Call me a follower. I’m trying out the Zed Editor for the first time, and these are my initial thoughts.
Simplicity Out of the box, Zed feels quite similar to Sublime Text. Very stripped down, all business, no fluff. Don’t let that fool you; it is plenty powerful. The more you use it, the more its functionality seems to present itself to you. Sure, you can use it like a basic text editor with syntax highlights and contextual code completions.…
Recently, a critical vulnerability was discovered in PHP, specifically with the iconv function in the GNU C library versions 2.39 and older. This function is used to switch between different language encodings. The vulnerability takes advantage of language encoding escape sequences to trigger a buffer overflow, allowing memory to be read and written outside of the intended memory area. Security researcher Charles Fol discovered that this could be used for remote code execution.…
First of all, I feel like as a baseline we have to acknowledge that racism is, in fact, a problem. It’s not just people being intentionally mean to each other, it’s unconscious biases slowly leaking into our outward expressions. And it’s the accumulation of those expressions within the systems that drive society.
This is just a discussion I’d like to start based on some observations I’ve made. I don’t have a concrete solution to any of them and I don’t think there ever will be one.…
Right off the bat I want to say that it is impossible to live a 100% private life. The truth is that on some level someone has to know something about you for you to do anything. Privacy exists on a spectrum and it’s 100% up to the individual to decide what they are comfortable with, at least it should be.
Even this website uses Google Analytics to gather audience statistics.…
To be clear, I’m specifically talking about data/online privacy. Privacy exists in so many other contexts too.
Just because you have nothing to hide doesn’t mean it’s not important I hear this sentiment all the time from people who try to detract away from the value of privacy.
Privacy is a human right
Regardless of what you’re doing, there is an underlying truth that you should be able to live your life autonomously and free from constant surveillance.…