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Git Autocorrect: Too Fast Even for F1 Drivers?

2025-01-19

Git Autocorrect: Too Fast Even for F1 Drivers?

Git's autocorrect feature, with its 0.1-second response time, has sparked debate. This article delves into its design and surprisingly fast speed. It's not the default behavior; instead, it's configurable via the `help.autocorrect` setting. Initially, a jokingly short wait time was set, later improved to allow user-defined delays or confirmation prompts. The author also analyzes Git's autocorrect algorithm and suggests improvements for better user experience.

(blog.gitbutler.com)

Development autocorrect

Canadian Crypto Payment Processor Cryptomus Allegedly Aids Russia in Sanctions Evasion

2025-01-22

Cryptomus, a Canadian-registered financial firm, has been identified as the payment processor for dozens of Russian cryptocurrency exchanges and websites offering cybercrime services to Russian-speaking customers. Investigations reveal Cryptomus's registered address is a virtual office shared with numerous other financial entities, raising concerns about large-scale money laundering and sanctions evasion. Researchers found Cryptomus processed transactions for at least 122 cybercrime services, including those selling stolen accounts, anonymity services, and attack infrastructure. These transactions ultimately linked to accounts in major Russian banks, currently sanctioned by the US and other Western nations. The actual operations of Cryptomus and the legitimacy of its registered address are highly questionable, highlighting the potential for cryptocurrency to facilitate sanctions evasion.

(krebsonsecurity.com)

Tech sanctions evasion money laundering

Apple and Google Hit with Antitrust Ruling in Australia, Facing Massive Compensation

2025-08-13

Apple and Google Hit with Antitrust Ruling in Australia, Facing Massive Compensation

An Australian federal court ruled against Apple and Google for anti-competitive conduct, a landmark decision with global implications. The court found both companies abused their market power, charging excessive commissions through their app stores, harming consumers and developers. Millions of Australian consumers and developers can now seek substantial compensation, potentially reaching hundreds of millions of dollars. This ruling is likely to spur regulatory reforms in Australia and globally to promote fair competition and innovation, ultimately leading to lower app prices.

(www.abc.net.au)

Tech

Blazing Fast In-Process Event Dispatcher for Go

2025-06-30

Blazing Fast In-Process Event Dispatcher for Go

This Go package delivers a high-performance, in-process event dispatcher ideal for decoupling modules and enabling asynchronous event handling. Boasting speeds 4-10x faster than channels (processing millions of events per second!), it supports both synchronous and asynchronous operations with a focus on simplicity. Perfect for intra-process module decoupling, lightweight pub/sub, and high-throughput scenarios, but not suitable for inter-process communication, event persistence, or advanced routing.

(github.com)

Development Event Dispatcher

Argentina's Milei Shuts Down Museums Honoring Victims of Military Dictatorship

2025-01-16

Argentina's Milei Shuts Down Museums Honoring Victims of Military Dictatorship

Argentine President Javier Milei's government has sparked outrage by shutting down dozens of museums commemorating victims of the country's brutal 1970s-80s military dictatorship. These museums documented the torture, disappearance, and murder of tens of thousands of workers and youth. The closures are seen as an attempt to erase this dark chapter of history and have drawn international condemnation. Protests, demanding “Memory, Truth, and Justice,” have erupted across the country, highlighting the deep-seated anger and fear of a potential repeat of past atrocities.

(www.wsws.org)

Misc Argentina Military Dictatorship Human Rights

SemiWiki Forum: Hot Topics in Chip Manufacturing

2025-02-23

SemiWiki Forum: Hot Topics in Chip Manufacturing

The SemiWiki forum has seen lively discussions recently, covering several key issues in the chip manufacturing industry. For example, Intel's ex-executive Raja Koduri's insights into chip production, Apple's move towards custom modem chip development, and the intensifying competition between China and the US in chip manufacturing have all garnered significant attention and in-depth discussions. These conversations not only reflect industry trends but also highlight the impact of technological innovation and geopolitical factors on the chip industry.

