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Explain systemd by kludging a set of systemd units from zero!
The article talks about some advantages of FreeBSD over Linux. Stability, performance, containers, file system, performance analysis, and vm.
In short, after you finished your feature branch, reset the branch against master and re-create commit history based on logical groups.
base64/hex conversion, cryptography functions, totp, url escaping, regular expression, exif, qr code, disassembly, html to text...
And there's a special "magic" mode that detects the coding from the input.
A really interesting thread on relativity. OP analogize the nonlinearity of slopes comparing to angles to describe how speed in relativity is an more cumbersome defined property compared to a more tidy notion of "rapidity" which is linear.
An interesting made up story about supply chain attack on npm and javascript community.
Generate anime portrait with GAN.
The author tuck a valid blank program with exit code 42 into a ELF file as small as possible. The exploration (and the exploitation) is quite fun and informative to read.
Take aways:
- use llvm's lld as linker to get around of platform-specific ld toolchain
- statically link musl libc to avoid platform specific glibc
A lot of stuff to learn about Rust build optimization, profiling, etc.
A search engine that don't index commerical content.
A neural network that allows synthesizing arbitrary voice plus emotion notation on top of the text spoken. BTW I like the name of the algorithm.
A TTS engine with surprisingly authentic sound and models for celebrities and other fictional characters.
The same site also offers deep fake for video service.
A bunch of public dns servers.
A lot of material into osdev, including booting, initialization, interrupt handling, syscall, etc.
A nice personal website with interactive demo of of type theories, lambda calculus, etc.
Screenshots for famous software in history.
It generates a random subdomain and tracks the IP from whoever tries to look up the domain name record.
This article taught me a lot on troubleshotting windows bluescreen problem, BIOS, ACPI, and how to reverse engineer firmwares.