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Ruby 3.3.0 has been released, featuring several new additions and performance improvements. The release introduces Prism, a new parser for the Ruby language, which is considered production-ready and can be used as an alternative to Ripper. The Lrama parser generator has been added, replacing Bison for improved maintainability. The YJIT compiler has also seen major […]
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Patents are meant to encourage innovation, but all too often they are used to restrict basic human activities, culture, and knowledge. Software patents, in particular, have been a major concern for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) for over two decades. The latest “Stupid Patent,” No. 8,655,715, granted to a company called Opus One, also known […]
The web content discusses the age and movement of constellations, specifically focusing on the Orion constellation. It mentions that constellations are the patterns that stars form in the night sky, and that stars within a constellation can be gravitationally bound together or simply passing through. The author highlights that the stars in Orion are part […]
ptext is a text editor built with pure C that is based on kilo. The author created this editor to gain more knowledge about managing text user interface (TUI) without using ncurses. The content includes a preview video and instructions on how to install the editor. The author’s goals for the project are to fix […]
The web content discusses the legal battle surrounding the use of adblockers in Germany. The main case involves Axel Springer SE suing Eyeo GmbH, the creator of Adblock Plus, for interfering with their business and engaging in anti-competitive measures. The German courts ruled in favor of user freedom, stating that internet users have the right […]
We’re excited to announce the beta version of Zotero for Android! You can now download the app from the Google Play Store and take advantage of its current features, which include syncing personal and group libraries, editing item data and notes, organizing items into collections, downloading and uploading files via Zotero Storage, viewing PDFs and […]
SSH offers different forms of authentication, including passwords and public keys. Password authentication is still widely used, especially with network equipment. To avoid typing passwords for each connection, you can use a tool called sshpass, or its variant passh. However, this approach is a bit fragile and requires parsing the output of the ssh command. […]
Parser mismatch vulnerabilities, also known as parser confusion or parser mismatch, have recently gained recognition in the cybersecurity community. These vulnerabilities occur when two code locations attempt to parse the same input but disagree on its meaning. This can lead to different behavior for malformed inputs, potentially creating a security risk. The author provides several […]
In a recent leak incident, the source code for Grand Theft Auto 5, along with data related to Bully 2 and the next GTA title, has been made public. The leak was confirmed by popular YouTuber SKizzle, who shared a screenshot of the leaked source code. The leaked data apparently originated from a Discord server, […]
The authors of this study introduce a tool called time vectors, which can be used to customize language models to specific time periods. By finetuning a language model on data from a single time period and subtracting the weights of the original pretrained model, a time vector is created. This time vector represents a direction […]