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JamesCoyneon Sourcehut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html)

Really commendable work fixing up the upstream python project. I don't think there's anything to be embarrassed about in the timeline.

JamesCoyneon Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

Unlikely to see wide distribution on Linux given the license

JamesCoyneon GitHub is having issues now

Git ops seem fine. Anything search related is intermittent at best

JamesCoyneon Bat: Cat with syntax highlighting

Also "numbat". A favorite of mine

JamesCoyneon Turn MEP prompts into AutoCAD drawings in minutes

Hey OP, can you share how you came across this company? It is incredibly new, the domain has only been registered for a few weeks, and their are barely any google results for it.

JamesCoyneon Why not Matrix (2023)

cool

JamesCoyneon Impacts of Adding PV Solar System to Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles

mirror https://sci-hub.se/https://www.jstor.org/stable/26169128

JamesCoyneon A deliberate practice app for guitar players who want to level up

thank-you

JamesCoyneon A deliberate practice app for guitar players who want to level up

Anyone have recommendations for similar Android apps?

JamesCoyneon GoLic, injects license into source code files

Could use a (2021) in the title. No activity since then in the repo

JamesCoyneon He Died Building a Ship for the U.S. Government. His Family Got Nothing

> "When Pérez’s partner sought death benefits from G-4 Services, the local staffing contractor that had hired him to work for Thoma-Sea, G-4 rebuffed her. “Pérez was a self-employed independent contractor and thus a claim for death benefits is not compensable..."

Brutal

JamesCoyneon Atkinson Hyperlegible Font

Google thinks it's OFL v1.1 https://github.com/googlefonts/atkinson-hyperlegible?tab=rea... But it also has a Reserved Font Name, so probably OFL-1.1-RFN going by the SPDX License List https://spdx.org/licenses/

Kinda too bad they don't just state which license they're aiming for.

JamesCoyneon For the first time in more than 150 years, Alberta's electricity is coal free

Alberta is somewhat unique within Canada, with electricity trading on a market operated by AESO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Electric_System_Operat...

JamesCoyneon Edited highlights from the evisceration of Craig Wright

https://soundcloud.com/alabpodcast/episode-3-faketoshi-the-p...

JamesCoyneon No One Can Own the Law–So Why Is Congress Extending Copyright to It?

You can use NFPA's crappy "free access" https://www.nfpa.org/For-Professionals/Codes-and-Standards/L...

JamesCoyneon PuTTY vulnerability vuln-p521-bias

Details in the excellent commit message https://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/putty.git;a=commitdiff;h=c...

JamesCoyneon A proof-of-concept Python executable built on Cosmopolitan Libc (2021)

This is a good place to mention https://nuitka.net/ which aims to compile python programs into standalone binaries.

JamesCoyneon Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise

Whoops.

JamesCoyneon Open Collective Official Statement – OCF Dissolution

Given this news, it's interesting to read the "Investor Update" published by Open Collective earlier this month: https://blog.opencollective.com/open-collective-inc-investor...

Open Collective will (presumably) experience a further drop in revenue as they lose the "platform fee" they collected from OCF

JamesCoyneon Air pollution over Alberta oil sands up to 6,300% higher than reported

Producing oil from "tight" formations through fracking will not be displaced by oil sands production. It's just cheaper to run with much lower upfront cost. Hard to find numbers here, but scroll down to figure 5 here https://energynow.ca/2023/02/canadian-upstream-oil-sector-su...

Also: this page is really interesting generally https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakken_formation

JamesCoyneon Porsche Design System v3

kinda discussed here previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38244149

JamesCoyneon Kramdown-man: A Kramdown convert for converting Markdown files into man pages

scdoc uses syntax that is almost markdown https://man.archlinux.org/man/scdoc.5.en

JamesCoyneon Linux Man Pages in the "Miscellaneous Information" Section

What am I looking at here?

JamesCoyneon HPC at Autodesk

[Current Autodesk CAD user] Thanks! Nice to hear their employees are well treated; atleast some good is coming from the yearly subscriptions.

JamesCoyneon HPC at Autodesk

Can anyone speak to the general appetite at Autodesk for open-source projects?

JamesCoyneon Mathematicians Find New 13-Sided Shape Called 'The Hat'

Similar from 6 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35273707

JamesCoyneon Cerebras-GPT: A Family of Open, Compute-Efficient, Large Language Models

Slightly off-topic:

I remember seeing news about the enormous chip Cerebras was/is selling (pdf https://f.hubspotusercontent30.net/hubfs/8968533/WSE-2%20Dat...).

Has there been any indication that the LLMs released in the last few months use exotic hardware like this, or is it all "standard" hardware?

JamesCoyneon EPA orders Norfolk Southern to conduct all cleanup actions related to derailment

Litigator of the year https://twitter.com/AmericanLawyer/status/159510343722973593...

JamesCoyneon This layoff does not exist

Something's broken, I only get Accountability=TRUE messages. Please allow the robot to write in full snark mode