Notices by Tony Finch (fanf@mendeddrum.org)

https://github.com/elikaski/ECC_Attacks - Known attacks and a primer on elliptic curve cryptography.

https://www.memorysafety.org/blog/rustls-performance-outperforms/ - Rustls outperforms OpenSSL and BoringSSL.

https://blog.drewolson.org/gleam-is-pragmatic/ - The Gleam programming language is pragmatic.

i am reminded by @cks of how fun web virtual hosting was back in the 1990s

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/NameBasedVirtualHostsImportance?showcomments

sadly, U+23DE and U+23DF top and bottom curly bracket are not allowed in identifiers

C23 follows UAX#31 which also does not allow symbols in identifiers — these are category Sm Symbol, math

this is magnificent https://lobste.rs/s/xhskrk/brackets_are_awesome_don_t_use_them#c_pcwfby
nobody tell steve bourne

https://qntm.org/clean - It's time to stop recommending Clean Code.

@lanodan yeah i deliberately prevented the compiler from inlining because i wanted to be sure i was measuring what i thought i was; the versions in BIND are inlined .. . i should add a few sentences about the benchmark methodology, oops, forgot!

on my blog!

https://dotat.at/@/2024-07-28-tolower-avx512.html

tolower() with AVX-512

i got nerdsniped and this is the result

https://codeberg.org/reach/reach/src/branch/main/common/ecdh-omr - ECDH-OMR: elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman oblivious message retrieval.

https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cement-recycling - Recycling steel with cement in an arc furnace could produce zero-emissions concrete.

2021 retro-link! http://www.horg.com/horg/ - Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group.

heh i had completely forgotten about this website, it is great fun http://www.horg.com/horg/?page_id=3281

well, i popped out to somewhere i hoped would be dark enough, the fields by the path from storey's way to eddington, between the astronomical observatory and huntingdon road

scores of people had the same idea, heh

the aurora was too faint to really see, i couldn't tell if it was actually aurora or just light pollution reflecting off hazy clouds

2022 retro-link! https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/04/the-british-empire-was-much-worse-than-you-realize-caroline-elkinss-legacy-of-violence - The British Empire was much worse than you realize.

i was not previously aware that swindon used to have a second magic roundabout

https://youtu.be/RKYmY4oop7E

i do not have a driving licence but i did have some driving lessons in the dim and distant past … i was mildly alarmed when my driving instructor told me to take us through high wycombe’s magic roundabout in my, what, 5th lesson?!

on my blog!

joining ellipses with matching tangents

https://dotat.at/@/2024-02-05-joining-ellipses.html

once again featuring an interactive diagram

who else had an acorn electron?

this vid is a fairly interesting restoration and modding for (rough) ntsc compatibility

https://youtu.be/sukuk-miq4U

@ajlanes @goatsarah i have found that i usually book early enough to get a seat at the front of the plane, nice, and i pay for the fast track, breezy, and i have learned how to get immigration fast track when i return via stansted too, which sadly i have to get separately, but all in all it isnt that bad

and i gather ryanair treated their employees better than most through the panini, so ? could be worse

could be better but not everywhere is reachable by train