Disqus turned my clean blog into an ad-riddled mess. Here’s why I pulled the plug—for your privacy and reading sanity

Screenshots shared with 404 Media show tenant screening services ApproveShield and Argyle taking much more data than they need. “Opt-out means no housing.”

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In the battle between the Online Safety Act and GDPR, who will win? FIGHT! I'll start by saying that I'm moderately positive on Online Safety. If services don't want to provide moderation then they shouldn't let their younger users be exposed to harm. The…

After marking bcachefs 'externally maintained' in 6.17, Linus Torvalds has removed it entirely [...]

An effect that’s being more and more widely reported is the increase in time it’s taking developers to modify or fix code that was generated by Large Language Models. If you’ve wo…

Home of the ABS programming language: the joy of shell noscripting.

A popular image hosting website has stopped its services in the UK after regulators threatened a fine.

What's the meaning of "numbers" and "arithmetic operations"? We consult Georg Cantor's turtles and look at Giuseppe Peano's code.

A former NASA astronaut-turned-U.S. Senator has joined with other lawmakers to insist that his twice ride to space remain on display in the Smithsonian.

The European Union Council is once again debating its controversial message scanning proposal, aka “Chat Control,” that would lead to the scanning of private conversations of billions of people. Chat

The resignations come as part of a cost-cutting program drawn up by President Trump at the start of his second administration.

I spent 3 weeks earlier this year digging in to and reimplementing the lossless compression algorithm in Fuji’s RAF Camera RAW files. This post discusses the fundamentals of how it works.

An open-source project that implements a Kalman Filter in Postgres to clean up noisy GPS data directly in the database.

The program is shorter, startups are pushed to build faster, and just about everyone has an AI company. What could go wrong?

webz is a zlib exploitation challenge from Google CTF 2025. The Google-zlib implementation provided in the challenge is not upstream; it’s a version w

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After years of hyperventilation about TikTok’s impact on privacy, propaganda, and national security, TikTok is likely being sold to a bunch of Trump’s billionaire technofascist buddies …

The private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, PIF, and Affinity Partners will pay EA’s stockholders $210 per share.