Blockchains don't solve problems that are interesting to me
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Blockchains don't solve problems that are interesting to me
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Blockchain, the amazing solution for almost nothing (2020)
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Blockchain, the amazing solution for almost nothing
Blockchain technology is going to change everything: the shipping industry, the financial system, government … in fact, what won’t it change? But enthusiasm for it mainly stems from a lack of knowledge and understanding. The blockchain is a solution in search…
"I implemented AES-128 in Scratch, because why not"
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I implemented AES-128 in Scratch, because why not scratch.mit.edu/projects/55515…
Rust takes a major step forward as Linux's second official language
https://www.zdnet.com/article/rust-takes-a-major-step-forward-as-linuxs-second-official-language/
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Rust takes a major step forward as Linux's second official language
Linux is getting more Rust in it by the day.
Lies, damned lies, and (Cloudflare) statistics: debunking Cloudflare’s recent performance tests
https://www.fastly.com/blog/debunking-cloudflares-recent-performance-tests
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Lies, damned lies, and (Cloudflare) statistics: debunking Cloudflare’s recent performance tests
A couple of weeks ago Cloudflare, one of our competitors, claimed that their edge compute platform is roughly three times as fast as Compute@Edge. The false claim is a great example of how statistics can be used to mislead.
Bank Python: The strange world of Python, as used by big investment banks
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An oral history of Bank Python
The strange world of Python, as used by big investment banks
Following the Unix philosophy without getting left-pad
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Day 6 – Following the Unix philosophy without getting left-pad
The Unix philosophy famously holds that you should write software that “does one thing, and does it well”. But following that advice too literally can lead to the micro-package dystopia…
The Folders programming language - No code, just folders
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The Folders programming language - No code, just folders
There are no hard distinctions between what is folder and what is code, nor between what is language and what is object. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.
LINKS:
GitHub repo for folders https://github.com/Si…
LINKS:
GitHub repo for folders https://github.com/Si…
How to run a small social network site for your friends
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How to run a small social network site for your friends
This document exists to lay out some general principles of running a small social network site that have worked for me. These principles are related to community building more than they are related to specific technologies.
RCE 0-day exploit found in log4j, a popular Java logging package
https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/log4j-zero-day/
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AWS embraces Fedora Linux for its cloud-based Amazon Linux: "Starting in 2022, AWS's Amazon Linux will be based on Red Hat's Fedora community Linux."
https://www.zdnet.com/article/aws-embraces-fedora-linux-for-its-cloud-based-amazon-linux/
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AWS embraces Fedora Linux for its cloud-based Amazon Linux
Starting in 2022, AWS's Amazon Linux will be based on Red Hat's Fedora community Linux.
JetBrains IDEs and .NET Tools 2021.3 Have Been Released
https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2021/12/09/jetbrains-ides-and-dotnet-tools-2021-3-released/
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JetBrains IDEs and .NET Tools 2021.3 Have Been Released | JetBrains News
All of the IDEs and .NET tools 2021.3 releases are now published. Below is a quick summary of each tool release. As always, we suggest you update your tools with our free Toolbox App.
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How a bug in Android and Microsoft Teams could have caused this user’s 911 call to fail
https://medium.com/@mmrahman123/how-a-bug-in-android-and-microsoft-teams-could-have-caused-this-users-911-call-to-fail-6525f9ba5e63
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How a bug in Android and Microsoft Teams could have caused this user’s 911 call to fail
Written by Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) and edited by @linuxct, Kuba Wojciechowski (@Za_Raczke), and Al Sutton (@alsutton).
A malicious code string that eventually gets logged by Log4j version 2.0 or higher allow an attacker to load arbitrary Java code on a server and take control of it.
https://www.wired.com/story/log4j-flaw-hacking-internet/
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‘The Internet Is on Fire’
A vulnerability in the Log4j logging framework has security teams scrambling to put in a fix.
How Cloudflare security responded to log4j2 vulnerability
http://blog.cloudflare.com/how-cloudflare-security-responded-to-log4j2-vulnerability/
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The Cloudflare Blog
How Cloudflare security responded to Log4j 2 vulnerability
Yesterday, December 9, 2021, when a serious vulnerability in the popular Java-based logging package log4j was publicly disclosed, our security teams jumped into action to help respond to the first question and answer the second question. This post explores…