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FlakeUI: A Novel Fractal-Based Graph User Interface

2025-03-03
FlakeUI: A Novel Fractal-Based Graph User Interface

FlakeUI revolutionizes content navigation with its fractal-structure inspired, parent-child orbiting, and zooming-elements based graph user interface. Imagine exploring your web content not as a simple list, but as a dynamic, explorable fractal universe. Users navigate this visually stunning interface using five intuitive gestures: drag to pan, rotate, zoom in, zoom out, and scroll to switch modes. Built with Javascript, FlakeUI is perfect for frequently visited websites such as curated link collections or searchable hierarchical catalogs. Content is managed via XHTML pages and XML configuration, supporting hyperlink navigation within nodes. Experience content browsing like never before!

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(github.com)
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Amazon's Drone Delivery Tests Stir Up Neighborhood Disputes

2025-03-03
Amazon's Drone Delivery Tests Stir Up Neighborhood Disputes

Amazon's drone delivery test program in College Station, Texas, sparked significant backlash from local residents due to excessive noise pollution. Initially, frequent drone flights severely disrupted residents' lives and even affected wildlife. Although Amazon claimed to have implemented noise reduction measures and complied with regulations, residents believed the company made a crucial mistake in locating its drone base near residential areas. Amazon eventually temporarily grounded its drones for a software update and plans to terminate its lease, offering a glimmer of hope to noise-weary residents. The incident raises questions about how tech companies balance commercial interests with public welfare when developing new technologies.

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(www.wired.com)
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Alibaba Unveils its First Server-Grade CPU, Boosting China's Chip Self-Sufficiency

2025-03-03
Alibaba Unveils its First Server-Grade CPU, Boosting China's Chip Self-Sufficiency

Alibaba's Damo Academy launched its first server-grade CPU, the C930, part of its XuanTie RISC-V processor series. Shipping to clients in March, the chip is a key step in China's efforts to enhance its semiconductor independence amidst US export controls. Targeting high-performance computing, Alibaba also plans further XuanTie chips for AI acceleration, automotive applications, and high-speed interconnection. This move aligns with China's increased investment in RISC-V, reducing reliance on foreign technology, and fostering military-civilian tech integration. It also complements Alibaba's planned 380 billion yuan investment in AI and cloud infrastructure over the next three years, supporting the burgeoning demand for AI applications in China.

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(www.hpcwire.com)
Tech Chip Self-Sufficiency

The Unexpected Boom in American High School Shop Classes

2025-03-03
The Unexpected Boom in American High School Shop Classes

US school districts are investing tens of millions of dollars to revamp and expand high school shop classes, focusing on hands-on work with wood, metal, and machinery. These programs emphasize practical skills, offering students access to lucrative, often overlooked, careers in a digital age. School officials believe this vocational training broadens career prospects for students, regardless of their college plans.

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(www.wsj.com)
Tech vocational education shop class revival manual skills

Stop Teaching Useless Math: Probability and Statistics Should Reign Supreme

2025-03-03
Stop Teaching Useless Math: Probability and Statistics Should Reign Supreme

This essay critiques the current high school math curriculum, arguing that the overemphasis on calculus and trigonometry—useless for most students—neglects the crucial importance of probability and statistics. Probability and statistics are widely applicable in daily life, empowering students to understand risk, detect misleading information, and make better decisions. The author proposes a curriculum reform prioritizing probability and statistics, integrating real-world applications like sports analytics, social media, and gaming strategies, to make math relevant and engaging.

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Ninjavis: Visualizing Ninja Build Logs

2025-03-03
Ninjavis: Visualizing Ninja Build Logs

Ninjavis parses Ninja build logs, extracting target, start, and end times for each build item. It outputs this data in a template with a simple timeline visualization powered by vis.js. Inspired by buildbloat, it helps analyze build performance. Remember to run `ninja -t recompact` beforehand to remove duplicate log entries. The tool offers a clean command-line interface for generating build profiles.

