for users in India, so keep that in mind if you're considering participating. Happy posting and engaging! Looking forward to seeing you all there!
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I have decided that, simply put, I am very, very tired of my computer acting against me and gaining new problems every day as if they were achievements in a video game, so I’m going to take advantage of my Linux experience with the Steam Deck and Raspberry Pi OS to finally start moving away from Windows!
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