I'm Luis, blockchain dev & Solidity instructor, passionate about tech innovation & business | Chainlink Advocate.

Joined September 2009
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El chiste que les obligaron a retirar de la magistral #Airplane! (Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker, 1980) 🤣🤣 #AterrizaComoPuedas #YDondeEstáElPiloto
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BBC Micro Live (1986). A futuristic Lesley Judd tries to see if an 8 bit micro can actually handle MIDI...
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Miami Vice Theme: Jan Hammer (1985). I'm just going to assume that Jan played the music live for every episode, wearing a silk suit with rolled up sleeves. Every time he tried to escape they caught him and dragged him back to the studio.
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Resumo el tema Milei vs Harari por las empresas "No humanas" 1) Todo arrancó cuando la semana pasada Milei y el ministro de Desregulación Federico Sturzenegger publicaron una columna en el Financial Times: "Argentina invita a la IA a liberarse a sí misma", anunciando el envío al Congreso de un proyecto que crea la categoría societaria "corporación no humana". 2) La iniciativa forma parte de la llamada Ley de Régimen de Incentivo para Grandes Inversiones en Nuevas Industrias (RIGI), o "súper RIGI", un régimen para captar capitales ($$) en sectores sin desarrollo relevante en Argentina, como IA, semiconductores y biotecnología avanzada. 3) Según el proyecto, estas entidades serían operadas por agentes o robots de IA capaces de actuar con autonomía. Los accionistas humanos podrían existir, pero no serían requisito indispensable. Milei las comparó con la creación de la Compañía Neerlandesa de las Indias Orientales en 1602, sugiriendo que Buenos Aires podía convertirse en el nuevo Amsterdam. Bueno, ayer Harari respondió con otra columna en el mismo Financial Times: "No debemos otorgar personalidad jurídica a los agentes de IA". Reconoció que Milei es "un político muy audaz" y que su determinación por mejorar la situación económica argentina es digna de elogio, y hasta coincidió en que la sociedad de responsabilidad limitada fue un hito histórico. Pero marcó una frontera: "La personalidad jurídica es una llave maestra que también permitiría a la IA acceder a nuestros sistemas financieros, económicos y políticos". Harari dice que esas corporaciones podrían poseer activos, contratar empleados, participar en el comercio internacional, iniciar demandas judiciales y hasta donar a campañas políticas, todo sin intervención humana. El argumento más fuerte es que la pena máxima que frena a los ejecutivos humanos -la cárcel- es completamente irrelevante para un algoritmo. No le importa, no le tema. Un CEO de IA solo respondería ante el riesgo de la quiebra, lo que lo empujaría a cualquier acción para evitar ese resultado. "Los países que otorgan a las IA la personalidad legal corren el riesgo de convertirse en algo para lo que el registro histórico no ofrece analogía: no un estado corporativo, sino un estado de IA". "Milei espera convertir a Buenos Aires en un nuevo Amsterdam. En su lugar, se arriesga a convertirlo en un nuevo Batavia". (Batavia era la capital colonial neerlandesa en Indonesia, símbolo de explotación sin rendición de cuentas.) La reacción de Milei Primero retuiteó un mensaje de @martinvars (empresario argentino) con la palabra "masterclass". Después le dijo a Harari: "¡Ya estoy preparando mi respuesta para ver si podemos calmar tus temores sobre el camino que propuse la semana pasada!" El debate jurídico central es de responsabilidad: si un agente de IA toma una decisión que genera daño, incumple un contrato o produce una pérdida económica, ¿quién responde? ¿El programador? ¿El dueño? ¿La empresa? Resumen: Milei quiere que Argentina sea la primera en crear un marco legal para empresas dirigidas por IA sin accionistas humanos obligatorios, con beneficios fiscales para atraer inversión. Harari dice que eso equivale a darle las llaves del sistema a entidades que no pueden ir presas, no sienten vergüenza y optimizan para sobrevivir a cualquier costo. La propuesta de Milei y sobre todo la respuesta de Harari, logró que el debate llegara hoy a los principales medios del mundo.
