Terence Tao (@tao@mathstodon.xyz)
In the field of cybersecurity, a distinction is made between the "blue team" task of building a secure system, and the "red team" task of locating vulnerabilities in such systems. The blue team is more obviously necessary to create the desired product; but th…
GitHub - 9001/copyparty: Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps
Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps - 9001/copyparty
LLM Embeddings Explained: A Visual and Intuitive Guide - a Hugging Face Space by hesamation
This app explains how language models transform text into meaningful representations through embeddings. It provides a visual guide to help you understand traditional and modern language model tech...
VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in
Jump in apps disguising internet users’ location threatens to undermine government efforts to protect children
Allianz Life says 'majority' of customers' personal data stolen in cyberattack | TechCrunch
Exclusive: Allianz Life said the "majority" of its customers and employees had data stolen in the July cyberattack. The company said it has notified the FBI.
How I hacked my washing machine - Nex's Blog
I ran out of characters for microblogging so this is where the big words go
Using Architecture Tests for CancellationTokens and sealed classes
Architectural Unit tests are nice to constraint your system (like which parts of your application can access other parts of your application). This blog post is not about that - that is covered a lot in the internet. No, I want to show what I did in a recent p…
Enough AI copilots! We need AI HUDs
EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google
*The following post was made on [r/BuyFromEU](https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU), this seems relevant for all of us degooglers living in an EU...
The challenge of deleting old online accounts
A few days ago I decided to continue working on a project I am planning (and barely executing) for quite a while: my “Digital Resiliency Plan.” I am planning to write about this here eventually, but essentially it’s just a nice way to say “get my stuff in orde…
The Next Next Job, a framework for making big career decisions at andrewchen
Produce more than you consume - Byte Tank
Going from passive consumption to the production of value, and its consequences
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Denis Maciel's personal website
I made Xcode's tests 60 times faster
Time is our most precious resource, as both humans and programmers. An 8-hour workday contains 480 minutes. Out of the box, running a new iOS app's test suite…
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Denis Maciel's personal website
placing functions
About a year ago I observed that in-place construction seems surprisingly simple. By separating the creating of the place in memory from writing the value to memory, it’s not that hard to see how we can turn that into a language feature. So about six months ag…
Fuck microsoft
I really hate microsoft, I wanted to work on my OSINTBuddy plugin system this morning that’s built in Python however I thought I’d try to update the Pylance extension to something more recent since I’m running a version from 2023.
Why Cursor is a great company
In this post, I will not discuss what Cursor is and how it works (assuming you know this already) and will just share some of my thoughts about why I think i...
Client Challenge
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Three HTTP versions later, forms are still a mess
The last few weeks I've been working on adding an HTTP 1.1 stack to the standard library of Inko as part of this pull request. The work is still ongoing but the initial set of changes will include an HTTP 1.1 server, client, basic cookie handling, generating a…
I’ve returned to Linux but I miss PowerShell
At my previous job, we all used Windows. At first I insisted on doing everything in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) or Linux-based Docker containers, but eventually I gave in and went native.