2025-09-17

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A nationwide study suggests infections with human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18 have been virtually eliminated since vaccination began in 2008 – protecting even unvaccinated women.

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Two and a half years ago, I started my now longest real-world software experiment. I had read an article about how DOOMs engine works and noticed how a variable

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In a new post, YouTube acknowledges creator complaints regarding lower view counts, which may be caused by ad blockers based on new data.

A deep dive into the ACPI.sys DPC latency problems on Asus ROG laptops - Zephkek/Asus-ROG-Aml-Deep-Dive

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阿里巴巴新AI芯片：关键规格对标H20

阿里巴巴近期推出的新一代人工智能芯片，其核心性能指标与英伟达的H20 GPU相媲美。这标志着国产AI硬件在追赶国际顶尖水平上取得重要进展。该芯片旨在为大规模AI训练和推理任务提供高效算力支持，可能有助于减少对国外高性能GPU的依赖，并增强国内人工智能基础设施的自主可控能力。

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Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrorism is far-right was disappeared.

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Firefox 143 for Android 版本正式引入 DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) 功能，将此前在桌面端已推行的加密DNS隐私保护扩展至移动端。

核心要点：

• 隐私保护：DoH 通过加密 DNS 查询，防止互联网服务提供商（ISP）或公共 Wi-Fi 提供商等第三方窥探用户的浏览活动。
• Android 端启用：从 Firefox 143 开始，Android 用户可在浏览器设置中手动开启“增强保护”选项来启用 DoH。目前性能测试正在进行，若达到预期，未来计划在特定地区为 Android 用户默认启用。
• 性能显著提升：通过与合作伙伴 加拿大互联网注册局 (CIRA) 及其技术伙伴 Akamai 的合作，Firefox 的 DoH 查询速度年内提升了 61%（以第75百分位计）。现在其解析速度与原生 DNS 几乎无差，用户在加拿大可获得加密 DNS 的隐私保护而无明显性能损失。此优化也惠及了其他依赖 CIRA 或 Akamai 服务的 DNS 用户。
• 用户控制与信任：Firefox 始终强调透明和用户选择。用户可选择退出、自选 DNS 解析器或调整保护等级。Firefox 仅信任并集成那些符合其严格的 可信递归解析器 (TRR) 政策 并通过具有法律约束力协议认证的 DNS 服务商。

此项工作体现了 Firefox 在确保隐私作为默认设置的同时，坚持不牺牲速度，并致力于维护开放、可访问的互联网的承诺。

The Apple Photos app sometimes corrupts images when importing from my camera. I just wanted to make a blog post about it in case anyone else runs into the problem. I’ve seen other references to this online, but most of the people gave up trying to fix it, and none of them went as far as I did to debug the issue. I’ll try to describe the problem, and the things I’ve tried to do to fix it. But also note that I’ve (sort of) given up on the Photos app too. Since I can’t trust it to import photos from my camera, I switched to a different workflow.

Nothing but history's most interesting letters. Click to read Letters of Note, by Shaun Usher, a Substack publication.

Today’s collection is a grab bag of midcentury North American restaurant placemats.

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Germany's position has been reverted to UNDECIDED.

Despite expressing concerns about breaking end-to-end encryption, Germany refrained from taking a definitive stance on the Chat Control proposal during the September 12th LEWP meeting. A willingness to negotiate and compromise remains.

This is an unfortunate development as Germany is crucial to defeating Chat Control.

Please make your voices heard! https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

Source: https://netzpolitik.org/2025/chatkontrolle-noch-haelt-sich-widerstand/

For enterprise software, the software supply chain presents some of the biggiest risks today to data privacy and security.

We expected small models to be fast, but our benchmarks revealed a common reliability trap. Here’s our deep dive on finding and fixing it.

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Why C++ remains a powerful and relevant programming language in today's tech landscape.

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本文作者基于个人经历与观察，阐述了因美国当前消费环境恶化而决定停止购买美国产品的立场。作者强调此观点针对的是体系而非美国人民，并提前说明了自身背景：来自巴西，重视消费者保护法规。

核心论点与背景：

• 作者长期关注科技维修博主Louis Rossmann的频道，其内容揭示了越来越多美国企业的反消费者行为（如软件公司Reason Studios取消旧产品激活功能），使作者意识到在全球化的背景下，美国的弱监管环境可能直接影响外国消费者。
• 作者认为美国已呈现出寡头政治特征，法律与政策倾向于维护富人和企业利益。这种体制下，企业为追求利润最大化，常采取损害消费者权益的措施（如降低服务质量、违反消费者保护法、提高价格），而缺乏有效监管与问责。
• 引用的文章与视频链接支持了美国企业普遍存在反消费者实践的观点。

