Brood War Korean Translations As work slowed down during the last couple of weeks of 2024, I decided to redirect some of my energy to hobbies instead of work. One such hobby is StarCraft: Brood War (or BW for short), a classic, highly competitive RTS from '98 that still has an active ...
So You Want to Build Your Own Data Center When it comes to infrastructure engineering, building a data center is probably closer to building a house than to deploying a Terraform stack.
Investigating an "evil" RJ45 dongle Reverse-engineering hardware can be difficult -- but sometimes, all you need is a comfy armchair and some Google Translate.
Weaponizing Wikipedia against Israel | Aish How the global information pipeline is being hijacked by digital jihadists.
PostgreSQL index creation in production systems Introduction Managing indexes in a PostgreSQL database, especially in production environments, is crucial for maintaining optimal performance and ensuring data integrity. Indexes can significantly speed up query performance by allowing the database to qui...
Provisional Guidance for Users of LLM-Based Code Generators available intuition for avoiding big risks
I Miss Building Computers. With the technology, economics, and markets for computers having changed so drastically over the last quarter century, individuals now have very few reasons for building their own computers. Will that ever change?
Do reasoning LLMs need their own Philosophical Language? :: Giles' blog Posted on 16 January 2025 in AI
0110.be - The time an HTTP request takes to pass through a proxy, a proxy, a proxy, a proxy, ... The time an HTTP request takes to pass through a proxy, a proxy, a proxy, a proxy, ...
Scaling Monoliths: A Practical Guide for Growing Systems A well-designed monolith can scale remarkably well, despite industry trends pushing toward microservices. From database sharding to message queues, learn practical strategies to grow your monolithic system effectively.
Vector Databases: A Traditional Database Developer's Perspective Vector Databases: A Traditional Database Developer’s Perspective As a traditional database developer with machine learning platform experience from my time at Shopee, I’ve recently been exploring vector databases, particularly Pinecone. Rather than provid...
US$ 30 million to reinvent the wheel I have been thinking and reading quite a bit about Free Our Feeds, a campaign to “save social media from billionaire capture”.
Private Keys in the Fortigate Leak A few days ago, a download link for a leak of configuration files for Fortigate/Fortinet devices was posted on an Internet forum. It appears that the data was collected in 2022 due to a security vulnerability known as CVE-2022-40684. According to a blog p...
Earthstar Storage for private, distributed, offline-first applications. Earthstar is a specification and JavaScript library for building connected applications owned and run by their users.
Bypassing State app censorship or blockades with PWAs The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act is a significant moment for both technology and geopolitics. Beginning January 19, 2025, TikTok is to be removed from U.S. app stores unless...
A Deep Dive into Memorization in Deep Learning Want to learn more about how, when and why machine learning, particularly deep learning systems memorize data? By studying memorization, you'll learn more about how machine learning systems really function, along with how privacy works from a technical po...
Cursor is Anthropic’s Largest Customer (and Maxing Out Their GPUs) Cursor is Anthropic’s Largest Customer and is apparently hitting the limits of what their GPU infrastructure can handle.
The Process Star Sign Chart Process star signs can be identified by the psss program found here. example output:
A Trillion Points of Failure This occurred to me while I was walking to my apartment, which had undergone renovations for more than 3 months. I had asked my uncle to oversee the project, and he called to tell me that a plumber broke a pipe. They needed to remove some tiles and cut in...
ASP.NET Community Standup - Security & auth .NET 10 planning discussion Join us for a planning discussion for security and auth in .NET 10 for ASP.NET Core with Dan Roth, Mike Kistler, Stephen Halter, and Maira Wenzel! Featuring: Dan Roth, Mike Kistler, Stephen Halter, Maira Wenzel #dotnet #aspnetcore #security