sergey bratus

@SSRN, please fix your web gatekeeping. Using a privacy-friendly web browser should not trigger a BS message about "Incompatible browser extension or network configuration" (what does this even mean?) about your so-called "security verification process". You've been sold a lemon.

One of those moments when you realize that an OS is no longer quite an OS, despite looking a fair bit like Unix: 8rank.ai/game/apple-int…

Webp, now Brotli, recently introduced complex formats that eschewed formal mechanized definition and code generation in favor of hand-crafted imperative implementations. Billed as "modern", backed by supposedly superior development processes. Turned out as usual.

"Your browser extensions or network settings have blocked the security verification process required by [a news website] To resolve this, [turn off all defensive filters]". -- No thank you. I hope your news are worth what you're paying to protect them from readers like me.

The ad hoc network protocol tricks described in swarmtraces.org are exactly the skills we teach undergraduate students in basic networks classes. Simple to learn and yet satisfying, these skills are in a perfect teaching sweet spot.