Permacomputing Principles
Introduction Contemporary permaculture is founded on three core ethics: Earth Care, People Care, and Fair Share. These ethics serve as a guiding compass for its design principles, co-creating a holistic framework for regenerative living. Similarly, permacomputing is built upon 10 principles that encourage and raise awareness about more sustainable digital practices. Whether you are a […]
How I made $350K from an open-source JavaScript library using dual licensing
In the last four years, I made over $350K from a simple JavaScript library called lightGallery using a dual-licensing business model. Here is everything you need to know about monetizing your commercial open-source software (COSS) project using dual licensing. What is the dual-licensing business model? # It is a proven commercial open-source strategy where you […]
The Old Guard: Confronting America’s Gerontocratic Crisis
Illustrations by David Plunkert In Greek myth, Eos falls in love with Tithonus. She is the goddess of the dawn. He is a Trojan prince, yet still a mere mortal. Eos asks Zeus to give her mate the gift of eternal life—but, foolishly, she forgets to ask for eternal youth too. Tithonus never dies; he […]
DeepSeek V4 Pro at 75% off until 31 May
The prices listed below are in units of per 1M tokens. A token, the smallest unit of text that the model recognizes, can be a word, a number, or even a punctuation mark. We will bill based on the total number of input and output tokens by the model. Model Details (1) The model names […]
UK businesses brace for jet fuel rationing
British businesses face a summer of soaring travel costs and disrupted supply chains as the United Kingdom emerges as the European economy most vulnerable to a deepening jet fuel crisis triggered by the prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz, according to a stark new assessment from Goldman Sachs. The Wall Street investment bank has […]
David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House
The Trump administration pulled a 180 on AI oversight, inducing Sacks’ worst nightmare: more government regulation on technology. The Trump administration pulled a 180 on AI oversight, inducing Sacks’ worst nightmare: more government regulation on technology. by Tina Nguyen May 6, 2026, 8:18 PM UTC Tina Nguyen is a Senior Reporter for The Verge and […]
SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format
LoC Recommended Storage Format Small. Fast. Reliable.Choose any three. LoC Recommended Storage Format SQLite is a Recommended Storage Format for datasets according to the US Library of Congress. Further information: As of this writing (2018-05-29) the only other recommended storage formats for datasets are XML, JSON, and CSV. 1.1. What Is A Recommended Storage Format? […]
MIT’s virtual violin offers luthiers a new design tool
The construction of a violin. The construction of a violin. Credit: Sotakeit/CC BY-SA 3.0 Or perhaps it was the varnish Stradivari used: a cocktail of honey, egg whites, and gum arabic. A 2022 study involving nanoscale imaging of two such instruments revealed a protein-based layer at the interface of the wood and the varnish, which […]
Learning the Integral of a Diffusion Model
Sampling from a diffusion model is an iterative process: at each step, the denoiser estimates the tangent direction to a path through input space. We move along this path by repeatedly taking small steps in this direction, effectively calculating an integral across noise levels. This gradually transforms samples from a simple noise distribution into samples […]
BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets
With over 7% market share, BYD is now the top-selling EV brand in the UK so far in 2026, surpassing Tesla, Kia, and Volkswagen to take the top spot. And it’s not just the UK, BYD is outpacing the competition in several overseas markets. BYD becomes top-selling EV brand in overseas markets BYD sold 321,123 […]