Democracy and the open internet die in daylight
Obviously there have been many editorial changes at the formerly venerable Washington Post, a tawdry saga which I don’t intend to recap here. What I do want to share is this, which I spotted yesterday during research. A screen cap of the Washington Post’s site, offering free access to Post stories if you download the […]
A Brain-like LLM to replace Transformers
Abstract:The relationship between computing systems and the brain has served as motivation for pioneering theoreticians since John von Neumann and Alan Turing. Uniform, scale-free biological networks, such as the brain, have powerful properties, including generalizing over time, which is the main barrier for Machine Learning on the path to Universal Reasoning Models. We introduce `Dragon […]
The security paradox of local LLMs
If you’re running a local LLM for privacy and security, you need to read this. Our research on gpt-oss-20b (for OpenAI’s Red‑Teaming Challenge) shows they are much more prone to being tricked than frontier models. When attackers prompt them to include vulnerabilities, local models comply with up to 95% success rate. These local models are […]
SourceFS: A 2h+ Android build becomes a 15m task with a virtual filesystem
SourceFS – a high-performance virtual filesystem that builds Android 9× faster, cuts compute costs by 14×, and reduces disk usage by 83× — unlocking a new level of developer productivity. Slow Builds and Code Checkouts Today’s connected devices are powered by some of the largest codebases ever developed. The latest Linux kernel has 40 Million […]
Internet’s biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites
Save and Share: Click. Ugh. Another one. You know the drill. You land on a new website, eager to read an article or check a product price, and before the page even finishes loading, it appears: the dreaded cookie banner. A pop-up, a slide-in, a full-screen overlay demanding you “Accept All,” “Manage Preferences,” or navigate […]
Infracost (YC W21) Hiring First Dev Advocate to Shift FinOps Left
Overview The spend on public cloud is fast approaching $1 trillion per year – we estimate this boundary will be crossed before the turn of the decade. Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK) and platform engineering have fundamentally changed who makes spending decisions. In the past, only a central team provisioned cloud resources. Now every engineer […]
HarmonyOS 6 Full Overview: New Design, AI Features and Privacy Upgrades [video]
Greg Newby, CEO of Project Gutenberg, has died
I’m very sad to announce that Dr. Gregory B. Newby (gbnewby) has died after a short battle with cancer. Dr. Newby was CEO of the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation for more than 20 years and, in that role, worked very closely with Distributed Proofreaders. He was also a voting member of the Distributed Proofreader […]
Element: setHTML() method
setHTML(input) setHTML(input, options) The setHTML() method provides an XSS-safe method to parse and sanitize a string of HTML into a DocumentFragment, and then insert it into the DOM as a subtree of the element. setHTML() drops any elements in the HTML input string that are invalid in the context of the current element, such as […]
Knocker, a knock based access control system for your homelab
Knocker is a configurable, and self-hosted service that provides an HTTP based “knock-knock” single-packet authorization (SPA) gateway for your Homelab with web, cli and android clients. it can be used as authentication for your reverse proxy like Caddy, or even on the firewall level using the FirewallD integration. It allows you to keep your services […]