Even though the US has no national ban on plastic bags, smaller-level bans have made a sizeable difference.

​Unprivileged attackers can get root access on multiple major Linux distributions in default configurations by exploiting a newly disclosed local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in the GNU C Library (glibc).

A progress update on where my Rye Project is today.

When I'm not sixty-four

We’re stuck with C++, at least for another console generation. C++ has many quirks that I wish were not there, but there is no real alternative as of today. While modern languages tend to adopt the bulk compilation and/or smart linkers and so can have a proper…

In a world of closed platforms, browser extensions are the rare exception that let users modify the apps that we use.

Fans of the spec bemoan lack of transparency in Interop 2024 process

A new study has found that threat-based anti-piracy messaging may be useful when targeting women but counterproductive when targeting men.

14.4 (23E5180j) seems to have gimped the fileproviderctl command again. This happened before where they completely broke the command on 13.6. Feels like there's ONE guy whose job it is to compile...

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How to write a novel: Award-winning novelist Randy Ingermanson teaches his wildly popular Snowflake Method for designing and writing a novel.

About six months ago, I was fed up with it. The particular it was HCL — Hashicorp Configuration Language — but that was just the trigger, it was hardly the only offender. The issue I was struggling with that day was to define six cloud storage buckets in…

Contribute to OpenStatsLab/statcounterdata development by creating an account on GitHub.

Musings on Hofstadter’s phenomenal book about computation, consciousness, and epistemology.

Apple said the vulnerability, which is being exploited in the wild, allows malicious code to run on an affected device.

A deep dive into the internals of a small transformer model to learn how it turns self-attention calculations into accurate predictions for the next token.

When I started working on Ardour, it never occured to me to do anything other than use the GNU Public License (GPL), the most well-known way to release “open source” software. At that time, it was a choice driven by a combination of: my passionate belief…