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Students flee field as computer 'fad fades' (1987)
Fears about old things when they were new. Click to read Pessimists Archive Newsletter, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,820 posts.
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When did writing in major newspapers become so bad?
Run on sentences, indiscernible insider nods and confusing narrative perspective plague major news publications
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T-Mobile: Breach Exposed SSN/DOB of 40M+ People
T-Mobile is warning that a data breach has exposed the names, date of birth, Social Security number and driver’s license/ID information of more than 40 million current, former or prospective customers who applied for credit with the company. The acknowledgment came less than 48 hours after millions of the stolen…
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Will Nix Overtake Docker?
Nix and Docker both tackle the works-on-my-machine problem, but in different ways. A practical comparison of their approaches to reproducible environments.
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Sciter, the 5 MB Electron alternative, has switched to JavaScript
Without too much fanfares Sciter has officially transitioned from TIScript to JavaScript this week.
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RCE in Visual Studio Code's Remote WSL for Fun and Negative Profit
The Visual Studio Code server in Windows Subsystem for Linux uses a local WebSocket WebSocket connection to communicate with the Remote WSL extension. JavaScript in websites can connect to this server and execute arbitrary commands on the target system. Assigned CVE-2021-43907 and zero bounty. I paid 5 USD for the EC2…
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Reimagining projections for the interactive maps era
A deep dive into Adaptive Projections, a novel way to make interactive maps more accurate without compromises to user experience or rendering quality.
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New evidence that British workplaces are losing viewpoint diversity
In the United Kingdom, most people don’t feel comfortable bringing their whole selves to work. For two-thirds of the population, talking politics sincerely, on the job, is uncomfortable. People who hold certain, commonplace views, stay silent believing that expressing those views will carry penalty not reward. These…
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What's bad about Julia?
A mega-rant about all the things I find bad about Julia.
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Solved by 1440p HiDPI: MacBook Pro 16“ is hot and noisy with an external monitor
TLDR: My Macbook Pro 16" is hot and noisy when connected to a 2560x1440p60 monitor, even when idle and the lid is closed. This article…
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Some reasons to work on productivity and velocity
A common topic of discussion among my close friends is where the bottlenecks are in our productivity and how we can execute more quickly. This is very different from what I see in my extended social circles, where people commonly say that velocity doesn't matter . In online discussions about this, I frequently see…
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Apple AirTag Bug Enables ‘Good Samaritan’ Attack
The new $30 AirTag tracking device from Apple has a feature that allows anyone who finds one of these tiny location beacons to scan it with a mobile phone and discover its owner’s phone number if the AirTag has been set to lost mode. But according to new research, this same feature can be abused to redirect the Good…
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Reverse Engineering an Unknown Microcontroller
Dmitry.GR: How to reverse engineer a completely undocumented microcontroller. From nothing to a full SDK in one week flat!
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The Bit Short: Inside Crypto’s Doomsday Machine
This is the story of a Bitcoin trade — the most financially impactful trade I’ve ever made in my life. It’s also the story of the…
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jQuery 3.6.0
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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There is no 'printf'
In C, 'main' returns an int. What happens when you don't explicitly return a value, though? C99 provides a return value of 0, but C89... well, that's undefined, my favorite kind of behavior.
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Docker Security Cheat Sheet
Website with the collection of all the cheat sheets of the project.
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Ultima VIII – How to destroy a gaming franchise in one easy step
In 1994, Origin Systems’s Ultima series was the most universally lauded franchise in computer gaming. Over the course of seven mainline games and five spinoffs and side stories, the Ultima brand had consistently stood for elaborate but doggedly nonlinear plots which seriously engaged with questions of ethics; for the…
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Gift card gang extracts cash from 100k inboxes daily
Some of the most successful and lucrative online scams employ a “low-and-slow” approach — avoiding detection or interference from researchers and law enforcement agencies by stealing small bits of cash from many people over an extended period. Here’s the story of a cybercrime group that compromises up to 100,000 email…
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A deep dive on a Facebook reseller of bikes stolen in Colorado
Bike Index tracks a Colorado-to-Mexico stolen bike pipeline - and learns things along the way
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Branch predictor: How many “if”s are too many?
Is it ok to have if clauses that will basically never be run? Surely, there must be some performance cost to that...
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How to Replace Docker with Podman on a Mac
Back in March 2021, I wrote about how I replaced Docker with Podman on a Mac using VirtualBox and Vagrant after an old version of podman machine became depre...
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The British Library puts 1M newspaper pages online for free
The British Library project to digitise copies of newspapers from its archive is to release one million pages as a free resource.
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Escaping VirtualBox 6.1: Part 1
This post is about a VirtualBox escape for the latest currently available version (VirtualBox 6.1.16 on Windows). The vulnerabilities were discovered and exploited by our team Sauercl0ud as part of the RealWorld CTF 2020/2021. The vulnerability was known to the organizers, requires the guest to be able to insert…