Gânduri Eclectice – Eclectic Thoughts

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  • Book Review: ORA:CLE

    ORA:CLE is a not particularly well-known book by Kevin O’Donnell Jr, published in 1984 and which I read around 1986. This book made quite an impression on my (much!) younger self, and having unearthed it from a dusty bookshelf I gave it a fresh read. It introduced me to concepts which now seem commonplace but

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  • The Camera Eye¹ – Expect The Unexpected

    Expect the Unexpected. Even when drinking tea.

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  • Assumptions: Dangerous Things

    How long can a name be? How short can an email address be? All around us, IT systems have built-in assumptions and limitations. To be clear, they always have had limits, either explicitly chosen, or ones beyond which the system tends to fail in unpredictable ways. However, now that so many facets of our lives

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  • Starlink: Hidden Security Risk

    “For the busy, a TL;DR: If you are using Starlink and various home networking devices in their default configurations, you may well be exposing your internal network directly to Evil Internet h4x0rs without even realising it”

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  • Illusichino

    How Big Is My Coffee? The human optic nerve carries a little less than 900Kbps from the eyes to the brain[1]. Necessarily this means that both the eyes and the brain perform some amazing shortcuts which we are only dimly beginning to understand, even now. For comparison, even the lowest data rate[2] of a DisplayPort

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