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The author finds business self-help books boring, but acknowledges that they contain valuable ideas. As such, they have developed a five-step process that uses AI and human-written summaries to efficiently understand the main points of a book. The process involves enlisting the help of a GPT, seeking out human-written summaries, reading the table of contents, […]
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Spain has called for an EU ban on end-to-end encrypted services from providers based within the bloc. The information was revealed in a leaked European Council survey about member countries’ views on encryption regulation. The survey shows a majority of the 20 member countries that responded favour some form of scanning of encrypted messages. Some, such as Denmark and […]
The modern workspace is full of distractions, with chat programs, email inboxes, and project management apps constantly throwing notifications our way. Inefficiencies caused by interruptions and multitasking can lead to stress, anxiety, and decreased productivity. To combat this, individuals need to regain control of their attention by implementing cultural and technological solutions to reduce notifications, […]
Io_uring, introduced in kernel 5.1, is a system for providing the kernel with a schedule of system calls and receiving the results as they’re generated. It combines asynchronous I/O, system call polybatching, and flexible buffer management, and is the most significant development in the Linux I/O model since Berkeley sockets. uring allows you to specify […]
Psychic is an open source integration platform designed for startups that use LLMs and vector databases. It allows you to extract and transform unstructured data from various SaaS applications into a consistent schema. Instead of building one integration for each data source, you can build one integration that works for all data sources, and manage […]
The MMS project has developed a single multilingual speech recognition model supporting over 1,100 languages, as well as language identification models able to identify over 4,000 languages and text-to-speech models for over 1,100 languages. These tools aim to make it easier for people to access information and use devices in their preferred language. The project […]
Memory allocation is the process by which programs allocate space to their various tasks. This post details the basics of memory allocation and how to write your own allocator. The article explains how programs request and return memory using the malloc and free functions. Memory is represented as a sequence of bytes, and the simplest […]
Despite bees having a dance, known as the waggle dance, to indicate where food is, a significant portion of bees in a hive do not follow it and venture out alone. The actions of these rogue bees were found to be essential to the longevity of the hive because they would stumble upon new food […]
LWN has finally swapped its proprietary accounting system, QuickBooks, for the free open-source accounting system, GnuCash. After five years of searching for a better system, they discovered that many of the available complex systems were “unwieldy”, and those based on plain-text files lacked “useful features”. Importing and exporting data was paramount in their choice of […]
Are you experiencing intermittent cable modem internet connectivity issues? The root cause of many issues could be bad/loose cable/connector issues, which is something you can solve yourself. The first step is to confirm that the cable modem is having a problem, and one way to do this is to use the cable modem diagnostics webpage. […]