(semiwiki.com)

Tech

So You Want to Write Java in Neovim?

2024-12-28

This post details how to efficiently develop Java code within the Neovim editor. The author shares their positive experience using Neovim for Java at work, recommending JDTLS as the LSP server and either nvim-java or nvim-jdtls as Neovim plugins. The article thoroughly explains JDTLS configuration, including debugging and testing setups, and provides a personal configuration example featuring codelens and debugger functionality. Even if you're not a Neovim devotee, you can still learn valuable Java development techniques.

(ptrtojoel.dev)

Development Java Development

Improved Atkinson Dithering: Arbitrary Palettes and Linearization

2025-03-13

Improved Atkinson Dithering: Arbitrary Palettes and Linearization

This post details an improved Atkinson dithering algorithm that supports arbitrary color palettes and correct linearization. Unlike previous algorithms limited to black and white palettes, this one directly handles color images, selecting the closest color by computing the Euclidean distance between the pixel and each color in the palette. Furthermore, it incorporates linearization to address overly bright outputs caused by the non-linearity of the sRGB color space, and considers human perception of different color brightnesses. The post also provides links to relevant resources, including implementations and online tools.

(obrhubr.org)

Development dithering algorithm

Open-Source Benchmark for LLM OCR and Data Extraction

2025-04-01

Open-Source Benchmark for LLM OCR and Data Extraction

Omni, an open-source benchmarking tool, compares the OCR and data extraction capabilities of various large multimodal models like gpt-4o, evaluating both text and JSON extraction accuracy. This benchmark provides a comprehensive evaluation of OCR accuracy across traditional OCR providers and LLMs. The dataset and methodologies are open-source, encouraging contributions and expansion. The benchmark focuses on JSON extraction, measuring the accuracy of the entire pipeline: Document ⇒ OCR ⇒ Extraction. It uses a modified json-diff for JSON accuracy and Levenshtein distance for text similarity. The tool supports various models, including OpenAI, Google Gemini, and Anthropic, with a simple command-line interface and JSON output.

(github.com)

Development

Doctor Droid: AI-Powered Incident Response for Engineering Teams

2025-02-14

Doctor Droid: AI-Powered Incident Response for Engineering Teams

Doctor Droid is building a smart assistant to help engineering teams quickly resolve production incidents. This open-source platform, used globally, aims to reduce downtime and boost developer productivity. Their vision is to empower any team member to debug common production issues without needing senior engineers. Backed by Accel and a Y Combinator W23 graduate, Doctor Droid is looking for passionate developers to join their team.

(www.ycombinator.com)

Development Incident Response

Solar-Powered Backpacks Light Up the Future for African Children

2025-01-23

Solar-Powered Backpacks Light Up the Future for African Children

Innocent James, founder of Tanzanian startup Soma Bags, experienced firsthand the struggles of reading after dark due to lack of electricity in rural Tanzania. His solution? Solar-powered backpacks made from recycled cement bags. These innovative backpacks charge a built-in reading light while children walk to and from school, providing 6-8 hours of illumination – a cheaper and cleaner alternative to kerosene lamps. Soma Bags has sold 36,000 backpacks and is supported by the UNDP, demonstrating a sustainable and impactful solution to energy poverty and improving access to education for children in rural Africa.

(edition.cnn.com)

Startup African entrepreneurship

Serverless DNS Resolver: serverless-dns Takes Flight

2025-05-03

Serverless DNS Resolver: serverless-dns Takes Flight

serverless-dns is a Pi-Hole-esque serverless stub DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) and DNS-over-TLS (DoT) resolver. It runs on Cloudflare Workers, Deno Deploy, Fastly Compute@Edge, and Fly.io, leveraging free tiers for low-traffic use cases. Boasting sub-millisecond response times, it efficiently manages ~13M entries from 190+ blocklists using a succinct radix trie. The open-source project allows for custom configurations, log uploading, and offers a lightweight, high-performance DNS solution.

