Your 'Forgotten' Blockchain Account Needing Reactivation? It's a Scam
Scammers are using 'forgotten' cryptocurrency accounts as bait for stealing the identities of the gullible and dishonest. You have been wa...
Scoreboard Hacking Part 2 - Getting the AES Key
Scoreboard hacking. Finding the AES key via hardware hacking.
| Meritocracy vs TopocracyMichele Coscia
The world isn’t always fair. Perhaps you know the frustration of pouring your heart into making something extraordinary, only to see it almost completely ignored by the crowd. On the other hand, celebrities are constantly talked about, even when they are osten…
Implement ChaCha20Poly1305 with CryptoKit on macOS by vcsjones · Pull Request #76317 · dotnet/runtime
This implements ChaCha20Poly1305 on macOS using CryptoKit instead of OpenSSL. Since .NET 7 raised the minimum target to macOS 10.15, we don't need to worry about the Swift runtime availability and ...
Defining Iterative Characteristics
Part 2 of my series on Iterative Delivery Congratulations, you have a goal! Now what? Now, it is time to write down what your goal means to you. What measurable things will be true about you…
Out of the Tar Pit: a Summary
A summary of the paper "Out of the Tar Pit"
Live Your Best Life With Structured Events
If you’re like most of us, you learned to debug as a baby engineer by way of printf(3). By the time you were shipping code to production you had probably learned to instrument your code with …
The Lens Of Asymmetry
The Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) claims that if an investor wants higher rewards they must take greater risk. This belief in the symmetry of the public market is one of the pillars of EMH. The idea that you can find an investment that is low-risk and high…
Dating Other Task Managers
I've a confession… I've been seeing other todo lists. I don't have great reasons. It started because I wanted to have the option of freedom from Apple despite having invested a ridiculous amount of time and automation capital into the ecosystem. ...
We need to coordinate our fight against the climate change and this might be one way.
This is a chat between me and a friend about a new type of platform, which could help in fighting climate change (or any bigger problem really)
age and Authenticated Encryption
age currently only provides confidentiality. We look at how a couple small tweaks can introduce authentication, when you'd need it, and how it is different from signing.
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Putin announces Russia will annex four regions of Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin has formally announced the Kremlin’s intention to annex nearly a fifth of Ukraine in blatant violation of international law....
Introducing the Azure Developer CLI (azd) | Azure Friday
Going from your local development environment to the cloud can be challenging. Savannah Ostrowski joins Scott Hanselman to show how the Azure Developer CLI (...
cairo-rs/field_utils.rs at a8e8fa9aa2554e6bfb76d145ab1acd5ff29888e4 · lambdaclass/cairo-rs
cairo-rs is a Rust implementation of the Cairo VM. Cairo is a programming language for writing provable programs, where one party can prove to another that a certain computation was executed correc...
cairo-rs/ec_utils.rs at a8e8fa9aa2554e6bfb76d145ab1acd5ff29888e4 · lambdaclass/cairo-rs
cairo-rs is a Rust implementation of the Cairo VM. Cairo is a programming language for writing provable programs, where one party can prove to another that a certain computation was executed correc...
Blazor Among Top Libraries for 'Niche' WebAssembly, Which Sees Shrinking Usage -- Visual Studio Magazine
While WebAssembly has made quite a splash in the web-dev world, a new report describes it as 'niche' tech whose usage is actually contracting, though among that shrinking usage, Microsoft's Blazor is among the top libraries.
NuGet Season of Giving
NuGet has gone through a lot of changes over the last 10 years. From the package manager console, standalone NuGet.exe, and integration of NuGet into the .NET SDK, we have always relied on the open source community to help evolve and advance NuGet to meet the …
Amazon.com: Portable Monitor, Arzopa Ultra Slim Portable Laptop Monitor FHD 14'' 1080P External Display with Dual Speakers Second Screen for Laptop PC Phone Xbox PS4/5 Switch, Smart Cover Included : Electronics
Amazon.com: Portable Monitor, Arzopa Ultra Slim Portable Laptop Monitor FHD 14'' 1080P External Display with Dual Speakers Second Screen for Laptop PC Phone Xbox PS4/5 Switch, Smart Cover Included : Electronics
On .NET Live - Build, Test, and Deploy .NET Microservices on K8s
Do you have a .NET microservices app you're developing? In this week's episode, community member Prakash Pattisapu joins the panel to show us his 1-click bui...
Generate Strongly-Typed Resources with .NET Core
Visual Studio automatically handles generating strongly-typed resources (*.Designer.cs from *.resx) but that doesn't work from VS Code or just the dotnet CLI. Here's how to fix it.
