pfm's wiki - reading:2024

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-01-22T08:41:35+00:00

2024-W04 reading notes * Z-order curve --- a function to map multidimensional coordinates to single dimension.

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-03-01T18:25:04+00:00

2024-W09 reading notes Python email parser issue * Bug #86650: get_obs_local_part fails to handle empty local part * Two competing PRs to fix it: * #24669: gh-86650:get_obs_local_part() fails to handle empty local part (Feb. 2021) * #108133: gh-105802: email._header_value_parser: prevent IndexError in get_obs_local_part (Aug. 2023)

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-03-23T15:00:20+00:00

2024-W12 Reading Notes David Graeber: Fenomen gówno wartych prac * Źródło: Fenomen gówno wartych prac * Oryginał: On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant by David Graeber Rzeczowy tekst wyjaśniający jak do tego doszło, że mimo rozwoju technologii i ogólnego postępu nie zaczęliśmy z nich faktycznie korzystać (żeby pracować mniej). W pracy spędzamy wciąż mnóstwo czasu, ale nasze prace są

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-04-01T07:01:20+00:00

2024-W13 reading notes XZ Utils backdoor * Evan Boehs: Everything I Know About the XZ Backdoor * Techies vs spies: the xz backdoor debate * XZ Utils backdoor This story is horrifying. There was a 3-year long operation to inject malicious code into XZ Utils package and make it a part of an OpenSSH backdoor. The analysis is still ongoing, but it's already obvious that this wasn't just a

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-04-13T19:55:14+00:00

2024-W15 notes * #13 Skąd ten faszyzm? Rozmowa z Michałem Hererem --- rozmowa z Michałem Hererem o czynnikach prowadzących do powstawania / wyłaniania się faszyzmu. * Programowanie w języku Rust. Wydajność i bezpieczeństwo. Wydanie II --- zacząłem czytać, ale pewnie jeszcze długo nie skończę.

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-04-26T11:13:26+00:00

2024-W17 reading notes User interface philosophy Many years ago I've read an article about an approach to user-interface design that mentioned changing perspective from “what could a regular user / any user use?” to “what would be the perfect interface for an advanced user?

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-05-17T12:33:43+00:00

2024-W20 reading notes There's a nice website about all sorts of knots. I've used two of them to make a little present for a friend: like a mala, but with beads made of barrel knots and there's much fewer of them because it's a “frienship mala” (so it reflects the number of close friends my friend has).

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-05-26T10:54:51+00:00

2024-W21 reading notes * Google skasowało im konto firmowe. I backupy też --- australijski fundusz emerytalny utracił wszystkie swoje dane oraz ich kopie zapasowe w wyniku błędnego usunięcia subskrypcji w “chmurze Google”. Trzymali dodatkową kopię u innego dostawcy i tylko to pozwoliło im uruchomić systemy ponownie

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-06-02T12:54:10+00:00

2024-W22 reading notes * Dave Lane: Microsoft and data sovereignty: * *

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-06-08T18:55:07+00:00

2024-W23 reading notes * Plan ogólny dla Gdańska

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-06-14T08:45:55+00:00

2024-W24 reading notes The Empty Brain source: The empty brain by Robert Epstein * Computer metaphor of the brain isn't very useful or helpful. * All the past metaphors were based on most recent discoveries or inventions of their time but usually very far from the brain. For example: hydraulic machines in 3rd century BCE or complex machines in 17th century.

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-19T12:11:03+00:00

2024-W29 reading notes * Crowdstrike and Microsoft: What we know about global IT outage --- an overview of the global outage caused by CrowdStrike Falcon software update. * CrowdStrike outage - Briefing note --- a nice summary of the events and recommended approaches. I like the use of Information Mapping on this page --- it's very well structured and makes it very easy to skim through the page to identify the section one is looking for.

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-08-30T10:04:58+00:00

2024-W35 reading notes * Czy owce zjedzą Tatry --- o pismie “Zielone Brygady” i tym, jak aktywizm ekologiczny wyglądał pod koniec XX w. * Motyw powraca. Rozmowa z Michałem Hererem o faszyzmie i ruchach faszyzujących, oraz ich relacji do socjalizmu, komunizmu i kapitalizmu.

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-09-27T20:04:36+00:00

2024-W39 reading notes FreeBSD: binding backward/forward navigation actions to mouse buttons * Binding back/forward to mouse buttons --- an (old) example of binding mouse buttons to backward/forward navigation. Boils down to emitting key sequences upon mouse button press/release events.

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-10-26T18:04:12+00:00

2024-W43 reading notes * Śluzowce: * Przedziwny świat śluzowców * Śluzowce * Firefox for Android vulnerabilities * * * --- critical use-after-free in Animations timeline * divestos mobile, an F-Droid-compatible repository of APK packages, includes very up-to-date Mull (Firefox fork)

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-11-03T13:14:20+00:00

2024-W44 reading notes * Sadzenie dyni z pestki, podstawowe informacje. Niestety strona średniej jakości, ale lepsza niż żadna. * Finansowanie kampanii prezydenckiej w USA, czyli samonapędzająca się machina nierówności... * Stare plany Gdańska --- zainteresowały mnie po dłuższym spacerze po Siedlcach.

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-11-09T20:10:33+00:00

2024-W45 reading notes I'm struggling with “quick calls” at work and I've found these nice resources to share when someone asks for such an awful thing again: * Quick Calls Are Not That Quick * No "Hello", No "Quick Call", and no Meetings Without an Agenda

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-11-15T19:02:27+00:00

2024-W46 reading notes * pip requirement specifiers --- requirements and version constraints for pip, Python software packaging utility. * PEP 427: The Wheel Binary Package Format 1.0 --- Python's packaging format. * Rethinking Window Management, an idea for a different approach to organisation of graphical environments by Tobias Bernard. * Atreus review --- done information about a keyboard I've been thinking about.

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-11-24T19:52:14+00:00

2024-W47 reading notes * Brine pool * Listy zagraniczne polecone --- warunki doręczenia dla poszczególnych stref, porozumienia międzynarodowe, możliwe zawartość. Co ciekawe, w międzynarodowym liście poleconym można wysłać między innymi: " Pszczoły, pijawki i jedwabniki,

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-12-07T21:54:44+00:00

2024-W49 reading notes * Why does the name ‘David Mayer’ crash ChatGPT? --- several cases of names that ChatGPT refuses to generate texts about * Jury nullification * Two articles about RTF used by malware developers: * How RTF malware evades static signature-based detection * Analysis of a CVE-2017-0199 Malicious RTF Document

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-12-12T21:06:17+00:00

2024-W50 reading notes * AWS performance comparison: Scala, Python, Rust, and TypeScript

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-12-22T15:55:05+00:00

2024-W51 reading notes * Frontier Models are Capable of In-context Scheming, food for thought about AI * Scaling DynamoDB: How partitions, hot keys, and split for heat impact performance --- explains how Split for Heat mechanism works in DynamoDB. * The Forged Apple Employee Badge --- a quite interesting story of a forged Apple employee ID and a person who was quite good but not perfect at selling their fakes.

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-12-25T17:32:37+00:00

2024-W52 reading notes * Popularny ziemniak – ile o nim wiemy, zbiór ciekawych informacji na temat ziemniaków, w tym o kaloryczności i IG.