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You can do this in Go by making a type declaration defining a function and then adding a method with the same signature on that type, which calls the function. The Go standard libr…

Sounds like you'll love "Spend Bill Gates' Money" [1] [1]: https://neal.fun/spend

Advertising any UUID/GUID generator as cryptographically secure, or relying on it to be so, is a mistake, in my opinion. You use a UUID when you need a universally unique ID whose …

> "UUID" was already taken by Google. This shouldn't really matter as your import paths are obviously different. `github.com/google/uuid` and `github.com/sdrapkin/guid` can happily…

Something similar, but encrypted, is PaperAge [1]. Admittedly, I haven't used it, but it seems like a nice solution for secure physical backup of small secrets. The catch, of cours…

> Overall, pretty weird stuff. I am not sure why the Go team went down this route. Maybe it simplifies the compiler by having this bespoke assembly format? Rob Pike spoke on the de…

Yes. Two of Go's creators, Rob Pike and Ken Thompson, were also authors of Plan 9 at Bell Labs.

I wonder if Moxie would now consider knockknock "cryptographically doomed"? From the README, whose commit [1] is dated 2011-09-15: > The request is encrypted using AES in CTR mode,…

Pretty much, yes. If you imagine “Bob” has a policy that he can only converse with numbers in his address book, then you could think of it as: 1. -> Alice calls Bob 1.a. Bob does n…

My interpretation is he's lamenting that certain Unix OS abstractions (e.g. open, close, read, and write) do not lend themselves well to building distributed systems, like a distri…

Agreed. I avoid reader-writer locks unless absolutely required and benchmarks prove it worthwhile. Their usage often fails to outperform a regular lock due to additional overhead. …

> When io.Copy copies from a TCPConn to a UnixConn, it will now use Linux's splice(2) system call if possible, using the new method TCPConn.WriteTo. Interface upgrades, yet again, …

Jazz guitarist Julian Lage suffered from focal dystonia and talks a little about his recovery/retraining process in his interview with Rick Beato [1] 1. https://youtu.be/49KwbU0hT3…

I'm curious to hear others' answers to this question as well. I've been looking into building my own OpenBSD based home router and so far thinking a Protectli Vault [1] would fit t…

Well, turns out I'm no longer able to reproduce the issue either. I just turned DDG Privacy Essentials back on for https://cs.opensource.google and I was able to view the site just…

Do you have any privacy/ad-blocking extensions installed? I used to have the same issue and realized it was due to the DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials extension. When I turn that ext…

This post resonates with me and briefly acknowledges the thing that scares me the most about self hosting personal stuff for myself and loved ones: the bus factor. I haven't heard …