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Strings at Facebook

It’s great to see how the simplest things we take for granted are engineered and improved. Case in point: Facebook’s std::string replacement.

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Exciting Unlimited Register Machines

A brief and entertaining talk by an obviously excited presenter. 🙂 It goes into the same directions as Jim Weirich’s talk about the Y combinator.

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Rooting With/For Rowhammer

The Rowhammer class of exploits never stops to amaze.

WhatsApp -> Facebook

Sadly WhatsApp will start sharing your account information with Facebook. You can’t prevent Facebook getting the data, you can only opt-out of them using it for ads.

Hey Visitor, why don’t you also enjoy our SPAM

It seems ad networks have reached a new low or as the author puts it:

This transaction breaks a core promise using the internet: just because I visit a website doesn’t mean I consent to getting spam from it.

Mega Transistors

The maker of the mega processor has a series of videos describing the basics of how transistors are used to create logical gates.

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The Management Myth

An interesting read from a doctor of philosophy with a consulting firm who went through a huge pile of management theory books to see what he missed by not having a formal “management education.”

Comparing Signal-protocol-using messengers

There’re still privacy differences when you compare messenger apps all using the Signal protocol:

In this article, I’m going to compare WhatsApp, Signal, and Allo from a privacy perspective.
While all three apps use the same secure-messaging protocol, they differ on exactly what information is encrypted, what metadata is collected, and what, precisely, is stored in the cloud — and therefore available, in theory at least, to government snoops and wily hackers.
In the end, I’m going to advocate you use Signal whenever you can — which actually may not end up being as often as you would like.

AMP and Ads

Of course AMP was introduced to optimize the delivery of ads. 🙄