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Privilege escalation with polkit: How to get root on Linux with a seven-year-ol
polkit is a system service installed by default on many Linux distributions. It’s used by systemd, so any Linux distribution that uses systemd also uses polkit.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,820 posts.
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My startup journey
How I “failed” at a YC startup, worked at early Stripe, and then raised $20M
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The work-from-home future is destroying bosses' brains
DO NOT SUBSCRIBE HERE subscribe at wheresyoured.at. Click to read DO NOT SUBSCRIBE HERE subscribe at wheresyoured.at, by Ed Zitron, a Substack publication.
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Rqlite 6.0: the evolution of a distributed database design
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. v6.0.0 is out now and makes clustering more robust. It also lays the foundation for more important features. What's new in 6.0? 6.0 multiplexes multiple logical connections between rqlite nodes…
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Developers can't fix bad management (2020)
Two modes of operation leverage entirely different practices
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No general method to detect fraud
The parts of a convincing deception
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Full cycle developers – Operate what you build (2018)
Operating what you build, empowered with amazing developer tools
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Always Be Quitting
A good philosophy to live by at work is to “always be quitting”. No, don’t be constantly thinking of leaving your job 😱. But act as if you might leave on short notice 😎. Counterintuitively, this will make you a better engineer and open up growth opportunities. A thread 👇.
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Seven Years of Factorio Friday Facts (2020)
This entry focuses on Wube Software's long-running Factorio Friday Facts; a seven-year labor of love documenting the creation of the titular video game.
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What's in email tracking links and pixels?
This investigation into email tracking attempts to deconstruct tracking links and pixels and highlight the data that is being collected. It covers Mailchimp, …
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Fastmail accounts blocked in Russia, here's what we know
Fastmail is the latest email provider to be blocked by Russia.
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Vivaldi 4.0
Translate websites on desktop or Android privately with Vivaldi 4.0! Our latest update also adds beta versions of Mail, Calendar, and Feed Reader.
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The Mother of All ‘Abandoned’ Airports (2015)
West Berlin's lifeline during the Soviet Blockade, Tempelhof Airport has since become the city’s biggest park. Berliners will fight to keep it that way.
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I wrote a linker everyone can understand
When we wrote our assembler we made many design choices that helped us cut down on the complexity of the assembler itself. One of those decisions was to have the assembler directly output executables. That was a good choice in that it allowed us to quickly test as we were developing: once we implemented an opcode, we…
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Summary of June 8 outage
We experienced a global outage due to an undiscovered software bug that surfaced on June 8 when it was triggered by a valid customer configuration change. Here's a rundown of what happened, why, and what we're doing about it.
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You Don’t Need Permission
I was pleasantly surprised to hear from Suresh, an ex-student I’ve known for a long time. A U.S. citizen he was now the head of sales and marketing for a company in London selling medical devices t…
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GPT-J-6B: 6B JAX-Based Transformer
Summary: We have released GPT-J-6B, 6B JAX-based (Mesh) Transformer LM (Github).GPT-J-6B performs nearly on par with 6.7B GPT-3 (or Curie) on various zero-shot down-streaming tasks.You can try out …
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What the Fastly outage can teach us about writing error messages
As developers, we can *definitely* do better than 'Error 503 Service Unavailable' when it comes to error messages. This article shows you how.
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Introducing chrome.scripting
The Scripting API is a new Manifest V3 API focused on, well, scripting. Let's dig into the motivations for this change and how it's different.
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ProPublica's tax story
What happens when journalists don't have any friends in finance to challenge their thinking?
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Microsoft Patches Six Zero-Day Security Holes
Microsoft today released another round of security updates for Windows operating systems and supported software, including fixes for six zero-day bugs that malicious hackers already are exploiting in active attacks.
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Astro: Ship Less JavaScript
We're excited to announce Astro as a new way to build static websites and deliver lightning-fast performance without sacrificing a modern developer experience.
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Text Classification by Data Compression
Edit – I posted this on Hackernews and got some valuable feedback. Many brought up the fact that you should be able to reuse the internal state of the compressor instead of recompressing the training …
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Real-world CSS vs. CSS-in-JS performance comparison
I took the real app and convert it from Styled Components to Linaria to compare the app performance of CSS-in-JS and normal CSS. Continue reading if you want to know how it went.
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The Plan for React 18
The library for web and native user interfaces
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