(github.com)

Development DNS resolver content blocking

Groundbreaking Study: Myocardial Infarction May Be Infectious

2025-09-14

Groundbreaking Study: Myocardial Infarction May Be Infectious

A groundbreaking study from Finland and the UK reveals that myocardial infarction (heart attack) may be an infectious disease. Researchers discovered that bacterial biofilms within atherosclerotic plaques can be activated by viral infections or other triggers, leading to inflammation, plaque rupture, and ultimately, a heart attack. This challenges the conventional understanding of heart attack pathogenesis and opens doors for new treatments, diagnostics, and even vaccines. The study found bacterial DNA in plaques and developed antibodies confirming bacterial involvement. The findings offer novel diagnostic and therapeutic strategies and the potential for preventing heart attacks through vaccination.

(www.sciencedaily.com)

Tech Myocardial Infarction Infectious Disease Atherosclerosis

OmniHuman-1: Rethinking the Scaling-Up of One-Stage Conditioned Human Animation Models

2025-02-04

OmniHuman-1 is an AI model capable of generating realistic human videos. It supports various visual and audio styles, generating videos at any aspect ratio and body proportion (portrait, half-body, full-body). Realism stems from comprehensive motion, lighting, and texture detail. The model handles diverse inputs, including singing, talking, and various poses, even from cartoons or challenging viewpoints. It leverages audio and video driving signals for precise control. Ethical considerations are addressed, with images and audio sourced from public domains or generated models.

(omnihuman-lab.github.io)

AI video generation human animation

Music and Geometry: A Geometric Interpretation of Intervals and Scales

2024-12-19

Music and Geometry: A Geometric Interpretation of Intervals and Scales

This article explores the fascinating connection between music and geometry, specifically how intervals and scales are represented in geometric shapes. Using the relationships of intervals in twelve-tone equal temperament, the author constructs various geometric figures such as lines, triangles, squares, hexagons, dodecagons, and dodecagrams. These visuals illustrate the relationships between different intervals. The article also delves into just intonation, Greek modes, and symmetrical scales, offering a unique perspective on music theory through geometric visualization.

(roelsworld.eu)

Misc music geometry intervals scales

An Epitome of Electricity & Galvanism: A Journey Through Time

2024-12-22

An Epitome of Electricity & Galvanism: A Journey Through Time

This book chronicles the history of electricity and galvanism, starting from Thales's ancient observation of amber attracting light objects and progressing through key discoveries. It details the work of Gilbert, who systematically studied electrical phenomena; Grey, who differentiated conductors and non-conductors; and Du Fay, who discovered positive and negative electricity. The culmination is Franklin's proof of the identity of electricity and lightning. The text thoroughly describes various experiments and apparatus, including the Leyden jar, electrostatic generators, and lightning rods, while exploring different eras' electrical theories, offering a captivating journey through the science's evolution.

(gutenberg.org)

Tech History of Electricity Galvanism Franklin

connmap: Visualize Your Network Connections on a World Map

2025-07-21

connmap: Visualize Your Network Connections on a World Map

connmap is an X11 desktop widget that displays the geographic location of your current network peers on a world map. It works on Wayland too! Installation is straightforward: clone the repo, install dependencies (listed in the README), and run the executable. Customize map size, position, and update interval. Currently supports only IPv4 and is primarily tested with i3wm.

(github.com)

Development desktop widget network visualization

Netherlands Parliament Votes to Curb Reliance on US Tech Firms

2025-03-18

Netherlands Parliament Votes to Curb Reliance on US Tech Firms

The Dutch parliament passed motions urging the government to reduce dependence on US software companies, aiming to create a domestically controlled cloud platform. This follows concerns about changing US-Netherlands relations and anxieties over US tech giants' control of data. The motions also call for a reassessment of Amazon Web Services' role and preferential treatment for European firms in public tenders. While viable European alternatives remain scarce, this marks a crucial first step towards reducing reliance on US tech, prompting greater transparency regarding risks associated with using US cloud services.

