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Zijn de #fascisten terug? Elon Musk die de #AfD aanmoedigt is voor Timothy Snyder, als hoogleraar geschiedenis gespecialiseerd in de Holocaust en Oost-Europa, allesbehalve verrassend. Duik met Snyder in de gedachtegang van #oligarchen, die elkaar steeds vaker weten te vinden op het wereldtoneel.

Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network (Real-World Engineering Challenges) Bluesky is built by around 10 engineers, and has amassed 5 million users since publicly launching in February this year. A deep dive into novel design decisions, moving off AWS, and more.

Nice read on the design, the process, and moving out of AWS and into DC bare metal because of costs.

newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky

Colleague Matt got an answer from AI when asking about Kubernetes.

I'm watching some folks reverse engineer the xz backdoor, sharing some *preliminary* analysis with permission.

The hooked RSA_public_decrypt verifies a signature on the server's host key by a fixed Ed448 key, and then passes a payload to system().

It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable.

It's alive! github.com/othermod/PSP...

#GAESPA nog steeds bloedeloos. Goeie pot.

Tag-connect pogo pin flash tool

Look what the FedEx cat just dragged in! And mighty quick as I was expecting you this coming Monday: 6pin Tag-Connect Plug-of-Nails to reflash some Ruuvi tags. #mesh #nrf52

nRF54840-DK macro

Blowing the cobwebs off a couple of Nordic DKs for doing bluetooth mesh sensor networking. #nrf52 #1stpost