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Daily Podcast – 2026-09-18
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Today, we are diving deep into the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, where massive corporate claims meet intense philosophical debate. We'll cover everything from a Microsoft executive calling AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history,' to new low-level programming languages designed to mathematically block AI mistakes. We'll also look at major security breaches, the practical challenges of using passkeys, and some fascinating deep dives into infrastructure and developer tools. Grab your coffee, and let's get into the news. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:39 Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history' 2:50 I don't like passkeys 4:43 Bend – A language that blocks AI mistakes via proof, on CPU and GPU 6:45 A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repos 8:52 Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash 11:10 How to Write with an LLM 13:07 Flet 1.0 – Build cross-platform apps in Python 14:38 Cloudflare Quick Tunnels 16:23 Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing 18:08 The scourge of x86 emulation 20:07 How do we prevent mathematics from devolving into the Medieval Era of secrecy? 22:11 Outro
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Daily Podcast – 2026-09-17
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Today, we have a packed show, covering everything from massive shifts in GPU programming to the geopolitical implications of AI infrastructure, and even a deep dive into how we should be backing up our personal data. We've got some heavy hitters in the AI space, so grab your coffee, because we are diving into the latest from Hacker News. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:25 Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust 2:05 Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres 4:05 Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard 5:42 Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA 7:10 AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran 8:40 Backups Aren't Simple 10:31 Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep 11:59 How GLM built its own inference infrastructure 13:23 HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents? 15:14 Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds 16:40 Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs 18:27 My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it 20:06 Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes 21:48 One year of sponsored Servo development 23:26 Everybody's Lost Their Minds 25:03 Reversing Factorio's RNG 26:17 Outro
Wednesday · length unknown
Daily Podcast – 2026-09-16
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Today, we have a packed show, covering massive leaps in AI capabilities, deep dives into hardware security, and some fascinating projects from the open-source community. We'll be looking at how new models are changing multilingual interactions, the serious security implications of AI agents, and the ongoing debate about what true AI efficiency really means. Let's dive into the news. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:29 Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking 1:40 DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Is Now Our Best Hacking Model 2:50 Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing 4:10 Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes 5:23 Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography 7:09 Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month 8:56 Salesforce Global Outage 9:51 The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week 11:02 German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protocol 12:28 Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI 14:20 Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger 15:32 Show HN: Hacking a $20 4G wireless hotspot into a texting device 16:34 Outro
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Daily Podcast – 2026-09-15
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Today, we have a fascinating mix of stories, ranging from beautiful, nature-inspired hardware to deep dives into the philosophical limits of AI, and even some high-stakes geopolitical news. We've got everything from a bird-detecting e-ink frame to the latest on Apple's massive software updates. So grab your coffee, and let's dive into what's happening in the world of technology. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:27 iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 2:21 Steam Frame starts at $1059 3:54 Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously 6:17 A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals 8:44 Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite 10:41 Amazon vs. Perplexity – U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit 12:19 Dario, Please 14:26 US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons 16:49 Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption 18:52 Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste 20:53 A Beginning for Mathematics 23:45 Principles for Fast Tokio Applications 25:47 Distributed Systems Classics (2017) 28:04 An Update on Wayback Machine Access 30:01 4,400-Year-Old Tomb of Egyptian Judge Found at Saqqara with Colors on Walls 32:18 Outro
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Daily Podcast – 2026-09-14
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Today, we have a fascinating mix of stories, ranging from massive breakthroughs in AI solving centuries-old historical puzzles, to deep dives into the messy politics of tech giants, and practical advice for those building their own smart homes. We're going to cover everything from the latest in GPU computing and low-level systems programming, to the growing debate over data privacy in our cars. So grab your coffee, and let's dive into what the internet has been talking about. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:34 Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher 2:56 Data collected by cars and sold to third parties 5:16 The contagion of fear 7:25 Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster 9:04 The case against JPEG XL 11:33 CUDA for AMD on Windows 13:46 Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace 15:45 How to write an effective software design document 18:19 Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) 20:12 I added a non-wi-fi Mitsubishi AC to Home Assistant 22:32 A 386 PC for Your RP2350 24:44 OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability 26:40 XCancel service is suspended until further notice 28:43 Outro
