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Entrusting our speech to multiple different corporate actors is always risky. Yet given how most of the internet is currently structured, our online expression largely depends on a set of private companies ranging from our direct Internet service providers and platforms, to upstream ISPs (sometimes...
A fully-regulated, API-driven bank built with Clojure, enabling fintech companies to integrate banking features quickly and securely
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Design unique user interfaces with dropdowns, dialogs, forms, navigation menus, tooltips, and more, all in a visual builder.
FiveM provides a powerful framework to create game experiences not otherwise possible in Grand Theft Auto. However, this power can be abused by attackers through the use of XSS in vulnerable NUI resources.
A popular path to protected mode.
This blog post presents an overview of Starlink's User Terminal runtime internals, focusing on the communications that happen within the device and with user applications and some tools that can help further research on the same topic.
The world has made immense progress against extreme poverty, but it is still the reality for almost one in ten people worldwide.
Presently into the 100th year of his life of vast experience, living in his Buffalo residence, here is a video message communicated by his daughter when he turned 99, at the beginning of a year-long celebration, with conferences in his honour at various places.
FairPlay comprises a set of algorithms created by Apple for digital rights management (also called DRM, digital rights management). FairPlay is currently used to manage the decryption of iOS applications during their installation on Apple devices. In fact, we know that Apple distributes all applications in the Apple…
Accessible Palette is an app for building color systems with consistent lightness and predictable contrast ratios across color levels.
Note: If you disagree with what’s expressed in this post, I encourage you to also take a look at my more nuanced and comprehensive post on the topic of code duplication, which gives a more thorough refutation of some of the popular ideas around duplication. “Duplication is cheaper than the wrong abstraction” is a…
We’re making Duet AI for Google Workspace available to organizations around the world and announcing new AI capabilities, including automatic summaries and action items in Meet.
The Greatest business film ever made... in Canada
Border Gateway Protocol is the de facto protocol that directs routing decisions between different ISP networks, and is generally known as the “glue” that holds the internet together. It’s safe to say that the internet we currently know would not function without working BGP implementations.
Using Anyscale Endpoints, we compared Llama 2 7b, 13b and 70b vs. OpenAI's GPT-3.5-turbo and GPT-4 for accuracy and cost.
Companies see huge server savings with Elixir.
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In this article, I describe my journey creating a barely functional rust backend enabling compilation for the .NET runtime (Usually used to run C# and F#).
Many years ago, my favorite podcast was The Totally Rad Show. It was a fun video podcast where the hosts reviewed movies, games, TV shows, and other general nerd stuff. The hosts were Jeff Cannata (who last year I called the podcasting GOAT), Dan Trachtenberg (who went on to direct
( This is part of a series on the design of zest . See the list of posts here .)
I've been using GitHub Copilot on personal projects since March. It's been an interesting experience, and one that I realized I have to change. Using Copilot nearly full time has had some positive and negative impacts on me, and it's time to take control of how I interact with it.
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” —Lao Tzu
The conventional venture capital funding path – from raising an institutional Seed, Series A, B, C, D, E, etc, all the way to exit via IPO – has long been treated as gospel. Its verses …
Go 1.21 is the first perfectly reproducible Go toolchain.
A few weeks ago, I was part of a talk at DEF CON 31 called The Hackers, The Lawyers, and the Defense Fund. I was asked to share my experience receiving a legal…
Habitual and nonhabitual social media users respond differently to likes, shares and comments.
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