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The Problem with Perceptual Hashes
Apple just announced that they will use “perceptual hashing” to detect illegal photos on iPhones. I have some experience to share on this technology.
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Apple’s new abuse prevention system: an antritust/competition point of view
Apple has announced the new client-side content scanning (based on parameters received from the center) to find child sexual abuse materials to be reported to law enforcers.
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Driving 1725km in an electric car in 2 days
At 6:30 PM on Wednesday August 4 th my 15-year-old daughter and I pulled up the Jaguar I-Pace electric car in front of my 91-year-old Mom’s place in Regina, Saskatchewan. I was tired and achey because I’d just finished driving 1,725km (1,072 miles) across two days to see her for the first time since Covid started. I…
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Reflections on 10k Hours of Programming
I'm certainly not a world-class expert, but I have put my 10,000 hours of deliberate practice into programming. Here are 31 of my reflections on programming.
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Tools to Run Kubernetes Locally
Kubernetes is a big and complicated technology and it clearly requires some time and dedication to wrap your head around. There is no vendor lock-in…
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On Apple’s “Expanded Protections for Children” – A Personal Story
These efforts will evolve and expand over time. – Apple on their “Expanded Protections for Children” I am broke “non-liquid” right now. Normally, that sentence doesn&#…
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Feelings at the Fall of the Republic, Ancient and Medieval Living Standards
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2021142 points83 commentsHistory & Retro Computing details
Welcome! This is going to be the first of a new sort of post we’ll do from time to time where I answer a number of shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are at the Patres …
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A $100k Prize for a Decentralized Inflation Dashboard
Build a censorship-resistant inflation dashboard. If we pick your project, we'll fund it with $100k.
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HTTP/2-exclusive threats caused by implementation flaws and RFC imperfections
In this research paper James Kettle introduces multiple new classes of HTTP/2-exclusive attacks, demonstrated on popular websites and servers.
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Ethereum is a Dark Forest
It’s no secret that the Ethereum blockchain is a highly adversarial environment. If a smart contract can be exploited for profit, it eventually will be. But this unforgiving environment pales in comparison to the mempool. If the chain itself is a battleground, the mempool is something worse: a dark forest.
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Apophenia: How the Internet Transforms the Individual into a Conspiracy of One
How the Internet Transforms the Individual into a Conspiracy of One
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Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life
Apple has announced impending changes to its operating systems that include new “protections for children” features in iCloud and iMessage. If you’ve spent any time following the Crypto Wars, you know what this means: Apple is planning to build a backdoor into its data storage system and its messaging system.
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Firefox: Performance in Progress
In the last six months the Firefox performance team has implemented changes to improve startup, responsiveness, security (Fission), and web standards. Startup and perceived startup Doug Thayer and Emma Malysz ...
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How PostgreSQL aggregation works and how it inspired our hyperfunctions’ design
A discussion of aggregation in PostgreSQL and how it integrates with the design of Timescale’s hyperfunctions.
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Mirror, Mirror 2021: Reflecting Poorly
The United States trails far behind other high-income countries on measures of health care affordability, administrative efficiency, equity, and outcomes.
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Mozilla Common Voice Adds 16 New Languages and 4,600 New Hours of Speech
The Mozilla Common Voice initiative has released a new, expanded data set featuring 16 new languages — like Basaa and Kazakh — and 4,622 new hours of sp…
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The Drunken Bishop Algorithm
There’s a tradition in my family that everyone takes a turn stirring a secret wish into the yearly christmas pudding . It’s important that the wishes remain secret to the wisher or the pudding magics wont work so since moving to America I’ve implemented a new way of hashing my wish so it can be stirred in via text…
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Lead Poisoning and Rome
"The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them."
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The human ear detects half a millisecond delay in sound
Researchers discover how accurately the human ear can detect time delay in sounds in different frequencies.
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Facebook’s claims about the Ad Observer are wrong
Recently the Surgeon General of the United States weighed in on the spread of disinformation on major platforms and its effects on people and society. He e
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Slitter: A slab allocator that trusts, but verifies
Slitter is Backtrace’s deliberately middle-of-the-road thread-caching slab allocator, with explicit allocation class tags (rather than derived from the object’s size class). It’s mostly written in Rust, and we use it in our C backend server. Slitter’s design is about as standard as it gets: we hope to dedicate the…