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12 January 2021

.NET #dotNet

.NET 5 Networking Improvements Favicon .NET 5 Networking Improvements (devblogs.microsoft.com)

With .NET 5 released in November, it’s a good time to talk about some of the many improvements in the networking stack. This includes improvements around HTTP, Sockets, networking-related security, and other networking primitives. In this post, I will highlight some of the more impactful and interesting changes in the release.... Read more

An introduction to the Data Protection system in ASP.NET Core Favicon An introduction to the Data Protection system in ASP.NET Core (andrewlock.net) ASP.NET Core Security

In this post I provide a primer on the ASP.NET Core data-protection system: what it is, why do we need it, and how it works at a high level... Read more

DevOps

Building On-Call Culture at GitHub Favicon Building On-Call Culture at GitHub (github.blog)

GitHub’s engineering group moved from a monolithic, hero-based on-call rotation to a more balanced on-call culture in order to increase our on-call expertise and improve the experience for our customers.... Read more

Kubernetes #k8s

RedHat buys StackRox to bolster OpenShift K8s security Favicon RedHat buys StackRox to bolster OpenShift K8s security (blocksandfiles.com)

Red Hat is buying Stackrox, a Kubernetes-native security startup, for an undisclosed sum. The company intends to add it to Red Hat OpenShift but said Stackrox will continue to support existing users of other Kubernetes flavours. Red Hat says it wants to deliver a single, holistic platform so users can build, deploy and securely run... Read more

Security #InfoSec

How I stole the data in millions of people’s Google accounts Favicon How I stole the data in millions of people’s Google accounts (ethanblake4.medium.com)

You don’t know me, but there’s a good chance I know you. That’s because I have complete and total access to the private information in millions of peoples’ Google accounts. Emailed bank statements, medical records in Google Drive, Facebook chat records sent via Gmail, Google Voice voicemails, private pictures in Google Photos. The list goes on. None of them have any idea, and none of them ever will. Perhaps one of them is you.... Read more

Stealing Your Private YouTube Videos, One Frame at a Time (bugs.xdavidhu.me)

Back in December 2019, a few months after I started hacking on Google VRP, I was looking at YouTube. I wanted to find a way to get access to a Private video which I did not own.... Read more

Artificial Intelligence #AI

Just desserts: Baking with AI-made recipes Favicon Just desserts: Baking with AI-made recipes (blog.google)

Learn how to create code-free models that can add a little inspiration to your baked goods.... Read more

Random

The code behind Quake's movement tricks explained (bunny-hopping, wall-running, and zig-zagging) Favicon The code behind Quake's movement tricks explained (bunny-hopping, wall-running, and zig-zagging) (youtu.be) strafe jumping bunny hopping wall running wall hugging zig-zagging

Explanation of how the player movement code in Quake gives rise to these three different player movement "bugs", with a quick look at TAS movement mechanics at the end. Big thanks to the Quake Speedrunning Discord for helping me out with getting TASQuake running on my machine, and for clarifying terminology. Here are the original C versions of the acceleration functions: https://github.com/id-Software/Quake/blob/master/WinQuake/sv_user.c#L190... Read more
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