sip wine, eat hors d’oeuvres, and peruse art from The Met's Open Access collection in a reimagined version of E1M1 #

There are two conflicting forces in play in setting up your computer environment: It’s worthwhile to pursue small improvements in frequently used tools. It’s not productive to get stuck tweaking your setup endlessly. It’s common to find people get stuck at the extreme ends of the spectrum; some programmers refuse to configure or learn their tools...

TEEs aren’t as secure as they seem.

Video not supported. Thumbnail:Download the video I wish I could memorize all these keyboard shortcuts in Emacs, but I just don't use some commands often enough to build the muscle memory for them, especially since I have so many context-sensitive shortcuts thanks to Embark. That's why which-key is great. It used to be a separate package, but...

The security of RSA encryption depends on the difficulty of factoring the product of two large primes. If you can factor large numbers efficiently, you can break RSA. But if can break RSA, can you factor large numbers? Sorta. It’s conceivable that there is a way to break RSA encryption without having to recover the […] The post Converse of RSA...

Special thanks to Doug Turnbull, Daniel Svonava, Atita Arora, Aarne Talman, Saurabh Rai, Andre Zayarni, Leo Boytsov, Pat Lasserre and Bob van Luijt for reading and commenting the drafts of this postJo Kristian Bergum recently wrote a massively influential X post: “The rise and fall of the vector database infrastructure...

In this new series, I’ll be reviewing the media I experience (I don’t like saying I “consume” media) in more detail than I normally do. Don’t worry, the movie reviews are staying free and on social media ✌️

It was a very good year.

On 18th of December 2024, Michael Paquier committed patch: psql: Add more information about service name This commit adds support for the following items in psql, able to show a service name, when available: - Variable SERVICE. - Substitution %s in PROMPT{1,2,3}. This relies on 4b99fed7541e, that has made the service name available … Continue...

DOOM: The Gallery Experience is a curious blend of nostalgia and satire, poking fun at the often pretentious atmosphere of art galleries. Walking through a reimagined E1M1 while sipping wine and munching on hors d’oeuvres with a string quartet soudtrack is a delightful juxtaposition that might just make you chuckle (or roll your eyes). The touch...