8 December 2024

16 links · Sunday

0x01 - Killing Windows Kernel Mitigations

This post was made possible through hard work and determination. Do not feel frustrated if this stuff does not click immediately and remember, the source of truth will always be the source code. For us, our source code is raw assembly. That said it’s important…

Identifying excess rounding

Given the hubbub about Blue Cross and paying for anesthesiologists, there was an interesting paper making the rounds, Comparison of Anesthesia Times and Billing Patterns by Anesthesia Practitioners…

Galloping Search - blag

I recently learned about Galloping Search while building a distributed log called s3-log. It’s used to search sorted items when the upper bound is unknown. In this short post, I will share my notes and other alternatives I discovered for searching over unbound…

Strategy is Not War; It’s Gardening

When most people think of strategy, they think of war. And it’s no wonder—our history books, leadership courses, and even popular business books are filled with military metaphors. From The Art of …

Does the AGPL Work?

It might be important to you that users of software you write are able to modify it, in which case you might release it with a copyleft license like the GPL. For example, imagine someone's making a device that will run Linux. They need to tweak Linux so it wi…