This week, more time than I'd have liked to spend went on talking about the trials of chasing invoices. This is off the back of a customer (who, for now, will remain unnamed), who had invoices stacking back more than 6 months overdue and despite payment terms of
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Custom dmenu / fzf Picker to Set Your Timezone with Geolocation
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nickjanetakis.com
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3 months ago
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eng
I wanted a fast and dependable way to set my system's timezone when traveling to new places with a laptop running Linux.
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This release is an emergency release to fix important security vulnerabilities in Tor Browser . Changes and updates Update Tor Browser to 15.0.9 , which fixes several vulnerabilities in Firefox 140.9.0 . We are not aware of these vulnerabilities being exploited in practice. Update the Tor client to 0.4.9.6. Update Thunderbird to 140.9.0 . Update some firmware packages. This improves support for newer hardware: gr....
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Zero downtime Upgrade: Yelp’s Cassandra 4.x Upgrade Story
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engineeringblog.yelp.com
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3 months ago
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eng
The Database Reliability Engineering team at Yelp seamlessly upgraded more than a thousand Cassandra nodes with zero downtime. This post takes you behind the scenes of our upgrade strategy, from planning sessions to flawless rollouts. Background Motivation Apache Cassandra is a distributed wide-column NoSQL datastore and is used widely at Yelp for storing both primary and derived data. Yelp orchestrates Cassandra clusters on Kubernetes with..
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Netflix’s VOID: Fixing the Physics Problem in Video Editing
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blog.risingstack.com
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3 months ago
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eng
There’s a familiar trick in modern video editing with AI – taking an object out, slapping some new background in, – and calling it good. It does the trick for simple things, but it all falls apart the moment the object actually starts to move or interact with anything. Take a domino chain for example, […] The post Netflix’s VOID: Fixing the Physics Problem in Video Editing appeared first on RisingStack Engineering .
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trying to turn this router into wifi → wifi + ethernet thing, it kinda works but mostly doesn’t
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lainchan.org
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3 months ago
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eng
got a TL-WA901ND v4 with some custom firmware on it (openwrt 18.06.9 or whatever) basically what I’m trying to do: connect the router to another wifi network then have it give me internet through BOTH its own wifi and the ethernet port important part: I don’t want it to just “extend” the network, I want it to make its own separate network (different IP range) so like: main router → (wifi) → my box → (new wifi + ethernet) I ma....
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Let’s Talk Agentic Development: Spotify x Anthropic Live
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engineering.atspotify.com
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3 months ago
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eng
AI agents are transforming the way we build — and even how we think of ourselves as software developers. Both... The post Let’s Talk Agentic Development: Spotify x Anthropic Live appeared first on Spotify Engineering .
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The “Lethal Trifecta” is a term coined by Simon Willison that posits that you are open to an attacker stealing your data using your own AI agent if that agent has: You need all three to be vulnerable, but usage of Claw or Coding agents will have them by default. I would say that the […]
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A Cryptography Engineer’s Perspective on Quantum Computing Timelines
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words.filippo.io
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3 months ago
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eng
The risk that cryptographically-relevant quantum computers materialize within the next few years is now high enough to be dispositive, unfortunately.
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Sitting in a suburban cafe in the afternoon of this last drawn-out day of this long Easter weekend. On the table, a couple of second-hand books and a map from the Oxfam shop. Earl Grey in a fat, purple-brown pot. The map is older than I am — whereas I am exactly the same age, … Continue reading "Rationing in Wartime"
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On my quest to speed-run all the wrong ways to authenticate users , I decided to implement passkeys. TL;DR: WebAuthn is engineered to handle complex, paranoid enterprise use cases. I don’t think it will fully replace passwords until there’s a simplified API for grug-brained developers such as myself. Conditional UI Originally, WebAuthn required a separate button to trigger the login flow. In practice it looked something like this. Se..
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It’s safe to say March was defined by one thing: Java 26. In this issue of Java Annotated Monthly, we’ve curated a rich selection of articles to help you get the full picture of the release. Marit van Dijk joins us as the featured guest author, bringing her expertise to help you navigate the changes […]
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This post is part of the Game Boy series (#9). Last year, I discovered RetroAchievements and had a lot of fun since then. You can play old games, for example for the Game Boy, in an emulator, and are able to unlock achievements , like finishing a level (or the whole game) or achieving a challenge like finishing a boss damageless or a level with a certain time limit. This is how it looks: If you beat all challenges and unlock ev....
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Destruction of Infrastructure for the Impact on Civilians is Manifestly Illegal
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www.jefftk.com
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3 months ago
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eng
Last week the US president announced that : ... if the Hormuz Strait is not immediately "Open for Business," we will conclude our lovely "stay" in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!), which we have purposefully not yet "touched." This will be in retribution for our many soldiers, and others, that Iran has butcher....
