12 June 2020

29 links · Friday

Password Checkup Tools Warnings

If you are a security conscious user, you may have installed one of the new extensions in your browser to help you identify bad passwords or passwords that have been compromised in past breaches (e...

Jepsen: PostgreSQL 12.3

PostgreSQL is a widely-known relational database system. We evaluated PostgreSQL using Jepsen’s new transactional isolation checker Elle, and found that transactions executed with serializable isolation on a single PostgreSQL instance were not, in fact, serial…

Starcom: Nexus, An Indie Dev Story

My Start My career as an indie game developer got off to a late start. I spent most of my professional life as a web developer, initially as a general purpose “webmaster” before specializing in UI …

What to write down when you’re reading to learn

One of the hardest questions I’ve had to answer as part of the project formerly known as epistemic spot checks is: “how do I know what to write down?” This will be kind of meandering, so here’s the…

Release Notes Chocolatey Gui

Chocolatey is software management automation for Windows that wraps installers, executables, zips, and scripts into compiled packages. Chocolatey integrates w/SCCM, Puppet, Chef, etc. Chocolatey is trusted by businesses to manage software deployments.

Chocolatey GUI Release 0.17.1

In this short video, I walk through two bugs which have been addressed in the 0.17.1 release of Chocolatey GUI. Full release notes can be found here: https://chocolatey.org/docs/release-notes-chocolatey-gui The source code for this project can be found here…

The Trouble With Phishing

Phishing is one of the most common threats hitting organizations. It leads to credential theft, unauthorized access to sensitive systems, and data breaches of confidential information. This guide details the problems around phishing, how it works, and how Duo…

Ecoji.NET

😻 Encode and decode data using emoji in .NET❣️ Like base64, except base1024, and uses an emoji alphabet. 🎉

Life, part 14

Source code for this episode is here. Before we get into today’s episode proper, a quick note. I’ve updated the client so that it now supports the ability to load a pattern off disk, ex…

DevExpress Controls for WinUI 3 Preview are Now Available

At Microsoft Build 2020 the WinUI team released its first public preview of WinUI 3. In addition to fixes and enhancements for UWP-powered apps, this preview introduces support for managed desktop C#/.NET and native C++/Win32 desktop apps. Today, we are excite…

RE320 - Variable‑d dynamic vocal & instrument microphone by Electro-voice

A professional-grade dynamic microphone designed specifically for recording and sound reinforcement applications requiring extremely low noise and the best possible tonal and transient response. Ideal for capturing a wide variety of vocal and instrument source…

Artvee

Browse and download high-resolution, public domain artworks.

The Byzantine Generals Problem - Microsoft Research

I have long felt that, because it was posed as a cute problem about philosophers seated around a table, Dijkstra’s dining philosopher’s problem received much more attention than it deserves. (For example, it has probably received more attention in the theory c…