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Just a few more Rust libraries we've shipped in Chromium: - https://github.com/image-rs/image-png - https://github.com/webmproject/CrabbyAvif - https://github.com/RCasatta/qr_code …

I tend to agree. See also: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/401081629

Happy to report the BMP work is actually being done by our friends on the Edge team at Microsoft! https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/72...

Obligatory oldnewthing: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030929-02/?p=42... > Multilingual support also explains why you see things like “1 folder(s)” instead of “1 fol…

> TL;DR: use std::simd if you don’t mind nightly, wide if you don’t need multiversioning, and otherwise pulp or macerator. This matches the conclusion we reached for Chromium. We w…

Hi, I lead Chrome's Rust efforts. I think the Typescript folks made a great and well-reasoned decision.

> Based on the testing performed before the initial deployment of the Template Type (on March 05, 2024), trust in the checks performed in the Content Validator, and previous succes…

Man Yue Mo worked at Semmle ( https://blog.sonatype.com/steps-to-responsible-disclosure ) before it was acquired by GitHub ( https://github.blog/2019-09-18-github-welcomes-semmle/ …

Itanium had sliding register windows too: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150729-00/?p=90...

The report says the cooling issue caused "a loss of service availability for a subset of [one] Availability Zone". How did a single-AZ failure cause outages for two dozen services?…

(2015)

see also: an empirical analysis of how many "u"s the Internet thinks are in "excuuuuuse me, princess", by Ryan North (of Dinosaur Comics and other fine literature) https://qwantz.l…

one relevant datapoint: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-grpc-json-t...

It seems like a lot of other technologies in this space have solved the listed problems while remaining compatible with browsers, load balancers, reverse proxies, etc. It was a pro…

Eric Brandwine (VP/DE @ AWS) said publicly in 2019 that EC2 had never scheduled different tenants on the same physical core at the same time, even before we learned about things li…

"EncryptData" https://github.com/microsoft/omi/blob/e4d72481fa2f805148c9c8...

See also Rands, “Seven plus or minus three” https://randsinrepose.com/archives/seven-plus-or-minus-three...

You might enjoy Uber’s paper on SubmitQueue, their system to run CI on what they guess will be the sequence of commits that test successfully: https://eng.uber.com/research/keeping…

Definitely not appropriate for protecting Real Infrastructure, but for my handful of personal machines I put my authorized keys in a Google Doc and configure hosts to download it u…

If you'd like to see the last data that was public, here's the commit that merged in the removal: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/commit/5ed24d...

Er, a few problems with the reasoning here: 1. Windows developers did not build large parts of the product on any regular basis. Windows took ~18 hours to build on incredibly power…

Heh, nope, `timebuild.pl` is the canonical entrypoint for an "official" Windows build, and has been for a very long time. It's a hideously elaborate dependency resolver and task ru…

Sure, it's easy enough to find network-attached screens. The hard part is giving those screens access to anything without them showing up as vectors for every Red Team exercise. Gi…