At this point the entire concept of CVE's is just ridiculous:
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mastodon 4.7.3Author of Vinyl-Cache (The FOSS project formerly known as Varnish-Cache), a lot of FreeBSD and various other stuff.
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If you program, you should read this piece.
"Ada's successes — the aircraft that have not crashed, the railway signalling systems that have not failed, the missile guidance software that has not misguided — are invisible precisely because they are successes. The languages that failed visibly, in buffer overflows and null pointer exceptions and data races and security vulnerabilities, generated the discourse. [Ada did not]"
My final BikeShed column for ACM Queue.
Please make my predictions come out wrong.
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3818307
You know it is the first monday after vacation when you forget to take a bectl(8) snapshot before you hose your laptop.
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@oscarfalcon @pluralistic
And the fundamental problem with IT-bros is that the only read until they got to "Fuck robots," and thought "that's actually not a bad idea...
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@davidrevoy
I truly dig that we have a talented artist who also understand the modern worlds enshitification.
Nothing communicates better or stronger than art.
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@fanf@mendeddrum.org
For the longest time the serial baudrate was matched to the mechanics. Only with the advent of microprocessors did the need for flow-control arise.
And CR taking longer time was not a problem, because it also took longer time on the senders teletype.
I wonder if Guinness Book of World Records is paying attention tonight, because there's going to so much beer rented out, that it may well become a world record.
@Natasha_Jay
You forgot AM/PM, inches, feet, ounces and miles :-)
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@khleedril@cyberplace.social @ladyteruki@mastodon.social
Congratulations!
Ahead of you lies the pleasure of reading "The Hitch-hikers Guide To The Galaxy" for the first time.
I promise your life will never be the same again :-)
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@bagder@mastodon.social
Have a nice vacation Daniel: I'm 100% on board with this approach.
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@tante@tldr.nettime.org
I insist on calling it "Digital self-determination" for that and other reasons.
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@tubetime@mastodon.social
My AutoArchaeologist toolkit can turn the LIF filesystems into static HTML files so you can spelunk the contents.
Example:
https://phk.freebsd.dk/misc/fatfs/05/056ab17c6.html
Software:
https://codeberg.org/Datamuseum-dk/AutoArchaeologist
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@MelvilleSpence@phpc.social @the5thColumnist@mstdn.ca @cstross@wandering.shop
"The War on Terror" is best understood as an autoimmune reaction, which now, 25 years later, has killed the organism.
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@bascule@mas.to
And for reference: The batteries peak power delivery corresponds to that of seven EPR-II nuclear reactors.
... which would take 20-30 years to build.
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@MartyFouts
I think that's unfair ?
Everybody charged DoD 10x "because of Ada" - simply because they could get away with it, provided Ada didn't become mainstream.
The perverse incentives of military procurement is not in any way a relevant factor, when Judging a programming language, as programing language.
The point about everybody else converging on where they could have started 45 years ago is IMO, totally fair.
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@bruces@mastodon.social
This is pretty brutal:
»Of 21 high-income countries, the UK is one of only five that saw healthy life expectancy fall between 2011 and 2021, and had the second steepest decline. As a result, the UK has fallen from 14th to 20th out of these countries – only the United States now has a lower healthy life expectancy.«
That adds an entirely new meaning to the "Special Relationship between UK and USA"
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@bms48 @davidsonsr @jawarajabbi @pluralistic
Not to mention EU's revision of the Product Liability Directive, a revision they undertook only and specifically to apply "no-fault" product liability to software in the consumer market.
Coming to your EU-country later this year...
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@dpiponi@mathstodon.xyz
I dont think you can call a country with a one-party system cosplaying as a two-party system for "a democracy" ?
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@stepleton
If you get into the "really weird old floppy formats" this may come handy:
https://github.com/Datamuseum-DK/FloppyTools
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@drmikepj
Just because it is nit-picking-sunday:
Strictly speaking optical fiber is a wave-guide :-)
And if you want an astonishing read: Lookup the "WT4" system in BSTJ :-)
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@djac
You are thinking of him as a normal human being, he is not, he's a mafia boss.
The letter to the .no PM amounts to:
"Nice country you have there. Too bad if something happened to it. Better think careful about who you give peace prizes. Capisce ?!"
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@jon_bon
Yeah ? But the way a mafioso deals with details like that, is to make it somebody else's urgent problem.
