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Something's Rotten on the Internet: Tech Giants, Streaming Services, and the Erosion of User Experience

2024-12-22

Something's Rotten on the Internet: Tech Giants, Streaming Services, and the Erosion of User Experience

A blog post examines the current state of the internet, arguing that tech companies prioritize investor demands over user experience, manipulating user behavior through frustrating app designs, deliberately degraded search results, and pervasive ad tracking. Simultaneously, the Netflix streaming model is criticized for destroying the movie industry, its disregard for quality and manipulation of viewing data leading to a flood of low-quality content and inflated viewership numbers. The post concludes by highlighting widespread user dissatisfaction with the increasing cost and declining quality of online services, ultimately suggesting smartphones and social media in their current forms are fundamentally flawed and require significant improvement.

(www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com)

Tech internet streaming services

Swift's New Forked Framework Simplifies Shared Data Management

2024-12-17

Swift's New Forked Framework Simplifies Shared Data Management

Developer Drew McCormack launched Forked, a new Swift framework for simplifying shared data management across single and multiple devices. Inspired by Git's merge mechanism, Forked supports branching and merging within a single file, achieving eventual consistency. It doesn't require a complete change history, only enough versions for three-way merging. Forked uses structs instead of classes, supports Codable, and seamlessly integrates with cloud services like iCloud. It even tackles race conditions from concurrent access and supports custom merge logic or built-in CRDT algorithms. CloudKit sync is achieved with just a few lines of code.

(appdecentral.com)

Development Data Synchronization Distributed Systems

LLVM C Library Speeds Up GPUs: Running C Code on GPUs

2024-12-14

The LLVM project has released an exciting GPU C library enabling developers to run libc and libm functions directly on the GPU within C/C++ code. The library supports two main modes: as a supplementary library for offloading languages like OpenMP, CUDA, or HIP; and by directly compiling C/C++ code for the GPU. The article details how to use both modes, including compilation options, linking, and specific builds for AMD and NVIDIA GPUs. This library allows developers to leverage the parallel processing power of GPUs, significantly improving performance without needing deep knowledge of complex GPU programming models.

(libc.llvm.org)

Development GPU programming C library

SiYuan: A Privacy-First, Self-Hosted Personal Knowledge Management System

2024-12-26

SiYuan: A Privacy-First, Self-Hosted Personal Knowledge Management System

SiYuan is a privacy-first, self-hosted, fully open-source personal knowledge management software written in TypeScript and Go. It boasts features like fine-grained block-level referencing, Markdown WYSIWYG editing, custom attributes, SQL query embedding, web clipping, and PDF annotation link export. Available via app stores (App Store, Google Play, F-Droid) and Docker, SiYuan offers a powerful yet user-friendly experience. Most features are free for both personal and commercial use.

(github.com)

Development knowledge management

Svader: A Svelte Library for GPU-Rendered Components

2024-12-14

Svader: A Svelte Library for GPU-Rendered Components

Svader is a library for creating GPU-rendered Svelte components using WebGL and WebGPU fragment shaders. Developers can write programs in fragment shaders to customize pixel colors and control rendering effects through parameter passing. Supporting Svelte 4 and 5, it offers WebGL and WebGPU rendering modes with built-in parameters like resolution, scale, and time. Svader simplifies GPU rendering with easy-to-use components and provides fallback rendering in environments lacking WebGL or WebGPU support.

(github.com)

Development

The Graphics Codex: Your Ultimate Guide to Computer Graphics

2025-01-26

The Graphics Codex is an interactive learning resource for computer graphics, featuring 400+ cross-referenced equations and diagrams, 14 chapters on physically-based shading and rendering, and multi-platform programming projects with links to external API documentation. It serves as a reference, textbook supplement, or standalone learning guide, updated monthly. Topics range from ray tracing and shadow map shaders to the rendering equation and Fresnel equations, making it ideal for students and professionals alike.

