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icing, 7 minutes ago to random

Sometimes we forget what a marvel 'git' really is. Just did

git show <commit-id>

and it pulled out a curl change from 16 years ago in the fraction of a second.

Hat off to its makers and maintainers!

icing, 3 days ago to random

Another nice graph from the curl dashboard:

https://curl.se/dashboard1.html#vulns-releases

icing, 4 days ago to random

I admit, I am not a Teams player.😌

icing, 4 days ago to random

duckduckgo still not working. Looks like a deployment at scale without rollback options...

My condolences to the poor ops people sweating on this now...

Update: to be precise, DDG fails because Bing is not working.

icing, 5 days ago to random

Very happy to live in the EU, for various reasons.

icing, 6 days ago to random

Law enforcement and your employer will not demand access to your Windows Recall model, right?

Microsoft must have thought that through, for sure.

icing, 7 days ago to random

A lot of „typical techbro“ behaviour can be better described as „addicts‘ overconfidence“ while high.

Current case: the lack of a plan to deal with Scarlett Johansson‘s objection to her voice cloning. The public boasting that it is intended to be like „her“.

I could be wrong, of course, and none of the techbros do any drugs.

icing, 17 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.😌

icing, 17 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

icing, 19 days ago to random

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

icing, 20 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, 20 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, 21 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, 23 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, 24 days ago to random

Yep, Stockholm.

icing, 28 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

icing, 28 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, 29 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.

icing, 1 month ago to random

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

"Ah, it was a commit and run!"

icing, 1 month 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, 1 month 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/

icing, 1 month ago to random

I have not heard about rich people replacing their tax consultants with AI.

Which should be easy for a chat AI to do, filling out some forms.

Wonder what is holding that back?🤔

icing, 1 month ago to random

I propose to remove mod_tls from Apache 2.4.x again. The rustls API keeps on changing and I do not have the time to keep up with that.

If someone wants to step in, feel free to add your voice to the httpd dev mailing list.

https://lists.apache.org/thread/hkbcqw3lblswrc20ymg9dp8ncjtbcbon

icing, 1 month ago to random

Slack, t'was not always nice knowing you - but whatever.💁🏻‍♂️

icing, 1 month ago to random

Lets Encrypt will change cert chains soon. If you pin intermediates or root certs, you need to adapt.

Note that LE plans to expire intermediates every year, going forward. Because it is the only way to make this work.

People are very good at adapting to constant change, but will fight tooth and nail to ignore something several years in the future.

https://letsencrypt.org/2024/04/12/changes-to-issuance-chains.html