Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors actively targeting Signal Messenger
Phishing Campaigns Abusing Signal’s “Linked Devices” Feature The most novel and widely used technique underpinning Russian-aligned attempts to compromise Signal accounts is the abuse of the app’s legitimate “linked devices” feature that enables Signal to be used on multiple devices concurrently. Because linking an additional device typically requires scanning a quick-response (QR) code, threat actors […]
Seeing Through the Spartan Mirage
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Experiment: Can 3D improve AI video consistency?
Guiding AI with 3D AI images and videos look great, until you try to make more than one. Then characters change, lighting shifts, and few things stays consistent. 3D can make a big difference here. It locks in camera angles, composition, lighting, and character details, ensuring the AI generates consistent images and videos. It also […]
Where are all the Rewrite Rules?
I think a thing that’d be nice is to have a databank of rewrite rules. Here’s some of the ones I know about. IF YOU HAVE ANY INTERESTING OR NOT SO INTERESTING RULES PLEASE DROP ME A LINE. You can email me at [email protected] or dm me on the various social medias. I feel in […]
Debugging Hetzner: Uncovering failures with powerstat, sensors, and dmidecode
February 17, 2025 · 5 min read Burak Yucesoy Principal Software Engineer At Ubicloud, we build software that turns bare metal providers into cloud platforms. One of the providers we like is Hetzner because of their affordable and reliable servers. About a year ago, Hetzner launched the AX162 server line. It offers better performance and […]
Broken Legs and Ankles Heal Better If You Walk on Them Within Weeks
Twenty years ago my husband, Mark, broke his left ankle and was in a cast and on crutches for nearly two months. Last year he broke the other ankle. But this time, after surgery, his doctor surprised us by instructing Mark to walk on it two weeks later. It turns out the standard advice to […]
Go-msquic: A new QUIC/HTTP3 library for Go
go-msquic is a Go wrapper for the Microsoft’s QUIC library, providing Go developers with an easy interface to work with QUIC-based protocols such as HTTP/3. go-msquic API is inspired from quic-go and can be used as a drop-in replacement. Unless you are ready to deal with C libraries, we do actually recommend quic-go over go-msquic. […]
Steve Jackson Games Is Bringing the Fighting Fantasy Books to the US
AUSTIN, TX 10/17/24 – In 1982, British game designers Sir Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson introduced Fighting Fantasy, a revolutionary set of solo adventure books that combined nonlinear narratives with dice-rolling tabletop RPG mechanics. Now, this fantastical, multi-million-selling book series returns to the United States thanks to an historic 50-book publishing collaboration with Steve Jackson […]
Thoughts on Daylight Computer
on the Amtrak from Denver to Sacramento When I get to write or read on a screen that’s reflecting the sun back at me instead of needing to be shielded from it, I get a dose of this feeling that this is what all computing could feel like. I want so much more of this […]
Augment.vim: AI Chat and completion in Vim and Neovim
A Quick Tour Augment’s Vim/Neovim plugin provides inline code completions and multi-turn chat conversations specially tailored to your codebase. The plugin is designed to work with any modern Vim or Neovim setup, and features the same underlying context engine that powers our VSCode and IntelliJ plugins. Once you’ve installed the plugin, tell Augment about your […]