Kargo is a new application lifecycle orchestrator that aims to revolutionize CD pipelines for the cloud-native era. Developed by the creators of the Argo Project, Kargo offers first-class GitOps support and progressive delivery features, making it a powerful tool for continuously delivering and promoting changes through environments. Unlike traditional CI/CD pipelines, Kargo takes a different […]
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In the latest playtest for OpenRA, several notable changes have been made. A new Red Alert mission called “Soviet13b” has been added, and dedicated servers now allow maps with Lua scripts to be played. Additionally, there have been fixes for issues such as visual jitter for aircraft steering, crashes when converting maps with tile errors, […]
Before the dissolution of US crypto export regulations, Lotus Notes had a key escrow/backdoor feature called differential cryptography. The export version included 64-bit crypto, with 24 of those bits encrypted for the NSA’s public key. The remaining 40 bits could be brute-forced to obtain the plaintext. It was discovered that the NSA public key had […]
In this thought experiment, the author explores the idea of using SQLite as the basis for the OpenDocument file format, specifically the “ODP” OpenDocument Presentation format. The author highlights the benefits that this change would bring, including smaller file sizes, faster save and startup times, and better memory management. The author emphasizes that this is […]
Satellite observations of an ecological experiment on the island of Borneo have found that replanting logged forests with diverse mixtures of seedlings can accelerate their recovery. The experiment, conducted by the University of Oxford’s Professor Andy Hector and his colleagues, involved assessing the recovery of different plots in an area of logged tropical forest that […]
Enums in Rust can lead to significant memory fragmentation because the space allocated needs to accommodate the largest variant. This can be a problem when collecting a large number of enums into a Vec or HashMap. The padding can be dealt with using struct of arrays (SoA) transformation, but reducing variant fragmentation is more challenging. […]
Microsoft’s AI research team accidentally exposed 38 terabytes of private data, including backups of employees’ workstations and over 30,000 internal Microsoft Teams messages, while publishing open-source training data on GitHub. The researchers used Azure Storage SAS tokens to share their files, but the link was misconfigured to share the entire storage account, not just specific […]
We are thrilled to introduce Infrastructure Manager, a new service that brings together the capabilities of Terraform and Google Cloud to streamline infrastructure management. With Infrastructure Manager, you can easily deploy, configure, and manage your cloud resources using declarative configuration, following the principles of Infrastructure as Code. This managed service leverages the power of Terraform’s […]
In this web content, the author discusses their obsession with chili oil and provides some insights and thoughts on the topic. They explain the two main methods of extracting flavor from chilies with oil: hot flash and slow infusion. The author shares their experiments comparing the flavors produced by these methods and notes the different […]
This web content showcases a demo of “megatextures” running on the n64 hardware. A “megatexture” on the n64 is essentially a normal-sized texture by modern standards, but it allows for the creation of prebaked scenes that appear more advanced than what the n64 is typically capable of. To build the rom, several dependencies need to […]