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Bring Me Anything but Jokes
You already know that I have a lot of frustrations with Letterboxd, the annoyingly-named site for...
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Datadog Has a Security Footgun
I’ve just finished dealing with an incident at Corporate Clash (a fan reimagination of the defunct...
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Picking Apart Baldur's Gate 3, Part 2 (Talkin' 'Bout D&D)
I’ve been doing some thinking and I’ve got some ideas to improve Dungeons & Dragons. One....
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The Open Secret about Confidential Computing
Image by RenanConfidential Computing is an emerging field that aims to protect running workloads (“data in...
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The Fire This Time: Aaron Bushnell and the Rage That Burns Within All of US
This article is dedicated to Aaron Bushnell, his family, and everybody struggling with the guilt and...
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PFAS in non-stick pans: how fast does it migrate to food?
This is a blog where I go in-depth into questions and topics, I am personally interested...
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Why Do Python Lists Multiply Oddly? Exploring the CPython Source Code
I was scrolling down on X/Twitter when I noticed the following Python related post with 2.5k...
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The Secret Lives of Ernest Beaux
Ernest Beaux is known for Chanel No5, the most famous perfume in the world. But the...
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WebAuthn and Passkeys
Heya,WebAuthn, also known as passkeys, is a standard which makes authentication easier on the web. Common...
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When Will the GenAI Bubble Burst?
In early August, I wrote a piece called What if Generative AI turned out to be...
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Male archetypes in fairy tales
I’d planned, for this weekend, another post about the psychology and mythology of midlife, but something...
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The Color of Silence
Sergi Marló | UnsplashSilence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.― Charlotte Brontë, VilletteOn August...
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How can Robinhood afford 3% cash back on its new credit card?
Hi Fintech Futurists — Today’s agenda below.FINTECH: Robinhood Unveils New Credit Card OfferingLONG TAKE: Launching our...
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Banning open weight models would be a disaster
In response to an Executive Order from President Biden, The U.S. Department of Commerce (DoC) has...
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Good information still pollutes the epistemic ecosystem
What do The Last Psychiatrist, Khabib Nurmagomedov, and the Breaking Bad showrunners have in common? We’ll...
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There were no ancient computers and it's fine
Last August, in an article about the history of the calculator, I opened with the following...
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Anarchy in the US (The Revolution That Almost Happened)
This is the first of a multi-part series. 1894: the Pullman strike! Ken Burns has never...
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Identity, authentication, and authorisation from the ground up
This piece was originally posted on the koodos labs engineering blog — follow there for updates...
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XZ Backdoor: Times, damned times, and scams
re: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4Written by Rhea K. and Simon HennigerThere has been a recent backdoor found in the...
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Spacing the Cans
What work is the “Happy Harvest” brand doing on this can of tomato paste from Aldi?...
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How Long Will x86 Endure?
It’s 1979, and Intel has a problem. Its 16-bit 8086 microprocessor is losing out to its...
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Are LLMs on the trajectory of word processors or digital advertising?
In his newsletter this week, Steven Levy looks at the trajectory of ChatGPT and sees echoes...