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PeerTube 4 RC

Customization, content discovery, empowering through more control... Here is an overview of the new version of our software solution to create alternative platforms to YouTube and federate them together. « Frama is not just... » Each week of Fall 2021, we want to present you the diversity of what Framasoft does. As…

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HATEOAS: An Alternative Explaination

In this essay, Carson Gross explores HATEOAS (Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State), explaining how it enables REST APIs through hypermedia responses and contrasting it with modern JSON-based APIs. Using clear HTML examples, Carson demonstrates how HATEOAS allows clients to discover available actions…

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The Invisible JavaScript Backdoor

A few months ago we saw a post on the r/programminghorror subreddit: A developer describes the struggle of identifying a syntax error resulting from an invisible Unicode character hidden in JavaScript source code. This post inspired an idea: What if a backdoor literally cannot be seen and thus evades detection even…