Threat Hunter Greg Linares on the modern ransomware playbook
securityconversations.fireside.fm/greg-linares...
81: From Zero to Polish: Building Meta Ray-Ban Display
insidefacebookmobile.libsyn.com/81-from-zero...
FES 41: Lean e Verificação de Software com Leonardo de Moura (AWS)
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Interview with Professor Leonardo de Moura, Creator of Lean Programming Language
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Good easy long run today. Mostly Z1 and 3.5 podcast episodes.
That post from @amatcama has stuck with me and hasn't left my mind.
I'm glad to have finally settled the matter (for now), thanks to solid arguments from knowledgeable people like David Bessis, Nassim Taleb, Sean McClure, and many others.
Even smart people I know personally hold the belief that they could never do something important like the stars in our field.
In my friends' circle, and I believe this is fairly common in Brazil, people are strong believers in the idea that genetics are the only thing that matters. It's very easy to hear someone say, "I wasn't born for it." They give up so easily!
I've argued about this with friends for almost my entire life. Back then, I didn't have the foundational knowledge I have today, and I can't trace the sources of my earlier arguments. But I never accepted that I couldn't do serious work in vulnerability research just because I wasn't "born for it."
Beyond nature and nurture
How mathematics changed my view on talent
davidbessis.substack.com/p/beyond-nat...
Announcing Systing 1.0
josefbacik.github.io/kernel/systi...
Is it normal for an iPhone’s analytics data to be wiped out?
GDB will now have a save history command to save the command history to a file whenever you want.
This is cool as I usually need to manually copy-paste commands anyway because GDB tends to crash during my debugging sessions.
EP19 The Art of Deconstructing Problems: Tools, Tactics, and the ScatterBrain Obfuscator with Nino Isakovic
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ScatterBrain: Unmasking the Shadow of PoisonPlug's Obfuscator
cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...
The patch series had a fatal issue. The discussion here is interesting.
[GIT PULL] kmalloc_obj treewide refactor for v7.0-rc1
lore.kernel.org/all/20260221...
clang.llvm.org/docs/Languag...
Bug in Clang noticed by Kees Cook while working on kmalloc() to kmalloc_obj() conversion.
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[Clang][CodeGen] Fix __builtin_counted_by_ref for nested struct FAMs
github.com/llvm/llvm-pr...
Using __builtin_counted_by_ref on a struct defined within another struct crashes Clang
github.com/llvm/llvm-pr...
Tread Lightly Running Podcast - Episode 16: What Runners Need to Know About Iron
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People I (Mostly) Admire - Ninety-Eight Years of Economic Wisdom (Replay)
freakonomics.com/podcast/nine...
NonTrivial Podcast - "Discipline" is Really Just One's Environment
youtu.be/XPpMyp8zcTU?...
I loved the Freakonomics podcast episode with Robert Solow. He was 98 years old at the time and he seemed to have had an interesting life. He served in the military, worked on signals intelligence during the Second World War, spoke fluent German, and was a Nobel laureate.
Good to be able to do an easy long run again. I ran today for 1 hour 48 minutes and listened to three full podcast episodes.
Attention is all we have
A conjectural theory of cognitive inequality
davidbessis.substack.com/p/attention-...
Slabs, sheaves, and barns
lwn.net/Articles/101...
Update on the SLUB allocator sheaves
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The end of a good time
slab: remove struct kmem_cache_cpu
git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linu...
slab: remove cpu (partial) slabs usage from allocation paths
git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linu...
A security researcher is like a fuzzer. When your code coverage increases, you improve.
"Implement compiler-driven static analysis locking context checking, using the upcoming Clang 22 compiler's context analysis features."
git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linu...
Documentation/dev-tools/context-analysis.rst
github.com/torvalds/lin...
Thread Safety Analysis
clang.llvm.org/docs/ThreadS...
Linux kernel is adding support for a new mechanism to validate lock usage during compile-time. It depends on a new Clang feature called Thread Safety Analysis.
