Was very close to losing a lot of personal data today despite having multiple geo-distributed backups, due to a fun quirk/bug around ZFS encryption: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/12614
Seems that ZFS dataset replication is not a great backup strategy after all. (Even just the fact that you can't easily export the wrapping keys)
Luckily I was able to bug a person on another continent for long enough to stick the original media into a PC and allow me to recover from that.
Why do I feel like its probably more efficient to run Office 2003 PowerPoint on an emulated Windows 95 running in QEMU compiled to WASM than it is to use the PowerPoint web version?
Reading the ruling on the supposedly "illegal" hosting of #youtubedl's website by @ubernauten, I was shaking my head for a good half an hour. I can't think of a better way the court could have made it so painfully obvious that they have absolutely no clue of what is actually going on.
The idea that such a tool might be illegal in on itself is bonkers. But I can't begin to comprehend the court acks that this site hosts only a GitHub link, yet still says it offers a download.
Honestly I'm pretty scared by the possible precedent such rulings can establish. It contains so many dangerous theories, such as the "rolling cipher" being an adequate technical means to prevent someone from fetching a publicly accessible file from a web server.
There's really nothing stopping you from applying this argument to every web scraper that concatenates two strings to build a URL...
@lschuermann As a browserdev, I'm scared. From a technology perspective it makes the lines awfully fuzzy as to what counts as circumvention vs normal web surfing...
Lesson of the day: you can write incredibly broken assembly and believe it to be working for a long time. However, that does not, in fact, mean that it is not very broken. 🙃
Okay, first long-distance train ride in the US. Charlottesville, VA to Boston, MA. Scheduled for 12h 20m, over Washington D.C. First train is already delayed by a good hour. Wish me luck 😀
First impressions: very comfortable train cars, with a pretty decent AC setting (but not too cold!), which I didn't really expect in 37°C weather. Seats are something to get used to, you literally sink into them. Tray table is large and a ton of legroom.
Caught my connecting train in DC, but just barely. Now onward through Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and then Massachusetts. The trains are not too fast, but because they only call at stations in larger cities we're making pretty good progress.
The beautiful thing about building visualization apps is that if you do happen to find a bug, there's a good chance beautiful abstract art comes out of it.