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(github.com)
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uBlock Origin Faces Manifest V3 Deprecation in Chrome

2025-03-03
uBlock Origin Faces Manifest V3 Deprecation in Chrome

Starting with Chrome 127, users of uBlock Origin (uBO) will see warnings due to the deprecation of Manifest V2 extensions. uBO, a Manifest V2 extension, lacks a Manifest V3 equivalent. A lightweight alternative, uBO Lite (uBOL), has been released, but with feature sacrifices for Manifest V3 compatibility. Users must decide whether to switch to uBOL or continue using uBO on browsers like Firefox. Discussions regarding extending Manifest V2 support in Chrome until June 2025 are ongoing.

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(github.com)
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Say Goodbye to ERB: Crafting Email Templates in Pure Ruby with Phlex

2025-03-03
Say Goodbye to ERB: Crafting Email Templates in Pure Ruby with Phlex

Tired of using ERB for email templates in Rails? This article demonstrates how to use Phlex, a Ruby library, to write HTML email templates in pure Ruby, eliminating the hassle and inefficiency of ERB. The author details the steps to migrate from ERB to Phlex, including creating Phlex views and layouts, and using roadie-rails for inline styles, ultimately achieving the elegant goal of a zero-ERB Rails application. The article also includes complete code examples and test cases to help readers get started quickly.

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(camillovisini.com)
Development Email Templates

TrapC: A Safer C Extension

2025-03-03
TrapC: A Safer C Extension

TrapC is a new extension of the C programming language designed to enhance memory safety. Removing keywords like `goto` and `union`, and adding `trap` and `alias`, TrapC incorporates C++ features such as constructors and destructors. It boasts automatic memory management, preventing leaks, and uses lifetime management for pointers instead of garbage collection. Despite its minimalist design—maintaining the same keyword count as C—it surprisingly offers significant C++ code compatibility. Presented at an ISO C meeting, TrapC aims to address memory safety concerns more comprehensively than other existing proposals.

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(www.infoworld.com)
Development Language Extension

Celery Compound Shows Promise in Preventing Gray Hair

2025-03-03
Celery Compound Shows Promise in Preventing Gray Hair

Researchers at Nagoya University have discovered that luteolin, a flavonoid found in celery, broccoli, and other plants, may effectively inhibit hair graying. Experiments on mice showed that both topical and oral administration of luteolin reduced the appearance of gray hair by improving the levels of endothelin and its receptors in hair follicles, thus enhancing melanocyte stem cell function. While human trials are needed to confirm safety and efficacy, this research offers a promising new avenue for preventing graying and may lead to topical agents or oral supplements.

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(www.asahi.com)
Tech gray hair luteolin

Permacomputing: A Decentralized, Anti-Capitalist Approach to Computing

2025-03-03

Permacomputing is a community and concept challenging the environmental and societal impacts of current computing. Inspired by permaculture, it aims for resilient and regenerative computer and network technologies. It's not a tech solution but an anti-capitalist political project incorporating anarchism, decoloniality, intersectional feminism, post-Marxism, degrowth, and ecologism. Permacomputing requires significant rethinking, rebuilding, and technical design, encouraging a collective and radical reimagining of computational culture. There's no single 'permacomputing kit'; instead, it's an invitation to build something new.

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(permacomputing.net)
Misc permacomputing anti-capitalist decentralized computing

MIT OpenCourseware: Generative AI with Stochastic Differential Equations

2025-03-03

MIT offers an open course on generative AI focusing on the mathematical framework underlying flow matching and diffusion models. Starting from first principles, the course covers ordinary and stochastic differential equations, conditional and marginal probability paths, and more. Students build a toy image diffusion model through three hands-on labs. Prerequisites include linear algebra, real analysis, basic probability, Python, and PyTorch experience. This course is ideal for those seeking a deep understanding of generative AI theory and practice.

