you mean i can just publish anything to the web without some random gatekeeper (apple, google) telling me what to do? that's crazy

Sound guidance. There's a nice parallel to Chrome's Rule of Two for memory safety.

I didn't know I wanted this until you said I can't have it. Is "Because it's rad" a legitimate reason?

These are real images of exoplanets.

Four super-Jupiters, imaged 10 times over 12 years around a star 133 lightyears away.

These are real, giant worlds, out there in the dark.

And we can see them.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you decide not to pay for a service, then you should not expect to get that service.

Introducing HyperHook: A harnessing framework for Nyx In this post, we introduce HyperHook, a harnessing framework for snapshot-based fuzzing for user-space applications using Nyx. HyperHook simplifies guest-to-host communication and automates repetitive...

Super cool to see people build ontop of Nyx: neodyme.io/en/blog/hype...

See also: LLM-generated bug reports. They're a major time sink to triage.

Pressure is privilege

One way that social media > IRL social interaction is that you can share your thoughts about something, immediately see them in textual form, and go, “hey, that’s seems like an info leak from anxiety.log from that encrypted file in your brain. Maybe you should check that.” And then delete skeet.

Fonts are scary indeed, although once I got over the shock I felt sorry for font format owners. They carry the weight of many sins in the name of compatibility.

It is always amusing to see hot takes about theoretic ideal covert action scenarios for coup d’etat, emerging from academics who would be hard pressed to seize and hold a faculty lounge let alone the instruments of modern command & control, communication, & compute at a national level

every so often i go outside and i’m like huh. this is actually pretty good

A photo taken near sunset in the Arizona desert. Light green thorny shrubs cover the foreground. In the background a warm colored columnar rocky outcropping rises prominently from a hill under a clear blue sky.

Post a pic you took to add some calm to the timeline.