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   Adam Leventhal (ahl@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 15:19:19 JST Adam Leventhal

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   • AndresFreundTec

   What an Oxide and Friends last night! @bcantrill and I were joined by the one and only @AndresFreundTec to talk about his discovery of the xz backdoor. It’s an incredible story… so great to get into the details with Andres. Definitely check it out (or on the pod tomorrow).

   https://youtu.be/jg5F9UupL6I

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     Adam Leventhal (ahl@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 15:19:16 JST Adam Leventhal

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     I threw it on the iPad that I "borrowed" from my older son and traced it in Procreate with his Apple Pencil. 100% it could have been better, but I already felt like a crazy person and wasn't sure it was going to work out

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     Adam Leventhal (ahl@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 15:19:16 JST Adam Leventhal

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     Then I threw the lines into Photoshop, applied the bucket tool, and ... good enough!

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     Adam Leventhal (ahl@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 15:19:17 JST Adam Leventhal

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     Then removed the linchpin:

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     Adam Leventhal (ahl@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 15:19:17 JST Adam Leventhal

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     And simulated...

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     Adam Leventhal (ahl@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 15:19:17 JST Adam Leventhal

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     Until I got to something that was suitably calamitous:

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     Adam Leventhal (ahl@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 15:19:18 JST Adam Leventhal

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     Like all lazy people in 2024, I turned to Chat GPT for help. This didn't work out well. (Have I mentioned that I'm bad at Chat GPT?)

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     Adam Leventhal (ahl@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 15:19:18 JST Adam Leventhal

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     I should mention that we don't put a ton of time into Oxide and Friends (sorry!) so I try to bound these side-quests at least somewhat. Somewhat. I decided to find a physics simulator (like a lunatic) and SimPHY was the first one I stumbled onto that worked well enough. I roughed out the structure from the xkcd comic:

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     Adam Leventhal (ahl@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 15:19:19 JST Adam Leventhal

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     I was really pleased by this background image so wanted to talk about it briefly. The concept was (of course!) simple: the (in)famous xkcd graphic with the thankless Nebraskan removed https://xkcd.com/2347/

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     Adam Leventhal (ahl@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 19:21:14 JST Adam Leventhal

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     • Bryan Cantrill
     • AndresFreundTec

     @bcantrill @AndresFreundTec We started by ranting about the coverage in the New York Times… coverage that explicitly refused to dig into the details. It’s all the more shocking because the big story here is how Andres’ penchant for digging into the details is what saved us from what would have been a pervasive and damaging attack!

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     Marius Gundersen (gundersen@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 19:23:09 JST Marius Gundersen

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     @ahl xkcd needs to update the comic to be interactive using a js physics demo: click any dependency and it dissappears.

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