Zara @xara.one · 06/02/2026I thought this talk from @bcantrill.bsky.social was very good youtu.be/v0JjG0Qfwi8?...youtu.beBryan Cantrill: Andreessen’s Folly - The False Dichotomy of Software and HardwareYouTube video by Jane Street 020
Reposted by ZaraLea Kissner @leak.bsky.social · 01/01/2026This is one of the nightmares of modern security. We need to know where every single one of those is, what we're trusting it to do and not do, and how to make it stop *immediately*. And every time someone wants to use a new one we need to figure out whether we can trust it as far as we can throw it 49918
Zara @xara.one · 24/10/2025good read and always relevant, "how complex systems fail" how.complexsystems.failhow.complexsystems.failHow Complex Systems Fail 064
Zara @xara.one · 29/09/2025walking around the app versus walking around the compiler vickiboykis.com/2025/09/09/w... bernsteinbear.com/blog/walking... 010
Reposted by ZaraCCC @ccc.de · 28/09/2025Lectures, music, art, punk: Join us at the 39th Chaos Communication Congress and please submit! The deadline for all submissions for the stages is October 24. #39C3 will take place from December 27 to 30 www.ccc.de/en/updates/2...ccc.deCCC | Lectures, music, art, punk: Join us at the 39th Chaos Communication Congress!Der Chaos Computer Club ist eine galaktische Gemeinschaft von Lebewesen für Informationsfreiheit und Technikfolgenabschätzung. 03218
Zara @xara.one · 06/09/2025The US vs EU debate is especially tiresome. It's simply not true that all people in Europe do is be on vacation all summer and sleep in all day long. At least not in my circle. And 9/10 times person doing this coal-posting himself is working on some degenerate gambling app 110
Reposted by ZaraMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 23/08/2025To explain this photo a bit more: back then, most programming was done on paper (sometimes on special coding sheets), then punched onto cards/tape, then fed into a mainframe to be tested (& if necessary debugged). Counterintuitively, needing LESS computer time was the mark of a better programmer! 27923267
Zara @xara.one · 19/08/2025some candor for tuesday. i wanna stress that i'm not anti AI and the gains in productivity because of it are undeniable but i also think we're in a bubble 160
Reposted by ZaraVicki @vickiboykis.com · 16/08/2025The amount of alpha in this post is off the charts www.seangoedecke.com/good-system-...seangoedecke.comEverything I know about good system designI see a lot of bad system design advice. One classic is the LinkedIn-optimized “bet you never heard of queues” style of post, presumably aimed at people who are… 611720
Zara @xara.one · 08/08/2025finally caught up with this paper and it was very accessible and had none of that appeal-to-emotion bit that many news organizations do when laying the case against frontier labs. 020
Zara @xara.one · 08/08/2025this account is now firmly RSS pilled. can't believe i used to live like a caveman 010
Reposted by Zarajiska @naehrdine.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Been working on some interesting mobile security research lately? 📱🔬 Submit it to Black Hat Europe, the CFP deadline is August 11. Speaker honorarium + travel to London 🎡💂🏼♀️🏙️ are covered! 152
Zara @xara.one · 06/08/2025nice table even though the rest i've read a 100 billion times over the yrs but in the domain of public service, it's quote useful 110
Reposted by ZaraGabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 05/08/2025Left out of the brief mention of Silicon Valley’s historical roots in Defense contracts is why it broke from the military: popular opposition to the Vietnam war and technologists who didn’t want their work to kill people. These are all political choices. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/t...nytimes.comSilicon Valley Enlists in the Business of War 03611
Reposted by ZaraMolly White @molly.wiki · 31/07/2025Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder. Here’s how to use RSS. www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...citationneeded.newsCurate your own newspaper with RSSEscape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read 1142558970
Zara @xara.one · 06/08/2025they our here tryna steal my whole flow. no personal identity whatsoever, just leeching off of someone else's aura 000
Zara @xara.one · 06/08/2025Jamie Brandon new blog post alert www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/all-...scattered-thoughts.netAll the cool kids are doing it 010
Zara @xara.one · 20/07/2025when I first learnt what a bain-marie was, I was insufferable for a while 100
Reposted by ZaraVicki @vickiboykis.com · 17/07/2025I really appreciate a well-thought out product and full-line code completion in PyCharm had to be one of my favorites, I use it for logging all the time vickiboykis.com/2025/07/16/m...vickiboykis.comMy favorite use-case for AI is writing logsOne of my favorite AI dev products today is Full Line Code Completion in PyCharm (bundled with the IDE since late 2023). It’s extremely well-thought out, unintrusive, and makes me a more effective dev... 3317
