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Ascetic Computing - ratfactor

I often put a fair amount of effort into perfecting and cleaning up source and configuration files for aesthetic reasons, so this comment briefly threw me for a loop. Then I chuckled. How droll.

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Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell

Behind a cheap Temu doorbell sits an IoT backend where device IDs are sequential and requests are forgeable with a string baked into every firmware. One signed call lifts any device's persistent password and lets anyone on the Internet hijack the next live...

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The CTF scene is dead - kabir.au

Why frontier AI has broken the open CTF format, hollowed out the scoreboard, and made competitive CTF performance a weaker signal than it used to be.

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How to Write to SSDs

VLDB version: https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol19/p1469-lee.pdf Comments

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Prolog Projects Tips

As I’ve been writing about here for a while now, I quite like Prolog as a general-purpose programming language. It’s a lovely, very high-level language, quite comparable to Lisp (with M-Expressions instead of S-Expressions) and my implementation of choice,...

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Announcing the Zulip Foundation

Today marks a major transition for the Zulip open-source project and for Kandra Labs, the company behind it: I’m stepping back from full-time Zulip leadership to join Anthropic, alongside three senior team members, and we’re donating the company to a newly...

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