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(diffusion.csail.mit.edu)
AI Diffusion Models Flow Matching

Wealth Concentration in the US: The Top 10% Control 87% of Stocks

2025-03-03
Wealth Concentration in the US: The Top 10% Control 87% of Stocks

New data reveals a staggering concentration of wealth in the US, with the top 10% owning 87% of stocks, 84% of private businesses, 44% of real estate, and two-thirds of total wealth. This concentration has been steadily increasing since 1989. Even more alarming, the top 10% now accounts for 50% of all consumer spending, up from 36% three decades ago, with their spending increasing by 12% between September 2023 and September 2024 while working- and middle-class spending declined. This extreme wealth concentration poses significant economic risks, making traditional economic indicators less reliable and highlighting the uncertainty of the future.

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(awealthofcommonsense.com)
Startup wealth inequality economic risk

Chrome's Monopoly: The Future of Web Browsers

2025-03-03

Google Chrome's dominance in the browser market raises concerns about its monopolistic power. This article traces the history of web browsers, from Mosaic to Chrome, highlighting the competition and evolution of the market. Chrome's Blink engine powers almost every major browser, including Edge and Opera, giving Google immense control over the web ecosystem. Initiatives like Manifest v3 and AMP, driven by Google, restrict browser extension capabilities, impacting user privacy and choice. The article encourages users to support non-Chromium browsers like Firefox to foster diversity and competition in the browser market and maintain the openness of the web.

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(vale.rocks)
Tech browser monopoly web openness

Agrivoltaics: A Win-Win Strategy Against Climate Change

2025-03-03
Agrivoltaics: A Win-Win Strategy Against Climate Change

A new study reveals that combining solar power generation with agriculture significantly boosts crop yields, conserves water, and generates low-carbon electricity for climate-vulnerable regions. This method, known as agrivoltaics, creates a microclimate by shading crops with solar panels, enabling plants like beans and maize to thrive with less irrigation. Agrivoltaics also provides clean energy for rural communities, addressing food insecurity, water scarcity, and energy poverty. The research found that partial shade reduces water evaporation, improving water use efficiency, and allows for rainwater harvesting to supplement irrigation.

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(www.sheffield.ac.uk)
Tech

Indie Animation Triumph: Flow, Made Entirely in Blender

2025-03-03
Indie Animation Triumph: Flow, Made Entirely in Blender

The animated feature film Flow, a mystical journey of a cat and his companions, is a testament to Blender's power. A small, independent team, using Blender's EEVEE real-time renderer, overcame budget limitations to create a critically acclaimed film, garnering over 60 awards and Oscar nominations. Director Gints Zilbalodis details their streamlined workflow, highlighting the importance of speed and adaptability. The team's ingenuity and collaborative spirit, along with Blender's capabilities, showcase the potential for indie filmmakers to achieve remarkable success.

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(www.blender.org)
Design Indie Film

CBOR vs. MessagePack: A Contentious Serialization Showdown

2025-03-03

The author grapples with choosing between MessagePack and CBOR for a shared programming language, prioritizing performance and ease of understanding. While MessagePack boasts a cooler, simpler interface, CBOR demonstrates significantly faster encoding/decoding speeds (approximately 200% faster in benchmarks). Despite CBOR's more complex documentation, its superior design ultimately wins out. The author chooses CBOR but acknowledges the political baggage influencing their decision.

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(taylor.town)
Development

Tangled: A Decentralized Git Collaboration Platform Built on AT Protocol

2025-03-03

Tangled is a new social-enabled Git collaboration platform built on the AT Protocol, aiming to give developers full ownership of their code, enable open-source communities to self-govern, and make coding social and fun again. Combining the strengths of ActivityPub's federated model and Radicle's P2P approach, it uses lightweight 'knots' servers to simplify Git repository hosting. Tangled offers free managed knots and a consolidated app view at tangled.sh for seamless access and collaboration across the network. Still in its infancy, the team is building with a focus on data ownership, low barrier to entry, and a great user experience. Currently invite-only.

