4 December 2022

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Spicing Up Your Conversations: The Power of Salt, Acid, Fat, and Heat | David Bieber

Good conversation is an essential part of human interaction. It allows us to connect with others, share our thoughts and ideas, and learn from one another. But in a world where we are constantly bombarded with information and distractions, it can be difficult …

I Want a Memory Diagram Generator · The Third Bit

Following up on last week’s grumble about what I want for writing code examples in books, I’d like to make another request. I’m a big fan of Guo et al’s online program visualizer, which animates memory diagrams like the one below as users single-step through c…

Puncturable Key Wrapping and Its Applications

Paper by Matilda Backendal, Felix Günther, Kenneth G. Paterson presented at Asiacrypt 2022See https://iacr.org/cryptodb/data/paper.php?pubkey=32444.The confe...

Weekly Update 324

Live from Copenhagen with Scott Helme; Oslo Wedding Celebrations; HIBP's 9th Birthday; Medibank Ransom; Data Breach Fines; Sponsored by Kolidehttps://www.tro...

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Weekly Update 324

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Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT

Unless you have been living under a rock, you have heard of this new ChatGPT assistant made by OpenAI. Did you know, that you can run a whole virtual machine inside of ChatGPT?

The Breakout Tech Company Of 2022

Each year, when the summer ends, I begin to think about what I’ll write in this annual “breakout company” post, which has turned into a mini-annual tradition for me here on this blog. Until a few days ago, I kept thinking – just like in...

This week in KDE: custom tiling

KWin got a very cool new feature this week: a built-in advanced tiling system that you can use to set up custom tile layouts and resize multiple adjacent windows at a time by dragging on the gaps b…

Clojure Frameworks: opinions are features, not bugs

Ever since I wrote Clojure needs a Rails, folks reach out to ask for my opinion on their web framework for Clojure. What's clear from these discussions is a lot of software developers have no idea what a framework is.

Broken commit diff on Cisco IOS XR

The diff between the running and the candidate configurations produced by Cisco IOS XR are often incorrect. This post provides a few examples.

Probing Gender Bias in ChatGPT | Essays · Will Holley

Earlier I encountered a tweet from Marc Andreessen detailing an initial interaction he had with OpenAI’s newly released ChatGPT. Andreessen prompted it to simulate a conversation between a “New York Times journalist and a silicon valley tech entrepreneur” arg…