Bad software sent the innocent to prison
https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/23/22399721/uk-post-office-software-bug-criminal-convictions-overturned
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Bad software sent postal workers to jail, because no one wanted to admit it could be wrong
The software was used as evidence that employees stole money
Boxedwine - emulator that runs Windows applications (also in browser)
http://www.boxedwine.org/demo/
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Boxedwine - emulator that runs Windows applications (also in browser)
Posted in r/programming by u/michalg82 • 131 points and 19 comments
You might as well timestamp it
https://changelog.com/posts/you-might-as-well-timestamp-it
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Changelog
You might as well timestamp it
In my 15+ years of web development, there are very few things I can say are unequivocally a good idea. It almost always does depend.
Storing timestamps instead of booleans, however, is one of those things I can go out on a limb and say <mark>it doesn't…
Storing timestamps instead of booleans, however, is one of those things I can go out on a limb and say <mark>it doesn't…
Open letter from researchers involved in the “hypocrite commit” debacle
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAK8KejpUVLxmqp026JY7x5GzHU2YJLPU8SzTZUNXU2OXC70ZQQ@mail.gmail.com/
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Open letter from researchers involved in the “hypocrite commit”...
Posted in r/programming by u/banned-by-apple • 126 points and 124 comments
Crypto miners are killing free CI
https://layerci.com/blog/crypto-miners-are-killing-free-ci/
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Time to call in sick - Compile verilog (a hardware description language) into factorio blueprints
https://github.com/Redcrafter/verilog2factorio/
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GitHub
GitHub - Redcrafter/verilog2factorio: This project will compile verilog (a hardware description language) into factorio blueprints.
This project will compile verilog (a hardware description language) into factorio blueprints. - Redcrafter/verilog2factorio
Toggle methods and endpoints at runtime through the Java Instrumentation API
https://github.com/facet-tech/agent-java/
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facet-tech/agent-java
Instrumentation API implementation for toggling methods & endpoints - facet-tech/agent-java
University of Minnesota security researchers apologize for deliberately buggy Linux patches
https://www.zdnet.com/article/university-of-minnesota-security-researchers-apologize-for-deliberately-buggy-linux-patches/
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/university-of-minnesota-security-researchers-apologize-for-deliberately-buggy-linux-patches/
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ZDNet
University of Minnesota security researchers apologize for deliberately buggy Linux patches
The abashed University of Minnesota researchers apologized for their blunders, but the issues are far from resolved. And, Linus Torvalds briefly addresses the fouled up Linux patches.
Parsing Protobuf at 2+GB/S: How I Learned to Love Tail Calls in C
https://blog.reverberate.org/2021/04/21/musttail-efficient-interpreters.html
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Parsing Protobuf at 2+GB/s: How I Learned To Love Tail Calls in C
Parsing, performance, and low-level programming.
The Linux Foundation's demands to the University of Minnesota for its bad Linux patches security project
https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-linux-foundations-demands-to-the-university-of-minnesota-for-its-bad-linux-patches/
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-linux-foundations-demands-to-the-university-of-minnesota-for-its-bad-linux-patches/
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ZDNet
The Linux Foundation's demands to the University of Minnesota for its bad Linux patches security project
ZDNet has obtained a copy of the Linux Foundation's letter to the University of Minnesota laying out what happened with the bad Linux kernel patches 'research project' and demanding 'all information necessary to identify all proposals of known-vulnerable…
How to safely open-source internal software - Some best practices
https://blog.gitguardian.com/safely-open-source-software-best-practices/
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https://blog.gitguardian.com/safely-open-source-software-best-practices/
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GitGuardian Blog - Code Security for the DevOps generation
How to safely open-source internal software - GitGuardian Blog
On this post we’ll be focusing on a few essentials that should be done before making your project open-source.
Daniel Kaminsky, Internet Security Savior, Dies at 42
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/technology/daniel-kaminsky-dead.html
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NY Times
Daniel Kaminsky, Internet Security Savior, Dies at 42
If you are reading this obituary online, you owe your digital safety to him.
GitHub blocks FLoC on all of GitHub Pages
https://github.blog/changelog/2021-04-27-github-pages-permissions-policy-interest-cohort-header-added-to-all-pages-sites/
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The GitHub Blog
GitHub Pages: Permissions-Policy: interest-cohort=() Header added to all pages sites - GitHub Changelog
All GitHub Pages sites served from the github.io domain will now have a Permissions-Policy: interest-cohort=() header set. Pages sites using a custom domain will not be impacted. Learn more about…
Linus Torvalds on why desktop Linux sucks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzl1B7nB9Kc&list=WL&index=79
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YouTube
Linus Torvalds on why desktop Linux sucks
Linus highlights several pain points with regards to desktop Linux.
From DebConf 14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PmHRSeA2c8
0:00 Application distribution is a huge PITA
2:52 Distros break things and ignore backwards compat.
5:53 Distros waste too much…
From DebConf 14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PmHRSeA2c8
0:00 Application distribution is a huge PITA
2:52 Distros break things and ignore backwards compat.
5:53 Distros waste too much…
Google Play declared our educational coding app is Malware and accused us of Ad Fraud
https://david-hurren.medium.com/google-play-declared-our-educational-coding-app-is-malware-and-accused-us-of-ad-fraud-f0b302ae558a
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Medium
Google Play declared our educational coding App is Malware and accused us of Ad Fraud!
A warning to all developers, organisations and small businesses that rely on Google’s Advertising platform and Play Store