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(blog.tangled.sh)
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Yoke: Infrastructure as Code, for Real

2025-03-03
Yoke: Infrastructure as Code, for Real

Tired of tools like Terraform only offering configuration, not code? Yoke lets you write infrastructure definitions in Go or Rust, compiles them to WebAssembly, and generates Kubernetes manifests. This avoids the security risks of runtime dependencies. Air Traffic Control, a Kubernetes operator, enables declarative infrastructure management, simplifying deployment. The author demonstrates how Yoke, using Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs), streamlines application deployment and explains its WebAssembly-based security sandbox.

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(xeiaso.net)
Development infrastructure as code

Rackmounting the Unrackmountable: A HiFi DIY Adventure

2025-03-03
Rackmounting the Unrackmountable: A HiFi DIY Adventure

This article chronicles the author's journey to build a custom 2U rack unit for their HiFi system, integrating a DAC, input selector, and streaming device. Using OpenSCAD for design and CNC turret punching for fabrication, they encountered challenges with curve precision in the DXF output, solved by using FreeCAD. Initial attempts with a HiFiBerry hat proved unreliable, leading to a switch to a Wiim Pro. The project highlights the joys and challenges of DIY, resulting in a functional and aesthetically pleasing unit. Code is available on Github.

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(calbryant.uk)
Hardware Rack Mounting

Building a High-Accuracy Aviation Speech Annotation System at Enhanced Radar

2025-03-03
Building a High-Accuracy Aviation Speech Annotation System at Enhanced Radar

Enhanced Radar built an in-house aviation speech annotation system, Yeager, to meet its need for high-accuracy data for AI model training. The system leverages incentive mechanisms (pay-per-character, penalties for errors), a user-friendly interface (keyboard shortcuts, audio waveforms, pre-fetching), and respect for annotators (explaining rules, referring to them as 'reviewers') to significantly improve annotation efficiency and accuracy. It also incorporates testing, dispute resolution, and contextual information to ensure data quality and standardization, ultimately achieving near-perfect annotation accuracy.

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(www.ericbutton.co)
AI AI data annotation

VectorChord-BM25: Supercharging PostgreSQL Full-Text Search

2025-03-03
VectorChord-BM25: Supercharging PostgreSQL Full-Text Search

VectorChord-BM25 is a new PostgreSQL extension leveraging the BM25 algorithm and Block WeakAnd algorithm to significantly improve the speed and accuracy of PostgreSQL's full-text search. It simplifies the search process and seamlessly integrates with PostgreSQL. Compared to ElasticSearch, VectorChord-BM25 achieves 3x higher Queries Per Second (QPS) on average for Top 1000 queries and comparable or even superior NDCG@10 scores, but requires careful alignment of tokenization strategies for fair benchmarking.

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(blog.vectorchord.ai)
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MALIBAL: Linux Hardware Manufacturer's Bizarre Business Practices and 'Zombiegate'

2025-03-03
MALIBAL: Linux Hardware Manufacturer's Bizarre Business Practices and 'Zombiegate'

A Linux hardware manufacturer, MALIBAL, is embroiled in controversy due to its aggressive customer communication and erratic business practices. The author recounts their experience with MALIBAL, detailing how the company insulted customers and partners, referring to them as "zombies." The article exposes MALIBAL's bizarre actions, such as banning entire countries and technologies (like Google and Apple products). Their collaboration with the Coreboot project also ended in acrimony, with mutual accusations and personal attacks. The article humorously reveals serious internal problems within the company, prompting questions about its business model and management.

