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He said open source norms intended to protect the integrity of the project, including public discussion over calls, broad consensus before decisions, and scheduling that accommodated global time zone…

As for Phase 2 — if he actually gets Ollama + Qwen 72B running on Oracle Cloud ARM, then uses DSPy for self-optimization and Aider for code self-modification… That would be a different story. One tha…

What year was this?

> Free to do what? Sit on a beach, apparently. The author apparently never read Tim Ferriss’ The 4 hour work week which not only whiteboarded some of the described schemes 20 years ago, but also …

No, I did not identify myself as a lawyer. I just wrote the letter as a victim of a scammer using Google services to impersonate me. But I was careful to use certified mail return receipt as google’s …

> Usually when a gmail account is being used for real spamming, it's an established one that's been taken over My incident is unlikely to be a real account being taken over. The name form…

> Even confirming that an investigation existed could be penalized. I didn't know that. But that is another point that could be highlighted on the IC3 homepage or confirmation, along with aggr…

Yes, they could easily spin up another gmail address. The other part of the scam involved sending money to a bank account in Oregon with someone else's name attached to it. I notified the bank in…

Honestly, the "acted upon" part needs to be highlighted in tangible ways, otherwise people will be suspicious that nothing ever happens to our reports, leading to fewer reports being submitt…

Wasn't expecting this comment to go far. This took place about a month ago. For those who are interested, here is the address I sent the police report and cover letter to: Google LLC Attn: Legal…

I got a human being at Google to look into my problem and take action after sending a police report to Google‘s legal department certified mail return receipt along with a letter describing how someon…

> Commit to something? Yes, with an actual payment (processed credit card transaction), a signed contract with clear payment terms, or a convincing promise to pay such as a written instruction to s…

> I also think there's a lot to learn from the book about DIY for any startup or community organizer. The parallels with being in a band and a startup are real. Azerrad says many times in the …

My blog is related to my genealogy business, not music. But the story about archiving old audio and video is relevant to the struggle of many genealogists to preserve old media, a frequent topic on th…

Not only that, you can listen to many of them for free from the Fugazi online concert archive: https://dischord.com/fugazi_live_series (See my comment upthread about Fugazi and the un…

On the afternoon of October 6 1989 I attended a Fugazi concert in Cambridge Mass, probably one of the best live shows I've ever seen. Last year I casually searched YouTube for some shows I had at…

Just telling you how my father remembered it. Not sure how big the cask or barrel was, but if time and temperature are controlled, how will that affect the rate of ice formation inside the cask? What …

> I was able to distill a few bottles of home made apple wine that I had screwed up some additional flavorings on. It took a couple of hours for 3 or 4 bottles. My grandfather used to make somethin…

The New Yorker also comes with Apple News+ subscriptions (part of an Apple One plan that many people get for extra iCloud storage) which further includes a number of top-tier and local news orgs such …

> simplified claims procedure I believe this is what we call small claims court in the United States. The threshold varies by state, but it is a very effective way to deal with recalcitrant compani…

Amazon still charges ebook publishers the same “delivery fee” for each sold digital copy (US$0.15/megabyte) as it did in the mid 2000s when Kindles came with 3g chips. https://kdp.amaz…