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End-to-end encrypted relays for OCapN — Spritely Institute

Creating a direct connection between any two computers (not just from client to server) over the internet is notoriously difficult. Many home networks are behind NATs which prevent new inbound connections. Sometimes these NATs are from the ISP...

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lumi's code spelunking adventures

Remote attestation is a term for technology which is used to verify the software that another device is running. Usually remote attestation technology is implemented in hardware, making it difficult to get around.

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Home - The Costa GUI

Costa is a small and lightweight GUI (Graphical User Interface) for MS-DOS compatible systems, provided to you free of charge.

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The geometric model of maintenance

James Shore posits that each person-month spent writing code results in 10 days of maintenance in the first year, then 5 days every year after that. Naïvely interpreted, this is a threshold-based model for induced maintenance, and its interesting because...

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Everyone is doing Git on S3 wrong

Why Git is hard to put on object storage, where write-ahead logs fall short, and how Enroute reaches 7,600+ pushes per second on a single repository.

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