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brobinson··on Matt Mullenweg Overrules Core Committers; Puts Akismet on WP 7's Connector List
It was a reference to this: https://xkcd.com/369/
brobinson··on Matt Mullenweg Overrules Core Committers; Puts Akismet on WP 7's Connector List
"died in a blogging accident"
brobinson··on Twitter's new encrypted DMs aren't better than the old ones
Bitcoin does use encryption for messaging, but I don't know if this is what Musk was referencing: https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/v2-p2p-transport/
brobinson··on Branch Privilege Injection: Exploiting branch predictor race conditions
Didn't all the major browsers alter their timing APIs to make this impossible/difficult?
brobinson··on API Shouldn't Redirect HTTP to HTTPS
It would block requests to OCSP responders, for one.
brobinson··on The best way to have complex discussions?
The 4chanx extension (userscript, run it in violentmonkey or equivalent) lets you nest comments in a chain to make following threads easy while maintaining the overall chronological state of the threads. You can also hide a reply, and it will automatically hide the entire chain of replies to that reply.
brobinson··on DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android
I _think_ iMazing can do what you want: https://imazing.com/configurator

Disclaimer: I've never used this feature. I only use it for backups and copying files to my iPhone.

brobinson··on The dangers of single line regular expressions
Note that Ruby also has \z which is what you generally want instead of \Z.

(\Z allows a trailing newline, \z does not)

brobinson··on FFmpeg 7.0
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack!
brobinson··on The Reddits
Hah, I saw this:

    Steve was not a big fan of authority, so he also liked the idea of a site without editors.
and remembered him getting prod database access to censor comments criticizing him. I guess it's true what they say about power corrupting you.
brobinson··on U.S. students will take the SAT online
Imagine you did all of that, received and accepted an offer, and then they made you work on snap. Grim.
brobinson··on Stress reduction techniques for high stress operations (2023)
Magnesium glycinate!
brobinson··on Thanksgiving 2023 security incident
Fair enough.
brobinson··on Learnings from our years of Kubernetes in production
Same here. "Learnings" sounds ESL to me.
brobinson··on Thanksgiving 2023 security incident
There's a huge difference between using your personal Spotify account at work and using your personal Github account at work.
brobinson··on Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards
Sivers is an OG. Definitely not a bot. I've looked at sivers.org/multiply at least once per year for the last 15 years.
brobinson··on Flipper Zero: Multi-Tool Device for Geeks
Mine is just a cool-looking paperweight now.
brobinson··on The Case for Rust in the base system
Microsoft, Google, and other companies have all determined that about 70% of CVEs are memory-related. Here's the US government's take: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/urgent-need-memory-saf...

These memory-related exploits disappear with Rust aside from in "unsafe" blocks (possibly the worst named keyword in any language... it should have been called "trusted"), and that means you have a smaller and more easily auditable attack surface for these types of memory-related exploits. Some code (e.g., FFI) can't be verified as memory-safe by the Rust compiler at compilation time so "unsafe" is there as an escape hatch. I've written a bunch of Rust since 2014 building things like webservers, realtime futures processing algorithms, MEV bots, etc., and I've only had to use "unsafe" a few times.

I've also worked in security on products at Fortune 100 companies, and C is a constant nightmare for CVEs. I think I have PTSD from having to update libcurl. The more software we have written in memory safe languages, the better off we all are.

brobinson··on Ceph: A Journey to 1 TiB/s
Hey, thanks for the response! There have been a lot of across the board improvements in the kernel in the last four years so I'm surprised there's not a noticeable performance improvements in 6.2 (although I also consider 6.2 old at this point).
brobinson··on Ceph: A Journey to 1 TiB/s
I'm curious what the performance difference would be on a modern kernel.
brobinson··on Tachiyomi – It's Joever
Well, the inverse is "we're so Barack".
brobinson··on Coming of Age at the Dawn of the Social Internet
This is the second reference to BotLS I've seen today on HN. The other was here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38938981

I've read the four BotNS books. Is BotLS worth it if I had mixed feelings about those?

brobinson··on How to Be More Agentic
What I got out of it was "determination eventually beats natural skill over time".
brobinson··on Israeli group claims it’s using back channels to censor “inflammatory” content
What was it about?
brobinson··on NHS to investigate Palantir influencer campaign as possible contract breach
What are the better products that are available?
brobinson··on Compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT
The addon you linked (on the Firefox version) only requests permissions on google.* sites so I don't think it will work for DDG. Is there a separate extension, or am I misunderstanding something?
brobinson··on Compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT
Does this exist for DDG?
brobinson··on Report: YouTube adding user-traceable ID tag to links shared off-platform
And Spotify.
brobinson··on KDE Plasma 6.0 Is Enabling Wayland by Default
>Wayland doesn't fractionally scale chrome, chromium, chromium, chromium, chromium, and other appimage and non-native applications.

The absolute state of desktop applications in 2023. Everything is a web browser. God help us all.

brobinson··on Still no love for WPA3 on the Raspberry Pi 5
https://www.krackattacks.com/
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