16 April 2025

35 links · Wednesday

BrianKrebs (@briankrebs@infosec.exchange)

Attached: 1 image I boosted several posts about this already, but since people keep asking if I've seen it.... MITRE has announced that its funding for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program and related programs, including the Common Weakness…

What Desktop PCs Need

It seems to me that we haven’t had much change in the overall design of desktop PCs since floppy drives were removed, and modern PCs still have bays the size of 5.25″ floppy drives desp…

Model Culpa | BibleTech

Blog on the intersection between Biblical Research, Software Engineering, and Machine Learning

A Bigger Database

We do what we can, because we must.

How and why I interview engineers for Workbrew

In the last two years building Workbrew (a remote-first, enterprise Homebrew startup) I’ve hired 5 engineers (and a hybrid PM/EM). This has been my first time being a “hiring manager”. This post explains how I interview and why I do it how I do.

570 million Frenchmen

France's decline coincided with a collapse in its birth rate – now we know why.

Four weeks of voice computing - here's what I learnt

After a recent flare-up of RSI-related wrist pain, I decided to make a serious attempt at becoming proficient at speech computing. My hope was to be able to add an alternative input method in order to offload my hands, and allow them some rest even during my d…

The best books on Systems Thinking

William Donaldson shares the 5 best books on books on Systems Thinking. Have you read Thinking in Systems?

These are not the same

After sharing Ed Zitron’s latest piece called “OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry” I got a few responses arguing in a similar way: People agree that “AI” and especially “generative AI” is a massive bubble that does not really make much sense – if y…

~fpereiro

Derek Sivers (indirectly) taught me that I’m a very future-focused person. This is why, since I can remember, I always think the future will be better.

Aryn

Growing up, I was a nerd — a mathelete to be precise. I idolized the great scientists and mathematicians, not so much the great statesmen or politicians. That's why I found myself in tech and Silicon Valley — a place where us matheletes can make and bring to l…