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Firejail is a SUID program designed to enhance security by limiting the environment in which untrusted applications run on Linux. It isolates processes and their descendants, providing them with their own private view of kernel resources. The software is written in C with minimal dependencies and can be run on any Linux computer with a […]
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TigerBeetle is a distributed financial transactions database that prioritizes mission critical safety. The team behind TigerBeetle has developed a deterministic simulator called the Viewstamped Operation Replicator (VOPR) that combines fuzzing with simulated time dilation and reproducible failures to test complex distributed systems bugs. The VOPR allows for fault control and verification of linearizability. The team […]
PhotoPrism is an AI-powered photos app designed for the decentralized web. It offers a user- and privacy-friendly solution for organizing and accessing pictures, with features like automatic tagging, powerful search filters, facial recognition, and more. The app runs on various platforms, including home servers and the cloud, and provides a native app-like experience. Interestingly, it […]
We’re thrilled to introduce Keras Core, a preview version of the upcoming Keras 3.0 library. Keras Core is a complete rewrite of the Keras codebase, built on a modular backend architecture. It allows you to run Keras workflows on various frameworks, including TensorFlow, JAX, and PyTorch. With near-full backwards compatibility with tf.keras code, you can […]
INP, or Input Timing, is a metric that measures the responsiveness of a web page to user interactions. It focuses on the time between when a user initiates an interaction and when the next frame is presented with visual feedback. Good responsiveness means that the page quickly responds to user actions, providing immediate visual feedback. […]
The author begins by expressing frustration with the limitations of the Emacs UI and the fact that it is essentially just text with properties. They argue that while Emacs has many useful functions and fast text manipulation capabilities, it falls short as a GUI application. The author then explores alternative systems such as Smalltalk, Java […]
DisplayPort is a powerful interface that has become more ubiquitous and versatile than people realize. It was designed to replace VGA and DVI and has all the capabilities of HDMI but without legacy issues. DisplayPort sends data in packets, making it more flexible than other interfaces. It also has cool features like Multi-Stream Transport (MST) […]
Physicist Jonathan Oppenheim from University College London is challenging the commonly held belief that gravity must be quantized. For almost a century, physicists have attempted to create a unified theory of gravity and quantum mechanics by quantizing gravity, but have not yet succeeded. Oppenheim believes that gravity cannot be squeezed into a quantum box and […]
libhamt is a C99 implementation of a hash array-mapped trie (HAMT), which is a data structure used to efficiently implement persistent associative arrays and sets. The implementation follows Bagwell’s 2000 paper with a focus on code clarity. The author noticed a lack of in-depth documentation for HAMTs beyond the original paper, so this document aims […]
ACME Client Configuration provides various methods for configuring web servers to utilize ACME client services. One option is Caddy, an all-in-one web server that allows for easy configuration using the Caddyfile. Another option is traefik, a cloud-native application proxy that can be configured using a certificatesResolvers block. Alternatively, cert-manager, a certificate automation tool for Kubernetes, […]