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root with a single command: sudo logrotate
Starting from the constraint that only sudo logrotate * may be run, and ending at root: abusing the log file flag to overwrite root owned scripts and ride cron to privilege escalation.
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Hey, computer, make me a font
This is a story of my journey learning to build generative ML models from scratch and teaching a computer to create fonts in the process.
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Five Kinds of Friends (2022)
The word “friends” has at least five different meanings: Allies Backstage intimates Fun friends Mutual interests friends Soc...
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Amino – The Public IPFS DHT Is Getting a Facelift
The ProbeLab team is working on a major refactoring of the Public IPFS DHT (henceforth called Amino) and a new feature which will accelerate the provide operation by several orders of magnitude. Read through to find out the details and how to get involved.
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Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Agostini, Krausz, and L’Huillier
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 was awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter"
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Ági Szabados Does Not Need to Apologize to Me
So, at the opening ceremonies of the Budapest International Book Festival this year, a couple of people gave prefatory remarks before I received the Budapest Grand Prize and participated in my own …
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Windows NT 3.1 on Dec Alpha AXP
As I was preparing the Windows NT RISC exhibit for VCF west , I realized that I’m missing a rather important piece of the history. While I was showing the potentially last DEC Alpha Windows build ever – AXP64 2210 , I don’t have anything earlier than NT 3.51. It would be nice to showcase the very first RTM version …
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The 300% Production Problem
Earlier this year, I attended CfgMgmtCamp in Ghent and listened to Adam Jacob’s “What if Infrastructure as Code never existed” keynote. Note: I’d like to extend a huge thanks to
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Every database will become a vector database sooner or later
Why every database will become a vector database, sooner or later
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Redfin Is Leaving the National Association of Realtors
Redfin is moving to end our support of the National Association of Realtors
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Days of Awe: The clinical trial drug that might save my husband's life
"G’mar Chatimah Tovah” – May you be inscribed into the Book of Life
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Researchers mined Erowid and fed the entries to an AI
Researchers mined an old drug forum and fed the entries to an AI. The result could augur a new class of psychedelic-based antidepressants.
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A Call for Developers – Jellyfin
Jellyfin needs your help to get better, so join us this October and beyond!
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My views on NeoHaskell
A rundown and critique of the NeoHaskell project
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Stable LM 3B: Bringing Sustainable, High-Performance LMs to Smart Devices
Our latest language model, Stable LM 3B, is a compact language model designed to operate on portable digital devices like handhelds and laptops.
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How China's “debt traps” work
Raiding the Global South like a piggy bank.
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Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It
I quit my job towards the end of last month. When I started this blog, I told myself, “Don’t talk about work.” Since my employment is in the rear view mirror, I’m going to b…
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The world needs computational social science
The world needs computational social science, and it is not only, or even primarily, about the AI revolution. The reasons follow below and I also cover what a computational social scientist should …
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Weird A.I. Yankovic: a cursed deep dive into the world of voice cloning
What would it sound like if the musicians parodied by "Weird Al" Yankovic sang *his* parodies instead? I jumped off the deep end into the world of A.I. cover songs to find out, and the results are even worse than you imagine.
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Chromebook Plus
Introducing the all-new Chromebook Plus, a new category of Chromebooks with double the performance.
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Break-a-Scene: Extracting Multiple Concepts from a Single Image
A method for extracting multiple concepts from a single image.
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Python 3.12
The official home of the Python Programming Language
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Exploiting the iPhone 4
Years ago, I was active in the iOS tweak development scene. I made many products and tools, distributed on Cydia, that modified iOS system behavior and added new functionality to SpringBoard. This was a really fun time, and gave me valuable early career exposure to reverse engineering closed-source binaries…
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Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023 was awarded jointly to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman "for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19"
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What every software developer must know about Unicode in 2023
Modern extension to classic 2003 article by Joel Spolsky
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32 MiB Working Sets on a 64 GiB machine
Memory is a relatively scarce resource on many consumer computers, so a feature to limit how much memory a process uses seems like a good idea, and Microsoft did indeed implement such a feature. Ho…