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SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud
A blog by and for database architects.
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Stonelifting Etiquette
Lift responsibly and respectfully
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WebKit switching to Skia for 2d graphics rendering
In recent years we have had an ongoing effort to improve graphics performance of the WebKit GTK and WPE ports. As a result of this we shipped features like threaded rendering, the DMA-BUF renderer, or proper vertical retrace synchronization (VSync). While these improvements have helped keep WebKit competitive, and…
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DJI – The ART of obfuscation
Study of an Android runtime (ART) hijacking mechanism for bytecode injection through a step-by-step analysis of the packer used to protect the DJI Pilot Android application.
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Tiny, tamper-proof ID tag can authenticate almost anything
A cryptographic tag developed at MIT uses terahertz waves to authenticate items by recognizing the unique pattern of microscopic metal particles that are mixed into the glue that sticks the tag to the item’s surface.
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Monitoring latency: Cloudflare Workers vs Fly vs Koyeb vs Railway vs Render
We benchmarked latency across 5 cloud providers from 6 global locations over 2 weeks. Cloudflare Workers averaged 182ms, Fly.io 61ms (warm), Railway 381ms, Koyeb 539ms, and Render 451ms. Full timing breakdowns included.
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Union, intersection, difference, and more are coming to JavaScript Sets
The JavaScript Set was introduced to the language in the ES2015 spec, but it has always seemed incomplete. That's about to change with the addition of functions like intersection, union and difference.
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Porting to GCC 14: C language issues
The GCC 14 release series differs from previous GCC releases in a number of ways . Some of these are a result of bug fixing, and some old behaviors have been intentionally changed to support new standards, or relaxed in standards-conforming ways to facilitate compilation or run-time performance.
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KYC. No, Thanks
KYC was sold as a way to stop criminals. In practice it excludes the unbanked, leaks personal data on dark web markets, and surveils everyone else.
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Tailwind CSS marketing and misinformation engine
The origins of Tailwind and how it is framed to solve the proposed issues of CSS
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Bevy 0.13: ECS-driven game engine built in Rust
Thanks to 198 contributors, 672 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous sponsors, we're happy to announce the Bevy 0.13 release on crates…
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Run Llama 2 uncensored locally
This post will give some example comparisons running Llama 2 uncensored model versus its censored model.
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Nebula is not the fastest mesh VPN, but neither are the others
(But neither are any of the others)
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The epidemic of fraudulent DMCA takedowns
There’s an enormous and largely invisible campaign to use fraudulent notices under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act to remove critical articles from the internet. We don’t know who is running…
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Ollama is now available on Windows in preview
Ollama is now available on Windows in preview, making it possible to pull, run and create large language models in a new native Windows experience. Ollama on Windows includes built-in GPU acceleration, access to the full model library, and serves the Ollama API including OpenAI compatibility.
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We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed
From the Zed Blog: Thorsten interviews co-founders Nathan, Max, Antonio about the vision and the technological choices behind Zed, how they went from Atom and Electron to Rust and GPUs with Zed.
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It’s Official, Apple Kills Web Apps in the EU
If you ship a Web App in the EU and will be impacted by this, please sign our open letter to Tim Cook. It is critical that we gather as much evidence as possible to prevent Apple from breaking Web Apps in the EU.
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Ledger: Stripe's system for tracking and validating money movement
Technical details on how Stripe built Ledger, a state-of-the-art money movement tracking system, including how teams at Stripe interact with the data quality metrics that underlie our payment processing network.
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GPU synchronization in Godot 4.3 is getting a major upgrade
Say goodbye to placing barriers, hello to the new acyclic graph
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The Emacsen family, the design of an Emacs and the importance of Lisp (2023)
00:00.000 Introduction 00:17.000 Why Lisp matters 01:26.640 Why Emacs Lisp was chosen 02:54.841 Other "Emacsen" 03:38.581 Why not Common Lisp? 06:39.120 Common Lisp is still not dead or is always dead 08:30.080 Lem is a nice Emacsen implementation 08:58.260 Why not just use GNU Emacs? 10:31.080 Why Lem 14:03.080…
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Erlang/OTP 27.0 Release Candidate 1
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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No one cares about open-source, until
If you follow privacy news, you have probably heard that Skiff, an end-to-end encrypted productivity suite, announced that it has been acquired by Notion. We could not resist chiming in since Skiff was compared with CryptPad in the past.
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German credit agency earns millions through unlawful customer manipulation
The comapny uses manipulative designs to prevent people from obtaining a free copy of their data in accordance with law