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A large collection of fraudulent web stores
It started simply enough...
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EU DSA: Industry and government interests prevail over citizens’ digital rights
After 16 hours of discussion, negotiators from the European Parliament and EU governments have just made deal on a new EU Digital Services Act. Pirate Party MEP Patrick Breyer sat at the negotiating table as Rapporteur for the Committee on Civil Liberties (LIBE) and summarises: "We were able to p
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Give me /events, not webhooks
Learn about the challenges of webhooks for service-to-service notifications. And why an `/events` endpoint is often preferable.
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De-anonymizing ransomware domains on the dark web
* We have developed three techniques to identify ransomware operators' dark websites hosted on public IP addresses, allowing us to uncover previously unknown infrastructure for the DarkAngels, Snatch, Quantum and Nokoyawa ransomware groups. * The methods we used to identify the public internet IPs involved matching…
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I'm making a Typescript type-checker in Rust
TLDR; I'm making a Typescript type-checker in Rust. Right now it supports a smaller subset of the type-system and exists as a fun side-project, but the end goal is a compilation tool we can use to make Typescript compilation go brrrr...
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Once in a Lifetime
Here is what might possibly be my single favorite song in the world:
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PostgreSQL 15: Stats Collector Gone? What’s New?
Yes, the stats collector is gone from PostgreSQL 15, but there's lots of new exciting features to talk about!
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Dreamy Blur
One day I saw a few pictures shared by my friend Fish. I was attracted by their slight blur and the subtle glowing effects, and wondered what kind of filter function was used. But then she told me it's just because the camera lens wasn't wiped clean.
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We are splitting our database into Main and CI
We are splitting our database into Main and CI to improve the scalability and reliability of GitLab.com.
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Subscriptions are out, refills are in
Everything these days is a subscription. And honestly, on reflection, subscriptions are complete horseshit.
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There are not enough BTUs
Y'all ready for it?
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Study: Electroshock therapy more successful for depression than ketamine
Therapeutic technique, portrayed unfavorably in films and TV shows, shows consistently better results with treatment-resistant depression
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That time when I accidentally social engineered myself to a film set
I spent the last week in Toronto in the Cpp North conference . It was so much fun just to hang around with people after such a long pause.My...
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Ali, what’s up
From time to time I buy stuff on AliExpress, mostly electronics. It has such a huge amount of items available which amazes me every time. Lots of quality stuff and lots of lesser quality stuff. Today, I found that it has rather strange text in the placeholder for the search box when the site is displayed in Dutch:
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1k True Fans? Try 100 (2020)
More than a decade ago, Wired editor Kevin Kelly wrote an essay called “1,000 True Fans,” predicting that the internet would allow large swaths of people to make a living off their creations, whether an artist, musician, author, or entrepreneur. Rather than pursuing widespread celebrity, he argued, creators only…
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Don't Write a Programming Language
It will chew you up and spit you out, and you'll not even complain. I often start new projects at the beginning of the year, around Dec...
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On Learning Smalltalk
Summary: In 2021 I learned Smalltalk, mostly using the lovely Pharo implementation. While the syntax of the language is quite nice, it...
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Let’s make WordPress officially support SQLite
WordPress can be (and is) used for any kind of site, regardless of size or complexity. Some common use-cases include: Single-page landing sitesSimple company sites with just a few pages. These site…
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Quicker and easier ways to get more light
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Analog: A simple productivity system
I've been waiting for this moment for a long time! Analog is officially live! Analog is the single thing that keeps me focused every day. I'm excited to finally be able share it with you. Back Analog on Kickstarter → The Backstory Analog is a physical companion for your digital tools that helps you prioritize and focus
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Building software to last forever
How Bear is going to live a long and healthy life
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Updating the most influential book of the BASIC era
In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career. With early computers, you didn’t boot up to a fancy schmancy desktop, or a screen full of apps you could easily poke and prod with your finger. No, those computers booted up to the command line.
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The AMD Branch (Mis)Predictor Part 2: Where No CPU Has Gone Before
In this blog post, OSS Security Researcher Pawel Wieczorkiewicz shares his journey from trying to save one byte of code to the discovery of two new cases of Straight-Line-Speculation (SLS) which affect the Zen1 and Zen2 microarchitectures of AMD CPUs. Using the findings presented in his earlier blog on the AMD branch…
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Controlling RGB LEDs with only powerlines: Anatomy of a Christmas light string
The RGB curtain predictably turns into a mess of wires when not used according to instructions. As should be obvious from this blog, I am somewhat drawn to clever and minimalistic implementations o…