yalue · HackerTrans

vor 19 Tagendiscuss

I had the same experience, lol. I started with Crime and Punishment expecting thinly veiled philosophy where each character is a mouthpiece for one of the author's thought processes. Granted there's some of that, but I wasn't expecting such an exciting murder drama. Went into Karamazov expecting an exciting murder drama, and got the type of Russian literature I initially expected Crime and Punishment to be! Really it's a question of expectations.

yalue

letzten Monatdiscuss

Truly the biggest prize of the IOCCC is getting your name listed next to geniuses like the author of nanochess.

yalue

letzten Monatdiscuss

So every time my ISP changes my IP, facebook pitches a fit, makes me solve a dozen captchas and authenticate on an existing login session, but in the meantime Meta' sother website doesn't even require using the registration email for a password reset?

yalue

vor 5 Monatendiscuss

Pathetically hypocritical to use AI to write this blog post when generic copy editors have been hit way harder by AI than programmers.

yalue

vor 6 Monatendiscuss

15 years ago, Enterprise FizzBuzz [1] was supposed to be satire. These days, it's not quite complex enough to capture "modern" web dev.

[1] https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...

yalue

vor 8 Monatendiscuss

For a long time, windows had two options:

1. Update and restart and prompt for bitlocker password and update and restart and prompt for bitlocker password and restart

2. Update and restart and prompt for bitlocker password and update and restart and prompt for bitlocker password and shut down (and restart)

Finally, they fixed the last bit of option 2

yalue

letztes Jahrdiscuss

Microsoft Go? I've used Go on windows for years now and this is the first I've heard of this fork. So it only exists because microsoft wants to have a crypto package that complies with an arbitrary regulation? Is there a reason that a better package requires a fork of the entire runtime rather than just, say, a normal Go package? It sounds like it requires cgo to call into third-party libraries, but that's already a common practice in "normal" Go libraries.

One thing I do appreciate is how the relevant issue in the upstream Go repo says: "A number of companies must comply with them, for example as part of a broader FedRAMP compliance posture. (If that's not you, you can ignore this. Run!)" [1]

Apparently I'm just not the target audience. Sounds like I'm correct in assuming it's security theater at best, and an avenue for new backdoors at worst.

[1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/69536

yalue

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

Heck, why not just title it "a web server with no library function calls" and call an array of bytes as a function? Then everybody would be able to see what it really is, which is an unremarkable shellcode embedded directly in a C program. I feel like the "printf" was only included so that people would have something to recognize in the title.

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