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Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs is a Bad Idea « bunnie's blog

bunniestudios.com

I think turning everyday gadgets into bombs is a bad idea. However, recent news coverage has...
I think turning everyday gadgets into bombs is a bad idea. However, recent news coverage has been framing the weaponization of pagers and radios in the Middle East as something we do not need to concern ourselves with because “we” are safe. I respectfully disagree. Our militaries wear uniforms, and our weapons of wa...

hardware security
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How Discord Reduced Websocket Traffic by 40%

discord.com

While our initial experimentation proved that zstandard streaming outperformed zlib streaming, the remaining question we had...
While our initial experimentation proved that zstandard streaming outperformed zlib streaming, the remaining question we had was: “How far can we push this?” Our initial experiments used the default settings for zstandard and we wanted to know how high we could push our compression ratio by playing around with the c...

elixir networking
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Build and Deploy Websites Automatically with Git

btxx.org

vcs web
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Languages with Alternative "Hello World" Programs

dgaston.net

programming
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Improved error handling in CHERIoT RTOS

cheriot.org

CHERI platforms in general, and CHERIoT in particular, can turn a lot of bugs that would...
CHERI platforms in general, and CHERIoT in particular, can turn a lot of bugs that would be silent data corruption into recoverable errors. The ‘recoverable’ part comes from the fact that any error is caught before an invalid operation succeeds. In CheriBSD and the proposed CHERI extensions to POSIX, CHERI faults ar...

programming
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Linux/4004 - Dmitry.GR

dmitry.gr

assembly hardware linux
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Crushing Castlevania with Antithesis

antithesis.com

distributed testing
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Haiku Activity & Contract Report, August 2024

haiku-os.org

This report covers hrev57901 through hrev58042. R1/beta5 was of course released just a few days ago,...
This report covers hrev57901 through hrev58042. R1/beta5 was of course released just a few days ago, and many (though not all) of the changes in this report made it in to the release. Applications madmax fixed a crash in AboutSystem caused by an incorrectly added copyright entry. apl made a number of refactors to Ha...

activity report contractor osdev
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The realtime preemption pull request [LWN.net]

lwn.net

linux
2
Fast Unorm Conversions

rundevelopment.github.io

optimization performance rust unorm
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What are you doing this weekend? | Lobsters

lobste.rs

Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help...
Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback. Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too!

ask programming
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We have lift-off! Element X, Call and Server Suite are ready!

element.io

Element is launching the world’s first communications platform based on the upcoming Matrix 2.0 release. The...
Element is launching the world’s first communications platform based on the upcoming Matrix 2.0 release. The result is blazing performance which outperforms the mainstream alternatives - across a decentralised system that enables self-hosting and end-to-end encryption - as well as open standard interoperability to r...

element element app enterprise matrix mobile
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gaining access to anyones browser without them even visiting a website - eva's site

kibty.town

browsers security
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The unspoken rules of React hooks

macwright.com

Updated to include links to documentation that does exist on the react.dev site. I do think...
Updated to include links to documentation that does exist on the react.dev site. I do think that it’s hard to discover and this concept is underemphasized relative to how important it is for working with React hooks, but as the team correctly points out, there are some docs for it.React hooks… I have mixed feelings ...

javascript
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As Rails developers, why we are excited about PostgreSQL 17

dev.to

At the time of writing this article, PostgreSQL 17 is nearly out. On September 5th, the...
At the time of writing this article, PostgreSQL 17 is nearly out. On September 5th, the first release candidate was published. The final release is expected on September 26th, but we can already explain why we’ve been eagerly awaiting this release since 1 year. At Lifen, we’ve loved Rails from the beginning. We have...

coding databases postgres postgressql rails
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Operation Big Brother - Unmasking Vulnerabilities in Cheap IoT Cameras from One Chinese Manufacturer

trevorkems.com

I gave a presentation based on this work at the September 2024 SecDSM meeting. A recording...
I gave a presentation based on this work at the September 2024 SecDSM meeting. A recording of which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnuIjPVKBew Intro I found my Victure PC420 Baby Monitor (Wi-Fi Camera) while out thrifting and brought it home with me. I like to collect older or disused IoT devices...

reversing security
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The Undeniable Utility Of CSS :has • Josh W. Comeau

joshwcomeau.com

css
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Convenient code actions – Gleam

gleam.run

Published 19 Sep, 2024 by Louis Pilfold Gleam is a type-safe and scalable language for the...
Published 19 Sep, 2024 by Louis Pilfold Gleam is a type-safe and scalable language for the Erlang virtual machine and JavaScript runtimes. Today Gleam v1.5.0 has been published, featuring lots of really nice developer experience and productivity improvements, including several useful language server code actions. Le...

erlang release
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Accidental Spending: A Case For an Open Source Tax?

pocoo.org

written on Thursday, September 19, 2024 Both last week at London tech leaders and this week...
written on Thursday, September 19, 2024 Both last week at London tech leaders and this week at the Open Source Summit in Vienna I engaged in various discussions about pledging money to Open Source. At Sentry we have been funding our Open Source dependencies for a few years now and we're trying to encourage others to...

culture
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GPUs, from Simulation to Encryption (with Agnès Leroy)

youtu.be

cryptography people & blogs video
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Compile and run C in JavaScript | Bun Blog

bun.sh

javascript
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Sans I/O when rubber meets the road - Fractal Ideas

fractalideas.com

Sans I/O is a software design pattern for implementing network protocols. An I/O-free library contains: no...
Sans I/O is a software design pattern for implementing network protocols. An I/O-free library contains: no network I/O; no asynchronous control flow. An I/O integration layer complements the library, connecting it to a network I/O framework, which usually involves asynchronous control flow. While this may seem count...

python
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Ruby-SAML pwned by XML signature wrapping attacks | SSOReady

ssoready.com

ruby security
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GitHub - robinovitch61/kl: An interactive Kubernetes log viewer for your terminal.

github.com

devops go show
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