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The Dark Assassins Podcast — 180 episodes

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1

In a Surprise to Absolutely No One, Meta Does Horrible Things, Again

2

Did Apple Just Kill the iPad?

3

All This and It’s Only January?

4

Core Modules (Pt. 4)

5

Recommendation Algorithms Aren’t as Smart as You Think

6

Amazon Web Services and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

7

"Awe Dropping" and Head Scratching

8

RIP Cisco (Again), Death of a Legend, AI in Cars: No | Operation Core Dump

9

Scheduled Downtime

10

Internet Age Verification: Saving the Children or Privacy Eliminating Trojan

11

Bootcamps vs. Computer Science Degrees

12

The Ethics of Autonomous Systems

13

The Failings of Agile

14

Slow Clap for Google, Cisco’s Back at it Again, Microsoft Embraces Dystopia | Operation Core Dump

15

R.I.P. Zuck, Cisco, and the Blue Screen of Death

16

Who Fails to Impress More: Scammers or Artificial Intelligence

17

The Real F1 King, Hair Force One, Has Arrived

18

Rookie Mistakes, VR Gaming, What to Expect at WWDC | Operation Core Dump

19

The Benefits and Drawbacks of Technology

20

Taking Technology Questions (That Nobody Asked) to the Extreme

21

CPU vs. GPU Architectural Differences

22

Memory vs Performance: The Tradeoffs of Optimization

23

Learn Cloud Computing on a Budget With a Homelab

24

Building a Homelab for Remote Work

25

Homelabbing for Game Development

26

Software Meets Driving, Software Engineer Q&A | Operation Core Dump

27

Data Security and the Importance of Encryption & Key Management

28

Signal’s User Spike, FAANG Pwned, Vibe Coding | Operation Core Dump

29

Programming Language March Madness

30

How the Internet Works Part 2: TCP/IP

31

The Cybersecurity Risk No One Wants to Talk About

32

The Worst Programming Practices That Just Won’t Die

33

Hardening Your Infrastructure and Reducing Your Attack Surface

34

Build vs. Buy – Rolling Your Own vs. Off-the-Shelf Solutions

35

Homelab Withdrawal and Dinosaurs Stay Winning

36

More Hotel Pen Testing, Homelabber’s Got Weird Priorities, “TikTok Ban” Upheld | Operation Core Dump

37

Top 5 Software Engineering Anti-Patterns and How to Avoid Them

38

Nerding Out on Nerdy Books

39

Core Modules (Pt. 3)

40

Core Modules (Pt. 2)

41

Core Modules (Pt. 1)

42

Not the Donuts!, Bounds Checking Optimization, Xserve Reborn? | Operation Core Dump

43

Fed’s Recommend Encryption, Is AI Harming You?, History of Ransomware | Operation Core Dump

44

Homelab Thanksgiving

45

Nerdy Things November

46

iOS’s Silent Security Update, Password Facepalm, Where to start? | Operation Core Dump

47

Mastering the Art of Finding Bugs

48

Wallets Everywhere Tremble In Fear

49

A Software Engineer’s Most Rewarding Experience Is …

50

Firefox Zero-Day, OEM Tomfoolery, The “Solved Problem” | Operation Core Dump

51

The Rise of Object-Oriented Programming

52

If ____ Were a Programming Language

53

From Mainframes to Homelabs: The Story of Virtualization

54

C++ Plans to be Memory Safe

55

The Death of the Great Leap Forward

56

Essential Habits to Write Better Code

57

I’m Not a Penetration Tester, But…

58

Optimizing Virtualization in Your Homelab: Performance vs. Security

59

What Software Engineers Actually Do

60

Fixing C Memory Errors with AI (Oh boy…)

61

Software Development: Creativity for the Analytical Mind

62

Beyond iOS with Swift

63

Do Code Reviews Improve Quality?

