Daily Shaarli

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February 21, 2024

Blazingly 🔥 fast 🚀 memory vulnerabilities, written in 100% safe Rust. 🦀
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Check out the docs branch for detailed explanations. This exhibits a loop hole in the Rust compiler allowing to break lifetime inference... and from there all the usual guarantees go through the window.

Coding interviews are effective

Definitely true, this is mostly about avoiding false positives. Still I don't like online assessments platforms either... you need to see how the candidate is doing, interact with them, etc.

Writing a scheduler for Linux in Rust that runs in user-space

Interesting, I didn't know that user space schedulers were coming to Linux. It opens the door to exciting experiments.

Anatomy of a whistleblowing system
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Interesting explanation of the guarantees such a system must provide and their consequences.

How to debug your initramfs init - Linus's blog

Nice tricks to debug the very early boot process, starting at PID 1. gdbserver saves the day here.

Database Architects: SSDs Have Become Ridiculously Fast, Except in the Cloud

This is indeed an odd situation... there is no good explanation about why this is like this.

cohost! - "I broke IKEA."

Very funny glitch. This anti-spam system is smart... too bad the wrong victim got in the crosshair.

This message does not exist | Mark J. Nelson

Or why wording matters... this is clearly a user design fail in this case.