Introducing Bandersnatch: a fast elliptic curve built over the BLS12-381 scalar field - Cryptography - Ethereum Research Bandersnatch by Simon Masson (Anoma - https://anoma.network/) and Antonio Sanso (Ethereum Foundation - https://ethereum.foundation/) This document describes the details of Bandersnatch a new elliptic curve built over the BLS12-381 scalar field. The curv...
A Thorough Look At Resident Evil This is a video retrospective and critique of 18 different Resident Evil games and their DLCs, covering a span of twenty five years of game development. It t...
Stewardship of Ourselves Working behind the scenes in the news media sector, it has become increasingly clear to me that tech and the internet as they operate today are causing structural damage to our collective institutions that runs deeper than seems to be understood. But thes...
Exploring the password policy rabbit hole — Sun Knudsen Exploring the password policy rabbit hole… how to avoid getting pwned while keeping some level of convenience.
Root cause of failure, root cause of success Here are a couple of tweets from John Allspaw. Succeeding at a project in an organization is like pushing a boulder up a hill that is too heavy for any single person to lift. A team working togethe…
Mozilla tests if 'Firefox/100.0' user agent breaks websites Mozilla has launched an experiment where they change the Firefox browser user agent to a three-digit "Firefox/100.0" version to see if it will break websites.
IPv4, IPv6, and a sudden change in attitude A few years ago I wrote [_The World in Which IPv6 was a Good Design_](https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810). I'm still proud of that article, bu...
The world in which IPv6 was a good design Last November I went to an IETF meeting for the first time. The IETF is an interesting place; it seems to be about 1/3 maintenance grunt wo...
Quake III FISR Algorithm [2/2] - How Floating Point Works When the Quake III Arena source code was released to the world it contained a previously unknown algorithm called the Fast Inverse Square Root. This is the ...
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Software Development Cannot Be Automated Because It’s a Creative Process With an Unknown End Goal You cannot automate creativity to create the unknown
GitHub - seligman/aws-ip-ranges: Tracking the history and size of AWS's ip-ranges.json file Tracking the history and size of AWS's ip-ranges.json file - GitHub - seligman/aws-ip-ranges: Tracking the history and size of AWS's ip-ranges.json file
On chaos, drunks and a Solution to the Chaotic Three-Body Problem – the research of Yonadav Barry Ginat and Hagai Perets Scientists find an effective solution for the centuries-old famous three-body problem in physics, all related to a drunkard’s walkJournal link: https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.11.031020
Long-running Operations on macOS and iOS with NSProcessInfo Using NSProcessInfo you can easily start and end long running processes through activities on iOS and macOS.
Release Notes for Debian 11 (bullseye), 64-bit PC This document is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
A house small enough to find everything in I know of many times where a monolith feels like a giant house with lots of unknown nooks and crannies and hidden places. Every time I open Visual Studio I feel like I’m going to find a new room or…
.NET Rocks! vNext .NET Rocks! is a weekly talk show for anyone interested in programming on the Microsoft .NET platform. The shows range from introductory information to hardcore geekiness.
Programming the Windows firewall An introduction to the Windows Filtering Platform, and how to make your software program the Windows firewall.
Keyboard Input: Carl Franklin's Blazor Train Ep 54 Carl shows you how to get complete control over keyboard input in Blazor.You can download all files at www.blazortrain.com#blazor #datavirtualization #blazor...