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links, etc An Insider’s View of the Love Affair Between Hungary and the American Right - TPM – Talking Points Memo much has been made of the conservative love with orban and hungary. none of that is encouraging. what’s less covered in much of the reporting on this that you see in the US is the environment that this was allowed to take place in, within hungary. there are a number of interesting things to take away from in this article which looks at this from the perspective of an actual hungarian with some context....

links, etc Managing Your Mac Menu Bar: A Roundup of My Favorite Bartender Alternatives - MacStories this is for future reference. i too, am freaked out by some of the permissions required by some of these apps. also, i need to install tailscale on my personal laptop. it’s likely best to keep the number of things in the menubar to a minimum and cut the spacing down as far as makes sense....

links, etc I improved my iPhone’s battery life by changing these 10 settings | ZDNET mumble grumble, a solid refresher on some options, that i need to periodically check, and avail myself of.

links, etc No More Blue Fridays TIL: eBPF for windows. it’s gonna be a thing.

links, etc Smaller, Cheaper, Faster, Sober | Drew Breunig i’ve been intrigued by the small models that run fast and are increasingly useful for mission specific tasks. this seems like the thing that will be durably useful in all of this AI flotsam. Enterprises are foregoing general models for open ones trained for single tasks. And it’s not just foundation training, but fine-tuning training. Teams are learning that small models trained for a single purpose can outperform the best general models out-of-the-box....