/Robert Heaton

PySkyWiFi: Completely Free, Unbelievably Stupid Wi-Fi On Long-Haul Flights tl;dr: “Here’s the basic idea: suppose that I logged into my airmiles account and updated my name. If you were also logged in to my account then you could read my new name, from the ground. You could update it again, and I could read your new value. If we kept doing this then the name field of my airmiles account could serve as a tunnel through the airplane’s wi-fi firewall to the real world.”

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The Wavefunction Collapse Algorithm Explained Very Clearly tl;dr: "Wavefunction Collapse is a very independent-minded algorithm, and needs almost no outside help or instruction. You feed it an example of the vibe you’re going for, and it figures everything else out for itself. Despite this self-sufficiency, it is surprisingly simple. It doesn’t use any neural networks, random forests, or anything else that sounds like machine learning. This makes it very clean and intuitive once you get the idea."

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I'm A Security Engineer And I Still Almost Got Scammed tl;dr: "I was in the park with my son and his best friend. I saw 2 missed calls from a number I didn’t recognize. I Googled it - it was my bank. I told the other adults that I should call back in case it was important."

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Systems Design For Advanced Beginners tl;dr: Practical run-through of a typical architecture setup for a web and mobile application. Robert explains concepts like webhooks, databases, and more.

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