15 September 2022

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Visual Cryptography For Physical Keyrings

Visual cryptography is one of those unusual cases that kind of looks like a good idea, but it turns out is fraught with problems. The idea is straightforward enough — an image to encrypt is sampled…

Why Airbnb regulations matter

The Airbnb delists coming this fall could add 2x to available housing or rental inventory, essentially tripling options for renters and buyers.

It pays to be Circomspect

By Fredrik Dahlgren, Staff Security Engineer In October 2019, a security researcher found a devastating vulnerability in Tornado.cash, a decentralized, non-custodial mixer on the Ethereum network. …

We Need Simpler Types

Dependent types, refinement types, gradual types, rank-n polymorphism, etc, – we are moving in the right direction

Raised Bars, Or Breaking into Tech

Image by tsykoduk As we make things more complex, do we make things better? Are we lowering the bar to entry or raising it? When I was a kid, the BBS scene was the way that most of us got into computers. That required a lot. I was very privileged to have a C64…

The end of software

It seems reasonable that, in under 5 years (85% confidence), one will be able to write a reasonable description in english and generate the entire codebase from AI. Give a PR title & description, and out comes the PR. Maybe the PR itself is reviewed by AI or m…

Observability is becoming mission critical, but who watches the watchmen?

Before we get started, I just want to get this out of the way: I work at Canonical, and more specifically, I run the observability product team there, currently doing lots of cool stuff around observability in Juju on both K8s and machines. In this piece, I’m …

Collatz Counterexamples

Pick a natural number greater than 1, then apply the following transformation until 1 is reached:

librerpi

librerpi has 7 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

Install Oh My Posh with Autocomplete

Hey Programmers,In this video, I am showing how you can install/set up Oh My Posh for your windows terminal.Steps :Install Windows TerminalInstall-Module oh-...

Adobe to Acquire Figma

Combination of Adobe and Figma Will Usher in New Era of Collaborative Creativity Today, Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced it has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire Figma, a leading web-first collaborative design platform, for approximately $20 b…

Google Fonts: Noto Color Emoji

Noto Color Emoji is an open source font that has you covered for all your emoji needs, including support for the latest Unicode emoji specification (15.0). It f

That Annoying Shade of Blue • bsago.me

How the default settings of many ANSI terminal emulators use an unreadable shade of blue by default, where the colour came from, and why I’m choosing to just ignore it.

DataTable Visualizer Improvements

Your favorite DataTable visualizer has now got a makeover with all new improvements like sorting, filtering, exporting, and theming.

Pi Programming in 15 Minutes: Blink an LED

Dave shows you how to use C to blink an LED using a Raspberry Pi using Visual Studio Code. For my book "Secrets of the Autistic Millionaire": https://amzn.t...

Game Awards

It's Grab Bag time again—the category where you never know what you're going to get. (Though I'll try to keep it related to games.)Despite being involved in ...

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About Lockdown Mode

Learn how Lockdown Mode helps protect devices against extremely rare and highly sophisticated cyber attacks.

QR codes | Dan Hollick 🇿🇦

Ever wondered how a QR code works? No, me neither but it's low-key fascinating. (Warning, there is some extremely nerdy shit here.👇 )

A summary on the FRI low degree test

This document is an informal summary on the FRI low degree test [BSBHR18a], [BSCI+20], and DEEP algebraic linking from [BSGKS20]. Based on its most recent soundness analysis [BSCI+20], we discuss parameter settings for practical security levels, how FRI is tur…

I made Minecraft in Minecraft with redstone!

3D Minecraft in Minecraft with no command blocks, no datapacks and no mods.Features include an 8x8x8 fully 3D-rendered world with 16 different block types, 3...