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What does the FBI want when it comes to the encryption “debate”? At an oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee today, FBI Director James Comey offered what he called the “good news” that it’s not a debate at all. In fact, he said, government and the tech industry all want the same...
Really sad to hear the news, guys. Wish you both the best in your future endeavors.
Beginning with this release, SQLite will not compile on Windows version prior to Windows Vista (circa 2007), due to a switch to using Slim Reader/Writer Locks (SRWLs) which are faster but which are not available on WindowsXP and earlier.
Designer, researcher, strategist.
We can mostly blame Internet Explorer, as always.
When coding a webpage, sometimes you know something is very likely to be needed, even if it's not needed yet. You can give the browser a hint: <link rel=prefetch href=url> The browser will take a note, and then when it doesn't have anything more important to do it might request url. Later on, if it does turn out…
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. August 4, 2023: Updated list of AWS Consulting Partners. We are expanding the AWS footprint again, this time with a new region in Mumbai, India. AWS customers in the area can use the new Asia Pacific (Mumbai)…
Markov chain babblers, bogus php files, and more!
A deep dive into hidden data encoded in the BMP files saved by the Klein Tools TI250 thermal imager.
There are few things I think about more than the essays on gwern.net, and there are few with as satisfying a theoretical payout to contemplate in my orb as his essay on “leaky pipelines”, aka log-normal distributions. The skulk: Say you’re working on a Laravel web app. You’re about 90% sure you know how to start the…
Earlier this year, we shared a vision for making AI development faster and more interoperable. Today, during our first-ever PyTorch Developer Conference, we are announcing updates about the growing…
Firefox on Windows is the first desktop browser to support the new WebVR standard (and macOS support is ready now in Nightly!) You'll find many new features for developers, as ...
I’m pleased to announce the initial open source release of Confidant, a secret management service for AWS users, built by engineers at…
Adding data to the debate
In my spare time I’ve been working on a database of Japanese prints for a little over 3.5 years now. I’m fully aware that I’ve never actually written about this, personally very important, project on my blog — until now. Unfortunately this isn’t a post explaining that project. I do still hope to write more about the…
Note: This is the talk I gave at Startup School Europe, which was held last Saturday in London. You've heard a lot of great startup advi...
Recently I've become more and more interested in how WebRTC works, so a few weeks ago I decided to add a page to my website where I could set up peer-to-peer video chats. There are plenty of libraries and services out there to make this extremely easy, but knowing that WebRTC is now well supported natively across…
Check out our progress in end-to-end encryption calls in Jitsi. Give us your crypto knowledge feedback with the code and learn how to demo it here.
I’ve noticed a small pattern across a few of my projects where I had vectorized and parallelized some code. The original algorithm had a “push” approach, the optimized version instead took a “pull” approach. In this article I’ll describe what I mean, though it’s mostly just so I can show off some pretty videos…
From August 2014 to December 2015, I manually tracked all of my work time, minute-by-minute, and analysed the data in R.
Updates on innovations and the state of virtual private networks - globally, as well as Tailscale product and company news.
Introducing the search capabilities of ParadeDB.