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Pode ser que a gente esteja aplaudindo o fim de nossa espécie neste planeta azul, mas que essa apresentação é fantástica lá isso é. O menino que dança com os robos é engenheiro da Unitree Robotics, empresa chinesa de robôs humanoides, e criou essa coreografia incrível com a música de Lady Gaga, Abracadabra. A Unitree apoiou o projeto, como marketing. Que coloca uma questão atual: a tecnologia ainda depende- e muito- do talento humano para brilhar. O vídeo é de uma performance impressionante no America's Got Talent (AGT) 2026.
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I was able to replicate finding the Zcash Orchard vulnerability using GPT 5.5 without a harness and little to no steering (except for passing the files). GPT 5.5 is consistently able to find this vulnerability. Opus 4.8 released on May 25th, and the vulnerability was found one day later, on May 26th. GPT 5.5 released on April 23rd, meaning someone could’ve found the vulnerability using GPT 5.5 for an entire month. (Link to chat in next post)
bro basically said "look for bugs that could exploit zcash" that's the prompt that found an exploit in a 10 billion dollar protocol
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇷 "CUANDO LLEGAS AL SUR ES OTRO PLANETA" Noel Gallagher hablo de su visita a la Argentina con Oasis, y hablo del país, del futbol y de los hinchas Argentinos.

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🦔Microsoft canceled its internal Claude Code licenses this week after token-based billing made the cost untenable, even for a company with effectively infinite cloud resources. Uber's CTO sent an internal memo warning the company burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in just four months. American AI software prices have jumped 20% to 37%, and GitHub (owned by Microsoft) is dropping flat-rate plans for usage-based billing across its products. My Take The AI subsidy era is ending in real time. The same company that put $13 billion into OpenAI and built the Azure infrastructure powering most of Anthropic's compute just looked at the bill from a competitor's coding tool and decided it was not worth paying. That is not a productivity failure on Anthropic's end. Token-based pricing is forcing every enterprise customer to confront the actual cost of running these models at scale, and the number turns out to be far higher than the flat-rate experiments suggested. This ties directly to my Gemini Flash post yesterday. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google all raised effective prices in the last six months. Enterprises that built workflows assuming AI costs would keep falling are now watching annual budgets evaporate in months. Two outcomes look likely from here. Either enterprises scale back AI usage to fit budgets, which slows the revenue ramp the labs need to justify their valuations ahead of IPOs, or the labs cut prices and absorb the losses, which makes the unit economics worse at exactly the wrong moment. Both paths land in the same place, the numbers stop working, and somebody has to take the writedown. Hedgie🤗
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The Norwegian World Cup squad presented by the King of Norway 🇳🇴 x.com/Kj88776Kjetil/status/2…

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El brutal spot de Quilmes para la Copa del Mundo, es totalmente Espectacular. 🇦🇷🚬
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May 22
Come Together.
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Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.
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"Mendoza" Por el increíble paisaje que muestra este video de de Mendoza.

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Footage of the mid air collision between a pair of Navy Super Hornets/Growlers during the Gunfighter Skies Air Show at Mountain Home Air Force Base moments ago.
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Pink Project: Disco Project (1982). Italian one hit wonders who thought mixing Pink Floyd and The Alan Parsons Project together, whilst dressed as Hammer Horror extras, would be a good idea...
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Hoy cumple 100 años el enorme David Attenborough. Debe haber tenido una de las vidas más extraordinarias en la historia de la humanidad moderna. Tranquilamente podría decir que vio naves espaciales en llamas cerca del hombro de Orión y no sorprendería a nadie. Un crack.
