Notices by Howard Chu @ Symas (hyc@mastodon.social)

@irene @skinnylatte I had no idea this was Japanese. Had it a lot at home. But now I just make it with egg & water, then top with green onions and sesame oil, nothing else.

Torn Write Detection and Protection
with references to #LMDB

https://transactional.blog/blog/2025-torn-writes

LMDB is immune by design; the essential write that marks a txn as committed is only 120 bytes long. Guaranteed to be atomic even on ancient HDDs with 512 byte sectors.

@rayckeith presumably satnavs also work for sea and aircraft, while this would only work for ground. No?

@froge @rayckeith in any case, it seems like not much trouble to deploy, and certainly worth doing. https://mastodon.social/@hyc/112430694224002097

@feld @rberger @Eetschrijver if the courts have no power over the executive branch to force it to comply with judicial orders, then checks and balances are dead.

The court doesn't need power beyond our borders. The people responsible for the screwup are inside our borders and are subject to the court's decisions.

@feld @rberger @Eetschrijver back to the bigger picture - the republicans control both the House and Senate, so that's the Legislative branch taken care of. There are republican-appointed judges all over the federal courts, and of course the Supreme court too, so that's the Judicial branch taken care of. There is no balance, there's nothing to keep Executive branch in check.

@feld @rberger @Eetschrijver the system has responded at the expected speed: judges have issued injunctions and restraining orders against illegal actions already, but those orders have been ignored. It's not a question of judicial speed, it's an issue of failed enforcement, because the enforcers are all corrupt.

@Eetschrijver @rberger I get the feeling Checks & Balances were designed to protect against a rational despot who would try to actually rule the people, vs an irrational puppet who's serving a foreign overlord who's goal is destruction of power, not control of it.

Anyway, those checks and balances worked ok for a couple hundred years, but the whole system has been steadily sabotaged with corrupt appointments etc...

@Linux @gaufff Monero is not a scam. It's the closest thing to digital cash there is. It's uniquely uncensorable, unlike Bitcoin and every other non-private cryptocoin project in existence.

@Linux @gaufff lol. If it "exists in the real world" it's subject to US control. KYC/AML enforcement is everywhere.

But yes, you can use Monero anywhere in the world: https://monerica.com/

Monero works as advertised. That's why the IRS tried and failed to crack it. https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/z9j62d/the_irs_bounty_the_full_story/

@molly0xfff if speaking for more than an hour is something you'll need to do, a voice coach can help you. You're probably over straining parts of your throat and they can teach you to relax those parts.

@feld @DeniseGutzmer the methane comes out of the ground for free at oil drilling sites but as I already noted, most of it is burned/wasted because it's not economical to contain and transport it. https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/gasflaringreduction/gas-flaring-explained

@feld @DeniseGutzmer ammonia synthesis depends on hydrogen which mainly comes from methane. There are plenty of ways to produce methane already, and most of the methane from oil drilling is just burned (flared) onsite. https://scienceinfo.com/habers-process-history-synthesis-ammonia/

@DeniseGutzmer can't wait for Big Ag to start suing Big Oil for damages.

@hyperreal lol. You posted a poll asking for input and say fuck off when you get it. Pathetic.

@ned @SlicerDicer @feld really this approach should work for any infectious disease. And it should work to cure an active infection, not just in prevention.

@feld @ned I've wondered if there was a threshold at which a tumor would outpace the immune system. Makes sense that that's a possibility.

"Cancer vaccine" is an interesting phrase, since usually vaccines are only effective in preventing a disease, not in treating one that's already active.

What's the probability that these custom tailored vaccines accidentally target a protein that's also common to healthy cells?

@swlawrence the hydrogen fuel economy was always a scam, a cynical attempt to keep the fossil fuel industry going.

Wow. #Rust is an unserious language. Unless you bend over backwards to fight the compiler and avoid the standard library, you cannot write code that doesn't try to terminate the calling process on arbitrary error conditions. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43297487

Terminating the process is never an appropriate action in a library. The library has no way to know its caller's uptime constraints. Libraries should only return error codes to callers. Only applications can decide whether to bail out or not.

@dalias @bagder this is why the entire notion of system-wide trust stores is so ludicrous. It comes from the mindset of web browser developers only, who want their client to be able to talk to any server without hassles. But for any other client-server application, you only want a specific set of clients talking to a specific set of servers, and therefore should have app-specific trust config. Esp if using cert-based client authent, you only want to trust one specific issuing CA.