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How Blender started, twenty years ago
Celebrating 20 years of Blender code!
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,456 posts.
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XSS in Gmail through Rapportive
A blog on security, malware, cryptography, pentesting, javascript, php and whatnots
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Happy new year and goodbye bzip2
We started listing xz-compressed versions of kernel archives in all our announcements back in March 2013, and the time has come to complete the switch. Effective immediately, we will no longer be providing bzip2-compressed versions for new releases of the Linux kernel and other software. Any previously released…
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The best things and stuff of 2013
Great things and people that I discovered, learned, read, met, etc. in 2013. No particular ordering is implied. Not everything is new.
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”No one at Google is Returning Our Calls”
Back in June I wrote about the China branded OEMs as the last big ‘swing vote bloc’ in the handset market. These vendors which contribute so much to global handset volumes have not fully voted on w…
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Snapchat - GibSec Full Disclosure
A series of nicely formatted documents about Snapchat by GibSec.
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A useful Caps Lock key
Updated: This configuration no longer works in macOS Sierra or greater due to changes in Karabiner. I’ve written some new instructions.
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What are the 'real numbers', really?
The short, simple answer used in calculus courses is that a real number is a point on the number line . That's not the whole truth, but it is adequate for the needs of freshman calculus. The freshman calculus course (at most universities nowadays) follows the 17th century style of Newton and Leibniz, emphasizing…
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Don't Support Information Architects
Last week Information Architects (iA) released Writer Pro, a follow-up to the company’s popular text editor, iA Writer. By far, their most heavily touted new feature is Syntax Control. Oliver Reichenstein, iA’s director, promised in a blog post to vigorously protect this new feature: Syntax Control is a solid…
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Emacs users are like Terry Pratchett’s Igors
Within the constraints of the Emacs environment, there are no limits. Emacs is built upon this principle; the Lisp principle. Make some small kernel of features. A substrate. Take care to make this substrate programmable (in any language, Emacs chooses Lisp), and then build the system upon it. Let users worry about…
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The 7 Habits of Highly Overrated People
I remember having a discussion with a more tenured coworker, with the subject being the impending departure of another coworker. I said, “man, it’s going to be rough when he leaves, considering how much he’s done for us over the last several years.” The person I was talking to replied in a way that perplexed...
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Bit gold (2005)
A long time ago I hit upon the idea of bit gold. The problem, in a nutshell, is that our money currently depends on trust in a third party ...
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Telegram secret chat geolocation leak
UPD: I've just received confirmation from Telegram, that a patched version was released a few hours ago. Here is the patch on github....
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How Google keeps employees by treating them like kids (2006)
I was talking with a friend the other day about that perennial subject of conversation in the Valley, Google. And finally she gave me the clue that made the whole place make sense. “It’s about infantilizing people,” she explained. “Give them free food, do their laundry, let them sit on bouncy brightly-colored balls…
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0 A.D. Alpha 15 - Osiris
Wildfire Games, an international group of volunteer game developers, proudly announces the release of “0 A.D. Alpha 15 Osiris”, the fifteenth alpha version of 0 …
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Unprofessionalism
Being real brings the haters.
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Who's Selling Credit Cards From Target
The previous two posts on this blog have featured stories about banks buying back credit and debit card accounts stolen in the Target hack and that ended up for sale on rescator[dot]la , a popular underground store. Today’s post looks a bit closer at open-source information on a possible real-life identity for the…