Notices by lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified: (lcamtuf@infosec.exchange)

I am so glad we're doing this, the stock market has been pretty boring since 2009

@wdormann It used to be a UI flow, then a script, now you're losing the script. So yeah, I suspect that's the goal, they're probably unhappy with the % of users who don't enroll for the super fun cloud panopticon.

I could imagine it's a pain to support the special case of users who are not logged into the cloud account, but that's presumably not going away because they have enterprise buyers. So seems strictly anti-consumer.

Et tu, clang?

Look GCC, I don't think I'm being unreasonable here

Here's the thing. When a browser, an app, or a website encourages you to turn on an awesome feature, it's almost always because a lawyer who understands the feature said "whoa, we're gonna be in real trouble if we don't have consent".

In other words,

I will never understand why electrical engineers in the US had some sort of a falling-out with the nano- prefix (but remained on good terms with micro- and pico-).

"Yes, I'd like to buy a 0.0047 uF capacitor, please."

This is an actual air humidifier you can buy

I must note that there is a certain irony in choosing a Mercedes

I watched the entire Zelensky clip - not just the last couple of minutes - and to be honest, it's kinda perplexing.

For the first 40 minutes, it seemed to be a done deal. Not a *good* or meaningful deal for Ukraine, but clearly enough for Zelensky to show up and offer to sign?

So you have this ~50 minute Q&A with journos, where Zelensky is clearly increasingly cranky. I don't blame him, and Trump, amazingly, lets it slide for 40 minutes.

And then Zelensky picks a weird fight with Vance *in a QA session* and it goes downhill fast.

Like, are they *all* children?... I think the administration is taking an unprincipled approach and they're wrong in their assessment of Putin, but this seemed like kindergarten diplomacy on Ukraine's side

I've been working in cybersecurity for over 25 years. Here are my key insights.

Look, "never" is relative

The thing about social media is that it's easy to get a lot of followers if you post enough memes, but the engagement is stretched so thin that it no longer means anything.

Here's my Twitter example: 37k followers → 2.5k "views" → 26 clicks (0.07%).

You get more out of mailing a couple of friends.

Your privacy is very important to us. This is why we're sharing your data with our 278 advertising partners, and our partners' 4,728 partners, and their partners' 87,392 partners, UNDER THE FOLLOWING TERMS

Sir, I'm afraid your house is not wired for the latest Nvidia card

I keep coming across all these "pseudocode" examples on Wikipedia and in academic papers, and what I don't understand is why the authors can't just learn a real programming language

@againsthimself To prevent bit rot, we made sure that our code doesn't compile from day 1

OpenAI: how dare others take our... um... copyrighted stuff without asking to make their own LLM

C IS LEGAL AGAIN

One of the most common software engineering mistakes is the desire to build general-purpose platforms. You want to try your hand at game development, so you get sucked into building an engine to accommodate all your future ideas. You imagine the rest of the world using it, too.

In reality, writing the actual game is the hard part. Success is far more likely if you try doing that in the most expedient way and generalize later. As for the rest of the world, they usually look up to winners. A game engine on Github with no successful titles to its name is unlikely to get any views, let alone usage.

If you're determined to build a platform, there are three ways to win. One is to be the first to enter a new domain. Another is to spend *a lot* more time on community-building than on code. The last approach is to get corporate backing, so that you get a big "captive" audience with vested interest in your success.

Back in early 2023, I posted the code & hardware plans for a modernized clone of Sokoban, an obscure but *really* fun logic-puzzle game from the 1980s. Unlike most of the other "retro nostalgia" pieces, the game holds its own today.

https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/sir-box-a-lot/

I handed it out to a bunch of friends. Few have heard of the game before; just as few could put it down once they started.

Unfortunately, because Sokoban is not exactly Pong, Space Invaders, or Snake, the project never garnered much attention from strangers. And keeping the project alive proved to be a chore because of post-COVID shortages. The MCU I relied on soon went out of stock. I redesigned for another chip... only for the OLED vendor to tell me they're discontinuing the display b/c *they* can't find the chips.

Anyway, I have a revised PCB and code for a new display ready to go, just need to test it IRL. And hey - have you considered a nice game of Sokoban?