主要行动倡议：

• “不购买美国产品”：作者将此视为一种道德选择和市场信号，旨在施压美国改善消费者保护法规。作者认为，美国作为全球经济的领导者，其法律变革可能产生全球性积极影响。
• 承认全球其他地区（如三星、兄弟、爱普生等公司）也存在类似问题，但认为针对单一公司的抵制效果有限，而挑战美国的系统性问题可能推动更广泛的变革。

对潜在反驳的回应：

• 承认美国过去未必如此，但基于当前事实做出决定是合理的。若其他地区出现类似情况，也会同样对待。
• 作者并非主张完全的技术孤立，而是选择牺牲部分功能以换取长期可靠性，并认为全球已有足够的替代产品。
• 最后强调，若美国能改革法律、重拾对消费者的保护，作者愿意重新考虑其立场。

文章末尾附有读者评论与作者回应，其中澄清了Reason Studios实为瑞典公司（原为叙述疏忽），并进一步阐述了抵制美国对全球消费环境可能产生的示范效应。

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Currently Importer supports converting Notion's HTML exports to Markdown via #14. Unfortunately Notion's file-based export options don't include necessary data to recreate Databases. This new importer would use the Notion API to download...

Waymo is bringing the magic of our fully autonomous ride-hailing service to riders in Nashville, in partnership with Lyft in 2026. Riders will be able to hail via the Waymo app, and as our service grows, riders will also be able to use the Lyft app to match with a Waymo vehicle.

Terraform 的状态管理本质上是一个分布式协调问题，但当前基于文件（tfstate）的实现存在根本性架构缺陷。Stategraph 方案提出将状态视为有向无环图（DAG），通过应用图数据库、ACID 事务和细粒度锁等分布式系统技术来解决并发瓶颈。

当前状态管理的核心问题

1. 粗粒度锁与资源竞争：所有操作（即使仅修改部分资源）都需要获取整个状态文件的全局锁，导致严重的锁争用。随着团队和资源数量增长，竞争概率超线性增加。
2. 状态分裂治标不治本：将状态文件拆分以缓解争用，实际上只是将单个协调问题转化为 N 个协调问题，并引入了跨状态依赖管理的复杂性，如同进行分布式事务。
3. 刷新操作效率低下：terraform refresh 的复杂度与资源总数成正比（O(n)），而非与本次变更的实际影响范围相关，造成不必要的性能开销。

Stategraph 的核心理念：状态即图

基础设施状态天然表现为资源间的依赖关系图。Stategraph 将状态从扁平的 JSON 文件规范化为图结构存储，从而带来根本性改进：

• 子图隔离：对非重叠子图（如修改 RDS 和修改 CloudFront）的操作可真正并行，互不阻塞。
• 精确锁管理：实现资源级（行级）和依赖关系级（边级）的细粒度锁。锁按依赖图的拓扑顺序获取，既避免死锁，又极大缩小锁范围。
• 增量刷新：基于变更集合计算出受影响的最小子图（资源锥），只刷新相关资源，大幅提升效率。

技术实现与方案优势

Stategraph 作为兼容 Terraform/OpenTofu 的远程后端实现，使用 PostgreSQL 作为存储，充分利用其成熟的 MVCC、可扩展性和运维生态。其核心模式包括三个主要表：

• resources：每行代表一个资源及其属性。
• dependencies：存储资源间的依赖关系边。
• transactions：追加式的状态变更日志，提供完整审计跟踪。

关键优势：

• 无锁争用并发：不同团队/操作可并行执行，仅锁定各自操作涉及的子图资源。
• 刷新性能跃升：仅刷新受影响子图，而非整个状态。
• 状态可查询性：状态以结构化数据存储，支持 SQL 查询，便于审计和理解。
• 无缝迁移：可自动导入现有 .tfstate 文件，对 Terraform 配置透明，无需修改工作流。

结论

Stategraph 并非发明新算法，而是将成熟的分布式系统原理（图存储、MVCC、事务隔离）正确应用于被长期误判为“文件存储问题”的 Terraform 状态管理。它通过匹配数据的访问模式（图遍历、部分更新、并发访问）来消除根本性的阻抗失配，旨在从根本上解决大规模基础设施自动化中的状态协调瓶颈。目前该方案处于积极开发和技术预览阶段。

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The unlikely story of the African frogs that made themselves at home in a corner of Wales.

Introduction Just a short note today. I’m in the middle of my trip, which will end in Eindhoven next week (see notice at the end of this article), when I heard that Meta had leaked a video on…

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I want to look at practical uses for CSS trigonometric functions. And we'll start with what may be the most popular functions of the "worst" feature: sin() and cos().