2024 Paper: How to De-Anonymize Monero on Tor (dl.acm.org)
Academic paper from last month’s International World Wide Web Conference for people who enjoy reading such things. :-)...
[History] An editor letter by Edsger Dijkstra, titled: "go to statements considered harmful" (march 1968). (dl.acm.org)
In this letter, Dijkstra talks about readability and maintainability in a time where those topics were rarely talked about (1968). This letter was one of the main causes why modern programmers don’t have to trouble themselves with goto statements. Older languages like Java and C# still have a (discouraged) goto statement,...
Deanonymizing Transactions Originating from Monero Tor Hidden Service Nodes (dl.acm.org)
Junkyard computing - Repurposing Discarded Smartphones to Minimize Carbon (dl.acm.org)
The major takeaways of this work are:...
Article argues that git is intrinsically confusing--if you could redesign git from scratch, what would you change? (dl.acm.org)
Who Teaches Accessibility? A Survey of U.S. Computing Faculty (dl.acm.org)
This journal article explores computer science professors teaching accessibility. Only half of the 175 institutions surveyed had a professor teaching an accessibility course. The researchers also surveyed 1,857 computer science professors and found that over 10% reported not being knowledgeable about accessibility and over 60%...
[Other] What makes virtual intimacy...intimate? Understanding the Phenomenon and Practice of Computer-Mediated Paid Companionship (dl.acm.org)
Abstract: Virtual romance service (VRS), as a notable commodification of intimacy, is currently emerging in China. Such service is not similar to the kind of intimacy that fans and idols generate through parasocial relationships, but behaves as the direct dyadic intimacy between service providers (virtual lovers) and buyers...
Privacy implications of accelerometer data (dl.acm.org)
TamagoPhone: A Framework for Augmenting Artificial Incubators to Enable Vocal Interaction Between Bird Parents and Eggs (dl.acm.org)
Category-Specific Prompts for Animal Action Recognition with Pretrained Vision-Language Models (dl.acm.org)
Mastodon Rules: Characterizing Formal Rules on Popular Mastodon Instances (academic paper on moderation) (dl.acm.org)
MPLR (Managed Programming Languages and Runtimes) 2023 Proceedings (dl.acm.org)
A collection of academic papers on bleeding-edge PL research
Reflections on Trusting Trust (dl.acm.org)
The linked paper was pointed out to me during a discussion about trusting executables built from source. Perhaps this paper is a well-known document in the hacking community, but I thought it was quite interesting and thought I’d share it....
ACM Paper: Optimization Techniques for GPU Programming Hijma et. al. (dl.acm.org)
81 pages of text. Oooph. I gave it a quickie overview but I obviously need to save this somewhere and come back and read more of it. Sharing here for now.
You are What you Play: The Risks of Identity Fusion in Toxic Gamer Cultures (dl.acm.org)
A scientific paper by Rachel Kowert et al.: The scientists analyzed previously collected data and found a strong relation between people who specifically identify with gaming culture and various toxic character traits, as well as bigotry.
Data Parallel Algorithms by Hillis and Steele (1986) (dl.acm.org)
Despite being so old, this paper by Hillis and Steele serves as the basis of many CUDA papers that exist today....
[Other] Who Determines What Is Relevant? Humans or AI? Why Not Both?: A spectrum of human–AI collaboration in assessing relevance.: Communications of the ACM: Vol 0, No 0 (dl.acm.org)
Assessing the relevance of responses from systems like web search engines, question answering tools, and knowledge bases is traditionally done by having humans judge whether the responses meet the user’s information need. However, with recent advances in large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, researchers have started...
AI Art and its Impact on Artists (dl.acm.org)
Une étude en anglais mais je crois qu’elle est interessante, je commence tout juste sa lecture :...