(www.yahoo.com)

Tech tech security

AI Datacenter Capex: A Hidden Economic Prop?

2025-07-19

AI Datacenter Capex: A Hidden Economic Prop?

This article explores the massive impact of AI datacenter capital expenditure on the US economy. The author argues that AI datacenter capex could reach 2% of US GDP in 2025, fueled by internal cash flows, debt issuance, equity offerings, and more. While this investment masks underlying economic weaknesses, preventing a deeper recession, it also leads to capital reallocation, starving other sectors of investment and triggering mass layoffs. The author warns of unforeseen consequences from this massive investment in rapidly depreciating technology.

(paulkedrosky.com)

Tech

Meta's Sneaky Tracking: Bypassing Sandboxes to Identify Users

2025-06-10

Meta's Sneaky Tracking: Bypassing Sandboxes to Identify Users

Meta has been exposed for using a system called "localhost tracking" to bypass Android's sandbox protections and track users' mobile browsing behavior, even with VPNs, incognito mode, and deleted cookies. The system works by exchanging information between the background-running Facebook or Instagram app and Meta Pixel scripts in the browser, linking browsing data to Facebook or Instagram accounts. This violates GDPR, DSA, and DMA regulations, potentially leading to a €32 billion fine for Meta.

(www.zeropartydata.es)

Tech

Measuring Decentralization in the Fediverse and Atmosphere

2025-08-31

This website uses the Herfindahl–Hirschman Index (HHI) to measure the concentration of user data on decentralized social networks like the Fediverse and Atmosphere. An HHI close to zero indicates high competition, while a value near 10000 signifies a highly concentrated monopoly. The site currently calculates HHI by analyzing the distribution of active users across servers (Fediverse) or data repositories (Atmosphere), aggregating servers controlled by the same entity. Beyond data location, the site highlights other crucial aspects of decentralization, including network structure, identity management, infrastructure, legal jurisdictions, and the distribution of social power. Code and data are available on GitHub.

(arewedecentralizedyet.online)

Tech data concentration Herfindahl-Hirschman Index

MIT Researchers Discover the Tipping Point of Pedestrian Flow

2025-03-24

MIT Researchers Discover the Tipping Point of Pedestrian Flow

MIT researchers have discovered a critical parameter determining the transition from ordered to disordered pedestrian flow: "angular spread." When pedestrians deviate from straight paths by more than 13 degrees, the crowd flow becomes chaotic and inefficient. This research, combining mathematical modeling and experiments, offers valuable insights for public space design, promoting safer and more efficient pedestrian traffic. The findings, validated through experiments tracking volunteers navigating a simulated crosswalk, provide a quantifiable metric for predicting lane formation and potential congestion.

(news.mit.edu)

Tech pedestrian dynamics crowd flow public space design

Ruby 3.4: Faster Connections, Cleaner Backtraces, and More Concise Code

2025-01-01

Ruby 3.4 is here! Chris Sinjakli highlights three key improvements: a default block parameter name `it` for cleaner code; implementation of RFC8305 (Happy Eyeballs Version 2) for significantly improved TCP socket connection handling, especially in dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) networks; and clearer exception backtraces for easier debugging. These enhancements boost developer productivity and underscore the Ruby team's commitment to developer experience.

(blog.sinjakli.co.uk)

Development

Trump's Attempted Firing of Fed Governor Tests US Rule of Law

2025-08-26

Trump's Attempted Firing of Fed Governor Tests US Rule of Law

Donald Trump claims to have fired Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, alleging mortgage fraud before her Fed tenure. However, evidence supporting this claim is weak and irrelevant to her Fed duties. The move is widely seen as an attempt by Trump to exert control over the Fed, replacing independent officials with loyalists, severely threatening the rule of law and the independence of the central bank. Cook's refusal to resign puts Fed Chair Jerome Powell at a crossroads: uphold the rule of law or succumb to power? The outcome will determine whether the US remains a nation governed by law.

