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Towards Federated Key Transparency - Dhole Moments
In late 2022, I blogged about the work needed to develop a specification for end-to-end encryption for the fediverse. I sketched out some of the key management components on GitHub, and then the pu…
Women Pretending To Be Men On The Internet
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A resource for the OpenBSD community
Contributed by Peter N. M. Hansteen on 2024-06-06 from the sshd to carry a big stick dept.
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A Picture is Worth 170 Tokens: How Does GPT-4o Encode Images? - OranLooney.com
Here’s a fact: GPT-4o charges 170 tokens to process each 512x512 tile used in high-res mode. At ~0.75 tokens/word, this suggests a picture is worth about 227 words—only a factor of four off from the traditional saying. (There’s also an 85 tokens charge for a l…
Fixing my iPhone 13 Pro cameras at -18C
Look, I don't recommend you do this with your phone because bad things may happen, but the front and back cameras on my iPhone 13 Pro stoppe...
Statement on Vavr’s Future
Hi guys, as I mentioned in a previous post, I have redirected my energy from maintaining the Vavr project towards other activities. It seems that many people are uncertain about the future of Vavr. Please allow me to clarify a few things.
A Look Into Cara — Maybe Host Your Own Art
Cara is a social media app aimed at artists that’s grown by more than 600,000 users in the past week. I just learned about it today, but it’s been around since at least the beginning of 2023. Its key features are that it won’t host AI content yet, and it tries…
Has my branch been squash-merged into main?
I have a large number of local development branches, several of which had already been merged into . If the branches were fast-forward merged, things are usu...
Cloning Windows Recall in 30 Lines of Bash
June 6, 2024 This is mostly a demonstration of what Windows Recall actually seems to do under the hood, and is not meant to be seriously used. Here’s the code, I have more to say after: #!/usr/bin/env bash if [ "$1" == "--daemon" ]; then MD5LAST="" while true;…
Awesome aging
I was listening to an interview with the Swedish artist Peter Jöback. They were talking about aging and he said: He says that after 50 he feels he has be...
Microsoft Will Switch Off Recall by Default After Security Backlash
After weeks of withering criticism and exposed security flaws, Microsoft has vastly scaled back its ambitions for Recall, its AI-enabled silent recording feature, and added new privacy features.
Enhance Gesture Binding with the Shared Toolkit
The year 2024 began with an article outlining the improvements in the Shared Toolkit through the optimization of specifying the Binding as a LINQ expression, without requiring an additional getter …
Unsolved Chemistry Problems
What's the deal with std::type_identity? - The Old New Thing
When you want to use a type without participating in type deduction.
evading the wifi router ban
Wifi router ban I currently live in student family housing at the University of California, Berkeley. Several years ago, Berkeley IT announced a new policy for wifi routers: Effective July 1, 2024, use of personal routers will no longer be permitted at UVA [st…
GitHub - jordanbaird/Ice: Powerful menu bar manager for macOS
Powerful menu bar manager for macOS. Contribute to jordanbaird/Ice development by creating an account on GitHub.
Bouncy Castle Cryptography Library for .NET - Code Maze
In this article, we will learn Bouncy Castle Cryptography library in .NET with some examples of using it for Encryption, Decryption, Hashing.
Auditing SQL Server – Part 1 – Discovery and Documentation - Simple Talk
Inheriting a server, whether as an inexperienced user or an experienced DBA, has many challenges. It's very helpful to evaluate the servers, document
Using Phi-3 & C# with ONNX for text and vision samples
In this blog post we explore the integration of Phi-3 Small Language Models and ONNX in .NET applications
Clean Code—A Practical Introduction in ASP.NET Core
Learn tips on how to write clean code in ASP.NET Core applications—readable, understandable and maintainable code.
Test-Driving HTML Templates
Unit testing HTML templates
Debugging Semantic Kernel in C#
I'm working on a (small) project where I'm using Microsoft Semantic Kernel . Although it makes it really easy to build your own copilots and...