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Articles from blogs I follow around the net
AyySSHush: Tradecraft of an emergent ASUS botnet
Using an AI powered network traffic analysis tool we built called SIFT, GreyNoise has caught multiple anomalous network payloads with zero-effort that are attempting to disable TrendMicro security features in ASUS routers, then exploit vulnerabilities and …
via GreyNoise LabsMay 28, 2025The everlasting now
Continuing the experiment. My first post in this series was manually crafted, but coding a static almost-a-site generator, without having to worry about all the interrelationships on the old site was quick, & in Rust terms at least, relatively easy. This i…
via Mike KreuzerMay 23, 2025Web3: The new Scarlet Letter on your resume
A premise about my work experience I have been working as a Software Engineer for over 8 years. In my career I have worked in these sectors and for these amounts of time: Embedded systems on Passenger Information Systems and Access Control Systems: 4…
via Christian Visintin BlogMay 21, 2025Making a custom porteur bag
I just finished my first fully custom sewing project: a porteur bag for bike trips. This is a bag designed to fit on a front rack, in my case a rack called Jack The Bike Rack. On multi-day trips, I want to bring a change of clothes, and need somewhere to p…
via macwright.comMay 18, 2025Status update, May 2025
Hi! Today wlroots 0.19.0 has finally been released! Among the newly supported protocols, color-management-v1 lays the first stone of HDR support (backend and renderer bits are still being reviewed) and ext-image-copy-capture-v1 enhances the previous screen…
via emersionMay 14, 2025The British Airways position on various border disputes
My spouse and I are on vacation in Japan, spending half our time seeing the sights and the other half working remotely and enjoying the experience of living in a different place for a while. To get here, we flew on British Airways from London to Tokyo, and…
via Drew DeVault's blogMay 05, 2025Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI
It’s becoming increasingly apparent that one of the reasons why tech companies are so enthusiastic about shoving AI into every product and service is that they fundamentally do not understand why people dislike AI. I will elaborate. I was recently made awa…
via Dhole MomentsMay 04, 2025Get Weird And Disappear
Pre-script: Reader and now close friend Phil Giammattei could use some help with a horrible brush with cancer in the family. You can support him here. Update: You all crushed Phil's goal, thank you so much for your generosity. Things are obviously Extremel…
via LudicityApril 29, 2025Body::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, 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, 2025#Rx Writing Challenge 2025
This is a short reflection on my experience of the recent writing challenge I took part in. Over the past two weeks, I have participated in the #RxWritingChallenge 1—a daily, 30-minute writing group starting at 9 AM every morning. Surrounded by fellow doct…
via Ul-lingaApril 05, 2025My coffee workflow
My coffee workflow by Clement Delafargue on April 1, 2025 Tagged as: coffee, espresso, flair58, v60. It is my first April cools’ and I guess I could start by talking about coffee. If you’ve seen me in person, it won’t be a surprise, I guess. This po…
via Clément Delafargue - RSS feedApril 01, 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, 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, 2024Generated by openring-rs