Reposted by ZaraSergiu P. Pasca @sergiuppasca.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Article here: nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comScalable production of human cortical organoids using a biocompatible polymer - Nature Biomedical EngineeringAddition of an inexpensive, biocompatible polymer reduces spontaneous fusions of organoids in culture. 172
Reposted by ZaraJustin Garrison @justingarrison.com · 02/07/2025You were absolutely right! Thanks. I found it redmonk.com/rstephens/20...redmonk.comSoftware Licensing Changes and Their Impact on Financial OutcomesAnother day, another rug pull. At least that’s what the cynical might say, as we as an industry once again are discussing the fallout of another company changing their software from what was previousl... 1102
Zara @xara.one · 19/06/2025Towards music and movie rec algorithms I always have a "you don't speak to me unless spoken to attitude" I never scroll for hrs trying to "find" something. When I go there I already have something in mind. Like a movie trailer I bookmarked, an album I was suggested etc 120
Zara @xara.one · 07/06/2025lmao i remember as recent as like 1-1.5 yr ago, a prominent member of a VC fund was stirring up discourse on twitter about UFOs being a real thing with not just posting but also podcasting about it. glad to see we can put this behind us. it was always a far fetched idea 000
Reposted by ZaraEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Bellingcat has followed up its 2023 article on testing LLMs on geolocation with a new review of LLM's geolocation skills, with dramatically improved results www.bellingcat.com/resources/ho...bellingcat.comHave LLMs Finally Mastered Geolocation? - bellingcatWe tasked LLMs from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Mistral and xAI to geolocate our unpublished holiday snaps. Here's how they did. 520054
Reposted by ZaraMatthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Good discussion on Twitter’s new encrypted DMs. TL;DR the cryptography doesn’t seem bad, but it isn’t great. mjg59.dreamwidth.org/71646.html 36711
Reposted by ZaraDramp @drpagano.bsky.social · 09/05/2025This is so inspiring! Thanks also for all of the wonderful detail in your blog - it is so nice to be able to learn from your process www.amygoodchild.com/blog/cursive...amygoodchild.comCoding my Handwriting — Amy GoodchildCoding my handwriting in Javascript - how I did it and what I’m doing with it. 242
Reposted by ZaraDavid Pfau @davidpfau.com · 08/05/2025An enormous amount of society's ills can be traced to an inability to properly understand the magnitude of things. 1121
Reposted by ZaraAmy Goodchild @amygoodchild.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Interacting with my p5js coded handwriting 4615
Reposted by ZaraJohn Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 06/05/20253/ NSO Group emerges from the trial severely damaged. The damages ($167,254,000 punitive, $440K+ compensatory) is big enough to make your eyes water. The case is ALSO a blow to NSO's secrecy, with their business splashed all over a courtroom. This will scare customers. And investors. Good. 412118
Reposted by ZaraJohn Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 06/05/2025BREAKING: jury awards massive $167 million in punitive damages against spyware company NSO Group. Precedent-setting win against notorious #Pegasus spyware maker. Very consequential for victims to see this. Congratulations to #WhatsApp on sticking this case through since 2019. Some thoughts 1/ 19760283
Reposted by ZaraSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 26/04/2025New AI ethics scandal brewing... turns out a team at University of Zurich had dozens of undisclosed AI bot accounts debating with people on /r/ChangeMyView from November 2024 to March 2025 simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/...simonwillison.netMETA: Unauthorized Experiment on CMV Involving AI-generated Comments[r/changemyview](https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/) is a popular (top 1%) well moderated subreddit with an extremely well developed [set of rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/wiki/rules... 1123067
Reposted by ZaraEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 23/04/2025Happy one year anniversary to the Man Who Killed Google Search 7682121
Reposted by ZaraMatthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 26/04/2025I was so impressed at how well ChatGPT could geolocate photos, until I looked closely at the answer. 41018
Reposted by Zaradan @danabra.mov · 14/04/2025my mental justification for writing long articles is that someone else can always make them shorter but not the other way around 31464
Zara @xara.one · 14/04/2025is it ok to be a lil bit NIMBY if influencers found out about the place where you get your cocomisu (tiramisu adjacent dessert, sister to tres leches) from so that the cafe runs out of it before 2:30 pm? Asking for a friend 100
