Beginning very soon, you'll need to have Deno (or another supported JavaScript runtime) installed to keep YouTube downloads working as normal. Why? Up until now, yt-dlp has been able to use its...

American Airlines, Delta, Southwest, United, and other US airlines are pushing to remove key protections for passengers and add more fees by rolling back rules, claiming it will lower costs and boost competition, but it may leave travelers with fewer rights…

Hi I found multiple usability issues with this solution. The focus is so strong on the app, that it assumes everyone owns a smartphone. The other day I saw a granny on the bus with a phone that was...

Learn how Amazon built the backbone of the modern web that scales to 1 PB/s and 150M QPS on commodity hard drives

Defending Civil Liberties, Protecting Privacy

Text is a universal medium. And yet we try to prevent users of our UIs from using it. Let’s not.

I’ve been learning Persian (Farsi) for a while now, and I’m using a bunch of
tools for it. The central one is certainly Anki, a spaced
repetition app to train memory. I’m creating my own never-ending deck of cards,
with different types of content, for different…

Here is a realization I made recently. I'm sitting in a room full of smart people. On one side are developers who understand the ins and outs of our microservice architecture. On the other are the fro

In .NET 9 we enabled DATAS by default. But .NET 9 is not an LTS release so for many people they will be getting DATAS for the first time…

I’ve been studying the early history of electricity’s discovery as a map for our current discovery of artificial intelligence. The smartest people alive back then, including Isaac Newton, who may have been the smartest person who ever lived, had confident…

Newly released data shows Customs and Border Protection funneled the DNA of nearly 2,000 US citizens—some as young as 14—into an FBI crime database, raising alarms about oversight and legality.

I am an ed(1) fan. Naturally, I have a lot of scripts and implementations handy. Here are some.

Some loosely organized thoughts on the current Zeitgeist. They were inspired by the response to my recent meta-project mentioned in my previous post https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115254145226514817, where within 24 hours I became aware of a large number of…

With AI workloads on the rise, the demand for Python support on WebAssembly on the Edge has grown rapidly.

However, bringing Python to WebAssembly is...

CBP officers took DNA samples from about 2,000 citizens, some as young as 14 and many who never faced criminal charges, new analysis shows

Thoughts on FOSS and fintech, layered by Mahmoud Hashemi