11 July 2024

29 links · Thursday

Vectors

A vector is an array of data expanding in one dimension.

The case for burning counterterrorism operations

In January 2021, a debate had coursed through the infosec community regarding Google’s TAG and P0 decision to publish a report on what they suspected could be a western antiterrorism operation. While there were dissenting voices back then, it seemed like there…

Introducing wlhc: wayland hot corners

In theory I’ve been resting in bed with COVID these last days, but it’s hard for me to sit my entirely idle, so I wrote a invested some of this time in familiarising myself with hare-wayland and hare-ev.

Using aerc-mail with Outlook

I am a college student in America where there are unfortunately only two email servers that universities use: Google Workplace Gmail and Microsoft Office 365. Up until this point I’ve used the Office suite without complaints. However, being an average terminal…

I prefer discussion in open web

One of the best parts of an interconnected blogosphere is when we have discussions with each other through blog posts. Manuel Moreale wrote about his preference of having those discussions via email and here I share another personal preference that prioritises…

How does Spectre work?

An interactive explainer of Spectre, and my submission for the 2024 Handmade Learning Jam.

Subscriptions Suck

Dark patterns in subscriptions are a huge problem. I believe that they alone have already cost the consumer facing industry billions in potential revenue.

Announcing Lix 2.90 "Vanilla Ice Cream"

Lix is an independent variant of the Nix package manager, developed by a team of open-source volunteers, and maintained by and for a passionate community of users.

WALL·E

From a trash-filled Earth to the futuristic Axiom and back again, WALL·E is a finely crafted balance between consumerist dystopia and sixties space-race optimism. Please join me, then, for a detail…

dut

A disk usage calculator for Linux

From Microservices to Modular Monoliths

What do you do when you find yourself in microservice hell? How do you keep the gains you (hopefully) made in breaking up your legacy ball of mud, without having to constantly contend with a massively distributed system? Migrate to a modular monolith.

Does code rot over time?

“This is Old Code” is a programmer’s idiom meaning “There Be Dragons”.  The term “Legacy Code” is a nice way t...

VLMs are Blind

Research showing that vision language models (VLMs) fail on simple visual tasks that are easy for humans.