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@ezio@akko.wtf Fun fact: Do you know that Haruhi's original 2007 airing played all episodes in a randomized order, and became viral instantly?

@ezio@akko.wtf welcome back to 2007, the golden age of anime

failed fork with errno ENOMEM by /usr/sbin/sshd:woozy_baa:

When I was installing my first mail server years ago, I saw mbox and thought, "Seriously? Who still uses this ancient format from the original Unix..." and changed that to Maildir without thinking. When reviewing old news today, TIL I unconsciously hardened my server from that infamous 2020 OpenSMTPD root exploit. :blobcatlul: Turned out the ancient mbox format also made it difficult to drop privileges... Also, @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me, hi. https://poolp.org/posts/2020-01-30/opensmtpd-advisory-dissected/

"Password Expiration Notification today"I just installed this new mail server in the morning. :blobcatlul:

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In the 2010s, you see "new CPU leaks" in PC hardware news. In 2020s, you see "new CPU leaks" and also "new CPU leak leaks"

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Depths of Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%88%AA%E7%A9%BA%E7%84%A1%E7%B7%9A%E9%80%9A%E4%BF%A1%E5%A3%AB

@mhoye@mastodon.social @mhkohne@mastodon.social @limebar@mastodon.social Wait until you realize that Windows GDI code including the TrueType virtual machine used to run in kernel space before Windows 10.

@chjara@akko.wtf @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me just stop beating a dead horse and bashing creat(), since it has already been officially acknowledged by Ken Thompson as the most serious design error in Unix decades ago.Ken Thompson was once asked what he would do differently if he were redesigning the UNIX system. His reply: "I'd spell creat with an e." https://github.com/golang/go/commit/c90d392ce3d3203e0c32b3f98d1e68c4c2b4c49b

If there's a cosplay event but you can't attend, is it a cos(π/2)play?

@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me @JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange Yeah, everything (DVDs, VCRs) would sit on the TV shelf with direct cabling to everything else via an opening on its back. If something was sitting on the top of the TV, the cabling would be barely long enough to fit.

@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me @JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange I did try making the set-top box a literal set-top box back when there was still a CRT TV at home, but didn't work due to cabling difficulties.

Academic code be like

Visual Studio implies the existence of Normal Studio and Insert Studio.

Fediverse in a nutshell. #animeirl

Q: What do you say when a current clamp in a power supply feedback loop stops working?

A: All Hall breaks loose.

Depths of Wikipedia

Faraday cup. Just two coaxial aluminum cans (100 pF) insulated by ceramic stands, with a BNC socket soldered across them. Even without an electrometer, TIA or charge amplifier, and under a constant mains hum, I still got an obvious signal with just a 10x oscilloscope probe - works surprisingly well for the crude setup. Got positive pulses for glass, negative pulses for plastic. Unfortunately the cans are painted, so I can't show discharges by contact like the original Faraday's ice pail experiment. #electronics