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Converting shallow Git bundles into normal repositories
Let’s say you have a shallow Git bundle, i.e., not all referenced objects are present. How do you convert it into a normal shallow repository?
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May I recommend thinking of Emacs as your Fortress of Solitude
How I stopped thinking about Emacs as merely an editor and adopted it as my digital home base.
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Keyboard latency probe
The two types of test (reaction time and paced tapping) are intermixed during the test. When starting the test, you will first have a reaction time block, then a tapping block, then a reaction time block again, until you've had seven blocks of each. Each...
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BadHost - CVE-2026-48710 Starlette Host-Header Auth Bypass
Free online scanner for CVE-2026-48710 (BadHost): a critical Starlette vulnerability that lets attackers bypass authentication via Host header injection. Affects FastAPI, Starlette, vLLM, LiteLLM, MCP servers, and any Python ASGI app with path-based auth...
Topics: Security
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Rethinking the GNOME clipboard issues
GNOME clipboard managers stutter as history grows. Strata fixed it with a Rust daemon, a thin GJS extension, lazy loading, and pre-decoded thumbnails.
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Back to the Building Blocks’ Building Blocks
Verilog is the foundation of all hardware design, and it is fatally flawed. We should all be worried about a glut of hardware bugs caused by Verilog’s unpredictable semantics and simplistic type system.
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Fast is better than slow
Don’t question why. Fast is better than slow. That’s just how it is. Your job is to take everything you can already do and do it faster.
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Canada’s Bill C-22 and the security cost of collecting more data
Canada’s Bill C-22 risks forcing secure services to retain more metadata and build access systems. Tailscale explains why the bill should change.
Topics: Security