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Today is Culture Day in Japan - 3 Facts! • November 3 is Culture Day, one of Japan's national holidays. • Its stated purpose is to "love freedom and peace, and promote culture." • Japan sets aside 16 national holidays a year. (Source: Japan's Cabinet Office)

I don't care that it's got a screen that folds. It's the software! But in the sense that it's incongruent, it's uneven, it looks like it's tacked on.

Bluetooth Was Only a Codename: the Industry Voted 4-1 for "PAN" Until a Web Search Turned Up Tens of Thousands of Hits lockergnome.com/bluetooth-na…

A Game Boy Magazine Gave 2000's Tomb Raider a 10/10, Then Lowered the Score So It Wouldn't Beat Pokémon and Zelda lockergnome.com/tomb-raider-…

They exist, just not in Texas. Probably.

The Next Raspberry Pi Leaked Inside Linux's Own Source Code... The next two Raspberry Pis leaked the honest way: through the Linux kernel's own source code. Two boards, a Raspberry Pi Zero 3 W and a Raspberry Pi 4 Model A, have quietly turned up in Raspberry Pi's kernel tree, in a merged pull request adding device trees for the Pi Zero 3 W and Pi 4A. Hackster reports the request went into the Raspberry Pi kernel repository on GitHub, signed off by Raspberry Pi's Marta Momotko. Neither board gets the Pi 5's chip. Bret Weber parsed the files on his blog: the Zero 3 W runs the Broadcom BCM2711, the same quad-core Cortex-A72 chip that powers the Raspberry Pi 4, replacing the Zero 2 W's quad-core 1GHz Cortex-A53. Phoronix puts the new SoC the same way and says it looks like it could be here soon. The Model A is the nostalgic one. Hackster points out there has not been a Model A since the Raspberry Pi 3, and the tradition means smaller and cut down. The device tree spells out how far: the Ethernet controller isn't enabled, a single HDMI output rather than the Model B's dual micro HDMI, the analogue audio pins empty, microSD only. Weber's caveat is the fair one: everything comes from device tree files rather than an official spec sheet, so mileage may vary. Prices and dates are still nowhere. Hackster again: Raspberry Pi "had not made any formal announcements regarding the new models," with nothing by way of a launch date or pricing yet. You can spot the next one yourself: watch the pull requests on the Raspberry Pi kernel repository, because these files landed there before anyone announced anything. The press release comes later. The source code already shipped.

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Vibe Coding & AI News to Use: November 2, 2026… Astra lets an agent read and write model weights to improve Qwen rikiyat.github.io/blog/weigh… @momenticai launches agents that catch bugs by using your app momentic.ai/ Subvocal opens preorders for glasses that decode silent mouthing to text subvocal.company/ @simonw Willison on the Census Bureau and "super intelligence" simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/2… Trigger.dev discloses customer environment variables were exposed trigger.dev/blog/security-in… Cloudflare halves DNS build delay and cuts memory use 85% blog.cloudflare.com/dns-targ… LongCat-2.5 adds native multimodality for agentic tasks longcat.ai/blog/longcat-2.5/ Warsaw in voxels: an interactive 3D map of the city centre p.migdal.pl/warsaw-vibe-voxe… PostHog explains moving its warehouse off DuckDB posthog.com/blog/moving-off-… OccupySaaS: laid-off engineers rebuild SaaS as open-source, AI-built replacements occupysaas.com/ Try this image style: Take the attached photo and redraw it as punched tin lantern panel: eyes are two small clusters of punched holes behind thin rectangular glasses drawn as a fine line of tiny pin-pricks, the nose a short curved row of dots, the mouth one closed straight row of small punches, hair a spray of short upward chisel slits for the spiky black hair, the body a mid-torso silhouette outlined in punched dots with shading from denser and looser punching. Palette: dull pewter tin, warm candle amber glowing through the holes, soot black in the hammered dents, a touch of aged copper at the rivets. Chris framed mid-torso in a bus seat by the window, invented riders crowded around him as looser dotted silhouettes, a soft amber glow of blank dotted lines on the inside of his lenses, the bus window a field of streaked light dots behind him. Keep the person recognizable. Square, no text. Next ctrl+alt+create live: Builder Night, Monday, Nov 16, 6 PM at Formula Brewing in Issaquah. luma.com/ctrlaltcreatelive ctrlaltcreate.live/

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This is what'll make Muse *fantastically* better than anything users have seen on their typical device.

