Replying to
@jensorensen@mastodon.social the energy execs got pissed off by this cartoon I guess
Remote
Howard Chu @ Symas
@hyc@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06CTO Symas Corp., Chief Architect OpenLDAP Project, Musician
1494 Followers
697 Following
50 Posts
Joined April 03, 2017
Replying to
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social ah, next generation styling, because all computer users everywhere love having to relearn how to find everything whenever they update their machines
Replying to
@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social my phones still have memory card slots. I refuse to buy any without.
Just refuse to feed money to the new model. That's all you have to do.
Replying to
@clayfoot@mastodon.social @ubernostrum@infosec.exchange yep, same reason we refuse AI submissions in OpenLDAP. Other reasons might be debatable, but this is clear cut. https://mastodon.social/@hyc/114495011139229120
Replying to
@nixCraft@mastodon.social did they just decide to issue CVEs for every single patch today? How is a spurious warning a vulnerability?
Replying to
@SecureOwl@infosec.exchange hm, haven't done that, but have crawled around under the raised flooring to find the cable going from a switch rack to a server
Replying to
Pretendgineers everywhere!
https://chaos.social/@odrotbohm/116942392206641054
Quoting
I‘ve heard someone using the term “pretendgineer” today, and I think I’m gonna use this for all the vibe coders from now on. 🙂 #ai
Open quoted postReplying to
@lizardbill@hachyderm.io @sushee@ohai.social and yet, that generation of us are probably better programmers than today's crop. Every bit of manual labor aids memory, and stronger memory aids understanding.
Replying to
@GordonFawks@rubber.social @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems @SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange but we digress, let's Focus on the main point
Replying to
Which reminds me - the distinction between "application programmer" and "system programmer" is bogus IMO. If you don't understand how operating systems and your programming language and its runtime work, then you can't be a good application programmer.
Replying to
The entry and DN caches will churn a lot during any normal workload, which leads to heap fragmentation, which will cause server performance to degrade the longer it runs. That's why I went to such pains to ensure zero mallocs in LMDB's read path, so it's possible to service an LDAP query with zero heap use, and thus zero chance of heap fragmentation issues.
Apparently issues they just didn't think about. http://highlandsun.com/hyc/malloc/
Replying to
@irene@discuss.systems at least he's being deported to his own country. Not like those unfortunates who got sent to completely unrelated countries (can't recall details at the moment)
Region-locked cars are a thing now. Ohjoy.
https://carnewschina.com/2026/07/23/zeekr-9x-owner-stranded-abroad-remote-lockout-disables-smart-features-for-30-hours/
Replying to
@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org the task was already futile since the advent of email. So much of what we know about historical figures is gleaned from their written correspondence - personal letters that were saved and collected. With email and instant messaging, that channel for personal insight is gone.
Replying to
"actually it's fine if agentic code is unmaintainable for humans" because the humans we had working on it before couldn't maintain it anyway...
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/116941563566909273
Quoting
"actually its fine if agentic code is unmaintainable for humans because the agents will just maintain it" is just the next cope in a long series of copes from LLM true believers who said they were going to revolutionize customer support, summaries, art, writing and video, all of which they failed at
genAI is a dead-end technology that creates output without intention that is practically useless. the only reason it hasn't failed yet is because of the trillions pumped into it by business idiots
Open quoted postReplying to
I think part of the AI fad is there's a lot of incompetent people currently employed as programmers, living in daily fear of being outed as impostors, who are relieved to have genAI to lean on now.
It's 4am and all's quiet
RE: https://flipboard.com/@xdaofficial/xda-developers-ntraf9plz/-/a-1Hhvp79zRZ2qM0QiQ8s1cQ%3Aa%3A2772481191-%2F0
Old software didn't change, it just looks better over time because so much new software is all crap.
Replying to
@MaddieM4@raphus.social I'm reminded of how libc was mostly written as one function per source file, yielding one function per object file, all collected into an archive file and the linker would only pull in the specific objects that a particular program needed.
That approach doesn't really do much for glibc these days; stuff like stdio depends on many other library functions so the minimum possible footprint is huge.
Replying to
@MaddieM4@raphus.social AIX decided to improve on the Unix linker approach, all the functions and variables in an object file have explicitly encoded sizes and the linker can pull in exactly the functions it needs, instead of always using entire object files. Makes it less tedious to organize source code and removes the need to split to one function per file.
