ChatGPT and the Enshittening of Knowledge
Daragh O Brien poses some thoughts on ChatGPT, AI Text Generation, and the Enshittening of Knowledge and what we can learn from Plato.
A beginner's guide to Git version control
Learn the basics of using Git, the most popular tool for tracking and managing code changes for your application development.
Review of Hetzner ARM64 servers and experience of WebP cloud services on them
TL;DR: Hetzner ARM64 performs very well, with the 4-core CAX21 (ARM64, 4 cores, 8GB RAM) machine only being 8% slower in WebP conversion speed compared to the 3-core CPX21 (AMD64, 3 cores, 4GB RAM), while the price difference between the two is 14% (8.40 USD/mo vs 9.76 USD/mo). Additionally, the CAX21 offers twice the…
ESA’s Juice lifts off on quest to discover secrets of Jupiter’s icy moons
ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) lifted off on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana at 14:14 CEST on 14 April. The successful launch marks the beginning of an ambitious voyage to uncover the secrets of the ocean worlds around giant planet Jupiter.
Open, rigorous and reproducible research: A practitioner’s handbook (2021)
Even though many scientists are expected to abide by the principles of open, rigorous and reproducible research, few scientists actually receive formal training in this. Indeed, there is no collection written by working scientists for working scientists about the principles of transparent, rigorous and reproducible…
Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)
Research into the connections between sexual activity and prostate cancer....
Julia 1.9
Highlights of the Julia 1.9 release.
Reasonable expectation of effectiveness for large dog lifespan extension
A historic milestone in developing the first drug for healthy lifespan extension in dogs
Godot for AA/AAA game development – What's missing?
Godot 4.0 is coming out soon. It includes major improvements all across the board in both features, performance and usability. Still, one of the biggest questions the community has is: How does it compare with mainstream commercial offerings?
Carving the scheduler out of our orchestrator
A deep dive into container scheduling and Flyd, our new orchestrator.
How does Linux start a process
Stack smashing: How Linux creates the stack and runs a program. Then mess with it.
IBM and NASA open-source largest geospatial AI foundation model on Hugging Face
IBM & open-source AI platform Hugging Face today announced that IBM's watsonx.ai geospatial foundation model – built from NASA's satellite data – will now be openly available on Hugging Face.
Things I wish I knew before moving 50K lines of code to React Server Components
Server Components run on the server instead of the client, giving you control over your bundle size and data fetching. Here’s everything we learned about them.
I’m an ER doctor. Here’s how I’m already using ChatGPT to help treat patients
There are many futuristic possibilities for how AI might transform healthcare. But it can help doctors do a better job in small, safe ways…
Air Accident Investigation Branch: film lights caused window damage on A321neo
The UK AAIB says high-powered film lights caused damaged to the windows of the Titan Airways A321neo G-OATW.
Structured logging with slog
The Go 1.21 standard library includes a new structured logging package, log/slog.
Wash trading gone wrong – how a $100M/day crypto exchange bankrupted itself
This is the story of BaseFEX - a crypto exchange that unintentionally bankrupted itself through wash trading.
Yandex open-sources its exabyte-scale big data platform
Hello, my name is Maxim Babenko, I’m the head of the distributed computing technologies department at Yandex. Today we’re pleased to…
Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2023
Explore Backblaze's Q3 2023 hard drive stats, revealing insights on 259,533 HDDs, failure rates, and data center performance for enhanced reliability.
Wordpress.com Now Supports ActivityPub
The fediverse has arrived at WordPress.com.
Google opens Falcon, a reliable low-latency hardware transport, to the ecosystem
Falcon enables an order-of-magnitude improvement over software-only transports. Today at the OCP Global Summit, Google is excited to open Falcon to the ecosystem through the Open Compute Project.
JavaScript import maps are now supported cross-browser
ES modules are a modern way to include and reuse JavaScript code in web applications. They are supported by modern browsers and provide several benefits over older, non-modular approaches to JavaScript development.
Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Agostini, Krausz, and L’Huillier
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 was awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter"
AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will
Just yesterday I commented on the ban to ChatGPT imposed in Italy by the Authority under the banner of preserving privacy and fighting potential misinformation.
Internet disrupted in Pakistan amid arrest of former PM Imran Khan
NetBlocks metrics confirm the disruption of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube on multiple internet providers in Pakistan on Tuesday 9 May 2023. Additionally, total internet shutdowns have been observed on mobile ...
GPT4 simulating a FTP server at ftp.disney.com
This is a conversation I had with Chat GPT trying to simulate an interaction with an non existing anonymous FTP server that would be made available for Disney fans
All code is technical debt
As adding more code to a product will slow down development, we should view all code as technical debt.
FreeBSD 14.0-Release
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE. This is the first release from the stable/14 branch.