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Last week, I published the security advisory GHSA-86qp-5c8j-p5mr on GitHub, and now it seems the project is being aimed at by a barrage of negative press. I want to take a moment to share my perspective on this, and to share my point of view on the...
Topics: Security
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For reasons outside the scope of this entry, I recently dug into how the Go runtime did (Unix) signal handling on 64-bit x86 Linux. When I undertook this quest, I decided that the easiest way to navigate through the code of the Go runtime was to use the...
Topics: ProgrammingInfrastructure
Entities: InfrastructureProgramming
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It's been a few years since I posted a blogpost. It's time to do so again, good ol' "screaming into the void" as they say. But something changed. This time, I scream not into the void, but into a churning mess of scraper bots, eager to slurp up human...
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AI took the last of the wind out of my Open Source sails. I wish you all the best!
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The NNN Stack: NixOS + Niri + Noctalia-shell. Declarative. Scrollable. Beautiful.
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recently i needed some new bras. my measurements had changed a bit since last time, so to make my life easier(?) i decided to write a bra size calculator that i can use in Emacs. the core function, my-math-compute-bra-size, is as follows:
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_posted by Stephen De Gabrielle and John Clements_ We are pleased to announce Racket v9.2 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org/. As of this release:: The `match` form checks that when non-linear patterns (patterns where the same vari...
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We have updated Flathub's LLM policy to explicitly disallow AI usage for both the submission process and applications being submitted. https://github.com/flathub-infra/documentation/commit/992f57b30de98ddbd5e80959e9672998c83c8c97 I've had some reservations...
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scriba - A Lisp structured logging library with flexibility, performance and configuration in mind, powered by Guile Scheme.
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Prefix authentication schemes (Meyer, 2023bb) — usually called append-only logs, or transparency logs — are cryptographic schemes to efficiently authenticate total ordering between events. For any two events from a single event stream, you can provide a...
