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ssebastianjon Advancing in the Bash Shell

Same behavior on zsh with prezto.

ssebastianjon Happy 10th birthday pandoc

Pandoc just make me happy. Thanks John & contributors for your work!

ssebastianjon Asciinema 1.3 Switches from Go Back to Python

Yeah. As a side note, I remember what Steve Klabnik once said: "Basically, Go is like a lower level Ruby or Python and Rust is like a higher level C or C++".

ssebastianjon Tell HN: New features and a moderator

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ssebastianjon Announcing Rust 1.10

A quick update: on a Windows 10 box the whole upgrade (1.9 -> 1.10) ran smoothly. This kind of tools really get me excited about Rust future.

ssebastianjon Announcing Rust 1.10

I've just upgraded from Rust 1.8 -> 1.9 -> 1.10 using rustup.rs without any issue (at least I didn't see any issue :P). I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 amd64.

ssebastianjon ThinkPwn: System Management Mode arbitrary code execution

The author (Dmytro Oleksiuk) tweeted [0]: 'Dear vendors, “give us your 0day vulnerability for free and don’t publish anything” — it’s not a cooperation request'.

[0] https://twitter.com/d_olex/status/748806692754714625

ssebastianjon Simple Windows GUI Application Written in Go

A couple of days ago I wanted to read the Active Protection Sensor bundled in a ThinkPad by accessing Sensor64.dll under Go 1.6.2. So, after several hours diving in the interwebs/Godocs I came to this issue [0] which suggests the "x/sys/windows" [1] package instead the "syscall" one if you want to load a Windows system DLL.

Note: I'm a total newbie at Go and Windows API so every bit of abstraction was a bless to me.

[0] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14959 [1] https://github.com/golang/sys/tree/master/windows

ssebastianjon Teaching machines to anticipate human interactions using videos of TV shows

Looks like a "cliche detector" to me.

ssebastianjon The Intel ME subsystem can take over your machine, can't be audited

I wasn't aware about Intel ME until recently bought a brand new Lenovo ThinkPad and saw the "Intel Management Engine" on BIOS/UEFI boot menu.

The thing is: how can I configure this ME thing in order to avoid (or minimize, at least) possible attacks?

ssebastianjon What convolutional neural networks look at when they see nudity

Very nice. I know it's pretty dated by now (mid '80s, I guess) but the "The Mechanical Universe...and Beyond" [0] videos really opened my eyes on the matter.

[0] http://www.its.caltech.edu/~tmu/

ssebastianjon Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and Top and Bottom Bar API

Is there any chance to use Rust or Go to develop an Atom package? Not for the entire codebase, just for the parts which might be a bottleneck.

ssebastianjon Control your server using Whatsapp

This. I use JuiceSSH everyday on an Android phone to remotely admin my OpenWRT router and I love it. It's quite simple and meet my needs.

ssebastianjon RESTful considered harmful

Everytime I read the "considered harmful" phrase, I ask myself "Considered harmful, by whom?"

ssebastianjon Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Others Team Up to Launch WebAssembly

I'm learning Rust and it would be nice to see a Rust powered kernel, just for hack with it a learn a lot.

ssebastianjon Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Liking”?

Both

ssebastianjon Andrew S. Tanenbaum's FAQ

Right at this moment I'm reading Computer Networks (4th Edition) and loving it! I enjoy his writing style, mainly because he makes jokes all the time! Funny guy :)

ssebastianjon Python: Faster Way

Make It Work -> Make It Right -> Make It Fast

ssebastianjon Why Your Cat Thinks You’re a Huge, Unpredictable Ape

Something I've learned over the years ( and five cats) is: Never touch a cat when he/she is taking a sunbath. It's a trap!

ssebastianjon Your Wireless Router Is Broken – Help Us Fix It At DEF CON

If UX is a must, then Gargoyle is an option: http://www.gargoyle-router.com/

ssebastianjon How can an introvert Asian engineer like me make friends?

Hangout with extrovert people. It worked for me!!