https://faultlore.com/blah/c-isnt-a-language/ deserves a fucking record for managing to trigger people into being extremely upset while also demonstrating that they don't understand the actual point being made
It doesn't matter whether C is good or not. It matters that if I write code in two languages that aren't C, and I want it to all be part of the same process, I need to care about C. C pervades all. You cannot escape it. C will outlive all of us. The language will die and the ABI will persist. The far future will involve students learning about C just to explain their present day. Our robot overlords will use null terminated strings. C will outlive fungi.
https://faultlore.com/blah/c-isnt-a-language/ deserves a fucking record for managing to trigger people into being extremely upset while also demonstrating that they don't understand the actual point being made
It is actually kind of wild that we're simultaneously in an era of people complaining that Wayland is destroying choice and also maybe the greatest number of high-quality desktop environments aimed at different use cases the free software world has ever had
iRobot apparently just declared bankruptcy, so if you have an internet connected one and want to retain control if the cloud platform vanishes, take a look at https://github.com/koalazak/dorita980#how-to-get-your-usernameblid-and-password and stash that information somewhere safe (and note that it changes if you ever factory reset the device, so try not to do that)
For Reasons that I cannot discuss I had the opportunity some years ago to review the security of some source code that was used in both an internet access device and also a crewed spacecraft and discovered a (minor) flaw that based on the memory layout of the device located on Earth was unexploitable but could have been exploited if you had the ability to rewrite flash on a device in orbit and well that feels like a conversation about whether Bond movies are realistic threat models
True love is fixing your spouse's email server
I suddenly need to care about Amiga DMA cycle timings and this isn't an improvement in my quality of life
Is there a diagram anywhere of exactly where the DMA cycles occur during horizontal scanout?
I suddenly need to care about Amiga DMA cycle timings and this isn't an improvement in my quality of life
This whole Battlefield 6 thing is going to generate a fascinating market for firmware that lets you just configure whatever you want as measurement values
Two weird LTE auth questions that I'm sure someone here knows:
1) My understanding is that the mutual auth means relying on a SIM private key. But can't phones without SIMs get onto networks for emergency calls? Or can that be done without full authentication?
2) Is there anything at the protocol level stopping multiple identical SIMs joining the same network (private, unfederated) network? Multiple devices with different IMEIs but the same IMSI and cryptographic material
Matthew Garrett