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fanf, 4 days ago to random

wondering about waldo (n., telemanipulator) i find to my mild surprise

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/waldo

from the Robert A. Heinlein story Waldo, published in Astounding in 1940, derived from the name of the eponymous protagonist, Waldo F. Jones, who invented remote manipulators to overcome his own myasthenia gravis

fanf, 4 days ago to random

reading about 50 years of sql

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/31/fifty_years_of_sql/

and the earth shifts beneath me as i realise in a few months there will be historical retrospectives of foundational technologies that are younger than me

(i am quite looking forward to the articles about vlsi tbh)

fanf, 5 days ago to random

2023 retro-link! https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/bcrypt-25-retrospective-password-security - Bcrypt at 25: a retrospective on password security.

fanf, 6 days ago to random

https://erikbern.com/2019/04/15/why-software-projects-take-longer-than-you-think-a-statistical-model.html - Why software projects take longer than you think: a statistical model.

fanf, 9 days ago to random

vague memory of someone else’s debugging story from i can’t remember where … :

they are called to an office which is complaining that the wifi stops working for two hours twice a day

this office is in portsmouth so it’s fairly obvious that the timing is related to the tides

but what on earth? how can the wifi be sensitive to the tides?!

fanf, 10 days ago to random

https://tonsky.me/blog/centering/ - The hardest problem in web design: centering things.

fanf, 13 days ago to random

2021 retro-link! https://github.com/seemoo-lab/openhaystack - OpenHaystack: tracking your Bluetooth devices with Apple's "Find My" network

fanf, 14 days ago to random

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-road-to-hell-is-paved-with-good.html - The road to hell is paved with good intentions and C++ modules.

fanf, 16 days ago to random

2022 retro-link! https://gankra.github.io/blah/fix-rust-pointers/ - Rust's unsafe pointer types need an overhaul.

fanf, 16 days ago to random

ooh i found a use for octal literals, that's pretty rare

fanf, 17 days ago to random

the water is also coming up through the ground under the tent! fortunately i have a large 16 rib umbrella and sufficiently waterproof boots

fanf, 19 days ago to random

https://www.asor.org/anetoday/2023/08/who-invented-alphabet/ - Who really invented the alphabet?

fanf, 19 days ago to random

hello #cbf i am in you!

fanf, 20 days ago to random

https://idlewords.com/2024/5/the_lunacy_of_artemis.htm

The best way to think of SLS is as a balding guy with a mullet: there are fireworks down below that are meant to distract you from a sad situation up top.

For eight minutes SLS roars into the sky on a pillar of fire. And then, like a cork popping out of a bottle, the tiny ICPS emerges and drifts vaguely moonwards on a wisp of flame.

[It is] a first in space flight, [a] rocket that is at the same time more powerful and less capable than the Saturn V.

fanf, 20 days ago to random

this is exceedingly cool

https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/weval/

“Compilers for free with weval”

fanf, 20 days ago to random

damnit apple

i'm experimenting with getting my ssh passphrase out of the macOS keychain using Rust

i did some hacking around with the security_framework crate https://docs.rs/security-framework/ so i can get a debug printout of the query and to add a feature

so the query matches the one used by apple's hacked ssh to get the passphrase

GUESS WHAT

Error: Error { code: -34018, message: "A required entitlement isn't present." }

fanf, 21 days ago to random

2021 retro-link! https://scribe.rip/p/what-every-software-engineer-should-know-about-search-27d1df99f80d - What every software engineer should know about search.

fanf, 24 days ago to random

2021 retro-link! http://www.horg.com/horg/ - Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group.

fanf, 24 days ago to random

https://morsmachine.dk/tcp-consensus - TCP is an underspecified two-node consensus algorithm and what that means for your proxies.

fanf, 24 days ago to random

https://b612-font.com/ - B612: the Airbus cockpit display font.

fanf, 26 days ago to random

on my blog!

https://dotat.at/@/2024-05-13-what-ident.html

Unix version control lore: what, ident

fanf, 26 days ago to random

heh look what i just found in an old .bashrc

export CVS_RSH=which ssh

fanf, 27 days ago to random

on my blog!

https://dotat.at/@/2024-05-12-dnssec-policy.html

some miscellaneous unsorted appendices on BIND9 dnssec-policy

fanf, 27 days ago to random

2022 retro-link! https://asteriskmag.com/issues/1/is-wine-fake - Is wine fake?

fanf, 27 days ago to random

2021 retro-link! https://www.adrianchernoff.com/project/skateboard-platform/ - Reinventing the automobile: the first skateboard platform for electric vehicles.