Stories by chx

Trust Rules Everything Around Me

I picked up a shitty NUC from ewaste and it had a label on it for an AI company

CM Sperberg-McQueen Died

U+237C ⍼ Is (Also) S9576 ⍼

IBM Research Fellow Robert H. Dennard, 1932-2024

Intel answered the criticism regarding thunderbolt-utils: the repo is gone

Defective Accelerationism

YAML-exp – Write s-expressions in YAML

Undocumented Features of GitHub

GitHub has too many hidden features

The slow, sad death of Twitter

Lenovo Censors ThinkPad Reviews

Python is 1.3x faster by just adjusting some compiling options for libpython

Our cybersecurity 'industry best practices' keep allowing breaches

Nasdaq's computer system can't handle Berkshire Hathaway's sky-high stock price

Simple Powershell Ransomware Creating a 7Z Archive of Your Files

Why Security Defects Go Unnoticed During Code Reviews? [pdf]

Pyston 2.1 Is Blowing Past Python 3.8/3.9 Performance

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