Dan Draper

In the long run I think software gets more secure out of necessity, but the in between is a scary time period where everyone is just CONSTANTLY getting hacked

I tried to make sense of the backdoor mechanism this time and summarized it in a one-page overview. 😵‍💫 There's obviously more technical detail to uncover, but you'll get a general understanding of the complexity and the stealthy mechanisms used to remain undetected. 🧐 Thanks to @AndresFreundTec for his insight into this and a shoutout to these researchers if you want to learn more about the backdoor 🙏👇 - gist.github.com/smx-smx/a6112d… by SMX - bsky.app/profile/filipp… by @FiloSottile - github.com/amlweems/xzbot by @amlweems - github.com/karcherm/xz-ma… by Karchem - research.swtch.com/xz-script by Russ Cox - github.com/0xlane/xz-cve-… by 0xlane And of course, all the others previously mentioned and those who contributed to the analysis. #xz #infosec

@rayn_ong Patent if the strategy is to be acquired for a big sum. Plenty have done it but revenue preferred in almost all cases!

Founders, what would you choose? - Startup Events vs Customer Calls. - Patent vs Unstoppable Sales Motion. - Awards vs Revenue. - NDA vs Trust Rayn because he’s good 😜.

@madzadev Safe memory management in C

Give this book a coding-related title 👇👇

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@phoozle If I was Microsoft I’d have just made a special edition of Postgres with hooks into AD. Still could have charged a bunch for support and add ons. 🤷

@danieldraper Microsoft’s $10b investment didn’t get em much…

Trying to do some tricky stuff in SQL server so I asked ChatGPT. It recommended that I use PostgreSQL. Can't say I disagree!

@cleoabram Fantastic! Very well deserved.

WE DID IT!!

@lpdahito Encryption-in-Use

Besides AI, What's the next big thing in tech?

Gold.

@danielcranney Bear

What’s your favourite note-taking app? 🤔

@annie_parker Unrelated: I love it when people of my generation use words like “yeet”. Like, where did you learn this? 🤣

@daboigbae QBASIC isn’t on the list…so next was C!

As a programmer - which one did you write first?

Apparently I'm moving back to Sydney (finally). And officially house hunting Since this has worked insanely well before, Twitter friends, if you know of anyone looking for a roomie please let your girl know!

Ugh. Sick. Whyyyyyyy

This is weird to say out loud, but I actually am kinda an expert in rate limiting, so I'm gonna explain some stuff. About half of incidents in large-scale production systems involve having more requests than you can serve. There are two categories of this kind of incident:

@jaydrogers The only time I notice the difference between my M1 Air and my Max Studio is when I’m compiling Postgres…which I do often 🤣

👇Unpopular reality: I bought a M1 Max Macbook Pro (64 GB RAM) for $4,100 at launch. This year, I bought a M1 Mac Mini (8 GB of RAM) for a home computer for $575. Both machines run the same development projects. I notice ZERO difference in performance. Save your money 🤑

9x out of 10, CopilotX is bang-on! The other time I'm like wuuuut. So basically the same as the typical engineer 🤣

Why do people put mirrors opposite toilets? Of all the things I want to look at while doing my thing, it ain’t myself 🤣

@typedfemale Materials supplier: we are selling the shovels Rare earth mine: we are selling the shovels Shovel manufacturer: we are actually selling the shovels 🤣

NVIDIA: we are selling the shovels TSMC: we are selling the shovels ASML: we are selling the shovels