An analysis of a retraction request from Anchorage Digital's CEO regarding an article about debanking in the crypto industry, examining the validity of claims and professional conduct in financial journalism. The piece defends its original analysis while highlighting the broader implications of bank-crypto relationships and regulatory compliance.
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2025/02/10/retraction-request-denied/
#bankingregulation #cryptocurrency #financialcompliance #professionalethics #journalism
Ada/SPARK Crate Of The Year 2024 announces winners across three categories, with BBT winning Ada Crate, elogs securing SPARK Crate, and bbs_lisp taking Embedded Crate honors. BBT offers English-based test automation, elogs provides SPARK-validated message logging, while bbs_lisp delivers an embeddable Lisp interpreter for constrained environments.
https://blog.adacore.com/ada-spark-crate-of-the-year-2024-winners-announced
#programming #ada/spark #softwaretesting #embeddedsystems #awards
FetchFox proposes a revolutionary compensation model for Founding Engineers, offering 5-25% stake through crypto tokens instead of traditional equity, providing immediate liquidity through 24/7 trading. The current startup equity model typically grants founding engineers 0.5-2% equity with limited liquidity, creating a disproportionate risk-reward ratio compared to founders who retain around 48.5% equity.
https://fetchfox.ai/a/founding-engineer-compensation
#startupcompensation #cryptotokens #engineeringtalent #equitydistribution #employeebenefits
A comprehensive introduction to k, a family of concise vector-oriented programming languages designed by Arthur Whitney, exploring its various generations and implementations. K emphasizes terseness and execution speed, making it particularly powerful for data analytics and transformation, while maintaining a minimalist approach with no standard libraries.
https://xpqz.github.io/kbook/Introduction.html
#programminglanguages #klanguage #vectorprocessing #dataanalytics #opensource
Commercial airliners today fly slower than in the 1960s primarily due to fuel economy considerations, with modern high-bypass engines optimized for efficiency rather than speed. While the Concorde offered supersonic passenger travel until 2003, current developments in supersonic flight are limited to private business jets with potential boom-reducing technology.
#aviation #enginetechnology #fuelefficiency #supersonictravel #aerospaceengineering
An exploration of English surnames derived from historical paternal nicknames reveals how common names like Jackson, Wilson, and Dickson originated from shortened versions of father's names. The document details various examples of surname patterns, including forgotten nicknames like 'Wat' for Walter and 'Hob' for Robert, which evolved into modern family names.
https://blog.plover.com/lang/etym/nickname-names.html
#etymology #surnames #patronymics #nicknames #linguistics
The Anthropic Economic Index analyzes AI's impact on labor markets through millions of Claude.ai conversations, revealing that 36% of jobs use AI for at least 25% of their tasks, with usage concentrated in software development and technical writing. AI adoption currently favors mid-to-high wage occupations and tends toward augmentation (57%) over automation (43%), suggesting a future where jobs evolve rather than disappear.
https://www.anthropic.com/news/the-anthropic-economic-index
#aiimpact #labormarket #economicanalysis #workforceautomation #dataresearch
A comparative analysis between Ada and Rust programming languages in safety-critical applications highlights Ada's 40-year dominance and Rust's recent emergence in this space. The presentation focuses on Ada's distinctive features for bug prevention, particularly its subtype declarations, and evaluates Rust's current capabilities in comparison.
#programminglanguages #safetysystems #ada #rust #softwaredevelopment
PDFSyntax is a Python package that provides tools for inspecting and visualizing PDF file structures through static HTML content with interactive features. The package offers low-level PDF parsing capabilities without dependencies, allowing users to analyze PDF internals through an augmented display of raw PDF data with features like reverse indexing and navigation menus.
