Let's stop pretending that managers and executives care about productivity
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/disingenuous-discourse/
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/disingenuous-discourse/
Baldurbjarnason
Let's stop pretending that managers and executives care about productivity
Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
More shell tricks: first class lists and jq
https://alurm.github.io/blog/2025-08-07-first-class-lists-in-shells.html
https://alurm.github.io/blog/2025-08-07-first-class-lists-in-shells.html
alurm.github.io
Alan Urmancheev's site
More shell tricks: first class lists and jq
Budget Car Buyers Want Automakers to K.I.S.S
https://www.thedrive.com/news/budget-car-buyers-want-automakers-to-k-i-s-s
https://www.thedrive.com/news/budget-car-buyers-want-automakers-to-k-i-s-s
The Drive
Budget Car Buyers Want Automakers to K.I.S.S.
At a time when budgets matter a whole lot, potential new car buyers are pleading with manufacturers: "Keep it simple, stupid."
PyPI: Preventing ZIP parser confusion attacks on Python package installers
https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2025-08-07-wheel-archive-confusion-attacks/
https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2025-08-07-wheel-archive-confusion-attacks/
blog.pypi.org
Preventing ZIP parser confusion attacks on Python package installers - The Python Package Index Blog
PyPI will begin warning and will later reject wheels that contain differentiable ZIP features or incorrect RECORD files.
Foundry (YC F24) Is Hiring Staff Level Product Engineers
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/foundry/jobs/jwdYx6v-founding-product-engineer
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/foundry/jobs/jwdYx6v-founding-product-engineer
Y Combinator
Founding Product Engineer at Foundry
### **About Foundry**
We're building the foundational infrastructure to automate digital work. Today's browser-based workflows represent a potential trillion dollar opportunity—currently trapped behind inefficient manual tasks and repetitive actions. Current…
We're building the foundational infrastructure to automate digital work. Today's browser-based workflows represent a potential trillion dollar opportunity—currently trapped behind inefficient manual tasks and repetitive actions. Current…
Benchmark Framework Desktop Mainboard and 4-node cluster
https://github.com/geerlingguy/ollama-benchmark/issues/21
https://github.com/geerlingguy/ollama-benchmark/issues/21
GitHub
Benchmark Framework Desktop Mainboard and 4-node cluster · Issue #21 · geerlingguy/ollama-benchmark
Testing the Framework Desktop - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with Radeon 8090S. (Four pre-production units were shipped to me for local cluster testing). Single Node configuration (128 GB RAM): Cluster co...
Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big
https://eidel.io/exit-tax-leave-germany-before-your-business-gets-big/
https://eidel.io/exit-tax-leave-germany-before-your-business-gets-big/
Oliver Eidel's Blog
Exit Tax: Leave Germany Before Your Business Gets Big
Here’s an interesting take on Germany’s exit tax, which I have written about before: Leave Germany before your business gets big. What do I mean by that? I mean that once you’re a business owner in Germany and your business has reached a certain size, you…
Encryption made for police and military radios may be easily cracked
https://www.wired.com/story/encryption-made-for-police-and-military-radios-may-be-easily-cracked-researchers-find/
https://www.wired.com/story/encryption-made-for-police-and-military-radios-may-be-easily-cracked-researchers-find/
WIRED
Encryption Made for Police and Military Radios May Be Easily Cracked
Researchers found that an encryption algorithm likely used by law enforcement and special forces can have weaknesses that could allow an attacker to listen in.
Spatio-temporal indexing the Bluesky firehose
https://joelgustafson.com/posts/2025-08-07/spatio-temporal-indexing-the-bluesky-firehose
https://joelgustafson.com/posts/2025-08-07/spatio-temporal-indexing-the-bluesky-firehose
Joelgustafson
Spatio-temporal indexing the BlueSky firehose
Joel Gustafson
Flipper Zero DarkWeb Firmware Bypasses Rolling Code Security
https://www.rtl-sdr.com/flipperzero-darkweb-firmware-bypasses-rolling-code-security/
https://www.rtl-sdr.com/flipperzero-darkweb-firmware-bypasses-rolling-code-security/
rtl-sdr.com
Flipper Zero DarkWeb Firmware Bypasses Rolling Code Security
Over on YouTube Talking Sasquach has recently tested custom firmware for the Flipper Zero that can entirely break the rolling code security system used on most modern vehicles. Rolling code security works by using a synchronized algorithm between a transmitter…