Spurred by a conversation with a whip-smart friend and fellow gentlenerd, who unreasonably believed (believes?) they have nothing worth speaking about at the software conferences we like (IN/Clojure, FunctionalConf, local meetups etc).
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The right thing for the wrong reasons: FLOSS doesn't imply security
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seirdy.one
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4 years ago
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eng
Background I find it quite easy to handle views different from my own. I feel more troubled when I see people agree with me for the wrong reasons. It’s no secret that I’m a passionate supporter of software freedom: I’ve written two posts about how Free, Libre, and Open-Source software (FLOSS) is necessary but insufficient to preserve user autonomy: Whatsapp and the domestication of users The phenomenon of a class of predatory busines....
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Who among us doesn’t love Wordle? No one, that’s who! It’s gotten to the point that the NY Times announced they are purchasing the original Wordle from its author. There have been a bunch of copy-cats, both in app and web-app form. And, some of these have been up to no good!
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Twice a year, NextRoll celebrates Hack Week, where employees get to work for a week on a project of their choice. It’s an excellent opportunity to experiment, learn new technologies and team up with people from across the company. You can learn all about Hack Week here . As NextRoll increasingly adopts the Rust programming language, it’s common for engineers to use Hack Week as an opportunity to gain experience with it. Another popular ....
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Following the abandon of Google Analytics and the beginning of umami usage (you can read the details in this post ) I encountered in a little trouble: how to make a backup of the umami database, without having sFTP access to Heroku VPS, because of the free plan? I’ve found a solution that is a bit tricky (compared to a normal backup) but it works. It requires having Heroku CLI installed, can be done via
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Following the abandon of Google Analytics and the beginning of umami usage (you can read the details in this post ) I encountered in a little trouble: how to make a backup of the umami database, without having sFTP access to Heroku VPS, because of the free plan? I’ve found a solution that is a bit tricky (compared to a normal backup) but it works. It requires having Heroku CLI installed, can be done via
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I’m doing 99% of my coding in a “big” machine instead of my laptop. I do that by SSH’ing into it, hopefully into a tmux session, and coding on Neovim.
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Learn how Snyk is shifting left during API development, as well as the processes and tools we are using to create our API-first platform.
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This post compares MAD and the Shamos estimator across various distributions and sample sizes. Pragmastat adopts the Shamos approach as Spread — a more efficient robust scale estimator with a 29% breakdown point. Confidence intervals are available via SpreadBounds . pragmastat.dev github.com/AndreyAkinshin/pragmastat There are multiple ways to estimate statistical dispersion. The standard deviation is the most popular one, bu..
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Understand the basics of seq2seq architecture and artificial neural networks (ANNs). Learn about multilingual models and their applications. Discover how to use these technologies to achieve scalable multilingual semantic search.
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In a previous blog post, we explained how we built an internal pull-based exception monitoring service called Periskop — which is heavily…
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I remember hearing about Bogan Ipsum, which was an alternative to Lorem Ipsum for you know bogan’s back in 2011 through LifeHacker . However it since became defunct. I became aware of this fact from Darren at work given the following message on slack? Dude Boganipsum where? Clearly this needed to be rectified! A quick search found this https://www.npmjs.com/package/boganipsum implementation which seemed to work well enough, so ..
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This post compares MAD and the Shamos estimator across various distributions and sample sizes. Pragmastat adopts the Shamos approach as Spread — a more efficient robust scale estimator with a 29% breakdown point. Confidence intervals are available via SpreadBounds . pragmastat.dev github.com/AndreyAkinshin/pragmastat There are multiple ways to estimate statistical dispersion. The standard deviation is the most popular one, bu..
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For those unfamiliar, Artsy is a fine art marketplace. Knowing that, it follows logically to say that the form via which our partners list artworks for sale is an integral part of Artsy’s core systems. This form, known only as “The Artwork Form,” is whispered about in the halls of Arty’s New York headquarters. It is legendary. It is a colossus. It is old enough not only to predate React v16.8 hooks and context APIs, but Artsy’s use of React....
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In a previous blog post, we explained how we built an internal pull-based exception monitoring service called Periskop — which is heavily…
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Understand the basics of seq2seq architecture and artificial neural networks (ANNs). Learn about multilingual models and their applications. Discover how to use these technologies to achieve scalable multilingual semantic search.
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I have a few primary source documents regarding my genealogy laying around. One of those items is an old family bible - a bible in a box labeled Grandmother Smith’s Bible .
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the fattening - Yesterday involved almost no exercise, a trip to Chick Fil A to get a Spicy Chicken Sandwich Meal with large Fries and a Lemonade, three high calorie drinks, 10 pieces of dumplings and another trip to Chick Fil A to get the Chicken Sandwich with medium fries and a chocolate...
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One of the great things about Kindle readers is that you can read old books for free. You can grab an epub from places like Monergism , Gutenberg , Standard Ebooks , or Planet Ebook , and side-load them into your device. The problem is that Kindles don’t support epub files, and so you have to convert them to something it can read. Historically, the advice has been to convert your epubs to mobi files. However, in 2022, the mobi file....