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O Google acabou de transformar mais de 1 bilhão de computadores em depósito de IA. Inclusive o seu. Sem pedir. Sem avisar. Sem um único popup. O Chrome baixou 4GB de modelo de inteligência artificial no seu disco. O arquivo se chama weights.bin, são os pesos do Gemini Nano. Fica numa pasta chamada OptGuideOnDeviceModel dentro do seu perfil do Chrome. Você não autorizou nada. Até existe uma configuração para impedir, mas tá enterrada em submenus que ninguém encontra. E as AI features vêm ligadas por padrão. Se você deletar o arquivo, o Chrome baixa de novo. Sozinho. Em silêncio. Você decide o que fica no seu disco e o navegador simplesmente ignora. Funciona assim em Windows, macOS e Ubuntu. Logs forenses no macOS mostram que o arquivo foi instalado dia 24 de abril de 2026, misturado com patches de segurança. Desenvolvedores dizem que isso já rola há mais de um ano. E tem um detalhe que deixa tudo mais ridículo: O Chrome 147 coloca um botão "AI Mode" na barra de endereço. Você vê aquilo, sabe que tem modelo de IA no seu computador, e assume que suas buscas rodam localmente. Não rodam. O AI Mode é 100% cloud. Tudo vai para os servidores do Google. O modelo de 4GB no seu disco não tem nada a ver com aquele botão. Ele serve para quê? "Help me write" e detecção de scam. Coisas que vivem em submenus de clique-direito que você provavelmente nunca abriu. O Google ocupou 4GB do seu disco sem pedir, para rodar coisas que quase ninguém usa, enquanto a IA que você de fato vê manda tudo para a nuvem. Na Europa, pesquisadores já apontam violação do Artigo 5(3) da Diretiva ePrivacy, que exige consentimento antes de armazenar software no dispositivo do usuário. Como desativar: → chrome://flags → Busque "Optimization Guide On Device Model" → Desative → Reinicie o Chrome → Delete a pasta OptGuideOnDeviceModel Seu computador só é seu se você ficar de olho.
Google Chrome is quietly downloading a roughly 4 GB AI model to many users’ computers without clear upfront consent. The file, called weights.bin, is part of Google’s Gemini Nano on-device language model and lands in the browser’s user data folder under OptGuideOnDeviceModel. It powers built-in AI tools such as “Help me write,” smarter tab suggestions, on-device scam detection, and page summarization. The download triggers automatically for devices meeting minimum hardware requirements, and Chrome often replaces the files if deleted. While the model processes data locally, installation happens in the background with minimal notification. The scale is noteworthy. Hundreds of millions or billions of installations add up to thousands of tonnes of carbon emissions globally from data transfer, even though each is a one-time event. To prevent or remove it, go to chrome://flags, disable the entries for the optimization guide on-device model and Prompt API, restart the browser, and manually delete the folder.
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One guy. One Navy ship. One file. 1 trillion databases. He built it alone in 2000. And gave it away forever. 🤯 Meet D. Richard Hipp 🇺🇸 > American developer. Born 1961 in North Carolina. > In 2000, working as a contractor on a US Navy destroyer. > Got frustrated with bulky databases that needed servers and setup. > Built SQLite in his spare time ~ a single-file database engine. > No server. No installation. No configuration. Just one file. > 25 years later, every iPhone, Android, Mac, and Windows PC runs SQLite. > Powers Chrome, Firefox, Safari, WhatsApp, iMessage, Skype. > Runs inside Tesla cars and commercial airplanes. 🚀 > Over 1 trillion SQLite databases active worldwide today. > Put the entire codebase in the public domain. Zero royalties forever. > Trillion-dollar companies use his code. He's never charged a cent. > Still maintains it full-time with a tiny team of 3. > Pledged free support and updates until at least 2050. > No VC money. No acquisitions. No spotlight. Just code. Every app on your phone runs his invisible masterpiece. Most engineers build for fame. He built for forever. Database GOAT. 🐐
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4 May 2025
To the greatest fans in the galaxy... May the 4th be with you.
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