Doing stuff with distributed systems, blockchains, and Rust. (More active on Bluesky @kaimast.com)
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Climate change seems to have completely disappeared as a primary issue in US politics, according to this NBC poll.
C++ should really include a "fn" keyword (or similar). Trailing return types with `auto`, e.g., `auto main() -> int`, look confusing.
What's a good paper/resource to introduce people to SGX or TEEs in general these days? Back in my day, we read Intel's developer guide, but that was no fun.
Do I know someone here who works at @gradescope ? I ran into a bug in the autograder and support is MIA.
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I died a little inside when I learned this:
> When developers remove their projects from the PyPI repository, the associated package names immediately become available for registration by any other user.
🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
@jfrog researchers found that >22K packages could be hijacked in this way
And when the researchers proactively registered these packages, they got 1000s of downloads in a few days, and have ~200K downloads in 3 months.
jfrog.com/blog/revival-hijac…
New Blog Post: "Automation of Systems Experiments with Wickie" kaimast.com/notes/wickie/
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Submit your work in progress in systems to SysDW colocated with SOSP 24! You can also submit a research statement and get feedback if you are going on the job market soon.
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Sometimes I perceive reading/writing emails as very inconvenient, but then someone sends me a voice message and I remember how much worse online communication can be.