13 November 2024

Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone

In case it wasn’t clear yet, timezones are difficult!

10 Lessons I Learned from Using Aspire in Production

TL;DR: Aspire is nice, but not trivial to use.

Run a Virtual Machine in Your Browser

In case you thought WASM was only used for Blazor and wasn’t fully implemented, this is a demonstration of running a full OS in the browser.

How North Korea Infiltrated the Crypto Industry

I’ve heard a few stories about how North Koreans have been getting jobs in western companies. This article/podcast goes into a lot of detail about specific cases in the cypto industry.

NIST Recommends New Rules for Password Security

Some changes to the NIST rules:

• remove the recommendation for complexity rules
• remove the recommendation for periodic password changes
• recommend checking against known compromised passwords

Securing our future: September 2024 progress update on Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative (SFI)

Follow-up on the progress since the “do security” announcement. Or actually more about how Microsoft were already prioritizing security way before then.