The best way to celebrate AI Appreciation Day is to not.

Lorde was performing at the Real Cool Festival in Madrid on Thursday and took some time during her set to speak out against AI glasses. While she didn't specify any brands in particular, it's likely she was taking a shot at festival sponsor Ray-Ban, which has collaborated with Meta on a pair of AI smartglasses. […]

LinkedIn has an obvious problem with ghost job postings. A good example: received an email of matched jobs. Opened it and followed one specific link only to see they were no longer accepting applications: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4439726696/ The job was reposted 7 hours prior and only received 36 applications total. I always assumed that ‘not accepting more applications’ meant a specific threshold was met. But 36 apps in 7 hours? No. Thoughts on what’s going on here?

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Matmos are an incredibly accomplished duo between their own solo records like the masterpiece A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure and production classic Bjork records like Vespertine. But Drew Daniel, one half of Matmos, is fiendishly prolific. When he's not literally dreaming up new viral music genres, he's also putting out records […]

A visual explanation of how two separate processes can access the same bytes without copying a payload between them. It covers virtual memory, page tables, physical frames, shm_open, mmap(MAP_SHARED), lazy allocation, copy-on-write, shared libraries, memory-mapped files, Redis snapshots, and Dirty COW. submitted by /u/Ok_Marionberry8922 [link] [留言]

I’ve been exploring the absolute structural floor of the Android APK format. By leveraging hasCode="false" and surgically optimizing the ASN.1 DER encoding of the V2 signature, I’ve managed to get a compliant Android 14 app down to 974 bytes. The system treats it as a first-class app, and it’s fully installable on a stock Android 14 device. It’s an exercise in how much the PackageManager trusts the headers versus what it semantically validates. submitted by /u/Same-Access-6799 [link] [留言]