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I am trying to control an Internet-of-Shit device that can only speak 2.4GHz wifi. I find that I am unable to operate a 2.4GHz network that anything can connect to on any channel because there is too much interference. (Even when my iPad is sitting directly on top of the AP.) 82% interference, 10% TX retries. Let's take a look at where that's coming from...

Oh. It's because literally every car in the garage is doing wifi bukkake, several floors below me, through many feet of concrete.

Just another normal day of wearing earplugs and also playing music loud enough to drown out my upstairs neighbor's concrete saws. It's like month 3 of this shit. What the fuck are they even doing up there?

De door de president voorgedragen nieuwe voorzitter van de Amerikaanse centrale bank gaf woensdag zijn eerste persconferentie. Over de door president Trump zo gewilde lagere rente ging het niet.

Jongens. Natuurlijk, het Nederlands elftal is leuk, in Frankrijk kunnen ze goed voetballen, in Brazilië doorgaans nog beter, in Spanje weten ze ook wat ze doen, in Italië waren ze vroeger heel goed, vlak de Argentijnen nooit uit, en de Duitsers, nee, dan de Duitsers. Dat zal allemaal wel, voetbal draait om Engeland. Het komt ervandaan (geen idee of dit echt klopt, niet doodchecken, red.), de stadions staan er in woonwijken en zijn doorgaans prachtig, elke lokale pisclub heeft hordes fanatieke supporters, die mensen weten hoe je een wedstrijd beleeft, ze kunnen prachtig zingen en beestachtig juichen, ze bouwden als eerste een subcultuur rondom het elkaar de hersens in slaan ihkv van de bjoetifoel keem, ze wonnen twee wereldoorlogen en één wereldcup, en daarna helemaal niets meer. Ze kunnen ontzettend goed zuipen met die gezellige eilandhoofden van ze, die ze zelden goed insmeren en die dus steevast vuurrood worden. Ze denken elke keer dat ze gaan winnen, en doen dat natuurlijk helemaal niet. Hun meest bekende gerecht is eigenlijk een matig vermomd katerontbijt. Een aanzienlijk deel van de goede muziek is van ze afkomstig. Vanavond nemen ze het op tegen Kroatië en hoewel we op GSHQ onpartijdig zijn hopen we dat Engerland die knakkers helemaal dronken speelt en dat al die gekken op de tribune dan heel mooi juichen. Of, zoals ze het zelf noemen: limbs.

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Exclusive: Allies of Labour’s Makerfield candidate concerned rapid collapse of Starmer government would increase instability

Andy Burnham’s campaign has been forced to talk ministers out of resigning as early as this weekend to avoid Keir Starmer’s government descending into chaos amid fallout from the Makerfield byelection, the Guardian can reveal.

As they prepare for a potential change of leader in the event he beats Reform on Thursday, Burnham’s team is increasingly concerned a rapid collapse of Starmer’s administration would mean further instability for the country.

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Epic Games has released Lore, an MIT-licensed version control system written in Rust and designed specifically for "games and entertainment purposes with large file sizes," reports Phoronix. From the report: While there is Git LFS for large file storage with Git, Epic Games has crated Lore as a version control system designed entirely around the large file needs of modern game development as well as multimedia/entertainment purposes. Lore is designed to be fast and efficient for large files including binary files, and be easy-to-use including for 3D artists and more.

The Lore documentation elaborates more on its differences and motivation for development compared to Git: "No existing system was designed for the combination of constraints that large game and entertainment projects require: arbitrary content types, multi-axis scale, multi-tenant safety, and a fully open specification and license. [...] Lore is designed to combine what works in each (Git's content-addressed revision graph and centralized systems): a centralized server-of-record for durability, access control, and conflict resolution; content-addressed storage with fragment-level deduplication that is as effective on a multi-gigabyte binary as on a kilobyte of text; sparse, lazy working copies that materialize only what you need; free branching; and a fully open, publicly versioned specification and MIT license. Normal editing operations -- staging, committing, branching, diffing -- never require a network round trip." You can learn more at Lore.org. All the code is available on GitHub.