Also the info is preserved in executables, and exes can be relinked against themselves and other objects.
Replying to
Quoting
If we were to write a series of blog posts on "how to generate the Fibonacci sequence" but where the given code does something unrelated, like an infinite loop with a couple divide by zero errors, and got enough people to share them and link to them, soon Google and other AI-enabled search engines would start returning those hits when you searched for Fibonacci. And soon after that, coding assistants would start spewing that out when Fibonacci code was requested.
Open quoted postReplying to
@MaddieM4@raphus.social I think that all reflects IBM's mainframe heritage; I recall using the linkeditor on the UMich mainframes to replace functions in fully linked programs there too. Such a normal thing to do, it's surprising that other systems lack this ability.
Replying to
@MaddieM4@raphus.social makes it simple to deploy binary updates, you can just send out a single .o with some updated code and relink an affected binary with no other ancillary files needed.
Replying to
@kitten@social.elizabeth.cat I like how some UK websites include Lord / Lady in their choices. I always select Lord when available (which is only right and proper, since I'm a Baron of Sealand).
Recycled thoughts: physical networks are inherently natural monopolies and should just be acknowledged and operated as such. Electricity, water, telecoms... their usefulness grows with their scale. They should be nationalized, community owned and operated.
VNOs and fake competition all selling service on the same physical infrastructure is just a wasteful bureaucratic fiction. Eliminate them.
Replying to
@arstechnica@mastodon.social I'm sure some enterprising IP trolls are already busily pushing their decomposition engines, to try to find candidates for matching. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-cisco-talos-generative-ai-llm-decomposition/
Replying to
@rl_dane@polymaths.social @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social well maybe, maybe there's a chance they'll do something constructive with proper ergonomics studies. But any improvement has to be huge, to overcome muscle memory of a current UI. https://mastodon.social/@hyc/116064711623711896
Quoting
@loke@functional.cafe in the 80s and 90s designers actually did time/motion studies to objectively measure the efficiency of their UI designs. I thought that was a totally lost art since then, but some projects still remember https://mastodon.social/@hyc/115933704501506335
Open quoted postReplying to
@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social where in the Constitution does it say that corporations have the right to pollute the commons and poison the populace?
Replying to
Replying to
@nyanbinary@infosec.exchange IME these "researchers" never practice responsible disclosure. The last CVE one of these clowns filed against my stuff, I only discovered because I have google alerts set on my keywords. https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10421
They're the same lowlife scum as bounty hunters, chasing profit while totally lacking the ability to build anything useful themselves. They get accolades while they shit on actual developers.
https://clip.cafe/star-wars-episode-v-the-empire-strikes-back-1980/bounty-hunters-we-dont-need-their-scum/
Replying to
Replying to
@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social never heard of Autumn Brilliance Serviceberry before. Seen all the rest.
Replying to
@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social they have taste buds on their feet. Just clearing their palate before sampling something else.
Replying to
@netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org are actual mc68k chips still being made? I thought ColdFire replaced them. Or are people using FPGAs to make m68k softCPUs?
"Statistics show that emails are hardly read these days"
My percentage of opens may have gone down, but that's only because the amount of spam has gone up. The number of actually meaningful emails I read probably hasn't changed.
Replying to
@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social for a retryable request, it should be 503. 404 means the requested URL doesn't exist, and should not be retried.
Error 503
Haiku not available
Try again later
Replying to
@mxchara@seattle.pink @kevin@fedi.kbg.sh that's a funny complaint, given the uproar when Apple just tweaks their UI.
There's a balance between offering radically new capabilities and breaking everybody's existing UX.
Replying to
@chartier@toot.cafe @marcoarment@mastodon.social probably easier than selling the Brooklyn Bridge anyway
Replying to
@404mediaco@mastodon.social how exactly does one "predict" an event that supposedly occurred in the past? "Pre" "dict" literally means to "say before".
Replying to
@ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org if they're so terrified, why don't they reverse course?
Replying to
@atax1a@infosec.exchange having used a bunch of mainframes, minicomputers and microcomputers before, sticking to the Unix approach is pretty decent. Better than juggling drive letters and config.sys, certainly. It means it's quick to go from first runnable image to productive environment, because so much software is compatible with POSIX. Any hobby OS that deviates far from that will likely remain only a toy.