“I started a spreadsheet, which is what middle-class professionals do when faced with systemic problems — we quantify things, as if converting human suffering into Excel cells might render it more manageable.” Via @gvwilson.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/utah-school-lunch-debt-relief-free-student-meals_n_681258fbe4b03207b5ba49fa/amp

did you know that GDB includes a bytecode compiler? specifically, it has a private [edit: it's documented] bytecode format used between it and the GDB server, which the latter uses to implement conditional breakpoints with complex expressions and tracepoints

every time it hits a breakpoint/tracepoint it evaluates the bytecode, which has jumps and can read arbitrary target memory, and decides whether it really was hit or not

New post: Full Disclosure: Multiple Rundeck Job Command Injections https://insinuator.net/2025/05/full-disclosure-multiple-rundeck-job-command-injections/

ICYMI: “Every TWINSCAN EUV ships with ~45 million lines of code […] Bugfixes and features start out as *word documents* sent to a series of review boards…”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113264
#SecurityByDesign #SoftwareEngineering #bugs

#Webmin: a critical security vulnerability discovered in a widely-used web-based system administration tool, allowing authenticated attackers to escalate privileges to root level and execute code.
Caused by CRLF injection: CVE-2025-2774 (CVSS 8.8)
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https://cybersecuritynews.com/webmin-vulnerability-escalate-privileges/

competent engineer at work, but perpetually unfinished personal projects?

just admit that your hobby is “recreational over-engineering”, and stop feeling bad about it!

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.

This story about ChatGPT causing people to have harmful delusions has mind-blowing anecdotes. It's an important, alarming read.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/

Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI

It's becoming increasingly apparent that one of the reasons why tech companies are so enthusiastic about shoving AI into every product and service is that they fundamentally do not understand why people dislike AI. I will elaborate. I was recently made aware of the Jetbrains developer ecosystem survey, which included a lot of questions about AI. After I answered some of them negatively (and possibly…

http://soatok.blog/2025/05/04/tech-companies-apparently-do-not-understand-why-we-dislike-ai/

Wrote a wrapper for Linux’s HID descriptor parser so I can fuzz it with libFuzzer: https://github.com/worthdoingbadly/hid-parser-harness

I’m still trying to figure out the USB uninitialized memory issue from that Amnesty International report, so I made it abort when it sees a 0xbe byte (ASan fills uninitialized malloc’d buffers with this).

#TeleMessage, that app used by the #Trump administration to archive Signal messages, has been #hacked. The #hacker managed to get some users' #Signal group chats and messages too. This is a hugely significant #breach not just for those individual customers, but also for the U.S. government more widely. #natsec #nationalsecurity https://www.404media.co/the-signal-clone-the-trump-admin-uses-was-hacked/ #government #democracy #trump #hegseth

May the 5th Element be with you.

#MayThe5th #MultiPass

Quick note: https://arm.jonpalmisc.com/ has been updated to the latest version of the Arm spec. Any changes should be strictly improvements, but let me know if something seems off.

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Want to see something cursed?

It's the Linux kernel 4.19 building *natively* under Windows XP under Services for UNIX. The amount of effort to get this far was immense ...

EDIT: Follow the adventure at https://YouTube.com/c/NCommander

Sent from Utrecht, Netherlands on August 21, 1995. https://postcardware.net/?id=37-32