Posts by bernd@ruhr.social
 (DIR) Post #Abl0UhwemeZVTOrtZo by bernd@ruhr.social
       2023-11-13T07:47:25Z
       
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       @stefano if you have a hammer everything looks like a nail.
       
 (DIR) Post #Abnti23dCVfDPWPu1A by bernd@ruhr.social
       2023-11-12T16:31:44Z
       
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       I am starting a blog. Maybe a bit late to the party but better late than never 😅.http://somethingfast.net/Will be about nerd stuff I like to play with in my spare time. Some current topics are around #freebsd and #lua. There is a bit of content already. Not everything set up yet, e.g. TLS/SSL is not there. But useable, I think. I will share this in the #fediverse only. Am curious how much interest that generates.
       
 (DIR) Post #Abo6PMgPaf6pHVz8Xw by bernd@ruhr.social
       2023-11-14T19:37:01Z
       
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       @matthew i am kind of fascinated with Lua. The language is small and relatively simple. It is possible to understand it completely with relative little effort. Much smaller than Python, for example. Despite this it is really versatile, you just find yourself quickly coding a solution, instead of pulling in a library. Plus, if used embedded in an application, it allows for some fascinating use cases.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ac1b7HsSsrJuEQYtmq by bernd@ruhr.social
       2023-11-21T07:42:10Z
       
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       Did anything notable happen with #freebsd today? Just asking because my timeline is full of FreeBSD toots. Just kidding, big congrats to the FreeBSD team for officially releasing 14.0!
       
 (DIR) Post #AcJFaQF89vbaQdvhpI by bernd@ruhr.social
       2023-11-29T20:16:45Z
       
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       @mms the user interface.
       
 (DIR) Post #AcW2MKetLueyhnPRdw by bernd@ruhr.social
       2023-11-25T12:46:11Z
       
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       Comparison of #Wireshark plugin performance, #Lua versus C. Lua is surprisingly fast, in the same ballpark. This is not a language benchmark, of course, since the measurements include the Wireshark core parts as well. But shows that Lua is fast. And a viable option. https://ds-security.com/post/wireshark-plugins-in-c-and-lua-performance-comparison
       
 (DIR) Post #AcZmV4NsPNnuCeR1M0 by bernd@ruhr.social
       2023-12-07T19:40:55Z
       
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       @mms from https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/ports/:A FreeBSD port is a collection of files designed to automate the process of compiling an application from source code. [...] When feasible, these applications are made available for download as pre-compiled packages.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdVk3ThU3FSr40hBE8 by bernd@ruhr.social
       2024-01-03T06:29:00Z
       
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       @gregorni I think the topic is overhyped anyhow. The most common use case is iterating over tables, and with ipairs() you don't even touch the index.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdiIxdFMIozUjb0sMa by bernd@ruhr.social
       2024-01-10T20:14:13Z
       
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       @stux and what happened at 14 h 🤔