Notices by Dima Pasechnik 🇺🇦 🇳🇱 (dimpase@mathstodon.xyz)

@amszmidt maybe @trofi knows

@amszmidt
the problem is that

void foobar();

(or perhaps foobar(void)) used to match a function foobar() with any calling convention and any number of arguments. (and similar for function pointers). It could have been implementation-dependent, formally speaking, but given that the most compilers were able to deal with it, no problems arose.

So 20-30-40 years ago people wrote Lisp compilers (ECL), computer algebra systems, and with minimal changes the code worked from one standard to another. Not any more with c23 or gnu23.

C23 C language standard made a decision which breaks C functions with arbitrary number of arguments.

How does one define an *arbitrary* function pointer in C23? (not only variadic, which is a special case)

https://gitlab.com/embeddable-common-lisp/ecl/-/issues/775

#c #c23

@Gargron it would be nice to know how to post using curl on the command line. Is it still possible and documented?

@VisualStuart @inthehands
internetz:
"If the total loss payment is less than what you owe on the lease, you'll need to pay the difference unless you have gap insurance. If the insurance payout is more than what you owe to the leasing company, the balance should be paid to you."

so, well, if you can get away with insurance fraud and are not afraid to get hurt in a crash, go for it. (I am not a lawyer, and have never driven a car in my life, either)

@whknott @briankrebs sounds disturbingly familiar (lifelong USSR PTSD here) - that's roughly the language of prosecutors at Stalin's show trials against "enemies of the people"

@whknott @briankrebs given that Putin's Russia basically employs Nazi Germany style of symbolics, and Putin's speechwriters get inspired by Goebbels et al, no wonder that tRump's goons draw upon similarly inspiring historical documents....

@whknott @briankrebs when you let a lot of corporate money into the politics - they merge with the state. Just today I read that DCCC got $2.5 million last month from Palantir - no wonder most House Dems are strangely silent...

https://readsludge.com/2025/02/24/dccc-scores-massive-palantir-and-spacex-lobbyist-cash-haul/

FFS, in good parts of Europe it's already a huge scandal if a politician accepts a free holiday in a millionaire's 2nd home...

@atoponce @dalias all pass exposes are file names. Yes, indeed, if bazbar.gpg in your password store is revealing important info that you're a bazbar member, you're vulnerable to bazbar exploits.

But calling this a grave vulnerability is a bit farfetched

@atoponce @dalias you called it horrible 🙂

@atoponce I know just one password manager which also doubles up as 2FA code generator. It's called pass, and it's a CLI application. It encrypts the data using GPG, and distributes/backs up data using git.

Just added a new key? Well, do "pass git push" to send it over, encrypted, to your git server. Yes, you'll need to do "pass git pull" on the other installs.
I can only complain that adding 2FA keys is somewhat painful.

@mcc why don't you switch to a non-google 2FA app, there is some choice of these; I'm using andOTP (or even a terminal or desktop program - this takes the phone out of the picture; I am using a terminal program called pass, with a pass-otp extension) ?

@julesh @Andrev @JadeMasterMath and just plain corruption (cf. Gazprom puppy Schröder)

@woe2you @dalias @altruios @tante what you described is called NLP, Natural Language Processing. It's not directly related to LLMs we are speaking here. For a smart home setup, one doesn't need to continuously scrap the internet, one doesn't need to gobble up copyrighted content.

@julesh @JadeMasterMath why does it have to be a ton of work? one needs to build a good enough FFI build tool, something akin to pybind11 for Python FFI to C++ (and C).
https://pybind11.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

@julesh @JadeMasterMath I see - certified functional graphics in Haskell... and if you look under the hood of numpy/scipy you are likely to discover that it calls C functions, mostly 🙂

@julesh "Manifesto of the Party of Catergorification" - a mistranslation of "Manifest der Kategoriesierunsfest"

@julesh @Andrev IMHO Southend stopped with scheduled flights long ago.

@julesh Germany is less homogeneous than UK.

And, interestingly, things aren't working well in Berlin (the capital) compared to things working better in London (the capital) than most anywhere else in UK.

Health services still mostly work in Germany. In UK - total collapse in several areas.

Trains in Germany are at least affordable...