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In his new book, “The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation,” author Cory Doctorow argues for the disruption of Big Tech and proposes interoperability as the solution to break down their dominance. Doctorow believes that these tech giants are kept in power not by their engineering prowess, but by legal structures. Interoperability, […]
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Summary: The authors of this web content discuss their observations while fine-tuning a large language model (LLM) on science exam questions. They found that the LLM was able to rapidly memorize examples from the dataset after seeing them just once, which contradicts prior wisdom about neural network sample efficiency. The authors conducted experiments to validate […]
Android’s evolution has seen a shift from openness and user control towards a vendor-controlled environment. The upcoming Android 14 release tightens restrictions on certificate authority (CA) certificates, making it impossible to modify trusted certificates on rooted devices. This poses challenges for developers and researchers interested in controlling their device’s trust. The change began with Android […]
The classic Amiga OS source-code is a beautiful and astonishing piece of computing history, with impressive capabilities considering the limited specs of the time. The author, a systems geek, developed a tool called SetCmd to explore and understand the AmigaOS. They discuss their development environment, SDK updates, editors, native hardware, modern development tools, and distribution […]
Researchers from the IOCB of the CAS, the Institute of Physics of the CAS, and Palacký University Olomouc have achieved a groundbreaking discovery using advanced scanning electron microscopy. They were able to image not only the inside of a molecule but also the structure of the electron shell of the atom. This experiment confirmed the […]
Incident with various services has occurred, including Actions, Pages, Pull Requests, Codespaces, API Requests, Issues, Webhooks, and Packages. Subscriptions for updates are available. Currently, Issues and API Requests are experiencing degraded performance and investigation is ongoing. Packages and Webhooks are also being investigated for degraded performance. It has been noted that a small percentage of […]
This article discusses the current state of SSHFS, a remote filesystem tool that allows users to mount a remote filesystem using SFTP. The original repo for SSHFS has been declared unmaintained, so the author and some friends have decided to fork it and give it some love. They are also considering porting it to the […]
In this content piece, the author discusses the distinction between amateurishness at craft and amateurishness at business. They explain that a technician can be a craft professional but an amateur business owner. The author argues that relying on billable hours puts downward pressure on earning potential and makes the freelancer compete solely on price. They […]
Watlings is a project aimed at learning the WebAssembly text format by fixing various small programs. The project is currently incomplete and in active development, so contributions are welcome in the form of filing issues and creating pull requests. To use the project, you need Node 16+ and NPM for compilation and testing. Simply clone […]
Puck is a self-hosted drag and drop editor specifically designed for React. It allows users to visually edit their existing React component library, making it convenient and efficient. Puck also integrates with third-party headless CMS platforms, providing the option to load content from these sources. It offers inline editing, allowing users to author content directly […]