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Quad9’s Opinion of the Recent Court Ruling in Leipzig
A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy
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Beautiful Documents with Groff (Part I)
Of course, I’ve used Word here and there when I didn’t have a choice, but not since MultiMate —and before that, WordStar —have I intentionally sat down with full possession of my faculties and opened up a word processor in order to write something I care about.
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Advocating for Open Models in AI Oversight: Stability AI's Letter to U.S. Senate
Stability AI emphasizes the importance of open models in a letter coinciding with the United States Senate hearing on AI oversight. Openness and transparency will improve safety, foster competition, and ensure strategic leadership in critical AI capabilities. Discover how open models can democratize
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Bitwise Binary Search: Elegant and Fast
I recently read the article Beautiful Branchless Binary Search by Malte Skarupke. In it they discuss the merits of the following snippet of C++ code implementing a binary search :
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Big Tech Resumed Hiring Foreign Workers Just Weeks After Layoffs
New disclosures released yesterday show Google, Amazon, Facebook, and other firms requesting foreign worker H-1B visas this year.
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John Conway's FRACTRAN, a ridiculous, yet surprisingly deep language (2020)
On April 8, 2020, John Horton Conway developed symptoms of COVID-19. On April 11, 2020, he succumbed to the disease. 1 2 3 4
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Updating our inactive account policies
Starting later this year, we are updating our inactivity policy for Google Accounts to 2 years across our products.
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Bun 0.6
A new JavaScript bundler, standalone executables, and lots of new features and improvements
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SQLite 3.42.0
A complete list of SQLite releases in a single page and a chronology are both also available. A detailed history of every check-in is available at SQLite version control site .
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Erlang/OTP 26 Highlights
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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Goodbye, section 2.8 and hello to Cloudflare’s new terms of service
We’re excited to announce new updates that will modernize our terms of service and hopefully cut down on customer confusion and frustration.
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Re-Victimization from Police-Auctioned Cell Phones
Countless smartphones seized in arrests and searches by police forces across the United States are being auctioned online without first having the data on them erased, a practice that can lead to crime victims being re-victimized, a new study found. In response, the largest online marketplace for items seized in U.S…
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Apple previews Live Speech, Personal Voice, and more new accessibility features
Apple today previewed software features for cognitive, vision, hearing, and mobility accessibility, along with innovative tools for individuals who are nonspeaking or at risk of losing their ability to speak.
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Why are there no antitrust claims vs. GitHub Copilot, when there is a precedent?
Microsoft GitHub released CoPilot last year, a tool for generating code and auto-completion, that’s been trained on vast amount of open source code, notably all open source code hosted on Git…
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Seaflooding
The Surprising Solution to Mitigate Climate Change, Create More Life, and Grow the Economy
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Early Computer Art in the 50s and 60s
A deep dive on the early days of creative computing coming to life. Punch cards, plotters, light pens and lots more.
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Case study: fake hardware cryptowallet
Fake hardware cryptowallet, and how bitcoins were stolen from it.
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Translating Akkadian clay tablets with ChatGPT?
Alles wat Jan bezighoudt, interesseert en irriteert... en ook een beetje onzin...
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Taxonomy of Procrastination
There’s a little accountant named Jim that lives in my head
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Kafka vs. Redpanda performance – do the claims add up?
Apache Kafka has been the most popular open source event streaming system for many years and it continues to grow in popularity. Within the wider ecosystem there are other open source and source available competitors to Kafka such as Apache Pulsar, NATS Streaming, Redis Streams, RabbitMQ and more re
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Kids who get smartphones earlier become adults with worse mental health
New global study from Sapien Labs finds consistent links, stronger for girls
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Which kinds of GPT startups will thrive?
How to separate the wheat from the chaff when GPT-powered startups are popping up everywhere
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Deadlines as Technology
Confession: I’ve never felt like a very productive person. During the mobile app explosion, circa ~2009, I remember trying all kinds of different…
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Uncensored Models
I am publishing this because many people are asking me how I did it, so I will explain. When I talk about a model, I'm talking about a huggingface…
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Google I/O and the Coming AI Battles
Google A/I suggests that AI is a sustaining innovation for all of Big Tech; that means the real battle will be between incumbents and Big Tech on one side, and open source on the other.
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The Maddest My Code Made Anyone
I was lucky enough to grow up through the early 2000’s, during the golden age of Half-Life mods. Industry classics like Counter-Strike (CS) had just been invented, every month brought new mods to try, and files were too big to download on a dial-up connection so you’d leech them off a server at a big local LAN party…
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Hippo Meat Nearly Became an American Food Staple
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