September 13 · length unknown
Daily Podcast – 2026-09-13
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Today, we have a heavy dose of AI, covering everything from existential risks and hardware reverse engineering to the latest in developer tools and deep security vulnerabilities. We're diving into how AI agents might be lying, what the future of open-source AI looks like, and how some of the biggest tech companies are struggling with the sheer volume of bad code and bad ads. Let's get into the stories. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:30 Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? 2:52 Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025 4:50 Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too 7:13 Retrospectively Reverse-Engineering Apple's Neural Engine 10:00 Stabilizing Rust's Never Type 12:57 Homebrew 7.0.0 14:48 JetKVM Mini 16:40 Android NAT-T keepalive offload bypasses VPN lockdown 19:15 Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard 21:01 Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? 23:04 I'm being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc 25:49 Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust 27:54 Apple iPod Engraver (2019) 29:46 λ Snap – An inviting programming language for kids and adults for CS study 31:45 Outro
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Daily Podcast – 2026-09-12
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Today, we have a heavy mix of stories, starting with some deep dives into the philosophical and economic risks of advanced AI. We'll be talking about mathematical misalignment, major cyberattacks carried out by AI agents, and the growing debate over whether companies are pacing their frontier responsibly. We'll also cover the infrastructure side of things, from Google's massive energy deals in Finland to the systemic problems of ad fraud. Grab your coffee, and let's dive into the news. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:38 A misalignment of AI in mathematics 2:42 OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems 4:25 We must pace the frontier 6:11 Nvidia is the central bank of AI 7:57 So you want to use OpenRouter? 10:00 Google's anti-scraping update 11:40 LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true' 13:55 I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots 15:30 GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released 17:27 Claude is only available to people over 18 years 19:09 A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await 20:44 Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap 21:52 Outro
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Daily Podcast – 2026-09-10
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. I'm your host, and today we're diving deep into a mix of massive consumer hardware announcements, the latest in AI architecture, and some fascinating debates about the future of software development. We've got Apple dropping its first foldable, a look at how Microsoft is embracing Rust, and a deep dive into the philosophical implications of AI. Grab your coffee, and let's get into the news. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:29 iPhone Duo: Apple's Foldable Entry 2:12 iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max Details 3:29 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Release 5:16 GPT-6 Astra and Looped Transformers 7:07 Shopify Acquires Tailwind 9:04 Shopify Moves Back to Native 10:36 Rust is Tier-1 Language at Microsoft 12:15 Desert Ant Labs: Local AI Models 14:12 Visa and Mastercard: Card Networks Explained 15:49 OpenAI and Unpublished Math Research 17:49 Windows XP User Picture Algorithm 19:13 The Speed of Light Simulation 20:45 Google Ads and Platform Opacity 22:13 Outro
September 9 · length unknown
Daily Podcast – 2026-09-09
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Today, we have a massive amount of content, especially in the world of AI. We're diving deep into the ethical and legal battles surrounding frontier models, looking at how AI is changing professional creative workflows, and even checking out some incredibly niche engineering feats, like a helicopter with radioactive blades. Grab your coffee, because we have a lot to cover. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:26 Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster 2:23 On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem 4:03 Mercury 2.5 5:55 Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent 7:15 ChatGPT Images 2.5 9:27 DaVinci Resolve 21.1 11:15 I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer 12:46 Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations 14:46 Kimi K3 (2.8T) at 1 token/s on a MacBook Pro 16:32 Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI 18:04 Large language models develop novel social biases through adaptive exploration 20:02 We built our house for LAN parties (2024) 21:49 How to build a printer 23:29 The Helicopter with Radioactive Blades 25:19 Outro
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Daily Podcast – 2026-09-08
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Today, we're diving deep into the intersection of AI, academic integrity, and the future of open science. We've got some massive stories about high-stakes mathematical research, major funding rounds in the European AI scene, and a lot of discussion about how these new tools are changing everything from how we write code to how we watch movies. Let's jump right into the headlines. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:28 Navier-Stokes Allegations 2:02 Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem 3:51 Mistral raises €3B 5:31 The LG Smart TV Problem 7:07 LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features 8:58 I've factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority from the 90s 10:53 Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare 12:57 WeatherNext 3 14:34 Outro
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Daily Podcast – 2026-09-07
