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MacOS Caches Data from Encrypted Hard Drives
apple's 'quicklook' cache, may leak encrypted data
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Behind the Tech with John Carmack: 5k Immersive Video
The following post from John provides more information on this technology and the making of its sample video: a 5k re-release of the award-winning Henry, from Oculus Story Studios for Oculus Go and...
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React Native at Airbnb
In 2016, we took a big bet on React Native. Two years later, we’re ready to share our experience with the world and show what’s next.
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Anatomy of a DNS Lookup – Part II
and determined that most programs reference /etc/resolv.conf along the way to figuring out which DNS server to look up.
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Blender is testing PeerTube after YouTube blocks their videos worldwide
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
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GitHub Stars !== Usage: React Is Still Blowing Vue and Angular Away
Last week there was a fairly momentous occurance in the JavaScript framework world: Vue.js passed React.js in the number of people who have 'starred' it on Github.
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Slack Bot Business Tutorial: From zero to $25k per month
Wondering how to make a Slackbot that drives revenue? Check out this step-by-step tutorial. It's a case study of how we built a profitable business on Slack with thousands of USD in revenue.
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The Tapplock IoT padlock has multiple security vulnerabilities
The Sophos Blog
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Aseprite - New source code license
Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool
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Debugging with intelligence via probabilistic inference
Debugging with intelligence via probabilistic inference Xu et al., ICSE’18 Xu et al. have built a automated debugger that can take a single failing test execution, and with minimal interactio…
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FreeBSD Celebrates 25th Anniversary
Join us to celebrate FreeBSD Day! FreeBSD Day, celebrated on June 19, commemorates the launch of the FreeBSD open source operating system and recognizes its pioneering and continued impact on technology. On June 19, 1993, an email thread on an early BSD list proposed project names for a new open source UNIX…
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New US Tariffs are Anti-Maker and Will Encourage Offshoring
The new 25% tariffs announced by the USTR , set to go into effect on July 6th, are decidedly anti-Maker and ironically pro-offshoring. I’ve examined the tariff lists ( List 1 and List 2 ), and it taxes the import of basic components, tools and sub-assemblies, while giving fully assembled goods a free pass. The USTR’s…
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The “Facebook Nevers”
The fall of Facebook has nothing to do with people quitting the service…
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Designing a Programming Language for the Desert
A high-performance and high-level purely functional data-parallel array programming language that can execute on the GPU and CPU.
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How modern Linux systems boot
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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X86 assembly doesn’t have to be scary
Assembly programming can be intimidating for people who have never looked into it any deeper than a glance, but giving that it underpins how the computers we use work it can be helpful having context in regards to what is actually being run by the CPU.
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GCC 8 Link Time and Interprocedural Optimization
GCC 8.1 was released and Linux distros are starting to pick it up. This week hit the openSUSE Thumbleweed update with full rebuild (thanks t...
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Face recognition in images and video with Python
Learn how to perform face recognition using OpenCV, Python, and dlib by applying deep learning for highly accurate facial recognition.
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Pulumi – A new open-source cloud development platform
Joe Duffy's Blog | Adventures in the high-tech underbelly
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A Performance Cheat Sheet for PostgreSQL
Performance tuning is not trivial, but you can go a long way with a few basic guidelines. In this blog, we will discuss how you analyze the workload of the database, and then review a list of important configuration parameters to improve the performance of PostgreSQL.
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Why Skylake CPUs Are Sometimes 50% Slower
I got a call that on newer hardware some performance regression tests have become slower. Not a big deal. Usually it is a bad configuration somewhere in Windows or some BIOS settings were set to no…
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Harvard discrimination lawsuit: data show penalization of Asian-Americans
Harvard and Students For Fair Admissions (SFFA), which is suing Harvard over discrimination against Asian-American applicants, have relea...
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Politicians in favor of upload filtering get channel deleted by upload filtering
French politicians of the former Front National are furious: their entire YouTube channel was just taken down by automatic filters at YouTube for alleged