How blockchain technology can thrive in an age of quantum computing.

David Schütz's bug bounty writeups

Let's have a look at a recent kernel local privilege escalation exploit!

Exploit Source: https://hxp.io/blog/79/hxp-CTF-2020-wisdom2/
Kernel Developer Walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LORxdO1XUjY

Syscalls, Kernel vs. User Mode and Linux Kernel…

This post dives deep into how transparent huge pages (THP) slow down the system and explains why you should disable THP to improve your database performance.

With Linux 5.10 having shipped as the latest Long Term Support (LTS) release to be maintained for at least the next five years, a discussion has begun over dropping a number of old and obsolete CPU platform support currently found within the mainline kernel

It sounds like every bitcoiner’s worst nightmare: A wallet stuffed with thousands of BTC…but with no keys to open it.

Anti-cheat development is, by nature, reactive; anti-cheats exist to respond to and thwart a videogame’s population of cheaters. For instance, a videogame with an exceedingly low amount of cheaters would have little need for an anti-cheat, while a videogame…

Posted in r/programming by u/jesuisfrancais • 108 points and 183 comments

Today, I'm going to show you the worst pieces of code I've ever seen. Some devilries that should never be produced!

I got tired of not understanding what my GCC linker file was doing. I went on a quest to understand every. single. command. Why each symbol was included. I present to you: the most thoroughly commented linker script in the world (probably) https://t.co/S9R23ZRG4a

Learn about Azure Active Directory gateway service's move from .NET Framework to .NET Core and resulting in doubling the throughput.

Most companies mistakenly apply value replication principles to discovery

"I had to start a telephone company to get [high-speed] Internet access."

Posted in r/programming by u/nixcraft • 195 points and 29 comments

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All done in Excel, using only formulae with the only use of macros made for the inputting of key commands (e.g. wasd etc) and to run the animated camera.

The video is sped up somewhat over what is achievable in the model (in particular, the final segment…

EU-Staaten dringen hingegen weiterhin darauf, im Kampf gegen Terror und Organisierte Kriminalität auf verschlüsselte Kommunikation zugreifen zu können

Posted in r/programming by u/alidiusk • 106 points and 12 comments