This post is about the reason I will probably never try to warn any organisation in Belgium about any vulnerability again. Recently I have been dealing with an attempt at coordinated vulnerability disclosure (CVD) with an organisation in Belgium. This post is not about that, because I’m not allowed to write about it…
Age verification laws are proliferating fast across the United States and around the world, creating a dangerous and confusing tangle of rules about what we’re all allowed to see and do online. That's why today, we're launching EFF.org/Age, a one-stop shop for users seeking to understand what these laws actually do…
Explore the challenges of building a change data capture (CDC) pipeline for Postgres. And see how Sequin used a watermark design inspired by Netflix's DBLog.
In some ways, that's because C is a lower-level language, closer to assembly; it just gives you what the underlying machine gives you.
Transit time of 6,600 years; that long ago, around 4,600 BCE, the state of human civilization was devoid of technology. Hard to imagine what would happen back home on Earth during a journey of that length.
If you've ever tried to write a computer program, you'll know the dread of a syntax error. An errant space and your code won't compile. Miss a semi-colon and the world collapses. Don't close your brackets and watch how the computer recoils in distress. The modern web isn't like that. You can make your HTML as…
I wrote about the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs five years ago during the early days of this blog. The conquistadors have since remained a fascination of mine, but I haven’t had a chance to go bac…
The history of technology is full of innovators who got their start creating with their hands. Steve Jobs cites a calligraphy class at Reed
I recently had an engaging conversation with Alex ( @veqq ) from the Lobsters community about computing, mathematics and a range of related topics. Our conversation was later published on the community website as Lobsters Interview with Susam .
New research on simulated blackmail, industrial espionage, and other misaligned behaviors in LLMs.
Living at high altitude reduces risk of dying from heart disease: Low oxygen may spur genes to create blood vessels. Summary: Researchers have found that people living at higher altitudes have a lower chance of dying from heart disease and live longer. Jeanne and I live at 8,400 feet (2.560 meters)
I have gotten a significant amount of response on the Quake 2 extension mechanism. I do read everything that comes my way (I can't respond to all of it, though), and I have learned a few things from the mail.
Friendly Attributes pattern enables writing human-friendly attributes with compact and flexible syntax.
What if, rather than banning advertising outright, we taxed it instead?
Windows 7 ESU extended support for all Windows 7 users out there!
Learn how AsciiDoc combines simplicity with advanced features. Create documentation that stands out, saves time, and ensures clarity.
The what is connected to the when.
Looking at old applications, we always wonder who in their right mind thought of building them so badly. But every repository has its story and every effort has noble origins. I encountered such an ap
If I could offer you a single piece of career advice, it’s this: avoid negativity echo chambers.
Solving LinkedIn Queens in the LogicT monad
The barn swallow’s flight, the mocking bird’s song, the cardinal’s color, and the hummingbird’s character.
Po-Shen Loh explains why Euler's number e is natural using only precalculus: one exponential curve has tangent slope 1 at the y-axis, which leads to the compound interest limit.
We worked with Reuters to measure the impacts of AI scams on the elderly
High-quality sound in FreeBSD: system parameters, bitperfect signal, real-time operation, equalizer, MPD, FFmpeg filters.
EFF filed an amicus brief in Arizona federal court arguing that public school students need private digital spaces beyond their school’s reach to speak freely, without the specter of constant school surveillance and punishment.
One of Anthropic's quieter releases recently was their "Security Review," where Claude Code can identify and fix security issues in your code. But how good is it really? In my case, will it find issues with code it helped me write for my newsletter service…
