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Unless the field of software development somehow totally stagnates, I'm confident that at some point I will move to a different hosting service, as github goes the way of sourceforge, travis-ci, and myspace. So my personal domain will continue to be relevant (it's lasted fine 23 years).

Maybe at that point it won't be using git either, or maybe it will - who knows.

Could you read it with a flatbed scanner or other photography? That should be unobtrusive.

I guess it was just part of the current website generation's training set!

With ecdsa the number of signatures needed to attack biased nonces seems low, hundreds or thousands? https://blog.trailofbits.com/2020/06/11/ecdsa-handle-with-ca...

The 26.04.01 upgrade LTS is delayed from it too, not just interim releases.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2026-Augus...

> Users of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS will be offered an automatic upgrade to 26.04.1 LTS via Update Manager a couple of weeks following this release after some planned backports to address regressions in a recent version of rust-coreutils.

https://wp.josh.com/2025/10/30/a-billion-digits-of-pi-experi... has some details. Seems plausible?

These don't seem really physically immutable, just protected by the firmware of the drives/robot against being written twice. With enough effort couldn't the same laser write _something_ over them again? Maybe optical discs need a hole that gets punched out or something, like the old floppy disk write protect. (And then make that control a physical laser power switch)

So Google Pics is for work, and Google Photos is for personal photos? Got it.

Australia banned telemarketing a while ago, it worked pretty well. The only spam phone calls left are 100% illegal scammers.

https://www.acma.gov.au/telemarketing-and-e-marketing they give out million+ dollar fines which sort things out. Just being a customer doesn't allow them to send marketing, you have to opt in.

This looks like it's doing that? https://github.com/esp-rs/esp-hal/tree/main/examples/async/e...

Aha, thanks. The adsb.exposed maps are excellent, thank you! Really intrigued by the building maps.

A few times I've had an irregular 2D dataset to process and thought "aha, maybe I can be lazy and iterate ordered by a space filling curve coordinates and it'll be more cache effective". But it's never given any improvement. Anyone tried something similar?

There are a lot of urls for the bots to follow. Yesterday's logs had 2.2M unique URLs out of 2.7M requests (more unique than I was expecting!)

Typical traffic:

  https://hg.ucc.asn.au/dropbear-fuzzcorpus/annotate/default/fuzzer-preauth/23f6b74342011f35e657f06e9398ad339360d7e9 
  https://hg.ucc.asn.au/dropbear-fuzzcorpus/comparison/e67e5df225e5/fuzzer-verify/b5f57a2bb85ab7ef957e4979fd202b091de27bd8?revcount=8 
  https://hg.ucc.asn.au/dropbear-fuzzcorpus/log/72337e3dcccf/fuzzer-preauth_nomaths/6b1f390d26b08759983937727e10ab90aa7b03f2?revcount=15 
  https://hg.ucc.asn.au/dropbear-fuzzcorpus/log/4cdb539e4b20/fuzzer-preauth_nomaths/713e5cd4f73276f00a5d6685cc16d4565ad3815a?revcount=96 
  https://hg.ucc.asn.au/dropbear-fuzzcorpus/diff/tip/fuzzer-client_nomaths/540778ea81a915af6e898fd9658c5d9d6594c40a?revcount=128 
  https://hg.ucc.asn.au/dropbear-fuzzcorpus/diff/0ef1e51e583f/fuzzer-client/65ac44bdf4868866def70f40542dd1b5ca447310?revcount=30

(I've moved and kept the fuzz corpus now, but other viewvc repos were suffering similarly)

It's mainly that dealing with them is a hassle, time that could be better spent doing other more useful things.

Over the weekend I got round to turning off some old viewvc (CVS and subversion) and hgweb (Mercurial) web interfaces. They'd been running fine for a decade or two with basic security updates etc, mostly only occasionally visited for real purposes, but that's fine!

But getting 2.7 million requests/day from residential proxy IPs was a bit taxing for the old uwsgi/cgi programs (that's average 30/s), making other sites on the server suffer. It was also getting close to 1TB/month which is the VPS quota.

So I ended up turning them off, one more cut towards the centralised internet. Sure I could put a cache in front, but there are probably millions of combinations of dynamic urls in the VCS tree so caching mightn't help much anyway, not worth the effort. I'm sure the web server could be tuned better too, but again it's a waste of time.

openai etc are going to have a higher utilisation of the hardware so can afford it more than small companies/people. Efficient resource use matters more when they're expensive.

Interesting idea, but wouldn't an embedded language normally be interpreted/runtime editable? I guess you could do it shipping a rust compiler, but it'd be big. A bit like Numba?

getaddrinfo was added after ipv6. Software had to be rewritten to use getaddrinfo.

Prior to that programs used gethostbyname() etc, which only works with ipv4.

Old Nanostations as a client need to do proxy arp or something, which doesn't handle ipv6. That said it's probably 15 year old hardware. I ended up using a wireguard tunnel across it instead.

Maybe the LLMs need some kind of "coverage" metric so they prioritise new paths? The author would know a thing or two about that.

I think that's incorrect. Brains/eyes are good at looking for patterns.

If you have less than hundreds of thousands of points, you can probably get away with drawing individual dots on the map. Computer screens are high res.

There are excellent examples of the problem in Edward Tufte's "Envisioning Information". Have a look at http://blah.ksteinfe.com/181106/tufte_envisioning_informatio... for a few snippets of it, then buy the book.

I'm wondering who's going to buy pi!

(Edit sorry forgetting names, I mean who's going to buy Earendil). Good luck to Armin, he's done some good stuff.

It looks like github is just buggy in this case.

From what distance? I would have thought $1M wouldn't go far

Wait until they hear how much source code is thrown away to make software! I guess that's a bit ephemeral, but still probably similar in a lot of industries.

Clothes are weird shaped, weaves are rectilinear, it's a pretty tricky problem to solve. Unless someone manages to invent a non-rectilinear robot loom or something?

Solvinity is a pretty terrible company name.

"needs clarification" looks like a pretty normal hardware design process as the details are finalised.

https://github.com/flipperdevices/flipperone-docs/commits/pu...

The rustcrypto crates seem a lot better maintained and will probably supplant ring in future. Ring maintenance seems hostile to use outside of expected use cases.

If they're already running a custom Linux kernel build, why did they have AF_ALG enabled? Seems the perfect situation to limit features to only those actually being used.