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There are definitely a lot of reckless cyclists, but it's worth keeping things in perspective. According to the Department for Transport's report, there were 41 pedestrians and 7 c…

This map looks cool but it doesn't tell us a lot about the safe and unsafe places to cycle in London. Because it's based on collision data by location, but we don't know how many p…

Are you sure you're thinking of the right author? Filippo used to work at Cloudflare so I can't imagine he got the technical details about it too wrong.

HackTheBox ( https://www.hackthebox.com/ ) is the largest and most active hacker challenge website. Focussed mainly around black box pentesting of vulnerable Windows and Linux mach…

Thanks for mentioning CryptoHack! Yes while some challenges overlap, we also explore more deeply the mathematics of cryptography, as well as its practical use in protocols like TLS…

> - higher lifeforms are more valuable than lower ones (cat vs lobsters) Choosing between preserving the life of one cat vs one lobster seems straightforward enough. But the trolle…

To pick an extreme but well-known thought experiment. You are walking past a pond, and see a child drowning in it. You glance around and there is nobody else nearby. You could easi…

> I'm curious, why do you think that these requirements won't spread to the rest of the internet I didn't say that, I only said that we currently have two Internets, but that there…

> I think it’s pretty clear at this point that the notion of the web as a self protecting organism that naturally rejects misinformation and stops bad actors is completely wrong. I…

I still remember the days when almost everyone on Internet forums used pseudonyms and closely guarded their identities. It was even taught in schools not to reveal who you are onli…

See Vanity Fair's excellent long-form article "The Body in Room 348" for a real life example! https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/05/true-crime-elegan...

This is fascinating and a great bit of work by Stefan Marsiske. Loved the technical writeup in PoC||GTFO too. This quote from the TFA really shows just how difficult it was for the…

Absolutely right, the essay writes from a comfortable UK perspective and ignores large amounts of the world where well-regulated, trustworthy financial institutions aren't availabl…

Inspiring interview, as the interviewer says there's a zen about Joey where he's dedicated himself to producing great open source software (git-annex, debhelper, ikiwiki) instead o…

Transhumanist philosopher David Pearce has a fascinating piece arguing along these lines. The dystopic Brave New World "has come to serve as the false symbol for any regime of univ…

It would increase disk usage by a significant amount, since transaction IDs appear twice in tuple headers (xmin/xmax). Essentially they are overhead on every database row. This sub…

PostgreSQL is one of the most powerful and reliable pieces of software I've seen run at large scale, major kudos to all the maintainers for the improvements that keep being added. …

Here's an example of purple prose that has nothing to do with the complexity of cybersecurity, from his first post on Substack ( https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/lifting-the-ma…

On the other hand, I feel the show also pushes a positive view of American go-getter mentality: optimism and infectious enthusiasm which is sorely lacking in the British characters…

Ted Lasso is a show that I didn't think I'd like at all based on the synopsis. But after a rave review from a friend, I gave it a go and found it to be compulsive watching. It just…

I recommend reading about "blameless postmortems" [1]. Our natural tendency is to look for who is responsible for an incident and point the finger of blame. Over time this leads to…