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xena··on I hate compilers
That's great. I love that for you. Please leave me alone.
xena··on I hate compilers
Surprisingly, cherry-picked examples to prove a point are cherry-picked examples to prove a point.
xena··on I hate compilers
It's a conscious design choice. Doing that gets you considered a botnet/malware. I don't want Anubis to be considered a botnet/malware.
xena··on I hate compilers
Anubis is not a cryptocurrency miner: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/user/frequently-asked-questi...
xena··on I hate compilers
Anubis does this: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/honeypot/overview

Getting in the maze influences your client's challenge difficulty.

xena··on I hate compilers
Nix doesn't help when the issue is a compiler bug, sadly.
xena··on I hate compilers
Patches welcome. I'd love to do protein folding too.
xena··on I hate compilers
Sadly my initial test case is binaryen which has 290 compilation units. I will try though.
xena··on I hate compilers
Thank you, this will be very useful.
xena··on I hate compilers
This might be the first time in my career I have genuinely found a compiler bug. I've been operating under the axiom of "don't assume it's a compiler bug, assume you're fucking it up somehow". When you get to the point that disabling ASLR makes it consistent intra-host I think I've won the right to at least suspect a compiler bug is at play.

I'll go file it upstream after work today.

xena··on I hate compilers
iOS Lockdown Mode also implements this configuration.
xena··on I hate compilers
I'll try and make a minimal reproduction case and file a bug. Do you know if any tooling that can take a binary and fuzz it down to a minimal reproduction set?
xena··on I hate compilers
Tell me the flags I'm missing then: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/blob/Xe/wasm4/utils/wasm...
xena··on The Butlerian Jihad Has Begun
But the incompetent far outnumbers the competent and they've been seeing AI and datacentres as symbols of the forces that are harming their ability to feed their families. An easy way out of this is universal basic income and universal mortgage/rent freezes now.
xena··on The Butlerian Jihad Has Begun
A few things (written on my phone, forgive the SEO list):

* One idea per sentence, more than one tends to make massive run-on sentences that go too far.

* Removes irrelevant details. Why does it matter that a Guardian article was the thing that gave the writer the missing link?

Essentially the trick is to take your ideas down to the bare minimum required to express them portably and then write that. It makes things much easier to write (you don't have ans many words to put in the document) and the end result is much easier to read (there's less irrelevant details to scan through).

xena··on The Butlerian Jihad Has Begun
This was hard to read; the writer really did not come from the school of succinctness. If the writer is reading this, please try making an edit where you remove as much of the fluff and rephrase sentences like:

> When I read this detail, tucked away near the end of a Guardian article, I winced to see another of my predictions come true; that the ‘Butlerian Jihad’ would soon enter public life not as mere literary metaphor, but as a kind of political vocabulary, one destined to spiral into paranoia and violence.

Into something like:

> This idea of the "Butlerian Jihad" horrified me. We are misunderstanding Herbert's subtle warning about humans being forced to become like machines as a rallying cry against AI companies. I fear that this will lead to paranoia and violence.

I think that if the entire article was edited like that it would be a lot more readable.

xena··on Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things
I end up thinking that conventional commits is a good idea because you can make tooling force people to at least put one iota of thought into what goes in a commit message. I've had to review so many commits with the subject "small fix" that was not in fact a small fix.
xena··on IPv6 zones in URLs are a mistake
i hate computers
xena··on IPv6 zones in URLs are a mistake
I have published a fix to the post, it should be live within a minute. Thanks!

https://github.com/Xe/site/commit/f846b489092412b8c1ef70bebd...

xena··on Trump signs downsized AI order after weeks of reversals
Who is going to stop the federal government from enforcing them as if they were laws?
xena··on Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services
Ask and you shall receive: https://xeiaso.net/shitposts/no-way-to-prevent-this/supply-c...
xena··on Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL
Bots don't execute JavaScript or follow complicated redirects.
xena··on Can we have the day off?
Chinese youth have a term for this, neijuan: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=neijuan
xena··on Go: Support for Generic Methods
This will finally let me make the monad library I've been dreaming of for years. Be afraid.
xena··on Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage
How do I as an iOS user permanently opt-out of your services before I get spammed to death with them?
xena··on Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage
What is your plan to prevent spam from bad actors?

How do you ban bad actors so they can't spam again?

Does a user have to initiate contact in order to have messages sent to them?

xena··on Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says
The dude bankrupted a casino.
xena··on Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses
They don't care about quality as long as it works enough. It's a clown show all the way through.
xena··on 'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens
I've honestly been thinking of doing the same kind of thing for a while, but I need to make sure that my generator is exactly 69 lines of code like it currently is: https://github.com/Xe/site/blob/main/cmd/no-way-to-prevent-t...
xena··on 'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens
go:generate is done at dev time, not at build time.
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