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wolf550e··on Show HN: misa77 - a codec that decodes 2x faster than LZ4 (at better ratios)
From status in readme in github:

- misa77's format may change unexpectedly as it's still v0.x.y.

- The decoder assumes that the input is a valid misa77 stream. Invalid input is UB and I offer no guarantees for whatever misa77 does in this case.

- It's been through some local fuzzing but is not hardened, so treat it as experimental.

wolf550e··on EFF is leaving X
Because of the asymmetry of energy required to refute bullshit, letting people spew bullshit and cleaning up afterwards is very expensive. And because some people are very bad at updating information in their heads (worse than the average, which is already poor), people will be told a refutation, agree, and later will forget, and repeat the refuted bullshit. And I truly believe they forget, not just pretend to agree with the refutation.

So preventing some things from gaining a big platform is good.

But, the mainstream media is extremely not neutral. A lot of what is said is not strictly true, because people are pushing an agenda. People have a right to talk about it. People need to resist very bad social engineering experiments being done on them "for their own good". The fact that sometimes people have to issue retractions and apologies and are even sometimes fired proves that if you just accept the first version of every story you hear and don't let people make a fuss about lies, even more lies will be accepted as mainstream truth. There needs to be an opposition to keep people honest. The opposition must be not cranks or enemies, but reasonable skeptics.

People who simply note that men and women are not exactly the same are grouped with rapists and pimps, and that is similar to the strategy to declare classical liberals who are not leftists "far right".

Dating patterns absolutely changed, women's online culture absolutely affects them. When women choose from men they know, like work colleagues, it works out. But on dating apps, women really are only interested in the top men. When judged only based on photo, by the opposite sex, most men are not attractive, while most women are attractive. But now people don't date colleagues and rarely even friends of friends. For many men, 1 match for 10,000 swipes is reality.

Telling the average man that he needs to get in better shape, take better care of his hygiene, dress better, demonstrate that he is a provider and a protector and he wants to spend time with her not only for sex, is not misogyny.

Telling the average woman that sleeping with the most attractive man who will sleep with her is not the way to find a husband is not misogyny.

A lot of dating advice is "adulting" advice. People are immature. They don't know how people perceive them, they don't know how to change that. Their expectations are based on bad fiction. They are overconfident or they are wimps.

Some advice from "the manosphere" should be grounds for imprisonment, and some should be taught in every school, and using a single name for both is terrible.

wolf550e··on Cloudflare scrubs Aisuru botnet from top domains list
Almost nothing is built by security engineers, including security features of security products at security companies.
wolf550e··on Django 6.0 beta 1 released
deadsnakes has 3.13.8, 3.14.0 and 3.15-a1 for 22.04: https://launchpad.net/~deadsnakes/+archive/ubuntu/ppa?field....
wolf550e··on Django 6.0 beta 1 released
Is this handled by uv or do you need to use deadsnakes ppa?
wolf550e··on IBM's Power11 Processor Architecture
"mainframes" are z/Architecture, not POWER.
wolf550e··on PuTTY has a new website
OpenSSH and OpenSSL are completely unrelated projects.
wolf550e··on ‘No Other Land’ consultant Awdah Hathaleen killed by Israeli settler
The vast majority of Israelis wanted the Palestinians to have a state. That's why Barak, Sharon and Olmert were elected. Israel tried twice to negotiate for a Palestinian state, and once gave the Palestinians Gaza unilaterally. The Palestinian leadership did not agree both times, and we have seen what they did with Gaza since 2005.

The problem is that the goal of the Palestinians is not a Palestinian state, it's to ensure that the Jews don't have a state. Otherwise they would have gotten a state in 1947. Except that the Palestinians didn't exist as a polity in 1947, and the West Bank was claimed by Jordan until 1988. The PLO was established in 1964, not to free the West Bank from Jordan, but to undo the 1948 war.

There is no Palestinian opposition that says not agreeing then was a mistake and they should have taken the offer (e.g. in 2008).

The main issue is not that some Palestinians are under the rule of horrible leaders like Hamas, the problem is that Hamas is the most popular party. The Palestinians completely support the goal of undoing the establishment of Israel. And apparently are mostly ok with the principle that it doesn't matter how many lives it costs, as long as Muslim land is freed, i.e. no sovereign Jews.

Basically, Israel has peaceniks and leftists, and even right wing governments were very willing to give land for peace, believing in the two state solution. The Palestinians have never had any peaceniks. The Israeli peace camp was badly wounded by the second intifada and it seems completely killed by October 7th.

wolf550e··on ‘No Other Land’ consultant Awdah Hathaleen killed by Israeli settler
There have been Jews in Jerusalem, even a majority of Jews, in Ottoman times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Jerusal...

The Jews of Morocco (or Baghdad, or Tehran) can't go back. For that matter, surviving Polish Jews were chased out of Poland after WWII. Most Israeli Jews are Mizrahi and most Israeli Jews don't have a 2nd passport.

And, of course, people have a right to self determination. Jews don't have to beg to be allowed to live as dhimmi or as a minority in Europe.

