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Adding ' https://www.surveillancewatch.io/noise-anim.gif ' to your favourite rule-based adblocker fixes this.

The stupid dancing fuzz filter across the entire website renders the content almost completely illegible, and is a struggle to read. Shame.

Rather than seeking an impossible ideal (>2 people who agree on what 'good' code is)-- instead read ALL sorts of code. This will then help you learn to distinguish between what is …

Looking at a local privilege escalation (on some systems) that works due to a logic bug in readline, when used with SUID programs.

Find a new provider that won't randomly shaft you for spurious reasons.

Solana really seems like the most interesting Layer-1 chain outside of Ethereum... lots of cool tech.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32897812

Archive/no paywall: https://archive.ph/Uxssq

I love the look of this, but haven't been able to find any information about latency... It seems to be a local network solution? Light on details about how it works, short of readi…

LaTeX for music? nice!

Nobody is arguing that users having a 1-2 week patch window is a bad thing. However, this frankly seems incompatible with open-source projects. Silently patching issues does not wo…

Don't know why your other comment got downvoted. Silently patching bugs has left many LTS kernels vulnerable to old bugs, because they weren't tagged as security fixes. Also leads …

Is it a rule that all NFT art must be algorithmically generated and look like shit? Jesus wept.

I am quite interested in your setup! Have you written at all about how you use this, day to day, or perhaps made a screencast? I would be very keen to watch it. I am a huge fan of …

Readable version: https://archive.is/GXIeZ

https://archive.is/K9JP3

So when can we expect ThisEstonianDoesNotExist?

Article is pretty light on details; but I don't think much is public yet. I think the big question is, will Windows turn into a subscription-based OS?

If anyone else was curious about HarmonyOS, don't bother..: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonyOS Unveiled on 9 August 2019, Huawei initially stated that it would be an indepen…

Looks like an interesting prototype. The problem is, though, is it just a funky UI on top of Webkit/Blink and V8? There's no real innovation under the hood, here - although some of…

Something you won't gather from skim-reading the headline is that this is that the author has also created a tool, Fickling: https://github.com/trailofbits/fickling - to aid in pla…

Months of dedicated research, utilising a wealth of knowledge that comes from spending a not-insignificant portion of your career researching such bugs.

>ignoring the security best practices of other systems programming languages Can you please expand on this point?

You should add the late Terry Davis to your list, or if that area interests you, read up on his work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS