Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 143, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, new tech season is here, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been devouring every iPhone Duo video I can find, clicking on […]
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on cars, data privacy, and autonomous vehicles, follow Andrew J. Hawkins. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Earlier this year, the Federal Trade Commission […]
Marvel's mishandling of its Blade reboot will likely go down as one of the studio's biggest mistakes. There was a great actor in place to play the vampire hunter (Mahershala Ali), and a promising director set to take over the reins (Bassam Tariq). In retrospect, though, the disappointing demise of Blade might not be such […]
Two people were arrested in San Fransico while riding around in a Waymo robotaxi after the cab pulled over and called the cops on them. The riders were juveniles in possession of a loaded AR-style ghost gun and were taken to a juvenile hall. While the police report did not specify who was operating the […]
Fusion startups are inking defense-related deals, reigniting the relationship between fusion and national security that might have gone dormant, but never completely disappeared.
Introduction
When I first started working with Power BI, I thought that importing data and creating charts was the main part of building a report. However, I quickly realized that before creating visuals, I needed to understand how my data was structured and how different tables were connected.
A Power BI report can contain beautiful dashboards, but if the underlying data model is poorly designed, the report can become difficult to maintain, DAX calculations can become unnecessarily compl...
💡 Personal Series: Hizba's Thoughts & Reflections
This post is my submission for the ℋℐ𝒵ℬ𝒜 (✿◠‿◠)⭐ and her thoughts .
(っ◔◡◔)っ 💖 🌸 "Your light doesn't shrink anyone else's sun; it just reminds them how to warm up."
We need to talk about a silent, heavy tax that high-achieving creators pay every single day: The Guilt of Growing Up. 💸🥀
Have you ever finished a project, hit a milestone, or solved a complex bug, and felt that sudden rush of pure dopamine—followed immediatel...
sql table reference: RBAC SQL table create
There has two function is must be override, which is getPermissionList and getRoleList , because sa-token unknown your structure of SQL. So, you want to tell it how to get your PermissionList and RoleList .
1. StpInterfaceImpl
@Component
public class StpInterfaceImpl implements StpInterface {
@Autowired
private SysPermissionService sysPermissionService ;
@Autowired
private SysR...
There's a pattern you can watch happen on any reasonably popular site once a quarter. A team ships a new sign-up flow. They add reCAPTCHA. The bots keep coming. They upgrade to reCAPTCHA v3 invisible. The bots keep coming. They switch to hCaptcha for privacy reasons. The bots keep coming. They try Cloudflare Turnstile. The bots keep coming. Somewhere around month four, somebody writes a Slack message that reads "what if we just made it harder for real users ?"
This is not a story about a par...
Browser fingerprinting still works in 2026, but the useful techniques have shifted underneath everyone. Chrome's Privacy Sandbox has frozen or removed half the signals fingerprinting libraries depended on. Firefox and Safari added noise injection and API restrictions. Brave blocks attempts outright. Meanwhile headless browser frameworks have gotten dramatically better at spoofing what remains.
If you're building or maintaining a fingerprinting system, a lot of the advice from even two years ...
Originally published at https://aicoding-guide.com .
Codex feels slow, or it overthinks a trivial fix. The knob for that is reasoning effort , the Codex counterpart of extended thinking in Claude Code, controlled by the model_reasoning_effort key.
In short: set model_reasoning_effort = "high" (or another value) in ~/.codex/config.toml to change it permanently, use the -c flag for a single run, or /model during a session. The five levels are minimal , low , medium , high , ...