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No. 39862541Friday, March 29, 2024 at 10:47 AM UTC
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PostgreSQL maintainer Simon Riggs has died in a small airplane crash

m6n.io — To use the Mastodon web application, please enable JavaScript. Alternatively, try one of the native apps for Mastodon for your platform. POSTGRESQL, 1

SSPL Is Bad

ssplisbad.com — SSPL is terrible for every user, companies and generally speaking, to the whole community. It is a warning signal of the bad days that are coming for everyone if all of us don't react fast. SSPL, 2

OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning

myshell.ai — We introduce OpenVoice, a versatile instant voice cloning approach that requires only a short audio clip from the reference speaker to replicate their voice and generate speech in multiple languages. OpenVoice enables granular control over voice styles, including emotion, accent, rhythm, pauses, and intonation, in addition to replicating the tone color of the reference speaker. OpenVoice also achieves zero-shot cross-lingual voice cloning for languages not included in the massive-speaker training set. OpenVoice is also computationally efficient, costing tens of times less than commercially available APIs that offer even inferior performance. The technical report and source code can be found at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.01479.pdf and https://github.com/myshell-ai/OpenVoice OPENVOICE, 3

Managing Linux Servers with Cockpit

lwn.net — Subscribers to LWN.net made this article — and everything that surrounds it — possible. If you appreciate our content, please buy a subscription and make the next set of articles possible. MANAGING, 4

Doom Captcha (2021)

vivirenremoto.github.io — 🎈 Are you interested in more games? 😈 Doom Captcha 💻 Demo Your Email Unsubscribe   Restart Disclaimer: Don't take this too seriously, this is a little project for fun, if do you know how to code it's pretty easy to break the security of this. 👨‍💻 Code <form action="success.html"> <p> Your Email<br> <input name="email"> </p> <p> <button>Unsubscribe</button> </p> </form> Parameters countdown: on / off label: Text before captcha, you can leave it empty enemies: Total enemies to kill to complete the captcha, by default 4 Last update - 30/05/2021 Cheat codes - Easter eggs Only works on desktop mode if you click start and write: iddqd: Complete the captcha. idkfa: Unlock the super shotgun. Source code The code repository is available on GitHub, feel free t... DOOM, 5

Arraymancer – Deep Learning Nim Library

github.com — A fast, ergonomic and portable tensor library in Nim with a deep learning focus for CPU, GPU and embedded devices via OpenMP, Cuda and OpenCL backends ARRAYMANCER, 6

The race to replace Redis

lwn.net — Welcome to LWN.net The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber. Thousands of subscribers depend on LWN for the best news from the Linux and free software communities. If you enjoy this article, please consider accepting the trial offer on the right. Thank you for visiting LWN.net! Free trial subscription Try LWN for free for 1 month: no payment or credit card required. Activate your trial subscription now and see why thousands of readers subscribe to LWN.net. By Joe BrockmeierMarch 28, 2024 On March 21, Redis Ltd. announced that the Redis "in-memory data store" project would now be released under non-free, source-available licenses, starting with Redis 7.4. The news is unwelcome, but not entirely unexpected. What is unusual wi... RACE, 7

Chocolate and the Hawaiian Dream Comes True

worldsensorium.com — Sign up for our monthly newsletter! CHOCOLATE, 8

The Apple Jonathan: A 1980s concept computer that never shipped

512pixels.net — In the middle of the 1980s, Apple found itself with several options regarding the future of its computing platforms. The Apple II was the company’s bread and butter. The Apple III was pitched as an evolution of that platform, but was clearly doomed due to hardware and software issues. The Lisa was expensive and not selling well, and while the Macintosh aimed to bring Lisa technology to the masses, sales were slow after its initial release. JONATHAN, 9

The Great Migration from MongoDB to PostgreSQL

infisical.com — Infisical has grown rapidly in the past year with the platform now processing north of 50 million secrets daily that is sending application configuration and secrets data to teams, CI/CD pipelines, and servers/applications that need them. GREAT, 10