(paulkrugman.substack.com)

Tech Rule of Law

Cambridge University Uses Tech to Unfold a Fragile 16th-Century Manuscript

2025-03-31

Cambridge University Uses Tech to Unfold a Fragile 16th-Century Manuscript

A team at Cambridge University Library faced a challenge: a fragile, folded 16th-century manuscript fragment. Instead of risking damage through traditional methods, they used cutting-edge technology. Multispectral imaging, computed tomography (CT) scanning, and 3D modeling allowed for virtual unfolding and digitization. This preserved the historical artifact and revealed 16th-century archival binding techniques, showcasing a groundbreaking approach in digital humanities.

(www.cam.ac.uk)

Tech artifact preservation technological archaeology

Genius and Rebellion: The Rise and Fall of Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory

2024-12-24

Genius and Rebellion: The Rise and Fall of Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory

William Shockley, a brilliant but irascible physicist, is renowned for his invention of the transistor. His Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory brought together many of Silicon Valley's early luminaries. However, Shockley's arrogance and poor management style led to the departure of the "traitorous eight," who founded Fairchild Semiconductor, marking the beginning of a Silicon Valley legend. While Shockley Semiconductor was eventually acquired, its historical significance remains undeniable; it not only nurtured transistor technology but also gave birth to the flourishing modern semiconductor industry.

(www.abortretry.fail)

Tech transistor Silicon Valley Shockley

Standard Patterns in Choice-Based Games

2025-01-13

Standard Patterns in Choice-Based Games

This article explores common narrative structure patterns in choice-based games, including 'Time Cave', 'Gauntlet', 'Branch and Bottleneck', 'Quest', 'Open Map', 'Sorting Hat', 'Floating Modules', and 'Loop and Grow'. Each pattern has unique characteristics and applications; for instance, 'Time Cave' suits freeform adventures, 'Gauntlet' linear narratives, and 'Branch and Bottleneck' showcases character growth. The author analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of each, providing examples, offering valuable insights for game designers.

(heterogenoustasks.wordpress.com)

Game narrative structure interactive narrative

DeepSeek-V3: A 671B-Parameter Open-Source Mixture-of-Experts Language Model

2024-12-26

DeepSeek-V3: A 671B-Parameter Open-Source Mixture-of-Experts Language Model

DeepSeek-V3 is a powerful 671-billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model activating 37 billion parameters per token. Utilizing Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA) and the DeepSeekMoE architecture, it innovatively employs an auxiliary-loss-free load balancing strategy and a multi-token prediction training objective. Pre-trained on 14.8 trillion high-quality tokens, followed by supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning, DeepSeek-V3 outperforms other open-source models and achieves performance comparable to leading closed-source models with remarkable training efficiency—only 2.788M H800 GPU hours.

(github.com)

AI

Unlocking the RAK5010's BG95-M3 USB Serial Ports

2025-02-22

Unlocking the RAK5010's BG95-M3 USB Serial Ports

This post details accessing the three serial ports on the Quectel BG95-M3 module embedded in the RAK5010 development board. The author, after consulting the schematic, identified and resoldered four resistors to redirect the USB data lines from the nRF52840 to the BG95-M3. Despite a minor mishap involving a lost resistor, the modification was successful, allowing direct USB communication with the modem and access to its three serial ports.

(danielmangum.com)

Hardware

Apple Accuses Meta of Unreasonable Interoperability Requests Under EU's DMA

2024-12-19

Apple Accuses Meta of Unreasonable Interoperability Requests Under EU's DMA

Apple has accused Meta of making 15 interoperability requests under the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA), more than any other company. Apple claims Meta's requests, which could compromise user security and privacy, seek access to extensive user data including messages, emails, call logs, app usage, photos, files, calendar events, and passwords. Apple argues these requests are unreasonable, emphasizing the importance of iOS and iPadOS integrity and the potential infeasibility of creating effective interoperability solutions. The European Commission is consulting on the matter and may adjust measures based on feedback.

(www.macrumors.com)

Tech Digital Markets Act

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