Notices by Graham Sutherland / Polynomial (gsuberland@chaos.social)

@whitequark wow yeah ok that is fast

@whitequark I suspect the bottleneck on a lot of devices I've used is the piddly-ass processor they stick in it, rather than the display.

@whitequark that does look faster than I usually see.

@whitequark how fast are the interactions on it? that's been what kept me away from e-readers. click a page link and... is it slow or did it just not register my press?

chodejs

@SwiftOnSecurity have you ever looked at codesearch (csearch / cindex)? same kind of idea, except fancier.

it builds an index of token sequences as a database during the indexing operation, then has a regex implementation built on top of that token database so you can instantly grep a huge codebase.

I use it all the time in source code assessments because a ~1hr indexing operation saves me so much more time over a few weeks of work.

@jacqueline ah, Tangara Jukebox Edition

@whitequark ... I would bet money that the compiler generates exactly equivalent or worse code with this "optimisation" in place compared to without it.

"cyber blast"

u fkin wot m8

every time I try to write something that has to process video I start out thinking "cool I'm going to use a library for this so I can write it in something other than C or C++" and then I discover that the library doesn't expose the exact feature I need from the underlying ffmpeg libraries.

after recently reviewing a bunch of go I have concluded that I don't like go

I don't even have a concrete reason for it that I could explain. I even sorta like a few things, such as the multiple returns being a first class feature, although the syntax for it feels gross to me for some inexplicable reason. the language just rubs me the wrong way.

this has been my vibe review of go

@whitequark I wasn't sure if it was a logic joke that unintentionally ended up as a SQL joke, or an intentional SQL joke that just so happened to also be a logic joke

did Zach accidentally make an SQL injection joke here without intending to make an SQL injection joke

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/disjunction

just noticed I reflexively type "an SQL injection" even though I pronounce it as "sequel" rather than "s-q-l" out loud. weird.

so how long do we reckon it'll be until we see a story about a VPN company having quietly thrown a bunch of money into lobbying for the online safety act, knowing full well that it'll net them thousands of customers?

new t-shirt

@piko @narylis @whitequark we regret to inform you that the maintainer of breadrollgpkg is a bigot

@whitequark usually there's a mechanism to prevent that where you publish a message hash or similar proof to the server (with sufficient blinding to prevent the server itself knowing anything useful about the message)