mr. waddlesplash

@waddlesplash

developer & contributor. Serial software tinkerer. Slowly being subsumed into the infosec hivemind.

Eastern USA
waddlesplash.github.io
Joined September 2013
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  1. Retweeted
    Sep 17

    New article: Software Disenchantment. Today’s software and software practices suck. It’s on us, engineers, to step up and do better

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  2. Sep 18

    With that being said -- there are now EFI-enabled (!) pre-RC beta images for testing available.

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  3. Sep 18

    There were some unexpected delays (as always...) so the release will not occur today (which was the end of the originally-scheduled window.) The new estimate is 2-5 days from now; so, not too bad of a delay!

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    Sep 18

    🆕 if you turn off timeline ranking in settings today, you’ll see all the tweets from people you follow in reverse chronological order…no “in case you missed it” or tweets the people you follow “liked”.

    5/ Meanwhile, today we updated the “Show the best Tweets first” setting. When off, you’ll only see Tweets from people you follow in reverse chronological order. Previously when turned off, you’d also see “In case you missed it” and recommended Tweets from people you don’t follow.
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  5. Retweeted
    Sep 17

    Muted all of these a few hours ago and have a natively reverse-chronological order timeline again. No invading likes, no rando suggests 💯

    Replying to @EmmaKinema
    A fuller list of suggest family tweets can be found here, but undocumented of course so don’t know what the extra tweet categories actually mean
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    Sep 16

    Uh. Muting suggest_recycled_tweet_inline and suggest_activity_tweet actually has fixed my timeline. It's all chronological and there are barely any "x and y liked" tweets.

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  7. Sep 16

    We've gotten lots of graphs about bitcoin affecting greenhouse gas emissions. Now can someone do the same, but for Electron?

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  8. Sep 16

    Our GCC3+ demangler has had (even more rigorous) input validation for years now, so it's not affected by this at all. But yes, that patch fixes a theoretically very trivial way to cause a triple fault: create malicious symbol, cause kernel to read stack trace -> boom!

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  9. Sep 16

    Remember that article that got circulated on Twitter last year, about how libiberty's C++ demangler was so buggy that GDB had to catch and steamroll segfaults it caused? Well ... look what patch I just pushed for review to Haiku's Gerrit.

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  10. Retweeted
    Sep 14

    Imagine accidentally setting dozens of houses on fire and having manners about it to irritate the firefighters. This is the most savagely critical I’ve ever seen politicians be of a corporation in their jurisdiction

    Andover Town Manager Andrew Flanagan joined in the criticism of Columbia Gas on Friday. “Our attempts to work closely with Columbia Gas during this crisis have been met with little more than phone calls unreturned and questions unanswered,” Flanagan said.
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    Sep 13

    easy RCE Alpine Linux apk: " a network man-in-the-middle (or a malicious package mirror) to execute arbitrary code on the user’s machine"

    This is bad.
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  12. Retweeted
    Sep 13

    Electron apps are not sustainable. 5 apps that are just front ends for a web site with some enhanced notifications should not be using 6 gigs of ram doing nothing.

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  13. Sep 12

    Anyway. Enough rambling. I should shut up about Linux before I start sounding like 's hateposts, and I should shut up about Haiku before I start sounding like an Apple shillboy. But with the beta release just around the corner, it seemed fitting.

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  14. Sep 12

    (I suspect the number of graphical BSD users is probably pretty low, based on the fact that in two weeks of running newer WiFi drivers from FreeBSD on Haiku, multiple users reported easily fixed but bad bugs indicating nobody had tested the driver on that chipset.)

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  15. Sep 12

    The BSDs are better than Linux is here, but they still use X11 and the Linux GUI toolkits (but how many people use graphical BSD at this point?) which is nearly as bad, in most ways. But at least their coding practices are, uh, sane.

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  16. Sep 12

    Even today, there are a *LOT* of "Linux developers" who spend more time on macOS than they do Linux, as likes to point out. Why? I dunno, maybe it's nice to use a system that has a cohesive vision and doesn't have random subsystems stop functioning? Just a thought.

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  17. Sep 12

    This is where Haiku comes in: One team, one architecture, one set of subsystems, one vision. If something's broken? It's our fault; no need to play ping-pong arguing about it between maintainers of two ostensibly unrelated projects. Etc.

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  18. Sep 12

    I legitimately know more, at this point, about the internals of macOS and how stuff is connected than I do about any Linux desktop system. (And I don't own any Apple devices and have spent maybe 2-3 dozen hours total using them to troubleshoot dev problems at work. That's it.)

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  19. Sep 12

    These problems are kind of ridiculous even on their own. But getting support for them -- where? How? I've worked with these systems for years now and still begin by Googling random terms until I find something. This is crazy!

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