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Scream cipher
You've probably heard of stream ciphers, but what about a scream cipher 😱? Today I learned there are more “Latin capital letter A” Unicode characters than there are letters in the English alphabet....
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This website has no class
Going “full CSS Zen Garden” with modern CSS.
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Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
An open letter, or something
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Hypervisor 101 in Rust
This is a day long course to quickly learn the inner working of hypervisors and techniques to write them for high-performance fuzzing.
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One Token to rule them all – Obtaining Global Admin in every Entra ID tenant
While preparing for my Black Hat and DEF CON talks in July of this year, I found the most impactful Entra ID vulnerability that I will probably ever find. One that could have allowed me to compromise every Entra ID tenant in the world (except probably those in national cloud deployments). If you are an Entra ID admin…
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Famous cognitive psychology experiments that failed to replicate
A quick reference
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Tinycolor supply chain attack post-mortem
Lessons learned from becoming the unexpected face of a npm supply-chain attack.
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Not Buying American Anymore
I feel like I need to first defuse any idea of antagonizing Americans themselves. The people are never to blame. This isn't a post criticizing the American people, it's criticizing the state of things that makes it impractical to have any sort of economical relation with the country if you are an average Joe like me.
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How to motivate yourself to do a thing you don't want to do
Learn some ways to help encourage action when you feel unmotivated.
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Procedural Island Generation (III)
Adding multi-scale noise layers, mountain distance fields, and elevation blending to create detailed terrain from the paint map foundation.
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Apple Photos app corrupts images
The Apple Photos app sometimes corrupts images when importing from my camera. I just wanted to make a blog post about it in case anyone else runs into the problem. I’ve seen other references to this online, but most of the people gave up trying to fix it, and none of them went as far as I did to debug the issue. I’ll…
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PureVPN IPv6 Leak
Two findings in PureVPN on Ubuntu 24.04. After a reconnect the system takes a default IPv6 route outside the tunnel, and the ip6tables OUTPUT policy is still ACCEPT, so traffic leaves in the clear while the client reports connected.
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Oh no, not again a meditation on NPM supply chain attacks
For enterprise software, the software supply chain presents some of the biggest risks today to data privacy and security.
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Slow social media
How can we design better platforms?
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I got the highest score on ARC-AGI again swapping Python for English
Using Multi-Agent Collaboration with Evolutionary Test-Time Compute
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In Defense of C++
Why C++ remains a powerful and relevant programming language in today's tech landscape.
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Should we drain the Everglades?
no pls dont
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Meta RayBan AR glasses shows Lumus waveguide structures in leaked video
Introduction Just a short note today. I’m in the middle of my trip, which will end in Eindhoven next week (see notice at the end of this article), when I heard that Meta had leaked a video on…
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Midcentury North American Restaurant Placemats
Like so many past ephemera finds I’ve shared here, I bought these midcentury North American restaurant placemats at Brimfield Flea this July from a vendor who had around 500 in a big plastic tub. I bought 25 for $75 (a steal!) but I did have to talk myself out of asking how much it would be for the whole box. Most of…
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Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync
On June 19th, my life changed with a phone call.
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I’m Not a Robot
Prove your humanity once and for all
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Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio (2024)
Last week, I went on an adventure through the electromagnetic spectrum!
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Europe is locking itself in to US LNG
The US energy secretary says the quiet part out loud: the tributary $750 billion in energy purchases the EU has promised in its Trump deal is meant to lock Europe into "long-term" energy dependence.
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Implicit ODE solvers are not universally more robust than explicit ODE solvers
A very common adage in ODE solvers is that if you run into trouble with an explicit method, usually some explicit Runge-Kutta method like RK4, then you should try an implicit method. Implicit methods, because they are doing more work, solving an implicit system via a Newton method having “better” stability, should be…
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When the job search becomes impossible
I have the good fortune to have a job right now, but many of my friends are out of work. Most have been searching for a while. Some are encountering a problem that has my full sympathy, something I’ve experienced myself at various times. I’m not sure I can solve it, but maybe I can help put words to what some are…
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Just Use HTML
I’ve worked on so many projects recently that were more complicated than they needed to be because they used JavaScript to generate HTML. JavaScript is… Slower to load Slower to run More prone to breaking Harder to read and reason about Doesn’t actually look like the final output It’s inferior to just using HTML in…
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If all the world were a monorepo
The R ecosystem and the case for extreme empathy in software maintenance
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Rules for creating good-looking user interfaces
Creating good-looking user interfaces has always been a struggle for me. If you’re in the same camp, this might help.
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Public static void main(String[] args) is dead
Holy fucking shit did this suck 1 . There is a comments section below. Give your eulogy for that piece of shit sorcerous incantation there or wherever else.