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Could you train a ChatGPT-beating model for $85k and run it in a browser?
I think it’s now possible to train a large language model with similar functionality to GPT-3 for $85,000. And I think we might soon be able to run the resulting …
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Windows 11 system components use the default browser to open links in Europe
Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23531 to the Dev Channel. Changes and Improvements [General] [REMINDER] Insider Pr
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Bringing garbage collected programming languages efficiently to WebAssembly
A recent article on WebAssembly Garbage Collection (WasmGC) explains at a high level how the Garbage Collection (GC) proposal aims to better support GC languages in Wasm, which is very important given their popularity. In this article, we will get into the technical details of how GC languages such as Java, Kotlin…
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Style your RSS feed
How to make your RSS feed look nice and provide useful information at the same time.
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Firefox 118
Automated translation of web content is now available to Firefox users! Unlike cloud-based alternatives, translation is done locally in Firefox, so that the text being translated does not leave your machine. Many thanks to the various partners of the EU R&D Bergamot project.
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Brute-forcing a macOS user’s real name from a browser using mDNS
Exploring potential privacy vulnerabilities in Apple devices. This article discusses revealing a user's first name without permissions using the mDNS protocol.
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A visual book recommender
Recreating the used bookstore experience via contrastive learning, t-SNE, and 100M book reviews.
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PeerTube v6
It's #givingtuesday, so we're giving you PeerTube v6 today! PeerTube is the software we develop for creators, media, institutions, educators... to manage their own video platform, as an alternative to YouTube and Twitch. 🦆 VS 😈: Let's take back some ground from the tech giants! Thanks to your donations to our…
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Svelte 4
Updated performance, developer experience, and site
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The IAB loves tracking users but hates users tracking them
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) is a standards development group for the advertising industry. Their members love tracking users. They want to know where you are, who you're with, what you're buying, and what you think. All so they can convince you to spend slightly more on toothpaste. Or change your…
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Reclaiming the web with a personal reader
There’s a kind of zen flow that programmers unblock when they experience their software daily as an end user. There’s no better catalyst for ideas and experimentation, no better prioritization driver than having to face the bugs, annoyances, and limitations of an application first-hand.
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JPEG XL: How it started, how it’s going
Significance of Apple's support for JPEG XL and what this means for the widespread adoption of this next-generation image compression format.
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Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Don't use custom CSS scrollbars
While a custom CSS scrollbar may seem flashy and fun, consider that it may present a significant, unnecessary barrier to access.
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An experimental Android WebView Media Integrity API early next year
We’re piloting an experimental Android WebView Media Integrity API with select embedded media providers early next year.
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A page with no code
View Source shows nothing, but the page has content. The Page With No Code is the kind of puzzle that makes web developers unhappy.
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Website search hurts my feelings
Searching and displaying results isn't hard, why do so many websites suck at it?
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Thoughts on Svelte
Assorted thoughts about Svelte after a month of use.
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No new iPhone? No secure iOS: Looking at an unfixed iOS vulnerability
A look at the messy reality of iOS vulnerabilities: which bugs get patched, which quietly linger, and the challenges of tracking real device risk over time.
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The worst API ever made (2014)
A call-by-call look at context switch logging with the Event Tracing for Windows API.
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Phoenix 1.7.0
Phoenix 1.7.0 is here! This releases includes major new features, component-based generators, updated conventions, LiveView Streams, and more!