(graphicscodex.com)

Development 3D rendering programming tutorial

Unraveling the Mystery of the Antikythera Mechanism: A 254:19 Cosmic Code

2024-12-15

Unraveling the Mystery of the Antikythera Mechanism: A 254:19 Cosmic Code

Discovered in the first century BCE, the Antikythera mechanism is a complex astronomical device capable of tracking the movements of the sun, moon, and planets. Its intricate gear system is astonishing. This article delves into a specific 254:19 gear ratio within the mechanism, revealing it's not arbitrary but a clever reflection of the sun and moon's movements over a 19-year Metonic cycle, demonstrating the remarkable understanding of astronomy possessed by ancient Greeks. The article corrects previous misunderstandings about the Saros and Metonic cycles and explains the mathematical principles behind this gear ratio, unveiling the profound insight of ancient Greeks into celestial mechanics.

(leancrew.com)

Tech Antikythera Mechanism Metonic Cycle Astronomy

Ledger Co-founder Kidnapped: Massive Investigation Underway in France

2025-01-23

Ledger Co-founder Kidnapped: Massive Investigation Underway in France

David Balland, a co-founder of the cryptocurrency wallet company Ledger, has been kidnapped, prompting a large-scale investigation by French authorities. The incident unfolded in the Cher department of France, involving a significant police deployment including helicopters and searches of multiple locations. The motive behind the kidnapping remains unclear, and whether a ransom is involved has not been publicly disclosed. This event highlights the security risks within the cryptocurrency industry.

(www.leberry.fr)

Tech kidnapping

EmacsConf 2024: A Smoothly Run Online Conference

2024-12-28

EmacsConf 2024 successfully concluded! This post, written by Sacha Chua, reflects on the conference's preparation, execution, and lessons learned. From the call for proposals to the final presentations, organizers cleverly used automation tools (Org mode, emacsconf-mail.el, Ansible, etc.) to boost efficiency and leveraged technologies like BigBlueButton and WhisperX for a smooth experience. While technical challenges (BBB server configuration, audio syncing) arose, they were effectively addressed. Sacha shares insights into time management, volunteer coordination, and future improvements, showcasing dedication to the open-source community.

(sachachua.com)

Development online conference

Schrödinger: The Biotech Firm Trying to Crack the AI Drug Discovery Code

2025-01-25

Schrödinger: The Biotech Firm Trying to Crack the AI Drug Discovery Code

Schrödinger, a biotech company using quantum mechanics to design new medicines and materials, boasts all top 20 pharmaceutical companies as clients. Despite this, five years post-IPO, its stock price languishes near all-time lows. This article explores Schrödinger's unique business model—part biotech, part software—and its struggles with valuation. A pivotal dinner between Nvidia's Jensen Huang and Schrödinger's CEO highlighted a crucial turning point: embracing AI more fully. While initially hesitant, Schrödinger now leverages AI's power, particularly AlphaFold's protein structure predictions, and is preparing for crucial clinical data releases in 2025. The company's future hinges on successfully navigating the complex interplay of software sales, biotech pipeline development, and clear investor communication.

(hntrbrk.com)

Tech Drug Discovery

SRCL: A Terminal-Aesthetic React Component Library

2025-01-20

SRCL: A Terminal-Aesthetic React Component Library

SRCL is an open-source React component and style repository that helps you build web applications, desktop applications, and static websites with terminal aesthetics. It boasts a comprehensive collection of components, including action bars, accordions, buttons, alert banners, avatars, badges, loaders, blog posts, breadcrumbs, cards, checkboxes, chessboards, code blocks, combo boxes, data tables, date pickers, dashboards, database examples, dropdown menus, empty states, input fields, forms, links, lists, messages, modals, navigation bars, popovers, progress bars, radio buttons, selects, sidebars, sliders, tables, text areas, tooltips, and tree views, all styled with a retro terminal look and feel.

