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Huawei ExaGear: x86_64 apps on Arm 64-bit Linux systems
Note: This post is only kept up for historical reasons. The current ExaGear EULA doesn’t allow using ExaGear outside of Huawei Kunpeng processors.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,820 posts.
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The Lies that can Undermine Democracy
Recent events highlight our need to take serious measures to counter lies that are undermining democracies.
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Leaking silhouettes of cross-origin images
This blog post is one of several guest blog posts, where we invite participants of our bug bounty program to write about bugs they've reported to us. This is a ...
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How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler
In the last three months, tech giants have censored political speech and journalism to manipulate U.S. politics, while liberals, with virtual unanimity, have cheered.
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The Paradox of Abundance
David shares the paradox of abundance and how to make a healthy information diet for yourself. Read here.
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What Is Social Cooling?
Social cooling refers to the idea that if “you feel you are being watched, you change your behavior.” And the massive amounts of data being collected, especially online, is exaggerating…
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Internet 3.0 and the Beginning of (Tech) History
The actions taken by Big Tech have a resonance that goes beyond the context of domestic U.S. politics. Even if they were right, they will still push the world to Internet 3.0.
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I received my first donation on my open-source side project
I decided to build an extension for VSCode. That would add handy buttons for many common commands like save file, format file, show opened files etc.
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How the Canadian Tech Scene Encourages Finite Gameplay
Toronto is not the next great startup scene. Neither is Waterloo, or Vancouver, or anywhere in Canada. I’m sorry that I have to write this. I really am. I want it to work. But the growing cho…
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Amazon Echo Flex: Microphone mute button appears to be real and functional
Teardown and analysis of electronics. Integrated circuit design analysis.
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Two Worlds: So Much Prosperity, So Much Skepticism
The demand for forecasts grows after a surprise.
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75% of the original Disney+ executive team is no longer at Disney
Ricky Strauss' departure was a longtime coming
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My ISP Is Killing My Idle SSH Sessions
tl;dr: My ISP’s CGNAT session timeout is too short, meaning TCP keepalives gets dropped. Test if your own NAT, or your ISP’s CGN, violates RFC5382 ‘s REQ-5 using this tool: https://github.com/AndersTrier/NAT-TCP-test .
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What Is a Gamma Squeeze in the Context of Stock Trading?
SWFI is an investor research platform offering family offices, private equity firms, banks, and institutional investors actionable news, insights, and data.
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Why Isn’t Telegram End-to-End Encrypted by Default (2017)
telegra.ph/why-isnt-telegram-end-to-end-encrypted-by-default-08-142021127 points145 commentscited by 11Security & Privacy details
I've been getting this question more often this year. It's based on the wrong assumption that some other popular messaging apps such as WhatsApp are "end-to-end encrypted by default", while Telegram is not. This post is intended to disprove this myth that has been so carefully crafted by Facebook/WhatsApp marketing…
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We need a new media system
If you sell culture war all day, don’t be surprised by the real-world consequences
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Intruder at the top of the 20 meter amateur band?
It wasn't my intent to have this next post be about locating a source of a transmitter - but the temptation proved irresistible. Over the pa...
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Getting Started with Signal
How to take advantage of Signal for secure messages and calls
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XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought
A couple months back I switched my terminal from xfce4-terminal to the venerable xterm. For some reason I always put xterm in the same bucket as xclock, xmessage, or any other prehistoric command starting with X that comes pre-installed on any graphical Linux distribution.
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Simple Anomaly Detection Using Plain SQL
Identify Problems Before They Become Disasters
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My personal wishlist for a decentralized social network
I'd be interested in a decentralized social network with network-layer anonymity, grassroots content delivery, and customizable moderation.
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Are Experts Real?
Credentials, Expertise, and Feedback Loops
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How to Become a Data Engineer in 2021
The demand for data engineers is growing rapidly. According to hired.com, the demand has increased by 45% in 2019. The median salary for Data Engineers in SF Bay Area is around $160k. So the question…
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Stealing Your Private YouTube Videos, One Frame at a Time
David Schütz's bug bounty writeups
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Haskell is our first choice for building production software systems
Haskell's features enable rapid development, easy maintainability, and excellent performance, making it a top choice as an industrial-strength programming language.
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The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug I’ve Ever Seen
This is the story of a bug that was discovered and fixed in Telegram’s self-rolled cryptographic protocol about seven years ago. The bug didn’t get any press, and no one seems to know about it, probably because it was only published in Russian.