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If I navigate to https://blog.cloudflare.com/, my browser will connect to a remote TCP address from the local IP address assigned to my machine, and a randomly chosen local TCP port. What happens if I then decide to head to another site?
I think by now everybody reading this will have seen how the new generation of Large Language Models like ChatGPT are able to produce somewhat useful code. Like any advance in software development—from IDEs to high-level languages—this has generated some discussion on the future employment prospects in our field.
Exactly one month since the previous release, we are happy to give you curl 8.0.0 released on curl's official 25th birthday. This a major version number bump but without any ground-breaking changes or fireworks. We decided it was about time to reset the minor number down to more a manageable level and doing it exactly…
Prompt Engineering, also known as In-Context Prompting, refers to methods for how to communicate with LLM to steer its behavior for desired outcomes without updating the model weights. It is an empirical science and the effect of prompt engineering methods can vary a lot among models, thus requiring heavy…
Words from Mark Zuckerberg on management and remote work.
Time flies when you are having fun. Today is curl's 25th birthday. The curl project started out very humbly as a small renamed URL transfer tool that almost nobody knew about for the first few years. It scratched a personal itch of mine, Me back then I made that first curl release and I've packaged … Continue reading…
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One of the least well known, and therefore least used, features of many terminal emulators is bracketed paste mode . When you are in bracketed paste mode and you paste into your terminal the content will be wrapped by the sequences \e[200~ and \e[201~ .
I posted a video earlier today of a Super Cub airplane landing on the side of a mountain. Super Cubs are ideal for that undertaking because of their low stall s
Video showing bitwarden. User then sets the pin 2345. The vault is locked and then bitwarden is quit. In the terminal the exploit program is run, which after a short while outputs the PIN 2345.
Libreboot – Libreboot 20230319 released!
June 2024 update: Following engagement with the authors, the decision has been made that changes to the plain language summary and abstract would not impact the scientific integrity of the content and so Cochrane is no longer seeking updates to the plain language summary and abstract of this version of the review…
Digs into a unexpected memory leak when using Zig's FixedBufferAllocator
GPT-4 will change the world.
The current debate surrounding AVIF versus JPEG XL needs some third-party quantitative data to support arguments on either side. I've compiled a dataset of 27 high-resolution photographic images to compare performance across them all at a wide fidelity range.
Full Slice Expressions in Golang — A Rare Slice Trick
I’ve had the pleasure of having had to analyse multi-gigabyte JSON dumps in a project context recently. JSON itself is actually a rather pleasant format to consume, as it’s human-readable and there is a lot of tooling available for it. JQ allows expressing sophisticated processing steps in a single command line, and…
Creating a subconscious problem-solving framework.
Folks have been making noises for a while that Amazon is anti-competitive in a variety of ways. I don’t disagree with the overall sentiment, but there’s one particular aspect of how AWS advantages its own offerings that I don’t see folks talking about–and strikes me as particularly egregious.
This article assumes you’ve already heard about the aCropalypse vulnerability, aka CVE-2023-21036. If not, go read about it here (oops, this page doesn't exist yet. Read this tweet in the meantime).
I’ve been thinking about editing for the last 5 years. Not just thinking, also editing. Trying out what works. You may have noticed different editing styles in the 65 videos I have posted to …
We’re standing up for the digital rights of all libraries in court! On Monday at 1pm ET, the Southern District of New York will hear oral argument in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the lawsuit against our library and the longstanding library practice of controlled digital lending, brought by 4 of the world’s largest…
Async/await was added to the C# language over a decade ago and has transformed how we write scalable code for .NET. But how does it really work? In this post, we take a deep dive into its internals.
Use Dagster, dbt, and BigQuery to analyze suspicious GitHub star activity and protect open-source credibility.
Hear from a Warp engineer why building a UI in Rust is challenging. Learn about innovative solutions and approaches to tackle its strict memory management and lack of inheritance.
As you may have seen, Docker Hub made a dramatic shift in policy this week, and effectively gave a 30 day eviction notice to almost all community-run images. ...