(www.sacred.computer)

Development Component Library Terminal UI

Taming the Chaos: Centralizing and Structuring Error Handling in Go

2024-12-18

Taming the Chaos: Centralizing and Structuring Error Handling in Go

This article details the author's journey in tackling escalating error handling issues in a growing Go project. Initially, the simple approach to error handling devolved into chaos with confusing logs and untraceable errors. To solve this, a new error handling framework was designed and implemented. This framework employs a centralized, structured system using namespace codes to make errors meaningful and traceable. The core is a centralized declaration of error codes; each service layer returns only its own namespace codes, enriched with context information. The article thoroughly explains the design decisions, implementation, lessons learned, and migration strategy, offering valuable practical experience.

(olivernguyen.io)

Development Error Handling Software Architecture

LastPass Android App Privacy Report: Deep Dive into Trackers and Permissions

2025-01-04

LastPass Android App Privacy Report: Deep Dive into Trackers and Permissions

A privacy report on LastPass Android app version 4.11.18.6150 reveals 7 trackers and 36 permissions. Trackers include AppsFlyer, Google Analytics, etc., collecting user data. Permissions cover sensitive areas like location, network access, and storage access. The report highlights high-risk permissions, potentially impacting user privacy. Users should carefully evaluate the privacy implications.

(reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org)

Tech

GitHub Open Source Project: epub-tts Converts eBooks to Audio

2024-12-22

GitHub Open Source Project: epub-tts Converts eBooks to Audio

An open-source project on GitHub called epub-tts converts EPUB ebooks into audio files. Written in Go, it relies on ffmpeg and MacOS's `say` command to parse the EPUB into sections (chapters) and convert each section to an audio file. Currently an alpha release, it provides a simple alternative for when eyes are tired but the mind isn't. Future plans include code optimization, batch conversion, smaller audio file sizes, and support for more languages.

(github.com)

Development ebook audio conversion

Network Security Breakthrough: Trapping Intruders in a 'Network from Hell'

2024-12-17

Network Security Breakthrough: Trapping Intruders in a 'Network from Hell'

Researchers at the University of Oulu's SensorFu team have developed a novel network security defense system inspired by the LaBrea tarpit technique. The system intercepts ARP requests and delays SYN-ACK responses, creating a multitude of virtual devices on the network to confuse intruders. This forces attackers to waste significant time identifying real devices, providing administrators with crucial time to patch vulnerabilities. Tests showed the system extends scan times to hours, drastically reducing attack success rates. Lightweight, efficient, and easy to deploy, this system offers robust network protection for organizations of all sizes.

(medium.com)

Development intrusion detection proactive defense

Tech's Misuse of the Pareto Principle: 80% Effort, 20% Product?

2025-01-23

Tech's Misuse of the Pareto Principle: 80% Effort, 20% Product?

In game development, the concept of a 'vertical slice' emphasizes completeness, while the tech industry's prevalent 'Minimum Viable Product' (MVP) prioritizes rapid iteration. The author argues that overemphasis on the Pareto Principle (80% of results from 20% effort) leads to many tech products remaining rough MVPs, lacking final polish and leaving users dissatisfied. This isn't just seen in apps and software but also impacts AI, like self-driving cars and image generation; these are promising but far from practical. The author calls for a shift in mindset, valuing completeness and user experience over rapid iteration and funding.

(bobbylox.com)

Development Pareto Principle

Data Branching for Batch Job Systems: A Git-like Approach

2025-01-24

This blog post explores the application of Git-like branching strategies for managing data within batch job systems. The author proposes using the 'main' branch as the canonical production data version. Each job execution creates a new branch for processing and metadata recording; successful jobs merge back into 'main'. The post also covers branching strategies for test execution, experiments, and multi-step jobs, achieving efficient version control and experimental management, mirroring aspects of database transaction ACID properties.

(isaacjordan.me)

Development data version control batch jobs

No More Adam: Learning Rate Scaling at Initialization is All You Need

2024-12-18

Researchers introduce SGD-SaI, a novel optimizer improving stochastic gradient descent. SGD-SaI addresses training imbalances by scaling learning rates at initialization for different parameter groups based on their gradient signal-to-noise ratios. Significantly more memory-efficient than AdamW, SGD-SaI matches or surpasses AdamW's performance across various Transformer-based tasks, including ImageNet classification and LLM pretraining. Its robustness and practicality are demonstrated across diverse applications, making it a compelling alternative.

