Some notes on Rust, mutable aliasing and formal verification(graydon2.dreamwidth.org)

323 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 119 comments

A Dreamwidth blog post by Graydon Hoare with notes on Rust, mutable aliasing, and formal verification; the capture shows only a captcha check page.

A Plea for Lean Software (1995)(liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org)

112 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 91 comments

Everyone seems to forget why GNOME and GNOME 3 and Unity happened (2022)(liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org)

134 points by signa11 2 years ago | 199 comments

Digital forgeries are hard(mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

184 points by ingve 2 years ago | 81 comments

SSH agent extensions as an arbitrary RPC mechanism(mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

104 points by JNRowe 2 years ago | 16 comments

Client-side filtering of private data is a bad idea(mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

116 points by ramimac 2 years ago | 39 comments

I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'(blog.daviddodda.com)

829 points by DavidDodda 1 year ago | 427 comments

A blog post by David Dodda recounting how a fake job interview attempted to get him to run malicious code on his machine.

My old job feels distant now(pinecoder.dev)

28 points by speckx 10 days ago | 27 comments

A personal blog post on pinecoder.dev reflecting on how the author's previous job now feels distant.

I never authorized an integration that scans my secrets(github.com)

202 points by trvrprkr 9 days ago | 155 comments

A closed GitHub issue on the home-assistant.io repo in which a user complains that an integration scanning their secrets was enabled without authorization, calling it a privacy invasion.

When MFA isn't MFA, or how we got phished(retool.com)

333 points by dvdhsu 3 years ago | 240 comments

Retool blog post describing a phishing attack on its employees and how Google Authenticator cloud sync undermined multi-factor authentication.

AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it(github.com)

747 points by wrxd 8 months ago | 581 comments

A closed GitHub pull request to matplotlib by user crabby-rathbun proposing to replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T for performance.

Why users cannot create Issues directly(github.com)

703 points by xpe 9 months ago | 253 comments

A GitHub issue in the Ghostty repository explaining that users must open a Discussion first, with only actionable items moved to the issue tracker.