The next generation of models are currently being withheld from general release. Beyond that, there's still a lot of room to compete on price and also independence from the US labs.
Community and listener supported radio stations can be a great resource. I discover a lot of music via a local station I discovered by surfing on the FM dial. Most stations offer online streams these days and some even produce video content too (Live at KEXP is one favorite, and NPR's Tiny Desk is in a similar vein). Non corporate coffee shops are usually playing some music selected by the baristas and I found some favorites that way too.
When I find something new, I like to look up live performances from that artist on YouTube. Sometimes people in the comments mention other similar artists or the source that led them to the video. YouTube's algorithm is a bit of a dark and dangerous thing overall, but I do sometimes follow a suggestion for music that I end up loving.
Refusing future applications to adjust status would be one thing (still wrong, in my opinion). The fact that they are canceling pending applications is simply evil. There will be so much unnecessary anguish and expense. I really feel for anybody who is now learning they will have to leave and wait years to come live in the US with their spouse, due to overstayed visas which were supposed to be forgiven under the status quo.
New Nvidia Parakeet release does both offline and streaming. English only and outperforms v2 error rate in offline mode while being very competitive with v2 in high latency streaming mode.
Aider isn't abandoned, but it feels like it's basically in maintenance mode at this point. Updates over the last year
were limited to small improvements and fixes. There are some forks aimed at making it more "agentic" (more like Claude Code, etc). I haven't tried them personally.
Do you mean to say Zed wasn't vibe coded? There's actually another comment on this post describing how someone is using Opus 4.5 to work on Zed. Given how forward the AI features are in Zed I'd be surprised if the team wasn't also embracing it internally.
It's a fair question how much AI is accelerating the development of Zed, but I can say that I've been impressed with the speed they are shipping at.
My tool can read stdin, send it to an LLM, and do a couple nice things with the reply. Not exactly RAG, but most man pages fit into the context window so it's okay.
Older cars don't have these systems. Also they are easy to bypass with a dummy buckle. There are counties where seatbelt usage is far less common than the US.
As others have mentioned, a firewall might have been useful in restricting outbound connections to limit the usefulness of the machine to the hacker after the breach.
An inbound firewall can only help protect services that aren't meant to be reachable on the public internet. This service was exposed to the internet intentionally so a firewall wouldn't have helped avoid the breach.
The lesson to me is that keeping up with security updates helps prevent publicly exposed services from getting hacked.
On Linux, the default init program is usually systemd. The main job of the default init program is typically to be a process manager. That is, it starts other programs and can restart them if they crash. Since it's the first process to start (PID 1), if it exits the kernel can't continue and will panic, usually followed by a reboot.
Containers work similarly, except that they don't take the whole system down when their PID 1 exits. That's why containers often don't have a process manager inside, but Linux based operating systems do.
The pdf describes how they did "continued pre-training" and then post training to make 3.2. I guess what's missing is the full pre-training that absorbs most date sensitive knowledge. That's probably also the reason that the versions are 3.x still.
There are a number of free and cheap LLM options to experiment with. Google offers a decent free plan for Gemini (get some extra Google accounts). Groq has a free tier including some good open weight models. There's also free endpoints on OpenRouter that are limited but might be useful for long running background agents. DeepSeek v3.2, Qwen3, Kimi K2, and GLM 4.6 are all good choices for cheap and capable models.
Local models are generally not a shortcut to cheap and effective AI. It's a fun thing to explore though.
By using the three available colors on my older model, I was able to render numbers up to 199 in a readable way. Two digits on the right are 8x3 and one on the left is 8x2. I quickly abandoned two pixels of width as impossible for making legible text for all digits, so seeing a full font at two pixels wide is a fun surprise.