Daily Shaarli

All links of one day in a single page.

August 10, 2024

‘Sinkclose’ Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections | WIRED
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Luckily this kind of very low level vulnerabilities are not too common and difficult to exploit. But when they get exploited all things break loose and you can't trust your hardware anymore.

Hacking the Scammers

Someone was about to get revenge, this gives an interesting exploration.

High-precision date/time in SQLite
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Looks like a neat extension which can come in handy.

How to build a strategy

It's bloody hard to build a strategy. This article is full of good wisdom to make one. This won't make it really easier, but at least you won't start in the wrong direction and will be able to know if what you produce is any good.

How we deleted 4195 code files in 9 hours - by Anton Zaides

I'm not sure the incentives are right... it's better to clean up as you go. Still some places would benefit from such an event from time to time and even if you clean up as you go missed opportunities happen.

Recent Performance Improvements in Function Calls in CPython

Interesting dive into some of the performance improvements introduced into recent CPython releases.

Stop Team Topologies. Reevaluating Team Topologies: A… | by Martijn Oost | Jul, 2024 | Medium
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Surprisingly, I bumped into this article as I'm wrapping up reading the Team Topologies book. This highlight fairly well some of the concerns I have with it and where it shines. I think it's right to turn to the principles it's built on rather than use the model it proposes as a blueprint.