The rev.ng decompiler goes open source

rev.ng — Hi there! Long time no see! It has been a while since our last update about rev.ng, but we've been quietly working hard. So, it's time for some news! 🚀 REV.NG, 11

Deep Learning in JavaScript

github.com — A JavaScript library like PyTorch, built from scratch. DEEP, 12

Two hundred reasons to not use Azure

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Vultr Just Betrayed Us

mwl.io — I suppose the hip kids would say this is enshittification, but it’s certainly a betrayal. VULTR, 14

Song lyrics getting simpler, more repetitive, angry and self-obsessed – study

theguardian.com — Researchers analysed the words in more than 12,000 English-language songs across several genres from 1980 to 2020 SONG, 15

Software vendors dump open source, go for the cash grab

computerworld.com — By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols SOFTWARE, 16

Monogon: A Linux userland in pure Go

github.com — The Monogon Monorepo. May contain traces of peanuts and a ✨pure Go Linux userland✨ MONOGON, 17

No equality for working women in any country in the world, study reveals

theguardian.com — Global gender gap is far bigger than previously thought, as annual World Bank report takes childcare and safety issues into account for first time EQUALITY, 18

Is the Sun Conscious? (2021) [pdf]

sheldrake.orgSUN, 19

Takis Veliotis - A Lavish Lifestyle Strains Credibility (1985)

chicagotribune.com — Shortly after P. Takis Veliotis became general manager of the Davie Shipyard here, one of the yard`s employees noticed something unusual–a handful of workers were building a pleasure yacht, an odd project for a yard dedicated to construction of commercial lake and ocean vessels. TAKIS, 20

Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy

arstechnica.com — Scharon Harding - Mar 28, 2024 8:40 pm UTC FACEBOOK, 21

Thirty Seven

thirty-seven.orgTHIRTY, 22

Math writing is dull when it neglects the human dimension

utexas.edu — I’m writing a short article with some thoughts on how to write math papers, with a provocative title. It’s due very soon, so if you have any thoughts about this draft I’d like to hear them soon! MATH, 23

The CIA's Cold War plan to use stray cats as spies

wordpress.com — In the 1960s, the CIA made a failed attempt to use bugged cats as spies. CIA, 24

You can't leak users' data if you don't hold it

seancoates.com — When I was still working at Faculty, we took on a new client that was not yet named Matter. We eventually transitioned from an agency-client relationship to a startup relationship, where I became the VP of Technology. This is what I've been doing for the past two-ish years. YOU, 25

The Proceedings of the Friesian School, Fourth Series

friesian.comPROCEEDINGS, 26

Launch HN: Eggnog (YC W24) – AI videos with consistent characters

news.ycombinator.com — Hi HN, we’re Jitesh and Sam, and we’re building Eggnog: https://www.eggnog.ai, an AI video platform where your characters look the same across every scene. Eggnog lets you create characters, use them in scene generations, and share them with others for remixing. Here are some videos made with Eggnog: LAUNCH, 27

Launch HN: Thorntale (YC W24) – Presentation software that works with your data

news.ycombinator.com — Hi HN! We’re Dori, John, and Ellen from Thorntale https://www.thorntale.com/, a new tool for making data driven presentations. We make it easier for product, engineering, and data teams to communicate their work. Here’s a video demo: https://youtu.be/yLCIo3jG2GM, and you can try it now at https://app.sandbox.thorntale.com without signing in. LAUNCH, 28

Sunken Ships of the Second World War

arcgis.comSUNKEN, 29

Capi Money (YC S23) Is Hiring ycombinator.com

Keeling Labs (YC W23) Is Hiring a Sr Data Engineer for Applied ML in the Grid ycombinator.com

RankScience (YC W17) is hiring to automate SEO for startups remotejobs.org