(arxiv.org)

AI

From New Grad to Meta Staff Engineer in 3 Years: Evan King's Success Story

2024-12-14

From New Grad to Meta Staff Engineer in 3 Years: Evan King's Success Story

Evan King shares his journey of rapidly advancing from a new graduate to a Staff Engineer at Meta in just three years. His six key principles for success include: prioritizing speed and efficiency to free up time for growth; broadening perspective to think strategically like a higher-level engineer; embracing uncertainty and sharing ideas freely; focusing on problem-solving over technical complexity; building goodwill and strong relationships; and maintaining a positive attitude. While acknowledging the role of luck and timing, Evan emphasizes the importance of cultivating sustainable habits that compound over time, focusing on core competencies and strategically utilizing the extra bandwidth created by efficiency.

(www.developing.dev)

Development career growth promotion software engineering

Getting LLMs to Generate Funny Memes: Surprisingly Hard

2025-01-06

Getting LLMs to Generate Funny Memes: Surprisingly Hard

A University of Waterloo intern attempted to build an app using LLMs and the Greptile API to generate memes that roast GitHub repositories. The process proved unexpectedly challenging. Directly prompting the LLM for roasts yielded generic results. The solution involved separating the task into code analysis (using Greptile to pinpoint specific issues) and roast generation (using the LLM to create targeted humor). Image generation proved difficult due to limitations in handling text, leading to the use of pre-built meme templates and node-canvas for text insertion. Despite the hurdles, the project culminated in reporoast.com, a website capable of generating custom code-roasting memes.

(www.greptile.com)

Development Meme Generation

The Death of Authenticity: How 'Authenticity' Became a Commodity

2025-01-20

The Death of Authenticity: How 'Authenticity' Became a Commodity

This essay traces the evolution of 'authenticity' in contemporary culture. From the early hipster obsession with independent, non-commodified goods to the current prevalence of marketing terms like 'handmade' and 'small-batch,' authenticity has shifted from a scarce commodity to a ubiquitous one. The author argues that the rise of the internet and social media has lowered the cost of information dissemination, leading to shared value replacing scarcity and ushering in a 'post-authenticity' era. Brands are no longer simply commodities but active participants in shaping culture, demanding a more nuanced approach to critique.

(subpixel.space)

Misc Post-Authenticity Branding

SimplexDocsPlaygroundRequest API: Code Execution Preview

2025-01-15

The SimplexDocsPlaygroundRequest API provides code execution and preview functionality. Users submit code to the server via this API, which executes the code and returns the results, along with a preview of the execution process. This is useful for developers debugging code, testing APIs, and rapidly prototyping. The API is currently loading; results will be available after code execution.

(www.simplex.sh)

Development Code Execution Preview

System Informer: Your System Resource Monitoring and Debugging Swiss Army Knife

2025-01-23

System Informer is a free, powerful, multi-purpose tool that helps you monitor system resources, debug software, and detect malware. It provides graphs and statistics for quickly identifying resource-hogging processes, searches for file handles and DLLs, displays detailed system activity overviews, and shows real-time disk and network usage. Furthermore, it allows you to create, edit, and control services, monitors GPU usage, provides detailed stack traces, and offers light and dark theme support. A must-have for system administrators and developers.

(systeminformer.com)

Development system monitoring software debugging malware detection

ImPlot3D: A High-Performance Immediate Mode 3D Plotting Library Based on Dear ImGui

2024-12-18

ImPlot3D: A High-Performance Immediate Mode 3D Plotting Library Based on Dear ImGui

ImPlot3D is an open-source library built on top of Dear ImGui, offering developers an easy-to-use, high-performance way to create 3D plots. Independent of ImPlot, ImPlot3D supports various 3D plot types, including line plots, scatter plots, surface plots, and mesh plots, with interactive rotation, panning, and zooming. Its intuitive API, similar to Dear ImGui and ImPlot, allows for quick integration and customization of markers, lines, surfaces, and mesh styles, with options for built-in or custom colormaps. A comprehensive demo application aids users in learning and utilizing its features.

