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In my previous post, I explained how a disk attached to a machine makes things difficult. Vertical scaling has its limits, and when you hit that limit, you can’t do horizontal scaling right away because of the attached disk. Mainstream databases like Postgres or MySQL don’t scale horizontally. I recently learned that BlueSky team switched from Postgres to a combination of Scylla and SQLite. One of the reasons was because (vanilla) Postgres is not horizontally scalable, but Scylla is.

A disturbing new use of AI—to understand and manipulate our intentions through flattery and false friendship—has been identified in new research from the University of Cambridge.

Currently, internet companies collect data about where we go online and use this data to present us with ads or other content we may be interested in. Dr. Yaqub Chaudhary and Dr Jonnie Penn, working out of Cambridge’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCFI), have identified startling new ways AI is seeking to control our decision-making at the earliest possible steps.

None of what I write in this newsletter is about sowing doubt or "hating," but a sober evaluation of where we are today and where we may end up on the current path. I believe that the artificial intelligence boom — which would be better described as a generative AI boom — is (as I've said before) unsustainable, and will ultimately collapse. I also fear that said collapse could be ruinous to big tech, deeply damaging to the startup ecosystem, and will further sour public support for the tech industry.

Bienvenue sur Hackropole. Cette plateforme vous propose de rejouer les épreuves du France Cybersecurity Challenge tout au long de l'année dans le but de découvrir et de vous former à divers domaines de la cybersécurité.

This library is a type safe wrapper for PHP Reflection API.

This library is born with the purpose to solve the problem of type safety in PHP Reflection API.
Reflection API is a very powerful tool, but presents some issues.

For example:

• the original ReflectionClass::getConstant return false if the constant does not exist or if the constant is equal to false.
• ReflectionClass::newInstance return a generic object, but it is possible to know the type of the object.
• New interfaces are added to the Reflection API in different PHP versions, so it is not possible to use them in a cross-version way.

Installation

web-fu/reflection is available on Packagist and can be installed
using Composer.

composer require web-fu/reflection

A birds-eye view of Monit

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Some examples in this presentation might only work with a recent version of Monit. Please download Monit below or use your package manager to install the latest versio

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• LocalSend
• Send
• Feedbro
• Joplin
• AudioMass
• Photopea
• Excalidraw
• CalcES
• Chris Titus WinUtil (Windows only)
• Microsoft Powertoys (Windows only)
• ShareX (Windows only)
• NewPipe (Android only)
• Fossify Apps (Android only)
• NuShell
• RClone

La Coopérative d’activité et d’emploi (CAE) propose un modèle d’entrepreneuriat salarié unique, qui permet de créer et de développer sa propre activité dans un cadre autonome, coopératif et sécurisé.

La CAE est constituée sous forme de Scop (Société coopérative et participative), de Scic (Société d’intérêt collectif) ou de coopérative Loi 47.

Avant tout entrepreneur, responsable du développement de son activité, l’entrepreneur en CAE est appuyé dans la création et le développement de son activité grâce à des moyens mutualisés dédiés (facturation, outils de gestion…). Après une période de test de son activité, il devient salarié avec tous les droits sociaux liés.

Pour inscrire dans la durée son activité au sein de la coopérative, il devient associé sous trois ans et participe ainsi aux orientations et à la gestion de l’entreprise partagée.

Les CAE sont aujourd’hui 155 en France accompagnant et hébergeant 12 000 entrepreneurs qui développent leur activité dans des secteurs très diversifiés : artisanat, services aux entreprises ou particuliers, formation, bâtiment, transport, etc. Il existe d’ailleurs plusieurs types de CAE : multi-métiers ou bien spécialisées, rassemblant des savoir-faire ou métiers d’un même secteur d’activité.

The SEAL project is a PHP library designed to simplify the process of interacting
with different search engines. It provides a straightforward interface that enables users
to communicate with various search engines, including:

• Elasticsearch
• Opensearch
• Meilisearch
• Algolia
• Loupe
• Solr
• RediSearch
• Typesense
• Memory
• ... missing something? Let us know!

It also provides integration packages for the

Symfony,
Laravel,
Spiral,
Mezzio
and Yii PHP frameworks.

The evolution of software development over the past decade has been very frustrating. Little of it seems to makes sense, even to those of us who are right in the middle of it.

We usually only notice trends and popular frameworks and libraries after they’ve exploded in popularity. By that time they’re often so far removed from their original context that their initial technical merit is a hard-to-distinguish quiet signal in the overwhelming noise of hype, grift, and false promises.

If you do take the time to trace these trends back to their early beginnings, you often discover that, no, it wasn’t just somebody’s con or VC startup pitch that happened to get traction. Usually there was something there at the beginning, however slight that “something” might have been.

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