Yaksh Bariya

@CodingThunder
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Young programmer from India. Open source enthusiast.
GitHubhttps://github.com/thunder-coding
Websitehttps://thunders.website
Pronounshe/him (they/them is fine)
Last week, I gave a talk on web browser security research at a student-organized conference. I tried to make the talk reasonably beginner-friendly, so the slides (linked here) could hopefully be useful to someone as a learning resource. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rEPiqV0KBHAI0lVym283OHzYRXNCCuGudmDby1Z1qyc/edit?usp=sharing
Intro to Browser Security Research

How to Find Vulnerabilities in Web Browsers (An Introduction to Web Browser Security Research) Ivan Fratrić, Google Project Zero 2025

Google Docs

Kinda wild that we live in such a world where masterpiece lectures on YT have view that barely cross the 10k mark. and we also have stupid trends on the internet exploding at the same time:

I think the world currently is at a point where good internet connectivity can greatly improve a country's future. People all over #india, please utilize this affordable internet connectivitiy and do something great with it. The world has really expensive internet if you compare the prices...

One of the #systemd features I find myself abusing a lot is systemd soft-reboot (https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-soft-reboot.service.html).

I get a clean reboot without having to enter luks password. I just can't comprehend how useful this is. I can do system updates and apply them without having to do a full reboot, and I get almost the same environment as I would with a full reboot. Ofcourse the limitation with system updates is that if there is a kernel/driver update, I have to do a full reboot

systemd-soft-reboot.service

Any DNS TTL of less than 300 should be declared a war crime against the internet
Relying heavily on Macros should be declared illegal in C as well C++!

You should know that you are cooked when you don't get the math even when you are watching a lecture about a topic from one of the top Ivy league colleges and still don't get one small thing which is ruining your entire experience and you are unable to get the intuition for the entire math.

Also super cooked when even reading the original paper doesn't make it easy for you. AHAHAHAHAHHJHAHa. I wanna smash my keyboard

A pro tip for those who are viewing lecture videos with lots of background noise. Or generally anything with loads of white noise, easyeffects works really great for that, audio as clear as if taken from a great microphone.

Not all professors, but most professors. Just found another great lecture by MIT OpenCourseWare which is simpler and goes in same depth, and is more easy to digest.

#academics #mit

Okay, this has to be these professors deliberately doing this! 😢 😢

Like how do you go and explain such basic obvious notations but simply go rocket speed for larger derivations!

According to Wikipedia: "This article's lead section may be too short to adequately summarize the key points. Please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of all important aspects of the article"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL

In case you're looking for something to do.

cURL - Wikipedia