veekaybee

Anti-hype LLM reading list

Goals: Add links that are reasonable and good explanations of how stuff works. No hype and no vendor content if possible. Practical first-hand accounts of models in prod eagerly sought.

Foundational Concepts

Pre-Transformer Models

kconner

macOS Internals

Understand your Mac and iPhone more deeply by tracing the evolution of Mac OS X from prelease to Swift. John Siracusa delivers the details.

Starting Points

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anvbis

Pwntools Cheatsheet

1. Program Interaction
2. Environment and Contexts
3. Logging and Output
4. Encoding, Packing and Utility
5. Assembly and Shellcraft
6. ELFs, Strings and Symbols
7. Return Oriented Programming
8. SROP and Sigreturn Frames

xmpf

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import sys
import signal

from types import FrameType
from typing import Union

def sighandler(signum: int, frame: Union[FrameType, None]) -> signal.Handlers:
    sys.stdout.write("\r")

programmeruser2

export DISPLAY=$(powershell.exe -Command '(Get-NetIPAddress -AddressFamily IPv4 | Where-Object {$_.AddressState -eq "Preferred" -and ($_.InterfaceAlias -eq "Wi-Fi" -or $_.InterfaceAlias -eq "Ethernet")}).IPAddress' | sed 's/.$//'):0.0
export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1

programmeruser2

const decodeJwt = token => token.split('.').map((item,index) => index==2?item:JSON.parse(atob(item)));
const encodeJwt = segments => segments.map((item,index)=>index==2?item:btoa(JSON.stringify(item))).join('.');

tunalad

# Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
use_debug false

use_bpm 139
use_sample_defaults amp: 0.5

use_synth :blade
use_synth_defaults release: 0.5

sample :drum_cymbal_closed

programmeruser2

(Get-NetIPAddress -AddressFamily IPv4 | Where-Object {$_.AddressState -eq "Preferred" -and ($_.InterfaceAlias -eq "Wi-Fi" -or $_.InterfaceAlias -eq "Ethernet")}).IPAddress

probonopd

Think twice before abandoning Xorg. Wayland breaks everything!

Hence, if you are interested in existing applications to "just work" without the need for adjustments, then you may be better off avoiding Wayland.

Wayland solves no issues I have but breaks almost everything I need. Even the most basic, most simple things (like xkill) - in this case with no obvious replacement. And usually it stays broken, because the Wayland folks mostly seem to care about Automotive, Gnome, maybe KDE - and alienating everyone else (e.g., people using just an X11 window manager or something like GNUstep) in the process.

Wayland proponents make it seem like Wayland is "the successor" of Xorg, when in fact it is not. It is merely an incompatible alternative, and not even one that has (nor wants to have) feature parity (missing features). And unlike X11 (the X Window System), Wayland protocol designers actively avoid the concept of "windows" (making up incompr

poliva

function getK (elo) {
  // for rank '?' (<10 games played) the K factor is 20
  if (elo < 700) return 34;   // rank E
  if (elo < 1000) return 32;  // rank D
  if (elo < 1300) return 30;  // rank C
  if (elo < 1600) return 28;  // rank B
  if (elo < 1900) return 26;  // rank A
  return 24;                  // rank S
}