Teaching and Learning in Public
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x86 vs x64 in .NET
In this article I will show you what is the difference between x86 (32-bit) vs x64 (64-bit) in the .NET World. What is the impact if you choose on or another.
Debugging coroutine handles: Looking for the source of a one-byte memory corruption
Applying what we know about coroutines.
Putin announces Russia will annex four regions of Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin has formally announced the Kremlin’s intention to annex nearly a fifth of Ukraine in blatant violation of international law....
My Server can Beat Up Your Server: The 420Tb Storinator!
Dave takes us on a tour of the new Q30 Storinator followed by installation and deployment in the server room using Proxmox, TrueNAS, Linux, and Windows Serve...
Visual Studio Live! - Native Cross-Platform Mobile & Desktop Apps with .NET MAUI
Speaker: James Montemagno.NET MAUI is the best way to build native cross-platform mobile and desktop apps with .NET and C#. Join James Montemagno to get a fi...
Gateway + CASB: alphabetti spaghetti that spells better SaaS security
Now that Cloudflare CASB is Generally Available, let’s take a look at how users have been leveraging other Cloudflare Zero Trust products with CASB, starting with Gateway
Why Modern Software is Slow–Windows Voice Recorder
I apologize for this title because there are many things that can make modern software slow. Blindly applying one explanation without a bit of investigation is the software equivalent of a cargo cu…
.NET GC Internals - 09. GC roots
The last main episode of the .NET GC Internals series explaining a real in-depth knowledge how .NET GC works. In this episode I will cover the internals of d...
Giving "Weight" to Buttons
When I was a kid, I was blown away by how I could use my hands to move things around on-screen. We play games by receiving information with our eyes and ears...
Episode 107 - Unstructured Data With Kirk Marple
In this episode, Kirk Marple joined us to share some advice to developers who are designing specifically for scale, and to talk about his new company Unstruck Data and it's unstructured data offering.
Announcing ICU4X 1.0
I. Introduction Hello! Ndeewo! Molweni! Салам! Across the world, people are coming online with smartphones, smart watches, and other sma...
Getting started - Library | Playwright .NET
Playwright can either be used with the NUnit or MSTest, or as a Playwright Library (this guide). If you are working on an application that utilizes Playwright capabilities or you are using Playwright with another test runner, read on.
Understanding Styles in XAML based Applications - Nick's .NET Travels
One of the questions that came up recently was how to make what appears to be a simple change to a Button – change the background colour of the Button to Red when it’s disabled. You’d think this would be simply a matter of changing a property on the Button but…
Fixing Broken DefaultButtonStyle in Windows UI (WinUI) / WinAppSdk - Nick's .NET Travels
In writing my previous post on Implicit and Explicit Styles in XAML I was reminded of a bug in the definition of the DefaultButtonStyle which prevents you setting the Foreground colour of a Button. The issue is documented, along with the fix, in this issue but…
Monitor Microservices App using Azure Managed Grafana - Bit of Technology
Article shows how to monitor microservices solutions (Azure Container Apps, Service Bus, Azure Storage) using Azure Managed Grafana
Weekly Update 315
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Ken Thompson Really Did Launch His "Trusting Trust" Trojan Attack in Real Life
Ken Thompson's "Trusting Trust" compiler Trojan attack was not just a thought experiment. In fact, Usenet poster Jay Ashworth stated that, from personal communications, Thompson really did launch this attack in real life and successfully compromised the Unix S…
Exploring 10m scraped Shutterstock videos used to train Meta’s Make-A-Video text-to-video model
Make-A-Video is a new “state-of-the-art AI system that generates videos from text” from Meta AI. It looks incredible—it really is DALL-E / Stable Diffusion for video. And it appears to …
Dear Console,… | Christian Heilmann
The browser developer tools Console is so much more than a place to log your messages. It is a way for you to programatically access the currently shown document and window, read out values and change them. On top of that, it has a powerful API of helper metho…
Weekly Update 315
Tell us what data you had leaked and we’ll show how a scammer can ruin your life
Oh no! A trusted institution has suffered a data breach and you've been affected. Take our quiz to find out how bad things are going to get for you.
Episode 440 - Azure and SAP
https://microsoft.com/SAP - Overall picture at SAP on Azure https://aka.ms/acss - This is THE central entry point for Azure Center for SAP Solutions Overview and architecture of the SAP CDC capabilities (preview) - Azure Data Factory | Microsoft Learn – this i…