(github.com)

Development 3D plotting

Google Fiber Launches Construction in Las Vegas

2025-01-22

Google Fiber Launches Construction in Las Vegas

Google Fiber has officially begun network construction in Las Vegas, starting on the west side of the city with expansion to other parts of Clark County in the coming months. This follows agreements reached in 2024 with the City of Las Vegas and Clark County. Google Fiber is committed to minimizing disruption during construction and plans to offer service in parts of the metro area later this year. Nevada residents and businesses will have access to Google Fiber's plans, boasting speeds up to 8 gigabits and prices unchanged since 2012.

(fiber.googleblog.com)

Tech Google Fiber Las Vegas Network Construction

Iron Age Society Centered on Women: Ancient Genomes Reveal a Matrilocal Past

2025-01-26

Iron Age Society Centered on Women: Ancient Genomes Reveal a Matrilocal Past

An international team, led by Trinity College Dublin, has unearthed a fascinating glimpse into Britain's Iron Age through ancient DNA. Analysis of over 50 genomes from a Dorset burial site revealed a society structured around female lineage. The study indicates that husbands joined their wives' communities, with land potentially inherited through the maternal line, a system called matrilocality. This pattern wasn't unique to Dorset; similar findings in other Iron Age cemeteries across Britain suggest a widespread phenomenon, challenging traditional views of gender roles and highlighting the significant social and political influence of women in this era. The research published in Nature adds compelling genetic evidence to archaeological observations.

(www.tcd.ie)

Tech Iron Age Ancient DNA Matrilocality

Minecraft Server Crafted in COBOL: A Retro Rewind

2024-12-26

Minecraft Server Crafted in COBOL: A Retro Rewind

CobolCraft is a Minecraft server audaciously built using the legacy COBOL programming language. Despite COBOL's limitations in low-level data manipulation, this project surprisingly supports features like infinite terrain generation, dynamic chunk loading, and multiplayer capabilities. It even handles Minecraft's data files, showcasing the unexpected potential of this often-overlooked language and challenging perceptions of its capabilities. This project serves as a testament to programming ingenuity and an interesting experiment in using unconventional tools.

(github.com)

Development Server Development

Mastodon Web App Requires JavaScript

2025-01-01

Eric Hellman's tilde.zone post reveals a long-term project update: using the Mastodon web application requires enabling JavaScript, or alternatively, using a native Mastodon app. This suggests work on improving the web client or user experience for Mastodon.

(tilde.zone)

Development Web App

Tig: A Text-Mode Interface for Git

2024-12-17

Tig is an ncurses-based text-mode interface for Git, primarily functioning as a Git repository browser. It also aids in staging changes for commit at the chunk level and acts as a pager for various Git command outputs. Installation instructions, release notes detailing new features and bug fixes, and resources like the homepage, manual, and Q&A section on Stack Overflow are readily available. Bug reports and feature requests can be submitted through the issue tracker or via email.

(jonas.github.io)

Development command-line interface version control

Meta Launches 'Edits' Video Editing App to Capitalize on CapCut's Absence

2025-01-20

Meta Launches 'Edits' Video Editing App to Capitalize on CapCut's Absence

Following the removal of ByteDance's CapCut video editing app from app stores, Meta announced its new video editing app, Edits, on Sunday. Instagram head Adam Mosseri revealed the app will launch on iOS next month, with Android to follow. Edits boasts a suite of creative tools, including inspiration and idea tracking tabs, and a high-quality camera, along with draft sharing capabilities. Meta's move is seen as capitalizing on the market gap left by CapCut's absence, mirroring previous strategic launches like Instagram Reels and Threads.

(techcrunch.com)

Development Video Editing

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