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Down the Rabbit-Hole
Posted by Tavis Ormandy, Security Research Over-Engineer.“Sometimes, hacking is just someon...
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Three Kinds of Good Tech Debt
What if tech debt wasn’t always an accident, caused by incorrect assumptions and unexpected circumstances? How would you spend a tech debt mortgage?
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Proteins That May Restore Damaged Sound-Detecting Cells in the Ear
Proteins instruct when and where sound-detecting cells form in the developing ear ›
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If you want developers to adopt your software, make it less risky (2017)
Understanding how the academic community understands software adoption.
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A bug I wish I hadn't caught
When I catch a bug before release I’m usually glad, because I’ve narrowly averted ruining someone’s experience or eating their data. Today I found a bug that I wish I hadn’t caught, a bug that I wish I’d released into the wild to witness in its full glory. I found this bug in my digital card game Ring of Worlds, and…
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GitHub stars won’t pay your rent
Lessons learned and mistakes made while turning an open-source project into a profitable SaaS product.
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GNU Radio 3.8
GNU Radio is a free and open source software development toolkit for building software radios and signal processing systems. Run it on your desktop, or try GNU Radio flowgraphs in your browser with GNU Radio World.
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Minify Your SVGs
How I optimize SVGs for this blog and why you probably should, too.
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Why we're saying no to Google
Google wants other search engines to pay to become a default option in Android. Here's why we're saying no.
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Home 3D metal printing: first results
A couple of weeks ago I learnt about an interesting 3d metal printing process , from a company selling it for $100k USD, and speculated that it might be DIY-able for much less. Well I now have some promising first results.
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Extended Validation Certificates Are Really Dead
Almost one year ago now, I declared extended validation certificates dead [https://www.troyhunt.com/extended-validation-certificates-are-dead/]. The entity name had just been removed from Safari on iOS, it was about to be removed from Safari on Mojave and there were indications that Chrome would remove it
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Why has examine.com disappeared from search results?
Examine.com was born in 2011 out of our personal frustration with the poor quality of information on nutrition and supplementation available on the Internet, and since then we’ve helped tens of millions of people get health information free from advertorial pressures, miracle cures, and clickbait headlines that tease…
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Why Does Infrastructure Cost So Much?
Why does infrastructure cost so much to build in the U.S.? The fundamental reasons aren’t technical. We’ve structured our postwar economy to use overspending on infrastructure as a way to induce short-term growth.
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OpenCensus Web: A tool to trace and monitor user-perceived performance
OpenCensus Web is a tool to trace and monitor the user-perceived performance of your web pages. It can help determine whether or not your web pages are experiencing performance issues that you might otherwise not know how to diagnose.
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Lorem Picsum, death by a million pixel-gigabits
Updated 2023-04-16 Or how to serve half a billion placeholder images a month on a budget. Lorem Picsum is one of the most popular placeholder sites on the internet. It started as a small side project written in NodeJS five years ago to cover my own needs and has since gone through several iterations as it has grown…
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Ransomware-ing a DSLR Camera
Research by: Eyal Itkin TL;DR Cameras. We take them to every important life event, we bring them on our vacations, and we store them in a protective case to keep them safe during transit. Cameras are more than just a tool or toy; we entrust them with our very memories, and so they are very important […]
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Spying on HTTPS
When I launched Chrome on Thursday, I saw something unexpected: While most users probably would have no idea what to make of this, I happened to know what it means– Chrome is warning me that …
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Xfce 4.14
Today, after 4 years and 5 months of work, we are pleased to announce the release of the Xfce desktop 4.14, a new stable version that supersedes Xfce 4.12.
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Which Categories of Seed Startups Are Thriving? Which Aren't?
Discover which seed-stage sectors are booming in 2019: AI startups grew from 0 to 400, Blockchain surged 200x, while FinTech & Food tech show exponential growth.
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Vibration-minimizing motion retargeting for robotic characters
Creating animations for robotic characters is very challenging due to the constraints imposed by their physical nature. In particular, the combination of fast motions and unavoidable structural deformations leads to mechanical oscillations that negatively affect their performances. Our goal is to automatically…
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Math in Data Science
Find out how much math is involved in data science and what math you need to know to get started in a data science role.
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Commodore 900
Click the Commodore icon to return. Intending to use pictures or text from this page? Please read this notice . Last modify 11 August 2020.
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