Fascinating story. Some people shouldn't be forgotten.

Sounds like a very interesting model (pun intended). It's really nice to pack that much performance in a smaller neural network.

I definitely would like to have some time to fiddle with DuckDB more. It looks like a really neat alternative to something like pandas.

Clearly the regulators don't really understand the level of intrusiveness they're unleashing with mandating age gates. This is one more layer of surveillance for large parts of the population.

Neat little Python trick for testing exceptions.

Maybe we can expect improvements in how HTTP rate limiting is handled?

I'm not sure the legal case is completely lost even though chances are slim. The arguments here are worth mulling over though. There's really an ethical factor to consider.

Friendly reminder that securing APIs and secrets is a must. Not doing so can have really bad consequences.

This is a welcome development at the W3C. Let's hope this working group will bring good things and stewardship for the related standards.

They'll do anything to further their grip on tech. The European Union is sleep walking on this one.

This is good advice. To improve your organisation, focus only on the biggest constraint. Otherwise you'll quickly be spread thin.

Interesting points. Forums are clearly not good replacements for mailing lists. They might be a good complementary to mailing lists but both have very different affordances.

I agree with this so much. It's another one of those I feel I could have written. I have a hard time thinking I could use the current crop of "inference as a service" while they carry so many ethical issues.

There's a lot of this. Learning different languages to get out of your habits definitely brings compound benefits.

Long and good walkthrough on how to render nice clouds in real time.

Is this really to improve your work? Or make you dependent? In the end it might be the user which looses.

OK, this is definitely a very cool hack. It can definitely help to debug locally.

This has been documented for a long while. Of course, it's been followed by an unhealthy fascination for the "Toyota way". This kind of cargo cult of course lead you nowhere to doing things properly. And yet, now that the dust settled, there are good lessons to learn from Toyota management back then.

This is a very rich article. There's indeed more and more a rift between Open Source projects used by hyperscalers and the ones used by smaller businesses and individuals. You likely want to aim for the latter.

Looks like the trend continues. Let's hope the Linux desktop user base will keep growing this year.