64

RockYou’s Major Upgrade, Copilot Lawsuit Update, Is Programming Hard? | Operation Core Dump

65

Shedding Light on the Dark Side of the Internet

66

Time to Git Good

67

“Think of the Children,” Windows Wi-Fi Vulnerability, Tranquility of Code | Operation Core Dump

68

Hair Force Once Lead Apple Strike Team Launches a New Form of Intelligence

69

LeetCode is the Treadmill of Software Development

70

Can Spyware be a Useful Feature?

71

Dr. Frankenstein’s Back at it Again!

72

Doing Things the Ansible Way

73

Want the Latest Apple Silicon? Buy an - iPad?

74

Hacking RHEL, More Ansible Automation, Embedding Assets in Binaries | Operation Core Dump

75

Where to Start with Software Development and Homelabbing

76

Writing a HTTP Server: A Perfect Intro to Cybersecurity and Software Development

77

Strategies for Error Handling in Your Software Projects

78

The Perfect Score You Don’t Want

79

Tech Buzzwords Decoded, 40x Performance With Cache, Writing MS-DOS Code | Operation Core Dump

80

Centennial, Coding Like it’s 1994, Cache Performance | Operation Code Dump

81

The Usefulness of AI in Software Development

82

Choosing Your Architecture: Monolith or Microservice

83

Should C/C++ Start Climbing The Stairway to Heaven in The Name of Cybersecurity?

84

What Does AI Think About Homelabs?

85

Software Development Hot Takes: C++ STL Containers and Smart Pointers

86

Winnie-the-Pooh’s Favorite Cybersecurity Principle: Honeypots

87

Technical Debt, Procedurally Generated Graphics, A New Milestone | Operation Core Dump

88

Should Developers Have Admin Rights

89

Productivity Tracking for Software Development: Justified or Unnecessary

90

Unveiling the Vitality of Secure Code

91

2024 is the Year of Personal Projects

92

Building Out a Homelab, From Budget to Datacenter

93

The Software That Runs Homelabs and Powers Developers

94

Bluetooth Vulnerability, macOS On Linux?, Don’t Discount Programming Languages | Operation Core Dump

95

How Software License Keys Work

96

Cybersecurity Wake-up Call

97

Build It All From Source, Optimize ZFS Cache Allocation, The Truth About Thanksgiving | Operation Core Dump

98

Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day; Neither is a Homelab or Software

99

Game Development is the Swiss Army Knife of IT

100

How Fast is “Scary Fast”?

101

We Need More Analog, Apple Xserve Keeps Kicking, State Machines | Operation Core Dump

102

Why Software Developers “Aren’t Loyal”

103

Hacked By Proxy, Free Real Estate, SFP+ Shenanigans | Operation Core Dump

104

VLANs Are More Than Just Theory

105

Bit-Packing: A Memory Optimized Way to Write Unreadable Code (And I Love It)

106

Extreme Makeover: Homelab Edition

107

Welcome to 2013, iPhone 15 Pro

108

Apple Dominates Headlines, Contributing to Open-Source, Homelab Push-Notifications | Operation Core Dump

109

Round and Round it Goes; Where it Stops When X is Greater Than 10

110

Why You Should, and Shouldn’t, Build a Custom Server for Your Homelab

111

Legitimacy of a VR Future, Software Updates Out the Wazoo, Web Scraping | Operation Core Dump

112

Patching Other People’s Code

113

Turning Gigabytes Into Megabytes: The Art of Compression

114

Personal Projects vs. Closed-Source Software: A Debate

115

Logging While Not Selling the Souls of Your Users

116

GLIBC Giveth and GLIBC Taketh Away: How to Overcome Failure in Your Homelab and in Software Development

117

Major Java Updates, Dead Code, Red Hat’s Message To Open Source | Operation Core Dump

118

Software Development Meets Physics

119

Why APIs Are Crucial for Developers and End Users

120

Hair Force One Expands Our Vision

121

Message to Developers, Refactor the Right Way, Nintendo’s Emulator Wars | Operation Core Dump

122

Beyond The High Seas

123

The Three Pillars of Account Security

124

Optimizing Your C++ Classes

125

Social Media Woes, DBOS, Google Authenticator Security Concerns | Operation Core Dump

