Sigstore Reaches General Availability

With all that effort being put as well as the recent service's GA, consumers of OSS should start feeling much much safer

full article on i-programmer:

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/149-security/15821-sigstore-reaches-general-availability.html

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Ingres vs Postgres MVCC Explained With Neo4j's LLM Knowledge Graph Builder

LLM Knowledge Graph Builder is an application designed to turn unstructured data such as pdfs, text documents, YouTube videos, and web pages, into a knowledge graph stored in Neo4j, promising much better accuracy than simple RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation). https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/17967-ingres-vs-postgres-mvcc-explained-with-neo4js-llm-knowledge-graph-builder-.html

The Advent of SQL 2024 Has Commenced

It's Advent - the time of year when we countdown the days to Christmas - and if your are a programmer complete daily coding challenges with the Advent of Code, the Advent of Perl, the Advent of Java, Javascriptmas, etc. Now we have the Advent of SQL too with 24 SQL challenges to complete before Christmas! https://www.i-programmer.info/news/204-challenges/17678-the-advent-of-sql-2024-has-commenced.html

Printing Unicode on the Windows Console and the importance of of i/o layers

I wanted to take a look on printing Unicode on the windows console by using the Win32 api and also check how is done in other languages, rather than directly from Perl which hides a lot of details Problems when wanting to print to the console : 1.The windows console uses an internal buffer that can mangle output 2.Invoking the console using the Unicode switch (cmd.exe /u) does not have an effect 3.Windows supports UTF-16 inherently, not utf8 4.Documentation on Unicode and the console is hard to find.MSDN library, as usual, is a labyrinth with no beginning and end where you can loose track easily The need arose when I needed to print an old style dos box using the cp437 box drawing characters on the console using their Unicode code points rather than their ASCII representation. The output was mangled/overlapped Take a look at this pictorial output to get a clear view of the problem The code that generated the incorrect result is : #unicode_box_incorrect.pl use Win32...

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