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CircleCI security alert: Rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI
Read CircleCI’s security alerts from January 2023. Last updated 1/13/2023.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,923 posts.
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G-3PO: A protocol droid for Ghidra, or GPT-3 for reverse-engineering
(A Script that Solicits GPT-3 for Comments on Decompiled Code)
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Two surprises in browser crashes
A small Figma war story.
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How do you know when macOS detects and remediates malware?
macOS may alert you when you’re trying to open or run a file, with an alert informing you that malware was detected. But what about in scans?
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On-demand learning comes at the cost of conceptual understanding
Everyone has heard about the so-called “types of learning styles” auditory, visual, kinesthetic, and so on. And almost everything has been said about it. But what if there is a different categorization of learning? Maybe one that gives more inside? Well, I think there is. This time we split the act of learning just…
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Faster MySQL with HTTP/3
In this article we explore how our HTTP/3 API compares to the latency of a traditional MySQL client.
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WAL Mode in LiteFS
LiteFS v0.3.0 now supports SQLite's write-ahead log journal mode.
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Go 1.20 Cryptography
A lot of new cryptography is landing in Go 1.20, including the new crypto/ecdh package and math/big-less RSA and ECDSA backends!
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Globalization is dead and no one is listening
This is the end of the beginning.
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Going full time on my SaaS after 13 years
In January 2010 I soft-launched launched Preceden, a web-based timeline maker tool, followed a few weeks later by a larger launch on HackerNews: Today – almost 13 years to the day since the i…
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Meta prohibited from using personal data for advertisement
After almost five years, the Irish DPC decided on a noyb complaint and required Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp to stop using the personal data of users for advertisement in the EU.
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Urllib3 in 2022
Funding In total urllib3 received $26,615 USD in financial support and distributed $18,622 USD to maintainers and community contributors. We're thankful for the financial support we receive from o...
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Function keys productivity trick
My favorite MacOS productivity trick for daily use.
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The expanding dark forest and generative AI
Proving you're a human on a web flooded with generative AI content
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QBittorrent v4.5.0: The Hitchhiker's Guide to Legible Text
L.C. Bakken technical blog
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Ruby 3.2.0 is from another dimension
I don’t know what you were doing on 25th of December 2022. I was eating pierogis, while Ruby team did some epic sh***!
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The faker's guide to reading x86 assembly language
Assembly code scares people. There’s a good reason for that. For many people, writing code in assembly language seems equivalent to writing code in ancient dwarven runes, or calculating pi in roman numerals. The fact that RollerCoaster Tycoon was almost completely written in assembly language sounds almost too amazing…
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Meta Quest Pro – Bad AR Passthrough
Introduction I have been taking pictures and making short video clips to demonstrate different aspects of the displays and optics of the Meta Quest Pro (MQP) for over a month. It was a bit of an on…
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Banking Applications Compatibility with GrapheneOS
Maintained Compatibility List for International Banking Apps This list includes banking apps that have been tested, submitted, reviewed, and verified as compatible. LIST | SUBMIT | UPDATE | POSSIBLE WORKAROUND SOLUTIONS Introduction Welcome to the crowd-sourced dataset for GrapheneOS users on currently supported…
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Migrating from AWS to Fly.io
Flying away from AWS
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Breaking RSA with a quantum computer?
A group of Chinese researchers have just published a paper claiming that they can—although they have not yet done so—break 2048-bit RSA. This is something to take seriously. It might not be correct, but it’s not obviously wrong. We have long known from Shor’s algorithm that factoring with a quantum computer is easy…
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Ok, Cloudflare I am leaving
Music and blogging
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Solar panels reduced my electric bill in 2022
In late 2021, I had solar panels installed onto the roof of my house. After some bureaucratic delays, the solar panels began producing electricity for me at the beginning of January 2022. I have been tracking the performance of the panels for the last year in order to assess what the financial impact of the panels is…
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Small Teams
Patrick Collison has a great list of people quickly accomplishing ambitious things. Inspired by that, I created a page of impressive things accomplished by small teams.
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In 2022, Web3 went just great
Come, reminisce with me.
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South Korea’s online security dead end
Websites in South Korea often require installation of “security applications.” Not only do these mandatory applications not help security, way too often they introduce issues.