8 July 2022

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Bad UI is causing people to get scammed | Ashlan's blog

<p>If you've asked anybody who's tried to sell anything on Facebook Marketplace, Offerup or Craigslist, I can guarantee you that every one of them have encountered somebody trying to scam them. I've encountered quite a few but I'll explain how this particular …

i trained StyleGAN3 with 10000 Bored Apes

I started “collecting” NFTs (not the real token but the JPGs) a while ago when i released OpenSee. One fun project i thought about was to play around with the pictures and see if i could train GAN (Ge

NIST-PQC Choices Out

Today, NIST put out its preliminary choice of PQC algorithms to standardize. I wrote an introduction to lattice-based KEMs (for non-cryptographers) this last weekend in preparation for the report, where one implements an (aggressively unoptimized) variant of F…

NIST’s pleasant post-quantum surprise

On Tuesday, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced which post-quantum cryptography they will standardize. We were already drafting this post with an educated guess on the choice NIST would make.

Power Platform Conference

The first annual Microsoft Power Platform Conference. This event is jam-packed with Microsoft’s senior thought leaders, software engineers, and community experts - all focused on uniting humanity and technology.

Dolphin Progress Report: May and June 2022

It's been a very hectic two months. Dolphin's development builds officially dropped support for Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 in 5.0-16393 when the Windows buildbots were updated to use Qt6. If you read the last Progress Report, you'd know that Windows…

July 8, 2022

Concurrent observation and mutation is a bit of a mess.

The Art of Debugging

I often end up being pulled into various debugging sessions. I find that having a structured approach for debugging can help you figure out what is going on ...

Building Minimal API endpoints from EF Core DbContext

This post is about building Minimal API endpoints from EF Core DbContext. When building APIs using EF Core and Minimal APIs, most of the time we will be writing the same code again and again. Recently I found a nuget package - InstantAPIs - this package helps …

mjg59 | Lenovo shipping new laptops that only boot Windows by default

I finally managed to get hold of a Thinkpad Z13 to examine a functional implementation of Microsoft's Pluton security co-processor. Trying to boot Linux from a USB stick failed out of the box for no obvious reason, but after further examination the cause becam…

Episode 102 - Photino With Otto Dobretsberger

In this episode, Otto Dobretsberger joined us to introduce us to Photino - a technology for running web-based applications natively on your devices, regardless of the operating system used, using the latest that .NET has to offer.

Abstract class vs interface

In C# we have abstract classes and we also have interfaces. Both seem very similiar but they are fundamentally different concepts. Therefore let's discover what the difference is, what the overlap is and when to use what.

Is auth WAY too hard in .NET?

I'm either going to get one or two upvotes here or I'm going to be downvoted into oblivion but I have to know if it's a thing or if "it's just...

Revert to Source

Identify the originating source of data and integrate to that