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@xara.one

neuroscientist. all things data and offsec x: https://x.com/xedseraph blog: https://www.xara.one/

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this is how design works

09.02.2026 17:34 πŸ‘ 112 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2
Bryan Cantrill: Andreessen’s Folly - The False Dichotomy of Software and Hardware
Bryan Cantrill: Andreessen’s Folly - The False Dichotomy of Software and Hardware YouTube video by Jane Street

I thought this talk from @bcantrill.bsky.social was very good
youtu.be/v0JjG0Qfwi8?...

06.02.2026 19:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Happy New Year crazy internet people!

02.01.2026 09:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is one of the nightmares of modern security. We need to know where every single one of those is, what we're trusting it to do and not do, and how to make it stop *immediately*.

And every time someone wants to use a new one we need to figure out whether we can trust it as far as we can throw it

01.01.2026 18:35 πŸ‘ 100 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3

so sooo wholesome

27.12.2025 18:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

happy regular-day to all non-americans

27.11.2025 12:52 πŸ‘ 164 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1
How Complex Systems Fail

good read and always relevant, "how complex systems fail"
how.complexsystems.fail

24.10.2025 11:24 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

walking around the app versus walking around the compiler
vickiboykis.com/2025/09/09/w...
bernsteinbear.com/blog/walking...

29.09.2025 10:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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CCC | Lectures, music, art, punk: Join us at the 39th Chaos Communication Congress! Der Chaos Computer Club ist eine galaktische Gemeinschaft von Lebewesen fΓΌr Informationsfreiheit und TechnikfolgenabschΓ€tzung.

Lectures, music, art, punk: Join us at the 39th Chaos Communication Congress and please submit! The deadline for all submissions for the stages is October 24. #39C3 will take place from December 27 to 30 www.ccc.de/en/updates/2...

27.09.2025 23:14 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I've worked with both. I like certain elements of doing business with both and having them as colleagues. These kind of posts always feel like a dick measuring contest

06.09.2025 14:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The US vs EU debate is especially tiresome. It's simply not true that all people in Europe do is be on vacation all summer and sleep in all day long. At least not in my circle. And 9/10 times person doing this coal-posting himself is working on some degenerate gambling app

06.09.2025 14:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

we need more measured tones and less histrionics and doom-speak

30.08.2025 09:12 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

To explain this photo a bit more: back then, most programming was done on paper (sometimes on special coding sheets), then punched onto cards/tape, then fed into a mainframe to be tested (& if necessary debugged). Counterintuitively, needing LESS computer time was the mark of a better programmer!

23.08.2025 11:43 πŸ‘ 930 πŸ” 273 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 11
The Vibes Are Off Vibe Code Deez Nuts.

it's from this blog post: crankysec.com/blog/vibes/

19.08.2025 16:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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some candor for tuesday. i wanna stress that i'm not anti AI and the gains in productivity because of it are undeniable but i also think we're in a bubble

19.08.2025 16:17 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

i use inoreader btw

19.08.2025 16:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Everything I know about good system design I see a lot of bad system design advice. One classic is the LinkedIn-optimized β€œbet you never heard of queues” style of post, presumably aimed at people who are…

The amount of alpha in this post is off the charts

www.seangoedecke.com/good-system-...

16.08.2025 12:03 πŸ‘ 119 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1

German to English was surprisingly easy. my mother tongue to English I had to think like two seconds at times for preceding number/lang

09.08.2025 20:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

finally caught up with this paper and it was very accessible and had none of that appeal-to-emotion bit that many news organizations do when laying the case against frontier labs.

08.08.2025 16:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

this account is now firmly RSS pilled. can't believe i used to live like a caveman

08.08.2025 16:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Been working on some interesting mobile security research lately? πŸ“±πŸ”¬ Submit it to Black Hat Europe, the CFP deadline is August 11. Speaker honorarium + travel to London πŸŽ‘πŸ’‚πŸΌβ€β™€οΈπŸ™οΈ are covered!

06.08.2025 21:22 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

very cool!! I read a lot myself – books, blogs, reports and all that – but it's humbling to come across an elite reader :) all the best w your reading progress for the rest of the year

07.08.2025 05:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

how are you pulling these numbers in a month? how fast/long do you read/day?

asking for a friend

06.08.2025 19:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

the first bloomberg viz is atrocious though. jarring colors, text overlay on an already crowded viz in a low contrast color, not very intuitive key for parsing the viz etc etc. they usually don't drop the ball but i guess this one passed through the checks unnoticed

06.08.2025 16:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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maybe in the coming years we will see Akeso-Merck corporate wars in biotech. don't discount life-saving chinese drugs in the market in the near future

06.08.2025 15:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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btw on the subject of clinical trial reforms, China IS faster and more efficient than US and certainly EU for a few yrs now. there was a recent report that talked more about this
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

06.08.2025 15:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0