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Stuff I've recently saved to Pinboard.
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Where it came from, what it all means, and why it still matters.
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Automated Drecko Ranch for Oxygen Not Included.
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Momentan hat die Luca App ja mal wieder nen dicken Skandal am Hacken und endlich fordern auch einzelne Politiker öffentlich, diesen App gewordenen Sondermüll endlich zu löschen. Nexenios Antwort darauf besteht, wie könnte man es auch anders erwarten, lediglich in einem billigem Ablenkungsmanöver, das besagten Politikern, mit Verweis auf die vielen, durch Luca gebrochenen Infektionsketten, Verantwortungslosigkeit vorwirft - soweit die Zusammenfassung der Woche.
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The strange world of Python, as used by big investment banks
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This is a short story about what happened to the U.S. economy since the end of World War II.
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In this article I describe a few ways to execute commands on a remote host using SSH. If you want to follow along, first set HOST variable to your testing server, optimaly configured with publickey authentication.
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All objects in JXA have properties (or elements) and methods. So if your app object provides a property of type list called accounts, you might want to write app.accounts to get the list or app.accounts.length to get the number of elements in this list.
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The inside story of why the world’s best and richest football club lost the battle for talent
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Much as the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine became an unproven remedy for Covid deniers, ivermectin has emerged in recent weeks as a new false cure.
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A new study challenges assumptions about energy expenditure by people, including the idea that metabolism slows at middle age.
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The Sackler family is poised to evade litigation stemming from its role in the opioid crisis. Here's how it happened.
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tl;dr: The password generator included in Kaspersky Password Manager had several problems. The most critical one is that it used a PRNG not suited for cryptographic purposes. Its single source of entropy was the current time. All the passwords it created could be bruteforced in seconds. This article explains how to securely generate passwords, why Kaspersky Password Manager failed, and how to exploit this flaw. It also provides a proof of concept to test if your version is vulnerable.
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The ship that brought global trade to its knees is still stuck in the Suez Canal and now finds itself at the centre of an almighty international row
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America’s chief immunologist claps back.
