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Articles from blogs I follow around the net
Session Round 2
Last week, I wrote a blog post succinctly titled, Don’t Use Session. Two interesting things have happened since I published that blog: A few people expressed uncertainty about what I wrote about using Pollard’s rho to attack Session’s design (for which, I …
via Dhole MomentsJanuary 20, 2025Status update, January 2025
Hi all! FOSDEM is approaching rapidly! I’ll be there and will give a talk about modern IRC. In wlroots land, we’ve finally merged support for the next-generation screen capture protocols, ext-image-capture-source-v1 and ext-image-copy-capture-v1! Compared …
via emersionJanuary 18, 2025The tech-industrial complex
I moved this blog off AWS to a local VPS outfit. I'm no longer giving any money to Jeff Bezos. Directly any way. I'm sure it finds its way to him via taxes & other things, but directly: No more. It's a small step, but one of many, & something I wanted to g…
via Mike KreuzerJanuary 18, 2025No billionaires at FOSDEM
Jack Dorsey, former CEO of Twitter, ousted board member of BlueSky, and grifter extraordinaire to the tune of a $5.6B net worth, is giving a keynote at FOSDEM. The FOSDEM keynote stage is one of the biggest platforms in the free software community. Janson …
via Drew DeVault's blogJanuary 16, 20252024 in review
I want to go through some highlights of the year. Thanks for coming along for the ride!1 A year of being independent This was my first entire year of my being an independent open source maintainer. I’m very happy with how it turned out! I highly appreci…
via seanmonstarJanuary 15, 2025Brainwash An Executive Today!
I. A few years ago, I had an annual one-on-one with the Chief Technology Officer of an employer with more than ten thousand staff. Senior management absolutely fawned over this person — extremely politically savvy, they would say. Amazing at acquiring fund…
via LudicityJanuary 13, 20252025 Predictions
I was just enjoying Simon Willison’s predictions and, heck, why not. 1: The web becomes adversarial to AI The history of search engines is sort of an arms race between websites and search engines. Back in the early 2000s, juicing your ranking on search e…
via macwright.comJanuary 11, 2025A journey into File Transfer Protocols in Rust
How it started I can for sure affirm that you've used File transfer protocols before. Let's exclude HTTP from here, because, of course it is currently used also to transfer files, but it's not bi-directional and it mostly a workaround added at a certain…
via Christian Visintin BlogJanuary 06, 2025The Adrian Dittmann Story
the evidence, from A to Z, and righting the wrongs
via maia blogJanuary 05, 2025Bloat
Common questions we see in the OpenSUSE community are "which distro is the least bloated", "how can I remove bloat", "package X is bloat" etc. For the longest time this has confused me - Linux while sometimes slow, isn't "bloated". So where are all these q…
via Firstyear's blog-a-logJanuary 04, 2025Awesome Fish functions
Some awesome fish functions that I have accumalated over the years.
via Ishan WritesJanuary 03, 2025Styling HTML details and summary with modern CSS
Use CSS to style and manage disclosure widgets, which are the HTML details and summary elements.
via Rob O'Leary | BlogDecember 26, 2024Yer a Wizard! Tagging Hard-coded Credentials Can Lead to Finding Magic (Numbers)
As GreyNoise researcher, you always have things to write detection rules for. Some of them aren’t always exciting, but they become more interesting as you dive deeper. Let’s jump right in and take a look at CVE-2024-6633: The default credentials for the s…
via GreyNoise LabsDecember 03, 2024OpenGL is not Right-Handed
The original Twitter thread: https://x.com/TheGingerBill/status/1508833104567414785 I have a huge gripe when I read articles/tutorials on OpenGL: most people have no idea what they are talking about when it comes to coordinate systems and matrices. Specifi…
via Articles on gingerBillNovember 10, 2024Physics 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