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Hi there. I'm a general developer and system administator. Mainly do DevOps for public cloud environments.

Dev skills: Java SE/EE, Kotlin, Python, Scala, C, C#, C++, Lua, Ruby, Go and Rust.

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Drop me a message at: @VivLeigh (:
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Sometimes, xkcd :3
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https://0patch.blogspot.no/2017/11/did-microsoft-just-manually-patch-their.html?m=1
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Did Microsoft Just Manually Patch Their Equation Editor Executable? Why Yes, Yes They Did. (CVE-2017-11882)
And They Did an Absolutely Stellar Job by Mitja Kolsek, the 0patch Team [Update 11/21/2017]   Today Embedi published their proof-of-con...
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#offtopic #mylife
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Linus on Google Security..

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1711.2/01701.html
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For those interested:

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/11/20/extensions-in-firefox-58/
Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog
Extensions in Firefox 58
With the release of Firefox Quantum on November 14, 2017, we officially entered a WebExtensions-only world for add-on development. While that event was certainly the ...
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Forgetting "-w" on tcpdump feels like
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"Do no harm" - Linus Torvalds

https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/21/356
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:')
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TLDR pages. Cause man is too much hassle.

http://tldr.sh/
tldr.sh
tldr pages
Simplified and community-driven man pages
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#offtopic Sanctum 2 is free on HumbleBundle for a short while. Feel free to redeem it if you're interested (:

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/sanctum-2
Humble Bundle
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Sanctum 2 is the sequel to the world’s first Tower Defense/FPS hybrid game. Pick from four unique character classes and embark on a mission to protect the oxygen-producing Cores from hordes of deadly aliens who are threatened by their existence. Outfit your…
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Want financial support for open source?

https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand
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A handy guide to financial support for open source - nayafia/lemonade-stand
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Thank you very much for 100 members. It's great knowing that people enjoy the content I post (: ❤️
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https://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2017/11/how-four-microsoft-engineers-proved-copy-protection-would-fail/
Ars Technica
How four Microsoft engineers proved that the “darknet” would defeat DRM
From the archives: How this quartet nearly got fired for it.
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I don't normally post memes, but...
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MacOS root login vulnerability was submitted about two weeks ago as a troubleshooting tip on Apple's dev forums:

https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/79235
Apple
Updated to High Sierra, all Admin accounts now ... |Apple Developer Forums
Hi there, I am hoping someone might know how to fix this - after updating to High Sierra, the two admin accounts on this machine are all of a sudden
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And the meme continues:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/security-update-2017-001-breaks-file-sharing.2091913/#post-25534492
MacRumors Forums
Security Update 2017-001 BREAKS File Sharing
Immediately after installing this patch, file sharing fails to authenticate. I see this on multiple Macs. Hoping for some collaboration.
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https://medium.com/maker-to-manager/why-your-programmers-just-want-to-code-36da9973388e
Medium
Why your programmers just want to code
When I interviewed Jamie for a position at ZenTech, he seemed like an enthusiastic engineer. With solid tech skills, ideas for process and…
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Writing a simple Linux kernel module:

https://blog.sourcerer.io/writing-a-simple-linux-kernel-module-d9dc3762c234
Medium
Writing a Simple Linux Kernel Module
Grabbing the Golden Ring-0
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Forwarded from The Art of Programming (tan)
A simple explanation of concurrency vs parallelism

http://davidvedvick.info/notes/2017/01/20/concurrency-vs-parallelism
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