One people from the middle east managed to actually decolonize their tiny piece of land from the Arabs, and people have lost their minds. Every minority in the middle east is under attack (Kurds, Druze, Christians, etc.), and Westerners always side with the Arab colonizers.

wolf550e··on Memory safety is table stakes
The parser is attack surface, but that's the only part of something like Photoshop that has to be secure. The actual editing features can be insecure.
wolf550e··on Why JPEGs still rule the web (2024)
The reason JPEGs still rule is because Google Chrome removed support for JPEG-XL, the actually better photo format, because the Google guys who did AVIF decided they don't want competition.
wolf550e··on Notes on Tunisia
The demographics are changing, but see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizrahi_Jews_in_Israel
wolf550e··on Why I no longer have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site
They also support P-256 and P-384 ECDSA, but I think 4096 bit RSA is ok for account key.

https://letsencrypt.org/docs/integration-guide/#supported-ke...

wolf550e··on Why I no longer have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site
I think uv[1] basically solved this problem for python scripts. Go creates statically linked executables that are easy to deploy.

1 - https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/scripts/

wolf550e··on Why I no longer have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site
Implementing an ACME client in python using pyca/cryptography (or in Go) would be fine, but why do it in C++ ?
wolf550e··on Why I no longer have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site
Her webserver outputs logs in protobuf, so I think she likes binary serialization.
wolf550e··on Retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inventories left
I don't understand why people think this is racist. I think 'rayiner is just saying that people have culture. People get their culture from family, school friends, local activities like scouts, church or sports clubs, online communities, mentors. In neighborhoods populated by immigrants from the same immigration wave, local culture can persist for a long time and will only become the same as the average US culture after more than a century.

Religion is likely to stay for longer, and will change to become more like average US culture slower. For example, I don't know if and when a mild American version of Islam will develop which is more adapted to live in harmony with other cultures found in the US.

wolf550e··on 15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python
Plenty of cryptography in Java, C# and Go.
wolf550e··on A surprising enum size optimization in the Rust compiler
simdutf [1] from the same people who did simdjson [2]

1 - https://simdutf.github.io/simdutf/

2 - https://simdjson.org/

wolf550e··on SpaceX's Fram2 returns from first-of-its-kind mission around Earth's poles
I bet it has great buoyancy and is difficult to sink. They onyl open it on the ship, after washing off hypergol remains and going over it with a chemical sniffer.

They only land in good weather. I've watched many livestreams of landings, it always looks calm. The people attaching the ropes don't seem bothered. The astronauts inside are not too sea sick.

wolf550e··on SpaceX's Fram2 returns from first-of-its-kind mission around Earth's poles
Inspiration4 was the first private civilian mission on SpaceX Crew Dragon.

Polaris Dawn was a test flight of SpaceX's in-development extravehicular activity space suit, tethered to the spacecraft (so not like NASA EMU) but in vacuum.

Fram2 was the first crewed mission in polar orbit, with good view of the North and South poles. Other crewed missions were in less inclined orbits, usually the same inclination as the ISS or as Cape Canaveral.

wolf550e··on The housing theory of everything (2021)
If they own an apartment building, how can they be lower middle class? Even if it's not fully paid off, unless they are upside down on the mortgage, they have wealth. And even getting a bank to approve a mortgage means you're probably not lower middle class.

Do you mean they look and act like lower middle class, because that's how they grew up?

Or do you mean the margins are very bad so they have to do all the maintenance themselves and the profit is actually very low? Why is that?

wolf550e··on FFmpeg School of Assembly Language
There indeed have been bugs caused by amd64 assembly code assuming unix calling convention being used for Windows builds and causing data corruption. You have to be careful.
wolf550e··on FFmpeg School of Assembly Language
Where are the high performance RISC-V implementations? Those that compete with AMD Zen-5 and Apple M4? Or at least AWS Graviton 4?
wolf550e··on If OpenSSL were a GUI (2022)
I recommend https://cryptography.io/en/latest/ as a way to use openssl library instead of the command line.
wolf550e··on Wild – A fast linker for Linux
The linker time is important when building something like Chrome, not small projects.
wolf550e··on Starship Flight 7
NASA put people on the first flight of the shuttle to space, which turned out after the fact to have 1 in 12 chance of killing the crew. Can't do that in 2025.

https://x.com/eager_space/status/1879291376418120184

wolf550e··on Yemeni Coffee Shops in Texas
I have a simpler question about the meaning of "country A occupies country B". Does it simply mean "presence of people who work for country A on the territory of country B"? Maybe excluding the official staff of embassies?

Is the UK occupied by Russia due to the botched assassination of Sergei Skripal using Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury in 2018?

Is Pakistan occupied by the USA because of the US Navy Seals who killed Osama Bin-Laden in 2011?

I assume US special forces are present in many places from time to time if not continuously, although they are also continuously based in many countries.

I assume all serious countries have spies in every single other serious country. If you exclude small and poor countries, everyone occupies everyone? How is this definition useful in any way?

wolf550e··on Yemeni Coffee Shops in Texas
Please, I am very interested to know how the side that reasonably claims honesty explains how parts of Yemen are occupied by Israel.

The presence of Mossad spies who I have no knowledge of but I will just assume exist and are trying to find out where the Houthi leadership is or where the ballistic missiles are, so Israel can eliminate them, are an occupying force?

wolf550e··on Benchmarking RSA Key Generation
Ed25519 has been recommended over RSA for many years, post-quantum stuff is recent. RSA should only be used to support old protocols like webpki certificates.
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