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The article argues that governance tokens fail because they rarely grant meaningful ownership or enforceable rights. It introduces ownership coins as an alternative, combining onchain treasuries, decision markets (futarchy), and token holder control over governance, capital allocation, and liquidation to better align founders and investor

I'm sure we're all familiar with Dark Crystal, so we know that Jim Henson can be weird and tackle slightly more mature subject matter. But there is little in his oeuvre that is quite as mind-bending as the Muppetless The Cube. This 1969 teleplay was produced for an NBC anthology series called Experiment in Television, […]

Despite trade restrictions, China has reclaimed the title of the world's fastest supercomputer for the first time since 2018. LineShine has pushed El Capitan out of number one on the TOP500 ranking. That's despite strict limits on what high-powered computing components can be sold to China by US firms, which dominate the list, with America […]

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What Is Data Modeling in Power BI? Data modeling in Power BI is the process of structuring, organizing, and defining relationships between tables (and other elements like calculations) in a semantic model. This enables accurate, efficient analysis and reporting. It transforms raw data from multiple sources into a cohesive, intuitive structure optimized for querying, filtering, and visualization. In Power BI Desktop, you shape data after importing or connecting to sources via Power Query. The ...

Most writing about DPDK and VPP stays comfortably abstract. Libraries and drivers for fast packet processing. Kernel bypass. Zero-copy I/O. Poll-mode drivers. The concepts are well-documented. What's harder to find is an account of what happens when you actually build something with them — the architectural decisions, the dead ends, and what the profiler tells you when you think you're done. This post is that account. We needed a User Plane Function (UPF) for a 5G core built on Open5GS. Th...

Imagine you are an analyst handling messy data and you need to build a dashboard for the team to understand the relationship between the numbers. The journey begins with data cleaning in Power Query , where inaccurate, duplicate, or missing values are corrected. Managing missing values is a critical step in data cleaning, as it improves data quality and ensures accurate analysis. Here is the trick: Text columns : Replace missing values with " N/A " or " Unknown " to indicate that the...

IONA OS is not just a kernel. It's a complete platform for building sovereign applications. This guide shows you how to write your first native application for IONA OS — from project setup to running it on the system. 1. The Ecosystem IONA OS supports two languages for native application development: Rust — for performance-critical applications (system tools, drivers, 3D applications). Flux — for applications that leverage the AI, causal memory, and timeline fe...

I wasn't building another AI chatbot. I was building an AI persona. Someone users could actually have conversations with. A fictional person with: a backstory opinions psychology memories a unique voice Imagine chatting with a 46-year-old small business owner named Jane. You ask Jane about a business strategy article. She shouldn't answer like a generic AI assistant. She should answer like Jane . That was the goal. And for a while... It worked. ...

I've been building a mobile app for a smartwatch, and the hardest part wasn't the UI. It was getting the phone to find the watch, connect over Bluetooth, and keep that connection alive. The watch runs custom firmware. The app is React Native with Expo. There's no SDK, no nice wrapper library from the hardware team. Just a protocol spec and a lot of trial and error. This post is about that connection layer only: scanning, pairing, subscribing to the BLE channel, and handling drops...

You've loaded your data into Power BI. You've got the tables. Now what are you expected to do? Here's the thing most beginners skip: how your tables connect to each other is more important than the data inside them. A poorly structured model will give you wrong numbers, slow reports and a difficult time every time you try to add a new chart. This week we're covering the foundation of Power BI, data modeling . Specifically: what kinds of tables exist, how schemas work, what relationships...

I have a lot of ideas. The kind of ideas you get at midnight, the ones that seem brilliant, and then I have to implement auth and all traction on a brilliant idea gets lost within 15 minutes of overthinking how I want to set up auth this time. The next brilliant idea I got, not at midnight this time was building an auth scaffold for myself that I can simply reuse for every single idea. But the caveat is I decided against just vibe coding it. Auth is a weird one. It's boring enough that y...

The Naked Truth About Chatbots and PHP If you've ever asked a general-purpose LLM to "write me a WordPress plugin," you already know how this story ends. You get a single 400-line file. It registers a hook with the wrong priority. It writes directly to $wpdb with an un-sanitized $_POST value. It calls a function that was deprecated three major versions ago. And the AJAX handler it just generated would happily execute for any unauthenticated visitor who knows the action name. The frust...

I set up a full dual-stack enterprise network in GNS3, launched a silent IPv6 man-in-the-middle attack using nothing but a Python script — and then shut it down completely with a single switch policy. This post walks through every step: the topology, the ACLs, the attack, and the mitigation. Table of Contents What This Project Is About The Threat: SLAAC Abuse Lab Setup Network Topology and Addressing Dual-Stack Configuration Parallel ACL Policy — IPv4 and IPv6 ...

When developers install a new NPM package, the conversation usually sounds like this: "It's only one dependency." Five minutes later, the project has hundreds of additional transitive dependencies, a noticeably larger JavaScript bundle, slower page loads, and a growing maintenance burden. The problem isn't simply technical. It's financial. Every kilobyte you ship has a cost. Every unnecessary dependency affects user experience. Every slow page quietly reduces conversions. And ...

Building agents for banking is 30% AI work and 70% compliance plumbing. The 30% is the easy part. Here's how to handle the 70%. The first time you build an underwriting agent for a bank, you'll write the credit logic in about a week. Then you'll spend the next two months on audit logging, explainability, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and data residency and you'll understand why fintech AI projects take longer than the demo suggests. This is the architecture that gets through an audit, us...

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The founding story of Nest is pretty much a perfect tech myth. A legendary product maker (in this case, Tony Fadell) helps create one of the most successful products ever (the iPhone) and then rides off into the sunset to enjoy the rest of his life, only to have an experience that drags him back […]

Jonathan Rinderknecht was facing arson charges for setting a fire on New Year's Day in 2025, which became one of the deadliest wildfires in LA history. To make their case, prosecutors turned to location data from his iPhone, security camera footage, and witness testimony. But they also turned to his ChatGPT logs. Prosecutors said that […]

For some people, the ice in a beverage is almost as important as the drink itself. That’s the audience Govee had in mind when designing its latest ice maker, the GoveeLife Smart Nugget Ice Maker Pro. This $500 premium smart home gadget is aimed at those who crave what’s called “the good ice,” the soft, chewable […]