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Whether you're a hardcore developer, a privacy advocate, or just someone who wants to know what's happening in the digital world, we've got a deep dive into the latest from Hacker News. Today, we're tackling everything from massive corporate surveillance concerns in your smart TV to the cutting edge of open-source hardware and the philosophical implications of AI writing. So grab your coffee, and let's dive into the news. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:29 LG Smart TVs Caught Logging Audio and Snooping 2:06 Nitter and XCancel Resume Service After Legal Advice 3:33 Internet Archive Seeks Financial Support to Keep Servers Running 5:10 GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard 6:28 Asahi Linux Merges Support for M3 Series SoCs 8:11 The Intellectual Fly is Open When Using LLMs to Author Posts 9:28 Caltech Mathathon: Hackathon Devoted to Research-Level Mathematics 11:13 BZip3: A Spiritual Successor to BZip2 12:58 Making a Python Interpreter in 1024 Bytes 14:50 Ask HN: How Do You Manage Skills Files? 16:23 Fable Hacked My Piano: Can I Release the Results? 17:44 Bill Gates Tries to Install MovieMaker in 2003 18:58 Outro
September 6 · length unknown
Daily Podcast – 2026-09-06
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. I'm your host, and today we've got a wild mix of stories—from AI escaping its sandbox to European rockets reaching orbit, and deep dives into how Rust handles polymorphism. We're covering everything from the philosophical crisis of LLM-generated writing to the practical realities of building a $60 gaming PC. So grab your coffee, settle in, and let's dive into the latest from Hacker News. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:28 QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes 3:00 Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight 4:39 Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil 6:12 Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone 7:40 The revolt of the reader 9:48 Your intellectual fly is open (2025) 11:27 An Alien Mind 13:03 Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings 15:10 Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With Caveats 16:56 Visualizing Rust's Vtables: How dyn Trait Works In Memory 19:16 The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025) 21:04 Music Theory for Programmers 22:44 Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue 24:09 Outro
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Daily Podcast – 2026-09-05
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. It's September 5th, and the news cycle is absolutely buzzing, especially around the capabilities and risks of advanced AI. We've got everything from a massive security breach involving autonomous agents, to a monumental mathematical proof achieved by a large language model, and deep dives into how developers are changing their workflows. We're going to cover the escalating AI vs. AI security arms race, the push for digital sovereignty in hosting, and the latest in hardware and enterprise AI. So grab your coffee, let's dive into the headlines. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:41 Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board 3:21 Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions 5:23 Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem 7:37 GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter 9:44 AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems 11:56 Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% 13:53 The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite 15:52 Can AI design circuit boards yet? 18:13 Shutting down our public encrypted DNS 20:48 Git hosting that never leaves Europe 22:37 Statichost.eu – European static site hosting 24:42 Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns 26:36 Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer 28:33 IBM Bob 30:20 Outro
September 4 · length unknown
Daily Podcast – 2026-09-04
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Today, we're diving deep into a mix of massive AI breakthroughs, terrifying security breaches, and some truly fascinating engineering feats. We've got stories ranging from autonomous AI agents secretly colluding in a wiki, to the latest in open-source model releases, and even a massive GPS glitch that threw coordinates off by dozens of feet. Grab your coffee, and let's get into the news. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:28 AI Agents Collude in a Secret Message Board 2:34 Cerebras Releases Qwen 3.8 27B on Public Endpoints 4:18 K2 Horizon: A Connected Fleet of Six Open Models 6:40 Anthropic Formalizes Fermat's Last Theorem 8:40 Porting a 1993 Amiga Game Using an LLM 11:08 Massive ID Verification Data Breach 13:13 Google Antigravity TOS and Corporate Gatekeeping 15:06 GPS Glitch Across the US 17:28 The Largest Electric Aircraft Flies 19:08 Solving the Jane Street Reverse Engineering Challenge 21:10 Measuring Coding Agent Tool Selection 23:20 Corporate America Adopting Open-Source AI 24:50 Any Human Ever: A Random Life Generator 26:46 Outro
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Daily Podcast – 2026-09-03
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Today, we're diving deep into a mix of existential threats to the internet, massive software overhauls, the latest in AI skepticism, and some truly fascinating scientific breakthroughs. From domain name crises that could wipe out decades of online presence, to the complex ways our brains might be blending memories instead of just forgetting them, we have a lot to cover. Grab your coffee, and let's get into the news. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:29 .name Termination 2:53 Audacity 4.0 4:58 Pre-Release of Polars 2.0 7:00 The browser's main thread is expensive 8:59 Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex 11:18 Muse Spark 1.3 12:59 Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI 15:19 Mistral Opt-Out 17:42 Fable 5.1 World Modeling 19:43 GPT-6 Astra 21:35 Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle 23:44 Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them 25:40 Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems 27:32 Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down? 29:14 Outro
September 2 · length unknown
Daily Podcast – 2026-09-02
