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@reshetz.bsky.social

So there’s a website called Deer Of St Nicholas which posts Christmas wish letters from Ukrainian children who had their childhood stolen by the war, anyone can pick a child and get them their present and it’s that time of the year again to achingly scroll it for hours again

November 7, 2025 at 8:21 AM

dragosr

@dragostech.bsky.social

I have a new favorite place in Shibuya, Tokyo - Taco Fanatico, amazing tequila collection. Delicious!

渋谷で新しいお気に入りの店を見つけた - Taco Fanatico。テキーラの品揃えが充実している。おいしい！

Three tiers of rustic wood shelves, lit by warm LED strips, display an extensive agave spirits collection; between the bottles are calavera skull flasks, small skeleton statues, and a La Catrina figurine, while a row of tall white-and-blue ceramic decanters lines the top shelf and boxes and bar tools sit on the counter below.

From a bar seat looking into an open kitchen: a round low tequila bottle with a black cap sits beside a square Herradura Anejo bottle on a wooden ledge amid glasses and a metal towel bucket, additional Don Julio bottles line the left edge, cooks work under hanging pans and warm strip lighting, and a windowed wall with shelves and equipment runs along the right.

Close-up at a wooden bar: a handled yellow dish holds nachos covered in melted cheese, seasoned ground meat, pico de gallo, and a dollop of sour cream; behind it are Firelli and Cholula hot sauces, stacked plates, a skull-print container with napkins and cutlery, a menu labeled TEQUILA, and drinks including two small pours of clear liquor and a tall orange mixed drink.

Printed sign in Japanese and English promoting a "UKRAINE SUPPORT CHARITY DRINK" titled "SLAVA UKRAINE," price 400 yen (440 yen with tax); the center image shows tall shot glasses layered yellow and blue, each topped with a lime slice and ignited; footer note states a 200 yen donation per drink.

November 9, 2025 at 5:57 AM

dragosr

@dragostech.bsky.social

We trusted images because they were hard to fake. That assumption is dead. Authentication must shift to cryptographic signatures from photographers and publishers. Trust becomes transitive: you trust the image only to the extent you trust its signer.

October 29, 2025 at 1:33 AM

dragosr

@dragostech.bsky.social

Let's figure out what the duties & tariffs impact is in various parts of the world.

Reply with your country's price.

A product image of the IKEA DEJSA table lamp from IKEA Canada. The lamp has a rounded white glass shade shaped like a dome or mushroom cap, sitting on a cylindrical beige base. The image shows the lamp’s power cord extending to the right. Text below lists the price as $59.99 CAD, a 4.5-star rating from 551 reviews, and the seller as IKEA Canada.

October 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM

dragosr

@dragostech.bsky.social

youtu.be/_THYKIbT-sE

President Reagan's Address to Canadian Parliament on April 6, 1987

YouTube video by Reagan Library

youtu.be

October 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM

dragosr

@dragostech.bsky.social

This is a good deep dive on what really happened with AWS
www.ookla.com/articles/aws...

Revealing the Cascading Impacts of the AWS Outage | Ookla®

Explore the global impact of the Oct 2025 AWS US-EAST-1 outage, with 16M+ reports, a DNS root cause, and clear guidance to contain future failures.

www.ookla.com

October 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM

dragosr

@dragostech.bsky.social

This is the best GPU internals write-up I've seen in a long time.
www.aleksagordic.com/blog/matmul

Inside NVIDIA GPUs: Anatomy of high performance matmul kernels - Aleksa Gordić

From GPU architecture and PTX/SASS to warp-tiling and deep asynchronous tensor core pipelines.

www.aleksagordic.com

October 16, 2025 at 2:46 AM

dragosr

@dragostech.bsky.social

Open source pure Rust UEFI BIOS
Native Rust not just wrappers on old risky C code.
github.com/openDevicePa...

GitHub - OpenDevicePartnership/patina: Patina Firmware

Patina Firmware. Contribute to OpenDevicePartnership/patina development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

October 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM

dragosr

@dragostech.bsky.social

Speech recognition through high frequency mouse sensors. sites.google.com/view/mic-e-m...

Mic-E-Mouse

Your computer mouse has big ears. Image courtesy of GPT4/Dall-E-3, generated using the keywords "computer mouse with big ears and a microphone as a scroll wheel."

sites.google.com

October 6, 2025 at 8:55 PM

dragosr

@dragostech.bsky.social

Malicious Rust crate updates, faster_log and async_println, cryptocurrency key scanners.

blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/24/c...

crates.io: Malicious crates faster_log and async_println | Rust Blog

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

blog.rust-lang.org

September 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM

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Dr. Jens Foell

@jensfoell.de

I want to tell you about a friend of mine real quick. I've mentioned her on here before, but you don't know any details yet, and she's about to make history in a very real sense.

Meet Michi Benthaus:

A young, blond white woman sitting in a wheelchair smiles into the camera. Behind her is the capsule of a Blue Origin suborbital spacecraft

September 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy

@physiciandemocracy.medsky.social

www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Vaccine for Pancreatic Cancer and CRC Sparks Early Hope

While phase 1 data suggest the novel vaccine can boost immunity and reduce relapse in pancreatic and colorectal cancer, experts remain cautious at this initial stage.

www.medscape.com

September 2, 2025 at 1:36 AM

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Bryan Steele 🦋🍁

@brynet.ca

Now this is real convenient, especially on machines where it's impossible to hit the right key fast enough to enter the UEFI BIOS settings.

On #OpenBSD/amd64, you can now type "machine fwsetup" at the boot> prompt in efiboot(8).

marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...

August 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM

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InfoSec

@infosec.skyfleet.blue

Docker Fixes CVE-2025-9074, Critical Container Escape Vulnerability With CVSS Score 9.3

thehackernews.com

August 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM

dragosr

@dragostech.bsky.social

Yeah ok, this is Linux's birthday in 1991. I was running Unix on my home IBM PC clone 80286 using sources I compiled from SysVr2 code two years before that in 1989.

August 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM

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@jcoglan.com

rust is a language in which you can borrow a cow

August 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM

dragosr

@dragostech.bsky.social

How many AI Doomers does it take to change a lightbulb?

Seven: one to change it, six to screenshot the single frame where it isn't lit yet and post viral threads with titles like "Still Dark!"

August 22, 2025 at 11:09 PM

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Laurent Cheylus

@lcheylus.bsky.social

6 major Password Managers with Tens of Millions of Users are currently vulnerable to unpatched Clickjacking Flaws that could allow Attackers to steal your Secrets - Public disclosure by Marek Tóth at DEF CON 33 #Infosec #Vulnerability socket.dev/blog/passwor...

Researcher Exposes Zero-Day Clickjacking Vulnerabilities in ...

Hacker Demonstrates How Easy It Is To Steal Data From Popular Password Managers

socket.dev

August 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM

dragosr

@dragostech.bsky.social

It's weird to me that folks in places like Alberta, and the U.S. don't understand that slowing down the deployments of solar power and EV charging networks is a giant footgun self own.

It's a race. And you are deliberately choosing last place. Good luck with that.

August 19, 2025 at 5:02 AM