#desktop (2 posts)
Is Linux (as a desktop) normie friendly already?
Written on: 2023-04-27
Updated on: 2023-04-29
we are not there yet and maybe for a long time
Articles from blogs I follow around the net
Body::poll_progress
This describes a proposal for a cancelation problem with hyper’s request and response bodies. hyper is an HTTP library for the Rust language. Background: what is the Body trait? The Body trait used by hyper is meant to represent a potentially streaming (…
via seanmonstarApril 22, 2025CVE-2025-32433 - State Machine Err-ly RCE in Erlang/OTP SSH Server
CVE-2025-32433 is a remote code execution vulnerability in the SSH server implementation within Erlang’s OTP libraries (affecting versions legendary CVSS score of 10.0 and became known as a vulnerability for which AI-assisted exploit development process wa…
via GreyNoise LabsApril 22, 2025AI-powered search summaries led to less clicks to websites
Google claims that links beside AI summaries get more clicks. This goes against intuition. Ahrefs did some analysis on this recently. Who is right?
via Rob O'Leary | BlogApril 21, 2025Resistance from the tech sector
As of late, most of us have been reading the news with a sense of anxious trepidation. At least, those of us who read from a position of relative comfort and privilege. Many more read the news with fear. Some of us are already no longer in a position to re…
via Drew DeVault's blogApril 20, 2025Retrospective: Five Years Blogging About Cryptography as a Gay Furry Online
The history of this blog might very well be a cautionary tail (sic) about scope creep. The Original Vision For Dhole Moments Originally, I just wanted a place to write about things too long for Twitter (back when I was an avid Twitter poster). I also figur…
via Dhole MomentsApril 17, 2025Status update, April 2025
Hi! Last week wlroots 0.19.0-rc1 has been released! It includes the new color management protocol, however it doesn’t include HDR10 support because the renderer and backend bits haven’t yet been merged. Also worth noting is full explicit synchronization su…
via emersionApril 16, 2025The IndieWeb & that blog roll
The IndieWeb's something I've known about for a while, but never really engaged with. I mean this is very much part of The Indie Web, the very thing, you're reading it right now. But in terms of the camel cased movement, not so much. To me they seemed a bi…
via Mike KreuzerApril 16, 2025Tidbyt without the company
Remember the Tidbyt? It’s a super low-resolution, internet-connected, wood-paneled display that I wrote a review of it back in 2022. It’s been on my shelf for years now, showing the time, weather, warning me when the UV is going to be high. In 2023 I used …
via macwright.comApril 12, 2025One does not simply write a SSH config parser (in Rust)
Do you know the feeling when you start a project and you think it will be easy, but then you realize that it is not? This is the story of the implementation of ssh2-config, a Rust library to parse SSH config files. Why did I write this? Because basically…
via Christian Visintin BlogMarch 30, 2025LLDB's TypeSystems: An Unfinished Interface
Well, it's "done". TypeSystemRust has a (semi) working prototype for LLDB 19.x. It doesn't support expressions or MSVC targets (i.e. PDB debug info), and there are a whole host of catastrophic crashes, but it more or less proves what it needs to: Rust's de…
via Cracking the ShellMarch 28, 2025Backup Yubikey Strategy
After a local security meetup where I presented about Webauthn, I had a really interesting chat with a member about a possible Yubikey management strategy. Normally when you purchase a yubikey it's recommended that you buy two of them - one primary and one…
via Firstyear's blog-a-logFebruary 28, 2025Ludic's Guide To Getting Software Engineering Jobs
The steps in this guide have generated A$1,179,000 in salary (updated 13th April, 2025), measured as the sum of the highest annual salaries friends and readers have reached after following along, where they were willing to attribute their success actions i…
via LudicityFebruary 28, 2025The Adrian Dittmann Story
the evidence, from A to Z, and righting the wrongs
via maia blogJanuary 05, 2025Awesome Fish functions
Some awesome fish functions that I have accumalated over the years.
via Ishan WritesJanuary 03, 2025Physics Simulations in Bevy
Bevy is the most popular and powerful game engine in Rust. Because of its flexibility, it can be used not only for games but also for (scientific) physics simulations. In this blog post, I will share my experience using Bevy for physics simulations from sc…
via mo8it.comJuly 19, 2024Defending myself against defensive writing
I write this blog because I enjoy writing. Some people enjoy reading what I write, which makes me feel really great! Recently, I took down a post and stopped writing for a few months because I didn't love the reaction I was getting on social media sites li…
via pcloadletterMay 27, 2024The Elegiac Hindsight of Intelligent Machines
This essay was edited out of a chapter of my book, The Intelligence Illusion: a practical guide to the business risks of Generative AI, with minor alterations. “See the choice of dreams”, and then worry about it Very well. This book – this side, Dream …
via Out of the Software Crisis (Newsletter)October 13, 2023Regex engine internals as a library
Over the last several years, I’ve rewritten Rust’s regex crate to enable better internal composition, and to make it easier to add optimizations while maintaining correctness. In the course of this rewrite I created a new crate, regex-automata, which expos…
via Andrew Gallant's Blog on Andrew Gallant's BlogJuly 05, 2023Generated by openring-rs