24 January 2021

34 links · Sunday

Write Crypto Code! Don't publish it!

Today I'm talking about this code. It's PHP code that's supposed to do encryption. It's ugly, broken, and insecure, but we can learn from it. Thanks to @voodooKobra for pointing me to the code. Open...

Home - Exceptionless

Real-time exception reporting for ASP.NET, Web API, WebForms, WPF, Console, and MVC applications. Includes event organization, notifications, and more.

‎There Is No Game: WD

‎"There is no game: Wrong dimension" is a Point&Click comedy adventure that will take you on a journey you never asked to go on, through silly and unexpected video game universes. Will you be able to play along with the ""Game"" to find your way home? We sin…

Hacker leaks data of 2.28 million dating site users | ZDNet

Data belongs to dating site MeetMindful and includes everything from real names to Facebook account tokens, and from email addresses and geo-location information.

The Caribbean Collection

Prima Dona by Dona Sarkar. Hand-tailored women's fashion made by global artisans (from places like Nigeria, Indonesia & Detroit) and YOU. Our garments are quality controlled in Seattle by extremely picky testers. Join our community of bad@ss b*tches to Do The …

Quite the reMarkable Device :: FIGBERT

Lately, there’s been renewed interest in clean, simple technology built to help us focus. Protocols like Gemini strip away the chaos of the web. Hardware hackers fit screens in mirrors and build beautiful minimalist displays to read the news, display data neat…

Streamlining package versioning with MinVer

In the past two posts on the path to publish a NuGet package, we started by setting up the build with NUKE and running it with GitHub Actions. Before we get to the actual publishing part, there’s one more thing we need, which is to handle versioning.

Filmulator

Filmulator, a simple-to-use open-source raw photo editor

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Product idea: verifiable digital document sharing

Some employers, utility companies, banks or government departments still require you to be in possession of physical documents - it’s now 2021 and this is stupid.

Moral basis for regulating social platforms

Is it moral to regulate Twitter? It feels wrong that social platforms have the power to arbitrary filter content. But they are private companies, so they have the right to do as they please. How do we reconcile?

Simulation is easy, probability is hard...

There are many interesting things that can be learned about probabilistic modelling from the world of trading and finance, where, perhaps due to the direct connection to very large sums of money, attitudes to problems are generally very different to those of t…

Big Tech Censorship

What Big Tech is doing in deplatforming prominent right-wing figures, based on prodding from certain NGOs and politicians, is in fact censorship, even if Parler Chief Policy Officer Amy Peikoff calls it “censorship by proxy”.  I have held this position for yea…