Vivaldi takes firm stance against AI, will not include it in its browser
The web browser Vivaldi is taking a firm stance against including machine learning tools to its browser. So, as we have seen, LLMs are essentially confident-sounding lying machines with a penchant to occasionally disclose private data or plagiarise existing work. While they do this, they also use vast amounts of energy and are happy using all the GPUs you can throw at them which is a prob … ⌘ Read more

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Neo Geo architecture: a practical analysis
Straight from the arcade world, the Neo Geo was, without a doubt, the most expensive hardware of the 4th generation. This begs the question: how capable was it and how did it compare with the rest? In this entry, we’ll take a look at the result of one company (SNK) setting budget restrictions aside and shipping a product meant to please both arcade owners and rich households. ↫ Rodrigo Copetti Rich households, indeed. Back in the ’90s, when Ninten … ⌘ Read more

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How to Summarize & Analyze PDF Documents with ChatGPT on Mac
One of the most useful features of the ChatGPT app for Mac is the ability to upload files to ChatGPT to have them summarized and analyzed. For example, you can upload a PDF file, and ask ChatGPT to give an analysis of the document, or to summarize it, and ask questions specifically related to the … Read More ⌘ Read more

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Show HN: Drop-in SQS replacement based on SQLite
Hi! I wanted to share an open source API-compatible replacement for SQS. It’s written in Go, distributes as a single binary, and uses SQLite for underlying storage.

I wrote this because I wanted a queue with all the bells and whistles - searching, scheduling into the future, observability, and rate limiting - all the things that many modern task queue systems have.

But I didn’t want to rewrite my app, which was already using SQS. And I was frustrated that many of the best soluti … ⌘ Read more

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‘Terrifying and dystopian’: the dark realities of the supreme court’s homelessness decision
Sam Levin,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: This is what America has come to. Frankly, I find this Supreme Court decision by the christofascist cabal of Justices to be so heartless I don’t understand how a person with any integrity or compassion, certainly no one who is a genuine Christian, could make such a decision. Homeless people are not ho … ⌘ Read more

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If you want to see what the GOP has in store for the rest of America, visit the Old South
Thom Hartmann,  Commentator  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: If you are a regular SR reader you know about what I call the Great Schism Trend, that is very deliberately tearing the United States into two countries in a single nation. Thom Hartmann is one of the few commentators that gets this, and understands that it is a policy the Republicans have been fo … ⌘ Read more

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