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Sunset

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This sunset isn’t super spectacular but the vibrant colors in contrast to the sea of black are so eye-catching. There’s something so beautiful about sunsets. Laying a day to rest so you can wake up to take on another. Yes, I was flying spirit and it went surprisingly well. Also, I met a nice lady on the plane and she showed me a picture of her dog so shout out to Jessica and her dog.…
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My Favorite Python Libraries

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TL;DR Tkinter - GUI’s Pyautogui - mouse and keyboard automation Flask - web servers Why Obligatory Yap Session There’s one unifying aspect to each of these libraries: conciseness. Throughout my time writing Python, I’ve learned that what matters isn’t just ease of use. It’s about getting straight to the heart of a problem and directly crafting a solution. Good Python code is the direct manifestation of an idea, not a technical document.…
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Zed

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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.…
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New PHP Vulnerability

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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.…
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Racist Robots

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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.…
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