My server is a phone now

For a while, my personal infrastructure lived on a small Hetzner VPS. It ran a few web apps,a remote browser called Surf, Caddy, and the usual supporting cast. Nothing particularly serious. It worked, I just didn’t like paying for it. Buying another machine wasn’t an appealing escape hatch either.DRAM prices have gone completely stupid, so … Devamını oku

OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide

NextSlide recently announced that it’s joining OpenAI, with the presentation startup’s team members now working on ChatGPT. TheNextSlide websitecurrently displays a note from founder Ahmed Beshry describing the startup’s product as one “that could turn prompts, notes, documents, or research into a polished, editable presentation.” The ultimate goal, Beshry said, was “to make visual communication … Devamını oku

Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students’ Written Work to Counter AI Cheating

The policy takes effect immediately, but educators say the first response must evolve as AI tools keep advancing. Danish high school students will be required to defend their written assignments orally under new government measures aimed at combating cheating with artificial intelligence. The Ministry of Education said that an oral defense will become mandatory for … Devamını oku

LinkedIn Feed Blocker

A minimal Chrome extension that disables LinkedIn’s home feed while keeping the rest of LinkedIn usable. I like LinkedIn for finding jobs and chatting with recruiters. I do not like being greeted by the wild-west social feed. After having “experienced” the Before image below, I decided to do something about it. Hence, this extension. The … Devamını oku

Fastmail offers EU data region

Many of you have been telling us that where your email is stored matters to you. There are various reasons for this, like local law, keeping your data close to home, or compliance. You can now make the European Union the primary home for your Fastmail data, on our own secure servers in Amsterdam. Previously, … Devamını oku

Gateway 2000’s hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II)

This newsletter does not include sponsored posts, affiliate links, or ads (except the ones we make fun of together). Open and click tracking are disabled. And there is no paid upgrade or AI-generated content. Enjoy! Party hats and sunglasses on animals are the fart jokes of advertising. Somehow lazyandeffective, shallow yet infectious, and definitely not … Devamını oku

A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS

The wrong belief to clear first is that this is a way ofparkinga domain. It is close to the opposite. Parking replaces the site with a sales page, which costs you every visitor the domain still has._for-salesits beside a live site in DNS and says nothing to a browser: the homepage keeps serving, the mail … Devamını oku

The CPU is back: Rethinking the CPU-GPU split for LLM inference

For the past 3 years, graphics processing units (GPUs) have dominated the large language model (LLM) conversation. In traditional chatbot applications, central processing units (CPUs) provide a fraction of the total compute per request, while GPUs do the heavy lifting. However, inference isn’t a single model answering a single question. A growing reliance on tool … Devamını oku