And to a mafioso who think everybody is mafia: Surely the head Norwegian mafioso can and will explain their misunderstanding to that committee, once he realizes that otherwise the Big Mafioso gets very disappointed."
It's really that simple...
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@tubetime@mastodon.social
Ok, I think I got it now.
The interleave is:
[0, 9, 18, 27, 4, 13, 22, 8, 17, 26, 3, 12, 21, 30, 7, 16, 25, 2, 11, 20, 29, 6, 15, 24, 1, 10, 19, 28, 5, 14]
I've also added a very rudimentary BASIC-detokenizer (git pull to get it), and updated the output here:
https://phk.freebsd.dk/misc/LIF9133/_index__HP85_20Basic.html.html
(Bedtime in Denmark now :-)
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@tubetime@mastodon.social
Ok, figured the interleave out:
https://phk.freebsd.dk/misc/LIF9133/
Now we just need an examiner for the AutoArchaeologist to list the HP-BASIC programs
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@tubetime@mastodon.social
First time I see a LIF.version==0 🙂
I'll see what I can figure out.
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@tubetime@mastodon.social
Sorry forgot to mention that dependency, that repos is also on our codeberg account:
https://codeberg.org/Datamuseum-dk/DDHF_bitstore_metadata
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@tubetime@mastodon.social
The fastest way to find out, is probably if you send me the image, but I can also walk you through the setup so you can run AA yourself.
(I've never finished the proper python packaging so it's a bit manual)
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@matthew_d_green
Why are you surprised about this ?
In the last decade Tech-Bro's have worked determinedly to render all courts of justice impotent, so they could roam with impunity, not only economically, but also (a)socially.
Did you expect nation states to just throw up their hands and go "never mind about equal justice for all" ?
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@mvilain@sfba.social @LeviKornelsen@dice.camp @pluralistic@mamot.fr
Interesting example of a USAnian assuming that courts in civilized countries are the same as in USA :-)
I suggest you look up "The American Rule" ?
Nobody but USA have that idiotic (and grossly unfair!) rule, so frivolous lawsuits is a much more expensive hobby, and wasting the courts time is not a good career move.
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@emaste@mastodon.social
But I'd prefer to run on pretty much anything but that, since neither AMD nor Intel can be trusted with your data any more.
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@tubetime@mastodon.social
Hmm, i think there's still something not quite right about the interleave: I'm seeing too much 0x6d 0xb6 in places it should not be.
Or maybe there is a bad-block remapping we need to figure out.
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@NewtonMark @wall_e @pluralistic
Didn't somebody say something about "Electricity too cheap to meter" :-)
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@tubetime@mastodon.social
I dont know how robust the LIF excavator is, I have only written/tried it on good images, but the general idea of AA is to handle whatever you throw at it, as well as possibe.
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@randahl@mastodon.social
We also swapped out 1/3 of parliament.
I havn't been able to find historical data, but that seems like more than usual ?
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@ipres2027@digipres.club
It was fun, insightful and educational to be at #Ipres2026.
But I had to pay the conference fee myself, because datamuseum.dk could not afford it.
I urge #ipres2027 to find some way to make a few affordable tickets available to local digital preservation grassroots.
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@tubetime@mastodon.social
Do you have a way to recover data from such drives ?
I have one sitting in Datamuseum.dk, waiting for me to figure out how to...
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@natematias@social.coop @pluralistic@mamot.fr
Again, what I, as EU citizen take home from this, was that it took mere hours for PædoPOTUS Rex to throw the spanner in the works, and that it was not blindlingly obvious to everybody, including the enforcers at the border, that it had to come out again.
#IwillNeverSeeUSAagain
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@sun@shitposter.world @tante@tldr.nettime.org
They may have uttered it, but where I come from (DK/EU) it's mostly used about provinces and former colonies having had enough.
And that, to me, is the perfect analogy of people finally demanding freedom from the enshitifcators.
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@attilakinali@society.oftrolls.com
I wouldn't mind more ethernets, but for basic gateways: yes, probably.
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@NohatCoder@mastodon.gamedev.place @maiathecyberwitch@helvede.net @jordskred@helvede.net
Den eneste jeg er villig til at nævne med navn er Stinus Lindgreen (@slindgreen@mastodon.social)
Kender ham privat og han ved hvad der er op og ned på en computer og han gjorde en meget stor forskel for hvordan Danmark kom igennem Covid-19.
Derudover kan jeg kun sige: Stem personligt på en ung kandidat der ikke har sagt noget indlysende dumt.