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thesamesam / xz-backdoor.md
Last active October 8, 2025 04:18
xz-utils backdoor situation (CVE-2024-3094)

FAQ on the xz-utils backdoor (CVE-2024-3094)

This is a living document. Everything in this document is made in good faith of being accurate, but like I just said; we don't yet know everything about what's going on.

Update: I've disabled comments as of 2025-01-26 to avoid everyone having notifications for something a year on if someone wants to suggest a correction. Folks are free to email to suggest corrections still, of course.

Background

@johnmeade
johnmeade / snr.py
Last active February 15, 2025 18:01
WADA SNR Estimation of Speech Signals in Python
import numpy as np
def wada_snr(wav):
# Direct blind estimation of the SNR of a speech signal.
#
# Paper on WADA SNR:
# http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~robust/Papers/KimSternIS08.pdf
#
# This function was adapted from this matlab code:
# https://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/projects/snreval/#9
@yohhoy
yohhoy / yuvrgb.md
Last active September 24, 2025 06:32
RGB <=> YCbCr(YPbPr) color space conversion
Y  = a * R + b * G + c * B
Cb = (B - Y) / d
Cr = (R - Y) / e
BT.601 BT.709 BT.2020
a 0.299 0.2126 0.2627
b 0.587 0.7152 0.6780
@shafik
shafik / WhatIsStrictAliasingAndWhyDoWeCare.md
Last active October 29, 2025 00:14
What is Strict Aliasing and Why do we Care?

What is the Strict Aliasing Rule and Why do we care?

(OR Type Punning, Undefined Behavior and Alignment, Oh My!)

What is strict aliasing? First we will describe what is aliasing and then we can learn what being strict about it means.

In C and C++ aliasing has to do with what expression types we are allowed to access stored values through. In both C and C++ the standard specifies which expression types are allowed to alias which types. The compiler and optimizer are allowed to assume we follow the aliasing rules strictly, hence the term strict aliasing rule. If we attempt to access a value using a type not allowed it is classified as undefined behavior(UB). Once we have undefined behavior all bets are off, the results of our program are no longer reliable.

Unfortunately with strict aliasing violations, we will often obtain the results we expect, leaving the possibility the a future version of a compiler with a new optimization will break code we th

@wagenet
wagenet / glibc.md
Last active July 11, 2025 15:52
glibc Versions

glibc Versions

List of oldest supported version of top 10 Linux Distros and their glibc version according to distrowatch.com.

Summary

Out of all versions with published EOLs, 2.12 is the oldest glibc still active, found in CentOS 6.8.

If CentOS 6 and 7 are eliminated, the oldest glibc is 2.23 in Ubuntu and Slackware.

@Mistobaan
Mistobaan / TENSORFLOW_DEBUG.md
Last active June 29, 2023 06:32
Tensorflow Internals Debugging Techniques

Machine Setup August 2016

Linux Ubuntu 2016.

  • 1080 GTX
  • SDK 8.0
  • CuDNN 5.1

ENABLE Core dumps

ulimit -c unlimited
@jboner
jboner / latency.txt
Last active October 29, 2025 05:36
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict 5 ns
L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD
@tomekwojcik
tomekwojcik / flask-formreuse-app.py
Created May 3, 2011 09:06
Flask mini-app demoing WTForms reuse
from flask import Flask, render_template, flash, request
from werkzeug.datastructures import MultiDict
from flaskext.wtf import Form, TextField, TextAreaField, validators
# App config.
DEBUG = True
SECRET_KEY = '87469976308fd14a2d0148247d441f2756b6176a'
app = Flask(__name__)
app.config.from_object(__name__)