Linksammlung 24.02.2024

• YouTube Gold: Tactics of Physical Pen Testers.
• Mastering DOM manipulation with vanilla JavaScript
• Embrace Independence: The Case for Moving Away from the Cloud¹
• E-Mail collection of received emails to curl creator
• A simple and to the point classless CSS framework
• Style your webpage like Edward Tufte’s handouts.
• The ‘doorway effect’ or ‘location updating effect’
• Keypad symbols: the sextile and the square
• Ever wanted to hear Old Hard drive sounds
• Tamper-proof ID tag can authenticate almost anything²
• LLMs generate responses by randomly sampling words based in part on probabilities. Their “language” consists of numbers that map to tokens.³

Create a file of certain size in Linux

fallocate -l 10485760 file.txt # bytes
truncate -s 10485760 file.txt # bytes
dd if=/dev/zero of=file.txt bs=1024 count=10240

$ head --bytes 300K /dev/zero > file3.txt
$ ls -h file3.txt
300K file3.txt

$ tail --bytes 1G /dev/zero > file4.txt
$ ls -h file4.txt
1.0G  file4.txt