#tarballs — Public Fediverse posts
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Oh, look! Another attempt to solve the monumental crisis of handling tarballs—this time with #WebAssembly and a sprinkle of #Emscripten magic. 🙄 Instead of just extracting a file like a normal person, let's generate an "index" to mount things because who doesn't love an overengineered solution to save a few bytes? 😂
https://jeroen.github.io/notes/webassembly-tar/ #tarballs #overengineering #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated -
I'm off to Coogee today, where tar balls have been washing up on the beach.
My oceanography colleague Matt England was interviewed and explains where they might have come from:
Hundreds of tar balls have surfaced on Sydney beaches. But what are they? - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-17/coogee-beach-tar-balls-everything-you-need-to-know/104482828