Uvemode
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Uvemode
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Penetration Tester @tiktok_us. Opinions expressed are my own and do not reflect the views of my employer.


I'm going to legit try and make the jump to Linux as my daily driver. Wish me luck, fam.



Next time I teach logical fallacies to the freshmen, I am totally using this video


How does a former empire recover from its collapse? It doesn't. Look at Spain 🇪🇸. Spain simply sat down on a bench for a quick siesta at 2:30 PM in 1650, drifted into a 3-century coma, & woke up to discover it was now a budget hotel for the British working class. The fall of the Spanish Empire is the most spectacular geopolitical nose-dive in human history. They went from being the terrifying "Sword of Christendom"—the nation that owned the Americas, the oceans, the Vatican, Austria, Germany, and Belgium—to being a country whose primary contribution to the modern world is "Ibiza", Zara, and tapas. Ok, I'm exaggerating a bit... But you get the picture. The tragedy of Spain isn't that they lost their empire; it’s that they became the servants of the people they used to bully. For two hundred years, the Spanish Infantry was the scourge of Europe, a terrifying machine of war that crushed Protestants for sport. Today? The descendants of those hardened tercios are frantically inflating banana boats for drunk German tourists in Mallorca. Spain possessed the greatest windfall in economic history: they looted an entire continent of its gold and silver. And what did they do with it? Did they build industry? Did they invest in infrastructure? No. They spent it all on fancy churches and wars they lost, then defaulted on their national debt thirteen times. They are the lottery winners of history who blew it all on cocaine and porcelain figurines and are now living in a trailer. Spain proves that you can be given the keys to the world and still manage to lock yourself out of the house.









Workspaces keep your windows organized and clutter out of sight. From the overview, you can move windows or entire workspaces around — and even across displays. Pin them to keep them active, even after a reboot! Check out the features in this video, recorded using two displays:



Video showcase of the recent WinRAR 0-day, CVE-2025-8088, uncovered by ESET after threat actor RomCom exploited it in the wild leveraging alternate data streams & path traversal on Windows -- we examine the uncovered RAR file and a proof-of-concept demo! youtu.be/rkMNOC8fhUQ



Here's my 6 hour conversation with @dhh, a legendary programmer, creator of Ruby on Rails, author, and race car driver. This was a fun and inspiring conversation on everything from the future of programming & AI to the nature of happiness & productivity to the value of family, getting married and having kids. X limits video length to 6 hours. So this full convo doesn't fit (by a few minutes). So, the first 6 hours are here on X. The full version is up everywhere else (see comment). Timestamps: 0:00 - Episode highlight 1:21 - Introduction 2:32 - Programming - early days 19:57 - JavaScript 30:16 - Google Chrome and DOJ 38:03 - Ruby programming language 45:14 - Beautiful code 1:03:15 - Metaprogramming 1:06:36 - Dynamic typing 1:13:55 - Scaling 1:26:47 - Future of programming 1:44:18 - Future of AI 1:50:13 - Vibe coding 1:58:45 - Rails manifesto: Principles of a great programming language 2:23:11 - Why managers are useless 2:32:32 - Small teams 2:38:39 - Jeff Bezos 2:53:57 - Why meetings are toxic 3:01:43 - Case against retirement 3:09:00 - Hard work 3:14:38 - Why we left the cloud 3:17:48 - AWS 3:27:07 - Owning your own servers 3:33:19 - Elon Musk 3:43:01 - Apple 3:54:48 - Tim Sweeney 4:06:22 - Fatherhood 4:32:04 - Racing 4:59:08 - Cars 5:04:26 - Programming setup 5:19:35 - Programming language for beginners 5:32:53 - Open source 5:41:46 - WordPress drama 5:53:03 - Money and happiness 6:01:56 - Hope













