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tus666··on An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
what does it say?
tus666··on Moving beyond fork() + exec()
How can you write for LWN and not have heard of clone(CLONE_THREAD) and multithreading?
tus666··on Windows 12: force copilot, a new computer and a OS subscription on you
Im pretty sure the subscription is optional, and if you don't subscribe, you dont get the AI "features" and copilot.

Seems win/win to me.

tus666··on U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites
260ft is around 79m. The bombs can penetrate around 60m of concrete. So one bomb, probably not, but they are able to follow each other in quick succession meaning 2 or three should be able to do the job quite easily, with accurate GPS positioning.
tus666··on Starships Launch for Mars in 2026. Crewed Flights Possible by 2028
The question is unexplored territory, pun intended.

The FAA could deny approval for launch, but its unclear what the basis would be. What happens on Mars is out of it's jurisdiction, literally.

The UN governs Earth, not Mars. It could expand to cover Mars I suppose. It's the sort of pointless activity you could imagine the European Parliament obsessing over, but there is little they could do about an American launch company.

But the reality is we are centuries away from something approaching a land-rush on Mars, or actual competition between nations for control of anything.

I suspect it will be a "watch and wait and see" situation.

tus666··on Lemon64.com and Lemonamiga.com Hacked
> The passwords in phpBB3.3 use an exceptionally strong and secure method of encryption

I thought passwords were supposed to be hashed, not encrypted. This is bad.

tus666··on Researchers Say There's a Vulgar but More Accurate Term for AI Hallucinations
Fair.
tus666··on NATO has just 5% of air defences needed to protect eastern flank
Exactly.
tus666··on NATO has just 5% of air defences needed to protect eastern flank
From what exactly? Turkey?
tus666··on [dead]
Hopefully when we go to Mars we leave cockroaches like you behind.
tus666··on I discovered a critical exploit in ZeroMQ with mostly pure luck
Most memory vulnerabilities are use-after-free which due to the nature of C is a very easy mistake to make.

Buffer overflows are simple inexcusable, especially if its "we didn't bother checking" rather than "we got the size wrong due to human error".

The first case is not normal, people like that should not be programming HTML let alone C code.

tus666··on Cipherleaks is the first demonstrated attack against AMD SEV-SNP (2021)
Am I the only one who finds it highly annoying that exclusive domain names are registered for individual CVEs?
tus666··on I discovered a critical exploit in ZeroMQ with mostly pure luck
No, but I would never, ever, ever, EVER write data to a buffer without specifying the buffer size or reallocing where necessary.

This just smells so much like a Javascript script kiddy who wanted to join the cool brigade and write something h4kor1sh in C. Ugh.

tus666··on Is robotics about to have its own ChatGPT moment?
For robotics sake, I hope not.
tus666··on I discovered a critical exploit in ZeroMQ with mostly pure luck
> By reading the source code, I realized that the incoming data was put into a fixed-size static buffer in the stack, and the payload was decrypted into another fixed-size buffer. There’s no boundary or size check.

This is not normal. It's amateurish in the extreme that leads to the only conclusion that whoever wrote this ZeroMQ thing is not a real software engineer. I.e. stay away at all costs.

tus666··on OpenAI makes ChatGPT 'more direct, less verbose'
The more I use ChatGPT, the useless I realize it is.

It looks impressive at first, until you realize it is like a trick pony. Don't get it to haul your luggage.

It gives apparently good summaries of sometimes complex topics. But then you ask it to explain things in more detail...welcome to a special hell of circular reasoning, inherent contradictions, and surprising about-faces that occur even when you ask a complementary question (complementary as in congruent not admiring).

ChatGPT: <long verbose answer...>

Me: Oh so your saying X implies Y but not Z? (which previous answer did)

ChatGPT: Apologies for causing confusion, I misspoke.... (go on to give a worse response now)

Me: But your first response was OK, I just wanted to clarify XYZ...

ChatGPT: <now gives a response with directly conflicting statements>

How many times have you seen this?

tus666··on US Army spent billions on a new helicopter that will now never fly
After spending billions of dollars on a light attack/recon heli that will never fly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing%E2%80%93Sikorsky_RAH-66...

tus666··on Public Has Mixed Views on the Modern American Family
How could a leading research organization not have heard or divorce and child support?
tus666··on Why is rail patronage 50% higher in Sydney than Melbourne? (2020)
Gak, as someone who has lived in both this is missing the real question which actually also answers this question...

WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD DRIVE A CAR IN SYDNEY???

tus666··on Python 3.13 Gets a JIT
> The initial benchmarks show something of a 2-9% performance improvement. You might be disappointed by this number, especially since this blog post has been talking about assembly and machine code and nothing is faster than that right? Well, remember that CPython is already written in C and that was already compiled to machine-code by the C compiler.

WTF has this to do with JITing the code written in Python?

tus666··on Happy New Year HN!
So will this be the year of the Linux desktop?
tus666··on Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (2011)
Imagine a language with an entire system of honorific speech required when speaking to one's superiors. Oh wait...they already exist.
tus666··on C Object Oriented Programming (2014)
> is essential to nearly any large, complex software system

> in performance sensitive code

Those two things are not the same.

tus666··on Tell HN: YouTube app on Android disabled loop video option
yes
tus666··on Skull fragments from Ukraine reveal early modern humans came from the East
There's something about that title...
tus666··on Tell HN: YouTube app on Android disabled loop video option
Not for me. Maybe your getting ABed.
tus666··on Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly
It's a classic victim of shitty, shitty software developers who blames tools rather than taking ownership.

Or shitty software dev companies that push out crap to meet marketing deadlines.

Either way, take your money elsewhere.

tus666··on New York Times stopped loading content when JavaScript is disabled
I always browse with JS disabled, and it loads fine for me just now.
tus666··on People in the Middle Ages Slept Not Once but Twice Each Night
Unlike in the 21st century where 100% of the population has exactly the same sleep pattern and sleeps exactly 8 hours a night from the same time to the same time.

/s

tus666··on UltraRAM
Lifetime of microeletronics is often quoted at around 30 years. So that's once a millisecond. For a refresh cycle that does not seem extraordinary.
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