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Are We PEP740 Yet?

trailofbits.github.io

PEP 740 is a Python standard for defining cryptographically verifiable attestations hosted by indices like PyPI....
PEP 740 is a Python standard for defining cryptographically verifiable attestations hosted by indices like PyPI. What are attestations? Attestations are digitally signed, publicly verifiable statements about Python packages, including their provenance (e.g., the exact source repository that produced them). Attestati...
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Matrix Client Tutorial

uhoreg.gitlab.io
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Relativty: An open-source VR headset for $200

relativty.com
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Upcoming Hardening in PHP

dustri.org
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When the U.S. Forest Service's budget shrinks, who pumps campground toilets?

marketplace.org

\n\t\t\t Taking care of a national forest might seem like a job that involves beautiful mountain...
\n\t\t\t Taking care of a national forest might seem like a job that involves beautiful mountain vistas and days spent on scenic trails, but sometimes the reality is a little different. “It’s going to be loud — so be aware,” Snake River Sanitation’s Rhett Jones said as he fired up a toilet pumping truck. Jones and a...
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Bootstrapping Alpine Linux without root

brixit.nl

Creating a chroot in Linux is pretty easy: put a rootfs in a folder and run...
Creating a chroot in Linux is pretty easy: put a rootfs in a folder and run the sudo chroot /my/folder command. But what if you don't want to use superuser privileges for this? This is not super simple to fix, not only does the chroot command itself require root permissions but the steps for creating the rootfs in t...

linux
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Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe

legiscope.com

Cookie banners have become a pervasive feature of the modern web, frustrating users who seek a...
Cookie banners have become a pervasive feature of the modern web, frustrating users who seek a seamless browsing experience. In Europe, consent banners are mandated by an old directive from 2002, the ePrivacy Directive 2002/58, which requires websites to obtain informed consent before storing or accessing informatio...
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Implementing Signal's Double Ratchet algorithm (2020)

nfil.dev
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S/Sed/Ed

aartaka.me
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Academic papers yanked after authors found to have used unlicensed software

theregister.com

Updated An academic journal has retracted two papers because it determined their authors used unlicensed software....
Updated An academic journal has retracted two papers because it determined their authors used unlicensed software. As noted by Retraction Watch, Elsevier's Ain Shams Engineering Journal withdrew two papers exploring dam failures after complaints from Flow Science, the Santa Fe, New Mexico-based maker of a computatio...
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Old Vintage Computing Research: Dusting Off Dreamcast Linux

oldvcr.blogspot.com

Yes, here at Old VCR we live in the past, when RISC Unix workstations still ruled...
Yes, here at Old VCR we live in the past, when RISC Unix workstations still ruled the earth like large boxy tentaculous Cthulhus. Oh, sure, if you wanted a modern equivalent you could just buy a Raptor POWER9 like the one I'm typing on now. But around here even PowerPC is too pedestrian of an architecture. We need s...
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In Memoriam: Thomas E. Kurtz, 1928–2024

computerhistory.org

With deep sadness, we say goodbye to computer pioneer Thomas Kurtz. Thomas Eugene Kurtz (Feb. 22...
With deep sadness, we say goodbye to computer pioneer Thomas Kurtz. Thomas Eugene Kurtz (Feb. 22 1928–Nov. 12, 2024) was an American mathematician, computer scientist and co-inventor, with John Kemeny, of the BASIC programming language and Dartmouth Timesharing System. In the early days of academic computing in the ...
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My simple knowledge management and time tracking system

henrikwarne.com

I am using a very simple system for remembering commands and procedures, and for tracking what...
I am using a very simple system for remembering commands and procedures, and for tracking what I work on. I have two plain text files called notes.txt and worktime.txt. In the notes file, I write down things that are important to remember. For example: various shell commands, steps when creating a new release, how t...
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Show HN: Windsurf – Agentic IDE

codeium.com
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Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C#

github.com
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Europeans Spend 575M Hours Clicking Cookie Banners Every Year

legiscope.com
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Mummified Sabretooth Cub Discovered in Siberia

nature.com
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NSO – not government clients – operates its spyware, legal documents reveal

theguardian.com

Legal documents released in ongoing US litigation between NSO Group and WhatsApp have revealed for the...
Legal documents released in ongoing US litigation between NSO Group and WhatsApp have revealed for the first time that the Israeli cyberweapons maker – and not its government customers – is the party that “installs and extracts” information from mobile phones targeted by the company’s hacking software.The new detail...
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Beelink mini-PC docking station supports desktop GPU

liliputing.com

Mini PCs can fill a variety of purposes. Some are simple systems designed for use as...
Mini PCs can fill a variety of purposes. Some are simple systems designed for use as digital signage and point of sale systems. Others are high-end solutions that combine laptop-class hardware with compact designs, while offering a wide selection of ports. Many can be used as space-saving desktop replacements, media...
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Silicon Valley got what it wanted

bloodinthemachine.com

Well shit. A day or two before the election I wrote a post titled “How bad...
Well shit. A day or two before the election I wrote a post titled “How bad will it get?” with regard to the union of Elon Musk, X, Silicon Valley, and Trump, and now I guess we will find out. I—many of us—were waiting for Musk’s social media platform to be weaponized, flooded with scaremongering, threats, AI slop, a...
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InspectMind AI (YC W24) Is Hiring for AI in Construction

ycombinator.com
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The Internet Gopher from Minnesota

abortretry.fail

In the early 1990s, the nascent Internet was commonly, and often sensationally, referred to as the...
In the early 1990s, the nascent Internet was commonly, and often sensationally, referred to as the Information Superhighway despite the very acute feelings of vicarious embarrassment that the usage of this term aroused in young people of the time. The first protocols for the Information Superhighway were things like...
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Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess

substack.com

(This post might look better at dynomight.net/chess.)A year ago, there was a lot of talk about...
(This post might look better at dynomight.net/chess.)A year ago, there was a lot of talk about large language models (LLMs) playing chess. Word was that if you trained a big enough model on enough text, then you could send it a partially played game, ask it to predict the next move, and it would play at the level of...
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How to Destroy a Generation

joanwestenberg.com
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