LastPass confirms credential stuffing attack against some of its users
Password manager app LastPass said today that a threat actor has launched a credential stuffing attack against its users in an attempt to gain access to their cloud-hosted password vaults.
“Play-to-earn” and Bullshit Jobs
In Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, David Graeber makes the case that a sizable chunk of the labour economy is essentially people performing useless work, as a sort of subconscious self-preservation instinct of the economic status quo. The book cites ample anecdotal e…
LastPass users warned their master passwords are compromised
Many LastPass users report that their master passwords have been compromised after receiving email warnings that someone tried to use them to log into their accounts from unknown locations.
GitHub - CorentinJ/Real-Time-Voice-Cloning: Clone a voice in 5 seconds to generate arbitrary speech in real-time
Clone a voice in 5 seconds to generate arbitrary speech in real-time - GitHub - CorentinJ/Real-Time-Voice-Cloning: Clone a voice in 5 seconds to generate arbitrary speech in real-time
Discussions about DRM often land on the fundamental problem with DRM: that it…
Discussions about DRM often land on the fundamental problem with DRM: that it doesn't work, or worse, that it is in fact mathematically impossible to make… - Ian Hickson - Google+
Supercharge your Productivity with Roslyn and AI
https://aka.ms/dotNETConf2021-GetdotNET6Roslyn brings smart code analysis to your fingertips along with IntelliCode's AI powered tools to help supercharge yo...
Flowchart Generator Software for BBC Micro running on BeebEm
My A-Level project from 1988 - Flowchart Generator for the BBC Micro, running on BeebEm emulator.You can download the .ssd file here: https://stardot.org.uk/...
A rejected attempt to inject pseudo-physics into Windows 8 toast notifications
Windows 8 toast notifications appeared in the upper right corner of the screen, and you dismissed them by flicking them to the right. Budget meeting Conference Room A Today: 1:30 PM 📅︎ During the design explorations for how toasts should behave,
The Problem With Heroes In Software Development
All too often a company relies on a single developer to keep things running smoothly. This developer is that company's hero. However, this reliance can be harmful for all parties involved.
Build an Animated Sidebar with React and Tailwind CSS
Let's use React and Tailwind CSS to build an animated sidebar in just a few minutes!Original Article - https://blog.avneesh.tech/create-an-animated-sidebar-w...
Implementing a file pager in Zig: Managing chunk metadata
The file pager needs to know what values it has in memory and what it needs from the disk. Instead of tracking values on a per page level, we are going to do...
Japan's Paper Culture | JetPens
With Japan’s rich traditions in paper, it’s no wonder that paper is such a big part of Japanese culture. Keep reading to learn more about why paper is so important in Japan—plus, take a look at a few of our favorite Japanese paper companies.
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.NET R&D Digest (December, 2021)
This issue includes bits of Windows, diagnostics, story, software development, operating systems, C#, testing, COM and a bit to watch and learn something new about .NET.
Extended Property Patterns in C# - Code Maze
This article presents extended property patterns - a new feature introduced C# 10, building on top of pattern matching paradigm.
Decoding James Webb Space Telescope – Daniel Estévez
The James Webb Space Telescope probably needs no introduction, since it is perhaps the most important and well-known mission of the last years. It was launched on Christmas day from Kourou, French Guiana, into a direct transfer orbit to the Sun-Earth L2 Lagran…
Maybe we could tone down the JavaScript
I’m having a really weird browser issue, where scripts on some pages just won’t run until about 20 seconds have passed. Whatever you’re about to suggest, yes, I’ve thought of it, an
Upgrading to .NET MAUI Preview 11
In this article I explain how to install .NET MAUI Preview 11, what issues you might encounter and how to upgrade an app from Preview 10 to Preview 11.
A Guide to Recording 660FPS Video On A $6 Raspberry Pi Camera
This article will discuss the setup steps that are required for recording videos at high frame rates on cheap Raspberry Pi cameras. Frame rates up to 660FPS on the V1 camera and up to 1007 on the V2 camera can be achieved. Filming at these extremely high fra…
Bypassing early 2000s copy protection for software preservation
AKA: Sidestepping copy protection with Masa Mainio
Five takeaways from looking for a new senior role in tech
A few months ago, I left SeatGeek without much of a plan of what to do next. My green card was finally issued in 2021, which means that I didn’t have to scramble to find a new job in forty days. For the first time in the fifteen years I have lived abroad, I co…
The State of External Retina Displays, [Almost] 2022 Edition
The monitor story for Apple computers in [nearly] 2022 is basically would you like garbage, or would you like to take out a home equity loan?
A Review of the Zig Programming Language (using Advent of Code 2021)
I’ve long thought that Zig was an interesting programming language, potentially more interesting than Rust in many respects given that Zig seems to be targetting a more modern C-like language replacement whereas Rust firmly looks like it is trying to tak…