The case for universalism

Exploring the incredibly niche topic of how to explore Sega Dreamcast GD-ROM filesystems

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I snapped many photos while wandering Haifa last week, as I always do whenever I see something new or interesting while exploring a city. I was with my friend Tyler, who conspicuously does not take photos while exploring a new place. I asked him why,......

TL;DR: How to make a tiny kernel race window really large even on kernels without CONFIG_PREEMPT:use a cache miss to widen the race window a little bit...

In this blog post we analyze a heap overflow vulnerability we discovered in the IPv6 stack of OpenBSD, more specifically in its slaacd daemon. This issue, whose root cause can be found in the mishandling of Router Advertisement messages containing a DNSSL…

‘The Digital Markets Act puts an end to the ever-increasing dominance of Big Tech companies,’ says lead MEP.

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Collection of pitfalls, tips & tricks, and workarounds for Java development on an Apple M1 processor (ARM64): Testcontainers, Docker, Testing

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Blue bubble dominance may be on the way out

Michelle Goldberg on the dispute over what it means to be a woman. The transgender-rights movement has forced a rethinking of what sex and gender mean, and radical feminists now find themselves shunned as reactionaries on the wrong side of a sexual-rights…

He fell asleep in my palm. As far as he was concerned, I was his mother

Fisher feared that we were losing our ability to conceptualize a tomorrow that was radically different from our present.

The planned city fails on climate-friendly design and social inclusion. But it has lessons from the practical to the symbolic.