Here I post various stuff about programming, politics, etc.
I was browsing Hacker News a month ago when a stumbled upon a post that drew my attention. I went into the project's repository , noticed that there was a feature which I deemed as necessary for this project missing, so I forked the repository, implemented it myself, and opened a pull request. When the project's owner answered to my PR, the language they used was clearly LLM-like and I got asked…
Once upon a time, a prophet appeared into the world. They spoke of a LEGEND ... A future founded on 3 pillars. Decentralization, Security, Scalability. - A bad attempt at paraphrasing the Legend of Delta Rune Cryptocurrencies. We know them. Some of us love them, others not that much. They offer a way to make transactions between 2 individuals securely [citation needed] , without relying on any…
This article will cover two very important recent developments in the tech world. One of them concerns EU's Chat Control proposal, which has been proposed and rejected numerous times until now but somehow keeps coming back, while the other will cover the intention of Youtube to roll a form of age verification powered by AI. Both of these changes are very concerning in my opinion and should be…
This is a follow-up to my previous article The issue The method described in that article has a flow. Take the following example: use simple_fatfs :: * ; fn main ( ) { // we don't care about the storage implementation, just keep in mind that // it implements all of the Read, Write & Seek trait let mut ...
The British Broadcast Channel reportedly said that a major data breach is threatening the lives of thousands of Afghans, which are now being secretly relocated to the UK. There have been more severe OpSec fails this year and for that reason I would like to talk a bit about them. Our world is undergoing a period of high tension, that's for sure. Afghanistan has fallen , Europe has seen its first…
I've spent nearly a year developing and refining my own FAT driver in Rust. For much of the last six months, I had to put the project on hold due to school commitments. However, I'm back now, especially since this project has become my most-starred repository on GitHub. During that journey, I (almost) learned how FAT and filesystems in general work behind-the-scenes and in my attempts to navigate…
As we are just 2 days away from the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 finals, I thought I should write an article about a couple of incidents that shook last year's contest. I myself am not a huge fan of the Eurovision, that is, I don't watch fanatically all those interviews with the participants neither do I hear the majority of the songs before the grand final. Joost Klein, the Ode to Europe and the…