Notices by Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe), page 2

@cwebber didn't the 1401 use variable word length? So even more amazing than just a 7 bit architecture.

OK, so I just spent quite some time writing functions that allows me to export a number as a byte array from GMP, and then a different function to do that same with Java bigints, so that the output formats are compatible.

I now need to do the same for Javascript.

I'm doing this because I want to implement a binary serialisation format for Kap.

And why did I start to implement a binary serialisation format? Well, I needed it because I wanted to be able to export and import Kap objects to Valkey.

Once I have all of that, then maybe I can build something on top of Valkey. Some kind of persistence system perhaps.

Is this the definition of yak shaving?

@clacke @mansr @notclacke I'm pretty sure they had cheese slicers at IKEA Singapore. Now I need to check if they still have them.

@notclacke @mansr How's cheese slicer access in HK? Although I suppose you have all you need from Ikea 🙂

@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?