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My grandfather was almost shot down at the White House (2018)
When I owned Piper N47943, a four seat single engine airplane, I thought it prudent not to fly myself to assignments. I did not want the…
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Meet “Claude”: Anthropic’s rival to ChatGPT
Compare ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude across natural language capabilities, use cases, and tradeoffs in this head-to-head evaluation.
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Mashing Enter to bypass full disk encryption with TPM, Clevis dracut and systemd
This vulnerability allows a physically-present attacker to control the full disk encryption unlock process and gain complete access to decrypted content in some cases where a TPM, dracut and Clevis are used.
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Archaeologists discover oldest wooden structure
Archaeologists discover world’s oldest wooden structure
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Cyberdecks (2013)
Article about the philosophy of custom made computers without displays, usually known as decks.
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Lessons From Linguistics: i18n Best Practices for Front-End Developers
Here are a few internationalization (i18n) best practices to help front-end developers avoid errors and serve more robust text content on multilingual websites and apps.
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New macOS malware steals info, including a user's entire Keychain database
ThreatDown detects new macOS malware like MacStealer that targets Keychain databases and steals sensitive user information. Talk to our security team.
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Closing a stale SSH connection
Suppose you’re connected to a remote host with SSH and after a while the SSH session goes stale. The terminal is unresponsive and no keypress seem to take effect. There might be something with the network, the remote host is restarting or maybe your machine has been in hibernation, there could be multiple reasons for…
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I wrote a string type
I write compilers for fun. I can’t help it. Consequently, I also write a lot of parsers. In systems programming, it’s usually a good idea to try to share memory rather than reuse it, so as such my AST types tend to look like this.
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Why we need to know LR and recursive descent parsing techniques
A couple of people have asked me for my thoughts on part of an article from Tiark Rompf called (roughly) “ Just Write the Parser ” which advocates the use of recursive descent parsing over more “formal” approaches to parsing, at least in the context of teaching compilers. I’m fairly sure I read this article a couple…
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Supabase Storage v3: Resumable Uploads with support for 50GB files
Storage V3 with lots of new features including resumable uploads, more image transformationsm a Next.js image loader and more.
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MSW 2.0 – Mock Service Worker
The biggest library release is finally here! Learn more about the changes, motivation behind them, and how to upgrade to the next version today.
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Reverse engineering an e-ink display
We bypass read-out protection on the CC2510
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Spin 2.0 – open-source tool for building and running WASM apps
Read some of the latest blog posts from Akamai Developers.
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Removing PGP from PyPI
PyPI has removed support for uploading PGP signatures with new releases.
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Finland Becomes a Member of NATO on Tuesday 4 April
Office of the President of the Republic of Finland Press release 10/2023 3 April 2023 Finland will become a Member of NATO on Tuesday, 4 April 2023. President of the...
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The legend of “x86 CPUs decode instructions into RISC form internally” (2020)
A dive into what x86 instruction are decoded into various processors, to determine the truth of the idea that they're just RISC-like internally.
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What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD (2021)
How to have fun with the world’s most important free software project "Functional, free and secure by default", OpenBSD remains a crucial yet largely unacknowledged player in the open source field. This talk aims to highlight the project's signature security features and development practices -- razor sharp focus on…
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Google I/O: Big changes coming for SEOs with ubiquitous AI
Google I/O 2023 makes AI ubiquitous across products. What SGE and generative search mean for SEOs and content marketers.
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What makes developers productive?
Many ingredients go into developer productivity. Some are obvious and easy to measure (build times are an easy example to point to). But I think we tend to miss other important factors, perhaps because they are hard to directly measure. For example, no system collects a number that shows how well each developer…
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Report on an Unidentified Space Station (1982)
By good luck we have been able to make an emergency landing on this uninhabited space station. There have been no casualties. We all count ourselves fortunate to have found safe haven at a moment when the expedition was clearly set on disaster.
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Web Apps on macOS Sonoma 14 Beta
The personal blog of Thomas Steiner
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Why You Should Write Your Own Static Site Generator
I rewrote my personal website using basic libraries and the flexibility is incredible.
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Place mushrooms in sunlight to get your vitamin D (2012)
(Originally published online in Huffington Post's Healthy Living section.) Vitamin D is an essential vitamin that boosts the immune system and plays vital roles in human metabolism. Did you know that tasty mushrooms are one source for vitamin D, and that you can naturally multiply their levels by exposing them to sunli
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Ego Death
Social media aggravates the ego. Virtuous content drifts to the extremes and becomes counter productive at scale. Focusing on external validation is futile and robs the soul of a deeper meaning.
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Elixir and Phoenix can do it all
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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DuckDB 0.8
The DuckDB team is happy to announce the latest DuckDB release (0.8.0). This release is named “Fulvigula” after the Mottled Duck (Anas Fulvigula) native to the Gulf of Mexico. To install the new version, please visit the installation guide. The full release notes can be found on GitHub. There have been too many…
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