https://github.com/desgeeko/pdfsyntax/blob/main/docs/browse.md
#pdfanalysis #pythontools #documentation #visualization #dataparsing
A group of researchers discovered a broadcast amplification vulnerability in Cloudflare's QUIC implementation, where a single packet to a broadcast IP address could trigger multiple responses from server workers. The vulnerability, which has been fully patched, highlighted how broadcast functionality combined with SO_REUSEPORT socket options can create significant amplification risks in UDP-based services.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/mitigating-broadcast-address-attack/
#security #networking #quicprotocol #infrastructure #ddos
The UK government has ordered Apple to create an iCloud backdoor for encrypted data access, presenting Apple with three options: comply with potential global implications, exit the UK market entirely, or decentralize iCloud to allow third-party providers and self-hosting solutions.
https://www.mnot.net/blog/2025/02/09/decentralize-icloud
#cybersecurity #privacy #governmentregulation #cloudservices #apple
A network policy block message explains access restrictions to a Reddit service, requiring user authentication or developer credentials for continued access.
https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1ij7s4m/how_i_built_an_open_source_ai_tool_to_find_my/
#authentication #networksecurity #apiaccess #errormessage #userpolicy
A detailed walkthrough of building a budget-friendly AI workstation with 48GB VRAM for running local LLMs, costing around 1700 euros using second-hand Tesla P40 GPUs. The setup enables running various AI models locally, achieving 5-15 tokens per second depending on model size, while maintaining independence from cloud-based AI services.
https://ewintr.nl/posts/2025/building-a-personal-private-ai-computer-on-a-budget/
#aihardware #diycomputing #llms #costoptimization #technicalguide
A detailed exploration of SQLite vs PostgreSQL performance for a Twilio blog analytics dashboard, featuring comprehensive benchmarking tests on both development and production environments, leading to unexpected findings about database performance under different query loads and concurrency levels.
https://www.twilio.com/en-us/blog/sqlite-postgresql-complicated
#databaseperformance #postgresql #sqlite #benchmarking #systemoptimization
A blogger describes transitioning from static site generators like Hugo to raw HTML for their blog, emphasizing the permanence and reliability of HTML compared to potentially deprecated frameworks. The choice reflects a preference for simplicity, built-in browser capabilities, and freedom from theme constraints.
https://devpoga.org/i-blog-with-raw-html/
#webdevelopment #html #staticsites #blogging #browsertechnology
Scientists have reconstructed the face of St. Thomas Aquinas using his skull after 750 years, while also discovering that his death may have been caused by a traumatic brain injury from a falling tree. The facial reconstruction project, led by Brazilian 3D designer Cicero Moraes, has deeply moved Dominican priests and scholars who have studied Aquinas's theological and philosophical works.
https://www.ncregister.com/blog/face-of-aquinas-revealed-after-750-years
#historicaldiscovery #religiousstudies #forensicscience #catholichistory #technology
An in-depth analysis of DNS resolution APIs across different operating systems reveals significant limitations and implementation challenges, particularly when handling modern DNS records like HTTPS. While getaddrinfo remains a standard but limited solution, platform-specific APIs exhibit various bugs and inconsistencies, making cross-platform DNS resolution particularly challenging.
https://valentin.gosu.se/blog/2025/02/getaddrinfo-sucks-everything-else-is-much-worse
#dns #systemapis #firefox #cross-platform #networkprogramming
Explores the differences and optimal usage patterns between &str and String in Rust, focusing on their implementation in function arguments, return values, and struct fields. Explains how each type has specific use cases based on memory ownership, lifetime requirements, and performance considerations.
https://blog.sulami.xyz/posts/string-vs-str/
#rust #programming #memorymanagement #stringtypes #performance
A modern revival of Hotline, a 1997 Mac OS community platform, is being rebuilt in Swift and SwiftUI for contemporary Apple systems. The project aims to recreate the client-side functionality of the original software, which enabled chat, file sharing, and community features without central servers. Currently supporting macOS and iOS, the implementation maintains the core features while modernizing the experience.
https://github.com/mierau/hotline
#softwaredevelopment #appleecosystem #legacysoftware #networking #opensource
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is legally intervening in Apple's court case against the EU's Digital Markets Act, defending software freedom and interoperability rights. The case challenges Apple's monopolistic practices and aims to enable sideloading, alternative app stores, and better interoperability for Free Software developers on Apple devices.
#legal #softwarefreedom #digitalrights #apple #euregulation