god it feels good to look at code and feel something when its been a struggle

absolutely batshit crazy that a usb a to usb b printer cable is as scarce in stores in a major city as it is. i don't want to fucking order it 😤😤😤

I wish I could subscribe to a "real" newspaper that had one half the energy of a student newspaper

Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search *nationwide* for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety"

https://www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-searched-license-plate-cameras-nationwide-for-a-woman-who-got-an-abortion/

The more mental energy you expend parsing a programming language's syntax, the less you have available for parsing a program's logic—or creating it yourself. This is why core fluency is so important; it frees up your own compute cycles for more important work.

It's also another reason why "vibe coding" is so toxic. It robs you of the opportunity to gain that fluency.

Decomplexification - making #curl use simpler code

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/05/29/decomplexification/

I've said it before and I'll say it again: the EU should reserve some serious money, fork Mozilla and make regulations that governmental websites need to work on their fork (and Big Tech gatekeeper websites as well).

This is one of the items to stay independent from Google's, Apple's and the US's whims.

(The other item is a mobile OS like @jolla's #SailfishOS.)

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/building-whats-next/

Q: "Why have you suddenly been reworking coredumping, Christian?"
A: "Because I'm a clown and also I had it with all the CVEs because we provide a **** API for userspace."

So now that @torvalds merged the pidfs and initial coredump work things are already better but I have more work there.

In other news, there's two new CVEs in userpace that should be gone completely by installing a pidfd into the umh or by using the coredump socket.

[1]: https://www.qualys.com/2025/05/29/apport-coredump/apport-coredump.txt

[2]: https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2025/05/29/qualys-tru-discovers-two-local-information-disclosure-vulnerabilities-in-apport-and-systemd-coredump-cve-2025-5054-and-cve-2025-4598

When choosing a Mastodon instance (server),
what is most important to you?

(multiple choices allowed)

#Mastodon #Fediverse

@dabeaz @monkey1 @shriramk bookmarking!

@Andy_Thompson fwiw i spent about 14 hours in dfw a few months ago,not great

@Andy_Thompson man.....i...i.just don't know about those. questions, feelings...hope it worked for you

#cat #cats #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOMastodon #CatsOfPixelfed #alt #humor

github actions have github consequences

My latest coordinated-motion model is flat and based on a hexagonal tiling, with all the identical pieces moving in and out simultaneously. Naturally, assembly is very easy on a flat surface. It's too simple to be considered a puzzle. The mechanism is the same as in the classic Magic Disc and my Blast-hedra puzzles. I can make as many pieces as I like. I created this model more for the sake of completeness. Does anyone have ideas for making it more interesting? Thanks!

How long before major “open source” projects fall for generative crap?
https://floss.social/@servo/114296977894869359

great blog post "What Works (and Doesn't) Selling Formal Methods" -- properly focusing on the economics and on communicating what the results mean to a client. both of these are pretty significantly under-appreciated in the FM research community.

https://www.galois.com/articles/what-works-and-doesnt-selling-formal-methods

The 🐑 #Shepherd 1.0.5 is out, with fewer 🐛 and coming straight from its new 🏡!
https://gnu.org/software/shepherd/news/2025/05/herding-to-codeberg/

just saw someone intend to say "prosthetic teeth", but instead said "prostate teeth".