BlogDB

May 18, 2023 from nutcroft

Negations and characteristics of democracy

Let’s attempt to paint what democracy is through its various characteristics and facets. Let’s also talk about the negative space. Understanding what democracy isn’t will help us see the limits of ...

May 15, 2023 from Volution Notes

Learning before dabbling in applied cryptography

A live document providing learning resources and pointers for those that want to experiment with applied cryptography.

May 13, 2023 from Volution Notes

Misusing random oracles for practical purposes

Experimenting with various real-world instantiations of cryptographic random oracles, with applicability from multi-factor encryption, to database record encryption.

May 12, 2023 from Volution Notes

Experimenting with multi-factor encryption

Prototyping an encryption tool that allows combining multiple encryption factors, from PIN's, passwords, to X25519 pairs, and beyond.

May 04, 2023 from Alejandro AR (kinduff)

The Mashup

Life has a way of introducing us to new things, related or not to our professional life.

May 03, 2023 from Joybuke

The Anatomy of the Rot

Concisely, precisely, this article will explain the anatomy of the rot that afflicts society as a whole. The source of this rot, how the rot manifests itself, and the conclusions of what the rot wi...

May 03, 2023 from Home on Random effect

Sampling from the Wilson score confidence distribution

library(binom) library(HDInterval) If you’ve worked with Binomial data for a project, you might know that there’s about 10 different ways to calculate a confidence interval for the Binomial proport...

May 01, 2023 from Hammy Havoc

Embracing Festival Vibes: Comfy and Stylish Outfits for a Perfect Blend

Festival season is upon us, and with the promise of vibrant music, delicious food, and a kaleidoscope of experiences, it’s essential to curate the perfect wardrobe that seamlessly blends comfort an...

Apr 27, 2023 from Mr. Money Mustache

Frugal Man Buys $52,000 Car – Why??

As I type this, I’m jumping through the various hoops involved in buying a 2023 Tesla Model Y, a rather expensive, luxury “crossover” that is absolutely loaded to the gills with excess: all wheel d...

Apr 18, 2023 from Luke Salamone's Blog

Paper Summary: Antenna Design with Evolutionary Algorithms

This is a summary of Automated Antenna Design with Evolutionary Algorithms, a 2006 paper by Hornby et al. As large language models become more and more synonymous with “AI”, it is interesting to se...

Apr 13, 2023 from Caffeinspiration

The dog hair and the computer mouse

Because I spend my entire workday on the computer, my mouse is very important to me. With my basic optical mouse, I’m far from a connoisseur, but there are a few things that I’m just so used to tha...

Apr 13, 2023 from Boris Tane

Creating an innovation engine with observability v2

I gave this talk a second time, with corrections and improvements :)

Apr 12, 2023 from nixCraft

How to upgrade FreeBSD 13.1 to 13.2 release

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is announcing the availability of FreeBSD version 13.2-RELEASE on 11/April/2023. It is the third release of the stable/13 branches. I updated my FreeBSD version...

Apr 11, 2023 from Joybuke

Virtue's Accessibility Problem

“Vice is easy, virtue is hard” is a common mantra that I don’t believe to be true. The default perception of virtue is that it’s a thing to struggle towards, while vice is very easy to pick up and ...

Apr 08, 2023 from nutcroft

A new startup lifecycle

I. The philosophy of Posthaven II. The reason startups get acquired III. Sympathy for Posthaven’s founders IV. Suggesting alternative futures for startups V. Conclusion I. The philosophy of Posthav...

Apr 07, 2023 from Mr. Money Mustache

Less Cars, More Money: My Visit to the City of the Future

In my role as Mr. Money Mustache, I do my best to be your one-stop-shop for Lifestyle Guru ideas. So over the years we’ve covered not just the Money side of life, but also the even more important s...

Apr 07, 2023 from Volution Notes

My biases when choosing open-source tools

I reflect on my preferences when it comes to choosing open-source tools I need to rely upon.

Apr 02, 2023 from Nadav Ami

Exploring and Modifying Electron Apps on macOS

In my previous job, I was building a side-car app using Electron. I occasionally found myself needing to debug a packaged production app and this post is just a few commands I that have been helpfu...

Apr 02, 2023 from Volution Notes

SSH authorization keys experiments

Experimenting with OpenSSH authorization keys resolution; from skeleton-key providing emergency access, to simple centralized key management.

Mar 28, 2023 from Tim Bachmann's Blog

Weechat Notifications with ntfy.sh

Using the weechat trigger plugin to notify yourself about new private messages and mentions through the ntfy.sh notification service.