Drop #468 (2024-05-17): The One Without A Clever Tagline
Today's Friday Drop introduces a tool to "ping" HTTP/3-enabled sites, showcases a partnership miracle between rival tech giants that should help us all be a bit safer in meatspace, and some Rust katas to help learn or reinforce your knowledge of that spiffy language.
It's been seven years since I did any bioinformatics or computational biology/genomics at any level of seriousness. What are some good resources I can use to refresh my skills and get back up to speed?
every time i see a headline about how some org is "using ai to revolutionize redteaming" or like "ai is gonna force multiply security" i think of these sort of examples - and i think its gonna move things backwards in a surprising way. dont quit your dayjobs, security nerds - we're gonna be unrolling this stuff for years
Today's proper Drop covers how Trail of Bits collaborates with Alpha-Omega and OpenSSF to enhance Homebrew's security with cryptographically verifiable attestation; it also looks at Nimble and Lance V2 as Parquet replacements, and points to a sober piece on "The Heat Death of the Internet".
Drop #466 (2024-05-14): (Tardy) Typography Tuesday
Today's Drop discusses font popularity, AI in typography, and a featured free font! We touch on the use of CDNs for font delivery, the role of AI in creating typefaces, and the potential impact of AI on creativity in design processes.
Folks hitting our Citrix ADC sensors seem to be intent on drawing different versions of Batman's cowl, kind of like the daft Air Force bros drawing male genitals in the sky with fighter jets. O_o
@Blueysdad I use Arc with uBlock and a draconian baseline of chrome://flags & chrome://settings that most humans who use the internet would not tolerate.
I keep hoping for a new contender, but I at least know Chrome/Chromium is out to get me vs the wolf-in-sheeps-clothing that is Firefox.
We also take a look at some of the cyber weaknesses exposed in precision agriculture by the recent, magnificent geomagnetic storm.
In Tool Time, we look at yet-another bonkers cool project by CISA which aims to help make CVEs a tad more useful and informative.
A new "ISC Working Group 'Marshaling & Serialization in R'"
This WG aims to develop standard practices for marshalling & unmarshalling of #RStats objects. This will involve identifying current problems, raising awareness of it, & coming up with technical solutions.
UX design, which I did for many many years, still makes me insane - if a UX person does a wireframe mockup that has friendly useful text on it, that's actually part of the design proposal. I watch time and again as a visual designer ignores that, does a retake without any text, and weeks later there's a "maybe we need to explain more" convo among stakeholders. Phooey.
