muvlon

muvlon, 4 months ago to random

Me: I want restricted privileges for a service
Unix: Of course, just make a new user
Me: Okay Unix, I'd like to add an "nginx" user
Unix: Sure just tell me their telephone number and what room their office is in

thephd, 4 months ago to random

Wasn't expecting my blog to get directly cited in a WG14 e-mail, but here we are, I guess.

fasterthanlime, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

in an impressive failure of public transportation policy, it’s *about the same price and twice as fast to rent a car and drive to the airport, than to take public transportation + a shuttle (even if you live here)

edit: here’s the detailed breakdown: https://hachyderm.io/@fasterthanlime/111637882952516038

astrid, 5 months ago to random

if someone gives me $1,000,000 i will rewrite the Linux kernel in Rust

18+ astrid, 5 months ago to random

man, every dns server sucks, i should write my own

fasterthanlime, 5 months ago to random

this month I'm doing the advent of "not having to write a parser every day" and it's glorious.

I'm smiling every morning about it.

thephd, 5 months ago to random

Whoever wrote this damn document: https://www.regulations.gov/comment/ONCD-2023-0002-0020

You sound exactly like the C people when C++ came along, and it's actually embarrassing.

mothcompute, 5 months ago to random

man wrapped: you spent five hours this year reading the function prototype on mmap(2)

kwf, 5 months ago to random

PG&E wants to charge me a $2,500 engineering fee for them to develop a quote to tell me how much more money I would need to give them to upgrade my electrical service to 200A so I can buy more of their product from them faster.

I think I'm going to just make do with 100A for now.

fasterthanlime, 6 months ago to random

TIL what "taint tracking" is and I think computer scientists should be barred from naming more things until further notice

https://codeql.github.com/docs/writing-codeql-queries/about-data-flow-analysis/#normal-data-flow-vs-taint-tracking

astrid, 6 months ago to random

In Mojo, functions can be declared using both fn or def.[25] The use of fn for function declaration, ensuring that the functions are strongly typed, is reminiscent of Rust’s function declaration syntax.

holy shit please just pick one

thephd, 6 months ago to random

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3176.pdf

...

(* deep breath *)

I need to write not only a paper, but a full-blown series on the history of C. The historical revisionism and prescription of some magical properties to C89 or whatever without mentioning the vast landscape of extensions is.

Ugh.

jhpratt, 6 months ago to random

@predrag You're the person to ask. Is it possible for changing a struct to an enum to be a breaking change? Specifically for the situation where the struct is a thin wrapper around the enum, not exposing the inner field.

0xabad1dea, 6 months ago to random

you ever look at a university hostname in a url and think “I don’t recognize it but I am 100% confident that is the name of an especially obscure elf from the Silmarillion as picked by the IT intern in 1992”

b0rk, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

what git jargon do you find confusing? thinking of writing a blog post that explains some of git's weirder terminology: "detached HEAD state”, "fast-forward", "index/staging area/staged", “ahead of 'origin/main' by 1 commit”, etc

(really only looking for terms that you personally find confusing, not terms that you think someone else might be confused about)

gsuberland, 6 months ago to random

bought some 90-degree USB Type B adapters and am very glad that I did.

so many things put the sockets on the back of a device, making it impossible to get it anywhere near flush. really annoying on desk stuff 'cos I'll push my keyboard back to make room but then the cable prods at my spacebar.

mcc, 6 months ago to random

Thinking about this juxtaposition (when they say people are "locked out" of their Pixels, it appears they can log into the Pixels, but not access their own storage)

raptor, 6 months ago to random

Nice bug!

"The vulnerability occurs because the return value of snprintf is used to determine how many bytes are sent to the client by ns_vpn_send_response. This is a problem because snprintf does not return how many bytes it did write to the buffer, snprintf returns how many bytes it would have written to the buffer if the buffer was big enough."

#CitrixBleed Leaking Session Tokens with CVE-2023-4966

https://www.assetnote.io/resources/research/citrix-bleed-leaking-session-tokens-with-cve-2023-4966

See also my #Semgrep rule at https://github.com/0xdea/semgrep-rules/blob/main/c/unsafe-ret-snprintf-vsnprintf.yaml

gsuberland, 6 months ago to random

idk if this is an ADHD thing, or just a me thing, but I noticed something weird about how I play drums - I can't count beats in my head. or, rather, I can't in the "one two three four" sense. I also can't live-improvise.

precise timing comes innately to me, and I can tell if I'm even a handful of milliseconds off time. I learn patterns by muscle memory, not by conscious control. as soon as I try to consciously count out the beats, I make a total mess of it. improvising has the same issue.

muvlon, 7 months ago to random

That's enough Rust for today

fasterthanlime, 7 months ago to random

I love how the lcov people straight up ship /usr/bin/genhtml like they own the place

fasterthanlime, 7 months ago to random

it's been so long since I've made a real video that even my sponsors are e-mailing me like "hey babe, miss you"