Judges rule Big Tech’s free ride on Section 230 is over
“TikTok reads 230 of the Communications Decency Act to permit casual indifference to the death of a ten-year-old girl.” – Judge Paul Matey Want to know why it’s so difficult to touch the business models of extraordinarily powerful big tech firms? Well, for years, a law known as Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act […]
Raspberry Pi Pico does line rate 100M Ethernet
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Chrome Is Entrenching Third-Party Cookies That Will Mislead Users
Summary This post presents research on the privacy harms and risks of Google’s recent Related Website Sets feature, to be presented at the 2024 Internet Measurement Conference. The research finds both that the Related Website Sets feature would reverse some of the privacy benefits of deprecating third-party cookies, and that Google’s justification for reintroducing this […]
From Julia to Rust
I’ve been more serious about learning Rust recently, after dragging on with passive learning for a while. My first real programming language was Julia, and I know other Julians interested in Rust. I’ve written this article for those people in mind, because Rust and Julia are good performance sparring partners, but Rust has a different […]
An update on Llama adoption
Key Takeaways: Llama models are approaching 350 million downloads to date (more than 10x the downloads compared to this time last year), and they were downloaded more than 20 million times in the last month alone, making Llama the leading open source model family. Llama usage by token volume across our major cloud service provider […]
Can solar costs keep shrinking?
Thank you John Arnold, Casey Handmer, and Austin Vernon for having a look at this article. You can check out Austin’s two articles that inspired mine here and here. I’ve shared this graph before: The price of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels has been shrinking around 12% per year for decades. That decline is because of […]
Show HN: An open-source, local-first Webflow for your own app
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How I learned to stop worrying and love userspace networking
I like self-hosting things when I can. I have a little server running k3s at home that I run stuff on. I also have a few things in the cloud on fly.io (those cheap L40ses are great btw). I wanted my workloads on k3s to access the AI server on fly, but I didn’t want […]
How Intel Missed the iPhone: The XScale Era
A challenge to the conventional narrative on Intel’s smartphone miss There is a mythology about Intel’s iPhone ‘miss’. It’s a mythology about how Intel couldn’t see the iPhone’s potential and so ‘turned it down’ in a decision driven purely by the financials of a possible deal. In other words, a classic case of ‘disruption’, with […]
Meta’s Threads enables Fediverse replies and likes
Last night Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram, quitely announced the next step in the integration of Threads into the Fediverse. In addition to being able to follow Threads accounts from Fediverse/Mastodon accounts, we can now reply to and like Threads posts. Threads are taking a quiet, incremental approach to Federation, but seem genuinely commited. Why […]