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Back to Episodes8.25.26 | Europe harming makers, Xiaomi's CPU performance, MS Paint and Photos watermarking
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- (00:00) - Intro
- (00:19) - How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
- (01:58) - Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded
- (03:16) - MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
- (04:34) - The entire city of San Francisco as a video game
- (05:42) - iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com
- (07:02) - Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence
- (08:12) - Where did all the public bathrooms go?
- (09:40) - SeL4 security proofs now complete on AArch64
- (11:07) - Moon (2024)
- (12:10) - Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation
- (13:27) - Outro
How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
https://lectronz.com/u/lectronz/articles/how-europe-is-killing-makers-and-micro-entrepreneurs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49419237
Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded
https://twitter.com/lemire/status/2091894299289874926
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49420873
MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
https://xusheng.dev/posts/reversing/mspaint_invisible_watermark/main/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49421158
The entire city of San Francisco as a video game
https://sf.thijs.gg/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49422784
iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com
https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=1ptvdtcm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49426564
Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence
https://gultsch.de/posts/25-years-of-digital-independence/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49421536
Where did all the public bathrooms go?
https://daily.jstor.org/where-did-all-the-public-bathrooms-go/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49422800
SeL4 security proofs now complete on AArch64
https://proofcraft.systems/news-2026/#2026-08-21
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49418255
Moon (2024)
https://ciechanow.ski/moon/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49426466
Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-are-some-octopuses-so-smart-the-answer-might-lie-in-a-never-before-