Reliably Replicating Data Between PostgreSQL and ClickHouse
In this series of articles we are going to demonstrate how to reliably replicate data from PostgreSQL to ClickHouse. In part one, we will use PeerDB open source to achieve this using an open source and self managed stack. In part two, we will look at how we can use ClickPipes, the data integration component […]
Magma: A Foundation Model for Multimodal AI Agents
User: Please provide a detailed description of the video, focusing on the main subject and the actions taking place as well as predict what is going to happen next. Magma: The video takes place in a convenience store, focusing on the checkout counter. It begins with a view of the counter displaying a sign that […]
Mexico issues legal threat to Google
On Jan. 20, United States President Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming the “Gulf of Mexico” to “Gulf of America.” Last week, Google Maps officially changed the name of the gulf on its maps, sparking a flurry of memes and conversation on social media, and Mexico is now threatening legal action if they don’t […]
Run structured extraction on documents/images locally with Ollama and Pydantic
Welcome to VLM Run Hub, a comprehensive repository of pre-defined Pydantic schemas for extracting structured data from unstructured visual domains such as images, videos, and documents. Designed for Vision Language Models (VLMs) and optimized for real-world use cases, VLM Run Hub simplifies the integration of visual ETL into your workflows. Image JSON
Obscura VPN – Privacy that’s more than a promise
Thanks for reaching the bottom — not everyone makes it. I’m incredibly lucky to have the help of a crack(ed) team of privacy optimists to build Obscura. Among us, we’ve served on the Nix RFC Steering Committee, implemented the 64bit random number generator for the Go standard library, fixed critical vulnerabilities for hardware security tokens, […]
Scented products cause indoor air pollution on par with car exhaust
Using scented products indoors changes the chemistry of the air, producing as much air pollution as car exhaust does outside, according to a new study. Researchers say that breathing in these nanosized particles could have serious health implications. When you hear or see the words ‘air pollution,’ you most likely think of things like factories […]
AI Killed the Tech Interview. Now What?
Absolutely nobody likes the hiring process. Not the managers hiring, not the recruitment people, and certainly not the candidates. Tech interviews are one of the worst parts of the process and are pretty much universally hated by the people taking them. We’ve all heard stories of people being asked comp sci questions about O(n) efficiency, […]
Build your own SQLite in Rust, Part 5: Evaluating queries
In the previous posts, we’ve explored the SQLite file format and built a simple SQL parser. It’s time to put these pieces together and implement a query evaluator! In this post, we’ll lay the groundwork for evaluating SQL queries and build a query evaluator that can handle basic SELECT statements. While our initial implementation won’t […]
1972 Unix V2 “Beta” Resurrected
[TUHS] 1972 UNIX V2 “Beta” Resurrected Yufeng Gao via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org Tue Feb 18 19:31:55 AEST 2025 Hi everyone, First-time poster here. Near the end of last year, I did some forensic analysis on the DMR tapes (https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/Dennis_Tapes) and had some fun playing around with them. Warren forwarded a few of my emails […]
Malaysia is betting on data centers to boost its economy
JOHOR BAHRU, Malaysia (AP) — Winson Lau has always had contingency plans. But he wasn’t prepared for data centers. Lau relies on water and electricity to operate his thriving export business in Malaysia’s Johor province, where he raises a kaleidoscope of tropical fish in rows of aquariums, including albino fish with red spots that can […]