Total respect for Alyssa Anne Rosenzweig, @lina@vt.social and all the other developers from Asahi Linux for reverse engineering Apples M1 GPU architecture to the point where they surpassed Apple by providing Vulkan support.
That is so unbelievable outstanding!
No one else of all those other senior developers in the whole wide world didn't even bother to try. Meanwhile someone born 2001 (like Alyssa) did – I think the others are mostly in the same age range.
I can only repeat, this is outstanding!
Congratulations and thank you all for your incredible work!!

https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-n.html

#asahilinux #asahi #m1reverseEngineering #apple #reverseengineering #linux

The chatbot mental health crisis is here. No one is ready for it https://www.platformer.news/chatgpt-suicide-lawsuit-openai-safety/

Hungarian #FolktaleMoment of the day:

You know the folktales where fairy maidens are taking a bath, and the "hero" steals the dress of one of them to force her to be his wife?
(Also in Selkie stories)

Well I just read a Hungarian folktale where the guy steals the dress - at which point the fairy walks up to him, slaps him across the face, and takes the dress back.

Pop off, queen.

#folklore #folktales #storytelling

How it was to scan the whole Internet in 1998. Don’t skim over week 3, when an actual APT shows up 🍿

The #Internet #Auditing Project (beta 1)

https://www.focb.co.nz/audit/

I finally brought myself to read this essay

https://www.structuredprocrastination.com

Hacking & Barbecue in the south of France
What could possibly be better?

Barbhack 2025 starts this Saturday August 30th at the Palais des Congrès Neptune in Toulon

We are giving away a ticket to a student nearby looking to live the experience.

Send us a DM with your name and school. We will notify the winner tonight.

https://www.barbhack.fr/2025/fr/index.html

Formal verification is a process for reducing programmers' confidence in their ability to write correct code.

Must be Tuesday.

@wmd Attend conferences that are free (like alligatorcon.eu) or go to any conference but hang out in the lobby (aka LobbyCon :>) or do meetups at the same time (like the many defcon side parties).

Trick is: Be that person who does this. Don't wait for others.

I've been working on improving a few of Git's man pages and I could use a few more test readers to read the existing documentation and identify what's confusing about it! Here's the signup form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdYd9FrjiBg8IbJXk-51p7zewt7aiVOamUImnpb90hK29w3Qg/viewform

I'd especially love test readers who use Git on the command line but aren't 100% comfortable with it.

@cR0w EXTRA EXTRA; straight from the Citrix HQ:

Internal memo leaked!

"Dear Development Team,

I've been watching SharePoint get all the attention lately with their shiny new CVE-2025-whatever, and frankly, I'm feeling left out. Remember last month when I was the cool kid with my own 0-day exploits? When every CISO would nervously whisper my name during security meetings?

Now SharePoint is trending on Mastodon while I'm just... sitting here... load balancing traffic like some kind of responsible enterprise appliance.

It's embarrassing.

Could we maybe accidentally expose an API endpoint or something? Just a small remote code execution vulnerability? I promise I'll patch it eventually (after 47 security advisories).

I miss being relevant.

Jealously yours,
NetScaler
"