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My application ran away and called home from Redmond
I recently found a surprising leak vector in Windows 10 installations. We were porting our Beacon to Windows and for easy deployment…
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Walking Away from the Product I Spent a Year Building
Here I sit, in a cabin on Lake Superior by the fire, with late-season snow pelting the windows and ominous waves crashing against the rocky shore.
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A new type of phishing attack. Works on savvy users.
In essence, a phishing attack is a kind of hack used by cybercriminals to trick victims into performing a certain activity. These emails are frequently sent
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The Onion releases fartscroll.js
Include "fartscroll.js" in your page. You can include the latest version straight from our CDN:
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Emulating AirTags to upload arbitrary data via Apple's FindMy network
Apple AirTags: Arbitrary data can be uploaded from non-internet-connected devices by sending Find My BLE broadcasts to nearby Apple devices. We're releasing an ESP32 firmware that turns the microcontroller into an (upload only) modem, and a macOS application to retrieve, decode and display the uploaded data.
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Startup advice, briefly
This is a very short summary with lots left out—here is the long version: http://startupclass.samaltman.com You should start with an idea, not a company. When it’s just an idea or project,...
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25 Gigabit Linux internet router PC build
init7 recently announced that with their FTTH fiber offering Fiber7, they will now sell and connect you with 25 Gbit/s (Fiber7-X2) or 10 Gbit/s (Fiber7-X) fiber optics, if you want more than 1 Gbit/s. While this offer will only become available at my location late this year (or possibly later due to the supply chain…
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Shortest URLs on the Internet
What’s the shortest URL for which content is served on the internet? There are quite a few single-letter second-level domains that are used in very short URLs, such as Google’s http://g.co or Facebook’s https://m.me. But we can go shorter than this: there’s nothing stopping TLD registry operators serving A records at…
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UASP makes Raspberry Pi 4 disk IO 50% faster
You can view a video related to this blog post here: Does UASP make the Raspberry Pi faster?. A couple weeks ago, I did some testing with my Raspberry Pi 4 and external USB SSD drives. I found a USB 3.0 SSD was ten times faster than the fastest microSD card I tested. In the comments on the video associated with that…
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A Teenager’s View on Social Media
Written by an actual teen
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Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom
An inside look at the inner workings of a technology you may take for granted
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Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12
Our next npm major version, v12, introduces security-related default changes to npm install. All these changes are available behind warnings in npm today on 11.16.0 or newer, so you can…
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Motorola cell phones are regularly phoning home
If you have a Motorola Android device, there is a good chance it is silently sending a great deal of your personal information (including email addresses and passwords) to Motorola.
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Announcing Topaz: A New Ruby
I’m extraordinarily pleased to today announce Topaz, a project I started 10 months ago, to create a brand new implementation of the Ruby programming language (version 1.9.3).
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Ruby 3.2’s YJIT is Production-Ready
YJIT, a just-in-time (JIT) implementation on top of CRuby built at Shopify, is now production-ready and delivering major improvements to performance and speed. Maxime shares the updates that have been made in this newest version of YJIT, and future plans for further optimization.
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How Does Sqlite Work? (2014)
How does SQLite work? Part 1: pages!
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The Website Hacker News Is Afraid to Discuss
What bothers me isn’t so much that Daring Fireball is shitlisted at Hacker News. What bothers me is that it’s unexplained.
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eBay is port scanning visitors to their website
Websites are scanning for open ports on your PC to help fight fraud, but this data also flows into a massive, global tracking database.
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Oracle’s Java 11 trap
TL:DR; Java is still available at zero-cost , you just need to stop using Oracle JDK and start using an OpenJDK build, such as this one o...
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Site Isolation in Firefox
With Site Isolation enabled on Firefox for Desktop, Mozilla takes its security guarantees to the next level.
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JQuery 2.0 Released
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library