Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default
View changes to the Tailscale client and service.
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,947 posts.
View changes to the Tailscale client and service.
Self-hosting OpenCode Web for GitOps style homelab changes.
A sophisticated campaign is abusing the Obsidian note-taking app to deliver a new RAT, PHANTOMPULSE, to targets in the finance and crypto sectors using...
Date: 2026-07-15 Git: https://gitlab.com/mort96/blog/blob/published/content/00000-home/00017-sqlite-editions.md
Around January 11, 2026, archive.today (aka archive.is, archive.md, etc) started using its users as proxies to conduct a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack against Gyrovague, my personal b…
What I once thought about programming productivity was wrong
i become stupid
Emacs features have a discoverability problem, and we’re chipping away at it one demo at a time. The years since I wrote the last one of these have yielded more surprising and useful finds, so it’s time again for a “batteries included” report. Note This is the third in a series of articles highlighting useful but…
The new "Fractal" operating system kernel, developed at MIT, gives researchers a clearer look at how computer chips work internally. It was used to study the branch predictors inside Apple's M1 processor, where it revealed a potential vulnerability to major speculative attacks.
[Note: the actual project is here ; the current page is only an introduction to it, for my blog readers.]
Claude Fable represents another big jump in AI
A new paper in Psychological Science (.htm) reports a failure to replicate Study 2 of Ariely and Wertenbroch’s influential article entitled, “Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Contr…
MLX on Mac with Apple silicon lets AI researchers and developers experiment locally with the latest models and methods in a private…
A subtle change has been made to the comments links, so they no longer pop up. Does this in any way help with the problem about comments not appearing on permalinked posts, readers? Update: seemingly not Update: Oh yeah!
By bypassing ChatGPT's sandbox and content security policy, our research team was able to take over anyone's account simply by sending them a link.
Insights and guidance from our engineering team on how Astral secures its tools.
cybersecurity, tech, and personal annoyance log
Here is a photo of my family. I love them more than anything. Images have power, I hope. Normally we try to be pretty private, but in this case I am sharing a photo in the...
ai is here. so i'm spending 3 months coding the old way
Oooooh boy. Let’s get this out of the way first. Email sucks. Now to the how and the why. We’re builders. We love making tools to help designers and developers live a little bit easier. We’re pretty good at it. Marketing, though? We do our best, but the truth is, we don’t like to bother […]
For a long time I have been a fan of minimalism in my physical life: have few physical possessions, and try to do more with less. Four years ago, I wrote this blog post describing what I had in the 40-liter backpack that I travel around with.
Analysis of Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.2 (Max, Default Fallback) and comparison to other AI models across key metrics including quality, price, performance (time per Intelligence Index task & time to first answer token), context window & more.
We measure the capabilities of LLMs to deanonymize users online.
Taxable Anonymous Libre Electronic Reserves
It's random, really.
For almost a year now, Turso has had a program that pays $1,000 for any bug that can be demonstrated to lead to data corruption. Today, we are retiring this program.
A look at the history of visual changes to example.com.
We have some difficult news to share with the IPFS and wider peer-to-peer community. Our IPFS funding was cancelled