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Closing a 30 pixel gap between native and web https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2022/09/27/closing-pixel-gap-native-web-window-controls-overlay/
Microsoft Edge Blog
Closing a 30 pixel gap between native and web
We talk a lot about Progressive Web Apps (PWA) in the context of mobile devices, but they have an enormous potential on desktop operating systems that's only beginning to materialize. Recently, with many new web capabilities in the Chromium browser
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Analysis of Chromium issue 1196683, 1195777 https://iamelli0t.github.io/2021/04/20/Chromium-Issue-1196683-1195777.html
iamelli0t’s blog
Analysis of Chromium issue 1196683, 1195777
On April 12, a code commit[1] in Chromium get people’s attention. This is a bugfix for some vulnerability in Chromium Javascript engine v8. At the same time, the regression test case regress-1196683.js for this bugfix was also submitted. Based on this regression…
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Tiny robots have successfully cleared pneumonia from the lungs of mice https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-022-01360-9
Nature
Nanoparticle-modified microrobots for in vivo antibiotic delivery to treat acute bacterial pneumonia
Nature Materials - Biohybrid microrobots consisting of nanoparticle-modified microalgae are constructed for active drug delivery in the lungs. In an acute bacterial pneumonia model, the microrobots...
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Security in Plan 9 (2002) https://9p.io/sys/doc/auth.html
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Ken Thompson really did launch his "trusting trust" trojan attack in real life https://niconiconi.neocities.org/posts/ken-thompson-really-did-launch-his-trusting-trust-trojan-attack-in-real-life/
niconiconi.neocities.org
Ken Thompson Really Did Launch His "Trusting Trust" Trojan Attack in Real Life
Ken Thompson's "Trusting Trust" compiler Trojan attack was not just a thought experiment. In fact, Usenet poster Jay Ashworth stated that, from personal communications, Thompson really did launch this attack in real life and successfully compromised the Unix…
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Days Since Incident – tracker of natural disasters on Earth https://neal.fun/days-since-incident/
neal.fun
Days Since Incident
Tracking natural disasters on Earth
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A call to reconsider memory address-space isolation in Linux https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/909469/95386a9171af0b46/
lwn.net
A call to reconsider address-space isolation
When the kernel is running, it has access to its entire address space —
usually including all of physical memory — even
if only a small portion of that address space is actually needed. That
increases the kernel's vulnerability to speculative attacks. An…
usually including all of physical memory — even
if only a small portion of that address space is actually needed. That
increases the kernel's vulnerability to speculative attacks. An…
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YouTube age-restriction quagmire exposed by 78-minute Mega Man documentary https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/09/youtube-age-restriction-quagmire-exposed-by-78-minute-mega-man-documentary/
Ars Technica
YouTube age-restriction quagmire exposed by 78-minute Mega Man documentary [Updated]
"Summoning Salt" left with little understanding of where auto-moderation line is drawn.
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The Fedora Project Remains Community Driven https://theevilskeleton.gitlab.io/2022/09/30/the-fedora-project-remains-community-driven.html
TheEvilSkeleton
The Fedora Project Remains Community Driven
Recently, the Fedora Project removed all patented codecs from their Mesa builds, without the rest of the community’s input. This decision was heavily criticized from the community. For that decision, some even asked the Fedora Project to remove “community…
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Seer – a GUI front end to GDB for Linux https://github.com/epasveer/seer
GitHub
GitHub - epasveer/seer: Seer - a gui frontend to gdb
Seer - a gui frontend to gdb. Contribute to epasveer/seer development by creating an account on GitHub.
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stellarium.org
Stellarium 1.0!
The Stellarium team did it. Stellarium 1.0 is here!
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How writing has spread across the world https://www.openculture.com/2022/09/how-writing-has-spread-across-the-world-from-3000-bc-to-this-year-an-animated-map.html
Open Culture
How Writing Has Spread Across the World, from 3000 BC to This Year: An Animated Map
The oldest known writing systems first emerged in Mesopotamia, between 3400 and 3100 BC, and Egypt, around 3250 BC. The Latin alphabet, which I'm using to write this post and you're using to read it, gradually took the shape we know between the seventh century…
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An Elegy for GNU and RMS https://catgirl.ai/log/elegy-gnu/
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Great Works in Programming Languages https://www.cis.upenn.edu/%7Ebcpierce/courses/670Fall04/GreatWorksInPL.shtml