Today is Day of the Dead - 3 Facts! • UNESCO lists it as Mexico's "Indigenous festivity dedicated to the dead," held from the end of October into early November. • Families lay flower petals, candles and offerings along the path from the cemetery to home to guide the souls back. • UNESCO first proclaimed it in 2003 and inscribed it on its Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2008. (Source: UNESCO)

A Startup Rebuilt Nine Years of U.S. Law as Version Control and Caught the Text Drifting... A legal-tech startup called Lexifina did something quietly audacious: it treated nine years of United States law like a git repository and checked the official text against the laws themselves. Lexifina replayed 365 changes across nine titles, and 361 reproduced the next release point exactly. The method, in Lexifina's own words: "we took the public laws enacted in between, carried out their amending instructions on the older text in date order, and compared the result with the newer version." In the company's viewer, each phrase is colored by the Act that wrote it. Then the drift shows up. Take the small-business bankruptcy limit: Lexifina traces how the pandemic-era increase lapsed on 27 March 2022, how Congress restored it for two more years that June "for cases commenced on or after 27 March 2020 and still pending, which reached back over the gap," and where it stands today, at $3,424,000. This matters more than it sounds. A Technical University of Munich study found that language models "apply superseded rules after legislative amendments," and that retrieval approaches "substantially improve performance." If the law shipped as version control, every AI legal answer could stand on the right text at the right date. The writeup pulled 378 points and 199 comments on Hacker News. The top comment digs up a 2007 New York Times editorial that asked readers to "Think of what version control software could mean for the Congress." Pick a statute you care about, one you argue about at dinner, and go read it as colors and diffs. Once you can see who wrote which sentence, plain legal text starts to look unfinished. A diff view for the law. Took long enough.

Yep! piped.video/watch?v=XZd419-D… is where I put a finer point on my thoughts RE: Muse. I've already seen so many in my personal circle flip to it after brief use. The contrast is (happily) stark.

Have you claimed a full 30 billion yet? 🤓

Your Neglected Browser Tabs Grow a Jungle You Have to Cut Back... Every browser tab you stop looking at now grows a jungle, and the only way back into the page is to cut through it with your mouse. Charlie Gerard, a senior research engineer and creative technologist, built Overgrown as a Chrome extension that does exactly that, and her repository keeps the pitch to one line: plants invade your abandoned tabs the longer you leave them unread. The mechanic is a neglect clock that runs while a tab is out of view and stops while you're looking at it, so the jungle only grows on pages you're not reading. Past 5% coverage, the page behind the plants can't be used. You take it back by slashing through the vines with your mouse (the repo compares it to trying to open an overgrown door), and you choose your weapon: a rusty machete, a chainsaw or a flamethrower. Gerard's own tab bar is the best advertising. On a brand-new computer, she counts what she calls "only" 22 tabs open, and 14 of them are already completely overgrown. On Hacker News, where it pulled 394 points and 131 comments, the room is torn between "This is so useless yet so cool!" and a defender calling it "a visual representation of how old the tab is." Both readings hold up, and the extension works either way. If your tab bar is a to-do list you keep lying about, install Overgrown from its GitHub repository and let the vines keep score. If that sounds like too much ceremony, close ten tabs right now and see how many you actually reopen. I know which way this goes for me, because my tab bar would be a rainforest by Friday. The jungle never lies about what you meant to read later.

Nineteen years ago today I set up my first Time Machine drive, the week Leopard came out: a Maxtor on FireWire 400. "I love the design. This is going to look so awesome on my desk." Do you still back up like this? piped.video/m1QyFaIIrzU

On this day in 1988, Robert Tappan Morris launched his worm from MIT's network, and it spread across the young Internet. It led to the first felony conviction under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and to the CERT/CC at Carnegie Mellon. (Sources: Wikipedia, Ken Polsson's Chronology)

i need this for android / macos

First generation Apple hardware categories usually experience rapid obsolescence and steep resale drops as Gen 2 addresses early structural compromises. If you're planning on reselling it, you may not get as much back from it.

Someone Made Wikipedia for Just Your Neighborhood... Ed Jefferson built a site that shows you Wikipedia, but only the parts you could walk to. Local Wikipedia describes itself as "Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you." It works because a lot of Wikipedia already knows where it is. The site uses geocoded pages only, pulled from Wikipedia's geosearch, which MediaWiki documents as a search "for articles around the given point." The script behind Local Wikipedia sets that half-hour walk at 1.5 miles. If fewer than 25 things are that close, it reaches out to the nearest 25 within about six miles, and it stops at 500 (sorry, downtown Manhattan). The fun is in what people turn up. On Hacker News, one commenter hit "random article" three times and got "three weird stories I didn't know about the history of places within a few blocks of me in Portland, Oregon." Another found local schools "and then a cold war nuclear bunker that I didn't know about." I would very much like to know where my nearest bunker is, thanks. That same thread had a fair warning. The half-hour walk is a straight-line circle, so a river or a wall between you and an article doesn't count against it. Your location is handled in one line on the site: "Your location stays in this browser: links you share don't include it." This is very much Jefferson's kind of project. According to Ed Jefferson's site, he makes internet-powered interactive things and writes for The Guardian, Time Out and the New Statesman, and one of his earlier toys describes any location on Earth by listing nine actors who have played Doctor Who. Try it on your own street first, then on the street where you grew up. You'll probably learn something about both, and you might find a story worth telling your neighbors. Your neighborhood already has a Wikipedia page. It was just scattered.