Go, TUN and UDP: Writing a Network Relay with Flexible Configuration
I continue to develop a Go utility for working with TUN interfaces. In the previous version, packets went through the path `system <-> tun10 <-> go app <-> tun11 <->…
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Stop with vibe coding! Seriously
I really don't like the term. It subconsciously narrows the view of AI and limits its use.
Algebra of Justice: How Engineers Digitized Courts 50 Years Before AI
Currently, Legal AI is dominated by a rather naive idea: if a large language model can already write decent legal text, then all that's left is to give it a corpus of…
Prompts for Image Generation: How to Properly Formulate Instructions for AI
Have you ever received an image from a neural network that you immediately wanted to delete and pretend it never existed? Suppose you opened Midjourney, DALL-E, or Kandinsky.…
Pentagon vs Anthropic: Why This Conflict Matters to Everyone
From time to time, a technical dispute reveals something much bigger. The recent clash between the US Department of Defense and Anthropic is one such case. Not because…
Blockchain voting architecture for national elections: resilience architecture
In August 2019, just weeks before the Moscow City Duma elections, Pierrick Godri from the INRIA research institute published the results of an analysis of the code of…
Writing Your Own Crypto Engine for USB Drives: Secure Storage, Stream Encryption, and Fault Tolerance in Python
It all started with a simple task: securely transferring files on regular USB drives without cumbersome containers or complex user setups.
Restoring Internet Neutrality: How the U.S. Order to Restore Internet Freedom Came About
Restoring Internet Freedom was adopted on December 14, 2017, during Donald Trump's first presidential term. By approving it, the Federal Communications Commission repealed…
How I Reduced AI Costs by 70% with Three Lines of Logic
My AI agent costs me $20 a month. Just three months ago, the same load cost over $200. Not because I optimized prompts or wrote a clever caching system. But because I…
Chess Game of Architects: Arm Breaks 35-Year Neutrality for Its Own AI Processors
Imagine a motorsport engineering office that, for thirty-five years, has designed flawless engines for the entire Formula 1 grid but has never raced its own car. British…
VLESS on a router with OpenWRT
A brief guide to installing a VPN on a router running OpenWRT using the Passwall package
How I Wanted One AI Agent but Got a Whole Village
It all started with a simple desire: for the AI agent to quietly develop my projects while I was busy with other tasks. I set the task, left, and returned to a completed…
Invented for a noble cause, killed for money. A sad story of netbooks
Not long ago, the market was shaken by the announcement and release of the MacBook Neo — Apple's first budget laptop, designed to handle 99 percent of tasks for ordinary…
How one refusal turned into a $150 billion valuation, 295% growth of ChatGPT deletions — and an underrated plot in tech history
Sometimes, the greatest value is created by those who come second. Tim Cook and Satya Nadella didn’t found Apple and Microsoft, but each took the wheel and grew the company’s…
Studying eBPF: Linux Kernel Programming for Improved Security, Networking, and Observability
We'd like to remind you about one of the most interesting niche books on Linux that we have published in recent years - "Learning eBPF: Linux Kernel Programming for Improving…
TAPe-diary, day 7: first departure from transformers and “almost free” segmentation
In this post, we continue the TAPe-detection diary and explain what happened after we moved away from transformers: how much the number of parameters decreased, how local…
Why Your Password is Already Hacked
Weak passwords are a headache for both users and developers. The former think, "Who would hack me?" while the latter are sure, "I'm not a bank, who needs my database?"…
Windows Recall Alternative on Linux
I created a simple Windows Recall alternative on Linux, showing what I achieved and how it works.
