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icing, 3 days ago to random

With 346 PRs being merged into curl I climbed now to position 11 (decimal) on the all-time author list.

I hope some of them have been useful.😌

xahteiwi, 3 days ago to random

Hot take: major rewrites of large parts of a a complex codebase are almost always a mistake.

icing, 3 days ago to random

Since a (very subjective) third of curl's non-trivial issues seem FTP related, I am adding 'ftp' to the things you can enable tracing for.

Why FTP troubles after all these years? It's a protocol with many sharp edges and servers migrating to TLS and then TLSv1.3 show slightly different behaviour.

https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/13580

jpmens, 3 days ago to random

I've been at it for a few years, but this is a first for me:

wget curl --silent "<https://api.github.com/repos/....../releases/latest>" | jq -r '.assets[].browser_download_url' | egrep ".tar.bz2$"

Whole list of those which need to be copied out of a PDF ...

wget and curl.

icing, 4 days ago to random

https://simonwillison.net/2024/May/8/slop/

jacqueline, 5 days ago to random

the thing about c++ is you can do

std::numeric_limits<uint32_t>::max()

and be technically correct, portable, more expressive, etc.

or you can just do

UINT32_MAX

which is probably Wrong and Bad in many ways, but has the strong advantage of not sucking ass

icing, 6 days ago to random

When people say parsing URLs is easy, they are probably convinced that at least parsing IP addresses is easy as well?

You can write 8.8.8.8 as 010.8.8.8 - same thing. But what is then ::ffff:010.8.8.8?

macOS say it is 10.8.8.8 and Linux rejects it as invalid.

All very easy...

icing, 6 days ago to random

Slides from my curl-up 2024 presentations. The videos are better if you want to understand them, but in case you like better resolution, here they are:

https://eissing.org/curlup-2024/performance/
https://eissing.org/curlup-2024/evolution/

icing, 7 days ago to random

The curl-up talk (with bad audio but somewhat working subttiles) on how we improved curl's h2 performance: https://youtu.be/4eBAzi7D_WM

icing, 9 days ago to random

Talking about Evolution in curl over the last 2 years at curl up 2024 in a couple of minutes. Live at twitch channel curlhacker.

icing, 10 days ago to random

Yep, Stockholm.

bagder, 10 days ago to Skydiving

The rfc6265bis document - the updated #cookie spec - is now in draft-14: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-rfc6265bis-14.html

It has been in the works for almost a decade by now!

icing, 13 days ago to random

If you have an S3 bucket and someone touches it - even when only getting a „403 Access Denied“ - it makes ding on your credit card.😬
https://chaos.social/@jonty/112356533762691820

bagder, 14 days ago to random

How many authors have their contributions in #curl product source code? How many have had their previous work completely removed. Over time.

The first #curl release with code present authored by 200 persons was done in 2015-04-22. In that release, we had already removed all traces of contributions from 20 authors.

In the latest release, 604 authors' code is still present. 171 authors' work have been replaced.

icing, 14 days ago to random

AI companies claim they are unable to correct false data in LLMs. (I think that is a false claim - it pbly is highly expensive, though.)

This clashes with EU law that information about individuals - if you claim to have it - needs to be accurate. Which seems like a sane thing to me.

https://noyb.eu/en/chatgpt-provides-false-information-about-people-and-openai-cant-correct-it

icing, 15 days ago to random

I do not trust passkeys, because I seem no longer to be the one controlling the access.

Instead google or apple are.

Sure, they ask me for my face or thumb, but my brain is no longer a vital part of the process.

I can understand that companies might prefer that. The medium failure rate will be much better the more employees you have.

But for me as an individual the failure impact seems catastrophic, or at least unclear how to mitigate.

jpmens, 17 days ago to random

What would drive me bonkers is an interface wich emits

Command Result : No Error

after every damn command.

icing, 17 days ago to random

"What happened?"
"My CIs started failing..."

"Ah, it was a commit and run!"

isotopp, 17 days ago to random German

MySQL folks take a lot of things for granted that are not present in this form in Postgres, and that may be a bad surprise when you try out "the other system".

MySQL for example has a stable and upwards- and slightly-downwards-compatible on-disk format, mostly. Oracle sometimes forgets how important that is and makes changes, or unannounced changes, and then needs to be corrected, hard, by their development partners and testers.

But in general the following things are true:

icing, 18 days ago to random

Annoying day: github dropped new macOS images, defaults to ARM, which has other paths for homebrew, which brings a new python version which refuses pip installs. Ah, and the brew openssl's pkgconfig is broken.

Punch card debugging...

icing, 19 days ago to random

I‘ll never visit the US again: if you make it past the cavity searchers at immigration, you can meet the legal owners of flame-throwing robot dogs, after which medical services will try to bankrupt you.🙈

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/you-can-now-buy-a-flame-throwing-robot-dog-for-under-10000/