@arstechnica The big print giveth, and the small print taketh away.
Notices by ๐บ๐ฆ haxadecimal (brouhaha@mastodon.social)
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๐บ๐ฆ haxadecimal (brouhaha@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 06:44:12 JST ๐บ๐ฆ haxadecimal
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๐บ๐ฆ haxadecimal (brouhaha@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 21:23:50 JST ๐บ๐ฆ haxadecimal
oozy rat in a sanitary zoo
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๐บ๐ฆ haxadecimal (brouhaha@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 14:17:44 JST ๐บ๐ฆ haxadecimal
@foone @gewt Has anyone generated the "You wouldn't download a" image for that?
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๐บ๐ฆ haxadecimal (brouhaha@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 04:57:39 JST ๐บ๐ฆ haxadecimal
@Gargron Natural Stupdity is still allowed, and even encouraged.
:-)I like the new rule.
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๐บ๐ฆ haxadecimal (brouhaha@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 07:38:07 JST ๐บ๐ฆ haxadecimal
@mntmn @me_ @uliwitness Same reason all production aerospace equipment uses computers far from the bleeding edge. It was engineered, tested, and certified using chips then reasonably current and well qualified. The cost to do all that again for a new design would be immense. It will have to be done eventually, and maybe they've even started on it, but it takes a _lomg_ time. And by the time a new system is deployed, the new components its design uses will again be old.
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๐บ๐ฆ haxadecimal (brouhaha@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 05:48:55 JST ๐บ๐ฆ haxadecimal
@foone The main problem with interfacing an 8272/uPD765 style floppy controller to anything newer than ISA is that normal drivers for those require that they be wired to the legacy 8237 DMA controller. Even if modern x86 boxes have an equivalent to the 8237, e.g. in the "south bridge", the appropriate DMA signals don't exist on PCIe, or even PCI.
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๐บ๐ฆ haxadecimal (brouhaha@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 09:12:01 JST ๐บ๐ฆ haxadecimal
@arstechnica "... repent at leisure."
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๐บ๐ฆ haxadecimal (brouhaha@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 03:37:11 JST ๐บ๐ฆ haxadecimal
@nixCraft None of the above.
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๐บ๐ฆ haxadecimal (brouhaha@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 10:17:34 JST ๐บ๐ฆ haxadecimal
We have clearance, Clarence.
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๐บ๐ฆ haxadecimal (brouhaha@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Nov-2023 16:03:45 JST ๐บ๐ฆ haxadecimal
@arstechnica What did people think would happen when they switched to a web browser developed by an advertising company?
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๐บ๐ฆ haxadecimal (brouhaha@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Oct-2023 05:31:09 JST ๐บ๐ฆ haxadecimal
@foone What's the nearer one? At first glance it looked like an IMI, but after further examination of the photo, I don't think it is.
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๐บ๐ฆ haxadecimal (brouhaha@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 12:11:07 JST ๐บ๐ฆ haxadecimal
@arstechnica Contrary to @ianbetteridge 's law, the answer to the headline "Is no software safe?" is yes, no software is safe.
Stored program computers have existed for more than 75 years, and the internet has existed for more than 43 years, yet for the most part we still do not know how to write reliable and secure software. There has been a large amount of research, and it is ongoing. Ther have been some positive results, but they have seen little adoption outside academia. -
๐บ๐ฆ haxadecimal (brouhaha@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 00:42:53 JST ๐บ๐ฆ haxadecimal
@nixCraft It was inevitable that a browser developed by a company with a business model consisting almost entirely of advertising revenue would do this, but when you dangle shiny new software in front of most users, they don't spend much time thinking about the deeper ramifications.
You can't keep dancing with the devil and ask why you're still in hell.
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๐บ๐ฆ haxadecimal (brouhaha@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 06:01:56 JST ๐บ๐ฆ haxadecimal
@arstechnica The lists already exist! They're in the billing system. They don't want to admit that what they're actually opposed to is transparency.
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๐บ๐ฆ haxadecimal (brouhaha@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Mar-2023 09:43:39 JST ๐บ๐ฆ haxadecimal
I will be available for consulting starting at the beginning of May. I mostly do embedded and low-level stuff. Skills include programming in C, C++, Python, etc., FPGA development in VHDL and Verilog, and network protocols including the IP etc. and Bluetooth Low Energy.
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๐บ๐ฆ haxadecimal (brouhaha@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jan-2023 12:23:47 JST ๐บ๐ฆ haxadecimal
It's unfortunate that the world standardized on integer overflow not giving an error. Error on integer overflow should have been the default behavior, with programmers having to explicitly choose wrapping without overflow when that was desired.
Of course, that would also have required explicit signed and unsigned arithmetic operations, because overflow (and underflow) differ for signed vs. unsigned.
Now the no-overflow-error behavior is entrenched in C and C++.