9 March 2023

48 links · Thursday

In praise of Alpine and apk

Since the change of year, I’ve been using Alpine Linux on my main computing device (a new desktop PC that I assembled in December). These are some notes on in, some niceties and caveats.

On Unsavoury Memeplexes

 Illustration by Thomas Landseer When ChatGPT was released, soon arose several continuing Chinese whispers of the online variety that expre...

PrivEsc: Abusing the Service Control Manager for Stealthy & Persistent LPE

Living off the Land Earlier this week, Grzegorz Tworek posted a really cool way of establishing a persistent LPE that I haven’t previously seen in the wild. From a (compromised) privileged account we can abuse the Service Control Manager to allow any arbitrary…

What's new with ASP.NET Core 7

Welcome to Canada's Technology Triangle .NET User Group (CTTDNUG) Meetup live broadcast on YouTube.In this session, we are going to talk about the new featur...

What is Synthetic Data? The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Sharing data can often enable compelling applications and analytics. However, more often than not, valuable datasets contain information of sensitive nature, and thus sharing them can endanger the privacy of users and organizations. A possible alternative gai…

Visual Studio 2022 – 17.5 Performance Enhancements - Visual Studio Blog

We are excited to announce that Visual Studio 2022 17.5 offers a range of performance enhancements that significantly improve the speed and responsiveness of the product in the following main areas:  Build Acceleration for .NET SDK style projects External Sour…

The historical evolution of Cross-Site Request Forgery

Having been in application security for more than 2 decades now and officially completing my 18th year now of being meaningfully employed in that space there is just a lot of crud that I have gathered in my brain. Most of that is history of how things came ab…

Run a Phoenix 1.6 application on Scalingo using Releases

In this post, we will show you how to run a Phoenix application on Scalingo using Releases. Whether you want to migrate your Phoenix application away from Heroku or need to upgrade your Scalingo stack from scalingo-18 to scalingo-20, the following guide should…

The Kids are Not Okay

It has been a subject of much recent internet discourse that the kids are not okay. By all reports, the kids very much seem to be not all right. Suicide attempts are up. Depressive episodes are way…

How platform integration in Qt/KDE apps works

There has been some recent discussions about how KDE applications (or Qt apps in general) should look and feel like outside of the Plasma desktop, particularly in a GNOME environment. During this discussion I noticed two major disconnects between the involved …

Smart lazyness ~ Andrea Canton

Have you ever speed up your pass when you see that some one is passing through the door that you'll pass too? I do and sometimes I even run.

PSA: Carefree Hosted App has been hacked

We suspected this morning after getting an email from carefree regarding a service issue. It read like a hack. It's now been confirmed to a...

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Visual Basic language strategy - Visual Basic

We will ensure Visual Basic remains a straightforward and approachable language with a stable design. The core libraries of .NET (such as the BCL) will support VB and many of the improvements to the .NET Runtime and libraries will automatically benefit VB.

Greg Young answers your Event Sourcing questions!

I asked you for your questions about Event Sourcing and CQRS. I took some of those questions to Greg Young for answers about frameworks, Legacy Systems, Use ...

Get started with Microsoft Graph .NET SDK!

This is the first week of Hack Together: Microsoft Graph and .NET! Join the hacking🚀: https://aka.ms/hack-together/In this session you'll learn:- What is M...

My .NET Developer Roadmap for 2023

Give the roadmap a star on GitHub: https://github.com/Elfocrash/.NET-Backend-Developer-RoadmapCheck out my courses at https://nickchapsas.comHello everybody ...

Do you know what good code looks like?

It's a serious question! If you don't know what good code looks like, how do you know what you're doing is good? What if it's not good? What...

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