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  1. @distractedmosfet I ❤️d that game. It did grind a bit on the 386sx though...

    IIRC it even came with the soundtrack playable on the same CD.

    For what was a glorified set of puzzles it was really enjoyable!

  2. "The hideous nature of these words — their facility to warp and impede communication — is also their purpose."

    Molly Young in The Vulture on "Garbage Language: Why do corporations speak the way they do?", from 2020.

    vulture.com/2020/02/spread-of-

    One of the best articles on this I've read.

    Years of being surrounded by business speak have made me want to speak in a natural way, wherever I am.

    You could say I am "my authentic self" 😉

  3. @damovisa the difference might be that they plan to do some verification, using Government issued ID, instead of just whacking a blue tick on a profile picture!

    They'll also require the user profile picture to show the user's real face.

  4. @TheDigitalGlobalCitizen @languagelovers some problems were introduced by people trying to make English into Latin (or, to a lesser extent, Greek).

    Such nonsense on spelling ("debt", "thumb"), grammar (split infinitives) and prepositions (not ending sentences).

    We had enough problems as it was!

    A fun one is the complexity of "to be", which blends a Southern Germanic ("be") and a Norse verb ("am", "are") into the fine mess we have today.

  5. @steve that would "correct" zero real-world issues.

    I'd never heard the term "mantissa" before seeing its use in FP - I've never needed to use a logarithm lookup table! They are obsolete.

    Terms in mathematics and computer science are often appropriated by analogy, and that's all that happened here. It seems like you object to this?

    Please don't spend effort on something that "solves" a non-problem and would lead to more confusion.

  6. @steve that would "correct" zero real-world issues.

    I'd never heard the term "mantissa" before seeing its use in FP - I've never needed to use a logarithm lookup table! They are obsolete.

    Terms in mathematics and computer science are often appropriated by analogy, and that's all that happened here. It seems like you object to this?

    Please don't spend effort on something that "solves" a non-problem and would lead to more confusion.

    #mantissa #FloatingPoint #pedantry

  7. @steve that would "correct" zero real-world issues.

    I'd never heard the term "mantissa" before seeing its use in FP - I've never needed to use a logarithm lookup table! They are obsolete.

    Terms in mathematics and computer science are often appropriated by analogy, and that's all that happened here. It seems like you object to this?

    Please don't spend effort on something that "solves" a non-problem and would lead to more confusion.

    #mantissa #FloatingPoint #pedantry

  8. @steve that would "correct" zero real-world issues.

    I'd never heard the term "mantissa" before seeing its use in FP - I've never needed to use a logarithm lookup table! They are obsolete.

    Terms in mathematics and computer science are often appropriated by analogy, and that's all that happened here. It seems like you object to this?

    Please don't spend effort on something that "solves" a non-problem and would lead to more confusion.

    #mantissa #FloatingPoint #pedantry

  9. @steve that would "correct" zero real-world issues.

    I'd never heard the term "mantissa" before seeing its use in FP - I've never needed to use a logarithm lookup table! They are obsolete.

    Terms in mathematics and computer science are often appropriated by analogy, and that's all that happened here. It seems like you object to this?

    Please don't spend effort on something that "solves" a non-problem and would lead to more confusion.

    #mantissa #FloatingPoint #pedantry

  10. GitHub :github: is laying off 10% of staff - reported in Fortune today:

    archive.is/QDerR

    I'm at :github: so please be thoughtful with your responses 🙏

  11. @andybaio it's a great idea, and you might not need to wait!

    I remembered seeing something like this for tech sites, and while I can't find it I did get some interesting results by searching for:

    ["curated search engine"]

    duckduckgo.com/?q=%22curated+s

    I've also seen the idea called "boutique" or "custom" search.

    Some people emulate this by doing a search with `site:reddit.com`, for example.

  12. You know how when you do...

    ``` sh
    my_cmd file_to_read > file_to_read
    ```

    ...then the redirect to write to the file truncates the file you're reading before you read from it?

    Yeah, so do I. I learned that years ago.

    I also refamiliarised myself with it today... 🤦

    "Why is the file I'm reading from empty??" :t_blink:

    When I write fragments of shell scripts in a Dockerfile or a GitHub Action my brain stops working :blobcatgoogly:

  13. You know how when you do...

    ``` sh
    my_cmd file_to_read > file_to_read
    ```

    ...then the redirect to write to the file truncates the file you're reading before you read from it?

    Yeah, so do I. I learned that years ago.

    I also refamiliarised myself with it today... 🤦

    "Why is the file I'm reading from empty??" :t_blink:

    When I write fragments of shell scripts in a Dockerfile or a GitHub Action my brain stops working :blobcatgoogly:

    #ShellScripts #truncation #TIL

  14. You know how when you do...

    ``` sh
    my_cmd file_to_read > file_to_read
    ```

    ...then the redirect to write to the file truncates the file you're reading before you read from it?

    Yeah, so do I. I learned that years ago.

