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Josh Ellithorpe

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Plank Reloaded is ready! I've updated the simplest Linux dock with proper Cinnamon desktop support, modern battery integration, and some nice themes. Still keeping it stupidly simple. github.com/zquestz/plank-reloaded
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Be careful how you print your errors in Rust. Stack traces can lead to some unintended consequences. https://www.qovery.com/blog/rust-investigating-a-strange-out-of-memory-error/
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Some may have nightmares about clippy, but I love the idea of cute pets on my computer. Enter VS Code pets! https://github.com/tonybaloney/vscode-pets
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A bit about the BCHD project and how we brought it back into consensus. https://thoughts.greyh.at/posts/bchd-returns/
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The DevOps Engineer's Handbook. https://octopus.com/devops/
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Breakdown of Homomorphic Encryption, and how Apple uses it in iOS. https://boehs.org/node/homomorphic-encryption
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Time to update rsync. A new release came out today fixing multiple security vulnerabilities. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rsync-3.4-Released
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James has been trying to recover that drive for a decade now. His journey has finally come to a close. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/judge-ends-mans-11-year-quest-to-dig-up-landfill-and-recover-765m-in-bitcoin/
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Quick Merkle Database (QMDB) just dropped. Definitely worth a look. https://x.com/LayerZero_Core/status/1879195871042310159
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Nix is amazing and also painful. This rant is thorough and fantastic. https://www.dgt.is/blog/2025-01-10-nix-death-by-a-thousand-cuts/
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Be careful with OAuth. Domains switch hands and emails can't be trusted forever. https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/millions-at-risk-due-to-google-s-oauth-flaw
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The backdoors located in backdoors. If you are going to own a machine, make sure you aren't deploying something other hackers can compromise. https://labs.watchtowr.com/more-governments-backdoors-in-your-backdoors/
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This brings back such memories. I remember gaming on my IIci as a kid, and loved playing old school Mac games. So many hours playing Prince of Persia... https://www.xtof.info/MacMiniG4-the-best-classic-macintosh-for-retrogaming.html
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Great blog about the right to full root access for our devices, including the bootloader! https://medhir.com/blog/right-to-root-access
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A visualization of lazy enumerators in Ruby. A super useful tool for data pipelines. https://joyofrails.com/articles/simple-trick-to-understand-ruby-lazy-enumerator
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The state of IP address allocations in 2024. https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2025-01/addr2024.html
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Useful cheat sheet of bash brackets.
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How Unisloth fine tuned Phi-4 for better accuracy. https://unsloth.ai/blog/phi4
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Reminder, there are much better options for communication than Telegram. Personally i would recommend Signal or Session. Every time I use Matrix I am just flooded with terrible amounts of spam. https://x.com/TechloreInc/status/1877129165880599012
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Thoughts on the new Atari Gamestation Go announcement? I never thought I would see a numpad on a portable gaming system. https://x.com/atari/status/1874833151580618839
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