1 August 2024

16 links · Thursday

"A Story About Jessica" by SwiftOnSecurity

The cybersecurity expert SwiftOnSecurity, a decade ago, wrote a parable called "A Story About Jessica" and posted it to their (now-deleted) Tumblr blog. I found it moving and insightful. The consultancy Superbloom pointed to it … | Cogito, Ergo Suman…

100R — about us

Hundred Rabbits is a small artist collective. Together, we explore the planned failability of modern technology at the bounds of the hyper-connected world. We research and test low-tech solutions and document our findings with the hope of building a more resil…

Announcing Flux by Black Forest Labs: The Next Leap in Text-to-Image Models

Flux, the largest SOTA open source text-to-image model to date, developed by Black Forest Labs—the original team behind Stable Diffusion is now available on fal. Flux pushes the boundaries of creativity and performance with an impressive 12B parameters, delive…

How I Got My Laser Eye Injury - Funranium Labs

It has been brought to my attention that I have never actually written this story down before, merely told it in person to many students for valuable lessons and also for laughs over cocktails. It is a litany of bad ideas from several people that all came toge…

2024-07-31 just disconnect the internet

So, let's say that a security vendor, we'll call them ClownStrike, accidentally takes down most of their Windows install base with a poorly tested content update. Rough day at the office, huh? There are lots of things you could say about this, lots of reasons …

How I Computer in 2024

An extended “uses” post that outlines the hardware I’m currently using, the software and tools that I use to get things done, and how I configure things.

AI for Developers

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Optimizing facets query performance in Corax

RavenDB allows you to query your data freely and cheaply. It is one of those things that makes or breaks a database, after all. After over a decade of workin...