Sapere Aude
Month: August 2020
Really remote school should continue, partially, forever
global classrooms could be tailored so every student is at a similar level, ready to be challenged and learn well from the material provided. If it’s judged a student is having too much trouble in a class, or to little, it’s very simple to switch them until they find just the right level.
jamming has been around for a while, but now there’s also software-based spoofing. given that billions of devices rely on GPS, this is not good.
The effect exploited in all of these papers is caused by speculative dereferencing of user-space registers in the kernel. Hence, mitigation techniques such as KAISER do not eliminate this leakage as previously believed.
1 study from 2016 examined genetic data shared alongside 3597 published papers and found that 20% had been affected by Excel errors.
Wine Windows Used During the Plague Are Being Reopened
Nearly 300 of these small service windows have been cataloged across Tuscany.
a good framework for thinking about winners / losers post COVID-19, with a focus on which services scale worldwide vs stay at the 1:1 scale, with opportunities on both ends.
office demand will be reduced by up to 15% as a result of work from home policies once the COVID-19 pandemic is contained.
this estimate is laughably low.
Sandboxing and Workload Isolation
gVisor implements basically all of Linux in userland. Processes. Devices. Tasks. Address spaces and page tables. Filesystems. TCP/IP; the entire IP network stack, all reimplemented, in Go, backended by native Linux userland.
The pitch here is straightforward: you’re unlikely to have routine exploitable memory corruption flaws in Go code. You are sort of likely to have them in the C-language Linux kernel. Go is fast enough to credibly emulate Linux in userland. Why expose C code if you don’t have to?
Mac OS 8, running in an Electron app pretending to be a 1991 Macintosh Quadra. Yes, it’s the full thing. I’m sorry.
The most corrupt police squad. How the baltimore police operate.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 