    I also refamiliarised myself with it today... 🤦

    "Why is the file I'm reading from empty??" :t_blink:

    When I write fragments of shell scripts in a Dockerfile or a GitHub Action my brain stops working :blobcatgoogly:

    #ShellScripts #truncation #TIL

  15. You know how when you do...

    ``` sh
    my_cmd file_to_read > file_to_read
    ```

    ...then the redirect to write to the file truncates the file you're reading before you read from it?

    Yeah, so do I. I learned that years ago.

    I also refamiliarised myself with it today... 🤦

    "Why is the file I'm reading from empty??" :t_blink:

    When I write fragments of shell scripts in a Dockerfile or a GitHub Action my brain stops working :blobcatgoogly:

    #ShellScripts #truncation #TIL

  16. You know how when you do...

    ``` sh
    my_cmd file_to_read > file_to_read
    ```

    ...then the redirect to write to the file truncates the file you're reading before you read from it?

    Yeah, so do I. I learned that years ago.

    I also refamiliarised myself with it today... 🤦

    "Why is the file I'm reading from empty??" :t_blink:

    When I write fragments of shell scripts in a Dockerfile or a GitHub Action my brain stops working :blobcatgoogly:

    #ShellScripts #truncation #TIL

  17. CW: Poll 📊 Software dev workflow

    What does your team dev workflow look like?

    Please tick which apply, or comment for more info.

    For those who use a monorepo with trunk-based workflow, can you teach me how code review, linting and security testing (e.g. SAST) fit into your workflow?

  18. @hywan gcc is not wrong though. You need to check upfront with a decent bounds check that what you will do is OK in C, rather than do it, then see if something undefined happened.

    Unfortunately there weren't good tools in the C or C++ stdlib to do checking for a long time.

    For C++: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/

    C from c23 has builtins to do this, and each common compiler does too:
    stackoverflow.com/questions/19

  19. CW: UkPol, voter ID 🇬🇧🗳️🛂

    If you vote 🗳️ in the UK 🇬🇧, you now need photo 📸 ID 🛂.

    Don't have any? Apply here:

    gov.uk/apply-for-photo-id-vote

  20. @joxean I usually think of "sound" in SAST as "no false negatives" (for what you are modelling, of course).

    Now wrap your head around what a "soundy" analysis is...

  21. @joxean I usually think of "sound" in SAST as "no false negatives" (for what you are modelling, of course).

    Now wrap your head around what a "soundy" analysis is...

    #ProgramAnalysis #SoundAnalysis #soundy #SAST

  22. @joxean I usually think of "sound" in SAST as "no false negatives" (for what you are modelling, of course).

    Now wrap your head around what a "soundy" analysis is...

    #ProgramAnalysis #SoundAnalysis #soundy #SAST

  23. @joxean I usually think of "sound" in SAST as "no false negatives" (for what you are modelling, of course).

    Now wrap your head around what a "soundy" analysis is...

    #ProgramAnalysis #SoundAnalysis #soundy #SAST

  24. @joxean I usually think of "sound" in SAST as "no false negatives" (for what you are modelling, of course).

    Now wrap your head around what a "soundy" analysis is...

    #ProgramAnalysis #SoundAnalysis #soundy #SAST

  25. @superbart the server rules ask for you to post in English only.

    Sorry / 对不起.

    The server rules have other restrictions on content: fosstodon.org/about

    I'm not a mod or a server owner - you can find who they are on the website.

  26. @superbart the server rules ask for you to post in English only.

    Sorry / 对不起.

    The server rules have other restrictions on content: fosstodon.org/about

    I'm not a mod or a server owner - you can find who they are on the website.

    #Fosstodon #ServerRules

  27. @superbart the server rules ask for you to post in English only.

    Sorry / 对不起.

    The server rules have other restrictions on content: fosstodon.org/about

    I'm not a mod or a server owner - you can find who they are on the website.

    #Fosstodon #ServerRules

  28. @superbart the server rules ask for you to post in English only.

    Sorry / 对不起.

    The server rules have other restrictions on content: fosstodon.org/about

    I'm not a mod or a server owner - you can find who they are on the website.

    #Fosstodon #ServerRules

  29. Ding, dong, the CVE is dead! :partyparrot:

    The JWT nodejs "vulnerability" from December, popularised at the start of January, has been recognised as a non-issue 🫥

    I'm really glad to see it gone. Hoping we get a rash of news stories to follow up on the torrent 🌊 that followed the Unit 42 blog...

    I'm not sure if its removal was down to me raising an issue on the GitHub Advisory Database :omya_github: to ask for it to be removed.

  30. @joxean The order they are called in is a good heuristic, but you probably have enough information to match code structures beyond that.

    You would need to use the basic block structure of the caller to differentiate call sites, since "first" is only trivial in a linear function with no branches.

    You're decompiling, which should allow you to match the call sites in the AST or an intermediate representation (IR), independent of the arch.