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ethanhawksley

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About ethanhawksley

Ethan Hawksley is a Computer Science student in the UK with a focus on systems programming and cybersecurity. Author of hawksley.dev

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    You can just join their Slack workspace (it's a bit like Discord) on their website: https://slack.hackclub.com/ Then in the #announcements channel you'll see all the different proj…

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    Comment #48999409

    for future reference, I've since renamed the book to "The Second Maintainer"

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    Comment #48980476

    I might even need to change the name of the book

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    Comment #48980192

    I've also been working on a free book about the XZ backdoor called 500 milliseconds. However, unlike this author it is entirely human written. A first draft is ready and I'm aiming…

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    Comment #48972279

    They can give me as good a guarantee as any search engine can that they pinkie promise they aren't selling your data. What keeps me with kagi is the quality. It is night and day us…

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    Comment #48958986

    https://archive.is/uVXbr

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    Comment #48706126

    I believe cloudflare only blocked archive.is on their "Families" filtered dns. I've been using their normal 1.1.1.1 and haven't encountered any blocks.

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    Comment #48608490

    Just benchmarking my site and saw it as a new category.

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    Comment #48514775

    As far as I can tell, this seems like it's impacting all of their Glasswing partners too, so no mythos for them either

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    Comment #48312500

    > Agentic financial analysis Finance Agent v2 > Opus 4.8 53.9% > Gemini 3.5 Flash scores 57.9% on Finance Agent v2, a significant improvement over Gemini 3.1 Pro. Even in the cherr…

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    Comment #48204158

    I can't say enough good things about kagi, genuinely the best search engine I've tried

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    Comment #48158646

    very nice article!

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    Comment #48150728

    The current archive link is outdated, https://web.archive.org/web/20260515155930/https://ascii.tex... is more up to date with the May 10 post

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    Comment #47770099

    good shout, I went back over and broke down the HNDL attack into more detail and now properly explain the types of data at risk from Q-day. let me know if it reads clearer now!

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