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Trump has now set a deadline for Thursday next week, where he demands Ukraine signs an agreement to meet Putin’s demands:

— No NATO membership
— A reduction of its military to just 600,000 troops
— Accepting the loss of Donetsk, Luhansk, Crimea, and most of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia
— Forcing Ukrainian elections within 100 days

While Russia will
— Reenter the G8
— Have all sanctions lifted

This is not a peace agreement. This is capitulation.

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Stuart Langridge

RE: hachyderm.io/@evacide/11558906

Look, see, there’s research, UK government. Nobody wants age verification, except you because the first response you have to anything that seems bad is to find some way of criminalising people who do it, and big tech companies who laugh all the way to the bank while selling you tech solutions to social problems and shutting down their customer helpline.

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@bigcalm the TP-Link Deco kit has worked well for me.

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Jimmy Angelakos :postgresql:

New Blog Post: Announcing the inaugural PostgreSQL Edinburgh meetup

vyruss.org/blog/inaugural-post

@PostgresEDI #postgresql #edinburgh #community #meetups #developer #rag #ai #pgvector #techmeetups

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@cstross

Since the 1990s every tech wave has been a pump and dump bubble laying the groundwork for the next pump and dump bubble. The staggering inefficiency of such a Ponzi economy, channelling capital into mega-billionaires pockets instead of productive growth is why China is rolling out 400 kph mag lev trains while we are shoveling brain dead software into toasters.

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Charlie Stross

Reminder that EVERYTHING Anthropic or OpenAI announce in public is propaganda designed to boost their market cap when they hit the IPO they're aiming for.

It's marketing, folks. There is no intelligence behind the artifice, it's just spicy autocomplete and hucksters in $5000 suits trying to pick your boss's pocket.
mastodon.social/@arstechnica/1

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊

75 years ago today, European nations signed this Convention, so the Holocaust could not be repeated. Beware those who want this to end.

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@mike

It's more like a "get nine women to make a baby in one month" project. The Manhattan Project was working within sound scientific principles, whereas the AI bubble is throwing money at a glorified autocomplete in the hope that at a certain scale the spark of life will magically appear.

@lproven

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Mike Fraser

@lproven I've read a lot of compelling arguments about how these LLMs will not achieve AGI. However the goal is AGI and the world is currently throwing about twenty percent of GDP at that goal. It's basically a modern day Manhattan project. With that said I would not bet against achieving AGI at some time in the near future.

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Liam Proven

How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time (MIT Technology Review)

technologyreview.com/2025/10/3

The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely & you’ll see it’s a myth that persists for many of the same reasons conspiracies do.

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@bert_hubert

In PostgreSQL we could do:

CREATE TABLE t (a int, b int);

INSERT INTO t VALUES (1, 2), (3, 4), (5, 6);

SELECT t.*
FROM t
JOIN (
VALUES (1, 2), (3, 4)
) v(a, b)
ON (t.a = v.a AND t.b = v.b);

a | b
---+---
1 | 2
3 | 4

Another approach would be an array for a and b:

SELECT *
FROM t
WHERE a = ANY(ARRAY[1, 3])
AND b = ANY(ARRAY[2, 4]);

If you really wanted the 2d array, then there are ways to unpack that and join against it.

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Archaeo-Histories

After three years and more than 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometers) of sailing in a Viking replica vessel, archaeologist Greer Jarrett from Lund University in Sweden has authored a trailblazing report on Viking seafaring. His work, published in the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, suggests that the Viking trade routes were more extensive, decentralized, and offshore than previously believed.

© Archaeology News

#archaeohistories

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@azonenberg EVs seem to get quoted at about 75% efficiency.

Not sure about the charging losses, but I suspect at higher rates it's not that good.

As good as EVs are getting, the energy density of Petrol is likely still an order of magnitude greater.

Would be nice to see more battery swap approaches to rapid charging, admittedly mechanically complicated.

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@azonenberg

Standard petrol pump can do about 50 litres per minute.

Energy in 1 litre of petrol is about 33MJ.

My basic maths would ~27MW of energy transferred each second.

Assume 30% engine efficiency, still talking say 9MW.

Which seems at least an order of magnitude over the best EV charger.

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Jimmy Angelakos :postgresql:

For the first time since I started attending FOSDEM in 2010, there will be no PostgreSQL Devroom in 2026. ​Feels unbelievable for one of the defining open source projects of the last decade.

At least there's #FOSDEMPGDay.

#PostgreSQL #Postgres #FOSDEM #Devroom #Community #OpenSource #FOSDEM2026

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