Programming

Microsoft finds new elevation of privilege Linux vulnerability, Nimbuspwn - Microsoft Security Blog https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2022/04/26/microsoft-finds-new-elevation-of-privilege-linux-vulnerability-nimbuspwn/ https://redd.it/ud1xic @programmingreddit

Smart contract developers 'not really' focused on security https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/26/smart_contract_losses/ https://redd.it/ud1sw9 @programmingreddit

ElonMusk promised that he will open the source twitter algorithm. Just after few hours of the announcement of his twitter acquisition, the algorithm repo showed up on GitHub. It's still empty though. If the twitter algo is open-source this will be a huge win for free speech, privacy, and internet. https://github.com/orgs/twitter/repositories https://redd.it/ucccia @programmingreddit

Chris Lattner on garbage collection vs. Automatic Reference Counting (2017) https://atp.fm/205-chris-lattner-interview-transcript#gc https://redd.it/uaive4 @programmingreddit

TIL 9 out of 10 devs said they would give up 24% of their lifetime earnings if they got more meaning in their jobs. Also, 84% say they're disengaged at work and don't trust their company leaders. https://medium.com/dev-interrupted/the-subversive-structure-of-the-worlds-best-performing-dev-teams-w-a-radical-enterprise-author-47023019782 https://redd.it/ubzztg @programmingreddit

Just found out Stackoverflow has removed their job board (stackoverflow.com/jobs). It was my go to place to search for a new job. Would love to know if anyone here can suggest alternatives other than Linkedin :) https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/415293/sunsetting-jobs-developer-story https://redd.it/ubjyu1 @programmingreddit

Communities Moving to Discord Has Resulted In Millions of Questions and Answers Being Lost — It Doesn’t Have To Be That Way. https://medium.com/@rhys_80649/the-move-to-discord-from-forums-has-resulted-in-millions-of-questions-and-answers-being-lost-it-6ca6d7c63b36 https://redd.it/ubm4pb @programmingreddit

A website which tells you when to put your work leaves so you can get maximum consecutive holidays. https://vacationtime.herokuapp.com https://redd.it/ubh7bh @programmingreddit

GitLab kicking off all Free accounts with more than 5 users starting June 22nd https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/03/24/efficient-free-tier/ https://redd.it/uah6n5 @programmingreddit

Writing Code Is One Thing, Learning to Be a Software Engineer Is Another https://thehosk.medium.com/writing-code-is-one-thing-learning-to-be-a-software-engineer-is-another-9d5c6fc5d6a8 https://redd.it/uaxt8i @programmingreddit

Upcoming EU legislation DSA touches targeted advertising restrictions, dark patterns, recommendation transparency, illegal content removal process, data for research, online marketplace trader information, strategy for misinformation in crises https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/23/23036976/eu-digital-services-act-finalized-algorithms-targeted-advertising https://redd.it/uaovp7 @programmingreddit

Hackers find 122 vulnerabilities — 27 deemed critical — during first round of DHS bug bounty program https://www.cyberscoop.com/dhs-bug-bounty-122-vulnerabilities-27-critical-hackers/ https://redd.it/ua5yww @programmingreddit

ZX Spectrum turns 40 https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/22/spectrum_at_40/?fbclid=IwAR3Qdd8BRXHthi0gkRh3ROnuHg6gFSFS1jU4dZzALNN28akNxZo2B__ZbFw https://redd.it/u9zhls @programmingreddit

Photorealistic Monocular 3D Reconstruction of Humans Wearing Clothing https://phorhum.github.io/ https://redd.it/u9oywz @programmingreddit

Crumsort: Introduction to a new sorting algorithm faster than pdqsort https://github.com/scandum/crumsort https://redd.it/u9bsj4 @programmingreddit

Cost of Living the Cloud Life: Fossil fuel consumption as a service https://www.cloudforecast.io/blog/cost-of-living-the-cloud-life-fossil-fuel-consumption-as-a-service/ https://redd.it/u8medz @programmingreddit

"Tides" - A demo for 64 HTML sliders https://youtu.be/bUTPlQzfz1k https://redd.it/u7kp1h @programmingreddit

Neo Polaris launch pad Hackathon Underway-Launchpad Panel And Technical Workshop Series Also Happening Now https://polaris.neo.org/ https://redd.it/u87c5s @programmingreddit

C is 50 years old https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)#History https://redd.it/u81ddn @programmingreddit

TIL about the "Intent-Perception Gap" in programming. Best exemplified when a CTO or manager casually suggests something to their developers they take it as a new work commandment or direction for their team. https://medium.com/dev-interrupted/what-ctos-say-vs-what-their-developers-hear-w-datastaxs-shankar-ramaswamy-b203f2656bdf https://redd.it/u7dv5m @programmingreddit