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- Neal Stephenson's "Seveneves" (Mild Spoilers)
- Long-Term Consequences Of Spectre And Its Mitigations
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- The Fight For Patent-Unencumbered Media Codecs Is Nearly Won
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- Meltdown/Spectre Needs Better Disclosure
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- Auckland Half Marathon 2017
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- Microsoft Using Chromium On Android Is Bad For The Web
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- Patch On Linux Kernel Stable Branches Breaks rr
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- New "rr pack" Command
- How I Found A 20-Year-Old Linux Kernel Bug
- Another Case Of Obscure CPU Nondeterminism
- WebAssembly: Mozilla Won
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- A Followup About AV Test Reports
- Tripling Down Against USA Conference Hosting
- Rustbelt Is Hiring
- rr Talk At Auckland C++ Meetup, February 21
- Really, Please Stop Booking International Conferences In The USA
- Disable Your Antivirus Software (Except Microsoft's)
- Browser Vendors And Business Interests
- Browser Vendors Are Responsible For The State Of Web Standards
- Parenting Notes
- Cheltenham Beach
- How China Can Pressure North Korea
- Is CMS Software Generally Really Bad?
2016
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- Auckland Half Marathon #4
- Implications Of ASLR Side-Channel Attacks
- Valuing America
- Dell, Your Website Security Is Broken
- Pivoting To Cyber-Forestry
- Ironic World Standards Day
- Tawharanui Revisited
- rr Paper: "Lightweight User-Space Record And Replay"
- Bay Area Talks About rr And Beyond, October 2-7
- rr 4.4.0 Released
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- rr 4.3.0 Released
- Nexus 5X vs Wettest June Hour In Auckland's History
- Relearning Debugging With rr
- Handling Read-Only Shared Memory Usage In rr
- Dear Ubuntu, Please Fix Your Debuginfo Packaging
- Democracy Is Impressive
- PlayCanvas Is Impressive
- Managing Vast, Sparse Memory On Linux
- Nastiness Works
- "Safe C++ Subset" Is Vapourware
- Mt Pirongia
- Whanganui River Journey
- Some Dynamic Measurements Of Firefox On x86-64
- Are Dynamic Control-Flow Integrity Schemes Worth Deploying?
- How To Track Down Divergence Bugs In rr
- The Diving Bell And Twitter
- Research Needed: A Meta (Dis) Assembler
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- Ruapehu Redux
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- H.264 Licensing And Free Software
- ActiveX All Over Again
- LCA
- Video, Freedom And Mozilla
- The Road To LCA: Ruapehu
- Volcanoes And Penguins
- More On Patch Division
- CSS Absolute Length Units
- Unifying Abstractions, Dividing Patches
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- Linux Matters, Addendum
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- Abstraction Penalties, Stack Allocation And Ownership Types
- Backing Store #2: Dependency Tracking
- A Tale Of Two Zooms
- Exploring Auckland
- Welcome To My Backing Store
- One More Reason Why We Need Audio (And Video) In The Browser
- Fish, Water
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- Changing Horses
- Tragic Vindication
- If I Did It
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