Taco Bell is a miracle of food preparation. They manage to have a menu of dozens of items that all boil down to permutations of 8 basic items: meat, cheese, beans, vegetables, bread, and sauces. Those basic fundamentals are combined in new and interesting ways to give you the crunchwrap, the chalupa, the doritos ...
Yeah, yeah, we know; freight train to mail a letter, etc.
This is documentation for myself, but you may enjoy it too
In the hours following the release of CVE-2024-9632 for the project X.org, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix a buffer overflow that allows an attacker with access to raw X client calls to arbitrarily read and write memory, allowing for privilege...
It's more than a sneaky peak, it's a legend reborn.
Maybe langle mangles can be used for good
ArcjetArcjet makes it easy to remove entire classes of security problems from your applications, such as denying misbehaving bots from your websites. Today we're going to cover the inherent complexity in bot detection and how your app is protected from... makes it easy to remove entire classes of security problems from your applications, such as denying misbehaving bots from your websites. Today we're going to cover the inherent complexity in bot detection and how your app is protected from...
Unless your servers can print for some reason
Turns out randomizing the MAC address on boot is a bad idea
Do standalone builds on Alpine
This episode of Xecast, Xe Iaso is joined by special guest Lithium Fox. They nerd out about simracing, vtubing, and passion projects.
Just don't enter a password lol
Remember kids: real winners cheat
Xe reflects on a week of intense ups and downs, navigating a whirlwind of job offers, contract work, and personal projects.
Patch Nix as soon as a patch is available to protect against GHSA-h4vv-h3jq-v493
Generative AI is in its Cambrian Explosion phase. So many people are taking the models and messing around with them in so many ways to try and see if they can make something work. There's just one problem: how do you tell if a model is good or not without actually setting it up and using it? One of the biggest points of comparison is the...
Toss an insight to your algorithmic overlords
Xe returns while on vacation where they built a new PC, made a SaaS to check web server headers, and re-evaluated how they think about complexity.
A war story of how I scaled a GPU app in prod.
It's stupider than you think
In the hours following the release of CVE-2024-38063 for the project Microsoft Windows, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix a vulnerability where a specially crafted IPv6 packet can result in remote code execution.. This is due to the affected components...
Your browser does not support the audio element. Download MP3 Also catch Xecast on YouTube (I'll make a proper podcast feed soon, trying to de-scope so I can actually get things done). Mimi> These show notes were generated using Google Gemini 1.5 Pro. Should this podcast take off, we'll find a better way to do...
TL;DR: Zenless Zone Zero is a fantastic game that's ruined by its gacha system. It's a shame that it's a gacha game, because it's so good otherwise. 8/10
In the hours following the release of CVE-2024-5535 for the project OpenSSL, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix a memory safety vulnerability allowing 255 bytes of the client's heap to be sent to the server when using Next-Protocol-Notifications (commonly...
Your browser does not support the audio element. Download MP3 Also catch Xecast on YouTube (I'll make a proper podcast feed soon, trying to de-scope so I can actually get things done). Mimi> These show notes were generated using Google Gemini 1.5 Pro. Should this podcast take off, we'll find a better way to do...
Autobiographical notes on my trip home from DevRelCon 2024
A supercut of all of the times I failed at using the clicker or other technology during my talk at DevRelCon NYC. Enjoy! import execFor from '/js/hls.js'; execFor('650e1e216b9f2610fe329768205f1c802fe80a723b51babc59998d117bcc697d',...
In the hours following the release of OVE-20240719-0001 for the project CrowdStrike Falcon, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix a bootloop where systems will get hit with PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA. This has taken out hospitals, major banks, Microsoft...
Specs don't define the experience
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