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Modular: Mojo🔥 is now open source!

The Apache 2.0 license is the gold standard for programming languages and compilers, because it provides great flexibility to be used in all sorts of applications. The LLVM extensions to the license further expand those freedoms for building and...

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Why I reimplemented LVM (with worse guarantees)

Our microVMs launch in under a second, and assembling their block devices in parallel put LVM's roughly 100ms volume group-wide lock directly in the critical path. We kept the kernel's device-mapper, wrote our own control plane and gave up crash safety our...

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CSS:the bomb inside your inbox

Gareth Heyes - [email protected] - @garethheyes It's quite common for webmail clients to render untrusted CSS in a trusted UI. They attempt to make this safe using CSS sanitization. In this

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How I browse the Web with uBlock (Hard Mode)

I have been asked quite a few times, whenever I show my browsing setup to people, Why don't you use the web as a normal user?, Well… Isn't it normal to see or read what you actually want, without all the all the crap ads & trackers being shoved down our...

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Fairphone 6 + PostmarketOS working main camera! — Catcrafts

Today i bring the working main camera! Building on the work nondescriptpointer did on the wide lens camera i have written the driver for the main camera and now its working alongside auto focus and color correction. The color correction still a work in...

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Shading Motion - The Blog of Maxime Heckel

A deep dive into detecting, extracting, and stylizing motion with WebGPU and TSL, covering motion masking, blob tracking, optical flow, and velocity-based motion blur.

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Tsampi BFT: Leaderless One-Round Voting with Parameterized Finality

Tsampi BFT is a leaderless Byzantine fault-tolerant state-replication protocol with one Vote round per Proposed Block and exact-lineage finality in as few as two later Blocks. Its dual-linked Vote chain records both Block-lineage causality and each...