I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone
Microsoft has deprecated windows 10, yet million of users still use it. They say the hardware is not supported, yet they keep pestering us with endless pings.
HackerNews Readings
The main issue on an economical point of view is that copyright is not the framework we need for social justice and everyone florishing by enjoying pre-existing treasures of human heritage and fairly contributing back.
Mullvad VPN (@mullvadnet@mastodon.online)
The European Commission lost the Chat Control 2.0 battle over access to end-to-end encrypted data. By the summer 2026, they will be back with their next attempt: Going Dark. This time some EU member states want to include VPN services. The Going Dark initiati…
Logging Sucks - Your Logs Are Lying To You
Why traditional logging fails and how wide events can fix your observability
abseil / Performance Hints
An open-source collection of core C++ library code
Ruby Programming Language
A Programmer's Best Friend
Claude in Chrome | Claude
Bring Claude's AI assistance to your browser. Ask questions, analyze data, automate tasks, and navigate sites in Chrome. Works with Claude Code and Desktop.
OpenSCAD Is Kinda Neat – nuxx.net
Earlier this year I designed a very basic box/organizer for AA and AAA batteries in Autodesk Fusion, making it parameterized so that by changing a few variables one could adjust the battery type/size, rows/columns, etc. This worked well, and after uploading it…
Flock and Cyble Inc. Weaponize "Cybercrime" Takedowns to Silence Critics
When a government contractor pays a company for "Takedown Services" to prevent transparency in government
Jmail, logged in as jeevacation@gmail.com
You are logged into jeevacation@gmail.com, Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.
CVE-2025-66019: LZW Decompression DoS Vulnerability in pypdf Library | Yunus Aydın Blog
DoS vulnerability I found in pypdf library's LZW decompression. How the LZW algorithm works, why it leads to this vulnerability, and how it differs from ZLIB.
pg-trgm and Text Similarity Search — Common Sense Development
When browsing the default Postgres extensions (a perfectly normal activity), I discovered pg_trgm. After a bit more reading, I'm convinced this simple database extension should be an essential part of any database engineer's toolkit.
When You Increase Kafka Partitions
Partitions sit right in the middle of how Kafka works. They define ordering, parallelism, and how far it can scale. But what actually happens when you need more of them? How does Kafka grow that number, what happens to the data you already have, and which guar…
Why I’m not letting the juniors use GenAI for coding
TLDR: because I want them to become seniors one day, and I want them to enjoy being developers
Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates
Dec 19, 2025