The livestream on crypto-polyglots is up!
https://www.youtube.com/live/RP5PVRUs6L8?si=udjoa6O0MSyq6w9D

[RSS] Chop, Chop, Chop: Trying Out VR for Woodworking

https://hackaday.com/2025/02/15/chop-chop-chop-considering-vr-for-woodworking/

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master: welcome to my Smart Home

student: wow. how is the light controlled?

master: with this on-off switch

student: i don't see a motor to close the blinds

master: there is none

student: where is the server located?

master: it is not needed

student: excuse me but what is "Smart" about all of this?

master: everything.

in this moment, the student was enlightened

Why is the nonsense phrase “vegetative electron microscopy” turning up in fake scientific papers? Add two-column formatting to the list of things AI doesn’t understand. https://retractionwatch.com/2025/02/10/vegetative-electron-microscopy-fingerprint-paper-mill/
Via @Researchbuzz

Project: golang/go https://github.com/golang/go
File: src/cmd/vendor/golang.org/x/tools/go/types/objectpath/objectpath.go:172 https://github.com/golang/go/blob/refs/tags/go1.23.4/src/cmd/vendor/golang.org/x/tools/go/types/objectpath/objectpath.go#L172

func (enc *Encoder) For(obj types.Object) (Path, error)

SVG:
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Oh my god Internet Archive you magnificent bastards what did you do, and PLEASE KEEP DOING IT FOREVER

Emacs made me extensively use LLM's to search for answers and watch videos to understand features. This is a first!

I think the reason is that I lack the meta-knowledge about where to look for information. This is in part because Emacs tutorials prevalent in search results don't directly apply to Space Emacs and I don't know yet how to translate between the two worlds.

I think the same underlying issues in part explain the popularity of LLM's and video tutorials. It seems an important personal decision if we deem a topic important enough to invest in acquiring the missing meta-knowledge. It seems an important quality of the tool we use if it helps us acquire the meta-knowledge they provided a shortcut for.

In my next livestream, I’ll hexplore crypto-polyglots:
- files that remain valid after encryption.
- contents that decrypts to different valid content via different keys, with authenticated decryption.
https://www.youtube.com/live/RP5PVRUs6L8?si=cEFkVUC1AeTGri7k

After 6-ish tries with Space #Emacs I managed to:
- Edit a file on a remote server with TRAMP
- Create a new Git Branch
- Commit changes to the branch
- Switch back to my original branch (and revert the buffer to reflect changes)

It wasn't a terrible experience, although my brain hurts a bit.

You should write more

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/you-should-write-more

/by @lcamtuf

Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.

job listings in 2025 are weird.
I never would have guessed a car wash even needed an on-site kubernetes cluster

Nerd-snipping of the day - a sharp programmer on a Chinese forum noticed an extremely obscure fact about K&R - its Courier font is unusual and doesn’t seem to match any of the modern or common versions of Courier we know today. So now I find myself hunting for technical references of that Autologic APS-5 machine used by K&R. #retrocomputing #unix

[RSS] NVIDIA/Mellanox ConnectX-5: Custom #Ghidra processor module for iRISC

https://irisc-research-syndicate.github.io/2025/02/14/writing-a-ghidra-processor-module/

If you do not include an appropriate fuse in your design, your design will designate one.

Thanks to OSTIF!, in 2024, we assessed cURL's HTTP/3 components. We found two issues, enhanced fuzzing coverage, and provided testing and security recommendations.

https://github.com/trailofbits/publications/blob/master/reviews/2023-12-curl-http3-securityreview.pdf

cURL marked our 14th security assessment with OSTIF, with our first being in 2019. OSTIF's mission to secure critical open-source software has led to security improvements across projects on which we all depend.
Read their annual reports:
https://ostif.org/ostif-2024-annual-report/
https://ostif.org/2024-sovtech-audit-report/

Better late than never, I just published a blogpost about my experience at @blackhoodie training, hexacon 2024. Again, big thanks to the organizers for putting together this training, it was really good! 😊

https://p0pcycle.com/2025/02/14/blackhoodie-my-experience/

FBI files on Kevin Mitnick released thx to a FOIA request by hexadecim8.com

https://vault.fbi.gov/kevin-mitnick/kevin-mitnick-part-01-final/view

#frombsky

Super scummy for microsoft to auto upgrade (at the added cost of an extra £30 a year) people to a AI plan, and not offer a "actually I don't use any of that stuff" can I not pay that £30 a year?

And then only when you are at the cancel page, it's like "🥺 oh sorry do you want the old deal back? 🥺"

For anyone else, you don't even have to get that far into the cancel page for this. So it's easy to save £30 a year with this.