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How Docker Desktop Networking Works Under the Hood | Docker
Learn from Docker experts to simplify and advance your app development and management with Docker. Stay up to date on Docker events and new version
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A 27-Year-Old Authentication Bypass in OpenBSD's PPP Stack · Argus Blog
OpenBSD's sppp_pap_input function used attacker-controlled length fields as the bcmp comparison length for credential validation. Sending zero-length name and password fields caused bcmp to return 0 unconditionally, bypassing PAP authentication entirely....
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Making HTTP requests from a container that has no curl, using bash /dev/tcp
Minimal container images often ship without curl, wget, or any HTTP client at all. Bash can open a TCP socket through /dev/tcp, which is enough to write a tiny HTTP/1.1 request by hand for quick checks.
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Can gzip be a language model?
A while back I wrote about language modeling without neural networks, where I generated Shakespeare with an unbounded n-gram model: no weights, no training, …
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But yak shaving is fun
KO | EN This blog doesn’t use a static site generator or framework like Jekyll, Hugo, or Gatsby. I tried a few of them at first, but they gave me too little freedom to customize, so I decided to build the blog myself. Early on I just wrote posts in HTML,...
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all the ways in which terminals' text rendering is bad
terminals really want text to be a 2d grid of characters which can be rendered by just mapping each character onto a box on the screen. now, if your language uses a latin script, this can probably be made to work good enough. unfortunately, it turns out...
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Re: AUR REPORT THREAD - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org
Not exactly malicious, but definitely spam. Using the github AUR repo: In all these cases it adds to bash/zsh etc shell configs to echo spam, in russian, on start. $ while read ref; do git grep --files-with-matches 'NoServices' $ref; done < <( git...
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Running local models is good now
Local agentic coding has gotten great over the past few months