today's leftovers
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Absolute silliness: Hampster Invaders : Dissociated Press
The main site, vole.wtf, has a number of web games and even “Voleflix” featuring a bunch of public domain movies. This is what the Internet is truly for, just weird fun mashups that let people demonstrate their creativity and fun hacks.
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Pixel Wheels 0.24.1
Last month I shipped Pixel Wheels 0.24.1, which fixed a few annoying bugs found in 0.24.0
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How You Respond to Security Researchers Says Everything About You
Why am I stating all this? Because I firmly believe that the best lens through which to judge a company’s culture is to examine how they respond to security researchers.
I’d like to talk about some of my experiences with this topic, as well as recent events in the security community.
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85% of organizations attacked by ransomware at least once in the last 12 months: Report [iophk: Windows TCO]
According to the Veeam Data Protection Trends 2023 survey, businesses are confronted with more complex hybrid IT environments and are increasing budgets to combat cyberattacks and keep up as production environments diversify across various clouds. As a result, IT executives believe they are not adequately protected.
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PornHub Insights for 2022 show Microsoft’s Consumer Division in Shambles.
Desktop PC usage is down 6% from 2021 to 2022, and Windows is only 64.7% of that.
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Difference between RSS and Atom
I was curious about what the difference between RSS and Atom was. This blog post is a small primer to RSS and Atom feeds and describes the differences between both. I've linked links to the technical specification at the end of this post.
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Working with Mastodon lists
Since the early days of the blogosphere I have cherished the ability to view the world through the eyes of people more qualified than me to understand and explain what happens in particular domains. Although Twitter lists were a great way to collect people who provide those perspectives, I made little use of them. Prompted by Martin Fowler’s frustration with lists I described my first steps toward reviving the technique in Lists and people on Mastodon.
First I encapsulated the relevant APIs in a pair of tables provided by the Steampipe plugin for Mastodon: mastodon_list and mastodon_list_account. Then I used those tables to enhance the Mastodon dashboard in a couple of ways. The followers and following tabs now show me who is or isn’t on a list.
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Two simple ways to version control your MariaDB schema changes
Version controlling your database data is pretty easy as long as you don't have any binary content stored in the database, you just commit your SQL dump to the version control software, it's just SQL in plain text. But what about database schema changes? In this small tutorial I'll address two simple ways you can version control your MariaDB schema changes without using any third party tools.