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Hartwork Blog · Django security hardenings that are not happening

hartwork.org

2024-12-15 23:27 I was pointed to a vulnerable Django setup not too long ago, and had...
2024-12-15 23:27 I was pointed to a vulnerable Django setup not too long ago, and had a closer look. Their setup would have allowed potential arbitrary remote code execution through this combination of configurations, with emphasis on combination: They were using a Redis database that listens to the public internet ...

python security web
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Effectful

haskell-effectful.github.io

haskell
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Go's Weird Little Iterators · mcyoung

mcyoung.xyz

A second post on Go silliness (Miguel, aren’t you a C++ programmer?): in 1.23, Go finally...
A second post on Go silliness (Miguel, aren’t you a C++ programmer?): in 1.23, Go finally added custom iterators. Now, back when I was at Google and involved in the Go compiler as “the annoying Rust guy who gets lunch with us”, there were proposals suggesting adding something like this, implemented as either an inte...

go
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Interactive diagrams for complex systems

medium.com

I’ve always been fascinated by modern distributed systems’ complexity, eager to understand how they work. However,...
I’ve always been fascinated by modern distributed systems’ complexity, eager to understand how they work. However, it’s often tricky, especially during emergencies when the only person who knows about some legacy system isn’t available, and the documentation is outdated. Diagrams give a quick look into complex syste...

design diagramming diagrams graphics interactive content
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Pizarra

categulario.xyz

graphics
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Making WebAssembly and Wasmtime More Portable

bytecodealliance.org

Portability is among the first properties promoted on WebAssembly’s official homepage: WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a...
Portability is among the first properties promoted on WebAssembly’s official homepage: WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine. Wasm is designed as a portable compilation target for programming languages, enabling deployment on the web for client and server app...

wasm
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Announcing systemd v257

0pointer.net

linux release systemd
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LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)

lfgss.com

law web
2
Utilizing highly synchronized clocks in distributed databases

muratbuffalo.blogspot.com

This master's thesis at Lund University Sweden explores how CockroachDB's transactional performance can be improved by...
This master's thesis at Lund University Sweden explores how CockroachDB's transactional performance can be improved by using tightly synchronized clocks. The paper addresses two questions: how to integrate high-precision clock synchronization into CockroachDB and the resulting impact on performance. Given the public...

compsci databases
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GitHub - KnorrFG/Ablet: An EASY way to create TUIs in Rust

github.com

rust
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Carbon Copy Newsletter No.5 · carbon-language/carbon-lang · Discussion #4694

github.com

compilers plt
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Why Should a Unix Shell Have Objects?

oilshell.org

programming unix
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A Note from our Executive Director

letsencrypt.org

security
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Marco Zocca - Reconstructing a music recommendation model

ocramz.github.io

ai show
1
Contributing an mdoc reader to Pandoc — Duckrabbit Solutions

duckrabbit.tech

haskell programming
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Go Protobuf: The new Opaque API - The Go Programming Language

go.dev

go
3
What's new in Ruby 3.4

honeybadger.io

According to Ruby tradition, the core team will release Ruby 3.4 on December 25—but the preview...
According to Ruby tradition, the core team will release Ruby 3.4 on December 25—but the preview has been out since May. We did a quick writeup of what’s new in the upcoming release. Comments

ruby
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November project goals update | Rust Blog

rust-lang.org

The Rust project is currently working towards a slate of 26 project goals, with 3 of...
The Rust project is currently working towards a slate of 26 project goals, with 3 of them designed as Flagship Goals. This post provides selected updates on our progress towards these goals (or, in some cases, lack thereof). The full details for any particular goal are available in its associated tracking issue on t...

rust
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Advent of Code on the Nintendo DS

sailor.li

It is December. That means annoying Christmas things are everywhere, including but not limited to the...
It is December. That means annoying Christmas things are everywhere, including but not limited to the annual programming semi-competition known as Advent of Code. The problem with Advent of Code is that it is a waste of time. Most of the puzzles are in the realm of either string processing (somewhat applicable to pr...

rust
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Everyone gets bidirectional BFS wrong

zdimension.fr

This post is about graphs and graph algorithms. Specifically, it’s about a common, simple algorithm that’s...
This post is about graphs and graph algorithms. Specifically, it’s about a common, simple algorithm that’s somehow so hard to get right that the first few pages of Google results are filled with wrong implementations. Most of the post is about what graphs are and how some pathfinding algorithms work. If you don’t ca...

programming
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Using Guile for Emacs [LWN.net]

lwn.net

emacs lisp
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Running NetBSD on IBM ThinkPad 380Z

luke8086.dev

netbsd retrocomputing
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Paul Blasucci's Weblog

blasuc.ci

Published: Saturday, 14 December 2024, at 10:31 UTC +01:00 (This post is part of the 2024...
Published: Saturday, 14 December 2024, at 10:31 UTC +01:00 (This post is part of the 2024 F# Advent Calendar.) This blog post is late. Not just days or weeks late. And not just because I promised Vlad and Jimmy I'd write up something back in early 2023 (sorry, gents). No, it's very much later: the approach described...

api dotnet programming
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My RubyConf talk is now on YouTube!

jpcamara.com

ruby video
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