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(thelibre.news)
Hardware Linux hardware business disputes

GOAT Robot: Shape-Shifting for Superior Terrain Navigation

2025-03-03
GOAT Robot: Shape-Shifting for Superior Terrain Navigation

Researchers at EPFL have developed GOAT, a bio-inspired robot capable of dynamically altering its shape to navigate diverse terrains. Unlike traditional robots relying on complex path planning and numerous sensors, GOAT efficiently traverses challenging environments (rough terrain, water) by morphing between a flat rover and a spherical shape. This shape-shifting, combined with compliant materials, minimizes energy consumption. For example, it can roll downhill passively to save energy, or swim through obstacles. Inspired by various animals, GOAT uses inexpensive materials. Future applications include environmental monitoring, disaster response, and even extraterrestrial exploration.

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(actu.epfl.ch)
Tech bio-inspired robot shape-shifting robotic locomotion

Chicago Parking Ticket Data Battle: Lessons from a FOIA Lawsuit

2025-03-03

This article recounts the author's experience battling the City of Chicago in a FOIA lawsuit over access to the schema of its parking ticket database (table and column names). Initially, the author requested the data using an SQL query, but the city refused, citing security concerns. Despite winning at trial, the Illinois Supreme Court overturned the decision, significantly broadening the ability of public agencies to deny FOIA requests. The case highlights the difficulties of government data transparency and the importance of data dictionaries in simplifying access. The author also notes Chicago's failed attempt at a data dictionary, "Metalicious," further complicating data access.

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(mchap.io)
Misc government lawsuit

Michael Larabel: 20 Years of Linux Hardware Benchmarking

2025-03-03

Michael Larabel, founder and principal author of Phoronix.com, has dedicated himself since 2004 to improving the Linux hardware experience. He's penned over 20,000 articles covering Linux hardware support, performance, graphics drivers, and more. Beyond writing, he's the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org – automated benchmarking software crucial to the Linux community.

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(www.phoronix.com)
Tech

Birds: A Celebration of Grace, Song, and Color

2025-03-03
Birds: A Celebration of Grace, Song, and Color

This article beautifully portrays the unique charm of four bird species: the barn swallow's breathtaking aerial acrobatics and speed; the mockingbird's confident and boisterous song, like a miniature concert; the cardinal's vibrant red color, a splash of brilliance against the muted winter landscape; and the hummingbird's seemingly comical yet fiercely aggressive territorial disputes. The author concludes with a reflection on the preciousness of birds, urging us to appreciate and observe these natural wonders, for their existence enriches the world.

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(moultano.wordpress.com)
Misc

150,000-Year-Old Evidence of Humans in African Rainforests Rewrites History

2025-03-03
150,000-Year-Old Evidence of Humans in African Rainforests Rewrites History

A groundbreaking study published in Nature pushes back the timeline of human habitation in African rainforests to an astonishing 150,000 years ago. Researchers used luminescence and electron spin resonance dating techniques on sediments containing Middle Stone Age tools found in Côte d'Ivoire. This discovery predates previous evidence by 80,000 years, challenging the long-held belief that rainforests acted as barriers to human expansion. The findings support the theory of human evolution across diverse habitats and provide a new understanding of early human adaptation and migration.

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(www.sheffield.ac.uk)
Tech Africa Rainforests

Solarpunk: A Hopeful Vision for a Sustainable Future

2025-03-03
Solarpunk: A Hopeful Vision for a Sustainable Future

Solarpunk is more than a sci-fi subgenre; it's a socio-cultural movement encompassing literature, art, fashion, and activism. Central to solarpunk is the vision and pursuit of a sustainable future deeply intertwined with nature and community. Rejecting dystopian narratives, it embraces renewable energy, DIY ethics, and counter-cultural elements of punk like rebellion and post-capitalism. In stark contrast to cyberpunk's depiction of technological alienation and social injustice, solarpunk offers a hopeful vision of technology harmoniously integrated with nature. From literature and art to architecture and lifestyle, solarpunk is shaping a new cultural paradigm.

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(en.wikipedia.org)
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