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I needed to get the PPPoE account off a router once (My boss didn't remember the router's admin password), so I connected the WAN port to my laptop and captured the PPPoE packets. I might have had to use a second ethernet port (USB hub with eth port) to allow the old router to talk to the telcom modem. Just bridge the two ports and capture the traffic.

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3 anni fadiscuss

Create a StackOverflow + GPT site where questions can be asked in public with both human and AI answers. Make it clear to users that the content will be used in future training sets.

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3 anni fadiscuss

I used c2rust to start rewriting OpenJpeg into Rust code [0].

It was easy to get the Rust code compiled and working as a drop-in-replacement for the C Library. This has been a big help with refactoring the unsafe Rust code into safe Rust (manual work). OpenJpeg has a great testsuite that has allowed testing that each refactor step doesn't add new bugs (has happened at least 3 times).

The original run of c2rust generated 96,842 lines of Rust code (about 1 year ago), now it is down to 46,873 lines code. A lot of the extra 50k lines of code were from C macros that got expanded and from constant lookup tables (C code had 10-30 values per line, Rust 1 value 1 line).

For anyone looking to use c2rust to port C code to Rust, I recommend the following:

  1. Setup some automated testing if it doesn't exist already.
  2. Do refactoring in small amounts, run the tests and commit the changes before doing more refactoring.
  3. Use "search/replace" tools (`sed`) to help with rewriting common patterns.  Make sure to follow #2 when doing this.
  4. Don't re-organize the code until after most of the unsafe code has been rewritten.  This will allow easier side-by-side comparison with the original C code.
  5. c2rust expands macros and constants from `#define`.  Being able to do side-by-side comparison of the C code will help with adding constants back in and removing expanded code with Rust macros or just normal Rust functions.

[0] https://github.com/Neopallium/openjpeg/tree/master/openjp2-r...

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4 anni fadiscuss

Would it be possible to build a rosetta stone for this secret language with prompts asking for labeled pictures of different categories of objects? Or prompts about teaching kids different words?

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4 anni fadiscuss

A motion activated sprinkler could work too. Or buy a motion detector and have it activate plant water sprayers (the kind used for automatic watering of potted plants).

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4 anni fadiscuss

If both Humble and Webb were pointed at the same spot of the sky at the same time, the images could be merged to get a wider range of the light spectrum.

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4 anni fadiscuss

I just started using c2rust on openjpeg [0] (jpeg 2000 encoder/decoder) today and already have it working as a drop in replacement for the C libopenjp2.so on Linux. Still has a lot of unsafe code, but it does work. Which will be a big help with testing during refactoring to idiomatic safe Rust.

c2rust also has a refactor command that helps with refactoring the generated Rust code.

[0] https://github.com/Neopallium/openjpeg/tree/c2rust

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