Paper Trails
‘I have a terrible fear that I shall one day be pronounced holy …’– from Ecce Homo (1888/1908) by Friedrich Nietzsche On the morning of 24 September 1938, a Franciscan priest by the name of Herman Van Breda arrived at the Belgian Embassy in Berlin, Germany, carrying three large, overstuffed suitcases. He had an appointment […]
Google begs court for relief from Epic Games’ Play Store demands
Google has asked a California judge to deny Epic Games’ requested remedies after the Play Store was found to be an illegal monopoly, arguing the changes would be too costly and create new security risks for Android users. The Chocolate Factory filed a briefing [PDF] objecting to Epic’s demands on Monday, arguing that its internal […]
Elixir Anti-Patterns
This document outlines potential anti-patterns related to your code and particular Elixir idioms and features. Problem When you overuse comments or comment self-explanatory code, it can have the effect of making code less readable. Example # Returns the Unix timestamp of 5 minutes from the current time defp unix_five_min_from_now do # Get the current time […]
Llama-agents: an async-first framework for building production ready agents
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Google cuts ties with Entrust in Chrome over trust issues
Google is severing its trust in Entrust after what it describes as a protracted period of failures around compliance and general improvements. Entrust is one of the many certificate authorities (CA) used by Chrome to verify that the websites end users visit are trustworthy. From November 1 in Chrome 127, which recently entered beta, TLS […]
The History of “The Rule of Thirds”
BIBLIOGRAPHY Adams, Ansel. “Geometrical Approach to Composition.” In The Encyclopedia of Photography: The Complete Photographer: The Comprehensive Guide and Reference for All Photographers, edited by Willard D. Morgan, vol. 9. New York: Grestone Press, 1974. “A Name For It,” Aperture, Winter 1955. Cartier-Bresson, Henri. The Decisive Moment. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952. Cartier-Bresson, Henri. […]
Milk-V Reveals Technical Specs of Milk-V Jupiter RISC-V Mini-ITX PC
Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Reddit Pinterest Email Today, Milk-V released additional technical details about the Milk-V Jupiter, based on the SpacemiT K1/M1 SoC. This product is noted for being one of the first Mini ITX devices to support both RVA22 and RVV1.0 standards, marking a significant development in RISC-V based computing. The Milk-V Jupiter features the […]
Mourning Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
The academic and the Linux real-time and scheduling community mourns the premature death of Daniel Bristot de Oliveira. Daniel died at the age of 37 on Monday, June 24, 2024. Daniel was a computer scientist with a focus on real-time systems and scheduling theory who is well recognized in the academic and the Linux kernel […]
Zuckerberg disses closed-source AI competitors as trying to ‘create God’
Riffing on what he sees for the future of AI, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview published Thursday that he deeply believes that there will not be “just one AI.” Touting the value of open source to put AI tools into many people’s hands, Zuckerberg took a moment to disparage the efforts of […]
Apple crippled watchOS to corner heart-tracking market, doctors say
A quartet of heart doctors are trying to resuscitate health-monitoring tech outfit AliveCor’s antitrust lawsuit regarding the Apple Watch, by arguing changes made to the iMaker’s gadget “resulted in a loss of access to a potentially life-saving product.” The physicians argue in their amicus brief [PDF] filed this week with the United States Ninth Circuit […]