Hidden Messages in Emojis and Hacking the US Treasury
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Hidden Messages in Emojis and Hacking the US Treasury
On December 30th, while most of us were preparing for a New Year’s Eve celebration, the US Treasury was prepping a notice to lawmakers to notify them that their systems, which (obviously) contain highly sensitive, confidential data, had been compromised.
Why Your ‘Harmonious’ Team Is Actually Failing
https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/03/12/why-your-harmonious-team-is-actually-failing/
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Why Your ‘Harmonious’ Team Is Actually Failing
Teams often confuse psychological safety with everyone getting along perfectly. I see leaders bragging about teams where nobody ever raises their voice, where meetings wrap up with everyone nodding…
(Satirical) Generate impressive-looking terminal output to look busy when stakeholders walk by
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GitHub - giacomo-b/rust-stakeholder: Generate impressive-looking terminal output to look busy when stakeholders walk by
Generate impressive-looking terminal output to look busy when stakeholders walk by - giacomo-b/rust-stakeholder
Fired “Kill Switch” Programmer Faces 10 Years In Jail: What Went Wrong?
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Programming’s Sacred Cows: How Best Practices Became the Industry’s Most Dangerous Religion
https://medium.com/mr-plan-publication/programmings-sacred-cows-how-best-practices-became-the-industry-s-most-dangerous-religion-07287854a719?sk=2711479194b308869a2d43776e6aa97a
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Programming’s Sacred Cows: How Best Practices Became the Industry’s Most Dangerous Religion
Why your obsession with “doing it right” might be killing innovation and crushing your soul
Popular GitHub Action `tj-actions/changed-files` has been compromised with a payload that appears to attempt to dump secrets
https://semgrep.dev/blog/2025/popular-github-action-tj-actionschanged-files-is-compromised/
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🚨 Popular GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-files is compromised
Popular GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-files has been compromised with a payload that appears to attempt to dump secrets, impacting thousands of CI pipelines.
Getting back to the EU: from Google Cloud to Self-Hosted EU Infrastructure
https://pgaleone.eu/cloud/2025/03/15/getting-back-to-the-eu-from-google-cloud-to-self-hosted-vps/
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Getting back to the EU: from Google Cloud to Self-Hosted EU Infrastructure
A detailed walkthrough of migrating a web service from Google Cloud to OVH, covering PostgreSQL database migration, CI/CD pipeline setup on Github Actions, and significant cost savings by migrating from Cloud to a self hosted solution. This migration represents…
LLM crawlers continue to DDoS SourceHut
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LLM crawlers continue to DDoS SourceHut | sr.ht status
We have deployed Anubis to git.sr.ht.
After some internal discussions we have ultimately decided that the best course
of action to protect git.sr.ht from LLM crawlers is to deploy Anubis. This
software presents some users with a proof-of-work challenge which…
After some internal discussions we have ultimately decided that the best course
of action to protect git.sr.ht from LLM crawlers is to deploy Anubis. This
software presents some users with a proof-of-work challenge which…
Why 'Vibe Coding' Makes Me Want to Throw Up?
https://www.kushcreates.com/blogs/why-vibe-coding-makes-me-want-to-throw-up
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Why 'Vibe Coding' Makes Me Want to Throw Up | Kush Creates Blogs
When 'Accept All' becomes your debugging strategy and you don't understand your own code and that's 'Vibe Coding.' Here's why developers should be worried about this trend.
Software Development Has Too Much Software
https://smustafa.blog/2025/03/19/software-development-has-too-much-software-in-it/
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Software Development Has Too Much Software In It
Hello, friends! I’ve been thinking back on my career recently, which I’ve had plenty of time to do, considering that I am exploring creative outlets like blogging, and that I’m cu…
Why I'm No Longer Talking to Architects About Microservices
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Why I'm No Longer Talking to Architects About Microservices
I'm done talking about microservices: the term is confusing, discussions are abstract, and without organisational change, microservices are pointless
Decrypting Encrypted files from Akira Ransomware (Linux/ESXI variant 2024) using a bunch of GPUs -- "I recently helped a company recover their data from the Akira ransomware without paying the ransom. I’m sharing how I did it, along with the full source code."
https://tinyhack.com/2025/03/13/decrypting-encrypted-files-from-akira-ransomware-linux-esxi-variant-2024-using-a-bunch-of-gpus/
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Decrypting Encrypted files from Akira Ransomware (Linux/ESXI variant 2024) using a bunch of GPUs
I recently helped a company recover their data from the Akira ransomware without paying the ransom. I'm sharing how I did it, along with the full source code.
The code is here: https://github.com/yohanes/akira-bruteforce
To clarify, multiple ransomware…
The code is here: https://github.com/yohanes/akira-bruteforce
To clarify, multiple ransomware…