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How the US defense secretary circumvents official DoD communications equipment
A weblog about Signals Intelligence, Communications Security and top level telecommunications equipment
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 49,204 posts.
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I Found Malware in a BeamNG Mod
An analysis using Process Monitor and WinDbg, dealing with JavaScript, WASM, and Windows shellcode.
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Linux Kernel Exploitation: Attack of the Vsock
What started off as casual scrolling through the KernelCTF submissions quickly spiraled into a weeks-long deep dive into a deceptively simple patch - and my first root shell from a Linux kernel exploit!
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Reversible computing with mechanical links and pivots
With the concern that “Moore’s Law is dead,” new interest has grown for unconventional forms of computing. This includes:
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Someone at YouTube needs glasses
Opened YouTube and was greeted with this abomination:
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Joining Sun Microsystems – 40 years ago (2022)
40 years ago today: I joined a tiny startup called Sun Microsystems. What a ride! Here’s the never-before-told story of how I arrived at Sun as employee #8! 🧵 I started out in Silicon Valley …
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"AI-first" is the new Return To Office
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Path Isn't Real on Linux
where my words occasionally escape /dev/null
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Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment
The numbers clearly show this is a pointless distraction for the climate movement
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I can't pay rent because devs just don't care
Rent's due today, thank heavens I just got paid. I don't set up standing orders, got burned once with unarranged overdraft fees, that wasn't a good mont...
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O3 beats a master-level GeoGuessr player, even with fake EXIF data
In Which I Try to Maintain Human Supremacy for a Bit Longer
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Performance optimization is hard because it's fundamentally a brute-force task
I’m not talking about skill, knowledge, or convincing a world focused on radical acceleration that optimization is necessary. Performance optimization is hard because it’s fundamentally a brute-force task, and there’s nothing you can do about it. This post is a bit of a rant on my frustrations with code optimization…
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How to build Intrinsic Motivation: a review of the science
I dig into the research on intrinsic motivation. Super interesting subject. Long but hopefully quite thorough.
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My sourdough starter has twins
A couple of years ago, I participated in a study of the HealthFerm Citizen Science group in …
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Try Switching to Kagi
Paying for Kagi today feels a *lot* like paying for HBO back in the cable TV heyday.
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A single line of code cost $8000
Due to a simple bug, Screen Studio app did generate over 2 petabytes of network traffic
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Knowledge-based society, my ass
I've studied the effects of electromagnetic fields on patients with carotid stent implants during my PhD. I've never talked with any patient nor seen any such medical devices even to this day, fifteen years later.
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All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding
Google pays for 80%+ of the development budget of all major web browsers, and soon, the US will force Google to stop supporting their…
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I use zip bombs to protect my server
The majority of the traffic on the web is from bots. For the most part, these bots are used to discover new content. These are RSS Feed readers, search engines crawling your content, or nowadays AI bo
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Is outbound going to die?
HN Discussion
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The side hustle from hell
11 months in The Side Hustle From Hell
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Reality Check
Like this newsletter? Why not listen to the podcast version on Better Offline? Part 1 is out now (here're other links), and Part 2 comes out Friday May 2nd! I'm sick and god-damn tired of this! I have written tens of thousands of words about this and
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The Books of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
I discovered that they’d published a complete, illustrated version of the Earthsea cycle a couple weeks ago. I’m not overly fond of omnibus editions, but this is illustrated by Charles …
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It's School time: Adventures in hacking an old Kindle
Jailbreaking an old Kindle and turning it into a school dashboard using Cloudflare Workers, Puppeteer, and image processing.
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Uncovering the mechanics of The Games: Winter Challenge
An investigation into The Games; Winter Challenge
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Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" and LLMs replacing human programmers
In this essay, I will perform the logical fallacy of argument from authority (wikipedia.org) to attack the notion that large language model (LLM)-based generative "AI" systems are capable of doing the work of human programmers.
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East German Stasi Tactics – Zersetzung (2021)
A look at the experiences of activists in East Germany (GDR) dealing with Stasi informants and infiltration before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
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AI Coding assistants provide little value because a programmer's job is to think
I've long had a fraught relationship with ToDo lists, because they're very much a double edged sword, but I'm convinced that much of the problem is t ...