Don’t tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to
Don’t tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to This is a story about a very interesting bug that I tracked down yesterday. It was causing a bad effect very far from where the bug actually was. emacsclient The emacs text editor comes with a separate utility, called emacsclient, which can […]
Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court suddenly couldn’t access his email. According to Microsoft, that’s because of US sanctions against the court’s employees. The Trump administration was not amused by the Court’s arrest warrant against the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. The main takeaway from this episode is that those looking to protect […]
Petition to formally recognize open source work as civic service in Germany
Petition richtet sich an: Deutscher Bundestag Petitionsausschuss Open-Source-Software bildet heute das Fundament großer Teile der digitalen Infrastruktur – in Verwaltung, Wirtschaft, Forschung und im täglichen Leben. Selbst im aktuellen Koalitionsvertrag der Bundesregierung wird Open-Source-Software als elementarer Baustein zur Erreichung digitaler Souveränität genannt. Dennoch wird die Arbeit, die tausende Freiwillige dafür leisten, in Deutschland steuer- und […]
A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z
A friend made me aware of a reading list from A16Z containg recommendations for books, weighted towards science fiction since that’s mostly what people there read. Some of my books are listed. Since this is the season of Thanksgiving, I’ll start by saying that I genuinely appreciate the plug! However, I was taken aback by […]
The mysterious black fungus from Chernobyl that may eat radiation
Averesch says it’s still possible the apparent radioprotective benefits of fungi are due to components of biological life other than melanin. Water, for example, a molecule with a high number of protons in its structure (eight in oxygen and one in each hydrogen), is one of the best ways to protect against the protons that […]
A Tale of Four Fuzzers
Charles Darnay observed that the gate was held by a mixed guard of soldiers and patriots, the latter far outnumbering the former; and that while ingress into the city for peasants’ carts bringing in supplies, and for similar traffic and traffickers, was easy enough, egress, even for the homeliest people, was very difficult.— Complaining about […]
A Repository with 44 Years of Unix Evolution
Abstract The evolution of the Unix operating system is made available as a version-control repository, covering the period from its inception in 1972 as a five thousand line kernel, to 2015 as a widely-used 26 million line system. The repository contains 659 thousand commits and 2306 merges. The repository employs the commonly used Git system […]
Show HN: Ray-BANNED, Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras
Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras I’m experimenting with 2 main approaches: Optics: classify the camera using light reflections. Networking: bluetooth and wi-fi analysis. So far fingerprinting specific devices based on bluetooth (BLE) is looking like easiest and most reliable approach. The picture below is the first version, which plays the legend of zelda […]
How to use Linux vsock for fast VM communication
Follow @popovicu94 I’ve recently been experimenting with various ways to construct Linux VM images, but for these images to be practical, they need to interact with the outside world. At a minimum, they need to communicate with the host machine. vsock is a technology specifically designed with VMs in mind. It eliminates the need for […]
TigerStyle: Coding philosophy focused on safety, performance, dev experience
Version 0.1-dev Tiger Style is a coding philosophy focused on safety, performance, and developer experience. Inspired by the practices of TigerBeetle, it focuses on building robust, efficient, and maintainable software through disciplined engineering. Summary Core principles Design goals Safety Performance Developer experience Additional sections: Addendum, Colophon 1. Core principles Tiger Style is not just a […]