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Destruction of Infrastructure for the Impact on Civilians is Manifestly Illegal
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www.jefftk.com
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3 months ago
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eng
Last week the US president announced that : ... if the Hormuz Strait is not immediately "Open for Business," we will conclude our lovely "stay" in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!), which we have purposefully not yet "touched." This will be in retribution for our many soldiers, and others, that Iran has butcher....
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I came across the so-called Ecograder score. Ecograder helped us understand the environmental impact of our website and provided a clear roadmap to build a better site that’s both people- and planet-friendly.” Sharon Miller, Director, Digital Experience and Analysis, DePaul University My site — because of Pure Blog — gets the highest possible score. With only 0.01 grams of carbon dioxide emission per page load. I love that!....
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I came across the so-called Ecograder score. Ecograder helped us understand the environmental impact of our website and provided a clear roadmap to build a better site that’s both people- and planet-friendly.” Sharon Miller, Director, Digital Experience and Analysis, DePaul University My site — because of Pure Blog — gets the highest possible score. With only 0.01 grams of carbon dioxide emission per page load. I love that!....
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Can you spot the difference between the following punctuation marks? A hypen - or an em-dash — . Maybe you can, because the web safe font renders the em-dash just fine. However in the Pure Blog backend — which uses the Menlo font — it's pretty hard to tell. This is what I see: This is not a really big deal, I just had to do a double take at first, because they look way too similar. But there is another thing. I love my em-dashes ..
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Can you spot the difference between the following punctuation marks? A hypen - or an em-dash — . Maybe you can, because the web safe font renders the em-dash just fine. However in the Pure Blog backend — which uses the Menlo font — it's pretty hard to tell. This is what I see: This is not a really big deal, I just had to do a double take at first, because they look way too similar. But there is another thing. I love my em-dashes ..
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How can I get virtual machines graphical output on virt manager to be more smooth? Currently, it seems to have issues with laggyness and slight screen splitting like for example, if I drag a window in the VM, it will move but half of it is split and delayed.
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https://press.bungie.com/Marathon On March 5, 2026 Bungie released Marathon - a re-imagined game of their previous 1994 game by the same name. This was the company that created Halo and Destiny so I was definitely interested in a new major IP of theirs being released. This game
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https://press.bungie.com/Marathon On March 5, 2026 Bungie released Marathon - a re-imagined game of their previous 1994 game by the same name. This was the company that created Halo and Destiny so I was definitely interested in a new major IP of theirs being released. This game
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https://press.bungie.com/Marathon On March 5, 2026 Bungie released Marathon - a re-imagined game of their previous 1994 game by the same name. This was the company that created Halo and Destiny so I was definitely interested in a new major IP of theirs being released. This game
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Introduction Neovim version 0.12.1 was just released and you can check the release news here: Neovim v0.12.1 release news This is a massive release bringing a number of core capabilities that used to require external plugins into Neovim as built-in features. I took this opportunity to do a full refresh of my config. This was required as over the last few years I have pulled in many plugins only to forget what they are for. My ....
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More Bans on Books and Physical Mail Reported in Texas
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www.prisoncensorship.info
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3 months ago
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More Bans on Books and Physical Mail Reported in Texas by a Texas prisoner April 2026 permalink I am writing to you again to say since the last time I communicated with you all, a lot has changed. We can no longer receive books from “free books” places, because they are saying drugs are sent in through them, but we know differently. Since we have received these tablets and no mail, the drug epidemic has tripled here on Stiles Unit, s....
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If you enjoy exploring the universe on your PC, Gaia Sky is worth a try. It’s open source and developed by the Gaia group at the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut in Heidelberg. It runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS. Jupiter Planet The data accuracy is really solid because it pulls from real data collected by ESA’s Gaia satellite . The satellite itself was launched in 2013 and operated until March 2025. During its mission, it mea....
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I recently tried OpenClaw and did 3 test projects. This is how you can get started with it and how it can help you!
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I mentioned last year about the mixtapes my brother used to make . Well, just the other week, my mom mentioned that she still had a bunch of her tapes and that my brother’s mixtapes might be in amongst them and sure enough, I found the very tape that I remember most. Named aptly, A Whole Bunch of Good Songs Vol 2 . I wasn’t entirely sure when my brother put together this tape but given that no song seems to have been made after 1982, I....
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Lou: Hey, Brian. I wanted to start this episode by doing a little bit of a follow up to episode 48, where we talked about starting a collaboration. One of the things we ended with was doing a simple collaboration by just getting feedback on something you’re writing. And I wanted to talk to you about your thoughts on what to do with feedback. Brian: Yeah, let’s do it, for sure. And to begin, the assumptions here are that you’re working ..
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Lou: Hey, Brian. I wanted to start this episode by doing a little bit of a follow up to episode 48, where we talked about starting a collaboration. One of the things we ended with was doing a simple collaboration by just getting feedback on something you’re writing. And I wanted to talk to you about […]
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