Notices by Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe)

@lanodan Even after Unicode was a thing, some channels would ban you for sending UTF-8 content. 🙂

The promise of no-code solutions has been around for a while.

I have to admit that playing around with this thing was more fun than it had any right to be.

I can't help to think that we've lost something over the years. Creating programs on your computer used to be easy.

And this is the next page.

I've been listening to some Pantera today.

Seriously, if there is an album that just 'sounds' 90's, it must be their album Far Beyond Driven.

Really great stuff. I recommend it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRxg8yVhbQY&list=PLZ9DoO2uX9wVUg8NATcFbjyt94I9J8jle

@quad @wolf480pl it's a lie though. My ntp-obsessed friend would argue that that is unacceptably inaccurate.

@wolf480pl @quad yeah, I agree with you. I was making joke about ntp-obsessed people. If you've nevermet them, they're the ones setting up multiple gps receivers to run stratum 0 servers, and searching ebay for good deals on an atomic clock.

@wolf480pl @quad we should thank them. The internet would probably not work without them. 😀

How is Github doing CVSS scoring? I was looking at CVE-2022-41966 and it has a CVSS vector that indicates Integrity: Low.

The vulnerability allows an attacker who can feed malicious data to an XML deserialiser to crash the parser with a StackOverflowError. The fix changes this to a different type of exception. How can that in any way be marked as having an integrity impact at all?

I note that the NIST assessment has the much more appropriate assessment here where there is no impact of integrity.

#infosec #cve

@amszmidt @ksaj @glitzersachen Commandline option style in dd? 🙂

@glitzersachen @amszmidt it's kida sorta true, which makes for a prefect argument on the internet.

I'd say that the Unix philosophy is what you get when you try to apply the Lisp philosophy but your hardware isn't good enough.

@ksaj @larsbrinkhoff @amszmidt there isn't, but if you say it, people would definitely understand.

Swedish uses much more precise words to describe relations. I came across a sentence in English that is almost completely untranslatable without more context: "One of my grandfathers really likes strawberries, but my other grandfather hates them".

This is because Swedish uses different words for the parental and paternal grandparents. If you speak Swedish, try to translate the sentence above. It's not easy.

What other languages have this problem? Even Norwegian and Danish have words for this I think?

#linguistics

@ftp_alun @LukaszOlejnik Seems like it. Since it's basically free to send out an uncountable number of reports, there is no limit to the number of reports you can send. On the receiving end, there's a lot of work though, but that's not their problem.

@LukaszOlejnik If I click on the reporter's username, there is a list of "closed bugs" together with dollar amounts. Is this money paid out?

If so, the slop is profitable, so it won't go away.

@clacke @hacks4pancakes cool, let me know if you show up. Short meetup afterwards?

@tomw I'm not a fan of Saphir-Whorff, but the language you use can probably make a small contribution to how you think about things, especially abstract concepts such as time. This may be one of these cases (but very minor).

#linguistics

@tomw 'dag' technically refers to the time when the sun is up. Obviously '30 dagar' and '30 dygn' is going to be pretty much the same, so using them interchangeably is ok.

One case where it's useful is if someone telks you they'll be staying at a resort for '4 dagar'. How long will they be spending there? If you say 4 dygn it's much more clear.

Another case is if you, like me, was doing a big upload to a cloud server that was very slow. If I tell you it takes 2 days to upload, that gives you different information than of I say it takes ett dygn.

@brokengoose it is remarkably tasty. And I think this would be a great place to start for someone who might not be used to durian flavour.

Highly recommended.

Nice stuff