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One of the great things about Kindle readers is that you can read old books for free. You can grab an epub from places like Monergism , Gutenberg , Standard Ebooks , or Planet Ebook , and side-load them into your device. The problem is that Kindles don’t support epub files, and so you have to convert them to something it can read. Historically, the advice has been to convert your epubs to mobi files. However, in 2022, the mobi file....
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Rajasthan have so many hot female that they living her life with her pession and they are ready for all activity if you want to enjoy with these female it very easy. You can contact with isha patel.
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These Flux queries can be used to extract total monthly power usage (in kWh) and cost from the data written into InfluxDB by my electricity usage monitoring setup . The owl intuition power meter reports total usage "today", so the the maximum daily value needs to be selected and then summed to get the monthly usage. Read more…
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Infinite Race is a mathematical racing game. Two players compete to move their piece the greatest distance along the number line by choosing how the dice will fall. However, the rolls must fit a distribution perfectly, so the player’s luck must revert to the mean. The strategy is to select a sequence of moves which allows one player to break free of the pack. Setup Each player specifies an infinite sequence of moves at the beginning of p....
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Infinite Race is a mathematical racing game. Two players compete to move their piece the greatest distance along the number line by choosing how the dice will fall. However, the rolls must fit a distribution perfectly, so the player’s luck must revert to the mean. The strategy is to select a sequence of moves which allows one player to break free of the pack. Setup Each player specifies an infinite sequence of moves at the beginning of p....
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View the Source or Demo for the schema-based form system described in this article. Working with forms on the front end is tedious and…
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Many "must-read" books are not well-written. I try to read a lot , but I still have a low tolerance for bad writing and bad editing. I write this post both to discourage thoughtless recommendations and to encourage the receivers of bad recommendations. For software developers, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is a prime example. Written for freshman at MIT, it is ostensibly an entry-level text. But it requires such a lev....
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When you design software to achieve a particular level of performance, it can be a good idea to be familiar with the general speed regimes you are working with: fundamental limitations like storage devices and networks can drive software architecture. Here are a set of common benchmark numbers that can help you anchor performance conversations and think about the components that your software will interact with. As with all guidelines, thes..
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Crypto Goes Mainstream: Introducing Season 4 of The Brave Marketer Podcast
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brave.com
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4 years ago
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eng
Crypto marketers share how they’re leveraging this exciting moment in time in a new 10-episode season of The Brave Marketer podcast.
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As I close in on my promotion to captain, mentorship has become an increasingly important part of my job. Many new lieutenants find the Basic Officer Leader Course just that — basic — and so they report eager to develop personally, professionally, and militarily. My article Personal Development addresses that first domain in terms of improving one’s personal, professional, and military knowledge , but neglects other areas. After severa..
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So… TL;DR: We lost all of your data created after 28th November 2021 at midnight… No, we probably can't get it back for you… Yes, I am terribly sorry, this affected us as well… a lot… anyway… Matrix data should be mostly recoverable, we hope, except for password resets and new accounts, I suppose… that would have to be recreated… also anything that isn't federated… and perhaps some things that are… Invidious and Plik data from after the dat....
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First of all this is not the usual(ess) article that says “use Low Power Mode, disable background refresh, etc…” we already know those stupids tips, I’m assuming that we are a bit above this level. So I would try to explain how to keep charged your batteries between 20% and 80% using Shortcuts and Alexa connected Smart Plug, plus get some notifications when the batteries are below or above a threshold of other devices. For example, get an..
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First of all this is not the usual(ess) article that says “use Low Power Mode, disable background refresh, etc…” we already know those stupids tips, I’m assuming that we are a bit above this level. So I would try to explain how to keep charged your batteries between 20% and 80% using Shortcuts and Alexa connected Smart Plug, plus get some notifications when the batteries are below or above a threshold of other devices. For example, get an..
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At this point most people are pretty cynical about social media. The worst offender in that space is Facebook , recently rebranded into Meta . In a world constantly incentivized by profit it’s difficult to imagine Meta optimizing for anything else. The striking part was always how cunning and ruthless they are in pursuing profit. Nevertheless, despite many controversies around privacy, usage of personal data and Meta ’s political invol..
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CVE-2022-0329 and the problems with automated vulnerability management
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tomforb.es
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4 years ago
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Update: Github have responded and said they will stop sending notifications about this CVE. Yesterday Github started notifying tens of thousands of people about a critical remote code execution vulnerability in a package named loguru. Their reviewed advisory is here. It references CVE-2022-0329 whic...
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CVE-2022-0329 and the problems with automated vulnerability management
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tomforb.es
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4 years ago
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Update: Github have responded and said they will stop sending notifications about this CVE. Yesterday Github started notifying tens of thousands of people about a critical remote code execution vulnerability in a package named loguru. Their reviewed advisory is here. It references CVE-2022-0329 whic...
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