WASM Wayland Web (WWW)
So there are only 2 web browser engines, and it seems likely there will soon only be 1, and making a whole new web browser from the ground up is effectively impossible because the browsers vendors have weaponized web standards complexity against any newcomers. Maybe eventually someone will succeed and there will be 2 again. […]
Microsoft is killing Skype
Recent updates Updated February 28: Microsoft has confirmed that Skype is shutting down in May, with warnings now appearing within Skype apps. Users will have an opportunity to export their chats to Teams. In a move that will likely surprise no one, it appears Microsoft is gearing up to shut down Skype in the coming […]
Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge
If you use the uBlock Origin extension in Google Chrome or Edge, you should probably start looking for alternative browsers or extensions—either way. A few days ago, users noticed that Google had begun disabling uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions as part of the migration to Manifest V3. Now, Microsoft Edge appears to be […]
Video encoding requires using your eyes
In multimedia, the quality engineers are optimizing for is perceptual. Eyes, ears, and the brain processing their signals are enormously complex, and there’s no way to replicate everything computationally. There are no “objective” metrics to be had, just various proxies with difficult tradeoffs. Modifying video is particularly thorny, since like I’ve mentioned before on this […]
Surgery implants tooth material in eye as scaffolding for lens
As It Happens7:03For the 1st time in Canada, surgeons are putting teeth in patients’ eyes to restore sight When Brent Chapman’s doctor first pitched him on the idea of having one of his own teeth surgically embedded in his eye to restore his sight, he says he felt “a little apprehensive.” But then he spoke […]
macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)
Saurabh 😎 Last updated for macOS Sonoma General Native UI Conventions Press ⇧⌘/ to search all of the current app’s menu items. Then use the Up/Down arrow keys to navigate the results and press Return to execute that menu bar action. Press ⌃F2 to move keyboard focus to the application’s menu bar. Start typing the […]
Putting Andrew Ng’s OCR models to the test
Today, Andrew Ng, one of the legends of the AI world, released a new document extraction service that went viral on X (link here). At Pulse, we put the models to the test with complex financial statements and nested tables – the results were underwhelming to say the least, and suffer from many of the […]
Smallpond – A lightweight data processing framework built on DuckDB and 3FS
A lightweight data processing framework built on DuckDB and 3FS. 🚀 High-performance data processing powered by DuckDB 🌍 Scalable to handle PB-scale datasets 🛠️ Easy operations with no long-running services Installation Python 3.8 to 3.12 is supported. pip install smallpond Quick Start # Download example data wget https://duckdb.org/data/prices.parquet import smallpond # Initialize session sp = […]
Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser
Ladybird is a truly independent web browser, using a novel engine based on web standards. Important Ladybird is in a pre-alpha state, and only suitable for use by developers We aim to build a complete, usable browser for the modern web. Ladybird uses a multi-process architecture with a main UI process, several WebContent renderer processes, […]
Fire-Flyer File System from DeepSeek
The Fire-Flyer File System (3FS) is a high-performance distributed file system designed to address the challenges of AI training and inference workloads. It leverages modern SSDs and RDMA networks to provide a shared storage layer that simplifies development of distributed applications. Key features and benefits of 3FS include: Documentation Performance 1. Peak throughput The following […]