OpenAI’s chatbot offers paraphrases, whereas Google offers quotes. Which do we prefer?| The New Yorker
About two weeks ago, we joined the masses of people leaving Twitter for Mastodon. The fact that Mastodon, building on some earlier ideas for federated social networking, is a decentralized approach, has renewed our interest in, and hope for, the decentralization of the Internet.| systemsapproach.substack.com
Homa is a new transport protocol for modern datacenters. It was designed in a clean-slate fashion to meet the needs of large scale datacenter applications, and its design is quite different from TCP. Although TCP has a long and illustrious history, virtually every aspect of its design is wrong for the datacenter. As a result, TCP suffers from serious performance problems and it limits the scalability of applications. Homa differs from TCP in every major aspect of its design, and this combinat...| homa-transport.atlassian.net
The publication of a new, definitive specification for TCP (RFC 9293) is enough of a big deal in our world that we couldn’t resist a second post on the topic.| systemsapproach.substack.com