5 December 2023

51 links · Tuesday

Arnold Schwarzenegger Sings About Rainbows

Arnold Schwarzenegger used to live in KansasVoice by @JoeGaudet For more vids follow BrianMonarch on Insta :)For parody use only.

Apple Responds to Fine Woven Case Problem

Apple responds to complaints about the new iPhone 15 Fine Woven case scratching easily. Turns out it’s not that fine at all!Apple Responds to iPhone Bending:...

Arnold Schwarzenegger Sings About Rainbows

Arnold Schwarzenegger used to live in KansasVoice by @JoeGaudet For more vids follow BrianMonarch on Insta :)For parody use only.

Apple Responds to Fine Woven Case Problem

Apple responds to complaints about the new iPhone 15 Fine Woven case scratching easily. Turns out it’s not that fine at all!Apple Responds to iPhone Bending:...

iMessage, explained

This blog post is going to be a cursory overview of the internals iMessage, as I’ve discovered during my work on pypush, an open source project that reimplements iMessage.

Women In Linux

Women In Linux is a non-profit organization supporting women in Linux-centric tech careers who want to obtain and sustain a thriving career in tech.

AI and Mass Spying - Schneier on Security

Spying and surveillance are different but related things. If I hired a private detective to spy on you, that detective could hide a bug in your home or car, tap your phone, and listen to what you said. At the end, I would get a report of all the conversations …

q3k :blobcatcoffee: (@q3k@hackerspace.pl)

Attached: 1 image I can finally reveal some research I've been involved with over the past year or so. We (@redford@infosec.exchange, @mrtick@infosec.exchange and I) have reverse engineered the PLC code of NEWAG Impuls EMUs. These trains were locking up for …

How to (and how not to) design REST APIs

Everyone seems to love best practices or rules around how to design REST APIs. But is all this guidance good advice? Well, let's find out.🔗 EventStoreDBhttp...

Inline Snapshot testing in .NET - Gérald Barré

In this post, I describe how to use Inline Snapshot testing in .NET. Inline Snapshot testing is a technique that allows you to write tests that assert the output of a method or function. The output is stored in a snapshot file. The next time the test is run, t…

RailYatri Data breach - Over 31 Million Users Data Exposed

India's government-approved online travel agency, RailYatri suffered a massive data breach, exposing the personal information of over 31 million people.

Inconsistent violin plots | Andrey Akinshin

The usefulness and meaningfulness of the violin plots are dubious (e.g., see this video and the corresponding discussion). While this type of plot inherits issues of density plots (e.g., the bandwidth selection problem) and box plots, it also introduces new...

Microsoft .NET Code Analysis: Add Explicit Cast in foreach() Loops

The article highlights the importance of adding an explicit cast in foreach loops when dealing with collections to avoid potential runtime issues caused by hidden casting. It also suggests simplify…

David Wong

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Scroll to expand document tabs - Visual Studio Blog

When you have lots of tabs open in Visual Studio, your horizontal screen resolution determines how many fit in the document tab well. The remaining document tabs are hidden unless you configure Visual Studio to display tabs in multiple rows. Alternatively,

HTML: The Programming Language

HTML, the programming language, is a practical, turing-complete[1], stack-based programming language based on HTML, the markup language. It uses elements defined in HTML, the markup language, in order to do computations.

Switch off bad TV settings

Watch movies like the makers intended by switching off weird smart tv settings.

Women In Linux

Women In Linux is a non-profit organization supporting women in Linux-centric tech careers who want to obtain and sustain a thriving career in tech.

Forecasts need to have error bars

Richard Rosenfeld in the most recent Criminologist published a piece about forecasting national level crime rates. People complain about the FBI releasing crime stats a year late, academics are wor…

David Wong

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Stupid Tools | Obiter dicta

I looooove building tools. It’s like building a jig1 in a woodshop. Once you’ve built your new tool, you feel like you now have the ability to do something you couldn’t do before, or at least the ability to do it better. Unlike a jig in a woodshop, with comput…