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Clew maintains an independent index and is aiming to be a copyleft (APGLv3), self-hostable, privacy-respecting, customizable search engine which prioritizes independent creators/bloggers/writers and penalizes sites with ads and trackers.

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Boosts are very welcome, as is feedback of any kind!

@kaoudis It's probably not a complete answer, a couple of notes though:
- Not everyone in tech is a native English speaker, and many languages don't distinguish between male/female subjects at all! "He" is just an easy word.
- Although I consciously try to represent males/females in texts I write, it's not always easy to determine if a certain scenario is positive/negative and how to associate roles. E.g.: is a typical phishing victim a "he" or a "she"?
- The recent call for gender-neutral phrasing (they/them) actually helped with this, but for a long time it just read weird (at least as a non-native speaker like myself).

Any sufficiently advanced systems thinking is indistinguishable from premature optimization

Posting this link again because it's just so wonderfully written:

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2024/05/02/the-life-and-times-of-an-abstract-syntax-tree/

#compiler #decompiler #ast #literature

#vim package management always brings me this: >< close to converting to #emacs...

[RSS] SourceSync - Dynamic pdb generation and synchronisation between decompiler and debugger

https://github.com/Air14/SourceSync

Medieval humor! 9 Astonishing Gargoyle Statues: https://streetartutopia.com/medieval-humor-9-astonishing-gargoyle-statues-a-blend-of-art-and-functionality-in-gothic-architecture/
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Photo: At Abbey of Sainte Foy, Conques, France (c. 1107).

From a friend's discord

#infosec #starWars

Me: puts on some grindcore

ML-node#1: Grindcore is music!

ML-node#2: Many users who like music also like Ed Sheeran!

UI: Do you want to listen to some Ed Sheeran?

We are *so* far from the machine uprising...

Kinda crazy that artificial intelligence needs the entire output of a nuclear reactor but actual intelligence can run on Twix bars and cocaine, for example.

I'm extremely proud to announce that I'll present my #IBMi POWER-AS research results at @recon:

https://cfp.recon.cx/recon2024/talk/AT399C/

I'm about to release considerable amount of code and a writeup, so stay tuned! ;)

I can finally talk about what we've been working on for the past two years(!)

Using #sigstore, GitHub now supports artifact signing, which allows you to create unforgeable provenance guarantees for any software you build inside Actions.

It's been a heck of a ride, & you can read more about (and learn how to use it) here:

https://github.blog/2024-05-02-introducing-artifact-attestations-now-in-public-beta/

Windows Defender reactivating itself defying all configured policies

[RSS] Chaining N-days to Compromise All: Part 5 — VMware Workstation Host-to-Guest Escape

https://medium.com/@vr-blog/chaining-n-days-to-compromise-all-part-5-vmware-workstation-host-to-guest-escape-5a1297e431b5?source=rss-4b564abdafa3------2

[RSS] Control Flow Guard in Windows 11 24H2

https://ynwarcs.github.io/Win11-24H2-CFG

protip: drawing a hilariously bad artwork in MS Paint with a mouse is a much stronger quality signal that you care about the blog post than attaching an obvious AI generation

I generated the docs from the latest #Ghidra version (11.0.3) and "int" supposed to be a valid metatype:

https://scrapco.de/ghidra_docs/cspec_parampass.html

I plan to keep this #documentation updated, let me know if you'd like to see HTML about other features published!

#Ghidra apparently forgot about metatype="int" in Compiler Specifications. Deleting the pentry attribute fixes the issue.

Relevant - probably outdated - documentation:

https://lemuellew.github.io/Ghidra-Compiler-Specification-Document/cspec_parampass.html

Look Mum No Computer, what a legend!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGqefb0qlds

#modular #synth #music