Pas de Code

Have never touched WASM before, but have to since recently. Here you'll find a survey where people (~300 respondents) answer which languages they compile to WASM, why they do that, what they're missing, etc. blog.scottlogic.com/2023/10/18/the… #wasm #survey

This researcher has checked terminal emulators for vulnerabilities, and I must say, their findings make me paranoid as hell. For example, launch some server and stare at its logs, receive some smart request, oopsie, RCE. youtu.be/Y4A7KMQEmfo?si… #talk #terminal #vulnerability

An attempt to try Moore's law on zero knowledge proofs. Main idea is that zkp effectiveness grows too, but it happens in discreet jumps. So it's better to design your systems in a way that allows to swap proving schemes on the go. review.stanfordblockchain.xyz/p/22-moores-la… #zk #cryptography #math

Steganography is a method of concealing some information inside some harmless medium - image, audio, text, etc. In this post you'll find both historical intro and many intriguing links to various tools. officercia.mirror.xyz/8ecJG-s_5E6J1t… #cryptography #cybersec #encryption

CRDT series continues. No more details on the algorithm itself, but there are posts: on how to build a toy pixel art editor with it: jakelazaroff.com/words/building… on various strange optimizations for the amount of data transferred: jakelazaroff.com/words/making-c… #cs #network #datastructure

Beautiful! Where do you host some malicious code so that it can't be deleted? That's right, on a public blockchain! Anyone can write and read, and there's no way to remove data from it. labs.guard.io/etherhiding-hi… #hack #cybersec #crypto

A high level overview of what's going on in a fight between governments who want a backdoor to encrypted messages and those who insist on privacy rights. technologyreview.com/2023/10/16/108… #cybersec #encryption

An astonishing one-liner: getaddrinfo() from glibc (which is, surprise-surprise, used not only in C and C++) reads environment variables, so pray that no setenv() calls will happen in your multithreaded program. rachelbythebay.com/w/2023/10/16/e… #unix #gnu #c

For those who prefer to work while listening to some electronic music, old and new. On these two pages you can dive into various subgenres, check out some samples and discover something new. music.ishkur.com psytranceguide.com #music #sound

Nice! It's been only 5^W 10^W 13 years and we're about to get a mature multiplexer in Go! eli.thegreenplace.net/2023/better-ht… #go #server #http

You've most probably heard about a recent high severity vulnerability in curl. Here you'll get the actual details. Such things never get old. Small bug with huge consequences. daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/10/1… #cybersec #vulnerability #curl

Going bananas here. Flappy Bird clone. Runs on macOS Finder. Coded in AppleScript. And Python. eieio.games/nonsense/game-… #humor #macos #gamedev

Zuzalu. Sort of a 2 months hackathon with 200 attendees somewhere in Montenegro. This post will uncover more details of how and why they'd organized it and how it's actually been. palladiummag.com/2023/10/06/why… #crypto #story #ethereum

Intuition for Cryptography. An excellent high-level overview, can help you better understand some core basics. azeemba.com/posts/intuitio… #cryptography #cybersec

Cursorless - edit code with voice. I've posted about it some time ago. This time the creator gave a talk at Strange Loop, there you'll find some basics of this approach. Very strange still, but it's cool that it lives and evolves. youtu.be/NcUJnmBqHTY?si… #talk #editor #voice

A nice dive into how one of the simple versions of CRDT works. jakelazaroff.com/words/an-inter… #cs #network #datastructure

Wow! It's like Game of Life, but a bit more nuts! Works on CUDA. Watch a beautiful demo here: youtu.be/dSkxvi9igqQ?si… Code is on Github: github.com/chrxh/alien #game #art #gpu

One more funny talk, only 10m this time, check it out: Where Does My Computer Get the Time From ripe86.ripe.net/archives/video… #talk #time

It's hard to say what this talk is about. Let me sum it up like this: "there's a lot of complexity in tech around us, we're all struggling, don't worry, it's okay to understand only a part of the whole thing". youtu.be/30YWsGDr8mA?si… #talk #tool #programming

New post by Nikita Tonsky about unicode, UTF-8, etc. Great job as always! Highly recommend to read it. tonsky.me/blog/unicode/ #text #encoding #unicode