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2026-09-11
Articles published on 2026-09-11.
RTK's Reported Token Savings Don't Translate to Lower AI Coding Costs, Benchmarks Show
Quesma's $1,500 benchmark on Terminal-Bench 2.1 finds RTK (Rust Token Killer) delivers negligible or negative cost savings across two frontier models. Almost all apparent savings for Claude Code came from a single task, while DeepSeek costs rose 17% per task. RTK's 'rtk gain' metric measures compressed output bytes, not billed tokens, and can make more expensive runs look optimized.
Reviving iChat Audio and Video Conferencing on Vintage Macs
A detailed guide shows how to restore iChat AV’s audio and video calling on old Macs running Leopard or Snow Leopard by running a personal SNATMAP server and redirecting configuration.apple.com via /etc/hosts.
John Deere's Self-Repair Service Exists, but Farmers Still Can't Fix Their Own Tractors
John Deere's Operations Center Pro Service lets owners diagnose and repair equipment through a subscription, but at $195–$5,995 per year with ongoing legal battles and farmer skepticism, the program falls short of true right-to-repair.