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Unreal Tournament 99 running on WASM (2017)
See Unreal Tournament (1999) run in a web browser!
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,821 posts.
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SiriSpy – iOS bug allowed apps to eavesdrop on your conversations with Siri
Gui Rambo writes about his coding and reverse engineering adventures.
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Writing systemd units that stop gracefully before shutdown
systemd Shutdown Units
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Time is an illusion, Unix time doubly so
Unix counts time as seconds since the epoch. Seems straight forward. What could possibly go wrong?
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Ring0VBA – Getting Ring0 Using a Word Document
Hey hey! Welcome to my little corner of the internet. I am also known as 'Diz'! I made this site to document my research and contributions throughout the years, and other fun stuff I could come up with. Hope you're having a good day/afternoon/night wherever you are!
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Brave New Trusted Boot World
Posts and writings by Lennart Poettering
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Building software to last forever
How Bear is going to live a long and healthy life
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Flying the Unflyable Plane: The near crash of Air Astana flight 1388
A deeper analysis of the events which caused a Kazakh airliner to go out of control over Portugal in November 2018.
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Test scores are not irrelevant
Some claims that test scores don’t predict college success don’t add up.
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Multi-Kernel Drifting
Using truss, dtrace & ctfconvert to figure out a faulty illumos kernel module.
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Markov chain Monte Carlo without the bullshit (2015)
I have a little secret: I don’t like the terminology, notation, and style of writing in statistics. I find it unnecessarily complicated. This shows up when trying to read about Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods. Take, for example, the abstract to the Markov Chain Monte Carlo article in the Encyclopedia of…
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Zig Is Self-Hosted Now, What's Next?
Why self-host Zig?<br> For great justice, of course… and also a few more reasons actually.
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Stop Writing Twitter Threads
If you've clicked on the links, you've probably noticed a pattern: they are all Twitter threads. And Twitter threads are an absolute abomination.
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Chromium based browsers leak user local IP via WebRTC foundation attribute
This script uses a pregenerated foundation lookup table to find local IP address for ICE candidates that render local mDNS hostnames seen as xx-xxx-xxx-xx.local .
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Ssss: Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme (2006)
Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme
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How the clipboard works
Reading how copy-paste works from the Wayland specification is non-trivial unless you understand a lot of how desktop computing works and Wayland internal. It took me quite a while to figure it all out, though once you get there, it seems quite obvious.
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What “work” looks like
Collaboration is amazing! There’s absolutely no trade-offs, right? The mantra of sharing your work and involving everyone in decisions naturally leads to…
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The cult of dd (2017)
You'll often see instructions for creating and using disk images on Unix systems making use of the dd command. This is a strange program of [obscure provenance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix)) that somehow, still manages to survive in the 21st century.
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Salary Transparency
Xe Iaso's personal website.
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My thoughts on the Framework laptop
Like many others in the open source community, I was very intrigued by the idea of the Framework laptop , a modular laptop designed to be repairable and upgradable. With a bunch of designs, schematics and documentation released as open source and a product that's legitimately competitive with the proprietary…
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My next Mac might be the last
Why keep investing in a platform that's been disappointing me for a while?
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Australia's weird little time zone (2008)
One tiny corner of Australia recognises "Australian Central Western Standard Time" (ACWST), an unofficial zone based on the quarter hour.
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Fake Books
Machine-generated books are here. I bought one by accident.
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Buffers on the Edge: Python and Rust
One of my least favorite kinds of bug is when two different systems are interacting and the result has bad behavior but it’s difficult to say which (if either!) system is at fault. This is one of those stories, about Python’s buffer protocol and Rust’s memory model.
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Debugging C with Cosmopolitan Libc
Gautham's Blog
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Maintaining sufficient free space with ZFS
TLDR: ZFS free-space reporting is a lagging indicator. Background I use Proxmox VM server backed by a ZFS array of hard drives for various personal infrastructure. I also have security cameras that upload motion-triggered videos to my server (via FTP!). Problem Description I would like to use 90% of my available space…