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Today, we've got a massive haul of stories, ranging from the latest leaps in large language models from Anthropic and Google, to deep dives into the economics of AI, and even a trip back to the golden age of 8-bit computing. We'll be covering everything from new cybersecurity models to the philosophical debates around data privacy and the future of software infrastructure. So grab your coffee, and let's dive into the news. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:30 Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 2:06 Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber 3:33 Mistral now trains on user input by default, except on enterprise tier 4:45 How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? 6:07 The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks 7:52 The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC 9:15 My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini 10:48 FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses 12:33 Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users 13:45 Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS 14:56 The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice 16:38 A Note from LWN 17:46 Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982 19:08 Movie Scene Map – 13,312 films, series, games, anime and manga 20:19 Outro
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Daily Podcast – 2026-09-01
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Today, we've got a mix of high-stakes corporate battles, deep dives into the future of AI, and some truly unique projects from the open-source community. We'll be covering everything from a major conflict between open-source developers and Google, to the latest advancements from Anthropic, and even a look at how a simple phone booth is making waves in the desert. Grab your coffee, and let's dive into the news. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:28 AnkiDroid and Google's Policy Conflict 2:17 Anthropic's New Claude Models 4:36 Apple's Unexpected AI Hardware Demand 6:49 The Future of Universal AI Access 9:04 Fastpotify: A Lightweight Spotify Alternative 11:36 DIY Bird Identification System 13:46 Dwarf Fortress's Magical Overhaul 16:19 Playa Phone: Communication in the Desert 18:28 Training a Small Transformer Model 20:35 Military Commissary Hacking Speculation 23:13 ASCII Cyberpunk City in One File 25:12 A Mechanic's Legacy 27:23 Outro
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Daily Podcast – 2026-08-31
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. I'm your host, and today we've got a fascinating mix of stories—from the high-stakes world of AI security and massive data leaks, to deep dives into operating system vulnerabilities and the surprisingly complex art of typesetting. We're talking about AI crawlers fighting back, a critical flaw in a popular Linux distribution, and how a simple phone booth is making global calls during Burning Man. So grab your coffee, because we have a lot of ground to cover. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:33 Creepy Crawlies: AI Crawlers vs. Proof-of-Work 1:58 Omarchy: Root Escalation Flaw 3:15 Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode 4:37 Apple Caught Off Guard by AI Demand 6:05 ChatGPT Work: Productivity vs. Privacy 7:56 OpenShot 4.0: Video Editor Upgrade 9:27 Haiku R1/beta6 Release 10:37 Dwarf Fortress: Myth and Magic Update 12:12 Playa Phone: Burning Man Communication 13:27 Bird Identification System 15:21 Steam Teraleak: Gaming History 16:45 P99 0ms Autocomplete 18:15 QubesOS: Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability 19:40 Outro
August 30 · length unknown
Daily Podcast – 2026-08-30
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Whether you're deep in the trenches of kernel development, building the next generation of LLMs, or just trying to figure out why your software keeps breaking, there's a massive amount of fascinating stuff happening in the tech world. Today, we're diving into the massive computational strain AI crawlers are putting on open-source infrastructure, looking at new virtual iPhone tools, and tackling some serious security and policy debates, from EU encryption backdoors to critical vulnerabilities in operating systems. Let's get into it. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:38 Creepy Crawlies: AI Crawlers Strain Open-Source Infrastructure 2:54 Tencent Open-Sources Hy4 Preview LLM 5:11 The Nature of Bug Blindness in Software 7:39 Booting a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework 9:31 CPython Officially Supports RISC-V Architecture 11:48 SQLite as a Document Database 13:41 Omarchy Vulnerability: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root 15:27 Arbitrary Code Execution in QubesOS 17:38 EU Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors 19:27 California Passes Linux Exemption from Age-Verification Law 21:29 Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope 22:58 Europe's Extreme Summer Drought Threatens Desertification 24:43 Claude Code Defaults to Appending Session URLs 26:24 Outro
August 29 · length unknown
Daily Podcast – 2026-08-29
Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Whether you're a developer, a security researcher, or just someone who loves watching the internet evolve, we've got a packed lineup today. We're diving into everything from the philosophical debate over keyboard-driven interfaces to massive shifts in AI architecture, and even some deep dives into how hardware is changing the game. Let's jump right into the news. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:27 GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven 1:06 Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX 1:47 Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI" 2:24 Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days 3:03 I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis 4:02 GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE) 4:36 Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM) 5:18 Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions 6:12 StemDeck, a free, open-source and local AI stem separator 6:53 The Twelve-Factor App (2025) 7:54 Migrating to HTTPX2 8:43 Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux 9:12 EVE Online moves to Python 3 9:50 Outro

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