it's time for another aperiodic reminder that about 18 years ago SVG (yes, the vector graphics format) was one step away from having raw network sockets incorporated into the standard https://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-SVG12-20040510/#rawsocket

TIL: There is a cursed color in the Kodak ProPhoto RGB color space which, when converted to sRGB using pre-August-2020-Security-Update Android's image conversion routines, causes an integer overflow and a crash due to a rounding error. Some dude accidentally created an image (https://www.flickr.com/photos/gaurav_agrawal/48746079687/) which contains the cursed color on a single pixel. In 2020 if you set this image as your desktop on a Google or Samsung device, the device would brick & lose all onboard data https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXKvwPjCGnY

You: "C++ is a superset of C."
@AaronBallman: "No, it isn't."
https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3065.pdf

Always interesting when two related yet unconnected posts pass through the feed nearby https://infosec.exchange/@atax1a/109400028861061670 https://blog.glyph.im/2022/12/potato-programming.html

"if i replace all the words, is it really plagiarism?"

this argument is known as the ship of thesaurus

Love that 1Password can now remember SSO logins.

https://genders.wtf from @effy is extremely good, please submit more bad forms asap

Nice, abbreviations landed in fish, enabling bash/zsh-isms like !-expansion. That was what drove me away from the shell last time I gave it a try, so might need to take another look at it in the future. https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/9313

IBM slide, 1979 ... 😅 https://twitter.com/_w0bb1t_/status/1484198603337908226/photo/1

“AI’s Jurassic Park moment”

“It is no exaggeration to say that systems like these pose a real and imminent threat to the fabric of society”

Eek. https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/ais-jurassic-park-moment

Python’s 0s are falsy bites me in the butt again. foo and foo.bar (if bar: str) is Union[Foo, str] and not Optional[str], sad.

So Seth Abramson is one of the sloppiest public thinkers I have ever encountered, who circa 2016 helped invent the rhetorical style of the buckle-up-for-some-politics Twitter mega-thread. He has advised people who listen to him that they should avoid "Mastodon" (he means the Fediverse I think).

https://post.news/article/2IanIj231d7nc5bxqOxIJpFfGwe

I cannot overstate how much this means we are doing something right over here.

Goodbye to the C++ Implementation of Zig

https://ziglang.org/news/goodbye-cpp/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://ziglang.org/news/goodbye-cpp/

#compilers #compsci #cpp #programming #webassembly #ziglang

Well, if you're interested in such things, I wrote up a case study on the Raspberry Pi thing that happened yesterday/today

https://eiara.nz/posts/2022/Dec/09/a-case-study-on-raspberry-pis-incident-on-the-fediverse/

“Hacking is for rich people.” (A paraphrase of Linus Torvalds!)

https://writing.kemitchell.com/2022/12/06/This-Rich-to-Open-Source

I wonder what is it about ActivityPub that I can’t always approve a user’s follow request immediately.

Huh, that would be an interesting dial to turn up to 11 in a company.

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/glyph/statuses/109480995077587008

@noah I thought you might enjoy this; a combination of befunge and pong

github.com/rpav/turipong

What an amazing release note, I unironically love it.

Finally, we have support for negative numbers! To try them out, well, just like type the minus sign I guess.