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Vue 2.0 is here
Today I am thrilled to announce the official release of Vue.js 2.0: Ghost in the Shell. After 8 alphas, 8 betas and 8 rcs (a total…
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OpenSSH 10.6p2 Critical workaround for alpine without PAM
OpenSSH release notes
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Poverty, not trauma, affects cognitive function in refugee youth: study (2019)
Household poverty alone drives cognitive decline in war-displaced children, a study has found — in keeping with research on U.S. children living under hardship.
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No, Safari 14 does not block Google Analytics
This article aims to subdue the rumors that Safari 14 will block Google Analytics (and other similar libraries) by default. It will not.
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Dolphin Emulator - Dolphin MEGA Progress Report: April and May 2021
After finishing up the macOS M1 article the blog staff took a little break. Then they saw the date. Upon looking at the actual changelog, however, something became readily apparent: this wasn't going to be just a progress report; this was going to be a MEGA Progress Report. The long rumored time era of developers…
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Diffractive Chocolate
Turn your chocolate into an edible color spectrum…
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How Duke Nukem II’s parallax scrolling worked
Parallax scrolling – creating an illusion of depth in a 2D scene by having the background and foreground move at different speeds – is pretty much a staple of platformers and other 2D g…
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Reauthorizing mass surveillance shouldn't be tied to funding the government
Section 702 is the controversial and much-abused mass surveillance authority that expires in December unless Congress renews it. EFF and others have been working hard to get real reforms into the law and have opposed a renewal, and now, we’re hearing about a rushed attempt to tie renewal to funding...
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Tor – Arti 1.0.0 is released: Rust Tor implementation ready for production use
Arti 1.0.0 is released and ready for download.
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20×10%
Hi! It feels like I did one of these posts just the other day, but it was a month ago? Time sure does fly… Since there’s a round number in the title of this blog post, perhaps I should …
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A Theory of Deep Learning
Where noise hides when deep neural networks generalize.
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Better Compression with Zstandard
I think I first heard about the Zstandard compression algorithm at a Mercurial developer sprint in 2015. At one end of a large table a few people were uttering expletives out of sheer excitement. At developer gatherings, that's the universal signal for something is awesome . Long story short, a Facebook engineer…
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Blender 3.6 LTS Released
Blender Foundation and the online developers community proudly present Blender 3.6 LTS!
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Infinite Pixels
In which I push browser engines to their finite limits using infinite values.
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Grafana Incident: Smart incident management for your teams
The new incident management tool is available in preview for Grafana Cloud users.
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Ways of Implementing a System Call
Today, we’re going to look at the many ways of implementing user-to-kernel transitions on x86, i.e. system calls. Let’s first quickly review what system calls actually need to accomplish.
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Ruffle – Flash Emulator – Progress Report
Get ready for the biggest Ruffle announcement yet! And the first one on the blog!
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If you watch closely enough, everything is a speaker
Using high speed cameras, it’s possible to record the vibrations of everyday objects caused by nearby sounds and reverse engineer the sounds…essentially turning
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/dev/zero has infinite electrons and /dev/null has an infinite appetite for them
Delightfully useless epiphany: Suppose the null-byte is an electron. Then, /dev/zero provides an infinite supply of electrons and /dev/null has an infinite appetite for them. Let's call these devices Vss and Vdd , respectively.
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μWWVB: A Tiny WWVB Station
μWWVB is a watch stand that automatically sets the time on atomic wristwatches where regular WWVB signal isn't available.
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World Emulation via Neural Network
I turned a forest trail near my apartment into a playable neural world. You can explore that world in your web browser by clicking right here :
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Incident management at Google – adventures in SRE-land
Learn how how incident management is done inside Google's own SRE team.
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A Lisper's first impression of Julia
I have recently looked at Julia , a new programming language developed at MIT that promises to be a dynamic programming language that is sui...
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DNS 101: An Introduction to Domain Name Servers
Second star to the right and straight on ‘til morning — Peter PanAt the beginning of the ARPANET, there were only a few hosts that could be kept in a...
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Chip
I made this today while experimenting with cellular automata parameters , and I found it uniquely beautiful. After a while the patterns stabilise and start to look like a kind of constantly-moving circuit diagram. I call it Chip . The source is on GitHub if you're that way inclined.
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What's In A GIF
We sill start off by walking though the different parts of a GIF file. (The information on this page is primarily drawn from the W3C GIF89a specification .) A GIF file is made up of a bunch of different "blocks" of data. The following diagram shows all of the different types of blocks and where they belong in the…
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Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack
That’s the title of RFC 7258 , also known as BCP 188 (where BCP stands for “Best Current Practice”); it represents Internet Engineering Task Force consensus on the fact that many powerful well-funded entities feel it is appropriate to monitor people’s use of the Net, without telling those people. The consensus is…