I’ve been floating ways to simplify the memory management story in Rust around the core team lately. Memory management is a contentious topic, since we’ve worked hard to get to the current state of things, and with the push toward … Read more
For all of my open source projects, effective immediately, I am no longer going to maintain ‘official’ support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I will still support users of CentOS Stream, Rocky Linux, and Alma Linux, as I am able … Read more
by: Donald Stufft · 2023-05-23 00:00 If you are someone who is currently uploading signatures, your package uploads will continue to succeed, but any PGP signatures will be silently ignored. If you are someone who is currently downloading PGP signatures, … Read more
For many years, the Signal app on Android has supported sending and receiving plaintext SMS and MMS messages in addition to Signal messages. SMS and MMS are standardized communication protocols that allow mobile devices to send and transmit messages, and … Read more
In order to store less data we will no longer accept NEW PayPal and Credit card subscriptions (recurring payments). One-time payments are not affected. Payment records and privacy At Mullvad VPN we strive to know as little as possible about … Read more
Left: Original image. Center: Blurred through convolution. Right: Deconvolution of the blurred image. In this post, we’ll have a look at the idea of removing blur from images, videos, or games through a process called “deconvolution”. We will analyze what … Read more
In software, it is a common problem to want to remove specific characters from a string. To make the problem precise, let us consider the removal of all ASCII control characters and spaces. In practice, it means the removal of … Read more
Some unfortunate chip shortage news just broke for those in the market for a new BMW. Certain models are going to lose their touchscreen functionality to save silicon and allow BMW to maintain its current production levels. The news broke … Read more
At this point, we’re slowly starting to understand the threat that surveillance capitalism poses to democracy and human autonomy. With your phone’s operating system being run by Google, your every question answered by Google Search, and Google scripts on every … Read more