hsivonen

hsivonen, 27 days ago to random

iPad Pro reviewers collectively don’t appear to care enough about viewing the photos they’ve taken on their iPhones in HDR on iPad Pro. None of the reviews I’ve checked so far mention the use case.

For me, viewing the photos I’ve taken in HDR is the only thing that is enabled by the new iPad Pro and is not enabled by my current (not even M series CPU) iPad Pro that I particularly would like to be able to do.

Other things I wish my iPad Pro was allowed to do the new one doesn’t do, either.

hsivonen, 1 month ago to random

I’m planning air travel from Helsinki to Seoul with my child who is going to be two years old at the time of travel. I have no experience with air travel with a 2-year-old.

Finnair says that it‘s OK to bring a car child seat approved for airplane use. The EU even recommends doing so, but I gather it isn’t actually common. (Is it?) The standard number trail both from Finnair directly and via the EU regulation lead to https://www.tuv.com/landingpage/en/manufacturer-of-child-seats/ .

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bagder, 1 month ago to random

Reminder: a hostname is not necessarily the same as the SNI name, since hostnames can have trailing dots and SNI names cannot.

This is a mess than will never go away.

hsivonen, 1 month ago to random

Reminder that on Linux, the most foundational library (glibc) takes a kitchen sink approach to character encodings, even ones irrelevant in the wild, in a memory-unsafe language:
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/18/4

ISO-2022-CN-EXT was an anachronism to begin with: https://lobste.rs/s/m8woyp/glibc_cve_2024_2961_buffer_overflow_iconv#c_a3b90w

luis_in_brief, 1 month ago to random

Need a European-audience-friendly version of this image. Poirot, but more sick of the bullshit.
https://dan.mastohon.com/@danhon/112281412800630779

hsivonen, 2 months ago to random

Annoying to listen to @gruber justify the fees Apple takes for iOS apps by comparing with the era of boxed Mac apps (ignoring that indie developers could outsource international payment processing of downloaded app to Kagi already in the Classic Mac OS era) and to U.S. carrier bizdev-gates Blackberry apps (when over here in Finland one would download native apps for S60 or J2ME apps for S40 or its SonyEricsson counterpart from the app developer without the carrier having anything to do with it).

hsivonen, 2 months ago to random Finnish

Ode on näköjään laajentanut täälläkin screenshottina levinneen twiittinsä blogautukseksi: https://www.soininvaara.fi/2024/03/17/suomen-luisuminen-kohti-unkarin-tieta/

hsivonen, 3 months ago to random

Seeing toots about software systems that break on Feb 29 reminds me of the formative experience of seeing as the most junior developer how a presumably expensive consultant from a globally-known company didn’t get leap years right in Gregorian date validation.

hsivonen, 3 months ago to random

The Windows and Apple situation with the internals of Rust’s Mutex is very Windows and very Apple: Rust prefers futex and uses futex on Linux, non-NetBSD BSDs, and Fuchsia. Windows has futex (under different name) since Windows 8, but Rust supports Windows 7 still. Apple platforms have futex (under different name), but the Rust source comments remark that Apple considers it private API and you’d get rejected from the App Store for using the API, so pthreads it is for Apple platforms.

hsivonen, 3 months ago to random

Is there an nginx / Caddy competitor written with Rust’s hyper? I would not be too surprising if Cloudflare had made one, but I don’t see one on their GitHub.

hsivonen, 3 months ago to random

Developers of apps that accept domain names in their Unicode (non-Punycode) form: Do you have use cases for turning on or off individual UTS 46 flags as opposed to using one of two option bundles: 1) do what browsers do or 2) perform STD3 conformance checking?

hsivonen, 4 months ago to random

Can we, please, retire the “battle-tested C code” trope that assumes that C code that has been in prominent use for a long time is safe?

https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2024/01/30/qualys-tru-discovers-important-vulnerabilities-in-gnu-c-librarys-syslog

hsivonen, 4 months ago to random

If you are an implementor of a Unicode normalizer and you’ve implemented any optimizations at all, you’ll want to read section 5 of https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2024/24009-utc178-properties-recs.pdf as preparation for Unicode 16.

hsivonen, 4 months ago to random

School Swedish didn’t cover git terminology. https://github.com/bjorne/git-pa-svenska

hsivonen, 4 months ago to random

Bold that Apple charges €24,99 to “buy” or €19,99 to rent a movie that has it says right there is coming to Apple TV+.

lari, 5 months ago to random

Olen monesta asiasta tässä Patomäen kanssa eri mieltä, mutta samaa mieltä kyllä siitä, että suomalaisen keskustelun liikkumatila juuri tähän asiaan liittyen on vaarallisesti kapeutunut.

Hyvä, että on tällaisia, jotka siitä huolimatta rohkenevat olla perustellen eri mieltä paskamyrskyistä huolimatta.

Demokratia tarvitsee dissidenttejä.

https://www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/a/d161a343-5670-446a-a906-8b0f50b3c4ae

osma, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

It usually is not a great idea to make something rare but highly problematic even more rare, unless it can be eliminated entirely. Software developers have been notoriously bad on handling time well - guess how bad they will be, if practicing it only every 100 years or so?
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/11/leap-seconds-could-become-leap-minutes-despite-pushback-from-russians-vatican/

hsivonen, 1 year ago to random

TIL: A current (not even former!) EU lobbyist for Meta is running for parliament in Finland on the list of the party that gets the largest amount of campaign contributions from businesses. (I learned from outdoor advertising that they can afford.) Apparently Meta’s brand relative to democracy isn’t yet at the point where a Meta lobbyist would be too much for a mainstream party.