Meta recently made a 1 character change to their codebase which saves the equivalent of ~15,000 servers in capacity per year 🤯
Back in 2020, Reporters without Borders teamed up with Minecraft to build an in-game library of censored books. They call it The Uncensored Library.
My friend @SrRochardBunson just reminded me about it. I forgot all about it, and didn’t even know it was still rolling.
https://uncensoredlibrary.com/en
#Censorship #Library #Libraries #Minecraft #Journalism #Guerrilla
If a company has genetic data
And it's going bankrupt
And that causes one of the biggest economies in the world, California, to warn people to delete their data before that happens
Because they're very concerned about who the genetic data will be sold to in bankruptcy court
Idk man maybe it should just be illegal to sell genetic data in bankruptcy court? Or it should require stringent oversight and regulation?
There is more cost to programming assistants than I have realized. I was recently talking with a friend, and I mentioned a new programming language that has some interesting features. The friend told me that they won't try it, because the programming assistant doesn't support it, because there aren't enough examples out there to train it.
We are literally throwing away innovation and diversity in exchange for convenience.
Would you look at that, it's tmp.0ut Volume 4! Happy Friday, hope you enjoy this latest issue!
"How do you deal with code snippets in blog posts getting outdated?"
Every time I give a talk about blogging for developers, I'm asked this. Now I started to take action with the first iteration of the solution.
I added version metadata to my blog posts and display them at the start of the post.
https://hamatti.org/posts/track-software-versions-for-technical-blog-posts/
We're programmers. Programmers are, in their hearts, architects, and the first thing they want to do when they get to a site is to bulldoze the place flat and build something grand. We're not excited by incremental renovation: tinkering, improving, planting flower beds.
— Joel Spolsky
Hello and welcome to this week's installment of #nakeddiefriday !
The guest of today is the TIBPAL16R4 by TI, a programmable array logic chip made with bipolar logic. The die has 2 metal layers, its maskwork produced in 1985. A short thread follows.
More info and hi-res pano at: https://siliconpr0n.org/archive/doku.php?id=infosecdj:ti:tibpal16r4
#electronics #reverseengineering #microscopy #icreverseengineering
It’s disheartening to see AI reactionism lead my community to a 180° on copyright.
Everyone is merrily attacking LibGen now. If it didn’t exist, big tech companies would still find training data, it just wouldn’t be accessible to regular people.
Rejoice! 🎉
My idalib-based vulnerability research tools are now fully compatible with Windows 🪟
Please test them and report any bugs 🪲
https://security.humanativaspa.it/streamlining-vulnerability-research-with-ida-pro-and-rust/
(PS. Ya like my GPT writing style? 🚀)
Project: golang/go https://github.com/golang/go
File: src/cmd/compile/internal/abt/avlint32.go:175 https://github.com/golang/go/blob/refs/tags/go1.23.4/src/cmd/compile/internal/abt/avlint32.go#L175
func (t *T) Intersection(u *T, f func(x, y interface{}) interface{}) *T
SVG:
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"But Ryan, the C preprocessor isn't a programming language!"
Skill issue.
The official website of zero-day broker Zerodium has been updated in December of last year. There are no price lists nor any information anymore, just an email and a PGP public key.
🤔
If you know what's happening there...let me know.