Recovering a Remote Mac Mini
A UPS was the easy part. Getting my remote Mac mini through a longer outage and back to a usable development session took a little more engineering.
Blog & Archives
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A Small Bake-Off for Unreliable GitHub Scheduling
A late scheduled post led me to compare GitHub Actions and Cloudflare Cron. The deployments were about equally fast. The schedulers were not.
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Looking Back (and Ahead!) at the Samuelson Clinic’s 25th Anniversary
On September 24, I’ll join a conversation about the Samuelson Clinic’s work, its influence, and the continuing need for serious public-interest technology law and policy.
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Cliff Stoll at DEF CON 34: The Best Talk I’ve Ever Seen
Forty years after a 75-cent accounting error sent him chasing a hacker across the early Internet, Cliff Stoll returned to the story at DEF CON—with an overhead projector, his original transparencies from a 1987 NSA presentation, and a thermos of minestrone soup.
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When (DNA) Signatures Aren't Enough
AI can now help design whole viral genomes. That creates a security problem computer defenders know well: how do defenders recognize a threat when it no longer resembles the threats they know? DNA synthesis gives biosecurity a rare chokepoint—for now.
