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Simple SSH Security
Simple SSH Security Within a couple of minutes you can improve your SSH security significantly.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,820 posts.
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.NET 6 Released
.NET 6 is now available. It is easier to use, runs faster, and has many new features.
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The benefits of staying off social media
There are quite a few benefits of staying off social media. The main one is unplugging from the virtual prison and experiencing real life.
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Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W die shots
Teardown and analysis of electronics. Integrated circuit design analysis.
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The LZ4 introduced in PostgreSQL 14 provides faster compression
Haiying Tang takes you on a tour of LZ$ TOAST, the new column opton compression in PostgreSQL 14, and shows the speed and compression ratio gains.
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iPhone apps can tell many things about you through the accelerometer
Nearly every modern smartphone is equipped with an accelerometer, which, as the name implies, is a sensor that measures acceleration. It’s most commonly used for detecting the device’s orientation. It also has many other uses, whether as a game controller in racing games, as a pedometer for counting daily steps, or to…
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Six Palestinian organizations hacked with NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware
On 19 October 2021, Israeli Minister of Defense, Benny Gantz, announced the designation of six leading Palestinian civil society organizations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as “terrorist organizations” under Israel’s Anti-Terrorism Law 2016. The groups named are Addameer; Al-Haq; Defense for Children …
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Beg Bounties
When someone passed me hundreds of thousands of records on kids taken from CloudPets a few years ago [https://www.troyhunt.com/data-from-connected-cloudpets-teddy-bears-leaked-and-ransomed-exposing-kids-voice-messages/] , I had a nightmare of a time getting in touch with the company. They'd
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I just want to run this one Python script
So I couldn't sleep the other night, and my brain wanted to think about odd problems… Ever had a script that's compatible with both, Python 2 and 3, but you didn't want to bother the user to know whic
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Camembert President
LA CAMPAGNE NUMERO DEUX : Why do we, French people, care so much about the presidential election — and why it all goes back to cheese.
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Writing a Clojure highlighter from scratch
In the aftermath of my previous blog post about using Nextjournal's clojure-mode for better highlighting, I tried optimizing the JS output and got a look at the internals of CodeMirror 6 . I realized that writing a Clojure highlighter from scratch wasn't that hard if you had the right tools at hand:
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A look at power on the new M1 Max
The ramblings and experiments of a software engineer and tech enthusiast based in Dublin.
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Your users will do what you make easy
Recently was thinking about Java and reflection and how it actually ended up causing the prolifera…
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The Melancholy of Subculture Society (2019)
Internet links small groups, helping dissolve big groups; good, bad? But a bit sad.
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Don’t do interviews, do discussions
(5 Min Read) This change guarantees better signals from the interviewing candidates.
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Designing better file organization around tags, not hierarchies (2017)
Computer users organize their files into folders because that is the primary tool offered by operating systems. But applying this standard hierarchical model to my own files, I began to notice shortcomings of this paradigm over the years. At the same time, I used some other information systems not based on…
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Common Lisp code optimisation
Common Lisp is one of the few languages which is both dynamic and also gives you a full native compiler and the ability to declare types ...
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Zillow just gave us a look at machine learning's future
It's put up or shut up time for Data Science teams. When the business depends on our work for revenue growth, success is expected. Failure is fatal.
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Ancient bees found in Blenheim palace estate
We were priviliged and excited to have the opportunity for a behind-the-scenes tour of wild bee colonies at Blenheim Palace led by Filipe Salbany, an internationally experienced bee expert who emit…
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Zillow, Prophet, time series, and prices
So I made a mildly controversial tweet. Lots of people enjoyed it, but the LinkedIn-adjacent section of data science Twitter is not happy about it. I want to provide as much context for it as I can…
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How does a game engine work? an overview (2016)
Want to develop your own game engine? Here is a nice overview of what you need to implement in order to develop a game engine.
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Racket v8.3
_posted by John Clements_ Racket version 8.3 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org. Racket removes syntax arming and disarming in favor of a simpler system of protected syntax operations, along with other updates to the syntax sys...