126

The Dr. Frankenstein of Mac’s (feat. dosdude1)

127

Tools To Have In Your Software Developer Toolbox

128

Hardware Considerations When Sourcing A Server For Your Homelab

129

Harnessing The Power of Elon in Your Homelab (Kinda)

130

USBs Can Hack You, Christmas For Developers Announced, Homelab TLC | Operation Core Dump

131

Why Are There So Many Data Structures

132

Nintendo PSA, A New Xserve User, Developer News | Operation Core Dump

133

I Use Arch BTW

134

Cheesing AI, How Shuffle Works, Tech News Lightning Round | Operation Core Dump

135

Anyone Can Make An AI, You Aren’t Special

136

Coding Like There’s No Tomorrow

137

Should You Become a Software Developer? Insights from a Seasoned Developer

138

Ventura Install Take Two, GitHub Copilot Lawsuit Updates, Bypassing Corporate USB Restrictions | Operation Core Dump

139

Accelerating Your Software Deployments with Docker and DevOps

140

Not All Multithreading Is Created Equal

141

The Worlds First Dynamic Distributed Complier

142

No, Governments Should Not Replace Their Fiat Currency With A Cryptocurrency

143

Looking Ahead To 2023 And Answering Software Development And Technology FAQs

144

My Homelabs Christmas Present To Me (Ventura Woes), Serialization, WAF | Operation Core Dump

145

RHEL’s “Infinite Money Glitch”, Outsmarting SBF, Are Frameworks Programming Languages? | Operation Core Dump

146

Dealing With And Subverting Collegiate Sponsored Malware

147

Programming A Cloud Computing Simulator Using, Cars For Servers?

148

How Homelabs And Personal Software Development Projects Pay Tangible, Real-World Dividends

149

Using CMD When It’s Disabled, A Possible Raspberry Pi Homelab Replacement, Twitter’s Meme Bonanza | Operation Core Dump

150

Looks Like Someone Didn’t Read The Software License Agreement

151

Wait, Serverless Computing Involves Servers?!

152

Fixing Broken Stuff, C/C++ Memory Management, Is The iPad Drama Justified | Operation Core Dump

153

The Hardware That Runs The Internet

154

Why Everyone, Especially Software Developers, Need To Have A Homelab

155

CPU Cores Vs Threads, Google Declares War On Ad-Blockers, Complex Code | Operation Core Dump

156

What Happened To The Xserve

157

Turning Off And On An Entire Data Center From Across The Globe

158

iPhone Mini Conspiracy, What’s up with 10Gig, Coding Style Guides | Operation Core Dump

159

A Mini Death Has Occurred At Apple

160

Are Advanced Degrees Worth It For Software Developers

161

The Most Elite Breed Of Developers And How To Be Like Them

162

DevOps: Beyond The Buzzword

163

What The Heck Is RAID?

164

The End For GitLab? How Anti-Virus Really Works, How to Speed Up Your Programs | Operation Core Dump

165

IT Goes Full Send to Prod, Guacamole + Homelab, TechTubers Get Ripped a New One | Operation Core Dump

166

A New Encryption Algorithm Has Entered The Chat

167

Operating System Showdown

168

Why Cloud Computing Isn’t The King, Hybrid-Cloud Is

169

Why Tech Reviewers Are Out Of Touch With Consumers And How To Fix It

170

Binning, MBSE Rant, Irony of Documentation, Homelabs | Operation Core Dump

171

The Future of Intel Mac’s in a Post-Intel World

172

Hair Force One Strikes Again!

173

Privacy vs. Security

174

The Power of Personal Projects

175

What Is Operation Core Dump, Why Not All Apps Are Cross-Platform, The Power Of Automation | Operation Core Dump

176

It’s Not A Bug, It’s A Feature

177

Building Software From The Ground Up, And When To Reinvent The Wheel

178

VPN Companies Are Lying To You

179

Software Development Isn’t Black Magic, It’s Actually Easy

180

Going Beyond Just Technology