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ImapGoose is a small program to keep local mailboxes in sync with an IMAP server. The wording “keep […] in sync” implies that it does so continuously, rather than a one-time sync. ImapGoose is designed as a daemon, monitoring both the IMAP server and the local filesystem, and immediately synchronising changes. When…
Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable. Of course there are alternatives, specifically bad ones...
A year ago I installed a 4 kilowatt solar fence . I'm revisiting it this Sun Day , to share the design, now that I have prooved it out.
Applying human ergonomics and design principles to syntax highlighting
Even though the impacts of LLMs have never been seen before, they feel familiar to earlier assumptions.
We explore language models that recursively call themselves or other LLMs before providing a final answer. The aim is essentially unbounded context, and a way through context rot.
Exploring the emergence of user conventions in a minimal system.
We shouldn’t worry about AI destroying society because there’s something scarier out there (it’s us)
ptrpaws's blog on reverse engineering, programming, vr finds and miscellaneous stuff.
I was 30 seconds away from running malware, Here's how a sophisticated scam operation almost got me, and why every developer needs to read this.
So you don't have to.
Hi, it's Takuya. As your app grows in popularity, you occasionally start to attract attacks aimed directly at you—the developer or site owner. Just the other day, I got one that was honestly terrifying, so I'd like to share it. The Email Subject: Cookie consent prevents platform
Stopping a Linux thread is a surprisingly annoying affair. In this post I present common pitfalls and some solutions -- although no truly satisfactory method exists.
A practical guide to working with AI coding agents without the hype.
Today morning, I came across this reddit post titled Completely losing interest in the career due to AI and AI-pilled people. They describe how in a span of ...
NVIDIA sent me a preview unit of their new DGX Spark desktop “AI supercomputer”. I’ve never had hardware to review before! You can consider this my first ever sponsored post …
The following submission to Jeremy Friesen’s ‘elevator pitch’-themed Emacs blog carnival is taken from my rather long manuscript in progress (‘the present work’), tent…
They told us elections were rigged. Then they cloned stolen voting software. Then they bought the voting machines.
Mobile adtech juggernaut AppLovin recently faced multiple allegations of misconduct . Allegations run the gamut—privacy, ad targeting, even national security and ties to China. I was among the researchers consulted by skeptical investors this spring, and I was quoted in one of their reports, explaining my concerns…
The needs are real – and you have so much power.
Your product's core abstractions determine whether new features compound into a moat or just add to a feature list. Here's how to get it right.
Can't you just turn it off?
A tale of suspiciously cheap ADS1115s
How to start really getting Ruby, especially blocks.
My new book guides you through the start-to-finish build of a real world web application in Go — covering topics like how to structure your code, manage dependencies, create dynamic database-driven pages, and how to authenticate and authorize users securely .
Four years after my post on doing network captures on macOS with Process ID, Wireshark 4.6.0 has been released which includes support for parsing this…
Let's Discuss the organization providing a false sense of security at an unbeatable price.
A few days ago I got a sensationally stupid email from one of those websites that most of us probably have a subscription to, but which I will not give the oxygen of publicity by linking to[1]. The…
Having a home server and a few smart plugs leads to interesting data points like this one. Well, interesting to me, at least.
If you can ctrl-c and ctrl-v, you can build a JIT.
