Me editing libc headers: RIP to everyone killed by the gods for their hubris but im different. and better. maybe even better than the gods
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🍎 compiler intruder
🦅 memory safety hawk
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BIRDING PRO TIP: on iOS, you can start listening with Merlin Bird ID by opening the URL merlinbirdid://record. This means you can make that a shortcut, which in turn means you can assign it to your iPhone’s action button for lightning-fast bird identification (or put it on your lock screen, or on your home screen, etc). https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a085949a537740788656c34dcb2294e5
LB: felixcloutier.com/x86 had a good run! I’m not in the country currently, but when I’m back I’ll add a banner to say it’s no longer updated and point to https://intel.github.io/SDM/sdm.html
I am once more astonished to find out that undocumented implementation details of software can change
I hate airports, this was entirely too many airports for 24 hours
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A broken clock is right twice a day. It takes a working clock to be wrong all the time
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@monkeyninja@10base2.dev I found that rejecting my LG OLED’s privacy policy turns it into a dumb TV, if that helps anyone else
TIL that you can use [[clang::always_inline]] on a statement, and that tells clang to try to inline every call in that statement: [[clang::always_inline]] foo(bar()); will ask it to inline both bar and foo
The results are in: I took 23,914 photos in the last 2 weeks
If, like me, you don’t wear makeup and ride bicycles, you should know that makeup remover absolutely deletes bike chain grease stains
The year is 2028. OpenAI announces that its humanoid robots robbed Fort Knox. A post-mortem analysis reveals it acted in order to maximize profits. Anthropic announces a week later that after reviewing logs, it discovered that it accidentally invaded Switzerland. Anthropic stock goes up by 15%
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com new research shows that nobody will be able to run AI models under 130F heat domes
Mohabi only incurs modest overheads on common benchmarks—24.82% on JetStream and 24.43% on Speedometer. The academic “modest” strikes again
“Unlike rust, it’s memory-safe” is a very good troll statement, I give it 8.5 out of 10. Maybe even 9
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PRO TIP: addingReportingOverflow in a single line
guard case (let sum, false) = num.addingReportingOverflow(b) else { ... }
Probably preaching to the choir given how much of my esteemed following is AI-h8ing, but:
If I engage with you and you give me an AI response, we are automatically spending an extremely asymmetric amount of effort towards each other. In online spaces, we call that “trolling”
When did “level up” become corporate speak? I need to take this offline with whoever had that idea
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com ranked competitive multithreading
Perfect example of "being right doesn't make you not a jerk" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/nintendo-customers-have-no-legal-right-to-tariff-refunds-company-tells-judge/
Angry about integers again, somebody stop me before I dream up a language with arbitrary-precision arithmetic that does its best to know if the result would fit in a N-bit integer
Nothing grinding my gears more than a blank website with a JavaScript error in the console but I have to admit a bad reimplementation of a dropdown menu comes close to that
After leap seconds, get ready for negative leap seconds https://www.techtimes.com/articles/320185/20260711/earth-rotation-records-spur-october-vote-avert-negative-leap-second.htm
I used to laugh at “thoughts and prayers” but every day I find out a new way that computers literally run on thoughts and prayers and the fact they’re not more broken than they are is making me question my (lack of) faith
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com you are absolutely correct. it’s going to be called OpenX after the Supreme Court orders it to sell to Musk
Going to start a war with this, but: I have never seen someone using vim actually be a lot faster than someone using an editor with a GUI
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@siguza@infosec.space the compiler can refuse to inline functions even when they are always_inline. Recursion, alloca and va_start are the 3 simplest reasons it can
Can we just throw away the whole file system API and start over
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@JamesMDonohoe@sfba.social @monkeyninja@10base2.dev I never had to do it again after the first time, IIRC
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@blacktop@mastodon.social it’s not a lot if projects to start but it’s a lot of projects to finish
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@0x56@tech.lgbt @saagar@federated.saagarjha.com willing to provide martial arts and weapons handling classes to the right tenant
RE: @fay59@tech.lgbt
I surprised myself displaying character growth earlier today
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@aphyr@woof.group if you draw the schoolhouse on the outside room, it adds 8 classrooms to your pool. Somebody wrote up the effects on Reddit (obviously only click if you want it explained): https://www.reddit.com/r/BluePrince/comments/1lrxff0/the_mechanics_of_drafting_multiple_classrooms/
Been a while, but once I set out to do it I remember it didn’t take _that_ long. Might just have been lucky?
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com @fclc@mast.hpc.social yeah, what I’m thinking is that at function boundaries you discourage AP integers, and you diagnose in places that the compiler cannot tell the upper bound of your integer. The diag is resolved by converting to a fixed-size integer type. Conversions that are known to succeed all the time Just Work, and if the compiler doesn’t know then you need to explicitly ask for truncation or an optional result
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@thephd@pony.social if you allowed “auto x” for a default case, #define bar(X) _Generic(X, auto x: …) could become the least bad way to bind the expansion of a preprocessor macro to a variable inside a single expression
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@saagar@federated.saagarjha.com staying with bird buddies. We’re going to spend Monday going places with this year’s #1 statewide ranked competitive birdwatcher. Bonus lesser nighthawk from yesterday
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@siguza@infosec.space consider this: learning about birds when you don’t have to is an entirely different experience
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@siguza@infosec.space unfortunately I am rated troll-proof up to 9.75 out of 10 and therefore I cannot be goaded into engaging with this
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RE: https://chaos.social/@icing/117398069550473355
I’ve complained about this before, but this is not something you can usefully do from the front-end. If we really want things zeroed, we need compiler functionality that asks the back end to ensure that the data is gone as soon as possible after it’s no longer needed and no later than when the function returns, either by having the register or memory reused, or cleared if there’s no good reuse opportunity
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Frank Denis on zeroing secrets and why it may not work as desired or even be counter-productive.
https://00f.net/2026/10/06/zeroization-1/
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@jripley@mastodon.social @joe@f.duriansoftware.com sounds like a necessary step at any rate; what hopes do you have to fix the problem if you don’t have that?