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Rodrigo Copetti’s practical analysis reveals the complex technology behind Sony’s PSVita. The new DRM-free eBook edition, periodically updated, dives deep into the console’s CPU architecture. As Sony shifted from MIPS to ARM technology, the PSVita’s main chip, Kermit, housed various CPUs, GPUs, and memory, thanks to Toshiba’s innovative Stacked Chip SoC fabrication. The Cortex-A9 CPU, […]
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NetGuard, a firewall app for Android provided by FairCode B.V., offers simple and advanced ways to block internet access without needing root access. Users can allow or deny applications and addresses access to Wi-Fi or mobile connections, which can help reduce data usage, save battery, and increase privacy. The app is easy to use, open-source, […]
The author discusses their heavy use of Claude’s Artifacts feature, highlighting its usefulness in quickly spinning up interactive applications to prototype or solve problems. They share various examples of artifacts they’ve built, such as a QR code decoder and a photo camera settings simulator. One unique artifact involved generating a web page that records and […]
The author believes the debate over whether internet-fitted AIs can be creative is besides the point, as art is mainly about surfacing the inner world rather than skill. They are excited about AI-driven art forms and have created a setup that generates pretty visuals through real-time diffusion of their webcam feed. However, they faced issues […]
The author discusses implementing TCP Fast Open (TFO) in PowerDNS Recursor due to the need for a more efficient way to handle large DNS responses with the rise of DNSSEC and TXT records. TFO allows for data to be passed to the application upon reception of the initial SYN packet, reducing the overhead of a […]
Science and Nature have unveiled a disturbing trend of fraudulent research papers by shady paper mills, threatening the credibility of academic research. For a fee, anyone can be listed as an author of a scientific article without doing the work. The number of retractions due to paper mills has skyrocketed, with major publishers like Hindawi, […]
Introduction to HM Damas-Hindley-Milner (HM) type system for Standard ML and ML-family languages. River and the author previously discussed this topic. In this post, row polymorphism is added to scrapscript’s implementation of Algorithm J. Records in Scrapscript are dynamic, allowing any number of fields with any names and values. Pattern matching looks for specific fields […]
A new lawsuit in New Jersey is bringing attention to how commercial services now offer the ability to digitally track individuals’ daily movements, a power once reserved for nation states. Atlas Data Privacy Corp. is helping New Jersey law enforcement officers remove their personal information from data brokers’ clutches, invoking Daniel’s Law, passed after the […]
Last week, I helped a friend launch a new app with AI features, including Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Many successful AI apps are semantic search-based. Understanding tokenization, the process of breaking text into tokens by a tokenizer, is crucial for AI app success. Token availability in a tokenizer’s vocabulary impacts the performance and accuracy of the […]
As more applications are hosted on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), the need for private IPv4 addresses is growing, leading to IP address exhaustion challenges for large organizations. While IPv6 offers a solution, not all enterprises are ready for it. Enter Class E IPv4 addresses (240.0.0.0/4), which provide a way to address these challenges. Despite being […]