Just deleted my Mastodon->Twitter crossposter, which had been off since I rebooted my server last month without me noticing. It's not worth it if I have no way to see or interact with replies.
Goodbye for now, Twitter. Find me at mas.to/@comex.
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Via HN, an ad for Google’s new Bard AI inadvertently shows it returning false information:
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Unfortunately a simple google search would tell us that JWST actually did not "take the very first picture of a planet outside of our own solar system" and this is literally in the ad for Bard so I wouldn't trust it yet twitter.com/Google/status/…
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＊checks Twitter profile＊
My Mastodon-Twitter crossposter bot is still running, but if news reports are accurate, it will stop working in 4 days when Twitter removes free API access. Probably a good thing. At this point, with Tweetbot down, I…
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Well, it’s still likely months at least before I even leave my job, and who knows how long after that until my Fancy Indie Project is in a releasable state (a project which I have fantasized about in detail but, for legal reasons, haven’t written a…
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Recently learned about Sigsum, an alternative to Sigstore/Rekor for software release transparency (like Certificate Transparency but for executables), developed by a sister company to Mullvad VPN.
Looks neat, but AFAICT, neither project has a…
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Today I tried to get that HDMI lag detector circuit to work again. It seems like the problem is that everything is just… too dark? With 3.3V -> phototransistor -> 1MΩ -> ground, voltage across the resistor is 350mV ‘bright’, 20mV…
This is the best YouTube video I’ve watched in a long time.
What If Mario Characters looked Like Their Original Sprites?
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Why doesn’t my shell have parallel `for` loops built in.
I know there’s xargs and GNU parallel, but they both involve awkwardly representing the loop body as a string and dealing with escaping issues. It’s much simpler to use a shell…
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Today I wrote my first FPGA program. It blinked an LED. Then I wrote my second FPGA program, which just set the LED on or off based on an input pin, and discovered that the very simple circuit I copied from somewhere on the Internet didn’t…
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Caveat: A large chunk of compilation time is spent in optimizations/codegen, and that design space is actually well-explored by the many JIT compilers. Or at least part of that space. I think there may be room to explore in the subspace of…
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If you take a modern C++ or Rust compiler and think about optimizing it…
There’s lots of “low-hanging fruit” in the form of incrementality and parallelism.
Not truly “low-hanging” as in easy to implement; it’s actually extremely…
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＊peeks head out in 2023＊
Still no HDMI 2.1 capture cards. But they’re coming, according to gamerevolution.com/guides/931266- (written last month).
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How do reverse-engineering tools fare at recovering symbols from ObjC runtime metadata?
Ghidra does it by default.
Binary Ninja does it if you choose Plugins -> Objective-C -> Analyze Structures. Confusing, since this isn't about…
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Okay, get this. llvm-nm, the default nm on Darwin, which I always knew as 'the tool that dumps nlist entries', can synthesize symbols from ObjC runtime metadata. But only Apple's private version, not LLVM upstream or even swift-llvm! And it's also…
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Correction: The local symbols are not actually missing; I just conflated a number of related, probably older issues. For example, ＊non-＊local symbols are in the exports trie, but dyld's extractor doesn't copy them into the symbol table; LLDB…
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Context: I believe mas.to🐘sneak@sneak.berlin/109694881616413274 is essentially false, but my attempt to prove it has been unexpectedly frustrating.
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TIL that reverse engineering system libs on macOS is even more of a shitshow than it used to be. dyld is harder to compile, and its shared cache extractor is unable to locate local symbols, even though they do seem to still be there (unlike on iOS where…
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Continuing in the ‘abuse of Mastodon’ theme, I tried fediview.com, which can show a filtered feed of the most popular posts from your timeline. But it didn’t work, so I ran `mastodon_digest` (which it’s based on) locally.
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So if you follow someone, add them to a list, then unfollow them, they are automatically removed from the list, but their tweets stay present (at least for some time) when you view the list.
In other news, I’m limited to 400 follows per…
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So Tweetbot and other clients being cut off is confirmed to be intentional. Petty but not surprising. Oh well; my use of Twitter had already declined to near zero, and I’m looking forward to Ivory (🐘ivory@tapbots.social) coming…
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I wonder whether House Democrats would have been better off voting for McCarthy as speaker during one of the first rounds, allowing him to make fewer concessions to the right flank. Would have strengthened the House GOP caucus as a whole, but would have…
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“If we want to drive asynchronous drops from panic unwinds, then panic unwinds of async futures need to be able themselves to suspend.” internals.rust-lang.org/t/async-drop-v
Rust async was a mistake
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Just finished speedreading “unOrdinary” (webtoons.com/en/super-hero/), an (ongoing) English-language webtoon. The plot is basically ‘My Hero Academia but darker’. But its emphasis on character psychology sets it apart, along with a deliberate…
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It only now occurs to me that Dead Cells beat Smash Bros. at its own game.
Compare and contrast:
youtube.com/watch?v=fEMjZg
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RT 🐘whynothugo@fosstodon.org: Is Twitter considered a gatekeeper? I don't think they're big enough.
Maybe. Twitter seems to be close to, but not quite at, the financial thresholds mentioned in skadden.com/insights/publi. But it may be considered a…
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Paul Graham in November: “It's remarkable how many people who've never run any kind of company think they know how to run a tech company better than someone who's run Tesla and SpaceX.”
Paul Graham, just now: “This is the last straw. I…
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IMPORTANT: 's new policy preventing linking to competitors is in DIRECT VIOLATION of European Union rules.
Penalty can be a fine of up to 20% of Twitter's annual revenue
commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-p
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Just set up Eve Cam as a replacement for my Eufy security camera. Pros: Better mount (swivels in two dimensions rather than one + magnetic stand). Cons: 3x the price. No option to rotate video 90°! Comes with a not-super-long USB A-to-Micro-B…
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Twitter’s new head of trust and safety says the company did not give reporters access to peoples’ DMs. The screenshots came from her, she says:
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Correct. For security purposes, the screenshots requested came from me so we could ensure no PII was exposed. We did not give this access to reporters and no, reporters were not accessing user DMs.
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