I often wonder if devs who crap on Windows (e.g., PG saying no great hacker would use Windows, Brooks citing Windows as poorly design in contrast to UNIX, etc.) have *either* made a serious attempt at using Windows or read the Windows Internals book. x.com/danluu/status/…

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I'm not sure how I hadn't heard of this before, but PyInstaller seems insanely handy for internal tools: pyinstaller.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

I found a way to stuff up to ~3MB of data inside a PNG file on twitter. This is even better than my previous JPEG ICC technique, since the inserted data is contiguous. The source code is available in the ZIP/PNG file attached:

RIP ubiquiti krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/whistl…

Oddly, eBay prices indicate it’s worthwhile to buy prebuilt gaming PCs and part them out (comparing newegg to 3090 on eBay). Curious if Chia pushes this further with disk pricing rising arnnet.com.au/article/687982…

It seems to also appears on updated Windows 10 to another Windows 10 version... Check if you have Shadow Copy enabled for system protection... (but this is ON by default...) Conclusion: Updated Windows 10 (or 11 version) + System Protection Enabled (default) = vulnerable

[Thread] 1/ This is a thread on Twitter manipulation around #Tunisia, where the current President is accused of instigating a coup. One Arabic trend translates as "Tunisians revolt against the Brotherhood". I analysed around 12000 tweets from 6800 unique accounts #disinformation

Programming languages ranked by how much electricity they use: bit.ly/ProgEnergy (v/David Cassel The New Stack)

*keanu face* WOAH You can do flow diagrams in markdown on GitHub now via Mermaid? That's so useful! github.blog/2022-02-14-inc…

🚨ATTENTION🚨 Apple found two 0-days actively in use that could effectively give attackers full access to device. For most folks: update software by end of day If threat model is elevated (journalist, activist, targeted by nation states, etc): update now techcrunch.com/2022/08/17/iph…

Spectrum Labs has figured out how to use its artificial intelligence tech to identify healthy online behavior and reward it. venturebeat.com/business/spect…

This is an interesting approach to an old problem. Spectrum Labs teams with IMVU to use AI to identify healthy online behavior #SpectrumLabs #IMVU venturebeat.com/games/spectrum… via GamesBeat

a debugging manifesto

💥BOOM 💥 Llama 3.1 is out 💥 405B, 70B, 8B versions. Main takeaways: 1. 405B performance is on par with the best closed models. 2. Open/free weights and code, with a license that enables fine-tuning, distillation into other models, and deployment anywhere. 3. 128k context

Are we ready for a world where our data is exposed at a glance? Caine Ardayfio 🐧 and I offer an answer to protect yourself here: tinyurl.com/meet-ixray