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Met hun debuutsingle ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead’ (1979) bracht het roemruchte Bauhaus (1978 – 2022) een ‘in  memoriam’ over de dood van Dracula. Dat wil zeggen: de acteur Bela Lugosi, die in 1931 de rol van Dracula vorm gaf in de gelijknamige film.

Volgens de Wikipedia mag dit werk de eerste gothic rock plaat genoemd worden.

Bauhaus roept de overledene tot leven (Bela Lugosi’s dead / Undead, undead, undead / Bela’s undead / Oh, Bela, Bela’s undead). Dracula leeft nog voort, maar Bela Lugosi is in 1956 toch echt naar het eeuwige vetrokken.

If you're exposing your agent to a strong odor, it's time to clean up your instructions. Risky or poorly structured code patterns are known as "code smells," and it turns out coding agent directives can be similarly redolent, leading to wasted tokens and worse output. Coding agents rely on configuration files that summarize expected agent behavior. These context-enhancing files are commonly written in Markdown and named either CLAUDE.md for those using Anthropic models or AGENTS.md for pretty much everyone else. They include various text instructions that advise the coding agent about desired behavior and tool use. And they can get rather wordy. Anthropic advises no more than 200 lines of text because longer files consume model context and may hinder model coherence. Researchers affiliated with the computer science department of the Federal Institute of Minas Gerais in Brazil recently scoured some 532,000 files to build and analyze a dataset of 100 popular open-source projects containing either an AGENTS.md or a CLAUDE.md file. "Our results show that configuration smells are widespread," the authors state. "Lint Leakage was the most common smell, affecting 62 percent of the files, followed by Context Bloat (42 percent) and Skill Leakage (35 percent)." Linting is the process of running automated tools to check code for programming and style errors. Lint Leakage refers to agent instructions that repeat rules already enforced by linters, format checkers, and static analysis tools. Duplicative rules waste tokens by burdening the underlying model with guidance for a task already handled reliably by programmatic tools. Context Bloat, as its name suggests, describes the tendency of developers to overspecify code agent behavior. "Bloated configuration files increase token consumption, raise costs, and reduce the visibility of important instructions," the authors observe, pointing to Anthropic's recommendation of no more than 200 lines of text. Skill Leakage, another common configuration smell, occurs when rarely used tools or practices get added to the AGENTS.md file, which gets loaded in every agent session. The agent instructions would be better in a separate skills file (e.g. SKILLs.md) that gets loaded only when needed. Skill leakage also expands the agent's context unnecessarily and potentially distracts agents from other things. Other agentic odors include: Blind References, which happens when configuration files reference external documents (e.g. via URLs) without explaining when that resource becomes relevant; Init Fossilization, configuration details set up upon a project's initialization that are no longer relevant; and Conflicting Instructions, which occur when agent directives contradict each other. The study authors say that they found at least one of these six smells in 91 of the 100 AGENTS.md files tested. "These results suggest that developers could benefit from catalogs and tools designed to spot configuration issues in agent configuration files," they conclude in the preprint paper, entitled "Configuration Smells in AGENTS.md Files: Common Mistakes in Configuring Coding Agents." The authors are Helio Victor F. dos Santos, Vitor Costa, Joao Eduardo Montandon, Luciana Lourdes Silva, and Marco Tulio Valente. The message here is that less is more when it comes to code agent configuration files, perhaps even to the point that anything is worse than nothing. Similarly, when ETH Zurich boffins examined the impact of context files for agents a few months ago, they found [PDF] that developer-generated instructions raised costs and only improved code performance about 4 percent, while LLM-generated instructions had a small (3 percent) negative impact on agent-generated code. They concluded "unnecessary requirements from context files make tasks harder, and human-written context files should describe only minimal requirements." ®