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The Berkeley Software Distribution
UNIX is always litigious
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,273 posts.
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Hurried Thoughts: You're Wrong About Tidal-Locking
Space Engine ...
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Making messaging interoperability with third parties safe for users in Europe
To comply with a new EU law, the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which comes into force on March 7th, we’ve made major changes to WhatsApp and Messenger to enable interoperability with third-party messa…
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ECJ finds IAB Europe responsible for TCF consent spam popups across the Internet
Europe's top court rules that IAB Europe is responsible under the GDPR for the "TCF" consent system, which authorities have already found to be in violation of the GDPR.
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Sky lapse in two tone
Using Sentinel-1 radar imagery to make out the shapes of our changing seaborne energy system
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Downpour is the game creation tool I have been working on for the past few years
Today, Downpour comes out! In case you don't know, Downpour is the game creation tool I have been working on for the past few years. I started it after I left Niantic in October 2022, and I have been working on it ever since then (with breaks for illness
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Nikon to acquire RED
TOKYO - Nikon Corporation (Nikon) hereby announces its entry into an agreement to acquire 100% of the outstanding membership interests of RED.com, LLC (RED) whereby RED will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nikon, pursuant to a Membership Interest Purchase Agreement with Mr. James Jannard, its founder, and Mr…
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Fractional scales, fonts and hinting
GTK 4.14 will be released very soon, with new renderers that were introduced earlier this year. The new renderers have much improved support for fractional scaling—on my system, I now use 125% scaling instead of the 'Large Text' setting, and I find that works fine for my needs. Magical numbers Ever since 4.0, GTK…
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The CAP theorem. The Bad, the Bad, & the Ugly
The CAP theorem is too simplistic and too widely misunderstood to be of much use for characterizing systems.
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Leadership is a hell of a drug
Last week, I received the following invitation to a compulsory on-site meeting, following management's repeated engagements with some sort of Agile shaman.
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Signs you're about to be acquired (2020)
Over the course of my tech career thus far, I’ve been through two acquisitions. In each case, I was just a normal employee without any special inside knowledge, and found out only a few days before the deals were publicly announced. In retrospect, however, there were some clear signs in the weeks leading up to the…
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The art and history of lettering comics
Todd Klein's online book exploring little-known aspects of comics: lettering, letterers, logo design and more.
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We hacked Google A.I.
Bard IDOR, a GraphQL directive-overloading DoS that hung Google's backend for 109 seconds, and Workspace data exfiltration via markdown images.
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The Law of Leaky Abstractions (2002)
There’s a key piece of magic in the engineering of the Internet which you rely on every single day. It happens in the TCP protocol, one of the fundamental building blocks of the Internet. TCP…
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The end of Airplane.dev
I worked at Airplane, an internal tooling startup, for nearly two years. Earlier this year, it was announced that the company was being acquired by Airtable and that the product would be shut down. In this blog post, I want to explain what happened from my perspective as a former employee.
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PlanetScale performs layoff and prioritizes profitability
PlanetScale is committed to providing a reliable and sustainable platform for our customers, not just in the short-term, but forever. For this reason, we are prioritizing profitability.
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Open-sourcing our progress on Tailwind CSS v4.0
We just tagged the first public v4.0.0-alpha so you can start experimenting with it and help us get to a stable release later this year.
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Autogenerating a Book Series from Three Years of iMessages
Tired of waiting for iMessage to load my messages from years ago, I printed them all out in a set of paperback books.
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How to Structure C Projects: These Best Practices Worked for Me
I recently worked on two different C projects, and I wanted to structure them in a way that would make them easy to maintain and understand. I also wanted to make sure that the projects were easy to build and test. In this post, I will share my experience and the best practices I found for structuring C projects.
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Compression efficiency with shared dictionaries in Chrome
Compression on the web is getting a big boost from shared dictionary compression. Learn what they are, how they work, and how they could substantially reduce load times even further than standard compression for both static and dynamic resources on the web.
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Prolly Trees
A deep dive into the Probabilistic B-tree or Prolly Tree data structure including examples. Prolly Trees are used to create version controlled databases.
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Network Tunneling with QEMU
While investigating an incident, we detected uncommon malicious activity inside one of the systems. We ran an analysis on the artifacts, only to find that the adversary had deployed and launched the QEMU hardware emulator.
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A peculiarity of the X Window System: Windows all the way down
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS
You told us one of the primary reasons to adopt Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the broad choice of services we offer, enabling you to innovate, build, deploy, and monitor your workloads. AWS has continuously expanded its services to support virtually any cloud workload. It now offers over 200 fully featured services for…
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Fonts are still a Helvetica of a Problem
CVEs in three strange places and the unique problem of safely processing and handling fonts.
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Leaving LinkedIn
What if your dedication to doing things right clashed with your company's fast pace? Chris Krycho faced this very question at LinkedIn. His journey was marked by challenges: from the nuances of remote work to the struggle of influencing company culture, and a critical incident that put his principles to the test…
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OpenAI and Elon Musk
We are dedicated to the OpenAI mission and have pursued it every step of the way.
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BlackCat ransomware group implodes after apparent payment by Change Healthcare
There are indications that U.S. healthcare giant Change Healthcare has made a $22 million extortion payment to the infamous BlackCat ransomware group (a.k.a. “ ALPHV “) as the company struggles to bring services back online amid a cyberattack that has disrupted prescription drug services nationwide for weeks. However…