I get the feeling that MathML will win out, simply because Firefox supported from early on [1], there is first move advantage. I use an old JS library for backwards compatibility [2] that adds just enough support for any math I'm math'in [3]. I would still prefer SVG, but it ended up being a pain to implement reliably.
One thing I noticed about this site though is that it is laggy - and I have a pretty good system.
Uses Go, a language written by and maintained by Google [1]. Uses co-pilot written by GitHub for development [4].
Mu is £11 a month and you cannot see any screenshot of what you are getting [2], the same price you could buy a cheap VPS for [3]. The two authors of the project are asim and co-pilot. The commits have meaningless messages [4].
I guess I should be more specific about why "big tech failed us". They essentially control all the dominant social platforms. While they have great developer tools like Go, GitHub (owned by Microsoft), the consumer products have been a point of exploitation. I think it's OK to both admire yet be critical and to try hold systems and people to a higher standard when they have such an impact on everyones lives.
To address some of your other comments on commits/copilot. Commit messages are about as meaningful as email subject titles. At a certain point they really don't offer much value when you have powerful search tools. Essentially the source of truth is the current codebase. Maybe the commit message is going to provide insight into what was happening at that time, but when you're coding with AI toolings it feels almost irrelevant if not dated. If anything it should autocommit with a useful message if its that much of an issue. Second to that, Yes I use copilot, why, because hand coding is 10x slower. I lay the foundations by hand but then started to rely on copilot for a lot of changes beyond that. Again going back to the point, yes big tech failed us, but on social and consumer. The dev tooling and technology is fine, but the addictive and exploitive nature of the consumer tooling is not.
In all honesty, thank you for highlighting the depths of the warts on the project. It's always good for people to see the truth.
Note on £11/month. It's free to use. Membership is just for those who want to support it and help with roadmap, get access to features, etc but point taken about the screenshot.
I've tried it with one of my quick circuits - it does work to some extent. It found a requirement for an IC that I missed in the datasheet. Querying it further did confuse it a bit, instead of talking about the IC it started referring to the MCU and it's limits whilst referring back to the original document.
The real question is whether this has enough value to justify the pricing model [1] - I think so for a company, but would be difficult to justify for a hobby. One thing that should be defined is what "usage limit" actually is.
I think it's possible we see some people now use other OSes, there should at least be an "Other" option. The *BSD's, Nix and some more bespoke options.
> [..] seem to have internalized the internet’s tendency to reach for the least charitable interpretation of every glancing thought and, as a result, to have pathologized what I would characterize as the normal, internal vagaries of desire.
I think the internet has some ownership of this, AI didn't help, and our transition from a high-trust society to low-trust society. It's more obvious if you switch the subject to any other - try telling a joke about racism in the wrong setting [1]. Private things should remain private, and consumed within a private context.
In the UK for example, a person can be found guilty under the Malicious Communications Act and/or Online Safety Act. If your badly received joke involves a protected characteristic, that's now and aggravating factor and you just committed a crime against a protected minority.
> I should state at this point that this is not an essay about “cancel culture going too far,” a topic which can now be historicized as little more than a rhetorical cudgel wielded successfully by the right to wrest cultural power back from an ascendant progressive liberalism.
The author was IRL cancelled by their friend: "In fact, it ended the friendship.". And the main complaint is that this has become part of the culture, specifically for sexuality. The author may not want to associate with the anti-movement for cancel culture, it is exactly what they are aligned with.
> #MeToo was smeared by liberals and conservatives alike (united, as they always are, in misogyny) as being inherently punitive in nature, meant to punish men who’d fallen into a rough patch of bad behavior, or who, perhaps, might not have done anything at all (the falsely accused or the misinterpreted man became the real victim, in this view).
You want the power without the responsibility of corruption. It's not like this stuff doesn't have real world consequences [2]. If, instead of adding names to a document, each of these women just stabbed to death the men they are accusing, let's say for really terrible accusations that we can agree that such a penalty should apply for. Sure, many people who are stabbed to death will have earned it, but we cannot be sure unless there is some right to address the accusation.
The point is that without the ability to represent your counter-argument, there can be no real claim of justice. What is claimed as "social justice" is just the vigilante mob doing whatever it likes without accountability, and a lack of accountability is exactly what they are angry about in the first place. Two wrongs do not make a right.
> But that link between sex and fear is operating in more “benign” or common modes of internet practice. There is an online culture that thinks nothing of submitting screenshots, notes, videos, and photos with calls for collective judgement.
Wait wait wait. Hold on a damn second. We just literally spoke about a series of women submitting online notes for collective judgement. Now it's wrong?
This reveals the fundamental problem, which is that the author is suppressed by the very behaviours that they have supported.
The ESP32-P4 [1] could be interesting for running native Linux [2], but as the article suggests it was supposed to be released in January 2023. We're now approaching January 2026 without a final design [3].
I believe there is a strong market out there for a low-level Linux capable controller with WiFi, Ethernet, USB host, etc, capabilities. The USB itself would be especially killer - imagine being able to just load the appropriate kernel driver for a USB device and being able to communicate with it directly.
For the hobbyist, the best part of the modern embedded chips with few MB of RAM (including ESP32) is that they _don't_ run Linux.
I maintain a few devices at home, both Linux and non-Linux, and the non-Linux are just so much nicer from operation perspective. Everything is described by a few files checked into git, and there is literally no way to sneak any other state in. If the device breaks, or I want another one, or I want to see what changed, it's just a few text files to examine.
Compare it with typical Raspberry Pi, which started with huge microsd image, then there were unknown "apt-get install"'s and some system files modified... Unless you are very, very good with documentation, each one is a special snowflake. The best you can do is to run backup script on them, and restore on rebuild, but it's much worse experience than having a single "pio run -t upload" in the git repo.
(I know there are ways to create immutable Linux system and push it from main PC, just like with microcontrollers - but this is not very well documented path. And much bigger size of the Linux system makes this impractical for rapid iteration)
I think USB device drivers are the _only_ reason to run Linux on the small device. If you don't need those, keep away from Linux. (not that ESP32-P4 would be any good on it - the spec mention "768 KiB SRAM", which is laughably small for Linux. And putting PSRAM on board will make it as expensive as other Linux computers)
> The YOLO series is developed and maintained by Ultralytics. All YOLO code and weights are released under the AGPL-3.0 license.The YOLO series is developed and maintained by Ultralytics. All YOLO code and weights are released under the AGPL-3.0 license.
The original author of YOLO and the Darknet framework [1] issued the code under pretty much every license you wish to use [2]. My preferred fork by AlexeyAB is under an equally permissive license [3].
Ultralytics then created their own model under the AGPL-3.0 license [4], which probably would never stand up in a court as they have the model from the likes of YOLOv3 in their source [5].
This entire article is flawed anyway, because they don't state which YOLOv11 model they are using or compare the accuracy. They appear to have just taken the pre-trained models and assumed it's apples-to-apples. They could have at least compared YOLO11n/s/m/l/x,
They stop spawning but the flakes already on the screen continue to fall until they reach the bottom. It's cute but very annoying IMO and there should be a user control to instantly turn it off.
> Which is why I am delighted that the Mastodon project has shown a better way to behave.
I think we should hold our breath for a moment. The wars waged over concession don't always happen immediately, and not always involving the expected parties [1].
> Today, we’re marking another momentous step in this ongoing process as our Founder and now former CEO Eugen Rochko begins his transition into a new role with Mastodon. We are thrilled that he will continue on in an advisory role with our team.
The problem with the undead King is if they ever feel the need to exercise any form of power.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_Modular_Engine
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