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Semantic Compression
An introduction to the idea that code should be approached with a mindset towards compressing it semantically, rather than orienting it around objects.

The Politics of Humiliation
The politics of humiliation has moved to the center of the reactionary project under Trump II.

How bathroom posture affects your health.
Shortly before Christmas in 1978, the leader of the free world came down with a severe case of hemorrhoids. The pain was so bad that President Carter...

Compression Dictionary Transport - HTTP | MDN
Compression Dictionary Transport is a way of using a shared compression dictionary to dramatically reduce the transport size of HTTP responses.

Compression: Crash Course Computer Science #21
How to Compress a PDF Without Uploading It: Images vs Pages
A PDF is a container, not a picture. How shrinking the images inside differs from turning pages into pictures, how to tell what your file needs, and what each…

Zip Slip, Path Traversal Vulnerability during File Decompression - ASEC
Zip Slip, Path Traversal Vulnerability during File Decompression ASEC

Tarsnap - Encrypted, deduplicated command-line backup for Linux, BSD, and macOS
Tarsnap is a command-line backup tool for UNIX with client-side encryption and block-level deduplication. Pay per byte stored, no monthly minimums. Runs on Linux, BSD, and macOS.
Record and share your terminal sessions, the simple way - asciinema.org
Record right where you work - in a terminal. To start, run asciinema rec demo.cast, to end press ctrl+d or type exit.

This Quake-inspired terminal is my new favorite on Linux
There's no faster way to pull up a console than the way Quake did it.

Dictionary Compression is finally here, and it's ridiculously good
Dictionary compression could completely change how applications send data over the web. It's recently gained broad support, and offers absurd real-world...

Compression is prediction | ngrok blog
Compression and LLMs are trying to solve the exact same problem: predicting what comes next. Learn the fundamentals of compression and how better prediction leads to better shrinkage.

a bit embarrassing, but hopefully helpful to someone
saving >$400/mo on atproto infra
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