10 January 2022

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Introducing Plonky2 — Polygon | Blog

Polygon Zero’s mission is simple: to use zero-knowledge proofs to scale Ethereum to a billion users, without compromising decentralization or security. Achieving this requires fast and efficient proof systems. Today, we’re excited to share Plonky2, a major mil…

Azure DevOps Podcast: Jimmy Engström on Blazor - Episode 174

This week, Jeffrey is joined by Jimmy Engström, a Senior Developer, author, and speaker.   Since he was 7 years old and got his first computer, Jimmy has been on the cutting edge of technology, always developing, and trying new things. When he got wind of…

New year, new CEO

It’s a new year, and I’ve decided it’s a good time to replace myself as the CEO of Signal.I have now been working on Signal for almost a decade. It has always been my goal for Signal to grow and sustain beyond my involvement, but four years ago that would stil…

GitHub - BoltzmannEntropy/interviews.ai: This book was written for you: an aspiring data scientist with a quantitative background, facing down the gauntlet of the interview process in an increasingly competitive field. For most of you, the interview process is the most significant hurdle between you and a dream job.

This book was written for you: an aspiring data scientist with a quantitative background, facing down the gauntlet of the interview process in an increasingly competitive field. For most of you, th...

YC’s $500,000 Standard Deal

We're excited to announce our new standard deal at Y Combinator. When a company is accepted into YC, we now invest a total of $500,000.

Bringing Code Cleanup on Save To Visual Studio 2022 17.1 Preview 2

Starting in Visual Studio 2022 17.1 Preview 2, developers can now perform Code Cleanup automatically when a file is being saved! Code Cleanup automatically on Save is a new feature integrated into Visual Studio 2022 that can clean up your code file to make sur…

LatencyFleX: A new approach to game latency reduction | Tatsuyuki Ishi

This post describes the inner workings of LatencyFleX, which is a set of libraries that achieves latency reduction for video games, made as a vendor-agnostic alternative to Nvidia Reflex. A technology called Nvidia Reflex was released in 2020. It drastically i…

How can I detect that a thread pool work item is taking too long?

A customer wants to detect that their thread pool work items are not completing quickly enough and trigger a crash if they appear to be stuck. They looked at Wait­For­Threadpool­Wait­Callbacks, but that function doesn’t support a timeout. It just waits indefin…

Who wrote this shit?

Trashing legacy software is fun. It creates camaraderie.

DDoS Attack Trends for Q4 2021

In Q4, we observed a 95% increase in L3/4 DDoS attacks and record-breaking levels of Ransom DDoS attacks. The Manufacturing industry was the most targeted alongside a 5,800% increase in SNMP-based DDoS attacks and massive campaigns against VoIP providers aroun…

PC vs Mainframe: Which is FASTER?

PC vs Mainframe, Pi vs Pentium, the Apple Watch vs the Apollo Guidance Computer and many more direct comparisons in MIPS (Millions of Instructions per Second...

Math Class in C# - Code Maze

A guide to the C# Math class with many examples on how to use it. Basic, exponential and trigometric functions are discussed.

288: Turning Hacks into Reality

We give an update to our holiday hacks that have become real things that we need to actually care about. Did we go too far, or not far enough? We discuss.

Learn and Test DMARC

Learn and Test DMARC

RSS Feeds

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Integrating Long Path Names in Windows Applications

Long Path Names in Windows are a pain in the butt, but Windows 10 recently starting adding better support for Long Paths in Version 1607+ which for now has to be enabled explicitly. It also requires an application configuration switch in the manifest file. As …

Debug Native Messaging

Prelude Last month, an Enterprise customer reached out to report that a 3rd-party browser extension they use wasn’t working properly. Investigation of the extension revealed that the browser …

Lock down web browsing using Kiosk Mode

Browsers get used in many different environments. Today, I take a look at scenarios where there’s either no interactive user (digital signage) or a potentially malicious user (internet kiosks…

Cryptoland presentation

Mirror of the Cryptoland presentation that its creators seem to be trying to wipe from the Internet for some reason.

Built On Blazor! - Home

Blazor lets you build interactive web UIs using C# instead of JavaScript. Blazor apps are composed of reusable web UI components implemented using C#, HTML, and CSS. Both client and server code is written in C#, allowing you to share code and libraries. Blazor…